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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=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the 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 burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=14711814051786482126|title=NighthawkingThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Russ ThomasElly Griffiths

|summary=Sheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like to visit) are Builders were demolishing an oasis of calm old house in whatNorwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted apartments - when they discovered the body bones of a young woman child beneath a doorway. There was discoveredno skull. It had obviously been buried in one of the beds but who would have started to dig her upWas this a ritual killing or murder? It had been in the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for years. The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left the twoInevitably, very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina RabbaniHarry Nelson. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks heIt's difficult as obnoxious as ever Ruth knows, but suspects Nelson doesn't, that he's she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not fully recovered from his injuriesleast because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn= Jennifer Saint 0008551324|title= Ariadne The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction Crime|summary= This re-telling of It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the myth of Ariadne other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the Minotaur body of a missing person is interesting buried and unusualwho was responsible for her death. Jennifer Saint presents This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the story in a way that police doing what he wants. And what he wants is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing be transferred to a modern audiencean open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Saint Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood even prepared to her death, allowing do the reader to really connect other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseushim is kept well away from what's happening. |isbn=1472273869}}

|authorisbn=Gianna Pollero and Sarah Horne0008405026|title=Monster DoughnutsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=After their parents mysteriously It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared, Grace and Danni have been left to run the family bakeryfrom her bed one summer night. But Grace needs She was never found and the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for investigation ground to a rather unusual reasonhalt...even though she's only ten years old, she is a monster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet toothNow, and Grace uses a number of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on themher mother, or tricking them into eating a sweet treat that willHelena, ultimately, be and her father are dead in their demisebed. One day, thoughInitially, Grace finds herself facing it looks like a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, who has a weakness for doughnuts straightforward murder/suicide but doesnthere't seem to explode as s something about the positioning of the other monsters do, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and so her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. things start What looked as though it was going to get very strange…|isbn=1848129432be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=09956478950571379877|title=Sadie and the Sea DogsThe Kellerby Code|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceJonny Sweet

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was Edward Jevons is a dreamerworking-class young man, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her obsessed with his upper-class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloomfriends,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''Robert and Stanza. Her imagination was firedRobert's a theatre director. SheHe'd love s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularlyrun errands for him. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (itEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's the one where Nelsondrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendantposition would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the midst two of an adventure that she could never have imagined them kissing in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasuredark passageway.

|author=Kristen O'NealJo Callaghan|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for When a man is found crucified on the rest top of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other outhill in Nuneaton, while also providing an escape DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of the case alongside her closest friends—doesn't respond to sidekick, the chat for a while, Priya becomes concernedAI detective Lock. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid It's house to check up on hertheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But what she doesn't expect to find when there is a werewolf in the basement – second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and for a very high profile case that werewolf draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the girl she has been talking to online for case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the past few months.case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1683692349139851120X

|authorisbn=Mercedes Helnwein1399613073|title=SlingshotMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a secret illegitimate daughter quarter of a man with a "real" familycentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, she which is used a bonus when you aim to not being be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a priority in people's livestrauma doctor. But when Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she defends becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a random boy drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for goodtragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. No longer can she spend her This time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=152905818X

|isbn=B005FM76AA0241636604|title=The Duke's ChildrenTrading Game: A Confession|author=Anthony TrollopeGary Stevenson

|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=The story opens If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to probably the worst news think of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is deadsomeone like Gary Stevenson. Her husbandA hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, Plantagenet Palliserwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the Duke London School of Omnium, Economics. Stevenson is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling bright - at the same time extremely bright - to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even in officeand he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He seeks also realised that most rich people expect poor people to protect and guide be stupid. It was his three adult childrenability at what was, essentially, a card game which is easier said than done when none of them wishes got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'bes back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole' guided. Silverbridge (his elder sons close friend, actually called PlantagenetArthur Crockleford, but always known by his title) is dead and Gerald are destined the circumstances seem suspicious, to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to run up gambling debtsthe village: Arthur, she feels, occasionally in eye-watering sumslet her down badly. Lady Helen Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has fallen in love with - and wishes not felt able to marry - Frank Tregearbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, the penniless son of she worked in a poor squirecafe, which met and married James (on the rebound from the Duke cannot countenancelove of her life, not least because he sees echos of what might who was murdered) and Freya and James have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about to learn that parents do not always get their waynow divorced.

|authorisbn=Goldy MoldavskyAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Last GirlAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary= Rachel Chavez ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is the new girl at Manchester Prepwhat happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. A school filled I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to the brim me but I'm left with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesn't belong. Shefeeling that it's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, and most of all, she spends the majority getting away from me. Some of her spare time watching horror movies as a source of comfortit is - frankly - quite frightening. She struggles to find anyone to connect with Of course, until one day she stumbles upon I could research the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off possibilities and the best prank in true horror movie style, probabilities and unless end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in who knows what they're talking about or the competitionlatest conspiracy theorist. But as the pranks escalate, I needed people I knew I could trust and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place who could deliver information in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too lateway I could understand.|isbn=0755501527

|author=Polly BartonSunny Singh|title=Fifty SoundsHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyThrillers |summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been on my radar for violently taken over by a while and if terrorist group. Hiding from the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there later this yearis Sam, but I am not hopeful. And like Bartona wartime photographer and Abhi, I don't know the answer hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question residents who are still alive in the first essayhotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, which is and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes phone, their friendship grows as being, among other things, Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''terrorists.|isbn=1913097501086154742X

|authorisbn=Lucy Holland1529153298|title=SistersongThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Sistersong It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is part of a genre Prime Minister. (A woman? I particularly enjoymean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, the modern retelling of folk and fairy talesthough. Women have been disappearing. These stories Well, for most of usthey've been murdered, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspectivebut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating move the role of womenfamily 'Down South'. Sistersong When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a perfect example of a modern retelling done wellfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the plot is handled with caremove would mean leaving her best friend, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to lifeSharon, and she'll do anything to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for prevent that. She's not worried about the predangers or that her Mum's stopped talking -Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to endanyone.|isbn=1529039037

|isbn=15291242551398524085|title=The WhispersHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Heidi PerksNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We know straight away that there's going to be a body. It's on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near the town of Clearwater and it's new year's day. To understand what happened we're going to have to go back to the previous September. Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - she's lived there since Charlotte Salter was expected at her teens and now, in her mid-thirties, shehusband's returned to her home town to livefiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her husbandchildren, Grahamsons Niall, works in Singapore Paul and she Ollie and her eightdaughter, Etty. are all worried but -yearstrangely -old daughterher husband, MatildaAlec, might as well be in the lovely apartment she's foundis not. GraceShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's best friendfather, Anna RobinsonDuncan Ackerley, is still in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child toothe river. EthanIt was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's in t stand the class Matilda will be joiningguilt. ItThe Salter children are not convinced but there's perfect!little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon1035906708|title=The SourceDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=1996We 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. Essex Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. Thirteen When she was back in Athens -yearsupposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice -old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a military base, struggling to care mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her baby elder sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleakJackie...|isbn=1913193594

|isbnauthor=B004O37B6AChristopher Edge|title=The Prime Minister|author=Anthony TrollopeBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Plantagenet PalliserLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the Duke nickname of Omnium'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, is the prime minister of a coalition government but hethey's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise re looking forward to lots of Ferdinand Lopez. exciting films, and many, many snacks! Lopex is exotic - some describe him as JewishHowever, others as Portuguese but the truth is movie starts, they very quickly realise that no one knows and Lopez something about this new film format is not going to explain. The ladies of society, even Palliser's own wife, Lady Glencoravery different, and they are supporters but after Lopez makes swept up into an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in the position of having to support his wifeadventure they couldn's actions when Lopez loses a by-electiont even imagine. The Duke's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt But as they lurch from one film genre to stem gossip about his wife will come the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to haunt him.the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=1787332098Rachel Greenlaw|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry ManceCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTeens|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so onI can hear the song of the sea. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions The call of wild animals stay out there, ''somewherethe deep,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough seriesanswering beat in my heart.''

I was going Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to arguesurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. I meanBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, cows are for cheese (I couldnthey capture the island's leader and Mira't consider eating red meats father...) Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and I much prefer my elephants with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in the wild but then I realised search of a family secret that I was quibbling for lies buried deep in the sake of itsea. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude With only nine days to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to choose between the company heart of humans and the company of animalssmuggler's territory, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying Mira must be determined to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish at nothing to save the future of her home and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortableones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Jessie GreengrassJames Sherwood Metts|title=The High HousePlanet Storyland

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass on its genetic material with Things have been a bit sticky for the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirsEarthlings. HoweverAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that train of thought is slowly seems took time to have fallen out of favouraccomplish. Today's young generation are discovering that their parents Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and their parents' parents did not seem starting to think that far aheadof other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Or they did think that far ahead Life was pretty much shut down and thought ", along with it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do". Raising a child and living in a world , all the many daily social interactions on the precipice of catastrophe is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrass. This is not a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This is the life our children and their children will have to livewhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=18007500721736128426

|author=Ruth HoganMatthew Tree|title=Madame BurovaWe'll Never Know

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=This book lets us discover several people in Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different stages of life in the early 1970sfrom his father, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, drunk and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation chronic underachiever whose dreams of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff being exceptional at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession any of a pair his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billieself confidence. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her So Tim applied himself to Imeldahis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=152937331XB0CVFXPGP8

|author= Jonathan StroudA G Slatter|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneBriar Book of the Dead|rating= 45|genre= TeensFantasy|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, rejecting lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the draconian conformity Briar's, a family of witches who protect the Surviving Towns town and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between wider world from the Seven Kingdoms of BritainDarklands. Though she has always wished for magic, robbing banks Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then as such since she meets Albert Brownewas young, her training as a dark boy with dark powers steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and a darker pastpotions. With mysterious militiamen hunting them downWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, they plan to flee to Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the mythical Free Isles of Briar Witch, the London Lagoontown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. TogetherAs challenges come her way left, they must brave man-eating wildliferight and centre, Ellie uncovers the cannibalistic Tainted and all rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the horrors heart of post-apocalyptic society a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to reach do as the Free IslesBriar witches' legacy, but will everything they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=14063948151803364548

|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S1529900360|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourselfThe Ghost Orchid|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalJonathan Kellerman

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. HeIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's let himself down ''again'fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. The school bully Jayden Finally, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandonit was Robin, have been laughing at RemyDelaware's partner, calling him names because he is short and has small eyeswho nudged Milo into asking for help again. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just She knew that the involvement was something that little bit further when the other kids are aroundman she loved needed. So The next case did look simple, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he . Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happenedItalian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=B00474HVX41529395224|title=Phineas ReduxLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Anthony TrollopeSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Having succeeded in parliament and achieved His father was a paying position he fell out with those who provided his income GP and returned Rowlands didn't want to Ireland where follow in his footsteps, particularly when he married Mary, considered the strain that being on-call put on his childhood sweetheartfather's life. He When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was fortunate to get a vet and was convinced this was the job in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into a life of domesticityfor him. To bring Finn backBefore long, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges in London he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as a childless widower with so many students - been his dream since he was a legacy from an aunt who died at just the right time to allow the move child. If anything, he'd wanted to be possiblea professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0861541774|title=The Other EmilyA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's the western coast we're concerned withclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, a place he has to return to, and taken a place he has short holiday in Singapore to be able to leave. David lost contact meet up with his partner there ten years agoan old ally, when she vanished from a remote road late at nightGuy Trueman. He's paying for contact with the man Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he thinks the only suspect, was facing a lifer now, who went man armed with a bit Hannibal Lecter, knife - and has he killed a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recordGhurka. David is trying Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man's mind, but to no avail. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into Now he could be facing the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his lovedeath penalty. What is Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a man to do?|isbn=1542019958diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|author=Charlie CarrollAlexander McCall Smith|title=The LipPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=''Melody Janie Rowe'' 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. even Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the name business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is evocative of…probably coming out of whatever a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so 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 want it already love, thanks to be, 44 Scotland Street and maybe that's the pointIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. To me the name sings of English folk musicKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but even Ness has full confidence in my use of that word Englishher abilities, I know Iand there'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmet. s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=15293341791846976596

|authorisbn=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll0811771741|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=Meet Stella and her family. TheyMelissa Leapman're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when s ''poofInstaKnits for Baby'' everything goes blankgives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. And itSome will be quick knits - others are of the 's not just their homelong, but the entire south-western village cosy afternoons in front of Mousehole, and not just that, either, but the whole country, if not worldfire' variety. Suddenly people The projects are constantly on their phones – hoping divided by the time they're first ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to get a screen backten hours, ten to twenty hours and not what they were constantly doing on them beforemore than twenty hours. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do All the V part of their jobprojects are attractive, modern and no computer can show its computationsuseable. You might think this is going to be a social comedy I perhaps show my age when I wonder about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has to go down as a roadsocial-trip book. But not just that, a slapstick roadmedia-trip comedy. And more than worthy projects' but that, too – for it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will loveme being picky.|isbn=1471196887

|isbnauthor=1913193527Dean Koontz|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)|author=Vanda SymonThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard of the murder of Benny is having a wealthy terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffhis house gets trashed. His wife had been bound Oh, and gagged someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and placed so it's possible that she whoever or whatever was forced to watch inside is the murderthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, with Benny is the scene being discovered by their son, Declan, when he returned home from an evening outvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. The subsequent investigation would prove So fortunately for Benny it turns out that John Henderson had the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been involved in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalsent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. His companySpike is going to take care of Benny, Eros Global, manufactured and marketed will certainly take care of Benny''vitamin-type supplements ands enemies, wellif he, sexual enhancersBenny, that kind of thing'', as Hendersonand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedwild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1529109116Adam Stower|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah JacksonMurray and Bun

|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers |summary=''I want the image of a British farmer Murray is supposed to simply be that of a person humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I don't think that is too much able to ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generationstwo. HeBut he's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be a farmer. Itbad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not always into the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on regular back garden, but into a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love world of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' frightening adventure and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to the Lake Districtwhiffs. She saw This time round it drops them into a lamb being born andViking land, although 'Hannah Jacksonwhere a troll hunter is expected – well, farmer' lacked the kudos of her original intentionone much bigger than Murray was, she knew that she wanted to be a shepherd. With the determination that youhonest, but he's turned up and he'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=0857527231B0C47LV1PC|title=Dog DaysFragility|author=Ericka WallerMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angry. ItCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s eight days since his wifejoke? And if you could, Ellenis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, died and would it's land? The catch is that the first time that she's let him downanswer for both could well be... He's lost, bereft without her ( he ''needs his wife, like a snail needs its shell''). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the doorstep, he'd much rather have a good row with someoneno. He 's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared to contradict him when he told her that the dog wasn't staying. Now heFragility's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want and a load is set as the city of busybodies who are trying to interfere in his life. Worst of all is BettyPortland, who won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for LuckyOregon, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying cautiously begins to escape emerge from and destroy them.the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=B003UH99X41529431735|title=The Eustace DiamondsWinter Visitor|author=Anthony TrollopeJames Henry|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he didn't live long enough 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 wanted drug smuggler for this to become a problemdecade. After his death, The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession of a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined saying that she would not hand it over to her husband's executorsill and hasn't long to live. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given it It's hard to her absolutelyfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, although stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the precise circumstances boot of the giving varied from telling to tellinga stolen Ford Sierra. Lady Eustace was not Is it a warning from a woman to whom truth meant Spanish gang or a great deal. All that was important problem closer to her now, she maintained, was her son. And, of course, her diamonds.home?

|isbnauthor=1529047315Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Lamplighters|author=Emma StonexGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=''A fisherman told Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him once about the sea having two faces. You have to take them both, he said, and in the good and evening a helper at the bad, dessert cafe his gran owns and never turn your back on either one of themruns.'' In 1972 Eli lives with his lovely gran, fifteen miles off the coast of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse too – for there is a generation missing in ''the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''family. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeperA few short years ago, the weather such that 'Eli's parents were both lost to the boat [was] rocking and bobbing like titular race, a bath toy over globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the wavelets'' but they were unable to get any response from world in the Maiden Rockcompany of a magical beast. It was broken into This has made the race anathema to the next day, pair – but there was no sign of when a bad incident at the men. The table was set for eatery leads to a meal for two - and confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the clocks were stopped prize of magic at 8.45. Contact with the light had not been possible as end – the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened only thing to the menpossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231