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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=15294072491786482126|title=The Perfect LieJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Jo SpainElly Griffiths

|summary=It Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was July 2019 and Erin was happy. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: thatgoing to hold seventy-five 'luxury's always apartments - when they discovered the bones of a dangerous thing to do when you're married to child beneath a cop but she doorway. There was hopefulno skull. They'd been married for six months and life was good with Was this a decent apartment by the sea in Newportritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Long IslandDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The knock on the door was insistent and when it was openedIt's difficult as Ruth knows, Dannybut Nelson doesn's partnert, Ben Mitchell was there that she is pregnant with his child as a couple result of other officers. Danny took the one look, turned, walked to the open window and jumped to his death from the fourth floornight they spent together some three months ago. Eighteen months laterHer condition will be obvious before long, Erin would be on trial for her husband's murdernot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=15230927340008551324|title=A WomenThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's Guide even prepared to Claiming Spacedo the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Eliza Van CortJane Casey

|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=It''She brings a hugs sixteen years since nine-kickyear-thunderclap that every woman needs in old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her lifebed one summer night. Again She was never found and again and againthe investigation ground to a halt.'' (Alma Derricks Now, her mother, former CMOHelena, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravelyher father are dead in their bed. It is to live the life youInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there've always wanted.'' Sometimes s something about the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in positioning of the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my deskbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Now - What looked as though it was going to be clear an open- this book and-shut case is not now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manuals disappearance: itothers (such as Derwent's something far more effectiveboss, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they Una Burt) are big menless convinced.

|authorisbn=Darren Shan0571379877|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with our herohis upper-class friends, Archie, back in London in the world of the BornRobert and Stanza. It Robert's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where hea theatre director. He's beenalso self-obsessed, demanding, or slipping back into ordinary life handsome and forgetting about Inez entitled and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has done his bestbeen in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston Most men in Big BenRobert's clock tower and except for fiddling with position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that sneaky master lock a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awaya dark passageway.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ

|isbnauthor=0008444501Jo Callaghan|title=The Answer to Everything|author=Luke KennardLeave No Trace

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Life should have been good for Emily. She had When a man is found crucified on the top of a lovely husbandhill in Nuneaton, StevenDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, who was a speech therapist. We'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other and don't even sleep in the same bedAI detective Lock. It isn't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that she's sharing a bed their first live case together, having previously been very successful with one of her children as it's the only way to get him to sleep during the nightseveral cold cases. Arthur But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and Emily has very high profile case that draws a job lot of unwanted attention to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a weektheir AI Future Policing project. They've not long moved into a new home Will they be able to solve the case in Criterion Gardens: it's time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of 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 own.career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=02419851371399613073|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)Moral Injuries|author=Cara HunterChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the firstday of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, called there by Jancis Appleby which is a bonus when you aim to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynoldsbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by Laura is a professor on perfectionist and a studenttrauma doctor. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was Anjali is the alleged perpetrator doing in free spirit of the room before group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they'd even got the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it''was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fishers going to end in tragedy. Just to complicate matters further, CalebWe don's mother is Petra Newson, t know who suffered the tragedy or the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name in Artificial Intelligenceconsequences. She has Twenty-five years later there will be an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by eerily similar event that will impact the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followersthree friends. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipmentThis time, this is going to be it''very'' publics their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Tattoo on my BrainConfession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=34.5

|summary=AlzheimerIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is a disease that slowly wears away your identity the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and sense of selfinjustice. I have There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been directly affected by this cruel disease, as have manyto the London School of Economics. Your memories Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and personality worn away like he has a statue over time affected the elementsfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. It seems as if nature wants He also realised that final victory over you and your dignitymost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. This is It was his ability at what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirablewas, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Daniel Gibbs is Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''trader.|isbn=1108838936

|isbn=16358623531035021803|title=The Sandalmaking WorkshopAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Rachel CorryC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldnIt't really believe it, mainly because I'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the average home was likely to be able to contain but I was intriguedEnglish country village where she grew up. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - She's back now because of a small fire destroyed some of request for help from her shoesbeloved aunt, Carole. One pair had come apart Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and she could see how the sandal was constructedcircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Then Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she realised that she couldn't afford to replace all feels, let her shoesdown badly. Could Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she combine these two facts has not felt able to create a new and worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few people her first pair and they all either wanted to know how to do it - be near the man or if pursue the profession she'd make them a pairloved. A new career After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was bornmurdered) 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 knew I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but could trust and who could deliver information in a way I was initially reluctantcould understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. I eat cheeseHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, eggsthere is Sam, chicken a wartime photographer and fish Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and I needed keeps on venturing out of her room to try to either do so without guilt or change my choicescapture what's happened through her photography. I suspected that making Although they only ever talk over the decision would not phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be comfortablerescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Ananda Devi1529153298|title=Eve Out The List of Her RuinsSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=At It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not even 200 pageswhat's worrying Miv's family, Eve Out of Her Ruins is one of the shortest books Ithough. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've read in a long whilebeen murdered, but itto have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's one of upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the most dramaticfamily 'Down South'. It When you's also told in re from Yorkshire, Down South is a way that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing and pulls very few punchesfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the descriptions stark move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and unromanticshe'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=0993009344}}

|isbn=02419851371398524085|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Cara HunterNicci French

|summary=DI Adam FawleyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the PrincipalPaul and Ollie and her daughter, Professor Hilary ReynoldsEtty. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor on a studentare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the alleged perpetrator doing body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? river. The problem It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Caleb Morgan ''was'Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn' t stand the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisherguilt. Just to complicate matters further, CalebThe Salter children are not convinced but there's mother is Petra Newson, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month little else they can do but get on clothes with their lives and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be ''very'' publicwonder about what really happened.

|isbn=07535583781035906708|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What MattersDiva|author=Greg McKeownDaisy Goodwin

|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=''The marginal return We tend to think of working harder Maria Callas as Greek, but she wasborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in fact, negativeDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' That's what happened to Patrick McGinnismake it more manageable in the States. It's no exaggeration to say When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that he devoted his life to the company he worked she could get appropriate training for, struggling through, even when he her voice - she was ill, only to find that he was working for raised under the Nazi occupation by a bankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health mother who mercilessly exploited her and his job had little value. He made a bargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changes. He did survive and came through stronger - and richer. There is, you see, a different way: ''great things are not reserved no secret of her preference for those who bleedher elder sister, for those who almost breakJackie.''

|isbn=1471181405|title=Nighthawking|author=Russ Thomas|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Sheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in what's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the body of a young woman was discovered. It had obviously been buried in one of the beds but who would have started to dig her up? 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 two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler 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 injuries.}}{{Frontpage|author= Jennifer Saint |title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth 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 to a modern audience. 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 HorneChristopher Edge|title=Monster DoughnutsBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5

|summary=After Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their parents mysteriously disappearedlocal cinema, Grace and Danni have been left to run a place that has the family bakerynickname of 'The Black Hole'. But Grace needs the doughnuts All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reason...even though she's only ten years oldmany, she is a monster huntermany snacks! Monsters have a very sweet toothHowever, and Grace uses a number of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on themthe movie starts, or tricking them into eating a sweet treat they very quickly realise that willsomething about this new film format is very different, ultimately, be their demiseand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. One dayBut as they lurch from one film genre to the next, though, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, who has a weakness for doughnuts but doesn't seem can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to explode as the other monsters docinema, and so things start to get very strange…their real lives?|isbn=18481294321839942738

|isbnauthor=0995647895Rachel Greenlaw|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy Compass and Anita JoiceBlade

|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, 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 Sarkanswering beat in my heart.''

''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the houses cowered in rocks and plundering the gloomwrecks. Mira,''<br>''To like her mother before her, is one of the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love seven who swim out to sail survey the oceans on an ancient sailing ship ruins – rescuing any survivors and went back regularlyany treasure that lies within. One day she fell asleep under But when the Council Watch lays a glass case (it's trap to end the wrecking, they capture the one where Nelsonisland's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell leader and the attendantMira's warning shoutfather. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she was sets off in the midst search of an adventure a family secret that she could never have imagined lies buried deep in a world the sea. 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 heart of dolphinsthe smuggler's territory, pirates, mermaids Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and treasurethe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Kristen O'NealJames Sherwood Metts|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Having recently Things have been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain a bit sticky for the rest of her lifeEarthlings. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they', an online support group where she talks re paid to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles do and help each other out, while also providing an escape tasks that took time to just joke and mess aroundaccomplish. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond Just as they were beginning to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides get used to steal her parents' car all this technological change and drive starting to Brigid's house think of other, new ways to check up on herspend time, along came an awful pandemic. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – Life was pretty much shut down and for that werewolf to be , along with it, all the girl she has been talking to online for the past few monthsmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=16836923491736128426

|author=Mercedes HelnweinMatthew Tree|title=Slingshot|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in peopleWe's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B005FM76AA|title=The Duke's Children|author=Anthony Trollopell Never Know

|summary=The story opens Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to probably the worst news be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all: Lady Glencora Palliser is dead. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke failed miserably and who had endless crises of Omnium, is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling - at the same time - to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even in officeself confidence. He seeks So Tim applied himself to protect and guide his three adult childrenstudies, which is easier said cultivated his abilities rather than done when none of them wishes to ''be'' guided. Silverbridge (his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, daydreams and set himself high but always known by his title) and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run up gambling debts, occasionally in eye-watering sums. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - and wishes to marry - Frank Tregear, the penniless son of a poor squire, which the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about to learn that parents do not always get their wayachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Goldy MoldavskyA G Slatter|title=The Last GirlBriar Book of the Dead

|genre=TeensFantasy|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl '' 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 Manchester Preplast. A school filled I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the brim with world, lies Silverton; a town under the richest children in protection of the city – and Rachel doesn't belong. SheBriar's not rich, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has no ties always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to some royal be born into her family in Serbia, for generations and most of allas such since she was young, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies training as a source of comfortsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. She struggles to find anyone to connect withWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Clubtown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie styleAs challenges come her way left, right and unless someone screamscentre, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in Ellie uncovers the competition. But as rare ability to communicate with the pranks escalatedead, and Rachel finally feels like she has found putting her place in this schoolat the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, things start Ellie must decide who to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up trust and determine what to do as the pranksBriar witches' legacy, and people begin everything they have sacrificed to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turnsurvive, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too lateunder threat.|isbn=07555015271803364548

|authorisbn=Polly Barton1529900360|title=Fifty SoundsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis' Japan has s 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 my radar 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 and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year Finally, but I am not hopeful. And like Bartonit was Robin, I donDelaware't know s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the answer to involvement was something that the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in respect the swimming pool of the question a remote property in Bel Air. He was the first essay, which heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is on married to an extremely rich man and it's not the sound ''giro' '' – Italian. But which she describes as being, among other things, of them was the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|isbn=1913097501primary target?

|authorisbn=Lucy Holland1529395224|title=SistersongLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Sistersong is part of Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a genre I GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly enjoy, when he considered the modern retelling of folk and fairy talesstrain that being on-call put on his father's life. These stories, for most When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of us, are doing work experience with a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and family friend who was a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life vet and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating was convinced this was the role of womenjob for him. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well Before long, the plot is handled he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with careso many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters he'd wanted to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in be a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live inprofessional footballer. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|isbn=1529039037

|isbn=15291242550861541774|title=The WhispersA Nye of Pheasants|author=Heidi PerksSteve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We know straight away that thereDCI Domenic Jejeune's going close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to be a bodymeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. It's on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near the town of Clearwater Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and it's new year's dayhe killed a Ghurka. To understand what happened we're going Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to go back to murder the previous September. Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - she's lived there since her teens and now, in her mid-thirties, she's returned to her home town to liveman. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well Now he could be in facing the lovely apartment she's founddeath penalty. Grace's best friend, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and she has an eight-year-old child too. Ethanwouldn's in the class Matilda will be joiningt help Danny at all. It's perfect!

|author=Sarah SultoonAlexander McCall Smith|title=The SourcePerfect Passion Company|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in a disenfranchised town dominated Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a military basemore personal, struggling tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to care take a trip to Canada to get away for her baby sister a while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and treatsso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, and offers bringing us to an exclusive invitation Edinburgh we already love, thanks to army parties44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, things start but with some new characters who quickly begin to look charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a little less bleak...hand…|isbn=19131935941846976596

|isbn=B004O37B6A0811771741|title=The Prime MinisterInstaKnits for Baby|author=Anthony TrollopeMelissa Leapman

|genre=Literary FictionCrafts|summary=Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, is the prime minister of a coalition government but heMelissa Leapman's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of Ferdinand Lopezknits from toys to blankets. Lopex is exotic Some will be quick knits - some describe him as Jewishothers are of the 'long, others as Portuguese but cosy afternoons in front of the truth is that no one knows and Lopez is not going to explainfire' variety. The ladies of society, even Palliserprojects are divided by the time they's own wifell take to complete - less than five hours, Lady Glencorafive to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in the position of having to support his wifeattractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 's actions when Lopez loses a bysocial-media-election. The Dukeworthy projects' but that's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt himme being picky.

|author=Jessie GreengrassDean Koontz|title=The High HouseBad Weather Friend

|genre=Literary FictionParanormal|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirsBenny is having a terrifically bad day. However He loses his job, that train of thought is slowly seems to have fallen out of favourhe loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Today's young generation are discovering that their parents Oh, and their parents' parents did not seem someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to think that far ahead. Or they did think that far ahead his home, and thought "it's not my problem" possible that whoever or "there's nothing I can do". Raising a child and living in a world on whatever was inside is the precipice of catastrophe thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrassthe very last person to deserve all this bad luck. This He is not a science-fiction novelnice person. A really nice person. This So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is our realityclearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. This Spike is the life our children going to take care of Benny, and their children will have to livecertainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=18007500721662500491

|author=Ruth HoganAdam Stower|title=Madame BurovaMurray and Bun

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connectedtwo. So we have But he's a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singerBun, and chieflythe catflap they both use can chuck them out, Imeldanot into the regular back garden, the third generation but into a world of Madame Burovafrightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, ''Tarot-Readerwhere a troll hunter is expected – well, Palmist and Clairvoyant''one much bigger than Murray was, to use her familybe honest, but he's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer turned up and the suffererhe's mother will all become staff at ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a revamped holiday camp''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for is the first time in question should you make it? Or is the family stall. We also see her on her last dayquestion if you did, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters would it land? The catch is that will change everything the answer for a woman called Billieboth could well be.... no. Just who  ''Fragility'' is sheset as the city of Portland, and who delivered the secrets about her to ImeldaOregon, and why did it have cautiously begins to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331Xemerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn= Jonathan Stroud1529431735|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 4|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Scarlett McCain It's February 1991 and Essex is an outlawbitingly cold, rejecting which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, Costa del Sol as a dark boy with dark powers and wanted drug smuggler for a darker pastdecade. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, they plan saying that she's ill and hasn't long to flee live. It's hard to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Togetherfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted stripped to his underwear and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society sent to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are a watery grave in the rest boot of Britaina stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?|isbn=1406394815

|isbnauthor=B08R7LXQ9SAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Remy Eli is feeling miserablea busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together Eli lives with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandonlovely gran, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short and years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. This has small eyes. They are mean made the race anathema to the pair – but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when a bad incident at the other kids are around. Soeatery leads to a confession from gran, when Remy reactsEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, it looks as though he was with the sole aim the instigator. And then he gets into trouble prize of magic at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries end – the only thing to explain what happenedpossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231