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|author=Alice OsemanSylvie Cathrall|title=SolitaireA 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

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Victoria Spring Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has returned to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead to the world. Nothing is interesting. People are stupid and boringsettled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She has one real friend; There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the rest are just people she sits near so she's not a complete loner. She hates future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of things compromise: does Jake give up his off- including 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. But suddenly, a blog called Solitaire has arrived and is pulling pranks throughout her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the schoolback burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4. And Michael Holden has appeared and is showing up everywhere 5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in ToriNorwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's lifeluxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Tori doesn't know ( Was this a ritual killing or care) why shemurder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's involveddifficult as Ruth knows, but suddenly Nelson doesn't, that she ispregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. What does Solitaire want? Who's behind it? Why does it all seem to Her condition will be linked to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Tori's life so badly and who is heobvious before long, really? Things are only getting stranger and darker, and only one thing not least because Ruth is certain – Tori isn't bored anymoreprone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=9780007559220

|authorisbn=Natasha Farrant0008551324|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Set in England 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 he's prepared to tell the police where the aftermath body of World War One, this a missing person is the story of two children, Lotti buried and Ben, who have lost everyone they lovewas responsible for her death. This person, but don't want to let go of their lasthe promises, tiny glimpses of hopeis someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. Ben And what he wants is living on a narrowboat on the canal, lying to be transferred to an open prison to serve the police about remainder of his brother's imminent return from the battlefields sentence and to take care of himget an early parole date. Lotti, meanwhileNot much to ask, has been expelled from school and is back at home; it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's a beautiful house even prepared to do the other thing that belongs to her but Hardie demanded - make certain that her terrible Aunt DS Max Craigie and Uncle currently have guardianship for. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals a dog!) anyone who works with him is the beginning of a deep, and powerful friendship. It sees them become each otherkept well away from what's family, and undertake a perilous trip to France, in the boat, to try to find out the truth of the people they both lovehappening.|isbn=0571348769

|isbn=14711792730008405026|title=House of CorrectionA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Nicci FrenchJane Casey

|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, sheIt's in prison, on remandsixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She's sharing was never found and the investigation ground to a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appearshalt. She delivers tough love Now, her mother, Helena, and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might befather are dead in their bed. And how did Tabitha get here? WellInitially, on 21 December it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the body positioning of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was helping with the renovations going to Tabitha's housebe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha Kerrigan is convinced that the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered explanation lies in his bloodRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Darren Shan0571379877|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=This third Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and final book in the first volume of Darren ShanStanza. Robert's new a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he'Archibald Loxs drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he' series sees Archie and Inez make it almost all the way s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the Cuckoo's Nest, where the Vote two of Alignment will be heldthem kissing in a dark passageway. But how will they get in?|isbn=B086LLWP4V

|isbnauthor=0008314721Jo Callaghan|title=Truth Be Told|author=Kia AbdullahLeave No Trace|rating=54

|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for When a man is found crucified on the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts top of a phone call hill in returnNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. There are two sons of the familyIt's their first live case together, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adamhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. Their motherBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Sofia, regrets that she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about a very high profile case that sort draws a lot of thingunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Both boys go Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the prestigious Hampton schoolcase and, where they boardpotentially, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has out of a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was raped.career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=15098895151399613073|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)Moral Injuries|author=Ann CleevesChristie Watson

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzardquarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. If she hadn't Anjali is the car might not have been found until free spirit of the morning group and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seat, particularly as the car door had been left openshe becomes a GP. Vera took the boy When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and drove it's going to the nearest habitationend in tragedy. She We don''thought'' it would be the village but it was Brockburn, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the man t know who inherited - and Hector was suffered the black sheep of tragedy or the familyconsequences. Calling Twenty-five years later there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to will be embarrassing, but there was little else an eerily similar event that she could do in will impact the circumstancesthree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=02414254410241636604|title=The Thursday Murder ClubTrading Game: A Confession|author=Richard OsmanGary Stevenson

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=The first member If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcroftsomeone like Gary Stevenson. She used to be a nurse A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is thus the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take a person who has East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been stabbed to bleed outthe London School of Economics. Details of where and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that it would have taken about fortyStevenson is bright - extremely bright -five minutes and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical helpmost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It didn't put Joyce off her shepherd's pie (which tells us that it was his ability at what was, essentially, a Monday) but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Clubcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. They meet each Thursday (Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as you might have guessed) in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villagea trader.

|isbn=19481244401035021803|title=What Wonders Await OutdoorsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=The second book in Justine AveryIt'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 Wonders series close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the perfect antidote reason why Freya had not been back to long summer days with bored children - orthe village: Arthur, indeedshe feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as we've found recentlyantique hunters, for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic is rolling across she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the worldprofession she loved. What do you do when every book has been read After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and every toy has been played with, repurposedmarried James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and played with again?James have now divorced.

|authorisbn= Samira AhmedAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Mad, Bad All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Dangerous to KnowStephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 3.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=''In Opening up new ways of thinking about the end, we all become storiesshape of things to come.''

Spending the summer I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in Paris sounds like a dream for most people, especially art-lovers, my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but Khayyam canI't relax and stop thinking about m left with the mess she left behind in Chicagofeeling that it's all getting away from me. On a chance encounter with a descendant Some of Alexandre Dumasit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey with him to unveil I could research the truth about possibilities and the 19th century Muslim woman probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumas, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byron. As the two teenagers travel the city knows what they not only discover themselves, but uncover 're talking about or the true story of the woman latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and why it was one that should never have been forgottenwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=0349003556

|author=Alice OsemanSunny Singh|title=LovelessHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=TeensThrillers |summary= Georgia The Hotel Arcadia is a teenager who's embarking on her first year of university and is luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a desperate struggle to figure herself outterrorist group. She's always been in love with love. With Hiding from the idea of loveterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, the idea of falling madly for someone a wartime photographer and finding bliss. But Abhi, the reality for her has always been differenthotel manager. She's never had a crush. She's never been kissed. And she's desperate As Abhi continues to try to feel something and fall care remotely for someone. But when the opportunity presents itself residents who are still alive in any kind of realthe hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, tangible and physical way for keeps on venturing out of her - sheroom to try to capture what's disgusted by ithappened through her photography. But isn't that what she's supposed Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to want? Isn't that what everyone is supposed help her keep safe and they both wait to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't she?see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=000824412X086154742X

|isbn=B086LLRZFH1529153298|title=Archibald Lox and the Empress The List of SuanpanSuspicious Things|author=Darren ShanJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=ArchieIt's second foray into 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'the Merges not what' opens with a fantastic vista. All of the Borns worrying Miv's most famous buildings and monuments - Big Benfamily, the Taj Mahalthough. Women have been disappearing. Well,  the Eiffel Tower - are collected togetherthey've been murdered, joined by those clever Merge vinesbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. But there Miv's no time upset because she's overheard that her father wants to waste in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Inez to a venerable locksmith called Winston.Winston Yorkshire, Down South is a darling but is afraid to help - what is to be done? Despite yearning to go home and worry for his foster parentsfrightening, Archie feels an obligation to take Winston's foreign place, best avoided. And so Archie embarks on a new For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and even more dangerous, adventure..she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=14087122881398524085|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Val McDermidNicci French|rating=45

|summary=It Charlotte Salter was the middle of February and bitterly cold when a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled a body out the Firth of Forth instead of a lobster potexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd Her children, sons Niall, Paul and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate Ollie and it didn't take too long to establish that the man was Paul Allardher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, ostensibly a FrenchmanAlec, but in reality James Auld of Edinburghis not. A decade earlier heShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's gone missing when he was the prime suspect father, Duncan Ackerley, in the disappearance and possible murder of his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Auldriver. DCI Karen Pirie, as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been It was an easy assumption for the last person police to review make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the case, a couple of years earlier guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and it seemed sensible to bring her into the case at an early stagewonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn= Adrian Tchaikovsky1035906708|title= The Doors of EdenDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre=Science General Fiction|summary= Wow – this novel is giganticWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in every sense of the wordDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. "Epic" is a word that's thrown around a lot these days, Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but if a book ever earned the name her father changed itto 's this oneCallas' to make it more manageable in the States. It's 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 doorstopper full mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of big ideasher preference for her elder sister, and at times it almost felt too big for my brainJackie.|isbn=1509865888

|author=Will CarverChristopher Edge|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Hinton HollowLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, population 5,120a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. It sounds like one All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in America's mid-westexciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, but they very quickly realise that something about this particular Hinton Hollow new film format is a small town in Berkshirevery different, Englandand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereBut as they lurch from one film genre to the next, until something happened and he ran away can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the city. He's running away again…only this time evil is following him cinema, and is going to touch just about everyone in town.their real lives?|isbn=19131933061839942738

|author=Jacqueline WilsonRachel Greenlaw|title=Love FrankieCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen''I can hear the song of the sea. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided to leave her for another womanThe call of the deep, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever lived, and, above all when Sally and her mates are bullying you at schoolanswering beat in my heart. Oh, and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you don't fancy him back.'

Poor Frankie! Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and 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= 0857535897 0008664730

|isbnauthor=1776572858James Sherwood Metts|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=ItThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed re paid to do and told me other tasks that she'd took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get me a book about itused to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. A couple of days later I Life was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basicspretty much shut down and, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that along with it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something , all the many daily social interactions on which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changedthey depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=1542017432Matthew Tree|title=The Nidderdale Murders|author=J R EllisWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It was a Friday in mid-September when the shoot was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgill. The shooters at the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his friends) was the owner of the moor and father, a retired judge. James Symonds was a local landowner drunk and Henry Saunders was a banker. He chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and Fraser had known each other since their school days. The fourth member was Gideon Rawnsley, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Ripon. Rawnsley had a gripe with Fraser: he'd sold him an expensive car and Fraser was being slow to payendless crises of self confidence. Other people had reason to comment on Fraser's attitude So Tim applied himself to money: his gamekeeperstudies, Ian Davis thought he was stingy cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and very difficult to work forset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=0241433568A G Slatter|title=Eight Detectives|author=Alex PavesiThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Crime (Historical)Fantasy|summary=It'' There's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny 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 his house in Spainlast. I just want to enjoy it for a while. It'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's unbearably hot , a family of witches who protect the town and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to have be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a rest steward revolved around letters and then he wants to talk to Megan administration rather than spells and Henry about something seriouspotions. Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesnWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't emerge after his siesta his guests find that hes cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's been murderedleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. How can that have happened? There's no one else in As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the housedead, so putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one of them family secret to another, Ellie must be decide who to trust and determine what to do as the killerBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=15263627591529900360|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give ItThe Ghost Orchid|author=Rashmi SirdeshpandeJonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=What a relief! A book about moneyIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for children, with clear explanations his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of what it isa psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, why it matterswas Robin, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when youDelaware've managed to get hold of its partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extentShe knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. You might want to go into businessThe next case did look simple, be though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an ''investor'') Italian shoe empire and there might be something you really, ''really'' want she is married to buy. Therean extremely rich man and it's also not the possibility Italian. But which of using to do good in them was the world.primary target?

|isbn=00083783631529395224|title=One Perfect MorningLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Pamela CraneSion Rowlands

|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=A husband is about Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to have follow in his throat cut in footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his own bedfather's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. To find out who Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - and why as with so many students - we need been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to go back nine days and twenty yearsbe a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774Mackenzie|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, Robin and Lily met when they all went has taken a short holiday in Singapore to the same college meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in Monroeville, Pennsylvania a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and twenty years later they're still the best of friendshe killed a Ghurka. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as Initially, he faced a nod charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the famous girl band of the dayman. Lily would Now he could be Adventure Spice, Robin facing the Homemaker and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own lifedeath penalty. She married Owen, her college sweetheart Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and they have a daughter, Aria, whowouldn's now fifteen-year-oldt help Danny at all.

|author=Darren ShanAlexander McCall Smith|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Time The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to catch you all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with some of my lockdown reading - I've been doing a bad boyfriend, and so much of it that I'm a bit late jumps at the chance to come home to the party with actual reviewingEdinburgh. Oops! And where better so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to start than 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with the some new series from Bookbag favourite, Darren Shan? Archie is very downcharacters who quickly begin to charm. He's lost Katie has no experience in running a dear friend recentlybusiness, or in a tragic accidentmatch-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and Archie blames himself. He canthere't face school so he takes himself for a truanting wander around London. As he strolls across a footbridges always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, he sees to lend a girl who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men in white suits. He watches, aghast. What is going on?hand…|isbn=B086LKBHD61846976596

|authorisbn=Antony Wootten0811771741|title=Season of the Mammoth (BigShorts)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary= Tannash and her brother Geb are waiting in great excitement Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for the hunting party led by their uncle Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to returnblankets. They Some will be quick knits - others are of the 're hoping for a feast long, cosy afternoons in front of mammoth meatthe fire' variety. Geb longs for The projects are divided by the day he can join his uncle Gagba and the other warriors on a hunting party and time they'll take part in their deeds of derringto complete -doless than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. But their father, All the leader of the villageprojects are attractive, thinks modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that they also need an education; that knowledge is power's me being picky.|isbn=1939269679

|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth MayDean Koontz|title= Seven DevilsThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionParanormal|summary= Eris Benny is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantaehaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordiahe loses his fiancee, whom everyone believed has been dead for yearsand his house gets trashed. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae Oh, and someone has delivered a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to gather information vital to the war effort. Although shehis home, and it's less than pleased to discover possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that her former friend Eris has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is her partner on the very last person to deserve all this missionbad luck. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with He is a secret nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damoclesdelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, the runner-up heir who has been sent to the Empire, help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is plotting going to disrupt peace talks between Tholos take care of Benny, and the last will certainly take care of the free alien species. ItBenny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocleswaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…s wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=14732311401662500491

|author=Non PrattAdam Stower|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers |summary= Freya was Murray is supposed to be a beautifulhumble, popular tidy and complex girlfriendly cat, loved by many one who is able to sleep and seemingly stable in her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old studenteat and eat and sleep and, well, complete with best friend and the promise whatever takes his fancy next of the end of GCSEs just months awaytwo. But one day, on January 1st, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. So, when her best friend Sophie receives he's a mysterious parcel from her 5 months afterbad magician's cat, she expects it to contain answers of some kind, but is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to so his favourite bun has been turned into a complete strangerhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and then another layer to another person and another, each containing an item unique to the catflap they both use can chuck them and Freyaout, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and not into the promise of 'treasure' at the end regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it all. With each parceldrops them into a Viking land, where a new layer of the story and of Freya troll hunter is unwrapped - and painful truths come expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to light that threaten to break bondsbe honest, both new but he's turned up and old. Can whathe's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?ll have to do…|isbn=14063669430008561249

|isbn=178089922XB0C47LV1PC|title=Invisible GirlFragility|author=Lisa JewellMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'When ' joke? And if you wear a hoodcould, is the question should you're invisiblemake it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.''

Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old and beautiful. By her own admission, she's a bit of a boffin, doing and enjoying maths, physics and biology at A level. Life hasn't been easy for her: most people who have been close to her have died and sheFragility's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flat. Something ''really, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for a long time. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was her therapist. He gently unpeeled is set as the layers city of her psychePortland, but somehow managed Oregon, cautiously begins to miss that 'something really, really bad'. When emerge from the restrictions imposed during the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest in Roan.covid pandemic

|isbn=18389510671529431735|title=The Nothing ManWinter Visitor|author=Catherine Ryan HowardJames Henry|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Jim DoyleIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, hewhich made Bruce Hopkins's about to get a shockreturn all the more surprising. He's security at d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a supermarket and he's watching wanted drug smuggler for a woman who is acting suspiciouslydecade. She The return has come about because he's had a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's planning ill and hasn't long to pay for itlive. Suddenly it drops It's hard to the floor with the spine splayed upwards. ''Nothing Man'' by Eve Blackfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, is stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the titleboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Why is Jim shockedIs it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home? Well, Jim was - ''is'' - the Nothing Man who, until eighteen years ago raped and killed. The author of the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her mother, and then killed her, her father and her seven-year-old sister, Anna.

|author=Christina Hammonds ReedAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Black KidsGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=Teens Confident Readers|summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel Eli is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction to busy lad – by day an apprentice in the absolution of four police officers for beating a black manwondrous library we start by visiting with him, Rodney King, nearly to death. Told from and in the perspective of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from evening a silent bystander when confronted with matters of race, to a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.|isbn=1471188191}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0751567426|title=The Wicked Sister|author=Karen Dionne|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's an inpatient helper at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper Peninsuladessert cafe his gran owns and runs. She's twenty-six and has been Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there for fifteen years, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when she was eleven-years-old and that her father then took is a generation missing in the gun and killed himselffamily. Her sister, Diana, just twenty-A few short years-oldago, was left at Eli's parents were both lost to the family hometitular race, a lodge globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the Upper Peninsula wildernesscompany of a magical beast. Rachel's very bright and although she's This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a voluntary patient bad incident at the Mental Health Center she remains thereeatery leads to a confession from gran, feeling that this Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what she deserves. Perhaps, thoughhe most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the circumstances are not as she remembersonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231