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|isbnauthor=B0BQXSYYTFSylvie Cathrall|title=Just Looking|author=Matthew TreeA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Science Fiction|summary=It was the summer of 2035 and on There are few greater joys than a cruise ship in Marseilles, Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and the end of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a man! He's watching the tornado - they're more common in Europe these days - that's keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierre, book which lives up to a French journalist in his thirtiescompelling premise. He writes for a relatively new paper, the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and he's interesting if a little wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France' and 'the French'. His partner, Helen, who's English and Jewish, keeps him in check to some extentAnd this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=057137493X0008517061|title=The Other HalfDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Charlotte VassellStig Abell|rating=54

|summary=''The room was full of the sort of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should knowFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky.'' ''The Other Half'' is There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the story future of two menhis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, both with what looks like the same surname. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir to as moving in together would mean a baronetcy and lot of compromise: does Jake give up his thirtieth birthday party is a cateredoff-with-butler event at McDonalds grid and relaxing life to move in Camden Town. Think Bollinger and cocaine. His surname is pronounced 'Beecham'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police and Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is bi-racial. His surname is pronounced as you see it. The two encounter each other when Caius, out for a run, stumbles across the body of Clemmie O'Hara, Rupert's girlfriend. Rupert thought that future she was being deliberately late wants for his party. herself and her daughter? She was dead under a bushFor the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.

|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1786482126|title=White RiotThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics there's always Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the danger of making it too reactionary; too raw. Kneesite was going to hold seventy-jerk observations and hot takes that donfive 'luxury't age well or properly capture apartments - when they discovered the spirit bones of the momenta child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. It takes a truly talented writer to be able to capture the zeitgeist of Was this a particular event ritual killing or era of political historymurder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Austerity Britain It's difficult as Ruth knows, the student riotsbut Nelson doesn't, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much that she is pregnant with his child as a result of what is, and has been, written in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time to one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately obvious before long, not particularly powerful or incisive. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature), the best writing about current political events least because Ruth is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit prone to sudden bouts of a more objective viewsickness.|isbn= 1529423376

|author=Heather Fawcett|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120}}{{Frontpage|isbn=18484584360008551324|title=Just the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=Dashboard Elvis is DeadDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=David F RossNeil Lancaster

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=I reviewed David F RossIt's book [[Thereunusual 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 Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] prepared to tell the police where the body of a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful missing person is buried and affecting it who wasresponsible for her death. It was a gripping This person, emotionally wounding readhe promises, is someone big and rereading my review 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 to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it my main takeaway was ? 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 I might not have lavished enough praise on itDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=178563335X0008405026|title=Sea DefencesA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Hilary TaylorJane Casey

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird sheIt's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects sixsixteen years since nine-year-old Hannah Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds the investigation ground to a sobbing parishionerhalt. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let Now, her see mother, Helena, and her grandsonfather are dead in their bed. HolthorpeInitially, on the Norfolk coast, is it looks like a lovely place, straightforward murder/suicide but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and shethere's in awe something about the positioning of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty yearsbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Rachel What looked as though it was going to be an open-and Christopher hoped that -shut case is now a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they neededcomplex double murder. And then Hannah went missingKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Hadeer Elsbai0571379877|title=The Daughters of IzdiharKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= Drawing inspiration from EgyptEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more differentobsessed with his upper-class friends, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women Robert and weavers – those with magical abilities - in Stanza. Robert's a society pitted against themtheatre director. Nehal He's also self-obsessed, born into the upper classdemanding, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities handsome and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal entitled and feels great pressure uses Edward to provide run errands for her family him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for womenhe's rightsdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Giorgina also happens to be Most men in love with Nico. What follows Robert's 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 a story left to stumble upon the two of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms them kissing in a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstaclesdark passageway.|isbn=0356520471

|author=Sarah Todd TaylorJo Callaghan|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Spoonful of SpyingLeave No Trace

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=[[Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for Trouble by Sarah Todd Taylor|Last time around]], Alice Eclair had to prove herself as When a spy and as man is found crucified on the top of a master at all things French and fancy and fondanthill in Nuneaton, as the only way DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to save the day involved being an expert baker and icer on case alongside her sidekick, the French railwaysAI detective Lock. HereIt's their first live case together, we start on having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a bateau-mouche in Parisfew days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and even though the espionage isn't a complete success it proves very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to Alice and her handlers that things are afoottheir AI Future Policing project. And there will never Will they be more feet than at able to solve the World's Faircase in time, reviving the huge expo that gave or will Kat find herself taken off the city the Eiffel Tower case and this time showing all her interwar glories off to the world. Once again Alice will have to present the front to the world , potentially, out of being a humble yet world-class cake decorator, while seeking out clues. At stakecareer? Pioneering flight technology that the enemy just cannot be allowed to smuggle out…|isbn=1839940972139851120X

|authorisbn=Amanthi Harris1399613073|title=Beautiful PlaceMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary= PadmaOlivia, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus Laura and Anjali met on the southern coast first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of her home countrya century. This Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a place she spent her formative yearsbonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. It Laura is not a place she was born into, but perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the one she thinks free spirit of as home. How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, group and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she becomes a GP. When we first arrived there provide the meet them they''score'' for this gentle re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and yet subtly violent novel. Padmait's present fails going to escape her past and much like end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the musical score of a film, consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at will impact the Villathree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1784631930

|authorisbn=Nigel Baines0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Tricky Kind of MagicConfession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Emerging ReadersAutobiography|summary=Cooper loves If you were to perform magic tricksbring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. His father A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was a magicianfamiliar with violence, poverty and named Cooper after injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the great Tommy CooperLondon School of Economics. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to bestupid. And when It was his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got himan internship with Citibank. Eventually, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|isbn=1444960261this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=15420372391035021803|title=Death in HeelsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Kitty MurphyC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Set against It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the backdrop of DublinEnglish country village where she grew up. She's drag sceneback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole'Death in Heels'' tells the story of Fi McKinnery and her best s close friend, RobynArthur Crockleford, who is about dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to debut as drag queen Mae Bsay the least. What is meant Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to be a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queenthe village: Arthur, she feels, Evelet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, takes she has not felt able to be near the stage to mock Mae Bman or pursue the profession she loved. As if After the night could not get any worsesplit, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead worked in a gutter. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet the drag communitycafe, met and married James (on the Guards, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself to solve rebound from the mystery as she fears for love of her friendslife, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1800465270AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Lensky ConnectionAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Conrad DelacroixBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard itsaid that 'technology's June 1995 and heis what happens after you's at the Serafimov Cemetry re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in St Petersburgmy lifetime. HeI've kept up reasonably well with what's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drugadvantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly -relatedquite frightening. Valeri Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and Timurend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they's fatherre 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, Ketokilling everyone on site, there is also Sam, a pallbearer wartime photographer and he's disgusted by what his son had becomeAbhi, the hotel manager. Valeri thinks differently: As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he's determined forms a bond with Sam who refuses to make his own stand against organised crime be cowed by events, and avenge Timurkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's deathhappened through her photography. Within a matter of monthsAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, his obsession their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will have cost him his marriage to Marisha be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and created a dubious link with Natassja PetrovskayaMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, a journalisthonestly... ) She's determined not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to expose any and all corruption - and have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's less concerned than she ought overheard that her father wants to be about her own safetymove the family 'Down South'. To herWhen you're from Yorkshire, he's Down South is a good sourcefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For himMiv, itthe 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 a way stopped talking - to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possibleanyone.

|isbn=13997022891398524085|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Louise PennyNicci French

|summary=After a harsh winter, the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of springCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Inspector Jeanher daughter, Etty. are all worried but -Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québecstrangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Gamache had offered help to a young woman after Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the murder body of her mother: heGreg'd been less certain about her charismatic brother. For Jean-Guys father, Duncan Ackerley, it had always been in the other way aroundriver. Now they're both in It was an easy assumption for the village police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and neither can fathom whatthen committed suicide when he couldn's happeningt stand the guilt. Armand will soon find that The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they're not just in Three Pines can do but in his home get on with their lives and in his lifewonder about what really happened.

|isbn=B0BHR8KWSK1035906708|title=DukkhaDiva|author=Martin HydeDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=Sam wakes up chained in a basement. He rails against his captor and the injustice We tend to think of his imprisonment? Why? ''Why?'' But of courseMaria Callas as Greek, he knows why. Sam is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down and dirty life by going to a retreat and emerging as a neophyte Buddhist monk. Recently returning but she was born to join the community Greek parents in his old neighbourhoodManhattan, he knew his past would be hard New York, in December 1923 and only moved to escape Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but he hadnher father changed it to 'Callas't imagined to make it exploding into this new life more manageable in the States. When she was back in quite such Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a violent fashionmother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=B09XWSXSKYChristopher Edge|title=Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne GrodzinskiBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Frederick (or FredLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, but never Freddy, please) couldna place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole't sleep. A tuneAll big movie fans, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadnthey't really wanted re looking forward to come; after alllots of exciting films, he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? many, many snacks! All However, as the movie starts, they do very quickly realise that something about this new film format is tell the time. And time isnvery different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bedeven imagine. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight But as they lurch from one film genre to the clock chimed only six times. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? There was nothing for it but Will they ever get back to go the cinema, and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clockto their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=3756228711Rachel Greenlaw|title=CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans BodmerCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=HistoryTeens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The history call of the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pagesdeep, the answering beat in my heart.''

Author Hans Bodmer Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is quite right about one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure thatlies within. He has chosen But when the Council Watch lays a trap to tell us about end the shortwrecking, but explosivethey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, history Mira makes a 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 a family secret that lies buried deep in the Control Data Companysea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, CDC, for whom he worked. Itas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's a fascinating taleterritory, told in a mixture Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of technological summary her home and wry anecdotethe ones she holds most dear. |isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1529356660James Sherwood Metts|title=The Sanctuary|author=Emma HaughtonPlanet Storyland|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It was the quiet which woke Zoey up - or, rather, the absence of the noise which was Things have been a constant in New York. Here it was silent and bit sticky for the heat was overwhelmingEarthlings. When she looked out of the window all she could see was the desert. How did she get here? Zoey was house-sitting for Uncle Dan AI and his two Manx cats automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and she remembered other tasks that she'd been out with Franny and Rocco last nighttook time to accomplish. She knew that she'd had quite a lot Just as they were beginning to get used to drink but how could she have got all this technological change and starting to the desert from New York? She had no memory think of getting on a plane but as she thought backother, a memory of sirensnew ways to spend time, flashing lights along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and of being pushed into a car snagged , along with it, all the many daily social interactions on the edge of her mindwhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Christopher GoldenMatthew Tree|title=Road of BonesWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorLiterary Fiction|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across SiberiaTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge being exceptional at any of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, his artistic passions all failed miserably and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some had endless crises of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projectsself confidence. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beautySo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and fetch up at the guide's childhood villageset himself high but achievable ambitions. And that's where things start to go awry…|isbn=1803361476B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1838776184A G Slatter|title=Her Majesty The Briar Book of the Queen Investigates: Murder Most Royal|author=S J BennettDead

|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'The Queen, like the sunrise s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and the tideseven after Alex recovered, Sturgis was generally a reliable way of marking timereluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'' It seemed to begin as t need the help of a cold. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering psychologist only worked for a couple of days but seemed to be getting betterwhile. HopefullyFinally, it was Robin, the Queen thoughtDelaware's partner, her cold would go the same waywho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She'd probably caught it from one of knew that the involvement was something that the great-grandchildrenman she loved needed. UnfortunatelyThe next case did look simple, it didn't get better and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown fluthough. She and the Duke Two lovers were due to go to Sandringham by train that day but murdered in the doctor put his foot downswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He'd have preferred that was the queen have a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to be satisfied with the thought that theyan extremely rich man and it'd go by helicopter s not the following dayItalian. It But which of them was annoying: people would be ready for her today and Her Majesty did not like to disappoint.the primary target?

|authorisbn=Peter Owen Jones1529395224|title=Conversations with NatureLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Spirituality Animals and ReligionWildlife|summary= One Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of the comments made when I doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was offered convinced this beautiful book was the job for review him. Before long, he was that itat Liverpool University. It hadn's not very longt - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. Having read the book twice overIf anything, Ihe'm brought back inescapably d wanted to the Spanish proverb that Life may be short, but it is broada professional footballer. In this case I'm brought to the idea that the length of life is not the point; the point is its depth. Peter Owen Jones dives deep.|isbn=1912992418

|isbn=19164599430861541774|title=Squeakily BabyA Nye of Pheasants|author=Beth WebbSteve Burrows

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, thereDCI Domenic Jejeune's something they all dread - close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a squeakily babyshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. He's so tired but Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he can't was facing a man armed with a knife - or won't - go to sleep: instead, and he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to helpkilled a Ghurka. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hushInitially, hush''. Think he faced a charge of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the sound perfectlyman. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la layNow he could be facing the death penalty...'' And for a moment it seems Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to have worked help as Baby closes his eyes. Then any interference from another police force could provoke a seagull '''shouts''' diplomatic incident and we know exactly whatwouldn's going to happen nextt help Danny at all.

|author=Robin StevensAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Ministry of Unladylike ActivityPerfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=May Wong The Perfect Passion Company is a long way from her family dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in Hong Kongproviding a more personal, tailored service. She’s stuck in Ness has asked her schoolyounger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, Deepdean, and desperate as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get awayfor a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and do something useful to help end so jumps at the war and chance to get come hometo Edinburgh. She just knows that she would make the perfect spy! And when she finds herself turned away by the Ministryso begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, she takes matters into her own handsbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, along with a boy she meets outside thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the MinistryIsabel Dalhousie novels, Ericbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. They both go undercover Katie has no experience in running a large country housebusiness, pretending to be evacueesor in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in an attempt to prove that someone her abilities, and there is passing secrets to the Nazis. But there is a lot more going on in Elysium Hall than either them have imagined's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, and suddenly they find themselves in the middle of a murder sceneWilliam, with even more to try to unravel and solve.lend a hand…|isbn=02414298621846976596

|isbn=19196350170811771741|title=A Thief to Catch a KillerInstaKnits for Baby|author=Kitt TownsendMelissa Leapman

|genre=TeensCrafts|summary= Solomon Klyne isnMelissa Leapman't s ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a bad ladcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, so why is he running around London committing a series cosy afternoons in front of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? Youthe fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll have take to wait complete - less than five hours, five to get an answer ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the second question because projects are attractive, modern and useable. I avoid spoilersperhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4. But I5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it'll answer s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the first one: very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his grandmother.house is a new friend, a 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 going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1398515388Adam Stower|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase Murray and Alison Watts (translator)Bun

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=First of allMurray is supposed to be a humble, it was the earthquaketidy and friendly cat, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and this, in turnwell, caused whatever takes his fancy next of the nuclear meltdowntwo. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountableBut he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the list of priorities regular back garden, but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered into a dog outside a convenience storeworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. He wasn't This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a dog person troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but the convenience store ownerhe's comment that turned up and he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa 'll have to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1529153050B0C47LV1PC|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022Fragility|author=Tim BensonMosby Woods

|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=Seeking some light relief from Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the current political turmoil which question should you make it? Or is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sportthe question if you did, I was nudged towards would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''BritainFragility's Best Political Cartoons of 2022''. Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through is set as the year: city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Who can imagine what there will be to come in restrictions imposed during the 2023 edition?covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1529431735|title=The Dark RoomWinter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=What if you knew someone was deadIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, because youwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened in wanted drug smuggler for a different place and time? This is what happens to Leonard in this storydecade. He is an The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-crime reporter for a newspaperwife, and since leaving journalism hesaying that she's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds old, undeveloped rolls of film ill and develops them in his own dark room at homehasn't long to live. One of these photographs turns out It's hard to show the murder scene of a young woman he met some years agofeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and who he ''thought'' he had watched die sent to a watery grave in front the boot of him one night in a hotelstolen Ford Sierra. He'd felt guilty ever since that night, and lost everything because of Is it - his fiancee and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died the night she was with him, what on earth actually happeneda warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?|isbn=154203535X

|author=Natasha Hastings Alex Bell and Alex T SmithTim McDonagh|title=The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost FairGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=3.54

|summary=''The River Thames had frozen to death Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in its sleep.'' And thus the Frost Fair could happen – people trading on evening a helper at the completely iced-over river, like our heroine Thomasina's father with dessert cafe his gingerbread gran owns and confectionery shopruns. Thomasina will be working the Fair Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – but her twin brother won't, as he dies in Chapter One. It was a tragedy she feels no small guilt for, and which has made her father a sullen, closed shop – and her bed-bound mother has spoken not there is a word – not even opened her eyes, more or less – generation missing in the four family. A few short years sinceago, either. But into Eli's parents were both lost to the darktitular race, frosted London comes Inigo, with supreme magical powers, and a willingness to help Thomasina. Not only can he introduce her globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the fantastical Other Frost Fair, using world in the river surface at night for no end company of mystical beasts and characters and their happenings, but he has a unique proposal for Thomasina, which will shake her world to its coremagical beast.|isbn=0008496056}}{{Frontpage|author=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=The Book of Hope |rating=5|genre=Politics and Society |summary= The done thing is This has made the race anathema to read the pair – but when a book all bad incident at the way through before you sit down eatery leads to review it. I’m making an exception herea confession from gran, because I don’t want Eli knows his only hope is to dare to lose any enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the experience of reading this amazing book, I want end – the only thing to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tearspossibly save his gran. |isbn=024147857X0571382231