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|author=Delia OwensSylvie Cathrall|title=Where The Crawdads SingA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=General Science Fiction|summary= In 1952, Kya's mother disappeared up the dirt track to town, wearing her alligator heels, and never came home. Then one by one her siblings left, ran from the shack on the North Carolina marsh that served as home and the life that would lead to nothing but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken father. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed 'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for There are few greater joys than a mother that would never return and grew book which lives up far too fast for a girl who can neither read nor write. Finally, one night her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone to survive on the marsh. Eventually, as the years drift painfully by, the time comes when Kya, now an emotional and vastly intelligent young woman, yearns for company besides the gulls and the land, yearning to be loved and to be held. So, when 2 boys from the town of Barkley Cove find their way to her, she finds a new way of lifecompelling premise. But in 1969, the body of former star quarterback and new husband Chase Andrews And this is found lying in the mud one of the marsh, and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysterious, run-down Marsh-Girlthem. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=14721546650356522776

|authorisbn=David C Mason0008517061|title=Pandora's GardenerDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=34

|summary= John Cranston is a gardenerFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, although what he did before he became has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a gardenerlittle uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, he claimsLivia 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 classified. the future she wants for herself and her daughter? That is just as well because he is about to be caught up For the moment they’re enjoying life in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only he can save the daypresent and putting the future on the back burner. |isbn=0956180523

|isbn=03565124791786482126|authortitle= Alix E HarrowThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|titleauthor= The Once and Future WitchesElly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyCrime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. Therewas no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's no such thing difficult as witchesRuth knows, but there used to be.Nelson doesn'' In 1893t, after that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the purges and the burnings, witching has been reduced to little more than weak charms and simple spellsone night they spent together some three months ago. If women want to hold power in their hands Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to have their voices heard, it is now through women's suffragesudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=Onjali Q Rauf0008551324|title=The Night Bus HeroDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Hector 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 body of a bullymissing 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. Egged on by And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his two sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn'friendst think so and she', he takes s even prepared to do the other childrenthing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's sweetshappening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, harasses and threatensher mother, plays pranks at schoolHelena, and gets into trouble at every turnher father are dead in their bed. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isn't his faultInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but then he isnthere't believed s something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as everyone expects him though it was going to be telling an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation liesin Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Nothing seems fairRobert's a theatre director. His parents are barely homeHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and seem entitled and uses Edward to only care about his perfect sister and his annoying little brother when they are, and his teachers have abandoned run errands for him as a lost cause. So what happens when, Edward has been in trying love with Stanza since their university days - and he's 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's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the truth & fight top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to be believedthe case alongside her sidekick, Hector finds himself embroiled with the police; AI detective Lock. It's their first trying 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 accusetheir AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and then trying to save , potentially, out of a homeless man from his local parkcareer?|isbn=1510106774139851120X

|isbn=18497673431399613073|title=Count on MeMoral Injuries|author=Miguel TancoChristie Watson

|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers|summary=The title Olivia, Laura and format Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of this book might lead a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to think that itbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they's either about responsibility re at a drug and alcohol- or fuelled party and it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journeygoing to end in tragedy. It isnWe don't: it's a hymn of praise to mathsknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. ItThis time, it's about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday lifetheir teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=18497669200241636604|title=Everything is MINEThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Andrea D'AquinoGary Stevenson

|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson is a schnauzer: what else could If you be with were to bring up an image of a name like that? He knows that city banker in your mind, you'll realise that he's kind, clever and loyalre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. You'll also need to know that everything A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is '''MINE'''. And the East End, where he means ''everything''. It begins was familiar with the slipper: mum still has oneviolence, poverty and injustice. Why would she need more? You sense that Marcello feels that There was no posh public school on his CV - but he's being generous in allowing that. Then it was had been to the pork chopLondon School of Economics. Well, did you see anyone's name on it? ''And'' Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he left the carrots for Leohas a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. That's another example of Marcello's generosityHe also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. There was the acorn which squirrel It was gnawing his ability at: there what was no documentation to prove ownership, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. And talking of ownership the tree would provide all the sticks he could ever want to chewEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader. There's nothing unreasonable in any of that, is there?

|isbn=18497670091035021803|title=It IsnThe Antique Hunter't Rude s Guide to be NudeMurder|author=Rosie HaineC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=This could have It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been one of those books which 'preaches back to the choirEnglish country village where she grew up. She': the only people whos back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK s former mentor and the ones who ''know'' that itCarole's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit circumstances seem suspicious, to bustsay the least. ButArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not wearing clothesfelt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. It's After the split, she worked in a celebration cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of bodies: bodies large her life, who was murdered) and small Freya and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderfulJames have now divorced.

|isbn=0241295955AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=TrioAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=William BoydBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=It was 1968: ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the year when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinatedshape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. It's also the year when YSK Films are making Well, I must confess that there have been more than a movie few decades of technology in Brightonmy lifetime. It's called 'I'Emily Bracegirdleve kept up reasonably well with what's Extremely Useful Ladder advantageous to the Moon'', or 'me but I'Ladder m left with the Moon'' as feeling that it's known on setall getting away from me. Anny Viklund Some of it is the female star in a production which is proving to be just a little bit rackety- frankly - quite frightening. There are odd pressures on Of course, I could research the producer, Talbot Kydd, to employ this old actor friend for a couple of days because he needs possibilities and the money, allow a fading star to use his catchphrase, probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or include the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a song from the leading man, whose musical star is fadingway I could understand.

|isbnauthor=B08B39QNRHSunny Singh|title=The Curious History of Writer's Cramp: Solving an age-old problem|author=Michael PritchardHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Popular ScienceThrillers |summary=''Society The Hotel Arcadia is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word''. I came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History of Writer's Cramp'' a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a rather strange routeterrorist group. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting': I prefer Hiding from the word 'painful' but I have an interest in terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the way that hands workhotel manager. An exploration of As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the history of hotel, he forms a problem which has defeated some bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it provedphone, with the book being their friendship grows as much about the doctors treating the sufferers Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the changing medical attitudes as the problem itselfterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Blake Nuto and Charlotte Ager1529153298|title=Child The List of GalaxiesSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=What does it It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean to be alive? , honestly...) What are we made ofShe's not what's worrying Miv's family, and where are we going? though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'Child of Galaxiesdisappeared'doesn' is a lovely childrent sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's picture book overheard that deals with all her father wants to move the big questionsfamily 'Down South'. Written as When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a poemfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the lyrical words donmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she't shy away from darkness, nor talk down ll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the children you are reading dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to, but rather than work beautifully together with the illustrations to create a powerful, uplifting reading experienceanyone.|isbn=1912497425

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)1398524085|title=BetrayalHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=35

|summary=Meet Ursula, the stand-in minister, drafted in from outside the leading Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party to cover the post for a yearbut never turned up. You might get to meet Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her hunky husband she can't believe she deservesdaughter, and the children who Etty. are ignorant of just how she spent all worried but - strangely - her empathy for them on previous jobs in the foreign aid charity sectorhusband, Alec, is not. You'll meet her ministry's cleanerShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, who bizarrely has fallen into find the task body of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profile. YouGreg'll certainly meet a homeless tramp, who has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursulas father, andDuncan Ackerley, knowing her of old, decided she needs saving from in the devil posing beside herriver. You'll meet It was an easy assumption for the ministerial bodyguard police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and driver then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to acceptguilt. But as for the first ministerial case, of a woman demanding her daughterThe Salter children are not convinced but there's rape little else they can do but get looked at on with their lives and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursula's meeting with the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Tania Unsworth1035906708|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlooked, Lucas and forgotten. She is quiethis friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, and compliant, and makes a place that has the best nickname of whatever happens to her'The Black Hole'. So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before All big movie fans, they are free 're looking forward to take care lots of herexciting films, they have to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a week. many, many snacks! Poor ElsieHowever, forgotten againas the movie starts, just decides to make the best of things. On investigating the house she finds they very quickly realise that her Great Uncle had lived in India as a boysomething about this new film format is very different, and he has they are swept up into an enormous tiger rug on the floor of one of the roomsadventure they couldn't even imagine. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappy, and he says he has But as they lurch from one film genre to keep it because he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years oldnext, and he says it was the worst thing he can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever did. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported get back many, many years, to the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years oldcinema, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tiger, in order and to put something right that happened a long time ago.their real lives?|isbn=17885417071839942738

|isbnauthor=1472127013Rachel Greenlaw|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' 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 Trotstop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenJames Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite Things have been a bit of work on handsticky for the Earthlings. The chairman of Philpott Electronics was concerned about his managing directorAI and automation have been proceeding apace, Harold Cheeseman, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like it there. This was unusual, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went often replacing jobs they're paid to Australia. Then there was the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced do and other tasks that his wife, Sheraton, was seeing another mantook time to accomplish. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations Just as they were beginning to instal listening devices in the staff canteen: he wanted get used to know what the staff were saying about him all this technological change and his secretarystarting to think of other, who was from Geneva. Apparentlynew ways to spend time, the staff called her The Swiss Rollalong came an awful pandemic. Then there Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the murdermany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=0008420386Matthew Tree|title=Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth DayWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=What do Malcolm GladwellTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes a drunk and Andrew Scott have in common? They've chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and - more importantly - they've been willing who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to appear on Elizabeth Day's podcast to discuss their failures his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and how life worked out for them afterwardsset himself high but achievable ambitions. You'll find the results of these discussions in ''Failosophy''|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=0571362672A G Slatter|title=Snow|author=John BanvilleThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Crime (Historical)Fantasy|summary=''WellThere'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 least you're last. I just want to enjoy it for a Wexford manwhile.''

So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master s, a family of witches who protect the Keelmore Hounds town and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirkwider world from the Darklands. The niceties had Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be established even when there born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a Catholic priest dead on steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missingtown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody As challenges come her way left, right and thiscentre, along Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with his good-but-shabby suitthe dead, marked him out as putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of Osborne's class and obviously Protestantchaos. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless Reeling from Scallanstownone family secret to another, Ellie must decide who - despite to trust and determine what to do as the different religions - was in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled thereBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=17874776301529900360|title=The Postscript MurdersGhost Orchid|author=Elly GriffithsJonathan Kellerman

|summary=When a 90-year-old-woman with a heart condition dies peacefully in her armchair, it really shouldnIt hadn't be suspicious been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and that even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke reluctant to Peggy Smith's carerask for his help on difficult cases. Natalka Kolisnyk was adamant His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was more to PeggyRobin, Delaware's death than met the eye - particularly as she partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that there the involvement was no heart condition and that Peggy had worried something that the man she was being followedloved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Then there was Two lovers were murdered in the fact that Peggy was swimming pool of a 'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines remote property in their books: Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need is married to knowan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=00083301311529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Stolen SistersSecret Life of a Vet|author=Louise JensenSion Rowlands

|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=When we start Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn''The Stolen Sisters'' we know t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that twentybeing on-years call put on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adults. Well, theyhis father're healthy in the physical sense, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD and Marie drinkss life. They're When he was seventeen he took the Sinclair sisters opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and one day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-years-old and she convinced this was in charge of her sisters, the eight-year-old twinsjob for him. Much as she loved them Carly Before long, he was desperate to get a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attentionat Liverpool University. Leah and Marie were nattering about It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a lost ball and a fleece which had been left outsidechild. The gate wasnIf anything, he't shut properly and Bruno, their boxer dog, escaped. As the three girls went d wanted to chase after him they were snatched by two menbe a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Stephen Fabes0861541774|title=Signs A Nye of Life|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary= I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and do it. I also didn't inherit the kind of steady nerve, 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 'bottle'. In order words I'm not the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|isbn=1788161211}}{{FrontpagePheasants|author=Arvin Ahmadi|title=How It All Blew UpSteve Burrows

|genre=TeensCrime| summary=18-year-DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old Amir is American Iranianally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a Muslim, knife - and gayhe killed a Ghurka. He struggles with his identityInitially, unable he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to face telling his parents who light that suggested that he really is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening might have planned to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs away.murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to Italy! So begins help as any interference from another police force could provoke a journey for Amir, diplomatic incident and his family, where they wouldn't help Danny at all discover more about him, and who he really is, and who he really wants to be.|isbn=1471409929

|author=Antoine LaurainAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Readers RoomPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|rating=3.5|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had The Perfect Passion Company is a great successdating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscripts. The three people who work in the Readers' Room operating as an alternative to sift through what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus all the fourth advisor online apps in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be providing a huge smashmore personal, and so it has proventailored service. But there are several 'howevers' 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 thatget away for a while. As in, however – Violaine herself Katie is not having life all her own way, for she has been involved in coming out of a break up with a near-fatal accidentbad boyfriend, and starts this book coming round from a comaso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. Andso begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, however – despite all urgingbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the author of the book Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has never once made themselves known to the publishers no experience in personrunning a business, and or in fact offered up a most peculiar statementmatch-come-threat making, but Ness has full confidence in their last email. What is going to befall Violaine, her memoryabilities, and there's always her staff – very helpful (and how much is any of it due rather handsome) neighbour, William, to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?lend a hand…|isbn=1910477974}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1948124572|title=Think Outside the Box|author=Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=''Whenever you find a problem <br>''Wherever there's a puzzle to solve <br>''However you get stuck in a sticky situation <br>''Just think outside the box'' And so begins the latest picture book from Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk. It's a clarion call to children to use their imaginations and not logic alone when it comes to solving problems.1846976596

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)0811771741|title=The Seven DoorsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Come here Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for a thriller that interestingly doesnBaby't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're gives us a full fifth collection of the way throughknits from toys to blankets. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturerSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, he big cosy afternoons in medical provision and decisions at front of the council, being forced to move out of their home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which theyfire'd occupied for over thirty yearsvariety. The building heprojects are divided by the time they's inherited, meanwhilell take to complete - less than five hours, and which they let out five to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughterten hours, who quite blatantly says ten to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in twenty hours and you're moving out'more than twenty hours. 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 All the 1980sprojects are attractive, but nomodern and useable. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning perhaps show my age when I wonder about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an older'social-media-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at worthy projects' but that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanished's me being picky.|isbn=1913193381

|author=Michael J MaloneDean Koontz|title=A Song of IsolationThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up 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 career really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is only beginning the very last person to hit deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the heights delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to retire help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of all thingsBenny's enemies, though to his credit if he would rather be working in forestry. They have found a hideaway on , Benny, and Harper (a small Scottish estate, but things waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are starting to feel wrong between them. |isbn=19131933651662500491

|author= Christopher PaoliniAdam Stower|title= To Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|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 moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked Murray and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfits, and the news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them. As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|isbn=1529046505}}{{Frontpage|author=Carlie Sorosiak|title=My Life as a CatBun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This Murray is the story of an alien who has come down supposed to spend some time on earth living as be a human. It's something that each member in the alien collective humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is allowed able to dosleep and eat and eat and sleep and, for 1 monthwell, once they reach a certain agewhatever takes his fancy next of the two. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en routeBut he's a bad magician's cat, and so something goes wrong with his arrival favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and he finds that instead of landing in Yellowstone Parkthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, ready to work as a park rangernot into the regular back garden, he is instead in the body of but into a cat on the other side world of the country! frightening adventure and whiffs. This is not what he had planned! Not only is he in the wrong place and the wrong bodytime round it drops them into a Viking land, he where a troll hunter is also in the middle of a stormexpected – well, stuck in a tree! And so he meets Oliveone much bigger than Murray was, the little girl who rows out in a boat to rescue himbe honest, but he's turned up and who names him Leonard.he'll have to do…|isbn=17880060890008561249

|authorisbn= Tahi SaihateB0C47LV1PC|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating= 3.54|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is a place to which we can never returnthat the answer for both could well be.... no. Tahi Saihate, in her debut novel  ''Astral Season, Beastly SeasonFragility'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lie. Her novel is a meditation on youth and how set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-altering.|isbn= 1916277101covid pandemic

|authorisbn= Andrea Stewart1529431735|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre= FantasyCrime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wantedreturn all the more surprising. He'' In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructs, an heir to d been exiled on the throne, Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler, and for a warrior will fight to find their place in the worlddecade. Lin is the emperor The return has come about because he's forgotten daughterhad a letter from his ex-wife, kept locked away in a palace of secrets saying that she's ill and closed doorshasn't long to live. When her father refuses It's hard to recognise her as heir feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to the throne, she vows his underwear and sent to show him she is capable of reviving a dying empire and watery grave in secret, she begins to unlock one door after another, searching for the mysteries boot of her past and the forbidden art of bone shard magica stolen Ford Sierra. Yet Lin is playing Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a deadly game and her quest for power will come at great cost. With revolution in the air and creeping closer and problem closer to the gates of the palace, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become a catalyst of change and save her people.|isbn=0356514943home?

|author=Sharon DoeringAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=She Lies CloseThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missing, around 6 months ago. There has been no sign of her sinceEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and no arrests have been madein the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. And yet Eli lives with his lovely gran, this book too – for there is not about Avaa generation missing in the family. Not really A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. This book is about Grace, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is made the race anathema to the pair – but when a suspect in Ava's disappearance. As bad incident at the eatery leads to a single mother confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to two young childrenenter what he most hates, she's really wishing this sort with the sole aim the prize of information had come magic at the end – the only thing to light before they moved inpossibly save his gran.|isbn=17890941940571382231