Changes

Find us on [[File:facebook.gif|link=https://www.facebook.com/TheBookbagCoUk|alt=Facebook]] [https://www.facebook.com/TheBookbagCoUk '''Facebook'''], [[File:twitter.gif|link=http://twitter.com/TheBookbag|alt=Follow us on Twitter]] [http://twitter.com/TheBookbag '''Twitter'''] and , [[File:instagram_classic_logo.png|link=https://www.instagram.com/thebookbag.co.uk/|alt=Follow us on Instagram]] [https://www.instagram.com/thebookbag.co.uk/ '''Instagram'''] and [[File:LinkedIn.png|link=https://www.linkedin.com/in/the-bookbag-1b12a264/|alt=LinkedIn]]

There are currently '''{{PAGESINCATEGORY: Reviews}}''' [[:Category:Reviews|reviews ]] at TheBookbag.

|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=14736924070008517061|title=The Book of Two WaysDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Jodi PicoultStig Abell

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Dawn Edelstein is Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a death doulalot of compromise: that's someone who 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 there the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the person who is dying, to make their passage to whatever they believe moment they’re enjoying life in as easy as possible the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to support their carershold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's a rewardingdifficult as Ruth knows, caring occupation and Dawn puts her heart and soul into it but this wasnNelson doesn't always her life. Some fifteen years ago she was a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an Egyptologist, that she was working is pregnant with her supervisor, Professor Ian Dumphries, on his child as a result of the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egyptone night they spent together some three months ago. Then she was Dawn McDowell: that was her maiden nameHer condition will be obvious before long, the name she published undernot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=Delia Owens0008551324|title=Where The Crawdads SingDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= In 1952, KyaIt's mother disappeared up unusual for anyone from the dirt track Hardie family to town, wearing her alligator heels, and never came homeapproach the police. Then one by one her siblings left, ran from the shack on the North Carolina marsh that served as home and Neither side likes or has any respect for the life that would lead to nothing but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken fatherother. Years pass But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and Kya - now nicknamed he'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for s prepared to tell the police where the body of a mother that would never return missing person is buried and grew up far too fast who was responsible 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 marshdeath. Eventually This person, as the years drift painfully byhe promises, the time comes when Kya, now an emotional is someone big and vastly intelligent young woman, yearns for company besides it will be worth the gulls and the land, yearning police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be loved and transferred to an open prison to be held. So, when 2 boys from serve the town remainder of Barkley Cove find their way his sentence and to her, she finds a new way of lifeget an early parole date. But in 1969 Not much to ask, the body of former star quarterback and is it? The new husband Chase Andrews is found lying in the mud of the marsh, Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and everyone in town immediately suspects she's even prepared to do the mysterious, runother thing that Hardie demanded -down Marsh-Girlmake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=1472154665

|authorisbn=David C Mason0008405026|title=Pandora's GardenerA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=35

|summary= John Cranston is 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 gardenerhalt. Now, her mother, although what he did before he became a gardenerHelena, he claimsand her father are dead in their bed. Initially, is classifiedit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. That is just What looked as well because he is about though it was going to be caught up an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in a criminal / spy / terrorist plotRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, where only he can save the dayUna Burt) are less convinced. |isbn=0956180523

|isbn=03565124790571379877|authortitle= Alix E HarrowThe Kellerby Code|titleauthor= The Once and Future WitchesJonny Sweet|rating= 3.5|genre= FantasyCrime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert''Theres a theatre director. He's no such thing as witchesalso self-obsessed, demanding, but there used handsome and entitled and uses Edward to berun errands for him.'' In 1893, after the purges and the burnings, witching Edward has been reduced in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to little more than weak charms and simple spellsRobert. If women want to hold power Most men in their hands, to have their voices heard, it is now through womenRobert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's suffragenot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Onjali Q RaufJo Callaghan|title=The Night Bus HeroLeave No Trace|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Hector When a man is found crucified on the top of a bully. Egged on by his two 'friends'hill in Nuneaton, he takes other children's sweetsDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, harasses and threatens, plays pranks at school, and gets into trouble at every turnthe AI detective Lock. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isnIt't his faults their first live case together, but then he isn't believed as everyone expects him to be telling lieshaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely home, and seem to only care about his perfect sister and his annoying little brother But when they arethere is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and his teachers have abandoned him as a lost causevery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. So what happens when, in trying Will they be able to tell solve the truth & fight to be believedcase in time, Hector finds himself embroiled with or will Kat find herself taken off the police; first trying to accusecase and, potentially, and then trying to save 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 ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know that twenty-years on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adultsSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Well, they're healthy in the physical sense, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD His father was a GP and Marie drinks. TheyRowlands didn're the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-years-old and she was t want to follow in charge of her sistershis footsteps, particularly when he considered the eightstrain that being on-year-old twinscall put on his father's life. Much as she loved them Carly When he was desperate to get seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attention. Leah and Marie were nattering about family friend who was a lost ball vet and a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasn't shut properly and Bruno, their boxer dog, escaped. As was convinced this was the three girls went to chase after job for him they were snatched by two men.}}{{Frontpage|author=Stephen Fabes|title=Signs 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. UnfortunatelyBefore long, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which he was the guts to simply go out and do itat Liverpool University. I also didnIt hadn'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 - as with so many students - been gifted with the requisite 'bottle'his dream since he was a child. In order words IIf anything, he'm not the sort of person who will get on d wanted to be a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely thatprofessional footballer.|isbn=1788161211

|authorisbn=Arvin Ahmadi0861541774|title=How It All Blew UpA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve 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=19104779741846976596

|isbn=19481245720811771741|title=Think Outside the BoxInstaKnits for Baby|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukMelissa Leapman

|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's 'Whenever you find a problem <br>'InstaKnits for Baby'Wherever there's gives us a puzzle collection of knits from toys to solve <br>'blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'However you get stuck long, cosy afternoons in a sticky situation <br>front of the fire''Just think outside variety. The projects are divided by the boxtime they'' And so begins ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the latest picture book from Justine Avery projects are attractive, modern and Liuba Syrotiukuseable. It I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's a clarion call to children to use their imaginations and not logic alone when it comes to solving problemsme being picky.

|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)Dean Koontz|title=The Seven DoorsBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=Come here for Benny is having a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way throughterrifically bad day. We start with our coupleHe loses his job, she a literature lecturerhe loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, he big in medical provision and decisions at the councilsomeone has delivered a really weird, being forced disturbing coffin-sized object to move out of their his home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which theyit'd occupied for over thirty years. s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The building he's inheritedthing is, meanwhile, and which they let Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a single mothernew friend, is needed by their adult daughtera bad weather friend called Spike, who quite blatantly says has been sent to its occupant 'take help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'good person. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this Spike is a genre readgoing to take care of Benny, think itand will certainly take care of Benny's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980senemies, but no. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedyif he, in case that has any bearing on what happens hereBenny, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at 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 vanishedHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=19131933811662500491

|author=Michael J MaloneAdam Stower|title=A Song of IsolationMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up Murray is supposed to be a career that humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is only beginning able to hit sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the heights to retire to catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant regular back garden, but into a world of all things, though to his credit he would rather be working in forestryfrightening adventure and whiffs. They have found This time round it drops them into a hideaway on Viking land, where a small Scottish estatetroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but things are starting he's turned up and he'll have to feel wrong between them. do…|isbn=19131933650008561249

|authorisbn= Christopher PaoliniB0C47LV1PC|title= To Sleep in a Sea of StarsFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating= 54|genre= Science Literary Fiction|summary= On the moon of Can you make a distant gas giant''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to question should you make it? Or is the planet habitable to human life. Howeverquestion if you did, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under would it land? The catch is that the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entityanswer for both could well be... 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 and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star systemno. She  ''Fragility'' is revived aboard set as the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch city of misfitsPortland, 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 warOregon, Kira slowly cautiously begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in emerge from the restrictions imposed during the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|isbn=1529046505covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Carlie Sorosiak1529431735|title=My Life as a CatThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=This It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the story of an alien who has come down to spend some time more surprising. He'd been exiled on earth living the Costa del Sol as a humanwanted drug smuggler for a decade. It The return has come about because he's something had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that each member in the alien collective is allowed she's ill and hasn't long to do, for 1 month, once they reach a certain agelive. Leonard comes It's hard to earth but gets distracted en routefeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, and so something goes wrong with stripped to his arrival underwear and he finds that instead of landing in Yellowstone Park, ready sent to work as a park ranger, he is instead watery grave in the body boot of a cat on the other side of the country! This is not what he had planned! stolen Ford Sierra. Not only is he in the wrong place and the wrong body, he is also in the middle of Is it a storm, stuck in warning from a tree! And so he meets Olive, the little girl who rows out in Spanish gang or a boat problem closer to rescue him, and who names him Leonard.|isbn=1788006089home?

|author= Tahi SaihateAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating= 3.54|genre= Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= We long for our past even though it Eli is a place to which busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we can never return. Tahi Saihatestart by visiting with him, and in her debut novel ''Astral Seasonthe evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lie. Her novel too – for there is a meditation on youth and how generation missing in the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-alteringfamily.|isbn= 1916277101}}{{Frontpage|author= Andrea Stewart|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)|rating=4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= A few short years ago, Eli''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wanted'' In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructs, an heir s parents were both lost to the thronetitular race, a smuggler, and a warrior will fight globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to find their place in navigate the world. Lin is in the emperor's forgotten daughter, kept locked away in company of a palace of secrets and closed doorsmagical beast. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir This has made the race anathema to the throne, she vows pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to show him she is capable of reviving a dying empire and in secretconfession from gran, she begins Eli knows his only hope is to unlock one door after anotherdare to enter what he most hates, searching for with the mysteries of her past and sole aim the forbidden art prize of bone shard magic. Yet Lin 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 to the gates of end – the palace, Lin must decide just how far she will to go only thing to become a catalyst of change and possibly save her peoplehis gran.|isbn=03565149430571382231