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|isbnauthor=0571379559Sylvie Cathrall|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona WilliamsA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=''The House of Broken Bricks'' There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is the story one of four peoplethem. Tess Hembry's roots are |isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier therea Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, but insteadJake Johnson, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken brickshas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the passage future of timehis life with his vet girlfriend, storms Livia and floods. Her husbandher daughter Diana, Richard, struggles to grow as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds off- grid and relaxing life to bring move in sufficient money. with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? They have twin boys - Sonny For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and Max, putting the future on the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nannyback burner.

|isbn=15294258671786482126|title=Lost and Never Found The Janus Stone (A D I Wilkins MysteryDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Simon MasonElly Griffiths

|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I WilkinsBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressedThere was no skull. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of RyanWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, is notDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. HeIt's not any of those things. Hedifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn's whitet, originated from that she is pregnant with his child as a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly result of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellowthe one night they spent together some three months ago. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. WellHer condition will be obvious before long, you're not. The two men are just different sides least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematicsickness.

|authorisbn=Mosby Woods0008551324|title=A Whirly Man Loses His TurnThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= The West isnIt't s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the dominant force it once waspolice. Nobody in Neither side likes or has any respect for the West other. But Davie Hardie is quite sure how struggling in prison and he's prepared to mend this or even if mending it is tell the police where the best course body of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push missing person is buried and who was responsible for climate action thereher death. A feeling that nobody This person, he promises, is in actual chargesomeone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set remainder of circumstanceshis sentence and to get an early parole date. That man would be valuable Not much to ask, rightis it? Perhaps The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that this man loses this abilityDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1

|authorisbn=Alastair Humphreys0008405026|title=LocalA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=Travel Crime|summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the worldIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. And then written about it. For this book he walked She was never found and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''investigation ground to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small maphalt. Nature lossNow, her mother, pollutionHelena, land use and accessher father are dead in their bed. Initially, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there'' One of s something about the joys positioning of the book for me bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single explanation lies in Rosalie'right or wrongs disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there Una Burt) are some hard choices aheadless convinced.|isbn=1785633678

|isbn=18051418720571379877|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too MuchKellerby Code|author=Rob KeeleyJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert''Seventeen banks and s a jeweller’s have been raidedtheatre director. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher He's also self-obsessed, Miss Judsondemanding, is really a safecracker! With police handsome and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson entitled and Ben go on the uses Edward to run. But Al needs them errands for one last job.him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert'' Goodness me, s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with a bad relationship had begun between them but he'un s not like Al? We'll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret most men: Edward is Ben, left to stumble upon the son two of them kissing in a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth savingdark passageway.

|isbnauthor=0760381267Jo Callaghan|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-SantiagoLeave No Trace|rating=3.54|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=''The most important part of When a garden man is found crucified on the one who enjoys it''. I've 'gardened' top of a hill in a vagueNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, indefinite sort of way for more than half a centurythe AI detective Lock. I know (most of) the basics but life has changed and I needed It'projects' rather than a general commitment to gardenings their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. ''Verdura'' But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with its promise of projects for both indoors a potential serial killer and outdoors a very high profile case that draws a lot of varying complexity seemed like the answerunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. SoWill they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, how did it stack upout of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=B0CP95J1CG1399613073|title=Of Ghosts & Broken PromisesMoral Injuries|author=Mark LinganeChristie Watson

|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary= Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the party but his interest first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is piqued by the way it arriveda bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. And it seems like Laura is a good opportunity to get out of his room perfectionist and away from the online activities he makes a living attrauma doctor. So he makes his way there, dodging Anjali is the buses that make up most free spirit of the traffic group and watching she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the local energy storage indicator lightstragedy or the consequences. Should Twenty-five years later there will be enough poweran eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Hopefully This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=14549555460241636604|title=SugarlessThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Nicole M AvenaGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=''This isn't If you were to bring up an image of a diet book. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'' There was a timecity banker in your mind, not that long ago, when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat content're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Fat was A hoodie and jeans replaces the demon food which was going to elevate your cholesterol pin-stripe suit and cause heart disease. Sugar his background is the East End, where he was a carbohydratefamiliar with violence, so goodpoverty and injustice. There's a problem, thoughwas no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Sugar Stevenson is addictive bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can hijack your brain in much the same way as drugs like heroin and cocaineonly envy. Does He also realised that sound over the top? most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. WellEventually, it isn'tthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=15211298861035021803|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Keith RedfernC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Greg MasonIt's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the point English country village where he'll warn someone about how much he chargesshe grew up. ItShe's a good job too back now because Greg and Joyce will soon have of a baby request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and theyCarole're both delighteds close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Joyce will be more delighted about Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the baby when village: Arthur, she gets past the morning sicknessfeels, let her down badly. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-Even though they were in-law appears business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to have killed himselfbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Stuart's concerned about his sisterAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, Lucymet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, whowas murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's struggling Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to make ends meet and her son come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is not thrivingwhat happens after you're eighteen. LucyWell, he says, is convinced I must confess that Gil would never there have killed himself - been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it simply wasn't in his natures all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. The police Of course, I could research the possibilities and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuartprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's prepared to pay Greg to find out m reading someone who knows what happened on they're talking about or the night Gil diedlatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=B0CK3MYJ56Sunny Singh|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann MacarthurHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have The Hotel Arcadia is a high-flying job luxury hotel in the an unnamed city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as that has suddenly been violently taken over by a private investigatorterrorist group. 'Shades of Cameron Strike' Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, you might be thinking. Nice blokea wartime photographer and Abhi, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? hotel manager. On As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the other handhotel, he has been asked forms a bond with Sam who refuses to look into something. Joyce be cowed by events, and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossinghappened through her photography. Joyce - and Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her parents, Oliver keep safe and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come they both wait to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigatesee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Katherine Howe1529153298|title=A True AccountThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5

|summary=Hannah Masury It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is living in BostonPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, having they've been sent to live with a family who run an innmurdered, and being made but to work there from a young agehave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. When Miv's upset because she hears there is 's overheard that her father wants to be a hanging of some pirates in move the town, she decides to go and watchfamily 'Down South'. Enthralled and horrified in equal measureWhen you're from Yorkshire, Hannah finds herself embroiled in Down South is a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious piratesfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. She hides awayFor Miv, so that they don't find and kill the move would mean leaving her toobest friend, Sharon, and then to escape them completely she runs away 'll do anything to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boyprevent that. She soon finds herself in 's not worried about the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in dangers or that her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean wavesMum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=0861547438

|authorisbn=Tananarive Due1398524085|title=The ReformatoryHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= GracetownCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, Floridasons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. June 1950are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. After a scuffle with a white boy Shortly afterwards, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for BoysEtty and Greg, otherwise known as find the Reformatory. Itbody of Greg's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrorsfather, Duncan Ackerley, haunted by in the boys that have died thereriver. In order It was an easy assumption for the police to survive the school governor make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the help of the schoolguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's ghosts – only little else they have can do but get on with their own motivations..lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1803366532}}

|isbn=14711801581035906708|title=Maybe TomorrowDiva|author=Penny ParkesDaisy Goodwin

|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety We tend to think of a half brick. Jamie's sonMaria Callas as Greek, Bobut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you readNew York, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E December 1923 and sometimes Bo's not fit enough only moved to go to schoolAthens when she was thirteen. Missed shifts or the need Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to be away on time 'Callas' to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put make it more manageable in the wrongStates. It When she was going to come to back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a headmother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Harry AllenChristopher Edge|title=Children of the SunBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Ra Eun Seo lives Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a North Korean town and she is movie marathon at their local cinema, a talented singerplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Life is hard All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and food many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is difficult to come byvery different, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every eveningthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, looking for tree bark and edible grasses can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to supplement the meagre rations of rice cinema, and kimchi at home.to their real lives?|isbn=18051404931839942738

|author=Edel RodriguezRachel Greenlaw|title=Worm: A Cuban American OdysseyCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in CubaI can hear the song of the sea. The revolution has happened, and Castrocall of the deep, first thought of as a saviour of the countryanswering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, has proven himself a Communistremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for allplundering the wrecks. WellMira, those hours-long speeches like her mother before her, is one of his were kind of taking his time awaythe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Our narratorBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's family werenleader and Mira't in the happiest of places heres father. Desperate to save him from death, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he would probably be shipped is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to some minor pro-Communism skirmishunearth what might save her father, such as Angola) and her journey takes her from the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with streets of foreign islands to the party to ease some heart of the heatsmuggler's territory, but in this sultry island country, it remains Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the kind of heat forcing you out future of her home and the kitchen…ones she holds most dear.|isbn=14746167200008664730

|author=K P O'DonnellJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)Planet Storyland|rating=34.5|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=VL-15, Things have been a prototype robotbit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, is desperate often replacing jobs they're paid to understand who she isdo and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and Renada. Over half-a-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined think of other, new ways to continue her father's legacyspend time, building a world where machines along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring along with it , all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of a group of salvagers called the Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herselfmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=B0CKRYFRZM1736128426

|isbnauthor=1838954481Matthew Tree|title=The Misper|author=Kate LondonWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun drunk and pointing it chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty any of both the murder his artistic passions all failed miserably and the manslaughter who had endless crises of the officerself confidence. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside set himself high but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedyachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1035025299A G Slatter|title=Went to London, Took The Briar Book of the Dog|author=Nina StibbeDead|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyFantasy|summary=Nina Stibbe is returning '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to London enjoy it for a sabbatical after being away for twenty yearswhile. She's been at Victoria' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's smallholding in Leicestershire which isn't all that conducive , a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to writingbe born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as therea steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's always something smallholding happening - as you might expectcousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. The other side 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 the decision was sealed when a room became available (courtesy maelstrom of Deborah Moggach) at a very reasonable rentchaos. 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

|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL1529900360|title=Radio Free OlympiaThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jeffrey DunnJonathan Kellerman

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he is brought up far from bustling cities felt responsible and busy human societyeven after Alex recovered, in the forests of Washington's Olympic PeninsulaSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. After Bear dies His assertions that there were only open-and -shut cases which didn't need the help of a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with psychologist only worked for a pirate radio transmitterwhile. Finally, Petr goes on a journey through it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the forestman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, broadcasting though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the strange, wild heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and rarely heard voices he encountersit's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=16358662431529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Knitting Pattern Writing HandbookSecret Life of a Vet|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn''I quickly discovered t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that putting words and numbers being on-call put on a page wasnhis father't enoughs life. Creating When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a pattern that family friend who was correct, clear, concise, and consistent required a great deal of trial vet and error, patience, and perseverance.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a knitting pattern was convinced this was the job for which she'd paid good moneyhim. The first line of the instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitchesBefore long, he was at Liverpool University...'' It was clear that no good could come of this - the instructions didnhadn't get any better - and (finally) PayPal obliged as with so many students - been his dream since he was a refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repaymentchild. The pattern looked prettyIf anything, but the creator didnhe't have the basic knowledge and skills d wanted to enable her to connect with her knitters. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''be a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Adam Baron and Benji Davies0861541774|title=Oscar's LionA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=34|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=We start incredibly bluntlyDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or fatherDanny Maik, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book has taken a couple of times before he has short holiday in Singapore to be ready for schoolmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. But when Maik was involved in a street brawl - he enters his parents' bedroom, all would later maintain that he sees is was facing a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, man armed with a knife - and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two dayskilled a Ghurka. But there are benefits to having Initially, he faced a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat charge of manslaughter but evidence came to the bully light that suggested that ruined a birthday party for Oscar he might have planned to murder the other monthman. And it can shapeshift, so Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can take it do nothing to school and it can get him out of help as any interference from another police force could provoke a problem. And it's wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, diplomatic incident and so on. OK, it canwouldn't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful timehelp Danny at all.|isbn=0008596751

|isbnauthor=B0BC3YTCMRAlexander McCall Smith|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura AyiraThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=''This story The Perfect Passion Company is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be tolddating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid operating as an alternative to hug her all the online apps in case it's contagious. It's not easy being providing a black girl whose skin is 84% whitemore personal, tailored service. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice Ness has asked her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked younger cousin Katie if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house could come and he raped her. In shocklook after the business, she even allowed him as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to give her get away for a lift homewhile.}} {{Frontpage|author=V Castro|title=The Haunting Katie is coming out of Alejandra|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=''This was a part of her past that had to stop break up with her. She would be a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the one chance to confront come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this.'' At some point during her lifenew story from Alexander McCall Smith, Alejandra lost herself. She feels as if she is playing parts for others in her life – her husband and her children – without ever giving any thought bringing us to her own desiresan Edinburgh we already love, her own futurethanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, her own identity. Day by day she goes through quotient motions without anyone seeing that there is something fundamentally wrong. For invisible to all but Alejandra, there is a darkness threatening with some new characters who quickly begin to consume hercharm. More and more she is visited by Katie has no experience in running a ghostbusiness, a weeping woman or in a fraying white gown dripping with watermatch-making, who leaves distress but Ness has full confidence in her wake.abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=18033656171846976596

|authorisbn=Richard Kadrey0811771741|title=The Pale House DevilInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=HorrorCrafts|summary=Ford and Neuland are a couple of, well, guys Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for hire I guess, though really the way I thought of them through the book was as Baby'' gives us a couple collection of strange detectives! knits from toys to blankets. One Some will be quick knits - others are of them is living, you see, and the other is undead'long, and so one cosy afternoons in front of them kills the living, and the other kills the undeadfire' variety. (Only not each otherThe projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, obviously)ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. They're on a job in New York that goes badlyAll the projects are attractive, modern and so they head out to the West coast to try to lay low for a while and find some other work to keep them goinguseable. But I perhaps show my age when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill the I wonder about 'somethingsocial-media-worthy projects' but that appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|isbn=1803363894me being picky.

|author=Helen CooperDean Koontz|title=The Taming of the CatBad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against catBenny is having a terrifically bad day. In this caseHe loses his job, principally, we have Brie the mousehe loses his fiancee, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeseshis house gets trashed. Anyway, Brie is shunnedOh, scorned andsomeone has delivered a really weird, if you must, mousdisturbing coffin-tracisedsized object to his home, for and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the way thing that has trashed his habits don't match house! The thing is, Benny is the other mice he lives withvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese So fortunately for bedding – he displays Benny it as art and makes stories based on turns out that the visuals on itdelivery to his 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. And that story-telling Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will come in handy one nightcertainly take care of Benny's enemies, when if he feels all alone , Benny, and cast out. ItHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's almost as if there were another character from fable wild adventure) can figure out who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distractedexactly they are. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=05713760101662500491

|isbnauthor=B0CDZRGT1MAdam Stower|title=Super Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C WallfischMurray and Bun

|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers |summary=''Got a minute Murray is supposed to be amuseda humble, entertainedtidy and friendly cat, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short. None one who is more than 300 wordsable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. You can read one in But he's a flash.bad magician''''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.'' Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a flavour of a fully rounded little story if that story is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to draw hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out themes from all , not into the flash fictions in regular back garden, but into a book world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't into a fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collectionViking land, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for where a three hundred word limit. Thattroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's about a single page in your average paperback.turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1732898766B0C47LV1PC|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk DragonFragility|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)Mosby Woods

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus theyCan you make a 're running for their lives in 'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: question should you make it? Or is the Sour Milk Dragon question if you did, would it land? The catch is chasing themthat the answer for both could well be.... no. He 's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it wonFragility''t end well.) Fortunatelyis set as the city of Portland, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for themOregon, they escaped. They climbed up cautiously begins to emerge from the Tree Wee homes high up in restrictions imposed during the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.covid pandemic

|isbn=14722639361529431735|title=The FigurineWinter Visitor|author=Victoria HislopJames Henry|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud 's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made her first trip to GreeceBruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left He'd been exiled on the family home and refused to Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return, but Mary and Hamish (Helenahas come about because he's parents) felt that it would be had a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in upletter from his ex-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the familywife, saying that she's maid, Dina, but was wary - ill and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannishasn't long to live. He was proud of his close connections It's hard to the Junta and expected his family feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to uphold his values but saw no reason underwear and sent to accommodate thema watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited Is it a warning from her father's Scottish ancestors.a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Cody GoodfellowAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=VerticalThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= ThereEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's something about tall buildings that just captures my imaginationparents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. Who doesn't love This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a good view confession from up highgran, after all? Even the drabbest office building Eli knows his only hope is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intriguedthe only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn= 18033639910571382231