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|isbnauthor=3949666079Sylvie Cathrall|title=Noema|author=Dael AkkermanA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=''This is There are few greater joys than a story about some things that happened book which lives up to me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic eracompelling premise. Climate change And this is occurring, the Sea one of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, and food is becoming more and more scarcethem. What to do? Can the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions? |isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=194241028X0008517061|title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Michael PronkoStig Abell|rating=54

|summary=''You can't put 'good at golf' on your tombstoneFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, can you?'' When we meet Patrick Walsh he's outside has settled into his family's home in rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the Azabu district future of Tokyo, hoping that his key will still work but prepared to break in if it doesn't. He's there to remove life with his daughtersvet girlfriend, Jenna Livia and Kiriher daughter Diana, and take them back to Honolulu. It's as moving in together would mean a quick day trip, with just one purpose in mind. Patrick's employed by Nine Dragons Wealth Management lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and for the past year, he's been working in Wyoming because the privacy laws there are conducive relaxing life to the business he's move in. His wife, Miyuki, hasn't been in Wyoming with him and is in the process of divorcing him after photographs sent Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her anonymously suggested that Patrick had reservations about whether or not been faithful to this is the future she wants for herself and her. daughter? Patrick's plan didn't work out For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and he finds himself putting the future on the run in Tokyo with the two girlsback burner.

|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81786482126|title=The Night Watch Janus Stone (D S Max CraigieDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Neil LancasterElly Griffiths

|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for 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 rundoorway. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body There was found dashed to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Headno skull. Was it suicide, this a ritual killing or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall and fall to his death? Or was he pushedmurder? On balance Inevitably, it looked like an accident but then his 'accident' was linked to the deaths of others associated Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with himDCI Harry Nelson. Scott Paterson was released after a 'not-proven' verdict meant that Scotland It's most notorious criminal wasndifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't facing life imprisonment, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Paterson was Grigor's last client Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=09897153370008551324|title=Papa on the MoonThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Marco NorthNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=It''Some frogs had gotten into s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the wellother.But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in s prepared to tell the police where the fragrant water, naked except body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for his beaten leather hather death. Long strands of their eggs wove around him This person, he promises, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening is someone big and barked down at it will be worth the strange noise of the buckets as police doing what he filled themwants.'' How And what he wants is that for to be transferred to an opening? The style of this novel in open prison to serve the form remainder of interconnected short stories goes from succinct his sentence and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on a sixpenceget an early parole date. And author Marco North Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who has the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to go onworks with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=140639131X0008405026|title=A Practical Present for Philippa PheasantStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Briony May SmithJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Philippa Pheasant was It''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Roads sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She wrote was never found and the investigation ground to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a replyhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Philippa wasn't Initially, it looks like a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when straightforward murder/suicide but there was a problem which needed solving: she saw 's something about the benefits positioning of the lollipop lady at the school crossing bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and decided that she would set up something similar herselfher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Her uniform What looked as though it was going to be an open-and lollipop stick were both -shut case is now a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obviouscomplex double murder. All Kerrigan is convinced that the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnightexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=000837936X0571379877|title=The Last Girl to DieKellerby Code|author=Helen FieldsJonny Sweet|rating=3.5

|summary=SeventeenEdward Jevons is a working-yearclass young man, obsessed with his upper-old Adriana Clarke's family moved to Tobermory, on the Isle of Mull, in search of a new life. It was a bit of a change from Las Vegasclass friends, but the family seemed determined Robert and Adriana had shown signs of developing a social life - until she disappearedStanza. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been because AdrianaRobert's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagersa theatre director. Brandon, AdrianaHe's twinalso self-obsessed, was upset demanding, handsome and surlyentitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. FourEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -year-old Luna just knew that she missed her big sisterand he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana Most men in MackinnonRobert's Cave. Sheposition would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'd been murdered and it looked s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a ritual killingdark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1509889612Jo Callaghan|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann CleevesLeave No Trace|rating=54

|summary=It's fifty years since When a group man is found crucified on the top of teenagers went on a weekend retreat hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to Holy Islandthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative and theyIt've s their first live case together, having previously been coming back for a reunion every five years since thenvery successful with several cold cases. There was But when there is a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide and her car was swept awaysecond body found crucified a few days later, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned Kat is suddenly struggling with the group each year as her husband, Ken, was one of the original teenagers. Ken now has Alzheimer's a potential serial killer and he's a shadow very high profile case that draws a lot of the man he used unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be. Philip Robson now a priest, always gets there early as he likes able to have some quiet solve the case in time alone in , or will Kat find herself taken off the chapel. Annie Laidler lives locally case and she provides much , potentially, out of the food: her deli is famous in the area.a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=14736808831399613073|title=The Skeleton KeyMoral Injuries|author=Erin KellyChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=''The Golden Bones is going to follow me around Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for the rest a quarter of my lifea century. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you!'' Nell didn't want aim to go to the reunion to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of ''The Golden Bones''be a cardiothoracic surgeon. She'd had no benefit from it - in fact, it had made her life precarious Laura is a perfectionist and unbelievably challenginga trauma doctor. I'd better explainAnjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they''The Golden Bones'' was re at a treasure quest book painted drug and written by Frank alcohol-fuelled party and Cora Churcherit's going to end in tragedy. The story revolved around murdered Elinore whose golden and bejewelled bones were hidden around We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the countryconsequences. The clues Twenty- some of them quite tortuous - were disguised in five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the words and pictures of the book - and all the parts were discovered except for the pelvisthree friends. As with such questsThis time, some people were obsessive and the theories became more and more outlandishit's their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Holly Webb0241636604|title=The Story of GreenriverTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Silken and Sedge, for all their differences, have If you were to bring up an image of a lot city banker in commonyour mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Silken is a girl whose father 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. Master Builder of what might be the finest beaver lodge There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the GreenriverLondon School of Economics. Unfortunately she Stevenson is also a kind of runt figure, bright - extremely bright - and as he has a result is patronised, and given the facility with numbers which most tokenistic tasks when it comes to fetching wood and shoring the dam upof us can only envy. She He also stands out for the unique artistic ability realised that most rich people expect poor people to singbe stupid. Otters like Sedge sing, but he tooIt was his ability at what was, as the son of the lady of the holtessentially, has pressure on a card game which got him to be a bit less feckless and more attentive to classan internship with Citibank. HeEventually, after all, will eventually inherit the job of keeping the otters safe from the wolf that both animal species fear the most, and from dreaded events like this turned into permanent employment as a Dark Springtrader.|isbn=1510109625

|authorisbn=Anna Kemp and David Wyatt1035021803|title=Into Goblyn WoodThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Hazel. For the last nine of her eleven It's twenty years, she since Freya Lockwood has been stuck as back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a foundling in a horrid, Victorian institutionrequest for help from her beloved aunt, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servantCarole. She Freya'd arrived at the place at the same time as Pete, s former mentor and theyCarole're inseparably good friends nows close friend, until a chance for them both to escapeArthur Crockleford, is dead and enter the outside worldcircumstances seem suspicious, does not go to plansay the least. There Arthur was the reason why Freya had always not been back to the idea of a life idyllic in the nearby forestsvillage: Arthur, Goblyn Woodshe feels, and a tribe of Wild Childrenlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, but none of that comes she has not felt able to pass, as Hazel finds herself in be near the care of a professor at man or pursue the Natural History Museumprofession she loved. But life with him is not anything like what After the split, she might have expected it to be – and Hazel is determined to return to the Woodsworked in a cafe, restore her friendship with Pete – met and to work out just what is going married James (on in the forestrebound from the love of her life, both the light who was murdered) and the shade, Freya and the deathly darkJames have now divorced...|isbn=1398503835

|isbn=0241990165AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Cara HunterBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadn't come from 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the householder. A couple shape of PCs went things to make certain that everything was alright and come.'' I've heard it took quite a while for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them said that they'd better come intechnology' is what happens after you're eighteen. In the kitchen Well, I must confess that there was a body on the floor: the head had have been blown off with more than a shotgun and the corpse was holding a knife few decades of technology in its right handmy lifetime. Richard Swann told I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the police feeling that heit'd heard sounds s all getting away from me. Some of an intruder and had come downstairs to investigateit is - frankly - quite frightening. The ignorant young lout had called him Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they'Grandad'' and come at him with a knifere talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Swann had shot him I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in self-defencea way I could understand.

|author= Kit De WaalSunny Singh|title= Without Warning and Only SometimesHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= AutobiographyThrillers |summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, your mum and dad/ They may not mean to, but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood and the bonds that bind family. This book The Hotel Arcadia is a memoir focussing on the author’s formative years as a teenager living luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a lower class area of Birminghamterrorist group. Her father is Hiding from St. Kitts in the Caribbean and her mother terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by Sam, a wartime photographer and marrying a black manAbhi, the hotel manager. This intersectionality plays a large role As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to her racebe cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her class and room to try to capture what's happened through her genderphotography. Her parents loom large Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are written with care, love, and discovered by the kind of anger only a child can express to their parentsterrorists.|isbn=1472284836086154742X

|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz1529153298|title=Dark MusicThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=35|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaksIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart of what little investigating is going onI mean, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthhonestly.. For one, the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MD. ) She's a Chilean in the Stockholm policenot what's worrying Miv's family, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of old, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, and just outside the stadiumthough. Women have been disappearing. BeppeWell, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutesthey've been murdered, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogationhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how Miv's upset because she might dress – 's overheard that kind) are told her father wants to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it allmove the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation Down South is a shamblesfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. But taken off For Miv, the casemove would mean leaving her best friend, she can no longer help solve the crimeSharon, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it allll do anything to prevent that. Until, She's not worried about the dangers or that may be, she manages her Mum's stopped talking - to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attemptanyone...|isbn=1529413192

|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM1398524085|title=The Calculations of Rational MenHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Daniel GodfreyNicci French

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marrfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Just to put what happens in contextHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's mindsnot. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe MarrShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, it's not find the missile crisis thatbody of Greg's at father, Duncan Ackerley, in the front of his mindriver. He's been convicted of murder. With It was an easy assumption for the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard police to think otherwise than make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prisonguilt. HeThe Salter children are not convinced but there's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, little else they can do but get on with their lives and learning to be wary of the McArthur brotherswonder about what really happened.

|isbn=18469761461035906708|title=The Bone RoadDiva|author=N E SolomonsDaisy Goodwin

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Heather BishopWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, the former Olympic cyclistNew York, flew in December 1923 and only moved to Bosnia to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan MackinnonAthens when she was thirteen. She even took their bikes so they could have a few daysHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' break to make it more manageable in the regionStates. It When she was a little worrying back in Athens - supposedly so that he didn't seem exactly pleased to see she could get appropriate training for her: voice - she even wondered if he had a woman in was raised under the hotel room. Heather had to give up competitive cycling after Nazi occupation by a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but mother who mercilessly exploited her reactions and made no secret of her memory were not up to the standard she would need to race again. Sometimes she couldn't be certain about what she had or hadn't done and she simply couldn't cope in difficult situations. She didn't entirely trust herselfpreference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Judith EagleChristopher Edge|title=The Accidental StowawayBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5

|summary=Patch is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a little girl who has been passed from one relation to anothermovie marathon at their local cinema, until it seems a place that there is nobody left for her to go tohas the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Her father died when she was very youngAll big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and her mother ran away. many, many snacks! The family lawyerHowever, after consultation with ‘someone’as the movie starts, arranges for her to go to a school in Liverpoolthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, but on her arrival there, she gets caught and they are swept up in into an adventure with a little boy called Turo who works on a steamshipthey couldn't even imagine. During a chase with him (when she But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is both trying to going on? Will they ever get her rollerskate back and running away from to the police!) she winds up on the steamship hiding in a lifeboatcinema, and before she knows it, the ship has left the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!to their real lives?|isbn=05713631211839942738

|isbnauthor=0760379874Rachel Greenlaw|title=Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri HammettCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=''I learned to knit can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in the nineteen-fifties: it wasnmy heart.''t  Rosevear, a choiceremote and partially forgotten island, it was a requirementsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Girls learned Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to knit survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to embroider end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and boys did wood and metal workMira's father. My knitting wa accompanied by Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a lot bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of criticism and quite a few tears: it was a long time before I realised family secret that there was pleasure to be had lies buried deep in the skillsea. Nearly seventy years later itWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's the only thing that keeps my hands territory, Mira must be determined to stop at all supple. The turning point was a booklet published by Patons which gave all nothing to save the basics future of her home and some patterns. I've been looking for something simple to recommend to people who'd like to master the skillones she holds most dear. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?|isbn=0008664730

|author=Sarah Todd TaylorJames Sherwood Metts|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroublePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Alice EclairThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. A perfect eye AI and very careful hands automation have made her one of Paris's best young cake makers and decoratorsbeen proceeding apace, making sure her motheroften replacing jobs they's establishment is a classy affair. Not bad for a thirteen year old. Oh, re paid to do and a perfect eye and a very careful handler and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spyother tasks that took time to accomplish. Her first real mission will be Just as they were beginning to chase a traitor across the country – working behind the scenes on a posh sleeper train get used to all this technological change and starting to the south think of Franceother, and hoping against hope that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents new ways to creep into the country from getting into nefarious handsspend time, along came an awful pandemic. But while nobody would have her Life was pretty much shut down as a spyand, along with it, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find all the baddy?many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=18399409561736128426

|isbnauthor=0760379912Matthew Tree|title=Super Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Quarry BooksWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsLiterary Fiction|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be turned into something new different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and usable when I was in my twentieswho had endless crises of self confidence. It would be a while before it became a pleasure So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than a chore his daydreams and set himself high but I've never felt completely at home with quiltingachievable ambitions. I needed something a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knots. ''Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like a good place to start. So, how did it stack up?|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1788360737A G Slatter|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era Briar Book of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=2|genre= Politics and Society|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1408712172|title=The Cliff House|author=Chris BrookmyreDead

|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=''Many There's a part of them didn't know each other, one me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of them didn't know anybodymy own, including Jenall mine, one of them quite possibly hated her, and two of them definitely hated each otherat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. What could possibly go wrong?''

ThatWithin a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's , a family of witches who protect the round-up town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for Jen's hen party which magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barrabe 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. They're all staying in The Cliff House, hosted by LaurenWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, and itEllie's cousin Audra becomes the utmost in luxury living but then Jen can afford it. SheBriar Witch, the town's just sold leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her muffin business for millions but is staying on to run it. She's got As challenges come her doubts about way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting a little strangely of late and wouldn't explain rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her what at the email he was hurriedly deleting was aboutheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Added Reeling from one family secret to thatanother, he's just about forced her Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to bring his sister, Samira, whom Jendo as the Briar witches's never metlegacy, on the tripeverything they have sacrificed to survive, on the grounds that she's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months and desperately needs the breakis under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=17883607021529900360|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised BiographyGhost Orchid|author=Edzard ErnstJonathan Kellerman

|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=For over forty years, Prince Charles has It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine badly injured but he felt responsible and complementary therapieseven 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 help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware'Charless partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the Princeheir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's opinions, beliefs and aims against not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the background Cat Out of the scientific evidenceBag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. There are few instances of His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his beliefs footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being vindicated and on-call put on his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to father's life. When he was seventeen he took the reputation opportunity of doing work experience with a man family friend who is proud of was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his refusal to apply evidence-baseddream since he was a child. If anything, logical reasoning he'd wanted to his ambitionsbe a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Will Carver0861541774|title=The Daves Next DoorA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary= Five strangers come together The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in one moment Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as a suicide bomber prepares an alternative to detonate his vest on all the online apps in providing a London tube linemore personal, tailored service. As their fates overlap Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, the story as Ness is told in backwards order, leading up planning to take a trip to Canada to the fateful momentget away for a while.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1529125790|title=The Family Remains|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=In July 2019 Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, Jason Mott was mud larking on and so jumps at the banks of the River Thames when he came across a bag of what appeared chance to come home to be human bonesEdinburgh. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu and Saffron Brown And so begins this new story from forensics were there Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to investigate. The bones were indeed human: a young woman had been killed by a blow an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the head many years ago - probably as long as twenty-five - Isabel Dalhousie novels, but the bones had not been in the river longer than a yearwith some new characters who quickly begin to charm. There was Katie has no identification experience in running a business, or in match-making, but the bag contained vegetationNess has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, some of which was quite unusual.to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason0811771741|title=Partitions of UnityInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary= Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a series collection of disappearancesknits from toys to blankets. In Some will be quick knits - others are of the ''Partitions long, cosy afternoons in front of Unitythe fire'variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, she sets her mind five to solving a murderten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky..|isbn=B09LQR9FRF

|author=Fiona Parashar Dean Koontz|title=A Beautiful Way to Coach The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceParanormal|summary= So what am I doing reading this bookBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, using this bookand his house gets trashed. Oh, and being audacious enough someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to review his home, and it? 's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! Truth The thing is, Benny is I bought it out of curiositythe very last person to deserve all this bad luck. I was at an on-line launch for the He is a nice person. book and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed to meA really nice person. I wanted to see if there were things in there So fortunately for Benny it turns out that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing them the delivery to his house is a new friend, a full daybad weather friend called Spike, which I know would send them scurrying who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for their burrowbeing a good person. I also wanted Spike is going to see take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if I could give myself a Vision Dayhe, Benny, to bring me away from their vision and back to my ownHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=103211603X1662500491

|isbnauthor=1913750353Adam Stower|title=Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly Murray and Sue MacyBun|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers |summary=''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has Murray is supposed to be a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to Stretch Your Cranium sleep and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant bookeat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz But he's a bad magician's cat, tells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ'')so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, gives you a definition and then includes the word in catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging world of frightening adventure and frequently amusing illustration toowhiffs. I donThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he't think Is turned up and he've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=A C WiseB0C47LV1PC|title=HookedFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=It’s been twenty-two years since Captain Hook, now going by just ‘James’, has been in Neverland. Living Can you make a new life in London''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, he has never completely escaped his past. But now he senses is the edges of question should you make it? Or is the beast circling around his life in Londonquestion if you did, and when suddenly he finds himself face to face in the street with Wendy, he knows would it land? The catch is that the line between this world and Neverland is growing thinanswer for both could well be.... no. The beast  ''Fragility'' is finally coming set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to get him, and in emerge from the restrictions imposed during the process will pull Wendy and her daughter Jane back into their past once again.|isbn=1789096839covid pandemic

|isbn=17873017451529431735|title=ConfidenceThe Winter Visitor|author=Denise MinaJames Henry|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=WeIt're back in the world of podcasters Anna s February 1991 and FinEssex is bitingly cold, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. It was Anna whoHe'd organised been exiled on the 'family' holiday: her ex, Hamish, is now with her best friend, Estelle and her children are living with themCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Fin (who was married to Estelle) is there too and it was Anna who invited The return has come about because he's had a letter from his girlfriendex-wife, Sofia. Itsaying that she's not ill and hasn't long before everyone realises that was a bad mistaketo live. SofiaIt's difficult hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - sent to a lighthouse, watery grave in the boot of a storm - she begins talking about Anna's past, including her real name and the rapestolen Ford Sierra. This was something which Anna had intended Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to tell the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess and ten-year-old Lizzie - when the time was right. And this wasn't the right time.home?

|isbnauthor=178763566XAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Listen to Me|author=Tess GerritsenThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=We're in Boston with Amy. When she set out for university this morning it was Eli is a spring busy lad – by day and she wore her new, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of an apprentice in the wondrous library she knows that they're going to be ruined - we start by visiting with him, and unsafe - in the snow that's now fallingevening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. As she crosses the road Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a car comes out of nowhere and hits her. It doesn't stopgeneration missing in the family. Two months later A few short years ago, weEli're with Angela Rizzolis parents were both lost to the titular race, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli, and a keen defender of globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the suburb company of Revere, north of Boston, where she livesa magical beast. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is in Californiato dare to enter what he most hates, looking after his sister, she has with the time to watch what's happening in sole aim the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in prize of magic at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsthe end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231