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|isbnauthor=1800464495Sylvie Cathrall|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days A Letter to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smiththe Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=''Babies seem There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months olda compelling premise.'' Did you know And this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor one of later achievement, double that of literacy skillsthem.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=15293793850008517061|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Louise PennyStig Abell|rating=4.5

|summary=In Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the Canadian village future of Three Pineshis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, we're postas moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-pandemic: the scars are still there but grid and relaxing life is starting to get back to normal. The villagers are beginning to return move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the Bistro future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the Auberge. They're visiting each other's homes and having friends and relatives to stay. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for moment they’re enjoying life in the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor present and she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in putting the village as future on the Asshole Saintback burner.

|isbn= B09F4CTKJR1786482126|title= Flights for FreedomThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author= Steven BurgauerElly Griffiths

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=ItBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's apartments - when they discovered the later stages bones of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflicta child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Petrol Petronus It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a young American who has signed up and joined result of the 17 Aero Squadronone night they spent together some three months ago. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to Her condition will be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to the RAF and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. But obvious before that can happenlong, Petrol has not least because Ruth is prone to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camelsudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=183885410X0008551324|title=The Dark RemainsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinNeil Lancaster|rating=34.5

|summary=Bobby Carter was a lawyer and consigliere It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to one of approach the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowpolice. DC Jack Laidlaw Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is on struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the CID team charged with police where the investigationbody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. I say ''on This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be a part transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of ithis sentence and to get an early parole date. He does his own thingNot much to ask, goes his own way and ''is it? The Dark Remainsnew Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she' uncovers s even prepared to do the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgowother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's seedier pubshappening.

|isbn=19424102550008405026|title=Tokyo Zangyo A Stranger in the Family (Detective HiroshiMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Michael PronkoJane Casey|rating=4.5

|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's the culture, isn't it? sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. The hours for which you're paid are really just a statement of She was never found and the minimum you'll be required investigation ground to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizukaa halt. When he was found Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or grief, even from his familytheir bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from s something about the roof positioning of the building or been assisted in his descentbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that What looked as though it was going to be an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlieropen-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. SheKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtimes boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=02414254250571379877|title=The Man Who Died TwiceKellerby Code|author=Richard OsmanJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letter. It came from Edward Jevons is a working-class young man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames , obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and who had never existed but then this is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basisStanza. When she visits the sender of the letter (he's moved into the CooperRobert's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she has a long professional history - and who used to be her husbandtheatre director. He's made a bad mistake also self- something obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to do run errands for him. Edward has been in love with a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twentyStanza since their university days -million pounds in diamonds and a few death threatshe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. HeMost men in Robert's now in hiding with position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a young woman called Polly, whorelationship had begun between them but he's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressnot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Andrew SharpJo Callaghan|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingLeave No Trace

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - When a man is, in his mind, found crucified on the head chef top of a safari business catering hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to VIP guests in an unnamed African countrythe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Mozzy But when there is earnest a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and dedicated to his task and he puts all a very high profile case that draws a lot of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is unwanted attention to become the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American citytheir AI Future Policing project. Even Will they be able to win a Michelin star. He is thwarted solve the case in this ambition by his bosstime, Mr Bin (Ben to you or will Kat find herself taken off the case and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests and - shockpotentially, horror - his allowing out of bush animals into the house.a career?|isbn=B09926MK8H139851120X

|authorisbn=Alex Foulkes1399613073|title=Rules for VampiresMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) is a Vampire. She drinks bloodOlivia, she sleeps during Laura and Anjali met on the first day, of medical school and she can Grimwalk (turning into their friendship would keep them inseparable for a flock quarter of bats to travel arounda century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, although not all of them remember which is a bonus when you aim to come back)be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Pretty cool stuff Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Now, on Anjali is the night free spirit of her hundredth birthnight, the group and she has to go out and hunt her becomes a GP. When we first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident meet them they're at a drug and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worse, the ghosts of one of the orphans alcohol-fuelled party and the evil master of the orphanage come back it's going to haunt herend in tragedy. So, not only does Leo have to team up with We don't know who suffered the friendly ghost Minna to stop tragedy or the ghost of consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulthree friends. This time, she has to do it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there their teenage children who are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955Xinvolved.

|authorisbn=Tori Bovalino0241636604|title=The Devil Makes ThreeTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=TeensAutobiography|summary= Working all summer If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in her boarding schoolyour mind, you's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants re unlikely to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herselfthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. What makes it worse A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmasterEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and a man Tess hatesinjustice. As a petty act There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of revenge for making her find Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and deliver such he has a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each facility with numbers which most of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she us can think ofonly envy. They're never meant He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to reach himbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like thisessentially, and then take them all off before delivering thema card game which got him an internship with Citibank. No harm done… Or it would be Eventually, if someone hadn't delivered them for herthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=1789098130

|isbn= B09BG8V3Q61035021803|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!s back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole' s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the latest release in circumstances seem suspicious, to say the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Averyleast. This series of fun picture books aims Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some funvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. It's a worthy aim Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, as any frustrated parent will tell youshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=B098FFFBH9AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=SnowcubAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Graham FulbrightBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is her schoolwhat happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry advantageous to highlight me but I'm left with the way in which human beings exploit the animal worldfeeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip HarrisonOf course, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate I could research the possibilities and her twin, Nick. Kate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where weprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'll meet Rachelm reading someone who knows what they's main (if unsuspected) source of re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information: five soft toysin a way I could understand.

|author= Angharad WalkerSunny Singh|title= The Ash HouseHotel Arcadia|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident ReadersThrillers |summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash HouseHotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. He doesn't know his name Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, or why he is there but he is used to the systemSam, used to different places a wartime photographer and different facesAbhi, the hotel manager. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out As Abhi continues to try to teach him care remotely for the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by residents who are still alive in the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their choreshotel, working as he forms a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by the arrival events, and keeps on venturing out of the Doctorher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. By the end of Although they only ever talk over the storyphone, lives will be changed forever their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and The Ash House they both wait to see if they will never be rescued before they are discovered by the same againterrorists.|isbn=1912626977086154742X

|authorisbn=Yancey Williams1529153298|title=Crosshairs of the Devil|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade The List of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{FrontpageSuspicious Things|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the DeepJennie Godfrey

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=In a wordIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, richhonestly. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea..) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, British but way west, beyond the Scilliesthough. Women have been disappearing. There are troll people on it Well, and sea-witchesthey've been murdered, and legends of but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching 'Down South'. When you're from even further westYorkshire, where no ship dare sailDown South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. The current Darks are the Watcher For Miv, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Landsmove would mean leaving her best friend, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitionsSharon, and Andreweshe'll do anything to prevent that. She's foundling daughter, who washed up out of not worried about the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it dangers or notthat her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1788452372

|authorisbn=Erling Kagge1398524085|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre= LifestyleCrime|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turnedup. Her children, sons Niall, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not minePaul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. In my defenceare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, I will say that as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why). Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole Shortly afterwards, the North Pole Etty and Greg, find the summit body of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. HoweverGreg's father, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeysDuncan Ackerley, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to walkin the river. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and I haventhen committed suicide when he couldn't countedstand the guilt. In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages long The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|isbn=0241357705

|authorisbn=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault1035906708|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quickWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, for he's a slight boyNew York, in December 1923 and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses only moved to let him out of his sightAthens when she was thirteen. That Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's because JackCallas's mother knew all about monsters, and look what happened 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 died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke was raised under the ogre's death, Nazi occupation by a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, mother who mercilessly exploited her and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting made no secret of her preference for Beginners''..her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=0755501942

|author=Keith GrayChristopher Edge|title=The ClimbersBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Sully is the best tree climber Lucas and his friends are all booked in the village. He for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has what's known amongst the kids as nickname of 'reachThe Black Hole'. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, called Nottinghammany snacks! However, who clambers up some of as the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried movie starts, they very quickly realise that his status something about this new film format is being threatenedvery different, and not only that, that his chance they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to name the finalnext, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. How can Sully stop Nottinghamthey figure out what on earth is going on? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to do sotheir real lives?|isbn=17811299911839942738

|author=Emma CarrollRachel Greenlaw|title=The Week at World's EndCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=First''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the titleanswering beat in my heart. We're in World's End Close Rosevear, a mediocre set of housesremote and partially forgotten island, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with survives on luring ships into the family dog rocks and with the boy over plundering the roadwrecks. But we could also be at World's EndMira, like her mother before her, because something taking a great chunk is one of the fun away is seven who swim out to survey the fact ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries Council Watch lays a trap to reduce end the risk of nuclear missiles offshorewrecking, they capture the island's leader and not much else Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is able secretive and with only coordinates to make the news. That saidguide her, Vie has news she sets off in search of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding family secret that lies buried deep in their coal shedthe sea. Anna hasWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, in no short time, taken a strong interest in as her journey takes her from the American airforce base behind watched streets of foreign islands to the Close, said sheheart of the smuggler'd locate something she wanted and leaves territory, failed Mira must be determined to leave, and implied her life was stop at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what save the future of her home and the Cold War is doing miles away?ones she holds most dear.|isbn=05713644380008664730

|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonJames Sherwood Metts|title=Julia and the SharkPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has Things have been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers a bit sticky for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islandsEarthlings. Here be VikingsAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that kind of Scottish islandtook time to accomplish. Dad is going Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to be automating the lanternthink of other, which is his specialist thingnew ways to spend time, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland sharkalong came an awful pandemic. And JuliaLife was pretty much shut down and, wellalong with it, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one nightall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=15101077891736128426

|author=Freya SampsonMatthew Tree|title=The Last LibraryWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=I am always a little nervous Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to start a story about a librarybe different from his father, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at the thought any of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main character, June, does put her hair in a bun, his artistic passions all failed miserably and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the book out who had endless crises of the window, because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she didself confidence. Her mum used to be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home So Tim applied himself to take care of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at the local library. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway mealhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuck, set himself high but little does she know, everything in her life is about the changeachievable ambitions.|isbn=183877369XB0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=0008370982A G Slatter|title=Rock Paper Scissors|author=Alice FeeneyThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home '' There's a part of me that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotlandwants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. Her husbandThis secret magic of my own, Adamall mine, isnat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'t so keen on ' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the idea. Like Ameliaworld, he knows that their marriage has been lies Silverton; a town under strain: hethe protection of the Briar's , a screenwriter family of witches who protect the town and he's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he's hoping wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to adapt 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 with spells and potions. When her. Ameliagrandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with cousin Audra becomes the dogsBriar Witch, many of whom have been abused, is never easy. Still - shethe town's won the weekend awayleader, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in and Ellie takes her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam place beside her in the passenger seat - . As challenges come her way left, right and then doing centre, Ellie uncovers the same thing rare ability to come back communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a couple maelstrom of days laterchaos.Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Doug Johnstone1529900360|title=The Great SilenceGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=For those whoIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, like me, havenSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't come across need the Skelfs beforehelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, I'll risk a quick synopsis of whoDelaware's partner, who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the backstory in without being heavy handed about itman she loved needed. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature The next case did look simple, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it is merely . Two lovers were murdered in the surname swimming pool of a family of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigatorsremote property in Bel Air. Dorothy is He was the matriarch – Californian by birth heir to an Italian shoe empire and instinct, she is married a scot to an extremely rich man and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in it's not the family for generationsItalian. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join But which of them was the academic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837primary target?

|isbn=19015149781529395224|title=There's Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Problem With DadVet|author=Carlos AlbaSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Life is different for George Lovelace Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and he canRowlands didn't really understand why. Hewant to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's always done everything life. When he ought to: steady worker, husband and father - and was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a father family friend who was always there a vet and was convinced this was the job for school plays and sports dayshim. So why is Before long, he never quite in tune with those around him? was at Liverpool University. Why does he upset people? Why is someone It hadn't - as with such a ''good'' mind unable to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breathstudents -taking gaffes? been his dream since he was a child. ItIf anything, he's almost become a cliche these days d wanted to suggest that someone who is be a little different is 'on the spectrum', but George Lovelace has all the symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: high-functioning autismprofessional footballer.

|authorisbn=Louise Candlish0861541774|title=The HeightsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Ellen doesnDCI Domenic Jejeune't expect s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to see Kieran meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that day. She's on site, visiting he was facing a client for man armed with a lighting consultation when she spies him in knife - and he killed a building across the wayGhurka. There are lots of things Initially, lots he faced a charge of people, you might see when you look out across London, manslaughter but this isn't one Ellen expected evidence came to light that suggested that day or in fact he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murderwouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1471183483

|isbnauthor=0008421714Alexander McCall Smith|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia FeitoThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He The Perfect Passion Company is self-defined a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as "one of an alternative to all the few television personalities over the age of fifty without online apps in providing a criminal record"more personal, tailored service. He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she's carrying his childcould come and look after the business, but then his author wife as Ness is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withplanning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. They have three children, who are Katie is coming out of a sad-sack break up with absolutely no social skills whatsoevera bad boyfriend, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signallingand so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants bringing us to save the world's homeless with out-of-date foodan Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Add Katie has no experience in running a few other characters – therapistsbusiness, or in match-making, lawyersbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, random transgender types – that all have two and there's always her very different connections to his life, helpful (and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even morerather handsome) neighbour, howeverWilliam, is the fact this is bloody funny.to lend a hand…|isbn=08575262191846976596

|isbn=02419890940811771741|title=The Perfect LifeInstaKnits for Baby|author=Nuala EllwoodMelissa Leapman

|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and sheMelissa Leapman's viewing ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a house in Goringcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits -on-Thames and telling others are of the estate agent about her three children'long, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. The boys are a bit cosy afternoons in front of a handful which is why shethe fire's making this trip on her ownvariety. The house would be perfect for them. It's projects are divided by the same month but now wetime they're in Wimbledon ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and we encounter more than twenty hours. All the same young womanprojects are attractive, only this time shemodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 's job hunting and living in her sister, Georgiesocial-media-worthy projects's, spare room, where shebut that's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connorme being picky.

|author=Darren ShanDean Koontz|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3The Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=SoBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Having done the impossible Oh, and unpicked the lock someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the Forgotten Cryptthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, from which Benny is the Departed communicate with very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the Mergedelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, Archie now who has ''grop'' been sent to think abouthelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. But before that Spike is going to take care of Benny, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much to Inezand will certainly take care of Benny's amusementenemies, doesn't even know what one of those is. But if he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with KurtisBenny, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this seriesand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. |isbn=B093J9TF731662500491

|isbnauthor=B07GZ81J7CAdam Stower|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished Murray and Mended|author=Peter CottonBun

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going Murray is supposed to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is a snake able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and even those , well, whatever takes his fancy next of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to himthe two. He arrived as But he's a present in bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a box with holes so that he could breathe hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and immediately became part of the family, to the extent that catflap they would take Fred out with both use can chuck them when they went out for , not into the regular back garden, but into a walkworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. And that This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was where the problem started. Fred didn, to be honest, but he's turned up and he't ll have any road sense. Or brakes.to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaB0C47LV1PC|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)Fragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary= Can potty training ever be joyousyou make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? It often isn'tAnd if you could, as any parent will tell is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you. But reallydid, why shouldn't would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn... no. ''Fragility''t potty training be as much fun is set asthe city of Portland, sayOregon, learning about why the sun and cautiously begins to emerge from the moon take turns in restrictions imposed during the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHHcovid pandemic

|isbn=17876344931529431735|title=All Her FaultThe Winter Visitor|author=Andrea MaraJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events 's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which sometimes happenmade Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Marissa Irvine had He'd been hoping that exiled on the opportunity would arise Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for her son, Milo, to go on a play datedecade. She was concerned The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that he didnshe's ill and hasn't have long to live. It's hard to feel any friends at sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his new schoolunderwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Milo would go Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home from Kerryglen National School ?}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in an affluent Dublin suburb the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his classmate Jacob - gran owns and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a little latergeneration missing in the family. What could be better? A few short 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. Only, This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when Marissa arrived a bad incident at the houseeatery leads to a confession from gran, expecting Eli knows his only hope is to meet Jacob's mother, Jennydare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the door was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nannyonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231