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|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=B004O37B6A0008517061|title=The Prime MinisterDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Anthony TrollopeStig Abell

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Plantagenet PalliserFormer Metropolitan Police detective, the Duke of OmniumJake Johnson, is the prime minister of a coalition government but he's privately enraged has settled into his rustic life at the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand LopezLittle Sky. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as Jewish, others as Portuguese but There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the truth is that no one knows and Lopez is not going to explain. The ladies future of societyhis life with his vet girlfriend, even Palliser's own wifeLivia and her daughter Diana, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed as moving in the position together would mean a lot of having to support compromise: does Jake give up his wife's actions when Lopez loses a byoff-election. The Duke's payment of Lopez' election expenses grid and relaxing life to move in an attempt with Livia or does Livia move to stem gossip Little Sky despite her reservations about his wife will come whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back to haunt himburner.

|isbn=17873320981786482126|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped WorldThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Henry ManceElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|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 Builders were demolishing an old house 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 Norwich - the next David Attenborough series.'' I site was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldnhold seventy-five 'luxury't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in apartments - when they discovered the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake bones of ita child beneath a doorway. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal loverThere was no skull. If I had to choose between the company of humans and the company of animalsWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, I would probably choose the animalsDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. I insisted It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that I read this book: no she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctantnight they spent together some three months ago. I eat cheeseHer condition will be obvious before long, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed not least because Ruth is prone to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortablesudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=Jessie Greengrass0008551324|title=The High HouseDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to pass on its genetic material with tell the police where the implied belief that your progeny body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will then pass on theirsbe worth the police doing what he wants. However, that train of thought And what he wants is slowly seems to have fallen out be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of favour. Today's young generation are discovering that their parents his sentence and their parents' parents did not seem to think that far aheadget an early parole date. Or they did Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think that far ahead so and thought "itshe's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can even prepared to do". Raising a child the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and living in a world on the precipice of catastrophe anyone who works with him is kept well away from what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrass. This is not a science-fiction novel. This is our realitys happening. This is the life our children and their children will have to live.|isbn=1800750072

|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan0008405026|title=Madame BurovaA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connectedIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting She was never found and the investigation ground to become a singerhalt. Now, and chieflyher mother, ImeldaHelena, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front boothfather are dead in their bed. The singerInitially, the scryer and the suffererit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for something about the first time in positioning of the family stallbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a woman called Billiecomplex double murder. Just who Kerrigan is she, and who delivered convinced that the secrets about her to Imeldaexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331XUna Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn= Jonathan Stroud0571379877|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 43.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Scarlett McCain Edward Jevons is an outlawa working-class young man, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britainobsessed with his upper-class friends, robbing banks Robert and shooting other outlaws to keep herself aliveStanza. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and Robert's a darker pasttheatre director. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down He's also self-obsessed, demanding, they plan handsome and entitled and uses Edward to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoonrun errands for him. Together, they must brave man Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society he's drunkenly confided how he feels to reach the Free Isles, Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but will they be any more accepted there than they are in he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the rest two of Britain?|isbn=1406394815them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=B08R7LXQ9SJo Callaghan|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalLeave No Trace

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Remy When a man is feeling miserablefound crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. He It's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, their first live case together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have having previously been laughing at Remyvery successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, calling him names because he Kat is short suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and has small eyesa very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. They are mean but Will they are not stupidbe able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see 5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and then push him just that little bit further when Anjali met on the other kids are aroundfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. So Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the instigatorgroup and she becomes a GP. And then he gets into trouble When we first meet them they're at school a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and the teachers it's going to end in tragedy. We don't believe him when he tries to explain what happenedknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=B00474HVX40241636604|title=Phineas ReduxThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Anthony TrollopeGary Stevenson

|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=ItIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Having succeeded in parliament A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and achieved a paying position he fell out with those who provided his income and returned to Ireland background is the East End, where he married Marywas familiar with violence, his childhood sweetheartpoverty and injustice. He There was fortunate no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to get a job in Cork (or Dublin the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into he has a life facility with numbers which most of domesticityus can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. To bring Finn backIt was his ability at what was, essentially, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges in London as a childless widower card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a legacy from an aunt who died at just the right time to allow the move to be possibletrader.

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1035021803|title=The Other EmilyAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's the western coast we're concerned with, a place he twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to return to, and a place he has to be able to leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when the English country village where she vanished from a remote road late at nightgrew up. HeShe's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer back now, who went because of a bit Hannibal Lecterrequest for help from her beloved aunt, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recordCarole. David Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is trying dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to pry say the connection between least. Arthur was the murderer and his girl from reason why Freya had not been back to the man's mindvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, but she has not felt able to no availbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. He's also having After the split, she worked in a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imagecafe, met and married James (on the very embodiment, rebound from the virtual resurrectionlove of her life, of his lovewho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958

|authorisbn=Charlie CarrollAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The LipAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=''Melody Janie RoweOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' even the name is evocative of…probably of whatever we want  I've heard it to be, and maybe said that's the pointtechnology' is what happens after you're eighteen. To me the name sings Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of English folk music, but even technology in my use lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of that word Englishit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I know could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm putting reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an emmet take unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on thingssite, 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. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmetAlthough 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=1529334179086154742X

|authorisbn=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll1529153298|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Stella It's 1979 and her Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. TheyWell, they're just innocently trying ve been murdered, but to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when ''poofdisappeared'doesn' everything goes blankt sound quite so frightening. And itMiv's upset because she's not just their home, but the entire south-western village of Mousehole, and not just overheard that, either, but her father wants to move the whole country, if not worldfamily 'Down South'. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping theyWhen you're first to get from Yorkshire, Down South is a screen backfrightening, foreign place, and not what they were constantly doing on them beforebest avoided. Toasters can toastFor Miv, but TVs cannot do the V part of their jobmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this is going she'll do anything to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but noprevent that. For the family finally remember StellaShe's grandma, and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just worried about the dangers or that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too – for ither Mum's a slapstick, highstopped talking -drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will loveto anyone.|isbn=1471196887

|isbn=19131935271398524085|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Vanda SymonNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=Dunedin Charlotte Salter was shocked when it heard of the murder of a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out expected at Seacliffher husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. His wife had been bound Her children, sons Niall, Paul and gagged Ollie and placed so that she was forced to watch the murderher daughter, with the scene being discovered by their sonEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, DeclanAlec, when he returned home from an evening out. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson had been involved in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if is not illegal. His companyShortly afterwards, Eros GlobalEtty and Greg, manufactured and marketed find the body of Greg''vitamin-type supplements ands father, well, sexual enhancersDuncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that kind of thingDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn'', as Hendersont stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=15291091161035906708|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's JourneyDiva|author=Hannah JacksonDaisy Goodwin

|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'I want to make it more manageable in the image of a British farmer to simply be States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that of she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a person mother who is proudly employed mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in feeding for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nationnickname of 'The Black Hole'. I donAll big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't think that even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is too much going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to asktheir real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=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.''

The stereotypical farmer was probably born Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generationsrocks and plundering the wrecks. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to what he really wants to do: he knows survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that he'll be lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a farmer. Ittrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born leader and brought up on the Wirral: sheMira'd never set foot on s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had bargain with a deep love of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and she was well on her way with only coordinates to achieving this when guide her life changed on , she sets off in search of a family holiday to secret that lies buried deep in the Lake Districtsea. She saw a lamb being born andWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the kudos heart of her original intentionthe smuggler's territory, she knew that she wanted Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to be a shepherd. With save the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part future of her, home and the ones she set about achieving her ambitionholds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=0857527231James Sherwood Metts|title=Dog Days|author=Ericka WallerPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angryThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. It's eight days since his wife, Ellen, died AI and it's the first time that she's let him down. He's lostautomation have been proceeding apace, bereft without her ( he often replacing jobs they''needs his wife, like a snail needs its shell''). He misses their ordered life re paid to do and rather than bringing him meals other tasks that took time to leave on the doorstep, he'd much rather have a good row with someoneaccomplish. He's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared Just as they were beginning to get used to contradict him when he told her that the dog wasn't staying. Now he's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want all this technological change and a load starting to think of busybodies who are trying other, new ways to interfere in his life. Worst of all is Bettyspend time, who won't take no for along came an answerawful pandemic. Betty knits jumpers for LuckyLife was pretty much shut down and, along with it, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying to escape from and destroy themall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Matthew Tree|title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5

|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to regret be different from his marriage but he didn't live long enough for this to become father, a problem. After drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his death, his wife, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession of a very valuable diamond necklace artistic passions all failed miserably and was determined that she would not hand it over to her husband's executors. She was adamant that Sir Florian who had given it to her absolutely, although the precise circumstances endless crises of the giving varied from telling to tellingself confidence. Lady Eustace was not a woman So Tim applied himself to whom truth meant a great deal. All that was important to her nowhis studies, she maintained, was her son. And, of course, her diamondscultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1529047315A G Slatter|title=The Lamplighters|author=Emma StonexBriar Book of the Dead

|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two facesThere's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. You have to take them bothThis secret magic of my own, he saidall mine, the good and the bad, and never turn your back on either one of themat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''

In 1972Within a remote mountain pass, fifteen miles off far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the coast protection of Cornwallthe Briar's, three men disappeared without trace a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in ''the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''Darklands. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeperThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the weather first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such that ''the boat [since she was] rocking young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and bobbing like a bath toy over the waveletsadministration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie'' but they were unable to get any response from s cousin Audra becomes the Maiden Rock. It was broken into Briar Witch, the next daytown's leader, but there was no sign of the menand Ellie takes her place beside her. The table was set for a meal for two - As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the clocks were stopped at 8.45. Contact rare ability to communicate with the light had not been possible as dead, putting her at the radio was brokenheart of a maelstrom of chaos. No explanation was ever found for Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what happened to do as the menBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Mary H K Choi1529900360|title=YolkThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student thatIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's barely getting byfault 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. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. She's an all His assertions that there were only open-round messy character; and that-shut cases which didn's her charmt need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. June Finally, on the other handit was Robin, is a complete contrast to Jayne. SheDelaware's a typical older sister: she's smartpartner, thinks she knows it all, and has a successful jobwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices, and knew that the two have barely kept in contact despite living in involvement was something that the same city for the past two yearsman she loved needed. This is until June finds out she's sick The next case did look simple, and Jayne is though. Two lovers were murdered in the only person she can turn toswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. The two sisters have He was the heir to come together an Italian shoe empire and decide how far they'll go she is married to save each otheran extremely rich man and it's lives – even if it means swapping identitiesnot the Italian.|isbn= 0349003696 But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Saima Mir1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The KhanSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white menSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system His father was a GP and by the time she is called home for her sisterRowlands didn's wedding after fifteen years t want to follow in self-imposed exilehis footsteps, she is at particularly when he considered the top of her gamestrain that being on-call put on his father's life. Returning to When he was seventeen he took the city opportunity of her birth, to old scars doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and fresh woundswas convinced this was the job for him. Before long, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with her sense of honour and dutyso many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.|isbn=1786079097

|isbn=00083368300861541774|title=Two WrongsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Mel McGrathSteve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Sondra DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was on her way home after work when she saw involved in a young woman looking as though she street brawl - he would later maintain that he was going to jump from the Clifton suspension bridgefacing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. She talks Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to her, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam light that suggested that he might have planned to call her best friend and flatmate, Nevis Smithmurder the man. Nevis is unworldly and rather reserved - and she can't understand why Satnam hasn't shared her problems with herNow he could be facing the death penalty. She thought they shared everything. Satnam is taken Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to hospital help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and Nevis calls her mother, Honor. Theywouldn've not been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her mothert help Danny at all.

|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Alexander McCall Smith|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me The Perfect Passion Company is a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airportdating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and before we even know his gender or the nature of operating as an alternative to all the person he's addressing online apps in his second person monologue of providing a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeurmore personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and carted off to do all look after the necessary introductions before said mother business, as Ness is buried the following dayplanning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. The mother was Katie is coming out of a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania break up with her (night-time and business) partnera bad boyfriend, and feelings of abandonment are still strongso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we flit from current (wellalready love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, this came out but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in the original Italian running a business, or in 2007match-making, so moderately current) Bucharestbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, to the ladand there's childhoodalways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, and see just what he has to tell her as lend a private farewell address.hand…|isbn=19398109651846976596

|authorisbn=Jane Lightbourne0811771741|title= My Cat Called RedInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating= 4|genre=Emerging ReadersCrafts|summary= Robin has red hair. He hates it, and the freckles that go along with it. HeMelissa Leapman's been bullied and mocked at school because of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!InstaKnits for Baby'' Kids are meangives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. But red hair is not RobinSome will be quick knits - others are of the 's only misery long, cosy afternoons in lifefront of the fire' variety. He The projects are divided by the time they's already lost his dad ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and is taken into hospitaluseable. She doesn I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 't come home againsocial-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn= 1838216812

|isbnauthor=B003L7TDMUDean Koontz|title=Phineas Finn|author=Anthony TrollopeThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Literary FictionParanormal|summary=Phineas Finn Benny is the son of Dr Malachi Finnhaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County Clarehe loses his fiancee, who sent and his son to London to train as a lawyerhouse gets trashed. PhineasOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's interest possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is more in making influential friends than in becoming a lawyer and one of them, Barrington Erle, suggests that he runs for Parliament in Benny is the forthcoming electionvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. His father He is not entirely in favour of this as members are not remunerated and a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it would be up turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him to provide financial support since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for his son as well as funding his electionbeing a good person. One of the doctor's patients Spike is Lord Tulla who controls the borough going to take care of Loughshane Benny, and by this stroke will certainly take care of luck Finn isBenny's enemies, if he, eventuallyBenny, elected by and Harper (a small marginwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1838595031Adam Stower|title=Crooked: Honest Criminality|author=Bronwen JohnMurray and Bun

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=The con had seemed like Murray is supposed to be a good humble, tidy and friendly cat, one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by the new Banksy - who is able to sleep and eat and they should have made a decent profit from it. The problem was they were too successful: one of the marks had bought a few eat and then discovered that they were valueless. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for a simple con sleep and his father, celebrity criminal Harry Holmeswell, was determined that he and whatever takes his family could not lose face like thatfancy next of the two. The grifters were going to pay. Ashia But he'Ashs a bad magician' Cox s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and Max 'Colorado' Ying needed to be got the catflap they both use can chuck them out , not into the regular back garden, but into a world of the countryfrightening adventure and whiffs. In the course of bringing this aboutThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, Luke Gainesto be honest, Ashbut he's foster father, lost his life.turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Hayley WebsterB0C47LV1PC|title=Luna Rae is Not AloneFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Luna Rae has just moved house. Moving house is always tricky, but especially when Can youmake a 're ten years old'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, and is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you miss your old homedid, and you and your little sister have to start a new school but your mum seems to would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be out working all the time. Then there... no. 's your dad, who doesn't seem like heFragility's coping so well, and so there's no one to take care is set as the city of things but you. Everything feels different and strangePortland, and mysteriousOregon, and so Luna finds a way of coping is by watching. She turns detective and starts keeping an eye on her new neighbourhood, but it turns out she's not cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the only one keeping watch!|isbn=1788006046covid pandemic

|isbn=B003A6W0FO1529431735|title=Can You Forgive Her?The Winter Visitor|author=Anthony TrollopeJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=On the surface ''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: itIt's the story of one woman February 1991 and two men who are vying with each other for her love. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged to her cousinEssex is bitingly cold, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and later became engaged to John Greywhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. When we first meet Alice sheHe's d been exiled on an extended tour of the continent with George Vavasor and his sister KateCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. ItThe return has come about because he's obvious had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that thereshe's still a great deal of chemistry between John ill and Alice - and Kate is all for encouraging the relationship as it would tie Alice hasn't long to herlive. George wants Alice but itIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a matter of ''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and watery grave in the original engagement had fallen through because boot of his infidelity and deceitfulnessa stolen Ford Sierra. This thread is the story of Is it a warning from a very complicated love affair and Spanish gang or a woman who lacks confidence in her own judgement. You might not like Alice problem closer to start with but you will warm to her.home?

|author=Hannah GoldAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Last BearGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5

|summary=April's father, Eli is a scientistbusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, has been given and in the evening a job on a remote island called Bear Island, and he accepts helper at the job deciding to take dessert cafe his daughter April with himgran owns and runs. They live alone anywayEli lives with his lovely gran, since April's mother died some time before, and he feels it will be educational too – for her to experience there is a generation missing in the island and all its natural beautyfamily. April already has an affinity with natureA few short years ago, and sheEli's excited parents were both lost to travel with her fatherthe titular race, thinking of a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the fun things they will be able to experience together on world in the islandcompany of a magical beast. But when they get there, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording This has made the temperatures just takes up too much of his time, and so April is left race anathema to explore by herself. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, the pair – but one day April thinks she catches when a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find bad incident at the Bear, and then when she sees he is injured, eatery leads to befriend and help him.|isbn=000841128X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1472276140|title=What Will Burn (Inspector McLean)|author=James Oswald|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=When Cecily Slater's body was found, she'd already been dead for a week - in a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburgh. Heavy rain had washed away most of the evidence, but DI Tony McLean, demoted and just returned confession from suspensiongran, Eli knows his only hope is reluctant to accept that this is nothing more than a careless accident. There were indications that Slater had been savagelydare to enter what he most hates, almost ritualistically beaten before with the fire. But who would hate a ninety-year-old woman to sole aim the extent prize of doing something like that? She was a virtual recluse: who could she have upset magic at the end – the only thing to that extent?possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231