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|author= Adrian TchaikovskySylvie Cathrall|title= Shards of Earth|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls A Letter to the architect's reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architects, does not want to be remembered. But, when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1848458428|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary Kubica|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - again. His wife was in the habit of going out for a run late at night. It was the only time she had for herself when she didn't have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. Ten days later, a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for her.}}{{Frontpage|author=Nicolas Bouvier|title=The Japanese ChroniclesLuminous Deep

|genre=TravelScience Fiction|summary= It never does to start a review of There are few greater joys than a book with a quote from the blurb, but sometimes it's unavoidable. Le Monde reviewed this book, at some point, with the words ''what the old master craftsmen would call which lives up to a masterpiece.'' It is precisely thatcompelling premise. A masterpiece in the sense of the craft as well as the art of writing. I'm going to hesitate to call it 'travel writing' because And this is as much a history one of Japan, a mythology-primer for the Japanese culture as it is a personal response to living and travelling in the countrythem. |isbn=19060110440356522776

|authorisbn=Genevieve Gornichec0008517061|title=The Witch's HeartDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named AngrbodaFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She hides in There’s perhaps a forest at little uncertainty about the edge future of the nine worldshis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, remembering nothing as moving in together would mean a lot of her past compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live move in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before reservations about whether or not this is the future she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall wants for Loki's charms, herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, present and another son that's a snakeputting the future on the back burner.|isbn=1789097061

|isbn=17885497591786482126|title=The Distant DeadJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Lesley ThomsonElly Griffiths

|summary=It Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was December 1940 and twenty-four-yeargoing to hold seventy-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening five 'with her friend Idaluxury' leaving her threeapartments -year-old son, Williamwhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, at home Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with her parentsDCI Harry Nelson. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the family than the shame of illegitimacyIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and WilliamNelson doesn's) on t, that she is pregnant with his child as a better footingresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. She was going to meet her well-to-do fiancéHer condition will be obvious before long, hoping not least because Ruth is prone to persuade him to come and meet her family the following week. Later, her body would be found in the bombed-out home where he had taken hersudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=15294072490008551324|title=The Perfect LieDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jo SpainNeil Lancaster

|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happy's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. She Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: thathe's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married prepared to tell the police where the body of a cop but she missing person is buried and who was hopefulresponsible for her death. They'd been married for six months This person, he promises, is someone big and life was good with a decent apartment by it will be worth the sea in Newport, Long Islandpolice doing what he wants. The knock on And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the door was insistent remainder of his sentence and when to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it was opened, Danny? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officers. Danny took one look, turned, walked even prepared to do the open window other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and jumped to his death anyone who works with him is kept well away from the fourth floor. Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husbandwhat's murderhappening.

|isbn=15230927340008405026|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming SpaceStranger 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=We 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. Her 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 Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The marginal return call of working harder wasthe deep, the answering beat in fact, negativemy heart.''

That's what happened to Patrick McGinnisRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the company he worked forMira, struggling throughlike her mother before her, even when he was ill, only is one of the seven who swim out to find survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that he was working for lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a bankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%trap to end the wrecking, he had lost his health they capture the island's leader and his job had little valueMira's father. He made Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with God; if a wreck survivor who is as charming as he survivedis secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, he would make some changesshe sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. He did survive and came through stronger - and richer. There isWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, you see, a different way: as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler''great things are not reserved for those who bleeds territory, for those who almost breakMira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.''|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1471181405James Sherwood Metts|title=Nighthawking|author=Russ ThomasPlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Sheffield's [http://wwwThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse RoadAI and automation have been proceeding apace, if youoften replacing jobs they'd like re paid to do and other tasks that took time to visit) are an oasis of calm in what's otherwise thought of accomplish. Just as an industrial city but they were beginning to get used to all this was disrupted when the body technological change and starting to think of a young woman was discovered. It had obviously been buried in one of the beds but who would have started other, new ways to dig her up? It had been in the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for yearsspend time, along came an awful pandemic. The police need to establish who stabbed her - Life was pretty much shut down and who left the two, very rarealong with it, gold aurei all the many daily social interactions 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 injurieswhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author= Jennifer Saint Matthew Tree|title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= WomenWe'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 Horne|title=Monster Doughnutsll Never Know

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappeared, Grace and Danni have been left Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to run the family bakery. But Grace needs the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reason...even though she's only ten years oldbe different from his father, she is a monster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet tooth, drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and Grace uses a number who had endless crises of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, or tricking them into eating a sweet treat that will, ultimately, be their demiseself confidence. One day, though, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, who has a weakness for doughnuts but doesn't seem So Tim applied himself to explode as the other monsters dohis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and so things start to get very strange…set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1848129432B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=0995647895A G Slatter|title=Sadie and The Briar Book of the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceDead|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary=Sadie'' There's mother always said a part of me that she was a dreamerwants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, her mind never on what she should be doingat last. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves I just want to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sarkenjoy it for a while.''

Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie'Her class had gone one rainy afternoons cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town''<br>''When all s leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the houses cowered in dead, putting her at the gloomheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another,''<br>''To Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Maritime Museum'Briar witches'legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat. |isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=CrimeHer imagination |summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was firedreluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. SheHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'd love to sail t need the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularlyhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed involvement was something that the closing bell and man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the attendant's warning shoutswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she He was in the midst of heir to an adventure that Italian shoe empire and she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids is married to an extremely rich man and treasureit's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Kristen O'Neal1529395224|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=TeensAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme diseaseSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, Priya has to come to terms with particularly when he considered the fact strain that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her being on-call put on his father's life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of other teens living doing work experience with chronic illnessesa family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. They talk about their troubles and help each other out Before long, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess aroundhe was at Liverpool University. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn It hadn't respond to the chat for - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a whilechild. If anything, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parentshe' car and drive d wanted to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is be a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few monthsprofessional footballer.|isbn=1683692349

|authorisbn=Mercedes Helnwein0861541774|title=SlingshotA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=34|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Gracie Welles DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has resigned herself taken a short holiday in Singapore to being lonelymeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. As Maik was involved in a secret illegitimate daughter of street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a "real" familyknife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, she is used he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to not being a priority in people's liveslight that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good Now he could be facing the death penalty. No longer Domenic Jejeune can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfielddiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=152905818X

|isbnauthor=B005FM76AAAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Duke's Children|author=Anthony TrollopePerfect Passion Company

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=The story opens Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to probably all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser business, as Ness is deadplanning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke Katie is coming out of Omniuma break up with a bad boyfriend, is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling - so jumps at the same time - chance to adjust come home to no longer being prime minister, or even in officeEdinburgh. He seeks And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to protect an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and guide his three adult childrenthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, which is easier said than done when none of them wishes but with some new characters who quickly begin to ''be'' guidedcharm. Silverbridge (his elder sonKatie has no experience in running a business, actually called Plantagenetor in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always known by his titleher very helpful (and rather handsome) and Gerald are destined neighbour, William, to be sent down lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and toys to run up gambling debtsblankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, occasionally cosy afternoons in eye-watering sumsfront of the fire' variety. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - and wishes The projects are divided by the time they'll take to marry complete - Frank Tregearless than five hours, the penniless son of a poor squirefive to ten hours, which ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the Duke cannot countenanceprojects are attractive, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencoramodern and useable. HeI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's about to learn that parents do not always get their wayme being picky.

|author=Goldy MoldavskyDean Koontz|title=The Last GirlBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=TeensParanormal|summary= Rachel Chavez Benny is the new girl at Manchester Prephaving a terrifically bad day. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and Rachel doesn't belonghis house gets trashed. She's not rich Oh, she and someone has no ties delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to some royal family in Serbiahis home, and most of allit's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, she spends Benny is the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a source of comfortnice person. She struggles to find anyone to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club A really nice person. A secret society with one aim: pull off So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the best prank in true horror movie styledelivery to his house is a new friend, and unless someone screamsa bad weather friend called Spike, you have failedwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the pranks escalate Spike is going to take care of Benny, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this schoolwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranksBenny, and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes Harper (a deadly turn, Rachel must waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who this masked figure is before it's too lateexactly they are.|isbn=07555015271662500491

|author=Polly BartonAdam Stower|title=Fifty SoundsMurray and Bun

|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers |summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself startsMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, with whatever takes his fancy next of the question two. But he's a bad magician'Why Japan?'' Japan s cat, so his favourite bun has been on my radar for turned into a while hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and if the world hadn't gone catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this yearthe regular back garden, but I am not hopefulinto a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. And like Barton This time round it drops them into a Viking land, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first essay, which where a troll hunter is on the sound ''giro' '' expected – which she describes as beingwell, one much bigger than Murray was, among other thingsto be honest, the sound of but he's turned up and he'every party where you ll have to introduce yourself''.do…|isbn=19130975010008561249

|authorisbn=Lucy HollandB0C47LV1PC|title=SistersongFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54

|summary=Sistersong is part of Can you make a genre I particularly enjoy''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These storiesquestion should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspectiveboth could well be.... If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of womenno. Sistersong  ''Fragility'' is a perfect example set as the city of a modern retelling done wellPortland, the plot is handled with careOregon, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing cautiously begins to emerge from the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for restrictions imposed during the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|isbn=1529039037covid pandemic

|isbn=15291242551529431735|title=The WhispersWinter Visitor|author=Heidi PerksJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We know straight away that there's going to be a body. It's on the beach under CrayneFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins's Cliff near return all the town of Clearwater and it's new year's daymore surprising. To understand what happened weHe're going to have to go back to d been exiled on the previous SeptemberCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Grace Goodwin The return has come about because he's had a soft Australian accent letter from his ex- wife, saying that she's lived there since her teens ill and now, in her mid-thirties, shehasn's returned to her home town t long to live. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in the lovely apartment sheIt's found. Grace's best friendhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater stripped to his underwear and she has an eight-year-old child too. Ethan's sent to a watery grave in the class Matilda will be joiningboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. It's perfect!Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Sarah SultoonAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The SourceGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=2.54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in a disenfranchised town dominated the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a military basehelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, struggling to care too – for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingethere is a generation missing in the family. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats A few short years ago, and offers an exclusive invitation Eli's parents were both lost to army partiesthe titular race, things start a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to look navigate the world in the company of a little less bleak.magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=19131935940571382231