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|author=Will BrookerTom Percival|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellWrong Shoes

|genre=BiographyConfident Readers|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the most successful British authors IWill've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brookers life is difficult, one of the thousands in a multitude of less successful authors I quite confidently never have readways. This book starts with He is bullied because he has 'the two meeting each otherwrong shoes', as well, and shows how 2021 drew he has the two closer wrong shoes because his dad can't work and closer together. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, doesn't have enough money for even the words most basic of her latest book she was recitingthings like food, and her being in a his dad can''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn t work because he lost his job at the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brookercollege, was working a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbitcash-in-hole that is Jewell's diverse outputhand job on a building site and had an accident. Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through a year in Throw into that mix the published authorfact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's lifeseems bleak in every direction. And yet, working to make he still has a success tiny amount of the latest titlehope. He is good at art, and struggling with clings to the next in line. Jewellmoments of joy when he is drawing, due diligence appropriately donethat feel like a light at the end of a long, agrees. And this is the resultdark tunnel.|isbn=15291360241398527122

|isbnauthor=1801109265Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Companion|author=Lesley ThomsonA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''a punctual man who was inexplicably never on time'' and he was - as usual - late to pick up his sonFormer Metropolitan Police detective, WilburJake Johnson, for their 'boys' day out'has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the boy's attention, future of his life with his mothervet girlfriend, AnnaLivia and her daughter Diana, promised him as moving in together would mean a roast dinner when he returned. lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in 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? The dinner would never be served, as James For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and Wilbur are putting the victims of a double stabbing future on the beach. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. She's feeling the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughback burner.

|isbn=B09Y451X9K1786482126|title= Greetings, aliens!: The Janus Stone (do pop in for teaDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Richard F WalkerElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'Anything can happen at a birthday party, particularly apartments - when they discovered the birthday boy is the young Lord bones of the Manora child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. But when an eerie signal is picked up in the early hours Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, George and his new girlfriendDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, the vivacious Lady Antoniabut Nelson doesn't, embark on that she is pregnant with his child as a quest to uncover its incredible message. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets the cat out result of the bag and the world goes into a state of panicone night they spent together some three months ago.'' Could it Her condition will be? Could it? Have aliens reached out and contacted Earth? George and Antonia find themselves lifted out of their privileged lives of parties and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into the world obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of advanced science, secret agents.and politicians hungry for powersickness.

|authorisbn=Darren Shan0008551324|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= So. WeIt're back s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the Merge with police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the first chapter other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in the third volume of Darren Shanprison and he's saga prepared to tell the police where the body of Archibald Lox, a young man missing person is buried and who can pick the locks of portals from our world to anotherwas responsible for her death. This person, he promises, called is someone big and it will be worth the ''Merge''police doing what he wants. Since his last adventure, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce on And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the topic remainder of his regular disappearancessentence and to get an early parole date. They don Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't ask too many questions think so and Archie has settled into a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winston, his lockshe's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -picking mentor in the make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what''Merge'' and showing Kojo, the young guardian, around our world of the Borns happening. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD

|authorisbn=John Henry Phillips0008405026|title=The SearchA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=Archaeology cannot be childIt's play, when you're scraping in sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the dirt looking investigation ground 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 thinghalt. This book is a case of the latter Now, as our author promises to locate the topic of the titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide oneher mother, the target might not exist any more – ohHelena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, itlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping something about the heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find positioning of the landing craft bodies that delivered him to Normandy, makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and that he her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was lucky going to survive when it sank from beneath himbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. The secondary aim Kerrigan is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboardconvinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, the vast majority of whom perishedUna Burt) are less convinced. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182

|authorisbn=Fiona Longmuir0571379877|title=Looking for EmilyThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet LilyEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. She and her mother have just moved from Robert's a city to a tiny seaside town called Edgetheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and everyone from said mother uses Edward to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friendsrun errands for him. It turns out that she doesn't have any say Edward has been in the matter, for while pretending when phoning home that she was love with someone called Emily, she is unaware her neighbour, Sam, is just about Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to make herself known, and Robert. Most men in a big way. But where does Emily come Robert's position would stay away from? Well, Lily used Stanza or tell Edward that name because of what shea relationship had begun between them but he'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of the s not like most mundane objects, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming door, in a place calling itself 'The Museum of Emily'. Sam men: Edward is completely unaware of this 'museum', too, leaving left to stumble upon the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned of them kissing in finding what's behind the intriguea dark passageway...|isbn=1839942754

|isbnauthor=B09XZMCDVFJo Callaghan|title=Stories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F WalkerLeave No Trace

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=''A news vendor When a man is crying out found crucified on the headlines top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the middle of case alongside her sidekick, the night; a wheelchair user loses touch AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with reality several cold cases. But when he tries walking around in his imagination; there is a stickler for correct grammar goes back in time to correct an iconic quote; second body found crucified a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person to have around in a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team few days later, Kat is very useful suddenly struggling with his feet, a potential serial killer and awfully familiar…'' This collection of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to offer solve the eclectic reader. Tying them together is case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the idea that remarkable case and strange, even miraculouspotentially, things can happen to ordinary people. And that ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form and tone varies so this little treasury out of short fiction is never boring and you're never quite sure what's coming next.a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=18009012321399613073|title=Stitched UpMoral Injuries|author=Steve ColeChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyThrillers|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a fashion designercardiothoracic surgeon. Life in Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when free spirit of the smartly-dressed man group and woman came to the village to offer Hahn she becomes a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missedGP. Some money changed hands When we first meet them they're at a drug and Hanh was on the minialcohol-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh fuelled party and the other girls were not it's going to work in a shop, they were to work end in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factorytragedy. You We don't know those jeans you really wanted: who suffered the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on tragedy or the legs? consequences. The ones with the artfullyTwenty-placed rips and distressed seams five years later there will be an eerily similar event that felt so soft when you touched them? will impact the three friends. ItThis time, it's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made themtheir teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Daisy Hildyard0241636604|title=Emergency|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The summary of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the premise.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage Trading Game: A Confession|author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss Gary Stevenson|rating=4 .5|genre=Literary Fiction Autobiography|summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death If you were to bring up an image of her sistera city banker in your mind, she awakes you're unlikely to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size pin-stripe suit and volume. Her GPhis background is the East End, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her griefwhere he was familiar with violence, recommends she go poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Walesthe London School of Economics. Yet something strange Stevenson is happening to Marianne 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:things to come.''

I've heard it said that 'technology'Nothing ever is what happens except for sometimesafter you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have 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's all getting away from me. And only on rareSome of it is - frankly -sh occasionsquite frightening. Of course, which is hardly ever.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. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers There |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are seven members of rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the Bean family living residents who are still alive in the house: Grandad (hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who lives refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on the ground floor because heventuring out of her room to try to capture what's wobbly)happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, Mum their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and Dad, Claricethey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's older brother, Kurt 1979 and younger brotherMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Minal Crickethonestly... ) ThereShe's also Marcienot what's worrying Miv's family, whothough. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's main claim to fame seems to be that upset because she steals the batteries from Clarice's torch, which means overheard that she canher father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you't read in the airing cupboardre from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Clarice For Miv, the move would love to have someone who listened to mean leaving herbest friend, rather than wanting to talkSharon, but the only one who does that is Granny and she lives in New York'll do anything to prevent that. The Bean family is ''differentShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=07112662041398524085|title=The Secret Life of BirdsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Nicci French

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basisher daughter, Etty. An hour can pass without my noticingare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. I've established which species feed from the groundShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, which pop to find the feeders for a quick snatch body of some food and who settles Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeablethe river. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had access to a book such as 'murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Secret Life of Birds'Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. So – what is it?

|isbn=17370309421035906708|title=Bag ODiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'GoodiesCallas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jolly Walker BittickChristopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club

|genre= AnthologiesConfident Readers|summary=Sometimes, you deserve a treat Lucas and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''. I first encountered his writing about friends are all booked in for a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]movie marathon at their local cinema, a rollicking tale place that has the nickname of what happens when five young men find a base for their partying'The Black Hole'. Right nowAll big movie fans, I didnthey't want a full-length novel, so I turned re looking forward to this anthology lots of verse exciting films, and short stories. many, many snacks! BittickHowever, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn's writing has matured - and so have his characterst even imagine. Well... most of them!But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Caryl Lewis and George ErmosRachel Greenlaw|title=SeedCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Marty has two parental figures ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in his lifemy heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and they both might be thought of as complete embarrassmentsplundering the wrecks. His grandfather runs an allotmentMira, like her mother before her, and manages to stink is one of the entire town seven who swim out from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetables. His mother somehow combines survey the dual roles of housebound failure and hoarder ruins – while she seems to do nothing rescuing any survivors and hasn't left any treasure that lies within. But when the building in years she has still managed to fill it Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the brim with junk. What Martyisland's classmates donleader and Mira't know about this they can draw lines s father. Desperate to save him from how poor Marty always looksdeath, Mira makes a bargain with his one school uniform built from lost property. We see him a wreck survivor who is as charming as once again 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 council threaten sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her and him with evictionfather, and as he celebrates his birthday with 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 gift from his grandfather future of a solitary plant seedher home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=15290776640008664730

|author=Sophie CameronJames Sherwood Metts|title=Our Sister, AgainPlanet Storyland

|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora dies, her family struggle to find Things have been a way forwardbit sticky for the Earthlings. In particularAI and automation have been proceeding apace, Islaoften replacing jobs they's mum who can’t seem re paid to be able do and other tasks that took time to let her daughter goaccomplish. When Isla passes her mum's details onto a support group she finds online, she thinks Just as they might be able were beginning to get used to help. But actuallyall this technological change and starting to think of other, it turns out they are part of an experimental company who offer the family the chance new ways to have Flora back againspend time, in robot formalong came an awful pandemic. But this won't just be a look-a-like. They use all of Flora's online historyLife was pretty much shut down and, and interviews along with family and friendsit, and through this data all the many daily social interactions on which they will recreate Flora as closely as possibledepend so heavily. But what will it really mean for the family, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=17889539161736128426

|isbnauthor=1398507504Matthew Tree|title=Cold Reckoning|author=Russ ThomasWe'll Never Know

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father committed suicide , a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and for set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the last sixteen years heDead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' There's been searching a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for evidence however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to prove that heenjoy it for a while.''s right. When  Within a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoirremote mountain pass, far away from the world, there was lies Silverton; a link back to town under the protection of the Briar's, a cold case family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from 2002the Darklands. There didn't immediately seem Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be any connection with DI Richard Tylerborn 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 death but Adam Tyler senses a link to cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the case his father was investigating before he died. Above all theretown's a growing sense that leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going rare ability to be brought out into communicate with the dead, putting her at the openheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Perhaps Tyler is going Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to get do as the answers he needs?Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=07278505471529900360|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)The Ghost Orchid|author=David MarkJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even had time after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for breakfast when the call came throughhis help on difficult cases. A body had been found in His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the roots help of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullpsychologist only worked for a while. When he gets to the sceneFinally, it was Robin, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imagined. A young manDelaware'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 eyespartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. It would seem She knew that this the involvement was done whilst something that the man was still aliveshe loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. McAvoy makes Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a promise to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justiceremote property in Bel Air. But justice always comes at a cost He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and this time the cost might be she is married to McAvoyan extremely rich man and it's own familynot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire1529395224|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delightSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but ' His father was a delightGP and Rowlands didn' is perhaps using t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the expression in a way Istrain that being on-call put on his father'm not familiar s life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience witha family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. I have to confess my ignorance of the SpanishIt hadn't -language literary tradition as with so forgive my generalisation heremany students - been his dream since he was a child. From the little I have read (in translationIf anything, I donhe't read Spanish) there does seem d wanted to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismprofessional footballer. |isbn=0861541901

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin0861541774|title= Rebel SkiesA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 54|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, taken a massive dining hall floating short holiday in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come Singapore to drink and make merry between their conquestsmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. However, when Maik was involved in a man named Himura arrives to tell her street brawl - he would later maintain that she is he was facing a Crafter like him, someone man armed with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empireknife - and he killed a Ghurka. He asks her to come with him Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to leave the life of dreary servitude light that suggested that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't he might have any say in planned to murder the matter, because man. Now he could be facing the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a shikigami, diplomatic incident and she is forced to flee out into the worldwouldn't help Danny at all. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590

|author=Patrice LawrenceAlexander McCall Smith|title=NeedleThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=BraveThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Charlene Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, the 'heroine' of this piece as Ness is extremely hard planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for some people to like, characters and readers botha while. Kicked Katie is coming out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering a break up with a pleasant yoga tutor, Anniebad boyfriend, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's so jumps at unithe chance to come home to Edinburgh. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, you might perhaps thinkbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the creation of one such item is part of the plot hereIsabel Dalhousie novels, as Charlene is but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a wonder knitterbusiness, and is or in match-making something , but Ness has full of love for confidence in her younger sister – a younger sister sheabilities, and there's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove always her belligerence with a store detective, very helpful (and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... wellrather handsome) neighbour, what exactly happens is not for me to sayWilliam, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...lend a hand…|isbn=18009010111846976596

|isbn=14059409800811771741|title=The BirdcageInstaKnits for Baby|author=Eve ChaseMelissa Leapman

|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=ItMelissa Leapman's the 7th of January 2019 and we know that ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a body has been pulled out collection of the sea at Zennor in Cornwallknits from toys to blankets. We donSome will be quick knits - others are of the 't know whose body it is. Four days earlierlong, Flora, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at cosy afternoons in front of the request of their father, Charlie Finch, a famous artistfire' variety. The girls projects are actually ''half'divided by the time they'll take to complete -sisters less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closemore than twenty hours. Finch was known for his fecundityAll the projects are attractive, if not for his fidelitymodern and useable. ItI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years ago, at the time of the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and itthat's left her very wary of her sistersme being picky.

|isbnauthor=1787634906Dean Koontz|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBrideThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=We're in Oldcastle and Malcolm Benny is in troublehaving a terrifically bad day. He's in an abandoned loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and hesomeone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's being threatened by two young peoplepossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. One He is Allegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugoa nice person. A really nice person. It seems So fortunately for Benny it turns out that Allegra bought Malcolm the delivery to his house is a new coat friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to keep help him warm (she often does this since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for homeless peoplebeing a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, apparently) but sheand will certainly take care of Benny'd put s enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a tracking device in it so that she and Hugo could find waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out where he was sleeping. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people who exactly they are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backs.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Jennifer SaintAdam Stower|title=ElektraMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a 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 two. But he'Elektras a bad magician' by Jennifer Saint tells s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the story of three women who live in catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the heavily male-dominated regular back garden, but into a world of Ancient Greecefrightening adventure and whiffs. Cassandra This time round it drops them into a Viking land, Clytemnestrawhere a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and Elektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women he'll have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furies.to do…|isbn=14722739150008561249

|isbn=1529149800B0C47LV1PC|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce WasteFragility|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsMosby Woods

|genre=Home and FamilyLiterary Fiction|summary=We begin with Can you make a telling story. All ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the birds and animals fled when question should you make it? Or is the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watchedquestion if you did, unable to think of anything they would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could dowell be... The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doingno.  ''IFragility'm doing the best I can'', said is set as the hummingbird. And thatcity of Portland, reallyOregon, is cautiously begins to emerge from the only way that we will solve restrictions imposed during the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.covid pandemic

|isbn=17765743381529431735|title=Leilong's Too Long!The Winter Visitor|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnJames Henry

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Every morning LeilongIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goesmore surprising. Children who live at the top of tower blocks donHe't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of d been exiled on the window and slide down his neckCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. ItThe return has come about because he's perfecthad a letter from his ex-wife, isnsaying that she's ill and hasn't it? What could be a more fun way of going long to school? There is a problem, thoughlive. Leilong isn't happy in the city: heIt's always having hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to be careful about where he puts his feet underwear and – because he's longer than sent to a watery grave in the boot of a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled upstolen Ford Sierra. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.}}Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?