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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=00085414770356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Clarice BeanDeath 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: Scram!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=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a 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. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Lauren ChildNeil Lancaster

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=It was a hot summer day right at 's unusual for anyone from the beginning of Hardie family to approach the summer holidays and Clarice Bean was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except police. Neither side likes or has any respect for sometimesthe other... And only on rare-sh occasions, which But Davie Hardie is hardly ever.'' There are seven members of the Bean family living struggling in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because prison and he's wobbly), Mum prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and Dadwho was responsible for her death. This person, Clarice's older brotherhe promises, Kurt is someone big and younger brother, Minal Cricketit will be worth the police doing what he wants. There's also Marcie, who's main claim And what he wants is to be transferred to fame seems an open prison to be that she steals serve the batteries from Clarice's torch, which means that she can't read in the airing cupboardremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Clarice would love Not much to have someone who listened to herask, rather than wanting is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to talk, but do the only one who does other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that is Granny DS Max Craigie and she lives in New York. The Bean family anyone who works with him is kept well away from what''different''s happening.

|isbn=07112662040008405026|title=The Secret Life of BirdsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Jane Casey

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on investigation ground to a daily basishalt. An hour can pass without my noticingNow, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. IInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there've established which species feed from s something about the ground, which pop to positioning of the feeders for a quick snatch of some food bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeableher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It would have been wonderful if, What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a child, Icomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'd had access to a book s disappearance: others (such as Derwent''The Secret Life of Birds''s boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. So – what is it?

|isbn=17370309420571379877|title=Bag OThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert'Goodiess position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that 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 a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jolly Walker BittickJo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace

|genre= AnthologiesCrime|summary=SometimesWhen 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's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. 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 their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you deserve aim to be a treat cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and mine was Jolly Walker Bittickit's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it'Bag Os their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you'Goodiesre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. I first encountered his writing about She's back now because of a year agorequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were 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 rollicking tale cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens when five young men find after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a base for their partyingfew decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what'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. Right nowOf course, I didncould research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I't want m reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could 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. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and 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 full-length novelbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, so I turned their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to this anthology see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of verse Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and short storiesMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) BittickShe's not what's worrying Miv's writing has matured - and so family, though. Women have his charactersbeen disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. most of them!

|authorisbn=Caryl Lewis and George Ermos1398524085|title=SeedHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his lifeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and they both might be thought of as complete embarrassmentsOllie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. His grandfather runs an allotment Shortly afterwards, Etty and manages to stink Greg, find the entire town out from it when he douses it body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetablesthe river. His mother somehow combines It was an easy assumption for the dual roles of housebound failure and hoarder – while she seems police to do nothing make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and hasnthen committed suicide when he couldn't left the building in years she has still managed to fill it to stand the brim with junkguilt. What Marty The Salter children are not convinced but there's classmates don't know about this little else they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always looks, do but get on with his one school uniform built from lost property. We see him as once again the council threaten her their lives and him with eviction, and as he celebrates his birthday with the gift from his grandfather of a solitary plant seedwonder about what really happened.|isbn=1529077664

|authorisbn=Sophie Cameron1035906708|title=Our Sister, AgainDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora diesLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, her family struggle to find a way forwardplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. In particular All big movie fans, Islathey's mum who can’t seem re looking forward to be able to let her daughter go. When Isla passes her mum's details onto a support group she finds onlinelots 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, she thinks and they are swept up into an adventure they might be able to helpcouldn't even imagine. But actuallyas they lurch from one film genre to the next, it turns can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they are part 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 an experimental company who offer the family sea. The call of the chance to have Flora back againdeep, the answering beat in robot formmy heart. But this won't just be ' Rosevear, a look-a-remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, likeher mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. They use all of FloraBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's online historyfather. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and interviews with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family and friendssecret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possible. But what will it really mean for her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the familysmuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to have Flora back? And is it really Flora stop at all?nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=17889539160008664730

|isbnauthor=1398507504James Sherwood Metts|title=Cold Reckoning|author=Russ ThomasPlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and Things have been a bit sticky for the last sixteen years heEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's been searching for evidence re paid to prove do and other tasks that he's right. When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back took time to a cold case from 2002accomplish. There didn't immediately seem Just as they were beginning to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death but Adam Tyler senses a link get used to the case his father was investigating before he died. Above all there's a growing sense that the criminality this technological change and starting to think of Det Supt Stevens is going other, new ways to be brought out into spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the openmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=0727850547Matthew Tree|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)|author=David MarkWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadn't even had time for breakfast when the call came through. A body Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had been found in the roots endless crises of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullself confidence. When he gets So Tim applied himself to the scenehis studies, he will find what greets him is even worse cultivated his abilities rather than he could have imagined. A young man's corpse is entangled with the roots of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyes. It would seem that this was done whilst the man was still alive. McAvoy makes a promise to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at a cost daydreams and this time the cost might be to McAvoy's own familyset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Natalia Garcia FreireA G Slatter|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Literary FictionFantasy|summary= Early comments on '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendousjust to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a delightwhile. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but '' Within a delight' is perhaps using remote mountain pass, far away from the expression in world, lies Silverton; a way Itown under the protection of the Briar'm not familiar withs, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. I have to confess my ignorance of Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the Spanishfirst non-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation herewitch 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. From When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the little I have read (in translationBriar Witch, I donthe town't read Spanish) there does seem s leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to be communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a tendency towards maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the fantastical – the mystical realismBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat. |isbn=08615419011803364548

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin1529900360|title= Rebel SkiesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 54|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant 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 reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the Midori, help of a psychologist only worked for a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquestswhile. However Finally, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like himit was Robin, Delaware's partner, someone with the power to form paper who nudged Milo into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empireasking for help again. He asks her to come with him, to leave She knew that the life of dreary servitude involvement was something that is all the man she has knownloved needed. Well The next case did look simple, soon Kurara won't have any say though. Two lovers were murdered in the matter, because swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is forced married to flee out into an extremely rich man and it's not the worldItalian. She joins Himura aboard But which of them was the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590primary target?

|authorisbn=Patrice Lawrence1529395224|title=NeedleLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=TeensAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers bothSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Kicked out of multiple homes His father was a GP and schools, sheRowlands didn's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutort want to follow in his footsteps, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while particularly when heconsidered the strain that being on-call put on his father's at unilife. Such When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a tempestuous personality may be in need of family friend who was a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, vet and was convinced this was the creation of one such item is part of the plot herejob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with so many students - been his dream since he was a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorantchild. And then... well If anything, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only he'd wanted to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can bea professional footballer...|isbn=1800901011

|isbn=14059409800861541774|title=The BirdcageA Nye of Pheasants|author=Eve ChaseSteve Burrows

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's the 7th of January 2019 close friend and we know that former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a body has been pulled out of the sea at Zennor short holiday in CornwallSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. We don't know whose body it is. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at the request of their father, Charlie Finch, Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a famous artist. The girls are actually ''half''knife -sisters and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closehe killed a Ghurka. Finch was known for his fecundityInitially, if not for his fidelity. It's been he faced a long time since the girls charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years ago, at planned to murder the time of man. Now he could be facing the total eclipse, something happeneddeath penalty. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a victim diplomatic incident and itwouldn's left her very wary of her sisterst help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=1787634906Alexander McCall Smith|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBrideThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=We're The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Oldcastle Edinburgh, run by Ness and Malcolm is operating as an alternative to all the online apps in troubleproviding a more personal, tailored service. He's in an abandoned house Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and he's being threatened by two young peoplelook after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. One Katie is Allegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and Hugoso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a And so begins this new coat story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, apparently) but she'd put with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a tracking device business, or in it so that she match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and Hugo could find out where he was sleeping. It wonthere't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backs.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Jennifer Saint0811771741|title=ElektraInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=Literary FictionCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman'Elektras ' by Jennifer Saint tells the story 'InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of three women who live in the heavily maleknits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits -dominated world others are of Ancient Greece. Cassandrathe 'long, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players cosy afternoons in the story front of the Trojan Warfire' variety. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often The projects are divided by the silent women have time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the most compelling stories projects are attractive, modern and the most extreme furiesuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1472273915

|isbnauthor=1529149800Dean Koontz|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyParanormal|summary=We begin with Benny is having a telling storyterrifically bad day. All the birds He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and animals fled when the forest fire took hold his house gets trashed. Oh, and most of them stood and watchedsomeone has delivered a really weird, unable disturbing coffin-sized object to think of anything they could do. his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The tiny hummingbird flew to thing is, Benny is the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back very last person to drop them into the firedeserve all this bad luck. The animals laughed: what good was that doingHe is a nice person. ''I'm doing the best I can'', said the hummingbirdA really nice person. And So fortunately for Benny it turns out thatthe delivery to his house is a new friend, reallya bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is the only way that we going to take care of Benny, and will solve the problem certainly take care of climate change – by each of us doing what we Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can, however small that might befigure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1776574338Adam Stower|title=Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu Murray and Bei LynnBun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Every morning LeilongMurray is supposed to be a humble, the brontosaurus school bustidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, makes whatever takes his way through fancy next of the city, picking up children as he goestwo. Children who live at But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – catflap they simply climb both use can chuck them out , not into the regular back garden, but into a world of the window frightening adventure and slide down his neckwhiffs. It's perfectThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, isn't it? What could be where a more fun way of going to school? There troll hunter is a problemexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because honest, but he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to turned up and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=303091657XB0C47LV1PC|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandFragility|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceLiterary Fiction|summary=Boards must act in Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the best interests of their stakeholders and ensure question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that they are the answer for both could well-managed and financially securebe.... This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or the collapse of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingno. Where were they? Occasionally  ''Fragility'' is set as the boards were unaware city of what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eyePortland, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminality. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway maniaOregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very little.restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=15293379681529431735|title=In Place of FearThe Winter Visitor|author=Catriona McPhersonJames Henry|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's July 1948 February 1991 and Helen Crowther Essex is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the NHS is bornmore surprising. SheHe'll be working d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healtha decade. The hardest part of the job will be to persuade people return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that the services she offers really are free 's ill and that they donhasn't have to do anything long to qualify for themlive. Some It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insightstolen Ford Sierra. Her marriage has never been consummated.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Mark LinganeAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=GalaxyThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=Spark, who Eli is a busy lad – by day an elite pilot apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the Space Academy, barely makes it through evening a battle alivehelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years Eli lives with his lovely gran, he remembers little and too – for there is a generation missing in no physical shape to resume his dutiesthe family. But Earth is under threat and he must. Returned by his superiors A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the space stationtitular race, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to save humanity - and not just from the alien threats against it, pair – but also when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from its own sins against itselfgran, 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=B09X3NZ76W0571382231