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|isbnauthor=1787332098Sylvie Cathrall|title=How A Letter to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mancethe Luminous Deep

|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argue. I mean, cows There are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums few greater joys than a book which lives up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lovera compelling premise. If I had to choose between the company of humans and the company of animals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read And this book: no is one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortableof them.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Jessie Greengrass0008517061|title=The High HouseDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirs. HoweverFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, that train of thought is slowly seems to have fallen out of favour. Today's young generation are discovering that their parents and their parents' parents did not seem to think that far ahead. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do"has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Raising There’s perhaps a child little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and living her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a world on the precipice lot of catastrophe is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrass. This is 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 a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life our children in the present and their children will have to liveputting the future on the back burner.|isbn=1800750072

|authorisbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth HoganGalloway)|titleauthor=Madame BurovaElly Griffiths

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting site was going to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarothold seventy-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyantfive 'luxury', to use her family's seaapartments -front boothwhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. The singerThere was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, the scryer and the suffererDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday campdifficult as Ruth knows, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last dayNelson doesn't, fifty years later, in possession of that she is pregnant with his child as a pair result of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billiethe one night they spent together some three months ago. Just who Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is she, and who delivered the secrets about her prone to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331Xsudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn= Jonathan Stroud0008551324|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the draconian conformity of police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the Surviving Towns other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and Faith Houses he's prepared to wander tell the wildlands between police where the Seven Kingdoms body of Britain, robbing banks a missing person is buried and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alivewho was responsible for her death. But then she meets Albert Browne This person, he promises, a dark boy with dark powers is someone big and a darker pastit will be worth the police doing what he wants. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan And what he wants is to flee be transferred to an open prison to serve the mythical Free Isles remainder of the London Lagoonhis sentence and to get an early parole date. Together Not much to ask, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and all she's even prepared to do the horrors of postother thing that Hardie demanded -apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|isbn=1406394815make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S0008405026|title=Remy: A book about believing Stranger in yourselfthe Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalJane Casey|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. HeIt's let himself down ''again''sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan She was never found and Brandonthe investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, have been laughing at RemyHelena, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They her father are mean but they are not stupiddead in their bed. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts Initially, it 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. What looked as though he it was the instigatorgoing to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. And then he gets into trouble at school and Kerrigan is convinced that the teachers donexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent't believe him when he tries to explain what happeneds boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=B00474HVX40571379877|title=Phineas ReduxThe Kellerby Code|author=Anthony TrollopeJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=ItEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]a theatre director. Having succeeded in parliament He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and achieved a paying position he fell out with those who provided his income entitled and returned uses Edward to Ireland where he married Mary, his childhood sweetheartrun errands for him. He was fortunate to get a job Edward has been in Cork (or Dublin love with Stanza since their university days - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into a life of domesticityhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. To bring Finn back, Trollope 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 kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges stumble upon the two of them kissing in London as a childless widower with a legacy from an aunt who died at just the right time to allow the move to be possibledark passageway.

|author=Dean KoontzJo Callaghan|title=The Other EmilyLeave No Trace

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Our hero David Thorne When a man is an authorfound crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, who shares his life between DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the two US coastscase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's the western coast we're concerned their first live case together, having previously been very successful with, a place he has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leaveseveral cold cases. David lost contact with his partner But when there ten years ago, when she vanished from is a remote road late at night. He's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, second body found crucified a lifer nowfew days later, who went Kat is suddenly struggling with a bit Hannibal Lecter, potential serial killer and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recordvery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. David is trying Will they be able to pry solve the connection between case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the murderer case and his girl from the man's mind, but to no avail. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrectionpotentially, out of his love. What is a man to docareer?|isbn=1542019958139851120X

|authorisbn=Charlie Carroll1399613073|title=The LipMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=''Melody Janie Rowe'' Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. even the name Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is evocative of…probably of whatever we want it a bonus when you aim to be, a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and maybe that's the pointa trauma doctor. To me Anjali is the name sings free spirit of English folk music, but even the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in my use of that word English, I tragedy. We don't know I'm putting who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an emmet take on thingseerily similar event that will impact the three friends. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmetThis time, it's their teenage children who are involved. |isbn=1529334179

|authorisbn=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll0241636604|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Meet Stella and her family. They're just innocently trying If you were to have bring up an image of a Sunday evening city banker in togetheryour mind, watching a film – using three different screens you're unlikely to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blankthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. And it's not just their home, but A hoodie and jeans replaces the entire southpin-western village of Mousehole, stripe suit and not just that, either, but his background is the whole countryEast End, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen backwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and not what they were constantly doing on them beforeinjustice. Toasters can toast, There was no posh public school on his CV - but TVs cannot do he had been to the V part London School of their job, and no computer can show its computationsEconomics. You might think this Stevenson is going to be bright - extremely bright - and he has a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, and see if they facility with numbers which most of us can get across country to heronly envy. Hence this has He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to go down as a road-trip bookbe stupid. But not just thatIt was his ability at what was, essentially, a slapstick road-trip comedycard game which got him an internship with Citibank. And more than thatEventually, too – for it's this turned into permanent employment as a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will lovetrader.|isbn=1471196887

|isbn=19131935271035021803|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Vanda SymonC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard of It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the murder English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a wealthy request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. His wife Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been bound and gagged and placed so that she was forced back to watch the murdervillage: Arthur, with the scene being discovered by their son, Declanshe feels, when he returned home from an evening outlet her down badly. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson had been involved Even though they were in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if business together as antique hunters, she has not illegalfelt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. His companyAfter the split, Eros Globalshe worked in a cafe, manufactured met and marketed ''vitamin-type supplements and, well, sexual enhancers, that kind married James (on the rebound from the love of thing''her life, as Henderson's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1529109116AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Call Me Red: A ShepherdAll Tomorrow's JourneyFutures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Hannah JacksonBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary=''I want Opening up new ways of thinking about the image of a British farmer to simply be that shape of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I don't think that is too much things to askcome.''

The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where I've heard it said that 'histechnology'is what happens after you' family re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have farmed for generationsbeen more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. HeI's probably grown ve kept up without giving much thought as to reasonably well with what he really wants 's advantageous to do: he knows me but I'm left with the feeling that he'll be a farmer. Itit's not always the case thoughall getting away from me. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love Some of animalsit is - frankly - quite frightening. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr JacksonOf course, whale scientist' I could research the possibilities and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to the Lake District. She saw a lamb being born probabilities and, although end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'Hannah Jackson, farmerm reading someone who knows what they' lacked re talking about or the kudos of her original intention, she latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew that she wanted to be I could trust and who could deliver information in a shepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambitionway I could understand.

|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a 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 phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=08575272311529153298|title=Dog DaysThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Ericka WallerJennie Godfrey

|summary=George Dempsey It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is exceedingly angryPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly.. .) ItShe's eight days since his wife, Ellen, died and itnot what's the first time that sheworrying Miv's let him downfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. He's lostWell, bereft without her ( he 'they'needs his wifeve been murdered, like a snail needs its shellbut to have 'disappeared'). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the doorstep, hedoesn'd much rather have a good row with someonet sound quite so frightening. HeMiv's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before upset because she died. She even dared 's overheard that her father wants to contradict him when he told her that move the dog wasnfamily 'Down South't staying. Now heWhen you's lumbered with re from Yorkshire, Down South is a dog he doesn't want and a load of busybodies who are trying to interfere in his lifefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Worst of all is BettyFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, who wonand she't take no for an answerll do anything to prevent that. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, She's not worried about the dangers or that her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying Mum's stopped talking - to escape from and destroy themanyone.

|isbn=B003UH99X41398524085|title=The Eustace DiamondsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Anthony TrollopeNicci French

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=It Charlotte Salter was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but he didn't live long enough for this to become a problemnever turned up. After his deathHer children, his wifesons Niall, Lizzie Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - still only in her late teens strangely - was in possession of a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined that she would not hand it over to her husband's executors, Alec, is not. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutelyShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, although find the precise circumstances body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the giving varied from telling to tellingriver. Lady Eustace It was not a woman an easy assumption for the police to whom truth meant a great deal. All make that was important to her now, she maintained, was her sonDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. And, of course, her diamondsThe Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=15290473151035906708|title=The LamplightersDiva|author=Emma StonexDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two faces. You have We tend to take them boththink of Maria Callas as Greek, he saidbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, the good and the bad, and never turn your back on either one of them.'' In 1972New York, fifteen miles off the coast of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in ''the frigid pause between Christmas December 1923 and New Year''only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeper, the weather such that ''the boat [Her original surname was] rocking and bobbing like a bath toy over the waveletsKalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' but they were unable to get any response from make it more manageable in the Maiden RockStates. It When she was broken into the next day, but there back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was no sign of raised under the men. The table was set for Nazi occupation by a meal for two - mother who mercilessly exploited her and the clocks were stopped at 8.45. Contact with the light had not been possible as the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found made no secret of her preference for what happened to the menher elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Mary H K ChoiChristopher Edge|title=YolkBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Jayne Baek is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a fashion student place that's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about has the men she sleeps with. Shenickname of 's an all-round messy character; and thatThe Black Hole's her charm. June All big movie fans, on the other hand, is a complete contrast they're looking forward to Jayne. She's a typical older sister: she's smartlots of exciting films, thinks she knows it alland many, and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choicesmany snacks! However, and as the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. This movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is until June finds out she's sickvery different, and Jayne is they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the only person she next, can turn they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to. The two sisters have to come together the cinema, and decide how far they'll go to save each other's their real lives – even if it means swapping identities.?|isbn= 03490036961839942738

|author=Saima MirRachel Greenlaw|title=The KhanCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by ''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 motto be twice as good as men rocks and four times as good as white menplundering the wrecks. This has served Mira, like her well in mother before her rise through , is one of the criminal justice system seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and by any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the time she 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 called home for secretive and with only coordinates to guide her sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is at sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the top of her gamesea. Returning With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the city watched streets of her birth, foreign islands to old scars and fresh woundsthe heart of the smuggler's territory, Jia Mira must confront her past and reconcile her visions for be determined to stop at nothing to save the future with of her sense of honour home and dutythe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=17860790970008664730

|isbnauthor=0008336830James Sherwood Metts|title=Two Wrongs|author=Mel McGrathPlanet Storyland

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Sondra was on her way home after work when she saw Things have been a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from bit sticky for the Clifton suspension bridgeEarthlings. She talks AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to her, do and Sondra finally persuades Satnam other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to call her best friend all this technological change and flatmatestarting to think of other, Nevis Smithnew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Nevis is unworldly Life was pretty much shut down and rather reserved - and she can't understand why Satnam hasn't shared her problems , along with her. She thought they shared everything. Satnam is taken to hospital and Nevis calls her motherit, Honor. They've not been all the many daily social interactions on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her motherwhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Matthew Tree|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsWe'll Never Know

|summary=This was an incredibly readable novellaTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, but one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, drunk and before we even know his gender or the nature chronic underachiever whose dreams of the person he's addressing in his second person monologue being exceptional at any of a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, artistic passions all failed miserably and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following day. The mother was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, and feelings had endless crises of abandonment are still strongself confidence. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, So Tim applied himself to the lad's childhoodhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell addressset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1939810965B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Jane LightbourneA G Slatter|title= My Cat Called RedThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating= 45|genre=Emerging ReadersFantasy|summary= Robin has red hair'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. He hates itThis secret magic of my own, all mine, and the freckles that go along with itat last. He's been bullied and mocked at school because of I just want to enjoy itfor a while. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots! Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar'' Kids are means, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. But red hair Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is not Robinthe first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's only misery in life. Hecousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's already lost his dad leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is taken into hospital. She doesn't come home againunder threat.|isbn= 18382168121803364548

|isbn=B003L7TDMU1529900360|title=Phineas FinnThe Ghost Orchid|author=Anthony TrollopeJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Phineas Finn is 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 son help of Dr Malachi Finn, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County Clare, who sent his son to London to train as psychologist only worked for a lawyerwhile. PhineasFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's interest is more 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 making influential friends than the swimming pool of a remote property in becoming a lawyer Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and one it's not the Italian. But which of them, Barrington Erle, suggests that he runs for Parliament in was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the forthcoming electionBag: 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 is not entirely was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in favour his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this as members are not remunerated and it would be up to was the job for him to provide financial support for his son as well . Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as funding with so many students - been his electiondream since he was a child. One If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of the doctorPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's patients is Lord Tulla who controls the borough of Loughshane close friend and by this stroke of luck Finn isformer colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, eventuallyGuy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, elected by he faced a small margincharge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned 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't help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=1838595031Alexander McCall Smith|title=Crooked: Honest Criminality|author=Bronwen JohnThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=The con had seemed like Perfect Passion Company is a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the new Banksy - and they should have made online apps in providing a decent profit from itmore personal, tailored service. The problem was they were too successful: one of Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the marks had bought business, as Ness is planning to take a few and then discovered that they were valuelesstrip to Canada to get away for a while. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for Katie is coming out of a break up with a simple con and his father, celebrity criminal Harry Holmesbad boyfriend, was determined that he and his family could not lose face like thatso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. The grifters were going And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to pay. Ashia 'Ash' Cox 44 Scotland Street and Max 'Colorado' Ying needed the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to be got out of the countrycharm. In the course of bringing this aboutKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, Luke Gainesbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, Ashand there's foster fatheralways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, lost his life.to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Hayley Webster0811771741|title=Luna Rae is Not AloneInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=Luna Rae has just moved houseMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Moving house is always tricky, but especially when youSome will be quick knits - others are of the 're ten years oldlong, and you miss your old home, and you and your little sister have to start a new school but your mum seems to be out working all cosy afternoons in front of the timefire' variety. Then thereThe projects are divided by the time they's your dadll take to complete - less than five hours, who doesn't seem like he's coping so wellfive to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and so there's no one to take care of things but youmore than twenty hours. Everything feels different and strangeAll the projects are attractive, modern and mysterious, and so Luna finds a way of coping is by watchinguseable. She turns detective and starts keeping an eye on her new neighbourhood, I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but it turns out shethat's not the only one keeping watch!|isbn=1788006046me being picky.

|isbnauthor=B003A6W0FODean Koontz|title=Can You Forgive Her?|author=Anthony TrollopeThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Literary FictionParanormal|summary=On the surface ''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: it's the story of one woman Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and two men who are vying with each other for her lovehis house gets trashed. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to her cousinhis home, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and later became engaged to John Grey. When we first meet Alice sheit's on an extended tour of possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the continent with George Vavasor and thing that has trashed his sister Kate. house! It's obvious that there's still a great deal of chemistry between John and Alice - and Kate The thing is, Benny is all for encouraging the relationship as it would tie Alice very last person to herdeserve all this bad luck. George wants Alice but it's He is a matter of ''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for anyone other than himself and Benny it turns out that the original engagement had fallen through because of delivery to his infidelity and deceitfulness. This thread house is the story of a very complicated love affair and new friend, a woman bad weather friend called Spike, who lacks confidence in her own judgementhas been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. You might not like Alice Spike is going to start with but you take care of Benny, and will warm to hercertainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Hannah GoldAdam Stower|title=The Last BearMurray and Bun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=April's father, Murray is supposed to be a scientisthumble, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Islandtidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and he accepts eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the job deciding to take his daughter April with himtwo. They live alone anyway, since AprilBut he's a bad magician's mother died some time beforecat, and he feels it will be educational for her to experience the island and all its natural beauty. April already so his favourite bun has an affinity with naturebeen turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and she's excited to travel with her father, thinking of all the fun things catflap they will be able to experience together on both use can chuck them out, not into the island. But when they get thereregular back garden, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much but into a world of his time, frightening adventure and so April is left to explore by herselfwhiffs. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear IslandThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, but one day April thinks she catches where a glimpse of troll hunter is expected – well, onemuch bigger than Murray was, and so she sets out to find the Bearbe honest, but he's turned up and then when she sees he is injured, 'll have to befriend and help him.do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=000841128XB0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= 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 that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=14722761401529431735|title=What Will Burn (Inspector McLean)The Winter Visitor|author=James OswaldHenry|rating=54

|summary=When Cecily SlaterIt's body was foundFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, shewhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd already been dead exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a week - in a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburghdecade. Heavy rain The return has come about because he's had washed away most of the evidencea letter from his ex-wife, but DI Tony McLean, demoted saying that she's ill and just returned from suspension, is reluctant hasn't long to accept that this is nothing more than a careless accidentlive. There were indications that Slater had been savagelyIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, almost ritualistically beaten before stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the fireboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. But who would hate Is it a ninety-year-old woman to the extent of doing something like that? She was warning from a Spanish gang or a virtual recluse: who could she have upset problem closer to that extenthome?

|isbnauthor=000845552XAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Where Ravens Roost|author=Karin NordinThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from his father, Stenar, for more than Eli is a decade but when he got busy lad – by day an apprentice in the rather muddled phone call from wondrous library we start by visiting with him saying that he'd seen , and in the evening a murder in helper at the barn on dessert cafe his land he didn't hesitate to drop everything gran owns and go to Varsundruns. ActuallyEli lives with his lovely gran, 'drop everything' rather overstates too – for there is a generation missing in the situationfamily. Nygaard was on suspension following A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the shooting of titular race, a suspect globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the Aubuchon murder enquirycompany of a magical beast. There had been This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a complication: bad incident at the Kattegat Killer turned out eatery leads to be Nils Hedina confession from gran, Nygaard's best friend. StillEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg in sole aim the south prize of Sweden magic at the end – the only thing to Varsund in the far north shouldn't be underestimatedpossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231