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|isbnauthor=1849766920Sylvie Cathrall|title=Everything is MINE|author=Andrea D'AquinoA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson is There are few greater joys than a schnauzer: what else could you be with book which lives up to a name like that? He knows that you'll realise that he's kind, clever and loyalcompelling premise. You'll also need to know that everything And this is '''MINE'''. And he means ''everything''. It begins with the slipper: mum still has one. Why would she need more? You sense that Marcello feels that he's being generous in allowing that. Then it was the pork chop. Well, did you see anyone's name on it? ''And'' he left the carrots for Leo. That's another example of Marcello's generositythem. There was the acorn which squirrel was gnawing at: there was no documentation to prove ownership. And talking of ownership the tree would provide all the sticks he could ever want to chew. There's nothing unreasonable in any of that, is there?|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=18497670090008517061|title=It Isn't Rude to be NudeDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Rosie HaineStig Abell|rating=54|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=This could have been one 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 those books which 'preaches to the choir'his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hotdoes Jake give up his off-grid and-bothered person relaxing life to move in the supermarket who is coughing fit with Livia or does Livia move to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small this is the future she wants for herself and of every possible hue. her daughter? Bodies with disabilities For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderfulputting the future on the back burner.

|isbn=02412959551786482126|title=TrioThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=William BoydElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was 1968: going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the year when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinatedbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. It's also the year when YSK Films are making Was this a movie in Brightonritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's called ''Emily Bracegirdle's Extremely Useful Ladder to the Moon'difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, or ''Ladder that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the Moon'' as it's known on setone night they spent together some three months ago. Anny Viklund is the female star in a production which is proving to Her condition will be just a little bit rackety. There are odd pressures on the producer, Talbot Kyddobvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to employ this old actor friend for a couple sudden bouts of days because he needs the money, allow a fading star to use his catchphrase, or include a song from the leading man, whose musical star is fadingsickness.

|isbn=B08B39QNRH0008551324|title=The Curious History of Writer's Cramp: Solving an age-old problemDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Michael PritchardNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceCrime|summary=It''Society is based on speech but civilisation requires s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the written word''other. I came to Michael PritchardBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's ''The Curious History prepared to tell the police where the body of Writer's Cramp'' by a rather strange routemissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to as 'interesting': I prefer serve the word remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn'painfult think so and she' but I have an interest in s even prepared to do the way other thing that hands work. An exploration of the history of a problem which has defeated some of the best medical minds for some threeHardie demanded -hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading make certain that DS Max Craigie and so it proved, anyone who works with the book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and the changing medical attitudes as the problem itselfhim is kept well away from what's happening.

|authorisbn=Blake Nuto and Charlotte Ager0008405026|title=Child of GalaxiesA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=What does it mean It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to be alive? a halt. What are we made ofNow, her mother, Helena, and where her father are we going? dead in their bed. ''Child of Galaxies'' is Initially, it looks like a lovely childrenstraightforward murder/suicide but there's picture book something about the positioning of the bodies that deals with all the big questionsmakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Written What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a poem, complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the lyrical words donexplanation lies in Rosalie't shy away from darknesss disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, nor talk down to the children you Una Burt) are reading to, but rather than work beautifully together with the illustrations to create a powerful, uplifting reading experienceless convinced.|isbn=1912497425

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)0571379877|title=BetrayalThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5

|summary=Meet UrsulaEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, the standobsessed with his upper-in minister, drafted in from outside the leading party to cover the post for a year. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deservesclass friends, Robert and the children who are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs in the foreign aid charity sectorStanza. You'll meet her ministryRobert's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into the task of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profiletheatre director. YouHe'll certainly meet a homeless tramps also self-obsessed, who has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursulademanding, handsome and, knowing her of old, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside herentitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. YouEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he'll meet the ministerial bodyguard and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula s drunkenly confided how he feels to acceptRobert. But as for the first ministerial case, of a woman demanding her daughterMost men in Robert's rape get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursulaposition would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's meeting with not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Tania UnsworthJo Callaghan|title=The Time Traveller Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, 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 solve the Tigercase in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlookedOlivia, Laura and forgotten. She is quiet, and compliant, and makes Anjali met on the best first day of whatever happens to her. So when her parents forget that her medical school holidays have started before they are free to take care of her, they have to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle their friendship would keep them inseparable for a weekquarter of a century. Poor ElsieOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, forgotten again, just decides which is a bonus when you aim to make the best of thingsbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India as Laura is a boy, perfectionist and he has an enormous tiger rug on a trauma doctor. Anjali is the floor of one free spirit of the roomsgroup and she becomes a GP. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappy, we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and he says he has it's going to keep it because he was the one end in tragedy. We don't know who shot suffered the tiger when he was 12 years old, and he says it was tragedy or the worst thing he ever didconsequences. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many Twenty-five years, to later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years old, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tiger, in order to put something right that happened a long time agoit's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1788541707

|isbn=14721270130241636604|title=Agatha RaisinThe Trading Game: Hot to TrotA Confession|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenGary Stevenson

|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite a bit of work on handIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. The chairman She's back now because of Philpott Electronics was concerned about his managing directora request for help from her beloved aunt, Harold Cheeseman, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like it thereCarole. This was unusualFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went to Australiasay the least. Then there Arthur was the Chadwick divorcereason why Freya had not been back to the village: Chadwick was convinced that his wifeArthur, Sheratonshe feels, was seeing another manlet her down badly. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to instal listening devices in be near the staff canteen: he wanted to know what man or pursue the staff were saying about him and his secretary, who was from Genevaprofession she loved. ApparentlyAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the staff called love of her The Swiss Rolllife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science FictionThen there was |summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the murdershape of things to come.''

|isbnauthor=0008420386Sunny Singh|title=Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth DayHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleThrillers |summary=What do Malcolm GladwellThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, Alain de Bottonkilling everyone on site, Phoebe Waller-Bridgethere is Sam, Lemn Sissaya wartime photographer and Abhi, Nigel Slaterthe hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syalhe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? They've all failed and - more importantly - they've been willing keeps on venturing out of her room to try to appear on Elizabeth Daycapture what's podcast happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to discuss their failures help her keep safe and how life worked out for them afterwardsthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists. You'll find the results of these discussions in ''Failosophy''|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=05713626721529153298|title=SnowThe List of Suspicious Things|author=John BanvilleJennie Godfrey

|genre=Crime (Historical)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, at least youthey've been murdered, but to have 're a Wexford man.disappeared'doesn' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced t sound quite so frightening. Miv'Sinjuns upset because she') Strafford s overheard that her father wants to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master of move the Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirkfamily 'Down South'. The niceties had to be established even when there was When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a Catholic priest dead on the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missingfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and thisFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, along with his good-but-shabby suitSharon, marked him out as of Osborneand she'll do anything to prevent that. She's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite not worried about the different religions dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - was in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled thereto anyone.

|isbn=17874776301398524085|title=The Postscript MurdersHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Elly GriffithsNicci French|rating=45

|summary=When a 90-yearCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but -oldstrangely -woman with a heart condition dies peacefully in her armchairhusband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, it really shouldn't be suspicious Etty and that was Greg, find the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke to Peggy Smithbody of Greg's carerfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Natalka Kolisnyk It was adamant an easy assumption for the police to make that there was more to PeggyDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's death than met t stand the eye - particularly as she knew that there was no heart condition and that Peggy had worried that she was being followedguilt. Then The Salter children are not convinced but there was the fact that Peggy was a 'murder consultant' who helped authors s little else they can do but get on with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more lives and wonder about murder than any elderly woman should need to knowwhat really happened.

|isbn=00083301311035906708|title=The Stolen SistersDiva|author=Louise JensenDaisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know that twenty-years on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adults. WellWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, they're healthy but she was born to Greek parents in the physical senseManhattan, but Carly has trust issuesNew York, Leah has OCD in December 1923 and Marie drinksonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. TheyHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 're Callas' to make it more manageable in the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolenStates. Carly When she was thirteenback in Athens -years-old and supposedly so that she was in charge of could get appropriate training for her sisters, the eightvoice -year-old twins. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate to get raised under the Nazi occupation by a text from Dean Malden mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her mobile phone held preference for her attention. Leah and Marie were nattering about a lost ball and a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasn't shut properly and Brunoelder sister, their boxer dog, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two menJackie.

|author=Stephen FabesChristopher Edge|title=Signs of LifeBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=TravelConfident Readers|summary= I was brought up on maps Lucas and first-person narratives his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity'The Black Hole'. UnfortunatelyAll big movie fans, I didnthey't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts re looking forward to simply go out lots of exciting films, and do it. many, many snacks! I also didn't inherit However, as the kind of steady nervemovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottlethey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. In order words I'm not But as they lurch from one film genre to the sort of person who will next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get on a bike outside a London hospital back to the cinema, and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.to their real lives?|isbn=17881612111839942738

|author=Arvin AhmadiRachel Greenlaw|title=How It All Blew UpCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

| summary=18-year-old Amir is American Iranian''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a Muslimremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and gayplundering the wrecks. He struggles with his identityMira, like her mother before her, unable to face telling his parents is one of the seven who he really is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening swim out to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and runs away..any treasure that lies within.But when the Council Watch lays a trap to Italy! So begins a journey for Amirend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and his family, where they all discover more about Mira's father. Desperate to save himfrom death, and Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he really issecretive 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, and who he really wants as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must bedetermined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=14714099290008664730

|author=Antoine LaurainJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Readers RoomPlanet Storyland|genrerating=General Fiction4.5|ratinggenre=3.5Confident Readers|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had Things have been a great success, and it was through bit sticky for the slush pile of unsolicited manuscriptsEarthlings. The three people who work in the ReadersAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they' Room re paid to sift through what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smash, do and so it has provenother tasks that took time to accomplish. But there are several 'howevers' Just as they were beginning to get used to that. As in, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own waythis technological change and starting to think of other, for she has been involved in a near-fatal accidentnew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and starts this book coming round from a coma. And, however – despite along with it, all urging, the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author of the book has never once made themselves known =Matthew Tree|title=We'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to the publishers in personbe different from his father, a drunk and in fact offered up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailchronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. What is going So Tim applied himself to befall Violainehis studies, her memory, her staff – cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and how much is any of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1910477974B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1948124572A G Slatter|title=Think Outside The Briar Book of the Box|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukDead|rating=45|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary=''Whenever you find a problem <br>''Wherever thereThere's a puzzle part of me that wants to keep this just to solve <br>''However you get stuck in myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a sticky situation <br>''Just think outside the boxwhile.''

And so begins Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the latest picture book world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from Justine Avery the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and Liuba Syrotiukpotions. ItWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a clarion call maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to children another, Ellie must decide who to use their imaginations trust and not logic alone when it comes determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to solving problemssurvive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)1529900360|title=The Seven DoorsGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesnIt hadn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until webeen Lt Milo Sturgis're a full fifth of the way through. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he big in medical provision felt responsible and decisions at the councileven after Alex recovered, being forced Sturgis was reluctant to move out of their home, a building ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that had existed throughout her life since childhood there were only open-and -shut cases which theydidn'd occupied t need the help of a psychologist only worked for over thirty yearsa while. The building heFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughterpartner, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'nudged Milo into asking for help again. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in She knew that the involvement was something that the 1980s, but noman she loved needed. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in The next case that has any bearing on what happens heredid look simple, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their livesthough. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until Two lovers were murdered in the point where swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the evicted tenant heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is found married to have completely vanishedan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.|isbn=1913193381 But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1529395224|title=A Song Letting the Cat Out of Isolationthe Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a career that is only beginning GP and Rowlands didn't want to hit follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the heights to retire to strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the highlands opportunity of doing work experience with an ordinary guy…an accountant of all thingsa family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, though to he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his credit dream since he would rather be working in forestrywas a child. They have found a hideaway on a small Scottish estateIf anything, but things are starting he'd wanted to feel wrong between thembe a professional footballer. |isbn=1913193365

|authorisbn= Christopher Paolini0861541774|title= To Sleep in a Sea A Nye of StarsPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 54|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moonDCI Domenic Jejeune's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control close friend and kills half the staff of the research stationformer colleague, Danny Maik, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives has taken a short holiday in the system Singapore to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by meet up with an alien shipold ally, and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star systemGuy Trueman. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and Maik was involved in a ragstreet brawl -tag bunch of misfits, and the news is grim. The same aliens he would later maintain that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of humanhe was facing a man armed with a knife -occupied space, and only he killed a mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop themGhurka. As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war Initially, Kira slowly begins he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to realise light that suggested that she may he might have had a greater hand in planned to murder the conflict than she man. Now he couldbe facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn've possibly imagined…|isbn=1529046505t help Danny at all.

|author=Carlie SorosiakAlexander McCall Smith|title=My Life as a CatThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=This The Perfect Passion Company is the story of a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alien who has come down alternative to spend some time on earth living as all the online apps in providing a humanmore personal, tailored service. It's something that each member in Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the alien collective business, as Ness is allowed planning to take a trip to Canada to do, get away for 1 month, once they reach a certain agewhile. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en routeKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so something goes wrong with his arrival and he finds that instead of landing in Yellowstone Parkjumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, ready bringing us to work as a park rangeran Edinburgh we already love, he is instead in the body of a cat on the other side of the country! This is not what he had planned! Not only is he in the wrong place thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the wrong bodyIsabel Dalhousie novels, he is also but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in the middle of running a stormbusiness, stuck or in a tree! And so he meets Olivematch-making, the little girl who rows out but Ness has full confidence in a boat to rescue himher abilities, and who names him Leonard.there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=17880060891846976596

|authorisbn= Tahi Saihate0811771741|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating= 3.54|genre= Literary FictionCrafts|summary= We long Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for our past even though it is Baby'' gives us a place collection of knits from toys to which we can never returnblankets. Tahi Saihate Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in her debut novel front of the fire'variety. The projects are divided by the time they'Astral Seasonll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lieten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. Her novel is a meditation on youth and how All the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important projects are attractive, modern and often lifeuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-alteringmedia-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn= 1916277101

|author= Andrea StewartDean Koontz|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Bad Weather Friend

|genre= FantasyParanormal|summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wanted'' In an empire controlled by Benny is having a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructsterrifically bad day. He loses his job, an heir to the thronehe loses his fiancee, a smugglerand his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a warrior will fight really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to find their place in his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the worldthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. Lin He is the emperor's forgotten daughter, kept locked away in a palace of secrets and closed doorsnice person. A really nice person. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the throne, she vows delivery to show him she his house is capable of reviving a dying empire and in secretnew friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, she begins who has been sent to unlock one door after another, searching help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for the mysteries of her past and the forbidden art of bone shard magicbeing a good person. Yet Lin Spike is playing a deadly game and her quest for power will come at great cost. With revolution in the air and creeping closer and closer going to the gates take care of the palaceBenny, Lin must decide just how far she and will to go to become a catalyst certainly take care of change Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and save her peopleHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=03565149431662500491

|author=Sharon DoeringAdam Stower|title=She Lies CloseMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missingMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, around 6 months agowhatever takes his fancy next of the two. There But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been no sign of her sinceturned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and no arrests have been made. And yetthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, this book is not about Ava. Not reallyinto the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This book time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is about Graceexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is a suspect in Ava's disappearance. As a single mother to two young childrenbe honest, shebut he's really wishing this sort of information had come turned up and he'll have to light before they moved in.do…|isbn=17890941940008561249

|authorisbn=Yara Evans and Luciana BettiB0C47LV1PC|title=The Adventures of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Black Cat and Tabby Cat are minding their own business in their own house when Can you make a very alarming thing happens. A creature - a large''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, dog-like creature - appears in their house. Black Catis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, always one to take charge, challenges this fearsome creature with all would it land? The catch is that the courage he can musteranswer for both could well be. Tabby Cat backs him...no. from a rather safe distance. The creature is indignant -  ''IFragility'm not a dog. I'm a fox!''|isbn=1511658649 is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=17124357281529431735|title=Jamie's KeepsakeThe Winter Visitor|author=Michael GallagherJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, hewhich made Bruce Hopkins's just being released from return all the Southern General Hospitalmore surprising. The nurse thinks heHe'll come back to visit d been exiled on the other patients but Alex Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has no intention of doing that: come about because he's been there for had a year, on the same ward where letter from his brother died and nowex-wife, with his hair all shorn off, hesaying that she's going home in his dead brotherill and hasn's clothest long to live. He wants It's hard to get outside and back with his friends: his brotherfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Forbes, says that the fresh air will do him good and stripped to his mother tells him that he's not to mention TB underwear and sent to say it was tonsillitisa watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Good luck with that one, Alex.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Alice OsemanAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=SolitaireThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary=Set Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in England the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the aftermath of World War One, this is evening a helper at the story of two children, Lotti dessert cafe his gran owns and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but don't want to let go of their last, tiny glimpses of hoperuns. Ben Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is living on a narrowboat on generation missing in the canalfamily. A few short years ago, lying to the police about his brotherEli's imminent return from parents were both lost to the battlefields to take care of him. Lottititular race, meanwhile, has been expelled from school and is back at home; it's a beautiful house that belongs globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship for. The day Lotti meets Ben (navigate the day she steals a dog!) is world in the beginning company of a deep, and powerful friendshipmagical beast. It sees them become each other's family, and undertake a perilous trip to France, in This has made the boat, race anathema to try to find out the truth of pair – but when a bad incident at the people they both love.|isbn=0571348769}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471179273|title=House of Correction|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, she's in prison, on remand. She's sharing eatery leads to a cell with Michaelaconfession from gran, who's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her Eli knows his only hope is to dare to have a showerenter what he most hates, unpleasant as with the whole processes might be. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December sole aim the body prize of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with magic at the renovations to Tabitha's house. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha is end – the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in thing to possibly save his bloodgran.|isbn=0571382231