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|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-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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=14087124151786482126|title=Cry BabyThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Mark BillinghamElly Griffiths

|summary=ItBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's June 1996 and footballluxury's European Championships are about to start in Londonapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. DS Tom Thorne is having Was this a nightmare and it's one he has regularlyritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It relates to a case from ten years earlier when he ''knew'' that a man was guiltys difficult as Ruth knows, but didnNelson doesn't take any action until , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the man's wife and one night they spent together some three children had been murdered and the man had killed himselfmonths ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{FrontpageCat Coyne and Maria Ashton are with their sons Kieron and Josh|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4. 5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a happy combination in that unusual for anyone from the boys are devoted Hardie family to each approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other . But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and - despite differences in he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and how they live - the women are best friendswho was responsible for her death. The boys are seven-year-old This person, he promises, is someone big and they play on it will be worth the swings in police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the park remainder of his sentence and then dash off to play hide and seek in Highgate Woodget an early parole date. Josh was Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the one doing the hiding other thing that Hardie demanded - but he returned tearfully to the women: Kieron never came to find make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him and now he canis kept well away from what't find Kierons happening.

|isbn=B08CHJLNBS0008405026|title=Capturing EmiliaA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Brooke AdamsJane Casey|rating=35|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=HeIt's Charles Devereaux, thirtysixteen years since nine-year-eight old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agentshalt. She's EmiliaNow, her mother, twenty-nineHelena, librarian and archivist her father are dead in the heritage library next doortheir bed. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone elsethere's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is more about the positioning of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked the bodies that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: What looked as though it's obvious was going to his friendsbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. And given Kerrigan is convinced that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charlesthe explanation lies in Rosalie's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationshipdisappearance: others (such as Derwent's obviously a non-starterboss, isn't it?Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=15043213830571379877|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again …: What Do You Do When Life Doesn't Go to Plan?The Kellerby Code|author=Louisa PatemanJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=''You can't be happy Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and fulfilled on your ownStanza. You are not complete until you find Robert's a man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believetheatre director. It wasnHe't unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to what they thought would be best run errands for herhim. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (sheEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever afterdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up Most men in Robert''without'' the expectation s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that they will marry and have children. It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that relationship had begun between them but he''a belief s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a choice''dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1787301435Jo Callaghan|title=Dark Waters|author=G R HallidayLeave No Trace

|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down When a man is found crucified on the private road top of a hill in Glen Turrit. It was a long road through some breath-taking scenery and she could push the car Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to its limits without fear of being caught speeding. When the blond child stepped out in front of case alongside her she instinctively jerked sidekick, the steering wheel and hit a treeAI detective Lock. When she came round after the accident she couldnIt't work out where she wass their first live case together, but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospitalhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. She'd made her first mistake some time agoBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, although the realisation wouldn't be obvious Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to her for a long timetheir AI Future Policing project. She'd made it when she chose Will they be able to have her father buy her solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a pale blue BMW M4.career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Suzanne Collins1399613073|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=TeensThrillers|summary= Coriolanus Snow is refined, charmingOlivia, Laura and one of Anjali met on the only surviving members first day of the affluent Snow family. But medical school and their world was destroyed by the warfriendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Their riches gone Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, his parents dead - and yet the facade must which is a bonus when you aim to be maintaineda cardiothoracic surgeon. As the 10th Hunger Games begins, Coriolanus Laura is a perfectionist and other students of a trauma doctor. Anjali is the Academy become the first Mentors free spirit of the tributes in the games. This is his chance to prove himself to the world group and secure his place in the Capitol for goodshe becomes a GP. But when he is assigned When we first meet them they're at a tribute with no hope drug and alcohol- a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning (both for her fuelled party and for him) are gone. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself it's going to be a spark in his world, end in a way he could never have imaginedtragedy. As We don't know who suffered the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights for her life in tragedy or the arena consequences. Twenty- but behind five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the scenesthree friends. This time, in the sly, complex and strangely dangerous world of the Capitol, Coriolanus is fighting for his life tooit's their teenage children who are involved. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=0702300179

|authorisbn=Sakinu Ahronglong0241636604|title=Hunter SchoolThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|summary= The flyleaf If you were to this little collection tells us that it is bring up an image of a work city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of fictionsomeone 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. That's possibly misleading There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. I am not sure whether it Stevenson is "fiction" in the sense bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that Ahronglong made it all upmost 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, or whether it is this turned into permanent employment as the blurb goes on a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to say 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'recollectionss back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, folklore Carole. Freya's former mentor and autobiographical stories'Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. It feels like Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the latter. It village: Arthur, she feels like the stories he tells about his experiences as a child, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as an adolescentantique hunters, as an adult are real and trueshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. But memory is After the split, she worked in a fickle thingcafe, met and maybe poetic licence has taken over here and there married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and maybe calling it fiction means that its safer Freya and therefore more people will read it. More people shouldJames have now divorced.|isbn=1999791282

|authorisbn=Kat EllisAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Harrow LakeAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old Lola, daughter ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residentscome. But when she '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is found by her fatherwhat happens after you's assistant and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked doorre eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a trail few decades of blood, and her father dying technology in his studymy lifetime. And so, while he recovers, she is sent off I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to live me but I'm left with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, the small 1920s town in Indiana feeling that served as the location for the film that made her parents famousit's all getting away from me. But something about this place isn't rightSome of it is - frankly - quite frightening. There's a darkness inside Of course, I could research the people here. Secrets about her mother possibilities and dark tales of the townprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's cannibal monster m reading someone who knows what they'Mister Jitters' fill every corner, and disturbing happenings plague Lolare talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. But with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully to light and she begins to think that these stories may not be stories at all, and something very real I needed people I knew I could trust and sinister lurks who could deliver information in Harrow Lakea way I could understand.|isbn=0241397049

|author= Helly ActonSunny Singh|title= The ShelfHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= Women's FictionThrillers |summary= When we meet Amy, she's The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a relationship with Jamieterrorist group. You can't really call it a partnership Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, because things tend to get done killing everyone on his termssite, there is Sam, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Aha wartime photographer and Abhi, yesthe hotel manager. Haven't we all been there? Things As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are looking up when still alive in the hotel, he tells forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to pack for a surprise tripcapture what's happened through her photography. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to get down on one knee? Was the work (help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the wait) worth it?terrorists.|isbn=1838770879086154742X

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Daria Yudina1529153298|title= This Book Wants to Make You Laugh (Living Book)The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 45|genre= For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=This Living Book It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is on a missionPrime Minister. What's the mission (A woman? To make you laugh! I can't think of many better missions than thatmean, can you? Let's see how it doeshonestly... ) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing... well Well, it opens up with a terrible joke. A groany jokethey've been murdered, an eye-roll jokebut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. The joke isn Miv's upset because she't very funny but it is funny to see how enthusiastic and how generously this book s overheard that her father wants to make move the family 'Down South'. When you 're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. laugh - ''OhFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, Iand she'm terrible at jokes. Some books are so good at them. I always wanted ll do anything to help someone laughprevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum' |isbn= 194812453Xs stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=15294022711398524085|title=Murder on the Moorland (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Helen CoxNicci French|rating=3.5

|summary=DI Malcolm Halloran and Kitt HartleyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's relationship is developing nicely: they're even into a spot of bandage nowfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, although the details Etty. are (mercifully) scantall worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. After a night of passion Halloran is called away in Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the early hours body of the morning. ThereGreg's been a murder in Irendalefather, where Halloran used to live and where his wifeDuncan Ackerley, Kamala, was strangled five years agoin the river. There are sufficient details of It was an easy assumption for the current murder police to make Halloran suspect that the man who Duncan had murdered his wife - Charlie and others - is in some way involved, despite being in prisonthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The DI heads off to speak to Jeremy KerrSalter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn= Mark Dawson1035906708|title= The CleanerDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= Ruthless We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and coldly competent, John Milton is one of only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the British government's best assets – Nazi occupation by a contract killer with lethal instincts. Now, after ten yearsmother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, he wants outJackie. But his job isn't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462X

|author=Angela MackChristopher Edge|title=I Am UnworthyBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary= Isabel is determined to start fresh. Start again. Sixth form will be different. Her tormentor doesn't go to Gilleford Secondary School anymore'I can hear the song of the sea. She can escape The call of the hurtdeep, the fearanswering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the person she becamerocks and plundering the wrecks. Josh Mira, like her mother before her, is determined 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 keep going, even through end the ragewrecking, they capture the pain, island's leader and using his fists to solve any problem or situationMira's father. But he has secrets that threaten Desperate to tear save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and his brothers apartwith only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. When Josh and IsabelWith 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 worlds collideterritory, can they make their relationship work? Can they both finally Mira must be happy? Or will Josh's time run out?determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=B089FL7H4H0008664730

|author=Laura Imai MessinaJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Phone Box at the End of the WorldPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= In Things have been a bit sticky for the northeast of JapanEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, in Inwate Prefecture a man installed a telephone box in his garden. often replacing jobs they''Inside there is an old black, telephone, disconnected, re paid to do and other tasks that carries voices into the windtook time to accomplish.'' It is a real place, a necessary place, Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and I am pleased starting to see the IMPORTANT NOTE that the author attaches think of other, new ways to her storyspend time, that the place is not a tourist destinationalong came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it is a sacred place, a place that must be left to those who really need itall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=178658039X1736128426

|isbnauthor=B0859115X5Matthew Tree|title=Lies to Tell (DI Clare Mackay)|author=Marion ToddWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=When we meet up with DI Clare Mackay again she's at Daisy Cottage on the outskirts of St Andrews with her English Bull TerrierTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, Benjy. She's just had a postcard from Geoffrey Dark drunk and he's in Provincetown, Cape Cod. He wishes that she was there, but Clare's struggling to think chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of what he ''actually'' is to her now. Is he her boyfriend? Her ex-boyfriend? She can't work it out his artistic passions all failed miserably and thinks that Geoffrey probably can't eitherwho had endless crises of self confidence. Work's about So Tim applied himself to get very busy his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and she can't work out why DCI Alastair Gibson has cancelled a meeting she'd arranged without discussing it with her first. They're off somewhere top secretset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1780899858A G Slatter|title=To Tell You The Briar Book of the Truth|author=Gilly MacmillanDead|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out '' There'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.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the house on protection of the night Briar's, a family of witches who protect the summer solstice to watch town and the wider world from the pagan celebrations in Stoke WoodsDarklands. Her four-year-old brotherThough she has always wished for magic, Teddy, would have woken Ellie Briar is the house if first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she hadn't taken him with was young, hertraining as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. But in When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the early hours of Briar Witch, the morningtown's leader, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping that he would have got home before and Ellie takes her place beside her. He hadn't As challenges come her way left, right and no one has seen him since. Lucy's story was crucial centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the police investigationdead, but it keeps subtly changingputting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Lucy is being advised by her imaginary friendReeling from one family secret to another, Eliza Grey Ellie must decide who to trust and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell determine what to do as the policeBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=00082147001529900360|title=Cut to the Bone (DI Meg Dalton)The Ghost Orchid|author=Roz WatkinsJonathan Kellerman

|summary=DI Meg Dalton It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and Ds Jai Sanghera are dealing with the case of a missing teenagereven after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Violet Armstrong is wellHis assertions that there were only open-known as a vlogger and- championing shut cases which didn't need the cause help of meat-eatinga psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She barbeques meat wearing only a bikini and has attracted knew that the involvement was something that the attention of animal rights activistsman she loved needed. The meat-eaters (they wear meat suits) are determined that Meg Dalton is corrupt and not running a decent investigation (''obviously'' she only got next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the job because she's a woman) because she's swimming pool of a vegetarianremote property in Bel Air. As if He was the case wasn't enough, Meg's father heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is coming to stay with her despite having had little married to do with her for fifteen years an extremely rich man and Jaiit's convinced that his girlfriend, Suki, doesn't like his children and that she wants more, but he doesn'tnot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=17843851661529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History Secret Life of Nazi Germanya Vet|author=Roger MoorhouseSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=HistoryAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What is the first image that comes Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to mind follow in his footsteps, particularly when you think of he considered the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the Third Reichstrain that being on-call put on his father's fascist regime in all its iniquitylife. But some objects When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and images from that time may be less familiar to youwas convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. In this short volume If anything, Roger Moorhouse has attempted he'd wanted to illustrate the period of the Third Reich through one hundred of its material artefactsbe a professional footballer. 

|isbn=14091874380861541774|title=The First LieA Nye of Pheasants|author=A J ParkSteve Burrows|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=On the second of October 37-year-old barristerDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Paul ReeveDanny Maik, returned home at 9 pm has taken a short holiday in Singapore to find his house in darkness and the front door openmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. His wife Maik was in the bedroom involved in a state of shock and in the bathroom there street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a dead man who had been stabbed repeatedly in the neck armed with Paul's papera knife -knifeand he killed a Ghurka. In that moment Paul takes Initially, he faced a decision charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that will be irrevocable: he decides suggested that he and Alice are not going might have planned to ring murder the police and tell man. Now he could be facing the truthdeath penalty. They're going Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to bury the body in woodland help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and go on as though nothing has happenedwouldn't help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=1529401801Alexander McCall Smith|title=Grave's End (DS Alexandra Cupidi)|author=William ShawThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Gram HickmanThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, who worked for run by Ness and operating as an estate agent, took his girlfriend, Angela Booth, alternative to all the online apps in providing a house which his firm was marketingmore personal, tailored service. Guildeford Hall was an old Kentish oast house Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and was on look after the market business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for millions of poundsa while. Gram was hoping that he could get Angela into bed Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and he'd brought a bottle of prosecco alongso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. It was when searching for somewhere And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to chill 44 Scotland Street and the bottle that he found the body of Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a man business, or in the freezer match-making, but Ness has full confidence in the garage. DS Alexandra Cupidi her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and DC Jill Ferriter are on the case.rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn= Ukamaka Olisakwe0811771741|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating= 54|genre= Literary FictionCrafts|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at the trauma and heartache of being a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title is Melissa Leapman's ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightInstaKnits for Baby''gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Ogadinma is Some will be quick knits - others are of the eponymous heroine 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the storyfire' variety. We The projects are with her in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads divided by the storytime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, although Olisakwe writes in the third personten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. This provides a sense of detachment for All the reader projects are attractive, modern and highlights the isolation of Ogadinmauseable. She is exiled from her father I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's home and sent to Lagos where she is married to an older man named Tobeme being picky. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escape.|isbn=1911648160

|author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)Dean Koontz|title=Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered HopesThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Graphic NovelsParanormal|summary=I never Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it 's possible that whoever or whatever was playing out – someone in inside is the second half of their teens thing that has other prioritiestrashed his house! The thing is, you knowBenny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. I certainly didn't know of So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man imagedelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, I didn't know how the area had long who has been a venue sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for political protest, and I didn't know more than being a spit about the people involved on either sidegood person. This book Spike is practically flawless in giving going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a general browserwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's context for the whole season of protests back in 1989wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=16840569931662500491

|author= Joan HeAdam Stower|title= Descendant of the CraneMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre= FantasyConfident Readers |summary=''Heroes cannot Murray is supposed to be forged without villains''Princess Hesina of the kingdom a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of Yan has never wanted the thronetwo. Instead of craving power But he's a bad magician's cat, she so his favourite bun has always considered been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the crown her inescapable duty and shrank away from catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the responsibilities regular back garden, but into a world of being Queenfrightening adventure and whiffs. To her, This time round it has always been drops them into a distantViking land, faraway future. Until that where a troll hunter isexpected – well, it isn't. When her beloved father suddenly diesone much bigger than Murray was, she is thrust into ruling. But contrary to the official report, Hesina knows all is not as it seemsbe honest, her father didnbut he't die. He was murdered.Determined to seek the truth s turned up and discover her fatherhe's killer, Princess Hesina will stop at nothing to find justice, even committing treason. Under the cover of darkness, her feet lead her ll have to a soothsayer to learn what happened that day and who killed the King.do…|isbn=17890940460008561249

|authorisbn=Pat GrantB0C47LV1PC|title=The Grot: The Story of the Swamp City GriftersFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=Graphic NovelsLiterary Fiction|summary=Everything in this world runs on pedal-powerCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, and that includes is the punk bands. There are three pedallers at the front of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across question should you make it? Or is the swamp to Falter Cityquestion if you did, where a mother and her two sons aim to set up a yoghurt factory. You could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, for this is a really rough-and-ready dump of a place, but everyone it land? The catch is interested in small things that grow. For the only money to answer for both could well be had – the only fortunes to be found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and other crud that – well, the use of it .... no. ''Fragility'' is never really made clear. Once there, the two brothers set themselves each up with a guide – Lippy, as the more forward-thinking, industrious city of the twoPortland, with a besuited gentOregon, Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of cautiously begins to emerge from the two will come off restrictions imposed during the worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|isbn=1603094660covid pandemic

|authorisbn= Ashley Poston1529431735|title= Bookish and the BeastThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 3.54|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Set after the ExcelsiCon, we are introduced to Rosie Thorne, a Small Town, USA girl who has recently lost her mother It's February 1991 and Essex is entering her final year of high school. Things keep piling up for Rosiebitingly cold, and when she follows a stray dog into what she thinks is an abandoned castle in her town, things just get worsewhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Rosie accidentally destroys a rare book and with her mother He's hospital and funeral costs she has no money to cover d been exiled on the damage. She finds herself working Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for Vance Reigns, Hollywood royalty on a paparazzi escape, to repay the debtdecade.  For most Starfield superfans this would be a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance is The return has come about because he's had a jerk letter from his ex- wife, saying that she's ill and he isnhasn't too fond of her eitherlong to live. However, as the two are forced It's hard to get to know each otherfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, their guards begin stripped to lower his underwear and they discover that maybe this situation might not be so terrible after allsent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. |isbn=1683691938 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Justine Avery Alex Bell and Daria YudinaTim McDonagh|title=Baby Trolls Get a Bad Rap (Underrated Babies Book 1)The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= HoratioEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, Saul and Grizelda are three baby trolls who are fed up that everyone forgets about baby trolls. They are ignored in books the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and TV shows and films in favour of their very scary grown upsruns. Our three heroes want equal rights Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for baby trollsthere is a generation missing in the family. They want A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to be seen and heard and they've started the titular race, a petition about it that they want you globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to signnavigate the world in the company of a magical beast. But how should they go about it? This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn= B07XGN4LGY0571382231