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|author=Nick Jones and Si ClarkSylvie Cathrall|title=One Night in Beartown|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight A Letter to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X}} {{Frontpage|author=Gail Honeyman|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineLuminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=General Science Fiction|summary= Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30. She There are few greater joys than a book which lives in Glasgow, alone. And she likes it that way. She works 9-5, 5 days up to a week, and spends the weekend not drunk, but not sober. alonecompelling premise. And she likes it that way. She lives by a routine, and that's fine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing this is missing from her life. Except everything is. Until one day, at a concert she won tickets for in an office raffle, she sees the man she is sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself the best version of herself that she can, in order to secure this beautiful musician. Then, as she's on her way home one Friday, she and the new IT guy at her office see a man collapse in the street and stay close to him in hospital. Then, before she knows it, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with the man's family and friends, with Raymond from IT and of course her side project of falling in love with Johnnie Lomond. But just as her life seems to be looking up, things take a turn for the worse. Is Johnnie all he's cracked up to be? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanor's walls have been broken down and she has to fight her way out of the shadows - but maybe she doesn't have to do it alonethem.|isbn=00081721450356522776

|isbn=18388873340008517061|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Angela MarsonsStig Abell

|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The need for coffee overtook Stone - There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the course had been a complete waste future of time for his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as she knew that she was equally rude to everyone. It was moving in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight together would mean a lot of a little girl clutching a teddy bear compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the absence of future she wants for herself and her mother. daughter? Stone For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and Bryant didn't realise putting the extent to which this case was going to occupy their minds as future on the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours laterback burner. Her neck had been broken and it had all the hallmarks of a quick, functional kill, but who would do that to a young mother out shopping with her child?

|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard1786482126|title=The Coral BrideJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=Angel Roberts is Builders were demolishing an oddity old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy- five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a female fisherwoman, making her living in child beneath a man's worlddoorway. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off the coast of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in to come and head the investigationThere was no skull. Although the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusionWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Morales feels something more sinister is going on, and Dr Ruth Galloway finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feudsherself working with DCI Harry Nelson. At the same time It's difficult as trying to run his investigationRuth knows, he also has his grown up sonbut Nelson doesn't, Sebastien arriving at that she is pregnant with his doorchild as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, weighed down with personal problems that he not least because Ruth is unable prone to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiessudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1913193322

|isbn=14721347100008551324|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of DeathThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=M C BeatonNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and sheIt's left South Moulton Street unusual for a cottage in anyone from the Hardie family to approach the Cotswold village of Carsleypolice. She'd have preferred one of Neither side likes or has any respect for the more romantic names but at least Carsley other. But Davie Hardie is off struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the tourist trail with all police where the problems that bringsbody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Now the problem This person, he promises, is settling into a different way of life - someone big and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant to peopleit will be worth the police doing what he wants. The first move And what he wants is to enter the village quiche-baking competition and be transferred to an open prison to serve the beginning remainder of the campaign is taking the judge, Reginald Cummings-Browne, his sentence and his wife Vera out to dinnerget an early parole date. She knows she's being ripped off at the pub in the next village but this Not much to ask, is necessary and it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's a good investment as she knows that t think so and she's going even prepared to win. How? Well, ''her'' quiche do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is coming kept well away from a Chelsea Bakery..what's happening.

|authorisbn= Claire McGowan0008405026|title=The PushA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 5|genre= General FictionCrime|summary= Six mumsIt's sixteen years since nine-toyear-be meet at a prenatal classold Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. It's NCT ''style'', but not She was never found and the proper NCT. This bit is important, but you have investigation ground to wait a little to see whyhalt. This being London Now, her mother, such a class attracts a wide variety of peopleHelena, from all sorts of backgroundsand her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but for most there's something about the positioning of the ladies bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the thing they have explanation lies in common is itRosalie's their first baby. Probably after the first one, you dondisappearance: others (such as Derwent't have time for classess boss, or think you've got child-rearing down patUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1542019990

|isbn=14722559170571379877|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)Kellerby Code|author=Quintin JardineJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=On New Year's EveEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at the golf club obsessed with his wifeupper-class friends, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner Robert and the man with whom she shares a house, Dominic JacksonStanza. Jackson would be better-known to the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but heRobert's reformed and the new name reflects a new mantheatre director. The Skinners donHe't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and are dropped home not long into the new yearuses Edward to run errands for him. SkinnerEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's tempted drunkenly confided how he feels to let the phone ring but knows that he cannot: itRobert. Most men in Robert's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a crime scene in the centre of Edinburgh. Skinnerrelationship had begun between them but he's not technically with like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the police now - he's chairman two of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experiencethem kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQJo Callaghan|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackLeave No Trace

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was When a furious storm going man is found crucified on and she'd already refused the offer top of help from one man a hill in a big vehicleNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. WeIt'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven off. There has s their first live case together, having previously been no sign of her - or her body - in the two years sincevery successful with several cold cases. Georgia But when there is back a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and she's not going a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be stopped.}} {{Frontpage|author= Katharine Orton|title= Glassheart|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since able to solve the Blitz claimed the lives of her family. Nowcase in time, in or will Kat find herself taken off the aftermath of the warcase and, they travel all over the countrypotentially, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombs. Their latest job takes them out to the wilds of Dartmoor, where Nona discovers that her world is full of ancient and powerful magic. She also discovers that a mysterious entity, known only as The Soldier, is hell-bent on using Nona's innate magic for his own ends, and will not stop until he has her…career?|isbn=1406385239139851120X

|isbn=B08KKQ85FN1399613073|title=But Never For LunchMoral Injuries|author=Sandra AragonaChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesThrillers|summary=''If Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to quarter of a Rottweiler in lipstickcentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles which is a pampered peacock about bonus when you aim to be released into a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the company free spirit of carrion crows or, more to the point, about to discover the real world of bus timetables group and paying his own gas billsshe becomes a GP.'' You don't get many better opening sentences than that, do you? We When we first met His Excellency and The Ambassadormeet them they's Wife in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress re at a drug and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the Priorities]] alcohol-fuelled party and we learned what it was like 's going to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the Italian Government but tragedy or the time has come for HE to retires and for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of Former Ambassador..consequences. They have left The Career and settled in RomeTwenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Well This time, it'settled' rather overstates the situation and s their dog, Beagle, has no intention of slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deafteenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 0241636604|title= The Last Resort Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersAutobiography|summary=A group If you were to bring up an image of strangers gather on a private islandcity banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. They have been invited to an all A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from stripe suit and his background is the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designerEast End, social media influencerwhere he was familiar with violence, gossip columnist poverty and hedge fund managerinjustice. Everyone seems There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to have an area the London School of expertise that makes their attendance necessaryEconomics. All except Amelia whose presence Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a mysteryfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear He also realised that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hiddenmost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. As the clock ticks down It was his ability at what was, these well-kept secrets are revealedessentially, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cagecard game which got him an internship with Citibank. In Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themtrader. |isbn=1542020018

|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ1035021803|title=The Karma TrapAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Lisette BoydC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=George Jackson is thirty-three It's twenty years old, absolutely gorgeous since Freya Lockwood has been back to look at - and singlethe English country village where she grew up. She's not had sex back now because of a request for eight months help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and sheCarole's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is being visited on her dead and she has a real talent for attracting dramathe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Her life's chaoticArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something feels, let her down at the bottom of the stairs badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to absorb be near the water - then man or pursue the shower fell through profession she loved. After the roof whilst split, she was worked in it a cafe, met and left married James (on the rebound from the love of herlife, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. She only has to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - who was murdered) and Freya and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the officeJames have now divorced.

|isbn=0008333173AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=HungryAll Tomorrow's Futures: A Memoir of Wanting MoreFictions that Disrupt|author=Grace DentBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=AutobiographyScience Fiction|summary=I'm always relieved when Grace Dent is one 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the judges on shape of things to come.'' I'Masterchefve heard it said that 'technology'is what happens after you're eighteen. You know Well, I must confess that you're going to get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather there have been more than fine dining most a few decades of the timetechnology in my lifetime. You also ponder on how she can look so elegant I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all that good food in front getting away from me. Some of herit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I've often wondered about could research the woman behind possibilities and the media image probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they'Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More'' is a stunning read which will make you laugh re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and break your heart who could deliver information in equal measuresa way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1838773169Sunny Singh|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor Knot|author=S J BennettHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=It's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II The Hotel Arcadia is at Windsor for the Easter Courta luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. She's having Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a dine wartime photographer and sleep at Abhi, the request of Prince Charles, who's attempting hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to raise money from some rich Russians care remotely for one of his pet projects. There'd been the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a distinctly Russian flavour bond with Sam who refuses to the evening be cowed by events, and one keeps on venturing out of the performers brought in her room to try to play the piano has been found dead in capture what can only be called embarrassing circumstances's happened through her photography. The immediate reaction is that one of Although they only ever talk over the guests is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out her racing managerphone, an ex-ambassador their friendship grows as Abhi tries to Moscow, the Archbishop of Canterbury help her keep safe and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn't bear they both wait to go down any of ''those'' roadssee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Matt Haig1529153298|title=The Midnight LibraryList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|summary= Between life It's 1979 and death there Margaret Thatcher is a libraryPrime Minister. And so (A woman? I mean, 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, she finds herself in the Midnight Libraryhonestly... Everything that could) She's not what've gone wrong in Noras worrying Miv's life hasfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Her cat died Well, she lost her jobthey've been murdered, her brother wonbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't speak sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to hermove the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, her parents are deadDown South is a frightening, the boy she teaches piano to no longer cares about pianoforeign place, she called off her weddingbest avoided. For Miv, and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her help. She gave up on all the things that move would've let mean leaving her escape the wetbest friend, Sharon, cold town of Bedford and given her life some purposeful direction. So at 23:22, she realises that she isn't made for life and decides ll do anything to dieprevent that. But instead of death, she finds She's not worried about the library. Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each book providing a chance to try another life she could have lived, in a parallel time. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday the 18th of April, Nora Seed begins dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to live every life she could'veanyone.|isbn=1786892731

|isbn=03494230831398524085|title=Death and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Frances BrodyNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Kate Shackleton runs Charlotte Salter was expected at her investigation agency from Batswing Cottagehusband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, ably assisted by Jim Sykessons Niall, who lives in Woodhouse Paul and Ollie and her housekeeperdaughter, Mrs SugdenEtty. She's been approached by William Lofthouse of the Barleycorn Brewery in Mashamare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Something is going wrong with his business Shortly afterwards, Etty and he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: heGreg, find the body of Greg's hoping that his nephew and right-hand manfather, James LofthouseDuncan Ackerley, will be back from a trip to Germany before longin the river. James went to see what It was an easy assumption for the continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need police to makethat Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a The Salter children are not convinced but there's little bit ''too'' much or is going to bring back a German bride else they can do but he'd like the business to be ship-shape before his nephew returnsget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Caroline Scott1035906708|title=When I Come Home AgainDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses We tend to give a namethink of Maria Callas as Greek, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he is. Eventuallybut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, they determine this isn't willful obstinanceNew York, he doesn't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being on the road for a long time in December 1923 and being frightened, and some of the faces from the road, but other than that – everything that came before has goneonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. They need a name for the forms and so they call him Adam and, because he Her original surname was found Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam GalileeStates. A fanciful name When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform mother who doesn't know who he ismercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, where he is or how he got thereJackie.|isbn=1471192172

|isbnauthor=1529410347Christopher Edge|title=Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)|author=Helen CoxBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Kitt Hartley's assistant, Grace EdwardsLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, has left her library job and taken a place on that has the Venerable Bede Academynickname of 'The Black Hole's vocational library studies course in Durham. ItAll big movie fans, they's an unusual place re looking forward to study as students with government grants are not accepted, so most lots of the people attending are scions of the seriously richexciting films, scholarship students - or they've managedand many, somehowmany snacks! However, to scrape together as the money. Gracemovie starts, who's 22they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, comes and they are swept up into the last categoryan adventure they couldn't even imagine. Her parents agreed But as they lurch from one film genre to fund the course but told her that if that was next, can they figure out what she chose on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to do then they were finished with her. Not long after she started the coursecinema, Kitt Hartley came for a visit - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance of a student from a year ago.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Vincent PanettiereRachel Greenlaw|title=These Thy GiftsCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=''2006 is a tumultuous year for I can hear the Catholic Churchsong of the sea. Reports The call of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled. He worries for the future of deep, the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church and hit closer to home than he ever imaginedanswering beat in my heart.''

As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense of the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking his beloved Catholic churchRosevear, he discovers that one child in his own parish has been abused by a priest sent by his bishopremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. And this isn't just any boy: this is Steve's grandson whose Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the offspring of ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a long past relationship between Steve trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and a gangsterMira's widowfather. Steve Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is determined as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to seek justice for this boy and all children victimised by priests who have been protected by his churchguide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. But he 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 also face up be determined to his own failings, going right back stop at nothing to his breaking save the future of her home and the celibacy vowsones she holds most dear.|isbn=15031998860008664730}}

|isbnauthor=1800321104James Sherwood Metts|title=The Body on the Island|author=Nick LouthPlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefield, heading Things have been a bit sticky for HMP Spring Hillthe Earthlings. Steve AI and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and had served six years for the manslaughter of his wife. Only other tasks that wasn't who he wastook time to accomplish. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for the murder Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of five boys between the ages of ten and seventeenother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. He Life was being ghosted out of Wakefield pretty much shut down and into a new identity set up in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts of , along with it, all the body of one of his victims. The Bogeyman was going to be set free many daily social interactions on 2 July 2019. He appeared to be a reformed character but he had a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revengewhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=1473692407Matthew Tree|title=The Book of Two Ways|author=Jodi PicoultWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Dawn Edelstein is Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a death doula: that's someone drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who is there for the person who is dying, to make their passage to whatever they believe in as easy as possible and had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to support their carers. It's a rewardinghis studies, caring occupation cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and Dawn puts her heart and soul into it set himself high but this wasn't always her life. Some fifteen years ago she was a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an Egyptologist, she was working with her supervisor, Professor Ian Dumphries, on the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egypt. Then she was Dawn McDowell: that was her maiden name, the name she published underachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Delia OwensA G Slatter|title=Where The Crawdads SingBriar Book of the Dead

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary= In 1952, Kya'' There's mother disappeared up the dirt track a part of me that wants to keep this just to townmyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, wearing her alligator heelsall mine, and never came homeat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. Then one by one her siblings left'' Within a remote mountain pass, ran far away from the shack on world, lies Silverton; a town under the North Carolina marsh that served as home protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the life that would lead to nothing but sufferingwider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, leaving 7Ellie Briar is the first non-year-old Kya with witch to be born into her drunken father. Years pass family for generations and Kya - now nicknamed 'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for as such since she was young, her training as a mother that would never return steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and grew up far too fast for a girl who can neither read nor writepotions. Finally, one night When her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone to survive on the marsh. Eventuallygrandmother suddenly dies, as Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the years drift painfully byBriar Witch, the time comes when Kyatown's leader, now an emotional and vastly intelligent young womanEllie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, yearns for company besides the gulls right and centre, Ellie uncovers the land, yearning rare ability to be loved and to be held. Socommunicate with the dead, when 2 boys from putting her at the town heart of Barkley Cove find their way to her, she finds a new way maelstrom of lifechaos. But in 1969Reeling from one family secret to another, the body of former star quarterback Ellie must decide who to trust and new husband Chase Andrews is found lying in determine what to do as the mud of the marshBriar witches' legacy, and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysteriouseverything they have sacrificed to survive, run-down Marsh-Girlis under threat. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=14721546651803364548

|authorisbn=David C Mason1529900360|title=Pandora's GardenerThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=34

|summary= John Cranston It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. 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 Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a gardenerGP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, although what particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he did before was seventeen he became took the opportunity of doing work experience with a gardenerfamily friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he claims, is classifiedwas at Liverpool University. That is just It hadn't - as well because with so many students - been his dream since he is about was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only he can save the dayprofessional footballer. |isbn=0956180523

|isbn=03565124790861541774|authortitle= Alix E HarrowA Nye of Pheasants|titleauthor= The Once and Future WitchesSteve Burrows|rating= 54|genre= FantasyCrime|summary=''ThereDCI Domenic Jejeune's no such thing as witchesclose friend and former colleague, but there used to be.'' In 1893Danny Maik, after the purges and the burnings, witching has been reduced taken a short holiday in Singapore to little more than weak charms meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and simple spellshe killed a Ghurka. If women want to hold power in their hands Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have their voices heard, it is now through womenplanned to murder the man. Now he could be 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's suffraget help Danny at all.

|author=Onjali Q RaufAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Night Bus HeroPerfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Hector The Perfect Passion Company is a bullydating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Egged on by his two 'friends', he takes other children's sweets, harasses Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and threatenslook after the business, plays pranks at schoolas Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and gets into trouble so jumps at every turnthe chance to come home to Edinburgh. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isn't his faultAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but then he isn't believed as everyone expects him with some new characters who quickly begin to be telling liescharm. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely homeKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and seem to only care about his perfect sister there's always her very helpful (and his annoying little brother when they arerather handsome) neighbour, William, and his teachers have abandoned him as to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a lost causecollection of knits from toys to blankets. So what happens whenSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in trying front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to tell the truth & fight complete - less than five hours, five to be believedten hours, Hector finds himself embroiled with ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the police; first trying to accuseprojects are attractive, modern and then trying to save a homeless man from his local park?|isbn=1510106774useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1849767343Dean Koontz|title=Count on Me|author=Miguel TancoThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Children's Non-FictionParanormal|summary=The title Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and format of this book might lead you someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to think that his home, and it's either about responsibility - possible that whoever or it's whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a basic 1-2-3 book nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for those just starting Benny it turns out on that the numbers journeydelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. It isn't: itSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a hymn of praise to maths. Itwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday lifewild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1849766920Adam Stower|title=Everything is MINE|author=Andrea D'AquinoMurray and Bun

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson Murray is a schnauzer: what else could you supposed to be with a name like that? humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. He knows that youBut he'll realise that hes a bad magician's kindcat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, clever and loyalthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. YouThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll also need have to know that everything is do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'MINE'''. joke? And he means ''everything''. It begins with if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the slipper: mum still has one. Why question if you did, would she need moreit land? You sense that Marcello feels that he's being generous in allowing The catch is thatthe answer for both could well be.... Then it was the pork chopno. Well, did you see anyone's name on it?  ''AndFragility'' he left is set as the carrots for Leo. That's another example city of Marcello's generosity. There was the acorn which squirrel was gnawing at: there was no documentation Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to prove ownership. And talking of ownership emerge from the tree would provide all restrictions imposed during the sticks he could ever want to chew. There's nothing unreasonable in any of that, is there?covid pandemic

|isbn=18497670091529431735|title=It Isn't Rude to be NudeThe Winter Visitor|author=Rosie HaineJames Henry|rating=54|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=This could have been one of those books It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'preaches to return all the choirmore surprising. He': d been exiled on the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he' s had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that itshe's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-ill and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit hasn't long to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clotheslive. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a celebration watery grave in the boot of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible huea stolen Ford Sierra. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=0241295955Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Trio|author=William BoydThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=It was 1968: Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the year when Bobby Kennedy wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and Martin Luther King were assassinatedruns. It's also the year when YSK Films are making Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a movie generation missing in Brightonthe family. ItA few short years ago, Eli's called ''Emily Bracegirdle's Extremely Useful Ladder parents were both lost to the Moon''titular race, or ''Ladder a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the Moon'' as it's known on set. Anny Viklund is world in the female star in company of a production which is proving to be just a little bit racketymagical beast. There are odd pressures on This has made the producer, Talbot Kydd, race anathema to employ this old actor friend for the pair – but when a couple of days because he needs bad incident at the money, allow a fading star eatery leads to use his catchphrase, or include a song confession from the leading mangran, whose musical star Eli knows his only hope is fadingto dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231