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|isbnauthor=0995647895Sylvie Cathrall|title=Sadie and A Letter to the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceLuminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was There are few greater joys than a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She book which lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves up to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sarka compelling premise. ''Her class had gone And this is one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''of them. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Kristen O'Neal0008517061|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=54|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme diseaseFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her settled into his rustic lifeat Little Sky. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to There’s perhaps a bunch little uncertainty about the future of other teens living his life with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other outhis vet girlfriend, while also providing an escape to just joke Livia and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and drive relaxing life to Brigid's house move in with Livia or does Livia move to check up on Little Sky despite her. But what reservations about whether or not this is the future she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the basement – present and for that werewolf to be putting the girl she has been talking to online for future on the past few monthsback burner.|isbn=1683692349

|authorisbn=Mercedes Helnwein1786482126|title=SlingshotThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to being lonelyhold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. As Was this a secret illegitimate daughter of a man ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with a "real" familyDCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is used to not being pregnant with his child as a priority in people's livesresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot Her condition will be obvious before long, her simple existence not least because Ruth is changed for goodprone to sudden bouts of sickness. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=152905818X

|isbn=B005FM76AA0008551324|title=The Duke's ChildrenDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Anthony TrollopeNeil Lancaster

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The story opens 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 probably tell the worst news police where the body of all: Lady Glencora Palliser a missing person is deadburied and who was responsible for her death. Her husbandThis person, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omniumhe promises, is nearly paralysed by grief someone big and struggling - at it will be worth the same time - to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even in officepolice doing what he wants. He seeks to protect and guide his three adult children, which And what he wants is easier said than done when none of them wishes to ''be'' guided. Silverbridge (transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, but always known by his title) sentence and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and get an early parole date. Not much to run up gambling debtsask, occasionally in eye-watering sums. is it? Lady Helen has fallen in love with - The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and wishes she's even prepared to marry do the other thing that Hardie demanded - Frank Tregear, the penniless son of a poor squire, which the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos of make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about to learn that parents do not always get their wayhappening.

|authorisbn=Goldy Moldavsky0008405026|title=The Last GirlA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesnIt't belongs sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, was never found and most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as investigation ground to a source of comforthalt. She struggles to find anyone to connect with Now, her mother, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie styleHelena, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed her father are dead in the competitiontheir bed. But as the pranks escalate Initially, and Rachel finally feels it looks like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the pranks, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and people begin her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to get hurtbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. When Kerrigan is convinced that the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before itexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's too lateboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=0755501527

|authorisbn=Polly Barton0571379877|title=Fifty SoundsThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Where do I start? I could start Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with where Barton herself startshis upper-class friends, with the question Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He'Why Japan?'' Japan s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been on my radar for a while in love with Stanza since their university days - and if the world hadnhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert't gone into melt-down I s position would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but I am he's not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect two of the question them kissing in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''a dark passageway.|isbn=1913097501

|author=Lucy HollandJo Callaghan|title=SistersongLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Sistersong When a man is part found crucified on the top of a genre I particularly enjoyhill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the modern retelling of folk and fairy talesAI detective Lock. These stories, for most of us It's their first live case together, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold having previously been very successful with fresh eyes and a fresh perspectiveseveral cold cases. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong But when there is a perfect example of second body found crucified a modern retelling done wellfew days later, the plot Kat is handled suddenly struggling with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to come their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to lifesolve the case in time, to feel real or will Kat find herself taken off the case and human, most importantly they feel relatable in potentially, out of a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.career?|isbn=1529039037139851120X

|isbn=15291242551399613073|title=The WhispersMoral Injuries|author=Heidi PerksChristie Watson

|summary=We know straight away that there's going 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. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a bodycardiothoracic surgeon. It's on Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the beach under Crayne's Cliff near free spirit of the town of Clearwater group and it's new year's dayshe becomes a GP. To understand what happened When wefirst meet them they're going to have to go back to the previous September. Grace Goodwin has at a soft Australian accent drug and alcohol- she's lived there since her teens fuelled party and now, in her mid-thirties, sheit's returned going to her home town to liveend in tragedy. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the lovely apartment she's foundconsequences. Grace's best friend, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater and she has an eightTwenty-year-old child too. Ethan's in the class Matilda five years later there will be joiningan eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. ItThis time, it's perfect!their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon0241636604|title=The SourceTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=1996If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Essex A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Thirteen There was no posh public school on his CV -yearbut he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright -old schoolgirl Carly lives in extremely bright - and he has a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingebe stupid. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats It was his ability at what was, essentially, and offers a card game which got him an exclusive invitation to army partiesinternship with Citibank. Eventually, things start to look this turned into permanent employment as a little less bleaktrader...|isbn=1913193594

|isbn=B004O37B6A1035021803|title=The Prime MinisterAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Anthony TrollopeC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Plantagenet Palliser, It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the Duke of Omnium, is the prime minister of a coalition government but heEnglish country village where she grew up. She's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise back now because of Ferdinand Lopeza request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as JewishFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, others as Portuguese but the truth is that no one knows dead and Lopez is not going the circumstances seem suspicious, to explainsay the least. The ladies of societyArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, even Palliser's own wifeshe feels, Lady Glencoralet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the position of having to support his wife's actions when Lopez loses a by-electionprofession she loved. The Duke's payment After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt himher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1787332098AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped WorldAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Henry ManceBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=''When we do think Opening up new ways of thinking 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 the shape of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough seriesthings to come.''

I was going to argue've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. I meanWell, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meatmust confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild 've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but then I realised 'm left with the feeling that I was quibbling for the sake it's all getting away from me. Some of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals is - frankly - and I consider myself an animal loverquite frightening. If Of course, I had to choose between could research the company of humans possibilities and the company of animals, probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I would probably choose 'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the animalslatest conspiracy theorist. I insisted that needed people I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but knew I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken could trust and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. who could deliver information in a way I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortablecould understand.

|author=Jessie GreengrassSunny Singh|title=The High HouseHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers |summary=Charles Darwin taught The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that all living matter evolved to pass has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on its genetic material with site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirshotel manager. However As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, that train of thought is slowly seems he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to have fallen be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of favour. Todayher room to try to capture what's young generation are discovering that happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their parents friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and their parents' parents did not seem they both wait to think that far aheadsee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists. Or they did think that far ahead |isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and thought "itMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not my problem" or "therewhat's worrying Miv's nothing I can do"family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Raising a child and living in a world on the precipice of catastrophe is what drives Miv's upset because she'The High Houses overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South' by Jessie Greengrass. This When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is not a science-fiction novelfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. This is our reality For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. This is She's not worried about the life our children and their children will have dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to liveanyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=18007500721398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The 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.

|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan1035906708|title=Madame BurovaDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages We tend to think of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (Maria Callas as he would have been called then)Greek, a girl but she was born to Greek parents in a humdrum job wanting to become a singerManhattan, and chieflyNew York, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist in December 1923 and Clairvoyant'', only moved to use Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her familyfather changed it to 's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the suffererCallas's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time to make it more manageable in the family stallStates. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, When she was back in possession of a pair of letters Athens - supposedly so that will change everything she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a woman called Billie. Just mother who is she, mercilessly exploited her and who delivered the secrets about made no secret of her preference for her to Imeldaelder sister, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331XJackie.

|author= Jonathan StroudChristopher Edge|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating= 4|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlawLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, rejecting a place that has the draconian conformity nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the Surviving Towns movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and Faith Houses they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to wander the wildlands between next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the Seven Kingdoms of Britaincinema, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alivetheir 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. But then she meets Albert BrowneThe call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a dark boy with dark powers remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and a darker pastplundering the wrecks. With mysterious militiamen hunting them downMira, like her mother before her, they plan is one of the seven who swim out to flee survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the mythical Free Isles of wrecking, they capture the London Lagoonisland's leader and Mira's father. TogetherDesperate to save him from death, they must brave man-eating wildlifeMira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the cannibalistic Tainted and all sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the horrors watched streets of post-apocalyptic society foreign islands to reach the Free Islesheart of the smuggler's territory, but will they Mira must be any more accepted there than they are in determined to stop at nothing to save the rest future of Britain?her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=14063948150008664730

|isbnauthor=B08R7LXQ9SJames Sherwood Metts|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Remy is feeling miserableThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan AI and Brandon, automation have been laughing at Remyproceeding apace, calling him names because he is short often replacing jobs they're paid to do and has small eyesother tasks that took time to accomplish. They are mean but Just as they are not stupid. They are careful were beginning to get used to wind up Remy when nobody can see all this technological change and then push him just that little bit further when the starting to think of other kids are around. So, when Remy reactsnew ways to spend time, it looks as though he along came an awful pandemic. Life was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school pretty much shut down and , along with it, all the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happenedmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=B00474HVX4Matthew Tree|title=Phineas Redux|author=Anthony TrollopeWe'll Never Know

|summary=It's some time since we heard Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]. Having succeeded in parliament and achieved his father, a paying position he fell out with those who provided his income drunk and returned to Ireland where he married Mary, chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his childhood sweetheart. He was fortunate to get a job in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) artistic passions all failed miserably and seemed settled into a life who had endless crises of domesticityself confidence. To bring Finn backSo Tim applied himself to his studies, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and Phineas emerges 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 possibleset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Dean KoontzA G Slatter|title=The Other EmilyBriar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It'' There's the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has part of me that wants to return keep this just tomyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, and all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a place he has to be able to leavewhile. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago'' Within a remote mountain pass, when she vanished far away from the world, lies Silverton; a remote road late at night. Hetown under the protection of the Briar's paying for contact with , a family of witches who protect the town and the man he thinks wider world from the only suspectDarklands. Though she has always wished for magic, a lifer nowEllie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, who went her training as a bit Hannibal Lecter, steward revolved around letters and has a dozen administration rather than spells and more unfound Jane Does on his recordpotions. David is trying to pry When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the connection between the murderer and his girl from Briar Witch, the mantown's mindleader, but to no availand Ellie takes her place beside her. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the restaurant walks rare ability to communicate with the sheer spitting imagedead, putting her at the very embodimentheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the virtual resurrectionBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, of his loveis under threat. What is a man to do?|isbn=15420199581803364548

|authorisbn=Charlie Carroll1529900360|title=The LipGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'Melody Janie Rowes 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'' even t need the name is evocative of…probably help of whatever we want a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it to bewas Robin, and maybe thatDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the pointinvolvement was something that the man she loved needed. To me The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the name sings swimming pool of English folk music, but even a remote property in my use of that word English, I know I'm putting an emmet take on thingsBel Air. And Melody Janie Rowe He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is anti-emmetmarried to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. |isbn=1529334179 But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Day the Screens Went BlankSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Meet Stella and her familySiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. TheyHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn're just innocently trying t want to have a Sunday evening follow in togetherhis footsteps, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father''poof'' everything goes blanks life. And it's not just their home, but When he was seventeen he took the entire south-western village opportunity of Mousehole, and not just that, either, but the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get doing work experience with a family friend who was a screen back, vet and not what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do was convinced this was the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computationsfor him. You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their willBefore long, but nohe was at Liverpool University. For the family finally remember StellaIt hadn's grandma, and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has to go down t - as a roadwith so many students -trip book. But not just that, been his dream since he was a slapstick road-trip comedychild. And more than thatIf anything, too – for ithe's d wanted to be a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will loveprofessional footballer.|isbn=1471196887

|isbn=19131935270861541774|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Vanda SymonSteve Burrows|rating=4.5

|summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard of the murder of DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. His wife had been bound and gagged and placed so Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that she he was forced to watch the murder, facing a man armed with the scene being discovered by their son, Declan, when a knife - and he returned home from an evening outkilled a Ghurka. The subsequent investigation would prove Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that John Henderson had been involved in some activities which he might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalplanned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. His company, Eros Global, manufactured Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and marketed wouldn''vitamin-type supplements and, well, sexual enhancers, that kind of thing'', as Henderson's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedt help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=1529109116Alexander McCall Smith|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah JacksonThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=''I want the image of The Perfect Passion Company is a British farmer dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to simply be that of all the online apps in providing a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nationmore personal, tailored service. I don't think that Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is too much planning to ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed take a trip to Canada to get away for generationsa while. He's probably grown Katie is coming out of a break up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be with a farmer. It's not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born bad boyfriend, and brought up on so jumps at the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love of animalschance to come home to Edinburgh. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr JacksonAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, whale scientist' and she was well on her way bringing us to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Lake DistrictIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. She saw Katie has no experience in running a lamb being born andbusiness, or in match-making, although 'Hannah Jacksonbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, farmerand there' lacked the kudos of s always her original intentionvery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, she knew that she wanted to be lend a shepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=08575272310811771741|title=Dog DaysInstaKnits for Baby|author=Ericka WallerMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angry. ItMelissa Leapman's eight days since his wife, Ellen, died and it's the first time that she's let him downInstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. HeSome will be quick knits - others are of the 's lostlong, bereft without her ( he cosy afternoons in front of the fire''needs his wife, like a snail needs its shell'')variety. He misses their ordered life and rather The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than bringing him meals five hours, five to leave on the doorstepten hours, he'd much rather have a good row with someoneten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. He's particularly angry about All the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she diedprojects are attractive, modern and useable. She even dared to contradict him I perhaps show my age when he told her I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that the dog wasn't staying. Now he's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want and a load of busybodies who are trying to interfere in his life. Worst of all is Betty, who won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying to escape from and destroy themme being picky.

|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Dean Koontz|title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionParanormal|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he didn't live long enough for this to become Benny is having a problemterrifically bad day. After He loses his deathjob, he loses his wifefiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, Lizzie disturbing coffin- still only in her late teens - was in possession of a very valuable diamond necklace sized object to his home, and was determined that she would not hand it over to her husband's executors. She possible that whoever or whatever was adamant inside is the thing that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutelyhas trashed his house! The thing is, although Benny is the precise circumstances of the giving varied from telling very last person to tellingdeserve all this bad luck. Lady Eustace was not He is a woman to whom truth meant a great dealnice person. A really nice person. All So fortunately for Benny it turns out that was important the delivery to her nowhis house is a new friend, she maintaineda bad weather friend called Spike, was her sonwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. AndSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of courseBenny's enemies, if he, her diamondsBenny, 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

|isbnauthor=1529047315Adam Stower|title=The Lamplighters|author=Emma StonexMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two faces. You have Murray is supposed to take them bothbe a humble, he saidtidy and friendly cat, the good one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and the bad, and never turn your back on either one well, whatever takes his fancy next of themthe two. But he's a bad magician' In 1972s cat, fifteen miles off the coast of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in ''the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''. Jory Martin had taken out so his favourite bun has been turned into a relief keeperhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, the weather such that ''the boat [was] rocking and bobbing like a bath toy over the wavelets'' but catflap they were unable to get any response from the Maiden Rock. It was broken both use can chuck them out, not into the next dayregular back garden, but there was no sign into a world of the menfrightening adventure and whiffs. The table This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was set for a meal for two - , to be honest, but he's turned up 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 for what happened he'll have to the men.do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Mary H K ChoiB0C47LV1PC|title=YolkFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= Jayne Baek is Can you make a fashion student that's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. She's an all-round messy character; and thatYo birthing person''s her charm. Junejoke? And if you could, on is the other hand, question should you make it? Or is a complete contrast to Jayne. She's a typical older sister: she's smartthe question if you did, thinks she knows would it all, and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices, and land? The catch is that the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city answer for the past two yearsboth could well be.... no. This is until June finds out she ''Fragility''s sick, and Jayne is set as the only person she can turn city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identities.|isbn= 0349003696emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Saima Mir1529431735|title=The KhanWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54

|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the motto be twice Costa del Sol as good as men and four times as good as white mena wanted drug smuggler for a decade. This The return has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sistercome about because he's wedding after fifteen years in selfhad a letter from his ex-imposed exilewife, saying that she is at the top of her game's ill and hasn't long to live. Returning It's hard to the city of her birthfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to old scars his underwear and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for sent to a watery grave in the future with her sense boot of honour and dutya stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=1786079097 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=0008336830Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Two Wrongs|author=Mel McGrathThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Sondra was on her way home after work when she saw Eli is a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from busy lad – by day an apprentice in the Clifton suspension bridge. She talks to herwondrous library we start by visiting with him, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and flatmate, Nevis Smithruns. Nevis Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is unworldly and rather reserved - and she can't understand why Satnam hasn't shared her problems with hera generation missing in the family. She thought they shared everything. Satnam is taken A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to hospital and Nevis calls her motherthe titular race, Honora globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. They've not been on good terms since a discovery Nevis This has made the previous summer race anathema to the pair – but right nowwhen a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Nevis needs her motherEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231