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|isbnauthor=0957181167Sylvie Cathrall|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian Lewis|author=Alan MarshallA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=ArtScience Fiction|summary=There are few positive things greater joys than a book which can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, in trying lives up to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls - and was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewiscompelling premise. I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of And this book and the print I wanted was ‘not available’. Oh, dear - then a few doors down from the apartment, I found a gift shop with a stack is one of brand new books - and a framed print of the picture I wantedthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Simon Fox0008517061|title=DeadlockDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his shift on rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the forcefuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and then suddenly rings Archieher daughter Diana, demanding he fetch something from as moving in together would mean a secret place, lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and join him on relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the run. future she wants for herself and her daughter? They get together, but barely begin to smell For the moment they’re enjoying life in the whiff of Southern trains when present and putting the father is arrested, leaving Archie future on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questionsback burner.|isbn=1839944420

|authorisbn=Shalini Boland1786482126|title=The Silent BrideJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Alice and Seth are 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 match made in heavenchild beneath a doorway. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-materialThere was no skull. She is all he could possibly want in Was this a wife; beautifulritual killing or murder? Inevitably, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and setDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. When the much-anticipated day arrivesIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, Alice that she is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming pregnant with pride and excitement his child as she surveys a result of the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching brideone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, Alice's world implodes not least because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who Ruth is waiting for her prone to become his wifesudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1662507089

|authorisbn=Mark Edwards0008551324|title=Keep Her SecretThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first metIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. The alien-landscape of Neither side likes or has any respect for the lava fields and black beaches other. But Davie Hardie is breath-taking struggling in prison and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph he's prepared to encapsulate tell the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when police where the edge body of a ravine gives way missing person is buried and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and a 500 foot drop to certain death belowit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Convinced she And what he wants is going to die, Helena must purge herself be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of the shocking secret she has been keeping his sentence and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthewget an early parole date. Just moments later their heroicNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and frankly very well she's even prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and Matthew anyone who works with him is left wondering kept well away from what he just learned about Helena's happening.|isbn=166250893X

|isbn=B0BYF82CXT0008405026|title=Semi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Bill and Amanda are living A Stranger in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of SummerFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Katie BishopJane Casey

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It 's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she never found and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the islandinvestigation ground to a halt. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she wasNow, perhapsher mother, naiveHelena, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her, she was flattered rather than waryboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It What looked as though it was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach going to her be an open-and by that time she was obsessed by him-shut case is now a complex double murder. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on Kerrigan is convinced that the island and explanation lies in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partiedRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=15291353890571379877|title=The FallKellerby Code|author=Gilly MacmillanJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned homeEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass BarnRobert's a theatre director. TheyHe'd not been in the architects also self-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and were still getting used uses Edward to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted uponrun errands for him. Some of them fought Edward has been in love with each other Stanza since their university days - and didnhe't work as reliably as they shoulds drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. It Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to having that sort stumble upon the two of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead them kissing in the swimming pool with a wound to his headdark passageway.

|author=Alan ParksJo Callaghan|title=To Die in JuneLeave No Trace

|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of When a homeless man is found crucified on the streetstop of a hill in Nuneaton, suddenly starts DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to feel like something more sinister as another 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 discovered, suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and then anothera very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoyWill they be able to solve the case in time, but all or will Kat find herself taken off the more so because his own father is a down-case and-, potentially, out alcoholic, with no fixed abodeof 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 he has been their friendship would keep them inseparable for yearsa quarter of a century. At the same time as facing these possible murdersOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, Harry which is also dealing with a move bonus when you aim to be a different police station, cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the arrival there free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a woman drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of suffered the tragedy or the boy having existed can be foundconsequences. Something feels wrong Twenty- not just with five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationedthree friends. This time, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784it's their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Laura Noakes0241636604|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Meet Number One. Or ratherIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos you're unlikely to her friendsthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. The practice in A hoodie and jeans replaces the home she lives in pin-stripe suit and his background is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledgerEast End, and they're all Unfortunates – young people where he was familiar with disabilitiesviolence, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly uponpoverty and injustice. But Cosima bears There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the tag as London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a surname because nothing else seems facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be known about where she came fromstupid. It was his ability at what was, as the first ever inmateessentially, and unique in having no known family in the outside worlda card game which got him an internship with Citibank. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoonEventually, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – this turned into permanent employment as a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institutetrader. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059

|authorisbn=Thomas D Lee1035021803|title=Perilous TimesThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre= FantasyCrime|summary= It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'Hate s back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the path of least resistance'' Set . 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 near-distant futuresplit, she worked in a world cafe, met and married James (on the verge rebound from the love of climate collapseher life, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or severalwho was murdered) to save the day and rescue what little remains. What no one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the callFreya and James have now divorced.|isbn=0356518523

|authorisbn=Madelaine LucasAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Thirst for SaltAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravitycome.''

Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship I've heard it said that once defined her'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Overlaid with later wisdom Well, the narrator relives the affair with I must confess that there have been more than a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer afterfew decades of technology in my lifetime. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town I've kept up reasonably well with what'Thirst for Salts advantageous to me but I'' details m left with the 24-year-old narratorfeeling that it's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its allgetting away from me. Some of it is -consuming naturefrankly - quite frightening. Of course, how it changed her perspective on both romantic I could research the possibilities and familial relationships the probabilities and how it altered her irrevocablyend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'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.|isbn=0861546490

|isbnauthor=1529382823Sunny Singh|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will DeanHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') The Hotel Arcadia is middle-aged and a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on suddenly been violently taken over by a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''terrorist group. Caz's sisterHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, Gemmakilling everyone on site, reckons that Pete there is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted Sam, a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket wartime photographer and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointedAbhi, the hotel manager. They've not been a couple As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for that long and the trip will residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be an excellent opportunity cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to get try to know him a bit bettercapture what's happened through her photography. MeanwhileAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe their friendship grows as well as their mother who has dementia. It's going Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be good, isn't it?rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Lex Croucher1529153298|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomComIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? But I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful waythough. In this story, Gwen and Arthur Women have been betrothed since disappearing. Well, they were tiny've been murdered, much but to their mutual disgust! have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdomMiv's upset because she's only female knight) - something overheard that Art discovers from her private diariesfather wants to move the family 'Down South'. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant alliesfrightening, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each otherforeign place, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentsbest avoided. But as their impending wedding draws ever closerFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselvesSharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or are they destined that her Mum's stopped talking - to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=1526651793anyone.

|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1398524085|title=One Puzzling AfternoonHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45

|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her whole lifedaughter, Etty. are all worried but now she is facing a move as - strangely - her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his familyhusband, Alec, as Edie is starting to lose her memorynot. HoweverShortly afterwards, Edie is tormented by Etty and Greg, find the memory body of her childhood friendGreg's father, LucyDuncan Ackerley, who went missing over 60 years ago, and in the worry that there river. It was a secret she was keeping an easy assumption for Lucy that somehow might be the thing police to make that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was t stand the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to herguilt. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about LucyThe Salter children are not convinced but there's disappearance before her move, little else they can do but get on with their lives and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)1035906708|title=Thirty Days of DarknessDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=Thrillers General Fiction|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry We tend to leave her bottles think of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fairMaria Callas as Greek, but she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot was born to Greek parents in the world of crime fictionManhattan, New York, saying he's populist trash in December 1923 and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that moved to Athens when she cannot live up to that accusationwas thirteen. Her publisher duly books original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her flights from Denmark father changed it to 'Callas' to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from make it allmore manageable in the States. Just on When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the point of despairing – about Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her writing, about the people and the lack made no secret of stimulus her preference for her plotelder sister, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615Jackie.

|isbnauthor=1804545600Christopher Edge|title=The Monk|author=Tim SullivanBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=The body Lucas and his friends are all booked in the woods near Bristol was for a nasty shock - movie marathon at their local cinema, a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditchplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. HeAll big movie fans, they'd been savagely beaten. It's a while before D S George Cross re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the Major Crime Unit establish movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is Father Dominic. He'd been missing for a few days very different, and certainly hadnthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't asked permission to leave his abbeyeven imagine. As But as they lurch from one film genre to the team gradually unpick next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the monk's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved as an investment bankercinema, brother, neighbour and friend. He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder himto their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Lauren BravoRachel Greenlaw|title=PrelovedCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary= Gwen ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' 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 pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that starts with lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a four trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and ends with an oh-my-God-IMira'm-nearly-fortys father. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bit of bargain with a mid-life crisis. Catharsis wreck survivor who is as charming as he is key secretive and Gwen has decided now is with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the time sea. With only nine days to take back unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her lifefrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=13985106290008664730

|author=Cath HoweJames Sherwood Metts|title=My Life on FirePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=Ren's family home is destroyed in Things have been a firebit sticky for the Earthlings. She, her parents, AI and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't automation have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboardbeen proceeding apace, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where often replacing jobs they can't touch anything, or re paid to do anything, or even eat the foods and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their lives, were beginning to display things that are important get used to them all this technological change and show who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing starting to put in a boxthink of other, and so she finds herself starting new ways to steal thingsspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Small thingsLife was pretty much shut down and, things that people might not really missalong with it, not when all the many daily social interactions on which they have depend so much alreadyheavily. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=18399428351736128426

|isbnauthor=0008517010Matthew Tree|title=Death Under a Little Sky|author=Stig AbellWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=The marriage had run its course. It might have been Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different if the pregnancies hadn't ended in miscarriages but no one else was involved - certainly not on Jake's side from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and he didn't think there was for Faye eitherwho had endless crises of self confidence. They were still polite So Tim applied himself to each other his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and wished each other well - set himself high but didn't wish to remain married. The perfect solution arrived in the form of a legacy from Jake's Uncle Arthur. He'd been left a secluded property in the hamlet of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - and enough money to live there without the need to workachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Jennifer SaintA G Slatter|title=AtalantaThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Literary FictionFantasy|summary=''I was as worthy as any one There's a part of them. I would get on board me that ship, wants to keep this just to myself for however long I vowedcan. I would take This secret magic of my placeown, not all mine, at last. I just in the name of the goddess. It was want to enjoy it for the sake of my name, tooa while. Atalanta''

Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born Within a daughter rather than remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a son, Atalanta is raised town under the protective eye protection of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into Briar's, a formidable huntress, one family of witches who longs protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for adventure. When magic, Ellie Briar is the opportunity comes – first non-witch to join the Argonautsbe born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a fierce band of warriorssteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, descendent from Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes Briar Witch, the chance to fight in Artemistown' name s leader, and carve out Ellie takes her own legendary place in historybeside her. What follows is As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a whirlwind maelstrom of challenges chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and discovery even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and through -shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, itwas Robin, Atalanta must remember ArtemisDelaware' fatal warning: s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that if the man she marriesloved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it will be her undoing's not the Italian.|isbn=1472292154 But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=152915118X1529395224|title=Pineapple StreetLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Jenny JacksonSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and GeorgianaSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Darley His father was a GP and George are sisters and Sasha is married Rowlands didn't want to their brother Cord. They're Stocktonsfollow in his footsteps, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into particularly when he considered the tribe. The problemstrain that being on-call put on his father's exacerbated when life. When he was seventeen he took the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and Sasha if they'd like to move into was convinced this was the Pineapple Street propertyjob for him. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so awayBefore long, which they ownhe was at Liverpool University. They wonIt hadn't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, - as with so Sasha and Cord can move straight inmany students - been his dream since he was a child. NominallyIf anything, they had a choice but that wasnhe't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start d wanted to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'be a professional footballer.

|isbn=00085512780861541774|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Neil LancasterSteve Burrows|rating=4.5

|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from the bottom of FyrishDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, where she'd been doing her trainingGuy Trueman. She'd been Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a bit of man armed with a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics knife - and it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squadhe killed a Ghurka. That's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seeInitially, Affo he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the age of twelveman. She was rescued when she was carrying a kilo of drugs and three years later she's happy with her foster familyNow he could be facing the death penalty. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sister, Melodi is in Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a childrendiplomatic incident and wouldn's home in Tirana - and anyone could get to hert help Danny at all.

|author=Emily TeshAlexander McCall Smith|title=Some Desperate GloryThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=''While Earth's children liveThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the enemy shall fear us'' Following the destruction of online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the Earthbusiness, amongst as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a rare number while. Katie is coming out of survivorsa break up with a bad boyfriend, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – and so jumps at the chance to come home of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the world that should have been hersIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. All her life Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, she but Ness has been conditioned to fall full confidence in lineher abilities, to fulfil and there's always her duty very helpful (and ensure that humanity perseveres.rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=03565218341846976596

|isbn=08615440560811771741|title=Twin TruthsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Jacqueline SutherlandMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=Belle and DavidMelissa Leapman's twin daughters are just coming ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to the end of their first term at universityblankets. KitSome will be quick knits - others are of the 's been at Bristol and Jesslong, cosy afternoons in front of the fire's in Exetervariety. It's not only The projects are divided by the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time ll take to complete - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait less than five hours, five to have them all ten hours, ten to herself for a whiletwenty hours and more than twenty hours. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset KitAll the projects are attractive, modern and useable. IvoI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 's apparently 'older': he's twentysocial-media-four to Kitworthy projects's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedrooms me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1785633457Dean Koontz|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive WilkinsonThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=TravelParanormal|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with Benny is having a preference for slow travelterrifically bad day. As He loses his job, he neared loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his eightieth birthday home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the idea of exploring thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageousvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. In fact So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, it should be a pleasant holiday bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for Clive being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and his wifewill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, JoanBenny, shouldnand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny't it?s wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Frederic SeagerAdam Stower|title= Jesus, the Man Murray and the Myth: A Jewish Reading of the New TestamentBun

|genre= Spirituality and ReligionConfident Readers |summary= I was brought up in Murray is supposed to be a family where religion played little or no part. Culturally Irish Catholic on humble, tidy and friendly cat, one side who is able to sleep and eat and eat and Welsh Methodist on sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the othertwo. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, nobody really discussed religion and the adults around me ranged from lapsed to agnostic to atheistcatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. Other This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than the odd church wedding or baptism or the school nativity playMurray was, to be honest, I didnbut he't think too much about faith or what people did or didns turned up and he't believe.ll have to do…|isbn=B092BWWG9Y0008561249

|isbn=0571370977B0C47LV1PC|title=The Lock-UpFragility|author=John BanvilleMosby Woods

|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=ItCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s six months since joke? And if you could, is the dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke question should you make it? Or is now back in Dublin and living (the question if somewhat uneasily) with his daughteryou did, Phoebe. would it land? The worst of his grief catch is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford that the answer for what happened and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficultboth could well be.... no. They ''Fragility''re brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when is set as the body city of a youngPortland, Jewish scholarOregon, Rosa Jacobs, is found in a lock-up. At first, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide.cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Julia Bartz1529431735|title=The Writing RetreatWinter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Roza ValloIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Anyone in He'd been exiled on the world of publishing knows the nameCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She The return has come about because he's something of had a legend with an impressive, if compactletter from his ex-wife, back catalogue of works saying that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood's ill and hasn't long to live. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is more than a little obsessed with Rozaabducted, stripped to his underwear and is stunned when, following sent to a series watery grave in the boot of unexpected events, she is invited a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.|isbn=0861544439home?

|author=Patrick Ness Alex Bell and Tea BendixTim McDonagh|title=Different for BoysThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=Teens Confident Readers|summary=Ant Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four the wondrous library we start by visiting with both his best buddy from the football teamhim, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only evening a single-sex school can form, helper at the talk in class dessert cafe his gran owns and out often turns to sexruns. Which is confusing Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score there is, where his achievements a generation missing in that regard liethe family. HeA few short years ago, Eli's had parents were both lost to the titular race, a casual relationship, globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a secret one, for several months now, and so magical beast. This has effectively progressed up made the race anathema to the ladder headed by 'experienced', pair – but whether that's set in stonewhen a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he can't be sure. And that's mostly because most hates, with the sole aim the prize of who he's been having magic at the relationship and end – the sex withonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=15295094910571382231