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|author=Polly BartonSylvie Cathrall|title=Fifty SoundsA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a while and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by nowcompelling premise. I may get there later And this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound one of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''them.|isbn=19130975010356522776

|authorisbn=Lucy Holland0008517061|title=SistersongDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Sistersong is part of Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a genre I particularly enjoy, little uncertainty about the modern retelling future of folk his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and fairy tales. These storiesher daughter Diana, for most of us, are as moving in together would mean a cornerstone lot of childhood compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and I relish seeing them retold relaxing life to move in with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning Livia or does Livia move to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the characters to come to moment they’re enjoying life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling present and I was captivated from beginning to endputting the future on the back burner.|isbn=1529039037

|isbn=15291242551786482126|title=The WhispersJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Heidi PerksElly Griffiths

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We know straight away that there's Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to be a body. Ithold seventy-five 's on the beach under Crayneluxury's Cliff near apartments - when they discovered the town bones of Clearwater and it's new year's daya child beneath a doorway. To understand what happened we're going to have to go back to the previous SeptemberThere was no skull. Grace Goodwin has Was this a soft Australian accent - she's lived there since her teens and now, in her mid-thirties, she's returned to her home town to live. ritual killing or murder? Her husbandInevitably, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in the lovely apartment she's foundDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. GraceIt's best frienddifficult as Ruth knows, Anna Robinsonbut Nelson doesn't, that she is still in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old pregnant with his child tooas a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Ethan's in the class Matilda Her condition will be joiningobvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness. It's perfect!

|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon0008551324|title=The SourceDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=1996It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Essex Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care missing person is buried and who was responsible for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingedeath. When her squaddie brother brings food This person, he promises, is someone big and treats, it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and offers to get an exclusive invitation early parole date. Not much to army partiesask, things start is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to look a little less bleak..do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1913193594

|isbn=B004O37B6A0008405026|title=The Prime MinisterA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Anthony TrollopeJane Casey|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, is the prime minister of a coalition government but heIt's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand Lopezsixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as Jewish, others as Portuguese but She was never found and the truth is that no one knows and Lopez is not going investigation ground to explaina halt. The ladies of societyNow, even Palliser's own wifeher mother, Lady GlencoraHelena, and her father are supporters dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but after Lopez 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 it was going to be an advantageous marriage Palliser open-and-shut case is placed in the position of having to support his wife's actions when Lopez loses now a by-electioncomplex double murder. The DukeKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's payment of Lopezdisappearance: others (such as Derwent' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt hims boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=17873320980571379877|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped WorldThe Kellerby Code|author=Henry ManceJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=''When we do think about animalsEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxesobsessed with his upper-class friends, elephants Robert and so onStanza. 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, Robert's a theatre director. He'somewheres also self-obsessed,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argue. I meandemanding, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) handsome and entitled and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling uses Edward to run errands for the sake of ithim. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and I consider myself an animal loverhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. If I Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had to choose begun between the company of humans and the company of animals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this bookthem but he's not like most men: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed Edward is left to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making stumble upon the decision would not be comfortabletwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Jessie GreengrassJo Callaghan|title=The High HouseLeave No Trace|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass When a man is found crucified on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirs. Howevertop of a hill in Nuneaton, that train of thought is slowly seems DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to have fallen out of favourthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Today It's young generation are discovering that their parents and their parents' parents did not seem to think that far aheadfirst live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it's not my problem" or " But when there's nothing I can do". Raising is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a child potential serial killer and living in a world on the precipice very high profile case that draws a lot of catastrophe is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrassunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. This is not a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This is Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the life our children case and their children will have to live., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1800750072139851120X

|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan1399613073|title=Madame BurovaMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connecteda century. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then)Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a girl in bonus when you aim to be a humdrum job wanting to become cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a singer, perfectionist and chiefly, Imelda, a trauma doctor. Anjali is the third generation free spirit of Madame Burova, the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they''Tarotre at a drug and alcohol-Reader, Palmist fuelled party and Clairvoyantit'', s going to use her family's sea-front boothend in tragedy. The singer, the scryer and the suffererWe don's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for t know who suffered the first time in tragedy or the family stallconsequences. We also see her on her last day, fifty Twenty-five years later, in possession of a pair of letters there will be an eerily similar event that will change everything for a woman called Billieimpact the three friends. Just who is sheThis time, and it's their teenage children who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331Xare involved.

|authorisbn= Jonathan Stroud0241636604|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensAutobiography|summary= Scarlett McCain is If you were to bring up an outlawimage of a city banker in your mind, rejecting the draconian conformity you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the Surviving Towns pin-stripe suit and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between his background is the Seven Kingdoms of BritainEast End, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Brownewhere he was familiar with violence, a dark boy with dark powers poverty and a darker pastinjustice. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the mythical Free Isles London School of the London LagoonEconomics. Together, they must brave man Stevenson is bright - extremely bright -eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors he has a facility with numbers which most of post-apocalyptic society us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to reach the Free Islesbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|isbn=1406394815this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S1035021803|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourselfThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Remy is feeling miserableIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. He She's let himself down ''again''back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan Freya's former mentor and BrandonCarole's close friend, have been laughing at RemyArthur Crockleford, calling him names because he is short dead and has small eyesthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. They are mean but they are Arthur was the reason why Freya had not stupid. They are careful been back to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. Sovillage: Arthur, when Remy reactsshe feels, it looks let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as though he was antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the instigatorprofession she loved. And then he gets into trouble at school After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happenedrebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=B00474HVX4AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Phineas ReduxAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Anthony TrollopeBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=It's some time since we 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Having succeeded Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in parliament and achieved a paying position he fell out my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with those who provided his income and returned what's advantageous to Ireland where he married Mary, his childhood sweetheartme but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. He was fortunate to get a job in Cork (Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or Dublin - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into a life of domesticitythe latest conspiracy theorist. To bring Finn back, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary I needed people I knew I could trust and Phineas emerges who could deliver information 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 possibleway I could understand.

|author=Dean KoontzSunny Singh|title=The Other EmilyHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our hero David Thorne The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an author, who shares his life between the two US coastsunnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. It's Hiding from the western coast we're concerned withterrorists who are rampaging through, a place he has to return tokilling everyone on site, and a place he has to be able to leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years agois Sam, when she vanished from a remote road late at nightwartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. He's paying As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for contact with the man he thinks residents who are still alive in the only suspecthotel, he forms a lifer now, bond with Sam who went a bit Hannibal Lecterrefuses to be cowed by events, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does keeps on his record. David is trying venturing out of her room to try to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the mancapture what's mind, but to no availhappened through her photography. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into Although they only ever talk over the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imagephone, 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 very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his loveterrorists. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958086154742X

|authorisbn=Charlie Carroll1529153298|title=The LipList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'Melody Janie Rowes not what's worrying Miv' s family, though. even the name is evocative of…probably of whatever we want it Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to be, and maybe thathave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the pointfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. To me For Miv, the name sings of English folk musicmove would mean leaving her best friend, but even in my use of that word EnglishSharon, I know Iand she'm putting an emmet take on thingsll do anything to prevent that. And Melody Janie Rowe is antiShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking -emmetto anyone. |isbn=1529334179

|authorisbn=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll1398524085|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Stella and Charlotte Salter was expected at her familyhusband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. They're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in togetherHer children, sons Niall, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different thingsPaul and Ollie and her daughter, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blankEtty. And it's not just their home, are all worried but the entire south-western village of Mouseholestrangely - her husband, and not just thatAlec, either, but the whole country, if is not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen backShortly afterwards, Etty and not what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toastGreg, but TVs cannot do find the V part body of their jobGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, and no computer can show its computationsin the river. You might think this is going It was an easy assumption for the police to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but nomake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. For the family finally remember StellaThe Salter children are not convinced but there's grandma, and see if little else they can do but get across country to her. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too – for it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy on with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will lovetheir lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1471196887

|isbn=19131935271035906708|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)Diva|author=Vanda SymonDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Dunedin We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was shocked 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' to make it heard of more manageable in the murder of a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out at SeacliffStates. His wife had been bound and gagged and placed When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was forced to watch raised under the murderNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, with the scene being discovered by Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their sonlocal cinema, Declan, when he returned home from an evening out. a place that has the nickname of 'The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson had been involved in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalBlack Hole'. His companyAll big movie fans, Eros Globalthey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, manufactured and marketed ''vitamin-type supplements andmany, wellmany snacks! However, sexual enhancersas the movie starts, they very quickly realise that kind of thing'something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, as Henderson's employeecan they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, Blair Harvey-Boyd explained.and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=1529109116Rachel Greenlaw|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah JacksonCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleTeens|summary=''I want can hear the image song of a British farmer to simply be that the sea. The call of a person who is proudly employed the deep, the answering beat in feeding the nation. I don't think that is too much to askmy 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 Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and New Yearas 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 cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeperAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the weather such that ''dead, putting her at the boat [was] rocking heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and bobbing like a bath toy over determine what to do as the waveletsBriar witches'legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn' t been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but they he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were unable to get any response from only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the Maiden Rockhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. It Finally, it was broken Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the next day, but there involvement was no sign of something that the menman she loved needed. The table was set for next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a meal for two - and the clocks were stopped at 8.45remote property in Bel Air. Contact with He was the light had heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not been possible as the radio was brokenItalian. No explanation But which of them was ever found for what happened to the men.primary target?

|authorisbn=Mary H K Choi1529395224|title=YolkLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=TeensAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Jayne Baek is Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a fashion student thatGP and Rowlands didn's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the men she sleeps with. She's an allstrain that being on-round messy character; and thatcall put on his father's her charmlife. June, on When he was seventeen he took the other hand, is opportunity of doing work experience with a complete contrast to Jayne. She's family friend who was a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows it all, vet and has a successful was convinced this was the jobfor him. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices Before long, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two yearshe was at Liverpool University. This is until June finds out she It hadn's sickt - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, and Jayne is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far theyhe'll go d wanted to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identitiesbe a professional footballer.|isbn= 0349003696

|authorisbn=Saima Mir0861541774|title=The KhanA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and four times as good as white men. This former colleague, Danny Maik, has served her well taken a short holiday in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in selfa street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -imposed exileand he killed a Ghurka. Initially, she is at he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the top of her gameman. Returning to Now he could be facing the city of her birth, death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to old scars help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and dutywouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1786079097

|isbnauthor=0008336830Alexander McCall Smith|title=Two Wrongs|author=Mel McGrathThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Sondra was on The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her way home younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after work when she saw the business, as 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 young woman looking as though she was going bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to jump Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Clifton suspension bridgeIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. She talks to Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in herabilities, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call there's always her best friend very helpful (and flatmaterather handsome) neighbour, William, Nevis Smithto 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 collection of knits from toys to blankets. Nevis is unworldly and rather reserved Some will be quick knits - and she canothers are of the 't understand why Satnam hasnlong, cosy afternoons in front of the fire't shared her problems with hervariety. She thought The projects are divided by the time they shared everything'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. Satnam is taken to hospital All the projects are attractive, modern and Nevis calls her mother, Honoruseable. TheyI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects've not been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her motherthat's me being picky.

|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Dean Koontz|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Literary FictionParanormal|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me Benny is having a little conflictedterrifically bad day. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person he's addressing in his second person monologue of house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a narrationreally weird, we see him picked up by disturbing coffin-sized object to his motherhome, and it's chauffeurpossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, and carted off Benny is the very last person to do deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the necessary introductions before said mother delivery to his house is buried the following day. The mother was a businesswomannew friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partnerunder attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and feelings will certainly take care of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (wellBenny's enemies, this came out in the original Italian in 2007if he, so moderately current) BucharestBenny, to the ladand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell addresswild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=19398109651662500491

|author=Jane LightbourneAdam Stower|title= My Cat Called RedMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary= Robin has red hair. He hates itMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and the freckles that go along with it. He's been bullied sleep and mocked at school because , well, whatever takes his fancy next of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are meanthe two. But red hair is not Robinhe's only misery in life. Hea bad magician's already lost cat, so his dad to favourite bun has been turned into a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and is taken the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into hospitala world of frightening adventure and whiffs. She doesn This 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't come home again.ll have to do…|isbn= 18382168120008561249

|isbn=B003L7TDMUB0C47LV1PC|title=Phineas FinnFragility|author=Anthony TrollopeMosby Woods|rating=4.5

|summary=Phineas Finn Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the son 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 Dr Malachi FinnPortland, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County ClareOregon, who sent his son cautiously begins to London to train emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a lawyerwanted drug smuggler for a decade. PhineasThe return has come about because he's interest is more in making influential friends than in becoming had a lawyer and one of them, Barrington Erleletter from his ex-wife, suggests saying that he runs for Parliament in the forthcoming election. His father is not entirely in favour of this as members are not remunerated she's ill and it would be up to him hasn't long to provide financial support for his son as well as funding his electionlive. One of the doctorIt's patients hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is Lord Tulla who controls abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the borough of Loughshane and by this stroke boot of luck Finn is, eventually, elected by a small marginstolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1838595031Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Crooked: Honest Criminality|author=Bronwen JohnThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=The con had seemed like Eli is a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly busy lad – by day an apprentice in the new Banksy - wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and they should have made in the evening a decent profit from it. The problem was they were too successful: one of helper at the marks had bought a few dessert cafe his gran owns and then discovered that they were valuelessruns. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a simple con and his father, celebrity criminal Harry Holmes, was determined that he and his generation missing in the family could not lose face like that. The grifters A few short years ago, Eli's parents were going both lost to paythe titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. Ashia 'Ash' Cox and Max 'Colorado' Ying needed This has made the race anathema to be got out of the country. In pair – but when a bad incident at the course of bringing this abouteatery leads to a confession from gran, Luke GainesEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, Ash's foster father, lost with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his lifegran.|isbn=0571382231