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|author= Helly ActonSylvie Cathrall|title= The ShelfA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating= 45|genre= Women's Science Fiction|summary= When we meet Amy, she's in There are few greater joys than a relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking book which lives up when he tells her to pack for a surprise tripcompelling premise. Could And this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on is one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?of them.|isbn=18387708790356522776

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Daria Yudina0008517061|title= This Book Wants to Make You Laugh (Living Book)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating= 4|genre= For SharingCrime|summary=This Living Book is on Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a mission. What's little uncertainty about the mission? To make you laugh! I can't think future of many better missions than thathis life with his vet girlfriend, can you? Let's see how it Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does... .... well, it opens Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with a terrible joke. A groany joke, an eye-roll joke. The joke isn't very funny but it is funny Livia or does Livia move to see how enthusiastic and how generously Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this book is the future she wants to make you for herself and her daughter? laugh - ''Oh, I'm terrible at jokesFor the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner. Some books are so good at them. I always wanted to help someone laugh.'' |isbn= 194812453X

|isbn=15294022711786482126|title=Murder on the Moorland The Janus Stone (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire MysteriesDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Helen CoxElly Griffiths|rating=34.5

|summary=DI Malcolm Halloran and Kitt HartleyBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's relationship is developing nicely: apartments - when they're even into discovered the bones of a child beneath a spot of bandage now, although the details are (mercifully) scantdoorway. There was no skull. After Was this a night of passion Halloran is called away in the early hours of the morningritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. ThereIt's been a murder in Irendaledifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, where Halloran used to live and where that she is pregnant with his wife, Kamala, was strangled five years ago. There are sufficient details child as a result of the current murder to make Halloran suspect that the man who murdered his wife - and others - is in one night they spent together some way involved, despite being in prisonthree months ago. The DI heads off Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to speak to Jeremy Kerrsudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn= Mark Dawson0008551324|title= The CleanerDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Ruthless It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and coldly competent, John Milton is one of the British governmenthe's best assets – prepared to tell the police where the body of a contract killer with lethal instinctsmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Now This person, after ten yearshe promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants out. But And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his job isnsentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't one you can just walk think 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…|isbn=178739462Xfrom what's happening.

|authorisbn=Angela Mack0008405026|title=I Am UnworthyA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Isabel is determined to start fresh. Start again. Sixth form will be different. Her tormentor doesnIt't go to Gilleford Secondary School anymores sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She can escape was never found and the hurtinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, the fearher mother, Helena, and the person she becameher father are dead in their bed. Josh is determined to keep going Initially, even through it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the rage, positioning of the pain, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and using his fists to solve any problem or situationher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. But he has secrets that threaten What looked as though it was going to tear him be an open-and his brothers apart-shut case is now a complex double murder. When Josh and Isabel Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's worlds collide, can they make their relationship work? Can they both finally be happy? Or will Joshdisappearance: others (such as Derwent's time run out?|isbn=B089FL7H4Hboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Laura Imai Messina0571379877|title=The Phone Box at the End of the WorldKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= In the northeast of Japan, in Inwate Prefecture Edward Jevons is a working-class young man installed a telephone box in , obsessed with his gardenupper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert''Inside there is an old black, telephone, disconnected, that carries voices into the winds a theatre director. He'' It is a real places also self-obsessed, a necessary placedemanding, handsome and entitled and I am pleased uses Edward to see the IMPORTANT NOTE that the author attaches run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to her story, Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that the place is a relationship had begun between them but he's not a tourist destination, it like most men: Edward is a sacred place, a place that must be left to those who really need itstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=178658039X

|isbnauthor=B0859115X5Jo Callaghan|title=Lies to Tell (DI Clare Mackay)|author=Marion ToddLeave No Trace

|summary=When we meet up with DI Clare Mackay again she's at Daisy Cottage a man is found crucified on the outskirts top of St Andrews with a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her English Bull Terriersidekick, Benjythe AI detective Lock. SheIt's just had a postcard from Geoffrey Dark and he's in Provincetowntheir first live case together, Cape Codhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. He wishes that she was But when thereis a second body found crucified a few days later, but Clare's Kat is suddenly struggling with a 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 think solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of what he ''actually'' a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura 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 her nowbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Is he her boyfriend? Her ex-boyfriend? Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. She can't work it out Anjali is the free spirit of the group and thinks that Geoffrey probably can't eithershe becomes a GP. WorkWhen we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's about going to get very busy and she canend in tragedy. We don't work out why DCI Alastair Gibson has cancelled a meeting she'd arranged without discussing it with her firstknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. TheyThis time, it're off somewhere top secrets their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=17808998580241636604|title=To Tell You the TruthThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gilly MacmillanGary Stevenson

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out If you were to bring up an image of the house on the night a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of the summer solstice to watch the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woodssomeone like Gary Stevenson. Her fourA hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-year-old brotherstripe suit and his background is the East End, Teddywhere he was familiar with violence, would have woken the house if she hadn't taken him with herpoverty and injustice. But in There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the early hours London School of the morning, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping that Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he would have got home before herhas a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He hadn't and no one has seen him sincealso realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. Lucy's story It was his ability at what was crucial to the police investigation, but it keeps subtly changingessentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Lucy is being advised by her imaginary friendEventually, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell the policethis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=00082147001035021803|title=Cut The Antique Hunter's Guide to the Bone (DI Meg Dalton)Murder|author=Roz WatkinsC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=DI Meg Dalton and Ds Jai Sanghera are dealing with It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the case English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a missing teenagerrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Violet Armstrong Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is well-known as a vlogger - championing dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the cause of meat-eatingleast. She barbeques meat wearing only a bikini and has attracted Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the attention of animal rights activistsvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. The meat-eaters (Even though they wear meat suits) are determined that Meg Dalton is corrupt and were in business together as antique hunters, she has not running a decent investigation (''obviously'' she only got felt able to be near the man or pursue the job because profession she's a woman) because she's a vegetarianloved. As if After the case wasn't enoughsplit, she worked in a cafe, Meg's father is coming to stay with met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her despite having had little to do with her for fifteen years life, who was murdered) and Jai's convinced that his girlfriend, Suki, doesn't like his children Freya and that she wants more, but he doesn'tJames have now divorced.

|isbn=1784385166AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Third Reich in 100 ObjectsAll Tomorrow's Futures: A Material History of Nazi GermanyFictions that Disrupt|author=Roger MoorhouseBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=HistoryScience Fiction|summary=What is ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the first image shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that comes to mind when 'technology' is what happens after you think 're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to a concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images me but they are emblematic of I'm left with the Third Reichfeeling that it's fascist regime in all its iniquitygetting away from me. But some objects and images from that time may be less familiar to youSome of it is - frankly - quite frightening. In this short volume Of course, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate I could research the possibilities and the period of probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the Third Reich through one hundred of its material artefactslatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand. 

|isbnauthor=1409187438Sunny Singh|title=The First Lie|author=A J ParkHotel Arcadia

|genre=Thrillers|summary=On The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the second of October 37-year-old barristerterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, Paul Reevethere is Sam, returned home at 9 pm to find his house in darkness a wartime photographer and Abhi, the front door openhotel manager. His wife was As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the bedroom in hotel, he forms a state bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of shock her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and in they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, 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 bathroom there was family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a dead man who had been stabbed repeatedly in frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the neck with Pauldangers or that her Mum's paperstopped talking -knifeto anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. In that moment Her children, sons Niall, Paul takes a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he and Alice Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not going to ring . Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and tell then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the truthguilt. TheyThe Salter children are not convinced but there're going to bury the body in woodland s little else they can do but get on with their lives and go on as though nothing has wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=15294018011035906708|title=Grave's End (DS Alexandra Cupidi)Diva|author=William ShawDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Gram HickmanWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, who worked for an estate agentbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, took his girlfriend, Angela BoothNew York, in December 1923 and only moved to a house which his firm Athens when she was marketingthirteen. Guildeford Hall Her original surname was an old Kentish oast house and was on Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the market for millions of poundsStates. Gram When she was hoping back in Athens - supposedly so that he she could get Angela into bed and he'd brought a bottle of prosecco along. It appropriate training for her voice - she was when searching for somewhere to chill the bottle that he found raised under the body of Nazi occupation by a man in the freezer in the garage. DS Alexandra Cupidi mother who mercilessly exploited her and DC Jill Ferriter are on the casemade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author= Ukamaka OlisakweChristopher Edge|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating= 54|genre= Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a look movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the trauma and heartache nickname of being a woman in 1980s Nigeria. 'The title is Black Hole''Ogadinma Or. All big movie fans, Everything Will Be All Rightthey''. Ogadinma is the eponymous heroine re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the story. We are with her in every scene and it movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is her narrative voice that leads the storyvery different, although Olisakwe writes in the third person. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights the isolation of Ogadinmathey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. She is exiled But as they lurch from her father's home and sent one film genre to Lagos where she the next, can they figure out what on earth is married going on? Will they ever get back to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities the cinema, and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escape.their real lives?|isbn=19116481601839942738

|author=Lun ZhangRachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, Adrien Gombeaudthe answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, Ameziane survives on luring ships into the rocks and Edward Gauvin (translator)plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of 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 end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With 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 territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered HopesPlanet Storyland

|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary=I never really followed Things have been a bit sticky for the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other prioritiesEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, you know. I certainly didnoften replacing jobs they't know of the weeks of protests re paid to do and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and the birth starting to think of the Tank Man imageother, I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protestnew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and I didn't know more than a spit about , along with it, all the people involved many daily social interactions on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the whole season of protests back in 1989which they depend so heavily.|isbn=16840569931736128426

|author= Joan HeMatthew Tree|title= Descendant We'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the CraneDead

|genre= Fantasy|summary=''Heroes cannot be forged without villainsThere's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''Princess Hesina of Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the kingdom protection of Yan has never wanted the throne. Instead Briar's, a family of craving power, she has always considered witches who protect the crown her inescapable duty town and shrank away the wider world from the responsibilities of being QueenDarklands. To her, it Though she has always been a distantwished for magic, faraway future. Until that Ellie Briar isthe first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, it isn'ther training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her beloved father grandmother suddenly dies, she is thrust into ruling. But contrary to Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the official reportBriar Witch, Hesina knows all is not as it seemsthe town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her father didn't die. He was murdered.Determined As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to seek communicate with the truth and discover dead, putting her father's killer, Princess Hesina will stop at nothing to find justice, even committing treason. Under the cover heart of a maelstrom of darknesschaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, her feet lead her Ellie must decide who to a soothsayer trust and determine what to learn what happened that day and who killed do as the KingBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=17890940461803364548

|authorisbn=Pat Grant1529900360|title=The Grot: The Story of the Swamp City GriftersGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary=Everything in this world runs on pedal-power, It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and that includes the punk bands. There are three pedallers at the front of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to Falter Cityeven after Alex recovered, where a mother and her two sons aim Sturgis was reluctant to set up a yoghurt factoryask for his help on difficult cases. You could say His assertions that yoghurt would be the there were only culture around, for this is a really roughopen-and-ready dump shut cases which didn't need the help of a placepsychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, but everyone is interested in small things that growDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. For the only money to be had – She knew that the only fortunes to be found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and other crud involvement was something that – well, the use of it is never really made clearman she loved needed. Once thereThe next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the two brothers set themselves each up with swimming pool of a guide – Lippy, remote property in Bel Air. He was the more forward-thinking, industrious of heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the two, with a besuited gent, Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hairItalian. But which of them was the two will come off the worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellholeprimary target?|isbn=1603094660

|authorisbn= Ashley Poston1529395224|title= Bookish and Letting the Cat Out of the BeastBag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating= 3.5|genre= TeensAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Set after the ExcelsiCon, we are introduced to Rosie Thorne, a Small Town, USA girl who has recently lost her mother and is entering her final year of high school. Things keep piling up for Rosie, and when she follows a stray dog Siôn Rowlands fell into what she thinks is an abandoned castle in her town, things just get worseveterinary science accidentally. Rosie accidentally destroys His father was a rare book GP and with her motherRowlands didn's hospital and funeral costs she has no money t want to cover follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the damagestrain that being on-call put on his father's life. She finds herself working for Vance Reigns, Hollywood royalty on a paparazzi escape, to repay When he was seventeen he took the debt.  For most Starfield superfans this would be opportunity of doing work experience with a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance is family friend who was a jerk - vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he isnwas at Liverpool University. It hadn't too fond of her either- as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. However If anything, as the two are forced he'd wanted to get to know each other, their guards begin to lower and they discover that maybe this situation might not be so terrible after alla professional footballer. |isbn=1683691938

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Daria Yudina0861541774|title=Baby Trolls Get a Bad Rap (Underrated Babies Book 1)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= HoratioDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, Saul and Grizelda are three baby trolls who are fed has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up that everyone forgets about baby trollswith an old ally, Guy Trueman. They are ignored Maik was involved in books a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and TV shows and films in favour he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of their very scary grown upsmanslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Our three heroes want equal rights for baby trolls Now he could be facing the death penalty. They want Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to be seen help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and heard and theywouldn've started a petition about it that they want you to signt help Danny at all. But how should they go about it? |isbn= B07XGN4LGY}}

|author= Samira AhmedAlexander McCall Smith|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to KnowThe Perfect Passion Company|rating= 34.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=''In the endThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, we run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all become stories'' Spending the summer online apps in Paris sounds like providing a dream for most peoplemore personal, especially art-lovers, but Khayyam can't relax tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and stop thinking about look after the mess she left behind in Chicagobusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. On Katie is coming out of a chance encounter break up with a descendant of Alexandre Dumasbad 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, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey with him thanks to unveil 44 Scotland Street and the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who may have crossed paths with Alexandre Dumasquickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byron. As the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselvesor in match-making, but uncover the true story of the woman Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and why it was one that should never have been forgotten.rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=03490035561846976596

|authorisbn= Hazel Barkworth0811771741|title= HeatstrokeInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating= 3.54|genre= CrimeCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''Too hot to sleep. Too hot to think straight. Too hot to go backInstaKnits for Baby'' During gives us a British heatwave 15collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits -year-oldothers are of the 'long, Lily Dixon, has left home and is reported missing. Rachel is a teacher at Lily's school and cosy afternoons in front of the mother of Mia, Lilyfire's best friendvariety. As LilyThe projects are divided by the time they's family and the police struggle ll take to find any evidence that may lead complete - less than five hours, five to Lilyten hours, Rachel takes it upon herself ten to start looking for cluestwenty hours and more than twenty hours. However, as All the case goes on Rachel becomes fixated on finding Lily and finds herself crossing boundariesprojects are attractive, breaking trust modern and facing some impossible choicesuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky. Will they find Lily? Does Lily want to be found? And will life for Rachel ever be the same again?|isbn=1472265602

|isbnauthor=1538731738Dean Koontz|title=Simple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban BreathnachThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleParanormal|summary=Someone once said: it's not selfBenny 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 really weird, disturbing coffin-indulgencesized object to his home, and it's therapypossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! I think they were talking about shoppingThe thing is, but it probably can be applied Benny is the very last person to most thingsdeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. In my caseSo fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, it applies who has been sent to writing about things because I want help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going totake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, rather than because I and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can sell it or because I've got something to sellfigure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Frederic GrosAdam Stower|title=A Philosophy of WalkingMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyConfident Readers |summary= I confess I picked this Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one up from who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the library in my pre-lockdown forage of random stufftwo. Now I have to go out an buy my own copy But he's a bad magician's cat, so that I his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can turn down chuck them out, not into the pages I have marked regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and return to its varying wisdom when I need to. Some books draw you in slowlywhiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one had me in the first two pagesmuch bigger than Murray was, to be honest, wherein Gros explains why but he's turned up and he'walking is not a sport''.ll have to do…|isbn=17816883700008561249

|isbn=085752612XB0C47LV1PC|title=Rodham: What if Hillary hadn't Married Bill?Fragility|author=Curtis SittenfeldMosby Woods

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=I was tempted to read ''Rodham'' by the success of Curtis Sittenfeld's ''American Wife''. That book wasn't marketed as being Can you make a portrait of Laura Bush, but the word ''thinly-veiled'' seemed to occur very regularly in reviews. How would ''RodhamYo birthing person'' comparejoke? UnfortunatelyAnd if you could, there is a difference: relatively little was known about Laura Bush, which gave the book a freshness which question should you make it? Or is the first third of ''Rodham'' lacks. We've all heard the storiesquestion if you did, read would it land? The catch is that the books - about Hillary and particularly about Billanswer for both could well be.... no. It 's still an interesting concept, though: how would Hillary have fared if she hadn't subsumed her own ambitions into BillFragility's career, if she hadn't had to carry is set as the burden city of all Bill's baggage and if she hadn't left her own run at Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the presidency so late? Could she have done better without restrictions imposed during the Clinton surname?covid pandemic

|isbn=07278892301529431735|title=The Red, Red SnowWinter Visitor|author=Caro RamsayJames Henry|rating=4.5

|summary=In GlasgowIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Eric Callaghan of Inkermann Tattoo Parlour had which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been to exiled on the ice show with Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, Geraldine saying that she's ill and daughter, Lisa when he was stabbed in Planet Burgerhasn't long to live. He died within minutesIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, but stripped to his murder seemed motiveless and there were no clues. He was a genuine man underwear and sent to a talented artist: those investigating his death had hit a dead end. There were two deaths to investigate watery grave in the north boot of Scotland: it wasn't thought wise to involve the local murder team as someone on the Glen Riske police force was indirectly involved in the casea stolen Ford Sierra. Christmas - and Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a lot of snow were rapidly approaching.problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=B07S6DBCFTAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Little Girls Tell Tales|author=Rachel BennettThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=In 2004 RosalieEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, Beth and Dallin were walking in the boggy wetlands by Rosalie evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and Dallin's cottageruns. Beth and DallinEli lives with his lovely gran, both twelve-too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years-oldago, got ahead of ten-year-old Rosalie and it wasnEli't long before she realised that she was s parents were both lostto the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. Trying This has made the race anathema to find her way back the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to the main path she found a skeletonconfession from gran, but when she finally got Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the road she could never find her way back to sole aim the bog when she'd seen prize of magic at the body. Most people didn't believe her, putting end – the story down only thing to her vivid imaginationpossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231