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|author=John Henry PhillipsTom Percival|title=The SearchWrong Shoes

|genre=HistoryConfident Readers|summary=Archaeology cannot be childWill's playlife is difficult, when you're scraping in the dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thingmultitude of ways. This book He is a case of bullied because he has 'the latterwrong shoes', as our author promises to locate he has the topic of the titular search. And he really hasnwrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't made it easy have enough money for himself – even the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – ohmost basic of things like food, and ithis dad can's underwatert work because he lost his job at the college, when he cannot dive. Latching was working a cash-in-hand job on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the heroic old manfact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's visit back to Francelife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, our author he still has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandya tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and that he was lucky clings to survive the moments of joy when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim he is to erect drawing, that feel like a memorial to everyone else aboard, light at the vast majority end of whom perisheda long, dark tunnel. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=14721461821398527122

|author=Fiona LongmuirSylvie Cathrall|title=Looking for EmilyA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Meet Lily. She and her mother have just moved from There are few greater joys than a city book which lives up to a tiny seaside town called Edge, and everyone from said mother to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friendscompelling premise. It turns out that she doesn't have any say in the matter, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she is unaware her neighbour, Sam, is just about to make herself known, and in a big way. But where does Emily come from? Well, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of the most mundane objects, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming door, in a place calling itself 'The Museum of Emily'. Sam And this is completely unaware one of this 'museum', too, leaving the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behind the intrigue..them.|isbn=18399427540356522776

|isbn=B09XZMCDVF0008517061|title=Stories: 13 tantalising talesDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Richard F WalkerStig Abell

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=''A news vendor is crying out the headlines in Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the middle future of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch his life with reality when he tries walking around his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his imagination; a stickler for correct grammar goes back off-grid and relaxing life to move in time with Livia or does Livia move to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the ideal person to have around moment they’re enjoying life in a lawless village; the new boy present and putting the future on the pub football team back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is very useful pregnant with his feetchild as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, and awfully familiar…''not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThis collection of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker |summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has a lot to offer any respect for the eclectic readerother. Tying them together But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the idea that remarkable body of a missing person is buried and strangewho was responsible for her death. This person, even miraculoushe promises, things can happen is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to ordinary peoplebe transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. And that ordinary Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form and tone varies think so this little treasury of short fiction is never boring and youshe're never quite sure s even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's coming nexthappening.

|isbn=18009012320008405026|title=Stitched UpA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Steve ColeJane Casey

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyCrime|summary=TwelveIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Hanh wanted Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to be a fashion designerhalt. Life in the rural village where she lived with Now, her family was happymother, Helena, if not prosperousand her father are dead in their bed. Initially, so when it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the smartly-dressed man bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was an opportunity not going to be missed. Some money changed hands an open-and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoishut case is now a complex double murder. Only, Hanh and Kerrigan is convinced that the other girls were not going to work explanation lies in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wantedRosalie's disappearance: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? Itothers (such as Derwent's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made themboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for 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's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Daisy HildyardJo Callaghan|title=EmergencyLeave No Trace

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The summary When a man is found crucified on the top of this book doesna hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It't come close to explaining what 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 done suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the premise.case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1913097811139851120X}} {{Frontpage |authorisbn=Sally Oliver 1399613073|title=The Weight of Loss Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4 .5|genre=Literary Fiction Thrillers|summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the death first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of her sistera century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, she awakes which is a bonus when you aim to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the bones free spirit of her spine which steadily increase in size the group and volumeshe becomes a GP. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as When we first meet them they're at a physical reaction drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to her griefend in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, recommends she go it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to stay at Nede, bring up an experimental new treatment centre image of a city banker in Walesyour mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Yet something strange A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is happening the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to Marianne the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and the other patients at Nede: he has a metamorphosis facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a kindcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her Eventually, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at turned into permanent employment as a terrible price: that of identity itselftrader.|isbn= 086154112X

|authorisbn=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)1035021803|title=Little DrummerThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=Part of It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is a mixture of police procedural and thrillerEnglish country village where she grew up. Beginning with the death She's back now because of a young woman in a carparkrequest for help from her beloved aunt, that looks very much like an overdoseCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, it unravels into a far-reaching investigation of murderArthur Crockleford, fraudis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, and international pharmaceutical dealingsto say the least. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, who end up working separately on the case let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led antique hunters, she has not felt able to Africa as they follow be near the twists and turns of man or pursue the investigationprofession she loved. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious After the split, chasing down the truth she worked in increasingly difficulta cafe, frustrating circumstances, trying hard to uncover met and married James (on the rebound from the truth as they are sure that something much biggerlove of her life, who was murdered) and much more dangerous, is going onFreya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1914585127

|isbn=0008541477AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Clarice BeanAll Tomorrow's Futures: Scram!Fictions that Disrupt|author=Lauren ChildBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=It was a hot summer day right at ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the beginning shape of the summer holidays and Clarice Bean was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except for sometimes... And only on rare-sh occasions, which is hardly everthings to come.''

There are seven members of the Bean family living in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because heI've heard it said that 'technology's wobbly), Mum and Dad, Clariceis what happens after you's older brotherre eighteen. Well, Kurt and younger brother, Minal CricketI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. ThereI's also Marcie, whove kept up reasonably well with what's main claim advantageous to fame seems to be me but I'm left with the feeling that she steals the batteries from Clariceit's torchall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, which means that she canI 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't read in re talking about or the airing cupboardlatest conspiracy theorist. Clarice would love to have someone I needed people I knew I could trust and who listened to her, rather than wanting to talk, but the only one who does that is Granny and she lives could deliver information in New York. The Bean family is ''different''a way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=0711266204Sunny Singh|title=The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers |summary=I have recently discovered The Hotel Arcadia is a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a daily basisterrorist group. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed Hiding from the groundterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, which pop the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and residents who settles are still alive in for the hotel, he forms a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeablebond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. It would have been wonderful ifAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as a child, I'd had access Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists. So – what is it?|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=17370309421529153298|title=Bag O'GoodiesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jolly Walker BittickJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre= AnthologiesGeneral Fiction|summary=SometimesIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittickhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv'Bag Os upset because she'Goodiess overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. I first encountered his writing about When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a year agofrightening, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]foreign place, a rollicking tale of what happens when five young men find a base for their partyingbest avoided. Right nowFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, I didnand she't want a full-length novel, so I turned ll do anything to this anthology of verse and short storiesprevent that. BittickShe's writing has matured not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - and so have his charactersto anyone. Well... most of them!

|authorisbn=Caryl Lewis and George Ermos1398524085|title=SeedHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his lifeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and they both might be thought of as complete embarrassmentsOllie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. His grandfather runs an allotment Shortly afterwards, Etty and manages to stink Greg, find the entire town out from it when he douses it body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetablesthe river. His mother somehow combines It was an easy assumption for the dual roles of housebound failure and hoarder – while she seems police to do nothing make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and hasnthen committed suicide when he couldn't left the building in years she has still managed to fill it to stand the brim with junkguilt. What Marty The Salter children are not convinced but there's classmates don't know about this little else they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always looks, do but get on with his one school uniform built from lost property. We see him as once again the council threaten her their lives and him with eviction, and as he celebrates his birthday with the gift from his grandfather of a solitary plant seedwonder about what really happened.|isbn=1529077664

|authorisbn=Sophie Cameron1035906708|title=Our Sister, AgainDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora diesLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, her family struggle to find a way forwardplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. In particular All big movie fans, Islathey's mum who can’t seem re looking forward to be able to let her daughter go. When Isla passes her mum's details onto a support group she finds onlinelots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, she thinks they might be able to help. But actuallyvery quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, it turns out and they are part of swept up into an experimental company who offer the family the chance to have Flora back again, in robot form. But this wonadventure they couldn't just be a look-a-likeeven imagine. They use all of Flora's online history But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, and interviews with family and friends, and through this data can they will recreate Flora as closely as possible. But figure out what will it really mean for on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the familycinema, and to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at alltheir real lives?|isbn=17889539161839942738

|isbnauthor=1398507504Rachel Greenlaw|title=Cold ReckoningCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''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 one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With 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 territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=Russ ThomasJames Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and Things have been a bit sticky for the last sixteen years heEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's been searching for evidence re paid to prove do and other tasks that he's right. When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back took time to a cold case from 2002accomplish. There didn't immediately seem Just as they were beginning to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death but Adam Tyler senses a link get used to the case his father was investigating before he died. Above all there's a growing sense that the criminality this technological change and starting to think of Det Supt Stevens is going other, new ways to be brought out into spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the openmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=0727850547Matthew Tree|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)|author=David MarkWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadn't even had time for breakfast when the call came through. A body Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had been found in the roots endless crises of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullself confidence. When he gets So Tim applied himself to the scenehis studies, he will find what greets him is even worse cultivated his abilities rather than he could have imagined. A young man's corpse is entangled with the roots of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyes. It would seem that this was done whilst the man was still alive. McAvoy makes a promise to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at a cost daydreams and this time the cost might be to McAvoy's own familyset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Natalia Garcia FreireA G Slatter|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Literary FictionFantasy|summary= Early comments on '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendousjust to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a delightwhile. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but '' Within a delight' is perhaps using remote mountain pass, far away from the expression in world, lies Silverton; a way Itown under the protection of the Briar'm not familiar withs, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. I have to confess my ignorance of Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the Spanishfirst non-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation herewitch 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. From When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the little I have read (in translationBriar Witch, I donthe town't read Spanish) there does seem s leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to be communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a tendency towards maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the fantastical – the mystical realismBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat. |isbn=08615419011803364548

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin1529900360|title= Rebel SkiesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 54|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault 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. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the Midori, help of a psychologist only worked for a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquestswhile. However Finally, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like himit was Robin, Delaware's partner, someone with the power to form paper who nudged Milo into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empireasking for help again. He asks her to come with him, to leave She knew that the life of dreary servitude involvement was something that is all the man she has knownloved needed. Well The next case did look simple, soon Kurara won't have any say though. Two lovers were murdered in the matter, because swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is forced married to flee out into an extremely rich man and it's not the worldItalian. She joins Himura aboard But which of them was the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590primary target?

|authorisbn=Patrice Lawrence1529395224|title=NeedleLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=TeensAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers bothSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Kicked out of multiple homes His father was a GP and schools, sheRowlands didn's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutort want to follow in his footsteps, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while particularly when heconsidered the strain that being on-call put on his father's at unilife. Such When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a tempestuous personality may be in need of family friend who was a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, vet and was convinced this was the creation of one such item is part of the plot herejob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with so many students - been his dream since he was a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorantchild. And then... well If anything, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only he'd wanted to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can bea professional footballer...|isbn=1800901011

|isbn=14059409800861541774|title=The BirdcageA Nye of Pheasants|author=Eve ChaseSteve Burrows

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's the 7th of January 2019 close friend and we know that former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a body has been pulled out of the sea at Zennor short holiday in CornwallSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. We don't know whose body it is. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at the request of their father, Charlie Finch, Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a famous artist. The girls are actually ''half''knife -sisters and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closehe killed a Ghurka. Finch was known for his fecundityInitially, if not for his fidelity. It's been he faced a long time since the girls charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years ago, at planned to murder the time of man. Now he could be facing the total eclipse, something happeneddeath penalty. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a victim diplomatic incident and itwouldn's left her very wary of her sisterst help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=1787634906Alexander McCall Smith|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBrideThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=We're The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Oldcastle Edinburgh, run by Ness and Malcolm is operating as an alternative to all the online apps in troubleproviding a more personal, tailored service. He's in an abandoned house Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and he's being threatened by two young peoplelook after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. One Katie is Allegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and Hugoso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a And so begins this new coat story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, apparently) but she'd put with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a tracking device business, or in it so that she match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and Hugo could find out where he was sleeping. It wonthere't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backs.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Jennifer Saint0811771741|title=ElektraInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=Literary FictionCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman'Elektras ' by Jennifer Saint tells the story 'InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of three women who live in the heavily maleknits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits -dominated world others are of Ancient Greece. Cassandrathe 'long, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players cosy afternoons in the story front of the Trojan Warfire' variety. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often The projects are divided by the silent women have time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the most compelling stories projects are attractive, modern and the most extreme furiesuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1472273915

|isbnauthor=1529149800Dean Koontz|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyParanormal|summary=We begin with Benny is having a telling storyterrifically bad day. All the birds He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and animals fled when the forest fire took hold his house gets trashed. Oh, and most of them stood and watchedsomeone has delivered a really weird, unable disturbing coffin-sized object to think of anything they could do. his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The tiny hummingbird flew to thing is, Benny is the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back very last person to drop them into the firedeserve all this bad luck. The animals laughed: what good was that doingHe is a nice person. ''I'm doing the best I can'', said the hummingbirdA really nice person. And So fortunately for Benny it turns out thatthe delivery to his house is a new friend, reallya bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is the only way that we going to take care of Benny, and will solve the problem certainly take care of climate change – by each of us doing what we Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can, however small that might befigure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1776574338Adam Stower|title=Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu Murray and Bei LynnBun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Every morning LeilongMurray is supposed to be a humble, the brontosaurus school bustidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, makes whatever takes his way through fancy next of the city, picking up children as he goestwo. Children who live at But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – catflap they simply climb both use can chuck them out , not into the regular back garden, but into a world of the window frightening adventure and slide down his neckwhiffs. It's perfectThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, isn't it? What could be where a more fun way of going to school? There troll hunter is a problemexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because honest, but he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to turned up and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=303091657XB0C47LV1PC|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandFragility|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceLiterary Fiction|summary=Boards must act in Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the best interests of their stakeholders and ensure question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that they are the answer for both could well-managed and financially securebe.... This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or the collapse of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingno. Where were they? Occasionally  ''Fragility'' is set as the boards were unaware city of what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eyePortland, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminality. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway maniaOregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very little.restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=15293379681529431735|title=In Place of FearThe Winter Visitor|author=Catriona McPhersonJames Henry|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's July 1948 February 1991 and Helen Crowther Essex is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the NHS is bornmore surprising. SheHe'll be working d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healtha decade. The hardest part of the job will be to persuade people return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that the services she offers really are free 's ill and that they donhasn't have to do anything long to qualify for themlive. Some It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insightstolen Ford Sierra. Her marriage has never been consummated.}}Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?