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|author= Andrea StewartSylvie Cathrall|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre= FantasyScience Fiction|summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wanted'' In an empire controlled by There are few greater joys than a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructs, an heir book which lives up to the throne, a smuggler, and a warrior will fight to find their place in the worldcompelling premise. Lin And this is the emperor's forgotten daughter, kept locked away in a palace of secrets and closed doors. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to show him she is capable of reviving a dying empire and in secret, she begins to unlock one door after another, searching for the mysteries of her past and the forbidden art of bone shard magic. Yet Lin is playing a deadly game and her quest for power will come at great cost. With revolution in the air and creeping closer and closer to the gates of the palace, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become a catalyst of change and save her peoplethem.|isbn=03565149430356522776

|authorisbn=Sharon Doering0008517061|title=She Lies CloseDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missingFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, around 6 months agohas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There has been no sign There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of her sincehis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and no arrests have been made. And yether daughter Diana, this book is not about Ava. Not really. This book is about Grace, who has just discovered her neighbour as moving in her new house is together would mean a suspect lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in Ava's disappearance. As a single mother with Livia or does Livia move to two young children, Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she's really wishing this sort of information had come to light before they moved wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life inthe present and putting the future on the back burner.|isbn=1789094194

|authorisbn=Yara Evans and Luciana Betti1786482126|title=The Adventures of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Black Cat and Tabby Cat are minding their own business Builders were demolishing an old house in their own house Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a very alarming thing happensdoorway. There was no skull. A creature - Was this a largeritual killing or murder? Inevitably, dog-like creature - appears in their houseDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Black Cat It's difficult as Ruth knows, always one to take chargebut Nelson doesn't, challenges this fearsome creature that she is pregnant with all his child as a result of the courage he can musterone night they spent together some three months ago. Tabby Cat backs him.... from a rather safe distance. The creature Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is indignant - ''I'm not a dogprone to sudden bouts of sickness. I'm a fox!''|isbn=1511658649

|isbn=17124357280008551324|title=Jamie's KeepsakeThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Michael GallagherNeil Lancaster

|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When we first meet Alex Hannah, heIt's just being released unusual for anyone from the Southern General HospitalHardie family to approach the police. The nurse thinks he'll come back to visit Neither side likes or has any respect for the other patients but Alex has no intention of doing that: . But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's been there for a year, on prepared to tell the same ward police where his brother died the body of a missing person is buried and nowwho was responsible for her death. This person, with his hair all shorn offhe promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he's going home in his dead brother's clotheswants. He And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to get outside and back with his friends: his brother, Forbes, says that serve the fresh air will do him good and remainder of his mother tells him that he's not to mention TB sentence and to say it was tonsillitisget an early parole date. Good luck with that oneNot much to ask, Alex.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alice Oseman|title=Solitaire|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Victoria Spring has returned to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead to the world. Nothing is interesting. People are stupid and boring. it? She has one real friend; the rest are just people she sits near so she's not a complete loner. She hates a lot of things - including herself. But suddenly, a blog called Solitaire has arrived and is pulling pranks throughout the school. And Michael Holden has appeared and is showing up everywhere in Tori's life. Tori The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't know (or care) why she's involved, but suddenly think so and she is. What does Solitaire want? Who's behind it? Why does it all seem even prepared to be linked to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Tori's life so badly do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is he, really? Things are only getting stranger and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isnkept well away from what't bored anymores happening.|isbn=9780007559220

|authorisbn=Natasha Farrant0008405026|title=Voyage of A Stranger in the SparrowhawkFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Set in England in It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the aftermath of World War Oneinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, this is the story of two childrenHelena, Lotti and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but don't want to let go of her father are dead in their last, tiny glimpses of hopebed. Ben is living on Initially, it looks like a narrowboat on the canal, lying to the police about his brotherstraightforward murder/suicide but there's imminent return from something about the battlefields to take care positioning of himthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Lotti, meanwhile, has been expelled from school What looked as though it was going to be an open-and -shut case is back at home; it's now a beautiful house that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship forcomplex double murder. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals a dog!) Kerrigan is convinced that the beginning of a deep, and powerful friendship. It sees them become each otherexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's familyboss, and undertake a perilous trip to France, in the boat, to try to find out the truth of the people they both loveUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=0571348769

|isbn=14711792730571379877|title=House of CorrectionThe Kellerby Code|author=Nicci FrenchJonny Sweet|rating=3.5

|summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, she's in prisonobsessed with his upper-class friends, on remandRobert and Stanza. SheRobert's sharing a cell with Michaela, whotheatre director. He's more caring than she first appearsalso self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. She delivers tough Edward has been in love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking with Stanza since their university days - and encourages her he's drunkenly confided how he feels to have a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might beRobert. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Most men in Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabitha's house. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered two of them kissing in his blooda dark passageway.

|author=Darren ShanJo Callaghan|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment Leave No Trace

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=This third and final book in When a man is found crucified on the first volume top of Darren Shan's new ''Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie and Inez make it almost all a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the way to case alongside her sidekick, the CuckooAI detective Lock. It's Nesttheir first live case together, where the Vote having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of Alignment will be heldunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. But how will Will they get be able to solve the case intime, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=B086LLWP4V139851120X

|isbn=00083147211399613073|title=Truth Be ToldMoral Injuries|author=Kia AbdullahChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' familyOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to thank be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and this prompts a phone call in returntrauma doctor. There are two sons Anjali is the free spirit of the family, seventeen-yeargroup and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-old Kamran fuelled party and sixteen-year-old Adamit's going to end in tragedy. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didnWe don't name them know who suffered the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off tragedy or the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'consequences. Sofia worries about Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that sort of thingwill impact the three friends. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton schoolThis time, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from it's their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedteenage children who are involved.

|isbn=15098895150241636604|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)Trading Game: A Confession|author=Ann CleevesGary Stevenson

|summary=It was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the wrong turning as English country village where she drove home in the blizzardgrew up. If she hadnShe't the car might not have been found until the morning and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seats back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, particularly as the car door had been left openCarole. Vera took Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the boy and drove circumstances seem suspicious, to say the nearest habitationleast. She ''thought'' it would be the village but it Arthur was Brockburn, the ancestral home of reason why Freya had not been back to the Stanhopesvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her father had been the younger brother of down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man who inherited - and Hector was or pursue the black sheep of the familyprofession she loved. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassingAfter the split, but there was little else that she could do worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the circumstanceslove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=0241425441AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Thursday Murder ClubAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Richard OsmanBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=The first member ''Opening up new ways of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcroft. She used to be a nurse and is thus thinking about the perfect person for Elizabeth shape of things to consult about how long come.'' I've heard it would take a person who has been stabbed to bleed outsaid that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Details of where and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms Well, I must confess that it would have taken about forty-five minutes and that the victim could there have been saved if she'd received prompt medical helpmore than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. It didnI't put Joyce off her shepherdve kept up reasonably well with what's pie (which tells us advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it was a Monday) but 's all getting away from me. Some of it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Clubis - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villagea way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1948124440Sunny Singh|title=What Wonders Await Outdoors|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=The second book Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in Justine Avery's Wonders series is an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the perfect antidote to long summer days with bored children - orterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, indeedthere is Sam, as we've found recentlya wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic is rolling across the world. What do you do when every book has been read and every toy has been played residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond withSam who refuses to be cowed by events, repurposedand keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and played with again?they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn= Samira Ahmed1529153298|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to KnowThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 3.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'In the end, we all become storiess not what's worrying Miv' Spending the summer in Paris sounds like a dream for most peoples family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, especially art-loversthey've been murdered, but Khayyam canto have 'disappeared' doesn't relax and stop thinking about sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the mess she left behind in Chicagofamily 'Down South'. On When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre Dumasfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey with him to unveil the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumasmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byronshe'll do anything to prevent that. As the two teenagers travel the city they She's not only discover themselves, but uncover worried about the true story of the woman and why it was one dangers or that should never have been forgottenher Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=0349003556

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman1398524085|title=LovelessHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Georgia is a teenager who's embarking on Charlotte Salter was expected at her first year of university and is in a desperate struggle to figure herself out. Shehusband's always been in love with lovefiftieth birthday party but never turned up. With the idea of love Her children, sons Niall, the idea of falling madly for someone Paul and Ollie and finding blissher daughter, Etty. But the reality for are all worried but - strangely - her has always been differenthusband, Alec, is not. She Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's never had a crushfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. She's never been kissed. And she's desperate It was an easy assumption for the police to feel something make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and fall for someone. But then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the opportunity presents itself in any kind of real, tangible and physical way for her - she's disgusted by itguilt. But isn't that what she The Salter children are not convinced but there's supposed to want? Isn't that what everyone is supposed to do? How come everyone little else they can do it? Why can't she?|isbn=000824412Xbut get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=B086LLRZFH1035906708|title=Archibald Lox and the Empress of SuanpanDiva|author=Darren ShanDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Archie's second foray into 'the Merge' opens with a fantastic vista. All We tend to think of the Born's most famous buildings and monuments - Big BenMaria Callas as Greek, the Taj Mahalbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan,  the Eiffel Tower - are collected togetherNew York, joined by those clever Merge vines. But there's no time to waste in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help from Inez December 1923 and only moved to a venerable locksmith called WinstonAthens when she was thirteen.Winston is a darling Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but is afraid her father changed it to help - what is 'Callas' to be done? Despite yearning to go home and worry for his foster parents, Archie feels an obligation to take Winston's placemake it more manageable in the States. And When she was back in Athens - supposedly so Archie embarks on that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a new, mother who mercilessly exploited her and even more dangerousmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, adventure...Jackie.

|isbnauthor=1408712288Christopher Edge|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)|author=Val McDermidBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It was the middle of February Lucas and bitterly cold when his friends are all booked in for a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled movie marathon at their local cinema, a body out place that has the Firth nickname of Forth instead of a lobster pot'The Black Hole'. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate and it didnAll big movie fans, they't take too long re looking forward to establish that the man was Paul Allardlots of exciting films, ostensibly a Frenchmanand many, but in reality James Auld of Edinburgh. many snacks! A decade earlier he's gone missing when he was the prime suspect in However, as the disappearance and possible murder of his brothermovie starts, prominent civil servantthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, Iain Auldand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. DCI Karen Pirie, But as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unitthey lurch from one film genre to the next, had been the last person can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to review the casecinema, a couple of years earlier and it seemed sensible to bring her into the case at an early stage.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author= Adrian TchaikovskyRachel Greenlaw|title= The Doors of EdenCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary= Wow – this novel is gigantic''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in every sense 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 one of the wordseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. "Epic" is But when the Council Watch lays a word thattrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's thrown around father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a lot these daysbargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, but if she sets off in search of a book ever earned family secret that lies buried deep in the name it's this onesea. ItWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's a doorstopper full territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of big ideas, her home and at times it almost felt too big for my brainthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=15098658880008664730

|author=Will CarverJames Sherwood Metts|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripPlanet Storyland

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Hinton Hollow, population 5,120. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in America's mid-west, but this particular Hinton Hollow is Things have been a small town in Berkshire, Englandbit sticky for the Earthlings. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereAI and automation have been proceeding apace, until something happened often replacing jobs they're paid to do and he ran away other tasks that took time to the cityaccomplish. He's running away again…only Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time evil is following him , along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and is going to touch just about everyone in town, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=19131933061736128426

|author=Jacqueline WilsonMatthew Tree|title=Love FrankieWe'll Never Know

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to leave her for another woman, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever livedbe different from his father, a drunk and, above chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all when Sally failed miserably and her mates are bullying you at schoolwho had endless crises of self confidence. OhSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and when Samset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' 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, your best friend since foreverall mine, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you donat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''t fancy him back.

Poor Frankie! Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. 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 maelstrom of 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= 0857535897 1803364548

|isbn=17765728581529900360|title=How Do You Make a Baby?The Ghost Orchid|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were madefault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. My mother was deeply embarrassed His assertions that there were only open-and told me that she-shut cases which didn'd get me t need the help of a psychologist only worked for a book about while. Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. A couple of days later I She knew that the involvement was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than something that the basicsman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in clinical language which had never been used the swimming pool of a remote property in our house before) Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasns not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't something which nice people talked about'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 doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. I ''knew'' moreBefore long, but he was little ''wiser'at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. ThankfullyIf anything, times have changedhe'd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|isbn=15420174320861541774|title=The Nidderdale MurdersA Nye of Pheasants|author=J R EllisSteve Burrows|rating=34

|summary=It was DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a Friday short holiday in mid-September when the shoot was held on the grouse moor near NiddersgillSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. The shooters at the butts were Maik was involved in a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to his friends) street brawl - he would later maintain that he was the owner of the moor and facing a retired judge. James Symonds was man armed with a local landowner knife - and Henry Saunders was he killed a banker. He and Fraser had known each other since their school daysGhurka. The fourth member was Gideon RawnsleyInitially, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Riponhe faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Rawnsley had a gripe with Fraser: Now he'd sold him an expensive car and Fraser was being slow to paycould be facing the death penalty. Other people had reason Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to comment on Fraserhelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's attitude to money: his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy and very difficult to work fort help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=0241433568Alexander McCall Smith|title=Eight Detectives|author=Alex PavesiThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=It's 1930 The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house operating as an alternative to all the online apps in Spainproviding a more personal, tailored service. It's unbearably hot Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to have get away for a rest while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and then he wants so jumps at the chance to talk come home to Megan and Henry about something seriousEdinburgh. Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that he's been murderedAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. How can that have happened? ThereKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's no one else in the housealways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, so one of them must be the killer.to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=15263627590811771741|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give ItInstaKnits for Baby|author=Rashmi SirdeshpandeMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=What Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a relief! collection of knits from toys to blankets. A book about money, for children, with clear explanations Some will be quick knits - others are of what it isthe 'long, why it matters, how to acquire more cosy afternoons in front of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when youthe fire've managed to get hold of itvariety. Your reasons for wanting money donThe projects are divided by the time they't matter: we all need it ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to some extenttwenty hours and more than twenty hours. You might want to go into businessAll the projects are attractive, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') modern and there might be something you really, useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'really'' want to buy. Therebut that's also the possibility of using to do good in the worldme being picky.

|isbnauthor=0008378363Dean Koontz|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=A husband Benny is about to have having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his throat cut in fiancee, and his own bedhouse gets trashed. To find out who - Oh, and why someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin- we need sized object to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenziehis home, Robin and Lily met when they all went to it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the same college in Monroevillething that has trashed his house! The thing is, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still Benny is the best of friendsvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. When they first met they called themselves So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the Spicier Girls as delivery to his house is a nod new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to the famous girl band of the dayhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Lily would be Adventure SpiceSpike is going to take care of Benny, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - wellwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own life. She married OwenBenny, her college sweetheart and they have Harper (a daughter, Aria, waitress slash Private Investigator whofinds herself roped into Benny's now fifteen-year-oldwild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Darren ShanAdam Stower|title=Archibald Lox Murray and the Bridge Between WorldsBun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Time Murray is supposed to catch you all up with some of my lockdown reading - I've been doing so much of it that I'm be a bit late humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the party with actual reviewingtwo. Oops! And where better to start than with the new series from Bookbag favourite, Darren Shan? Archie is very down. He But he's lost a dear friend recentlybad magician's cat, in so his favourite bun has been turned into a tragic accidenthyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and Archie blames himself. He the catflap they both use can't face school so he takes himself for chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a truanting wander around Londonworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. As he strolls across This time round it drops them into a footbridgeViking land, he sees where a girl who troll hunter is being pursued by some murderous-looking men in white suits. He watchesexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, aghast. What is going on?but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=B086LKBHD60008561249

|authorisbn=Antony WoottenB0C47LV1PC|title=Season of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Fragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= Tannash and her brother Geb are waiting in great excitement Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for the hunting party led by their uncle to returnboth could well be.... no. They 're hoping for a feast of mammoth meat. Geb longs for 'Fragility'' is set as the day he can join his uncle Gagba and the other warriors on a hunting party and take part in their deeds city of derring-do. But their fatherPortland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the leader of restrictions imposed during the village, thinks that they also need an education; that knowledge is power.|isbn=1939269679covid pandemic

|authorisbn= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May1529431735|title= Seven DevilsThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 4|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= Eris It's February 1991 and Essex is one of bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the foremost operatives of more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Novantae, Costa del Sol as a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead wanted drug smuggler for yearsa decade. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, The return has come about because he's had a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's less than pleased ill and hasn't long to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this missionlive. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris It's brother Damocles, the runner-up heir hard to the Empirefeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, is plotting stripped to disrupt peace talks between Tholos his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the last boot of the free alien speciesa stolen Ford Sierra. It's Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a race against time as the rebels move problem closer to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140home?

|author=Non PrattAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Every Little Piece The Glorious Race of My HeartMagical Beasts

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Freya was Eli is a beautiful, popular and complex girl, loved busy lad – by many and seemingly stable day an apprentice in her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old studentthe wondrous library we start by visiting with him, complete with best friend and in the promise of evening a helper at the end of GCSEs just months awaydessert cafe his gran owns and runs. But one day Eli lives with his lovely gran, on January 1st, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her sincetoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. A once active social profile left deserted. Sofew short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months after, she expects it globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to contain answers navigate the world in the company of some kind, a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but is surprised to find when a bad incident at the parcel contains another layer addressed eatery leads to a complete strangerconfession from gran, and then another layer Eli knows his only hope is to another person and another, each containing an item unique dare to them and Freyaenter what he most hates, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and with the sole aim the promise prize of 'treasure' magic at the end of it all. With each parcel, a new layer of – the story and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come only thing to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and oldpossibly save his gran. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=14063669430571382231