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|isbnauthor=0008444501Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Answer A Letter to Everything|author=Luke Kennardthe Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=Life should have been good for Emily. She had There are few greater joys than a lovely husband, Steven, who was book which lives up to a speech therapistcompelling premise. We'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other and don't even sleep in the same bed. It isn't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that she's sharing a bed with And this is one of her children as it's the only way to get him to sleep during the night. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and Emily has a job to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a week. They've not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: it's a trendy area that has been gentrified and it's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their ownthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=02419851370008517061|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Cara HunterStig Abell|rating=54

|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstFormer Metropolitan Police detective, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the PrincipalJake Johnson, Professor Hilary Reynoldshas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There had been an accusation There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of sexual assault by his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a professor on a student. When Fawley arrived he was almost crosslot of compromise: what was the alleged perpetrator doing 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 room before they'd even got the details from the victimfuture she wants for herself and her daughter? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' For the 'victim' and moment they’re enjoying life in the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisher. Just to complicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, the local MP, present and Professor Fisher is a big name in Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by putting the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month future on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be ''very'' publicback burner.

|authorisbn=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker1786482126|title=A Tattoo on my BrainThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=AlzheimerBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's is luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of selfdoorway. There was no skull. I have been directly affected by Was this cruel diseasea ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a statue over time affected the elementsDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It seems 's difficult as if nature wants Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that final victory over you and your dignity. This she is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirablepregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Daniel Gibbs Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1108838936

|isbn=16358623530008551324|title=The Sandalmaking WorkshopDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Rachel CorryNeil Lancaster

|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe it, mainly because IIt'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than s unusual for anyone from the average home was likely Hardie family to be able to contain but I was intriguedapproach the police. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a small fire destroyed some of missing person is buried and who was responsible for her shoesdeath. One pair had come apart This person, he promises, is someone big and she could see how it will be worth the sandal was constructedpolice doing what he wants. Then she realised that she couldn't afford And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to replace all her shoesget an early parole date. Could she combine these two facts Not much to create a new and worthwhile craftask, is it? She showed quite a few people her first pair The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and they all either wanted to know how she's even prepared to do it the other thing that Hardie demanded - or if shemake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what'd make them a pair. A new career was borns happening.

|isbn=17873320980008405026|title=How to Love Animals A Stranger in a Human-Shaped Worldthe Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Henry ManceJane Casey

|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=It''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and groups: cowsthe investigation ground to a halt. Now, dogsher mother, foxesHelena, elephants and so onher father are dead in their bed. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates Initially, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on s something about the positioning of the next David Attenborough seriesbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious.'' I What looked as though it was going to arguebe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. I meanKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, cows Una Burt) are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meatless convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza.) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it Robert's a theatre director. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals He's also self- obsessed, demanding, handsome and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the company of humans entitled and the company of animals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying uses Edward to stop me but I was initially reluctantrun errands for him. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and fish and I needed he's drunkenly confided how he feels to either do so without guilt or change my choicesRobert. I suspected Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that making a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the decision would not be comfortabletwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Ananda DeviJo Callaghan|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsLeave No Trace

|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see When a man is found crucified on the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation top of sexual assault by a professor on a student. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the room before they'd even got case alongside her sidekick, the details from the victim? AI detective Lock. The problem was that Caleb Morgan It''was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fishers their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Just to complicate matters furtherBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Caleb's mother Kat is Petra Newson, the local MP, suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligencevery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. She has an eight-year-old sonWill they be able to solve the case in time, buys her wine by or will Kat find herself taken off the case from Berry Brothers & Ruddand, potentially, spends more than £1000 out of a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be ''very'' public.career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=07535583781399613073|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What MattersMoral Injuries|author=Greg McKeownChristie Watson

|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary=''The marginal return Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of working harder was, in fact, negative.'' That's what happened to Patrick McGinnisa century. It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the company he worked forOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, struggling through, even which is a bonus when he was ill, only you aim to find that he was working for be a bankrupt companycardiothoracic surgeon. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health Laura is a perfectionist and his job had little valuea trauma doctor. He made Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a bargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changesGP. He did survive When we first meet them they're at a drug and came through stronger alcohol- fuelled party and richerit's going to end in tragedy. There is, you see, a different way: We don''great things are not reserved for those t know who bleedsuffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, for those it's their teenage children who almost breakare involved.''

|isbn=14711814050241636604|title=NighthawkingThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Russ ThomasGary Stevenson

|summary=SheffieldIt's [http://wwwtwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up.sbg She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you Freya'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in whats former mentor and Carole's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the body of a young woman was discoveredleast. It Arthur was the reason why Freya had obviously not been buried in one of back to the beds but who would have started to dig village: Arthur, she feels, let her up? down badly. It had been Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for yearsprofession she loved. The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left After the twosplit, very rareshe worked in a cafe, gold aurei met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer life, who was murdered) and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler Freya and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuriesJames have now divorced.

|authorisbn= Jennifer Saint AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Ariadne All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Science Fiction |summary= This re-telling ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the myth shape of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing things to a modern audiencecome. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. '|isbn=1472273869}} {{Frontpage|author=Gianna Pollero and Sarah Horne|title=Monster Doughnuts|rating=4I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappeared Well, Grace and Danni I must confess that there have been left to run the family bakerymore than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. But Grace needs I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the doughnuts and sweet treats feeling that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reason...even though sheit's only ten years old, she all getting away from me. Some of it is a monster hunter! - frankly - quite frightening. Monsters have a very sweet toothOf course, I could research the possibilities and Grace uses a number of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or tricking them into eating a sweet treat that will, ultimately, be their demisethe latest conspiracy theorist. One day, though, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, I needed people I knew I could trust and who has could deliver information in a weakness for doughnuts but doesn't seem to explode as the other monsters do, and so things start to get very strange…|isbn=1848129432way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=0995647895Sunny Singh|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceHotel Arcadia

|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=Sadie's mother always said The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that she was has suddenly been violently taken over by a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doingterrorist group. She lives by Hiding from the River Thames at Greenwich terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloomAbhi,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''hotel manager. Her imagination was fired. She'd love As Abhi continues to try to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's care remotely for the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches residents who are on show) and missed still alive in the closing bell hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and the attendantkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's warning shouthappened through her photography. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in Although they only ever talk over the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphinsphone, pirates, mermaids their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and treasurethey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Kristen O'Neal1529153298|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme diseaseIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her lifehonestly... ) She joins 's not what'Oof Ouch My Boness worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, an online support group where she talks but to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesseshave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to just joke and mess aroundmove the family 'Down South'. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesnyou't respond to the chat for re from Yorkshire, Down South is a whilefrightening, Priya becomes concernedforeign place, best avoided. She decides to steal For Miv, the move would mean leaving her parents' car best friend, Sharon, and drive to Brigidshe's house ll do anything to check up on herprevent that. But what she doesn She't expect to find there is a werewolf in s not worried about the basement – and for dangers or that werewolf to be the girl she has been her Mum's stopped talking - to online for the past few monthsanyone.|isbn=1683692349

|authorisbn=Mercedes Helnwein1398524085|title=SlingshotHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=35|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonelyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. As a secret illegitimate Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter of a man with a "real" family, she Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is used to not being a priority in people. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's livesfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. But It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for goodhe couldn't stand the guilt. No longer The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfielddo but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=152905818X

|isbn=B005FM76AA1035906708|title=The Duke's ChildrenDiva|author=Anthony TrollopeDaisy Goodwin

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=The story opens We tend to probably the worst news think of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is deadMaria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Duke of Omnium, is nearly paralysed Nazi occupation by grief a mother who mercilessly exploited her and struggling - at the same time - to adjust to made no longer being prime ministersecret of her preference for her elder sister, or even in officeJackie. He seeks to protect }}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and guide his three adult childrenfriends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, which is easier said than done when none a place that has the nickname of them wishes to 'The Black Hole'be. All big movie fans, they'' guided. re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! Silverbridge (his elder sonHowever, as the movie starts, actually called Plantagenetthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, but always known by his title) and Gerald they are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run swept up gambling debts, occasionally in eye-watering sumsinto an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - and wishes But as they lurch from one film genre to marry - Frank Tregear, the penniless son of a poor squirenext, which can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the Duke cannot countenancecinema, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about and to learn that parents do not always get their way.real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Goldy MoldavskyRachel Greenlaw|title=The Last GirlCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary= Rachel Chavez is ''I can hear the song of the new girl at Manchester Prepsea. A school filled to The call of the brim with deep, the richest children answering beat in the city – and Rachel doesnmy heart.'t belong. She's not rich Rosevear, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbiaa remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and most of allplundering the wrecks. Mira, she spends the majority of like her mother before her spare time watching horror movies as a source , is one of comfortthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. She struggles But when the Council Watch lays a trap to find anyone end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to connect save him from death, Mira makes a bargain witha wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull sets off the best prank in true horror movie style, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the competitionsea. But With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the pranks escalateheart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and Rachel finally feels like the ones she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a masked figure keeps showing up to bit sticky for the pranksEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and people begin other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get hurtused to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. When the competition then takes a deadly turnLife was pretty much shut down and, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before along with it's too late, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=07555015271736128426

|author=Polly BartonMatthew Tree|title=Fifty SoundsWe'll Never Know

|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself startsTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while drunk and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later 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 chronic underachiever whose dreams of the question in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of ''every party where you have self confidence. So Tim applied himself to introduce yourself''his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1913097501B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Lucy HollandA G Slatter|title=SistersongThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Literary FictionFantasy|summary=Sistersong is '' There's a part of a genre 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 particularly just want to enjoyit for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the modern retelling world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of folk witches who protect the town and fairy talesthe wider world from the Darklands. These storiesThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for most of usgenerations and as such since she was young, are her training as a cornerstone of childhood steward revolved around letters and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes administration rather than spells and a fresh perspectivepotions. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdatedWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, fleshing out charactersthe town's leader, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of womenEllie takes her place beside her. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done wellAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the plot is handled rare ability to communicate with carethe dead, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing putting her at the characters to come heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to lifeanother, Ellie must decide who to feel real trust and humandetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, most importantly everything they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This have sacrificed to survive, is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to endunder threat.|isbn=15290390371803364548

|isbn=15291242551529900360|title=The WhispersGhost Orchid|author=Heidi PerksJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We know straight away that thereIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's going fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to be a bodyask for his help on difficult cases. It's on the beach under CrayneHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's Cliff near t need the town help of Clearwater and a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's new year's daypartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. To understand what happened we're going to have to go back to She knew that the involvement was something that the previous Septemberman she loved needed. Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - she's lived there since her teens and now, in her mid-thirtiesThe next case did look simple, she's returned to her home town to livethough. Her husband, Graham, works Two lovers were murdered in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be the swimming pool of a remote property in the lovely apartment she's foundBel Air. Grace's best friend, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she has is married to an eight-year-old child too. Ethanextremely rich man and it's in not the class Matilda will be joiningItalian. It's perfect!But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The SourceSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=23.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=1996Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Essex His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a disenfranchised town dominated by family friend who was a military base, struggling to care vet and was convinced this was the job for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingehim. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats Before long, and offers an exclusive invitation to army partieshe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, things start he'd wanted to look be a little less bleakprofessional footballer...|isbn=1913193594

|isbn=B004O37B6A0861541774|title=The Prime MinisterA Nye of Pheasants|author=Anthony TrollopeSteve Burrows

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Plantagenet PalliserDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, the Duke of OmniumDanny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, is the prime minister of Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a coalition government but knife - and he's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand Lopezkilled a Ghurka. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as JewishInitially, others as Portuguese he faced a charge of manslaughter but the truth is evidence came to light that suggested that no one knows and Lopez is not going he might have planned to explainmurder the man. The ladies of society, even Palliser's own wife, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in Now he could be facing the position of having death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to support his wife's actions when Lopez loses help as any interference from another police force could provoke a by-election. The Dukediplomatic incident and wouldn's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt himt help Danny at all.

|author=Jessie GreengrassAlexander McCall Smith|title=The High HousePerfect Passion Company

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Charles Darwin taught that The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all living matter evolved to pass on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirsonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. However Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, that train of thought as Ness is slowly seems planning to have fallen take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of favoura break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. Today's young generation are discovering that their parents And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and their parents' parents did not seem the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to think that far aheadcharm. Or they did think that far ahead Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and thought "it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do". Raising a child always her very helpful (and living in rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a world on the precipice of catastrophe is what drives hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''The High HouseInstaKnits for Baby'' by Jessie Greengrassgives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. This is not a science Some will be quick knits -fiction novelothers are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. This is our reality The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. This is All the life our children projects are attractive, modern and their children will have to liveuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1800750072

|author=Ruth HoganDean Koontz|title=Madame BurovaThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connectedBenny is having a terrifically bad day. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as He loses his job, he would have been called then)loses his fiancee, a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singerand his house gets trashed. Oh, and chieflysomeone has delivered a really weird, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarotdisturbing coffin-Readersized object to his home, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her familyit's sea-front booth. possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The singerthing is, Benny is the scryer and the sufferer's mother will very last person to deserve all become staff at this bad luck. He is a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last daydelivery to his house is a new friend, fifty years latera bad weather friend called Spike, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a woman called Billiegood person. Just who Spike is shegoing to take care of Benny, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imeldawill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and why did it have to remain Harper (a secret all this time?waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=152937331X1662500491

|author= Jonathan StroudAdam Stower|title= The Outlaws Scarlett Murray and BrowneBun|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers |summary= Scarlett McCain Murray is an outlawsupposed to be a humble, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns tidy and Faith Houses friendly cat, one who is able to wander the wildlands between sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alivetwo. But then she meets Albert Brownehe's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a dark boy with dark powers hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting the catflap they both use can chuck them downout, they plan to flee to not into the mythical Free Isles regular back garden, but into a world of the London Lagoonfrightening adventure and whiffs. Together This time round it drops them into a Viking land, they must brave man-eating wildlifewhere a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Islesbe honest, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=14063948150008561249

|isbn=B08R7LXQ9SB0C47LV1PC|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourselfFragility|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalMosby Woods

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. HeCan you make a 's let himself down 'Yo birthing person'again''. The school bully Jaydenjoke? And if you could, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandonis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he would it land? The catch is short and has small eyesthat the answer for both could well be.... They are mean but they are not stupidno. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when  ''Fragility'' is set as the other kids are around. Socity of Portland, when Remy reactsOregon, it looks as though he was cautiously begins to emerge from the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and restrictions imposed during the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.covid pandemic

|isbn=B00474HVX41529431735|title=Phineas ReduxThe Winter Visitor|author=Anthony TrollopeJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Having succeeded in parliament and achieved He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a paying position decade. The return has come about because he fell out with those who provided 's had a letter from his income ex-wife, saying that she's ill and returned hasn't long to live. It's hard to Ireland where he married Maryfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his childhood sweetheart. He was fortunate underwear and sent to get a job watery grave in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into the boot of a life of domesticitystolen Ford Sierra. To bring Finn back, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges in London as Is it a warning from a childless widower with Spanish gang or a legacy from an aunt who died at just the right time problem closer to allow the move to be possible.home?

|author=Dean KoontzAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Other EmilyGlorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Our hero David Thorne Eli is a busy lad – by day an author, who shares his life between apprentice in the two US coasts. It's the western coast wondrous library we're concerned start by visiting withhim, and in the evening a place he has to return to, helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and a place he has to be able to leaveruns. David lost contact Eli lives with his partner lovely gran, too – for there ten is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. HeEli's paying for contact with the man he thinks parents were both lost to the only suspecttitular race, a lifer now, who went globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recordmagical beast. David is trying This has made the race anathema to pry the connection between pair – but when a bad incident at the murderer and his girl eatery leads to a confession from the man's mindgran, but Eli knows his only hope is to dare to no avail. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into enter what he most hates, with the restaurant walks sole aim the sheer spitting image, prize of magic at the very embodiment, end – the virtual resurrection, of only thing to possibly save his lovegran. What is a man to do?|isbn=15420199580571382231