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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=15294096591786482126|title=The Locked Room Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)

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|summary=It Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen going to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her motherhold seventy-five 'luxury's belongings. She was intrigued by apartments - when they discovered the discovery bones of a picture of her own house: it was an old photograph, taken in misty conditions and on the back it said 'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was bornchild beneath a doorway. It There was before her parents were marriedno skull. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and the country was in lockdown. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth and Kate are restricted to the cottage Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth attempting to home school Kate and continue knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with her university teaching dutieshis child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. The good thing was meeting ZoeHer condition will be obvious before long, the new tenant from next door whom they got not least because Ruth is prone to know whilst clapping for carerssudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=18479418340008551324|title=Atomic HabitsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=James ClearNeil Lancaster

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=IIt've said this before but there are some books that you seek outs 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, some books that you stumble across 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 some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, like, right now! is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'Atomic Habitss even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what'' is in the last categorys happening.

|isbn=B09MSC981W0008405026|title=The Woke IliadA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=George BoreasJane Casey|rating=45|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Helen is It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a popular activisthalt. Or should we call Now, her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anywaymother, Helena, Helen is so popular that the United States government has made and her its Ambassador of Wokefather are dead in their bed. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the government, including the Shaming Conference bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and the Permissible Entertainment Committee her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open- ''for indoctrinating and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how to have it-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. Ouch!

|isbn=B09D95TRKZ0571379877|title=The Wedding MurdersKellerby Code|author=Sarah LinleyJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get Edward Jevons is a permanent job working-class young man, obsessed with the newspaper his upper-class friends, Robert and the case she was covering was her big chanceStanza. It was even more important to her than the celebrity wedding she was to attend the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, MatthewRobert's a theatre director. She was leaving her sevenHe's also self-year-old sonobsessed, Patrick with her sister, Emmademanding, handsome and entitled and heading off uses Edward to a grand manor house hotel in the North Yorkshire countrysiderun errands for him. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and former member of the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that the wedding wasnhe't s drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phoness not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1838226834Jo Callaghan|title=Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed BoxallLeave No Trace

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing 's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with our grandparentsseveral cold cases. They're But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much funtheir AI Future Policing project. A young boy was going Will they be able to solve the carnival with his Grandadcase in time, who told him: ''It'll be brilliantor will Kat find herself taken off the case and, just rememberpotentially, don't let go out of my hand.''a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=15291353621399613073|title=The Long WeekendMoral Injuries|author=Gilly MacmillanChristie Watson

|summary=It was a long drive to the weekend retreat in NorthumbriaOlivia, right up near Laura and Anjali met on the Scottish borders first day of medical school and to make it worse the three husbands had all - their friendship would keep them inseparable for one reason or another - had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morninga quarter of a century. Jane and Ruth had known each other for Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a long time but Emily was bonus when you aim to be a bit of an outsidercardiothoracic surgeon. She Laura is a perfectionist and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than the other two womena trauma doctor. The friendship Anjali is the free spirit of the group went back to school daysand she becomes a GP. Paul had coached rugby When we first meet them they're at the school where Mark, Toby a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and Rob were pupilsit's going to end in tragedy. Mark had married Jane, and Toby is RuthWe don's husbandt know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. And Rob? Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. WellThis time, Robit's deadtheir teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=gareth_steel0241636604|title=Never Work With AnimalsThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gareth SteelGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeAutobiography|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with If you were to bring up an image of a warning but with city banker in your mind, you''Never Work With Animals'' it seems re unlikely to be appropriatethink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Stories of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' his background is definitely not the companion volume you've East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been looking for. As a TV show to the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmesLondon School of Economics. Gareth Steel says that the book Stevenson is not suitable for younger readers and bright - after reading extremely bright - I agree and he has a facility with himnumbers which most of us can only envy. He says also realised that he's written it most rich people expect poor people to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vetsbe stupid. It deals was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivityCitibank. Eventually, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eatingthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=17876348841035021803|title=The HerdAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Emily EdwardsC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Our story opens in December 2019, before most It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of us had even heard of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come to be a major issuerequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. WeFreya're in Farley County Courts former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, where Elizabeth is dead and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash Kohlithe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. As Even though they were best friends until just in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a few months ago we know that whatever has happened is major cafe, met and that, regardless married James (on the rebound from the love of the outcomeher life, this is not going to work out well for anyonewho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Annabel AbbsAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Language of FoodAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Historical Science Fiction|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the slightest inclination shape of things to boil an eggcome. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a local woman few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with a troubled home lifewhat's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Together Of course, they test, craft, refine I could research the possibilities and reshape the world of domestic cookery, reinventing probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the recipe book latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and changing the face of cookery writing foreverwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1398502227

|author=Louie StowellSunny Singh|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki Hotel Arcadia is spending a month both luxury hotel in exile and in the physical form of an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a middle-school kid here on Earthterrorist group. He's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, and Thor has come along as wellkilling everyone on site, to be the more suavethere is Sam, more popular a wartime photographer and more successful brother of Abhi, the twohotel manager. Loki has a month As Abhi continues to try to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the right way againhotel, or elsehe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to prove it he has try to write capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the text we read in a sentient notebookphone, that is able their friendship grows as Abhi tries to cry foul of his lies, help her keep safe and judge his progress. But Loki is the kind of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going they both wait to see if they will be a walk in rescued before they are discovered by the park..terrorists.right?|isbn=1406399752086154742X

|isbn=00084544421529153298|title=A Flicker in the DarkThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Stacy WillinghamJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=It's May 2019 1979 and Dr Chloe Davis, a medical psychologist, Margaret Thatcher is completing a session with a new patientPrime Minister. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes of getting her through the trauma(A woman? I mean, honestly... ) You see, Chloe knows She's not what it's like to worrying Miv's family, though. Women have a traumatic childhoodbeen disappearing. Her father is Richard DavisWell, the man who they've been murdered six girls some twenty years ago, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and Miv's upset because she and 's overheard that her mother handed it father wants to move the policefamily 'Down South'. Dick Davis When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is in a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the Louisiana State Penitentiary move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and Chloie has had nothing she'll do anything to do with him for the last twenty yearsprevent that. Her mother is in a care homeShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Christopher Edge1398524085|title=Escape RoomHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=35|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=ICharlotte Salter was expected at her husband've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific locations fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and have to solve problems in order to get their way outOllie and her daughter, Etty. What I've are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, with find the regular second person narrative replaced by body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the firstriver. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new It was an easy assumption for the police to each other make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and booked into then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the game without any of their friends, guilt. The Salter children are a team – starting out at the gamenot convinced but there's main offices, where they're told little else they can do but get on with their lives and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerwonder about what really happened. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964

|isbn=17328987311035906708|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for AdultsDiva|author=Michael Albanese Daisy Goodwin

|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=There 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 a Boy who loved boxesthirteen. He had a box for everything and he Her original surname was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldnKalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and the like: all to make it more manageable in the things which most children have in abundanceStates. The Boy's delight When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happy. As he grew up and became Nazi occupation by a Man, his life became more complicated mother who mercilessly exploited her and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that one made no secret of them has a padlock..her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=B09MN1526WChristopher Edge|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)|author=Liz MistryBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It's the third murder Lucas and his friends are all booked in the space of for a few weeks and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagers. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on the scene movie marathon at Chellow Dene Reservoir on their local cinema, a place that has the outskirts nickname of Bradford'The Black Hole'. OnlyAll big movie fans, this time, itthey's going to be different. The body appears re looking forward to Nikki to be that lots of her beloved nephewexciting films, Haqiband many, and she has a very public meltdown. many snacks! It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but However, as the body movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is clad in designer clothes very different, and comes from they are swept up into an obviously monied backgroundadventure they couldn't even imagine. What it does mean though is that Nikki 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 be on sick leave for some time with anxiety the cinema, and depression.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Ally WilkesRachel Greenlaw|title=All the White SpacesCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=HorrorTeens|summary=In post-WWI England''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randallanswering beat in my heart. For Jonathan'' Rosevear, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh startremote and partially forgotten island, and survives on luring ships into the opportunity to live life as his authentic self rocks and true gender, without plundering the disapproval and constraints of his parentswrecks. HoweverMira, like her mother before her, Jonathan isn't is one of the only one fleeing seven who swim out to survey the confines of his past ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the shadow of the war hangs like Council Watch lays a funeral shroud over trap to end the expedition. Guiltwrecking, mistrust and grief stalk they capture the party island's leader andMira's father. Desperate to save him from death, when disaster strikes Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and they are forced with only coordinates to overwinter on landguide her, she sets off in search of a menacing presence waits family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to make it out the heart of the Arctic winter alivesmuggler's territory, he will have Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to face his demons once save the future of her home and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tombones she holds most dear.|isbn=17890978350008664730

|author=Dean KoontzJames Sherwood Metts|title=QuicksilverPlanet Storyland|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Meet Quinn QuicksilverThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. HeAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's not had the chance re paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, all this technological change and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes think of mood or mind''other, for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go new ways to a derelict dinerspend time, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lamalong came an awful pandemic. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up Life was pretty much shut down and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in controlalong with it, all the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besidesmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=15420198851736128426

|isbnauthor=0008441618Matthew Tree|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to JoWe's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Ann Juckes|title=The Hunt for the Nightingalell Never Know

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Jasper is a little boy who has some struggles, and whilst we're never told why exactly, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotions. His big sisterTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, Rosie, has been a huge support to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, drunk and writing a book with him, chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm down. His parents seem completely caught up in their business, failed miserably and so it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in what they're sayingwho had endless crises of self confidence. Nothing seems So Tim applied himself to be righthis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its song, as they do together every Springset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1398510890B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)A G Slatter|title=Red is My HeartThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction Fantasy|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my houseown, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. And so was this one'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one waslies 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 isthe first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, black her training as a steward revolved around letters and white administration rather than spells and redpotions. YesWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, and I think itthe town's possible leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to say not communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one page lacks family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the influence of some striking visual ideasBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=19135471831803364548

|isbn=15291355671529900360|title=One Step Too FarThe Ghost Orchid|author=Lisa GardnerJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's five years since the stag weekend. Five of them fault that Alex Delaware had set out: Tim (the groom) been badly injured but he felt responsible and his four groomsmen, Scoteven after Alex recovered, Miguel (who Sturgis was usually called Miggy), Neil and Joshreluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. The first night they had plenty of alcohol His assertions that there were only open- too much really and- and in shut cases which didn't need the night Scot managed to wander offhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. The remaining four searched for him in vain and Finally, it was decided that TimRobin, Delaware's partner, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go nudged Milo into asking for helpagain. When help didn't come She knew that the involvement was something that the remaining three finally made their way back to townman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of Tima remote property in Bel Air. Every year, TimHe was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's father, Martin, and not the four friends have been back to continue Italian. But which of them was the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tim.primary target?

|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1529395224|title=Bitter FlowersLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands

|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a stint in rehab GP and is now returning Rowlands didn't want to work. Howeverfollow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the quiet job he's supposedly taken strain that being on-call put on caretaking someonehis father's house quickly turns into life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a murder investigation, vet and a mystery around a missing womanwas convinced this was the job for him. Varg finds himself not only investigating these Before long, but also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was never founda child. Somehow If anything, these disparate cases appear he'd wanted to be linked, but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308Xa professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Kia Ahankoob0861541774|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament A Nye of SentinelsPheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, each has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with its own strength and weakenessan old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in the hope they a street brawl - he would complement each other later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and collaborate, creating he killed a dynamic and prosperous societyGhurka. Each power is contained within Initially, he faced a magical ring belonging charge of manslaughter but evidence came to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. But it didn't quite work out like light that suggested that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and he might have planned to murder the eight countries went to warman. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding Now he could be facing the cost of war too high, a solution is proposeddeath penalty. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as sentinels, to any interference from another police force could provoke a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV

|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsAlexander McCall Smith|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Tomas. Happy to work with his father The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in the blacksmith's forgeEdinburgh, he's almost of run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the age to become online apps in providing a full apprenticemore personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and help with look after the new batch of dragonswords business, as Ness is certainly neededplanning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Not that there are any dragons Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except..and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. Strange signals And so begins this new story from within the forge furnaceAlexander McCall Smith, and a peculiar invite bringing us to become an apprentice clerk insteadEdinburgh we already love, are things for Tom thanks to puzzle over – until it all comes out in 44 Scotland Street and the washIsabel Dalhousie novels, that yes dragons do still exist but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in this worldrunning a business, and that Tom is rare or in the ability to summon themmatch-making, share magical attributesbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and ride with them...|isbn=1839940026}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529346541|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth George|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Itthere's late July always her very helpful (and Deborah St James is at a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school systemrather handsome) neighbour, a representative from the NHSWilliam, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, lend a filmmaker. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting is an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communities. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the problem seems to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks to and photographs.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=B09Q3P283Y0811771741|title=ShadebringerInstaKnits for Baby|author=Grayson W HooperMelissa Leapman

|genre=FantasyCrafts|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communismlong, nor is he particularly interested in a career cosy afternoons in front of the militaryfire' variety. If he The projects are divided by the time they's honest ll take to complete - which Clyde usually isless than five hours, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and this onemore than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, at least, gets him out of the rut hemodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 's in. Hesocial-media-worthy projects's good in training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. Hebut that's chuffed with himselfme being picky.

|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmyDean Koontz|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondBad Weather Friend

|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=There Benny is no mermaid in the millpondhaving a terrifically bad day. That at least is what Bess is telling herself He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Neither will there be Oh, and someone has delivered a friend for her in amongst all the other kidsreally weird, who have had their entire childhoods sold disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the mill-owners by thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the London workhouse they used very last person to call homedeserve all this bad luck. Bess knows there He is no time a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for friendship in Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a hand-bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to-mouth, every man help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for himself kind of existencebeing a good person. But despite herself Bess does find a bit Spike is going to take care of a kindred spirit in the slight little DotBenny, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be Harper (a glimmer of companionship in the tired-waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out mill workerswho exactly they are. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X1662500491

|isbnauthor=1785633074Adam Stower|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh BerryMurray and Bun

|genre=HumourConfident Readers |summary=Members of Parliament like us Murray is supposed to believe that the country be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is run by politiciansable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, headed by the Prime minister - well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he''primus inter pares'' (thats a bad magician's for those of you who are Eton cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmentregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. We are in the privileged position of having access This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to the memoirs of Rafe Hubrisbe honest, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man 's turned up and he'll have to watch.do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=B09MYXSRV4B0C47LV1PC|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareFragility|author=Cordellya SmithMosby Woods

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received Can you make a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''andYo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - butquestion should you make it? Or is the question if you did, unfortunately, not would it land? The catch is that the ability to use it answer for both could wellbe. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seemno. I ''Fragility''ll tell you how it came about.is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Giovanna Fletcher1529431735|title=Walking on SunshineThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=MikeIt's wifeFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Pia, who he was with which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for seventeen years, a decade. The return has died. And whilst come about because he is dealing with 's had a letter from his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to followex-wife, knowing saying that she was dying 's ill and that they would need help hasn't long to carry on livinglive. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him stripped to take one of their trips away, and Vicky his underwear and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide sent to drop everything a watery grave in their own lives, and go along with himthe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=140593560X Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1529393930Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie RochesterThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=''Starting Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a creative business has never been easierhelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs.'' ''If not now Eli lives with his lovely gran, when?'' I know that I'm not alone too – for there is a generation missing in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a businessthe family. ThereA few short years ago, Eli's a lot of motivation parents were both lost to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are the titular race, a lot of people who globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have been delighted to accept what I make as giftsnavigate the world in the company of a magical beast. Selling would offset This has made the race anathema to the costs, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to doa confession from gran, couldn't it? But where Eli knows his only hope is to start? What do I need dare to think about? Wellenter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the first only thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making a Living''possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231