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|isbn=3791388398|title=New European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and Pastries|author=Laurel Kratochvila|rating=4.5|genre=Cookery|summary=This is probably one of the most unusual baking books I've encountered. It's built around 99 recipes for breads, brioches and pastries but the recipes are interwoven with some thought-provoking writing on how bread - and baking - have changed in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. We start with the basics - the equipment you'll need (there's nothing extravagant or indulgent) and the ingredients, where the author is particular. You might not have realised that different salts can change the flavour and sensation on the tongue of the finished product but, apparently, they do.}}{{Frontpage|author=Andrew GivlerTom Percival|title=Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his soul.'' Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman. He never hits his targets and, when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the dotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.|isbn=1958204021}}{{Frontpage|author=Greg James and Chris Smith|title=Super GhostWrong Shoes

|summary=Paragon City has been lucky to have the great Doctor ExtraordinaryWill's life is difficult, their very own superhero taking care in a multitude of themways. Whenever He is bullied because he has 'the evil Captain Chaos wrong shoes', he has come up with another cunning plan (usually involving a giant robot the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of some description) Doctor Extraordinary has been there to thwart her mischief things like food, and save his dad can't work because he lost his job at the daycollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. But one day Throw into that mix the Doctor fact that his mum and the Captain dad are trapped together inside separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a giant robot that then explodestiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the hero and moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the villain are no moreend of a long, dark tunnel. Or are they…?|isbn=02414705361398527122

|isbnauthor=B0B7289HKQSylvie Cathrall|title=Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture Letter to the Soul of America|author=Kari LoyaLuminous Deep|rating=45|genre=TravelScience Fiction|summary=Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. The decision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015compelling premise. They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed And this up as more is one of a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer'sthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Christopher Bowden0008517061|title=Mr MagentaDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Christopher Bowden's latest novel is Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a patient untangling little uncertainty about the future of a seemingly ordinary woman's his lifewith his vet girlfriend, carried out by Livia and her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a safe harbour lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and a little bit of indulgence relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to a young nephew had had a much more interesting Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised in the present and it seems to him an obligation to find it all outputting the future on the back burner. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW

|isbn=17395939011786482126|title=22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram Janus Stone (EditorsDr Ruth Galloway)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405951184|title=The Girls Who Disappeared|author=Claire DouglasElly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=Back Builders were demolishing an old house in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford Norwich - the site was driving her three friends home after going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a night outdoorway. As she passed through the darkly-wooded Devil's Corridor, a figure appeared in the roadThere was no skull. Olivia swerved to avoid him and the car smashed into Was this a treeritual killing or murder? Inevitably, leaving her trappedDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. When It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she regained consciousness her is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three friends had disappearedmonths ago. Ralph MiddletonHer condition will be obvious before long, who lived in the woods helped her before the police and ambulance arrived. But what had happened not least because Ruth is prone to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in the Stafferbury area sudden bouts of Wiltshire. It was thought of as Avebury's poor relationsickness.

|isbn=39496660790008551324|title=NoemaThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Dael AkkermanNeil Lancaster

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It''This is a story about some things that happened s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to me about twelve thousand years agoapproach the police.'' Maya Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is a young girl living struggling in a hunter-gatherer village during prison and he's prepared to tell the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, police where the Sea body of Grass encroaches further a missing person is buried and further into Maya's forest homewho was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, and food is becoming more someone big and more scarceit will be worth the police doing what he wants. What And what he wants is to do? Can the law givers in be transferred to an open prison to serve the federation remainder of villages muster peaceful ways his sentence and to copeget an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? Can The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the Traveller, a spiritual figure other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who interprets the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions? works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=194241028X0008405026|title=Azabu Getaway A Stranger in the Family (Detective HiroshiMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Michael PronkoJane Casey

|summary=''You can't put 'good at golf' on your tombstone, can you?'' When we meet Patrick Walsh heIt's outside his family's home in sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the Azabu district of Tokyo, hoping that his key will still work but prepared investigation ground to break in if it doesn'ta halt. He's there to remove his daughtersNow, her mother, Jenna and KiriHelena, and take them back to Honolulu. It's a quick day trip, with just one purpose her father are dead in mindtheir bed. Patrick's employed by Nine Dragons Wealth Management and for the past yearInitially, heit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's been working in Wyoming because something about the privacy laws there are conducive to positioning of the business he's inbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. His wife, Miyuki, hasn't been in Wyoming with him What looked as though it was going to be an open-and -shut case is in the process of divorcing him after photographs sent to her anonymously suggested that Patrick had not been faithful to hernow a complex double murder. PatrickKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's plan didndisappearance: others (such as Derwent't work out and he finds himself on the run in Tokyo with the two girlss boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=B09SGWCXQ80571379877|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)Kellerby Code|author=Neil LancasterJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for Edward Jevons is a runworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Head Robert's a theatre director. Was it suicide He's also self-obsessed, demanding, or did he - handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for some reason him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - climb over the stone wall and fall to his death? Or was he pushed? On balance, it looked like an accident but then his 'accident' was linked s drunkenly confided how he feels to the deaths of others associated with himRobert. Scott Paterson was released after a Most men in Robert'not-proven' verdict meant s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that Scotlanda relationship had begun between them but he's not like most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigor's last clientmen: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=0989715337Jo Callaghan|title=Papa on the Moon|author=Marco NorthLeave No Trace

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=''Some frogs had gotten into When a man is found crucified on the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the fragrant watercase alongside her sidekick, naked except for his beaten leather hatthe AI detective Lock. Long strands of It's their eggs wove around himfirst live case together, sticky gray pearls having previously been very successful with tadpoles inside themseveral cold cases. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and barked down at the strange noise 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 buckets as he filled them.'' How is that for an opening? The style of this novel case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct case and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. And author Marco Northpotentially, who has the most wonderful turn out of phrase, starts as he means to go on.a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=140639131X1399613073|title=A Practical Present for Philippa PheasantMoral Injuries|author=Briony May SmithChristie Watson

|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Roada century. She wrote Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get be a replycardiothoracic surgeon. Philippa wasn't Laura is a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was perfectionist and a problem which needed solving: she saw trauma doctor. Anjali is the benefits free spirit of the lollipop lady at the school crossing group and decided that she would set up something similar herselfbecomes a GP. Her uniform When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and lollipop stick were both a little amateur it's going to start with but end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the benefits were obviousconsequences. All Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnightthree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=000837936X0241636604|title=The Last Girl to DieTrading Game: A Confession|author=Helen FieldsGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved If you were to Tobermory, on the Isle bring up an image of Mulla city banker in your mind, in search you're unlikely to think of a new lifesomeone like Gary Stevenson. It A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was a bit of a change from Las Vegasfamiliar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs London School of developing a social life - until she disappearedEconomics. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been because Adriana's mother Stevenson is obviously Latino?) bright - extremely bright - and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagershe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Brandon, Adriana's twin, was upset and surly. Four-year-old Luna just knew He also realised that she missed her big sistermost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It took four dayswas his ability at what was, essentially, but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnon's Cavea card game which got him an internship with Citibank. She'd been murdered and it looked like Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a ritual killingtrader.

|isbn=15098896121035021803|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Ann CleevesC L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=It's fifty twenty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat Freya Lockwood has been back to Holy Islandthe English country village where she grew up. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative and theyShe've been coming s back now because of a request for a reunion every five years since thenhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. There was a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too Freya's former mentor and Carole's close to high tide and her car was swept awayfriend, but her younger sisterArthur Crockleford, Louisa, has returned with is dead and the group each year as her husbandcircumstances seem suspicious, Ken, was one of to say the original teenagersleast. Ken now has Alzheimer's and he's a shadow of Arthur was the man he used reason why Freya had not been back to bethe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Philip Robson now a priest Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, always gets there early as he likes she has not felt able to have some quiet time alone in be near the man or pursue the chapelprofession she loved. Annie Laidler lives locally After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and she provides much married James (on the rebound from the love of the food: her deli is famous in the arealife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1473680883AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Skeleton KeyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Erin KellyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=''The Golden Bones is going to follow me around for Opening up new ways of thinking about the rest shape of my lifethings to come. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to you!''

Nell didnI't want to go to the reunion to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of ve heard it said that 'technology'The Golden Bones'is what happens after you're eighteen. She'd had no benefit from it - Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in fact, it had made her life precarious and unbelievably challengingmy lifetime. I'd better explain. ve kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'The Golden Bonesm left with the feeling that it'' was a treasure quest book painted and written by Frank and Cora Churchers all getting away from me. The story revolved around murdered Elinore whose golden and bejewelled bones were hidden around the countrySome of it is - frankly - quite frightening. The clues - some of them quite tortuous - were disguised in Of course, I could research the words possibilities and pictures of the book - probabilities and all end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the parts were discovered except for the pelvislatest conspiracy theorist. As with such quests, some I needed people were obsessive I knew I could trust and the theories became more and more outlandishwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Holly WebbSunny Singh|title=The Story of GreenriverHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Silken and Sedge, for all their differences, have The Hotel Arcadia is a lot luxury hotel in commonan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Silken is a girl whose father is Hiding from the Master Builder of what might be the finest beaver lodge terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on the Greenriver. Unfortunately she site, there is also Sam, a kind of runt figure, wartime photographer and as a result is patronisedAbhi, and given the most tokenistic tasks when it comes to fetching wood and shoring the dam uphotel manager. She also stands out As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the unique artistic ability to sing. Otters like Sedge singresidents who are still alive in the hotel, but he tooforms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, as the son and keeps on venturing out of the lady of the holt, has pressure on him her room to be a bit less feckless and more attentive try to classcapture what's happened through her photography. HeAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, after all, will eventually inherit the job of keeping the otters their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe from the wolf that and they both animal species fear wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the most, and from dreaded events like a Dark Springterrorists.|isbn=1510109625086154742X

|authorisbn=Anna Kemp and David Wyatt1529153298|title=Into Goblyn WoodThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet HazelIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... For the last nine of her eleven years) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, she has though. Women have been stuck as a foundling in a horriddisappearing. Well, Victorian institutionthey've been murdered, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servantbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. She Miv's upset because she'd arrived at s overheard that her father wants to move the place at the same time as Pete, and theyfamily 'Down South'. When you're inseparably good friends nowfrom Yorkshire, until Down South is a chance for them both to escapefrightening, and enter the outside worldforeign place, does not go to planbest avoided. There had always been For Miv, the idea of a life idyllic in the nearby forestsmove would mean leaving her best friend, Goblyn WoodSharon, and a tribe of Wild Children, but none of she'll do anything to prevent that comes to pass, as Hazel finds herself in the care of a professor at the Natural History Museum. But life with him is She's not anything like what she might have expected it to be – and Hazel is determined to return to worried about the Woods, restore dangers or that her friendship with Pete – and Mum's stopped talking - to work out just what is going on in the forest, both the light and the shade, and the deathly dark..anyone.|isbn=1398503835

|isbn=02419901651398524085|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Cara HunterNicci French

|summary=It began rather oddly. There Charlotte Salter was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but the call hadn't come from the householdernever turned up. A couple of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and it took quite a while for the elderly householder to answer the doorher daughter, Etty. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come inare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. In Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the kitchen there was a body on the floor: of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the head had been blown off with a shotgun and the corpse was holding a knife in its right handriver. Richard Swann told It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn'd heard sounds of an intruder and had come downstairs to investigatet stand the guilt. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'Salter children are not convinced but there' s little else they can do but get on with their lives and come at him with a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defencewonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn= Kit De Waal1035906708|title= Without Warning and Only SometimesDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put itWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, “They f*** you upNew York, your mum in December 1923 and dad/ They may not mean only moved to, but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood and the bonds that bind family. This book is a memoir focussing on the author’s formative years as a teenager living in a lower class area of BirminghamAthens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father is from Stchanged it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. Kitts When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Caribbean and her Nazi occupation by a mother is an Irish woman ostracized by who mercilessly exploited her family for becoming pregnant by and marrying a black man. This intersectionality plays a large role in the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to made no secret of her race, preference for her class and her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with careelder sister, love, and the kind of anger only a child can express to their parentsJackie.|isbn=1472284836

|author=David LagercrantzChristopher Edge|title=Dark MusicBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=34|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=How far from the original can Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind movie marathon at the heart of what little investigating is going ontheir local cinema, but there is not a lot place that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelength. For one, has the main focus nickname of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MD'The Black Hole'. SheAll big movie fans, they's a Chilean in the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect re looking forward to lots of oldexciting films, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the matchand many, and just outside the stadium. many snacks! BeppeHowever, as the suspectmovie starts, was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anythingthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, through days and weeks of interrogationthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think But as they can judge Micaela lurch from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told one film genre to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it allthe next, she can only smirk when he says Beppe they figure out what on earth is innocent and the investigation is a shambles. going on? But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve Will they ever get back to the crimecinema, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it all. Until, that may be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt...their real lives?|isbn=15294131921839942738

|isbnauthor=B0B2N7MVYMRachel Greenlaw|title=The Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel GodfreyCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=It's 'I can hear the 10th song of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marrthe sea. Just to put what happens in contextThe call of the deep, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh answering beat in peoplemy heart.''s minds Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. The world has barely had a chance Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to breathe outsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But for Joe Marrwhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, itthey capture the island's not the missile crisis thatleader and Mira's at the front of his mindfather. He's been convicted 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 murdera 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 current state watched streets of medical knowledge, it's hard foreign islands to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queenheart of the smuggler's Benchterritory, a relatively new prison. He's just getting used Mira must be determined to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning stop at nothing to be wary save the future of her home and the McArthur brothersones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1846976146James Sherwood Metts|title=The Bone Road|author=N E SolomonsPlanet Storyland

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Heather Bishop, Things have been a bit sticky for the former Olympic cyclistEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, flew often replacing jobs they're paid to Bosnia do and other tasks that took time to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnonaccomplish. She even took their bikes so Just as they could have a few days' break in the region. It was a little worrying that he didn't seem exactly pleased were beginning to see her: she even wondered if he had a woman in the hotel room. Heather had get used to give up competitive cycling after a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but her reactions all this technological change and her memory were not up starting to the standard she would need think of other, new ways to race againspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Sometimes she couldn't be certain about what she had or hadn't done Life was pretty much shut down and she simply couldn't cope in difficult situations. She didn't entirely trust herself, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Judith EagleMatthew Tree|title=The Accidental StowawayWe'll Never Know

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Patch is Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a little girl drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who has been passed from one relation had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to anotherhis studies, until it seems cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set 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 there is nobody left wants to keep this just to myself for her however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to go enjoy it for a while.'' 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. Her father died when be born into her family for generations and as such since she was very 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 mother ran away. The family lawyerAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, after consultation Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with ‘someone’the dead, arranges for putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to go trust and determine what to a school in Liverpooldo as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on her arrival difficult cases. His assertions that therewere only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, she gets caught up in an adventure with a little boy called Turo who works on a steamshipnudged Milo into asking for help again. During a chase with him (when she is both trying to get her rollerskate back and running away from She knew that the police!) she winds up on involvement was something that the steamship hiding in a lifeboat, and before man she knows itloved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the ship has left swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the docks heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an accidental stowaway!|isbn=0571363121extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=07603798741529395224|title=Super Easy Knitting for BeginnersLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Carri HammettSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I learned Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to knit follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the nineteenstrain that being on-fifties: it wasncall put on his father't s life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a choice, it family friend who was a requirement. Girls learned to knit and to embroider and boys did wood and metal work. My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of criticism vet and quite a few tears: it was a long time before I realised that there convinced this was pleasure to be had in the skilljob for him. Nearly seventy years later it's the only thing that keeps my hands Before long, he was at all suppleLiverpool University. The turning point It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a booklet published by Patons which gave all the basics and some patternschild. I've been looking for something simple to recommend to people whoIf anything, he'd like wanted to master the skillbe a professional footballer. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?

|authorisbn=Sarah Todd Taylor0861541774|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleNye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Alice Eclair. A perfect eye and very careful hands have made her one of ParisDCI Domenic Jejeune's best young cake makers close friend and decoratorsformer colleague, Danny Maik, making sure her mother's establishment is has taken a classy affairshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Not bad for Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a thirteen year oldGhurka. OhInitially, and he faced a perfect eye and a very careful handler and remote trainer charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have also made sure she is a very competent young spyplanned to murder the man. Her first real mission will Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to chase help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a traitor across dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the country – working behind online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the scenes on business, as Ness is planning to take a posh sleeper train trip to Canada to the south get away for a while. Katie is coming out of Francea break up with a bad boyfriend, and hoping against hope that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to creep into 44 Scotland Street and the country from getting into nefarious handsIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. But while nobody would have Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her down as a spyabilities, can she possibly leave behind and there's always her rookie status very helpful (and find the baddy?rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=18399409561846976596

|isbn=07603799120811771741|title=Super Easy Quilting InstaKnits for BeginnersBaby|author=Editors of Quarry BooksMelissa Leapman

|summary=I learned patchworking Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed toys to be turned into something new and usable when I was in my twentiesblankets. It would Some will be a while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but Iquick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire've never felt completely at home with quiltingvariety. I needed something a little The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more stylish than my usual buttons or knotstwenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'Super Easy Quilting for Beginnersbut that'' seemed like a good place to starts me being picky. So, how did it stack up?

|isbnauthor=1788360737Dean Koontz|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander AdamsBad Weather Friend|rating=24.5|genre= Politics and SocietyParanormal|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art Benny is not made in having a vacuumterrifically bad day. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the social environment in which He loses his job, he develops’’loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Therefore Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, all art must be politicaldisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his new book ‘Artivism: house! The Battle for Museum in thing is, Benny is the Era of Postmodernism’ very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is adamant a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that art the delivery to his house is freer when it a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is art clearly under attack from nefarious forces for art’s sakebeing a good person. The recent trend Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (read: left winga waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure)can figure out who exactly they are. Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1408712172Adam Stower|title=The Cliff House|author=Chris BrookmyreMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident 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's a bad magician'Many of s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them didn't know each otherout, not into the regular back garden, one but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them didn't know anybodyinto a Viking land, including Jenwhere a troll hunter is expected – well, one of them quite possibly hated hermuch bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and two of them definitely hated each other. What he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could possibly go wrong, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land?''The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.

That's the round-up for Jen's hen party which is to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barra. They're all staying in The Cliff House, hosted by Lauren, and itFragility's the utmost in luxury living but then Jen can afford it. She's just sold her muffin business for millions but is staying on to run it. She's got her doubts about set as the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting a little strangely city of late and wouldn't explain to her what the email he was hurriedly deleting was about. Added to thatPortland, Oregon, he's just about forced her cautiously begins to bring his sister, Samira, whom Jen's never met, on the trip, on the grounds that she's been stuck at home with newborn twins for emerge from the last six months and desperately needs restrictions imposed during the break.covid pandemic

|isbn=17883607021529431735|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised BiographyWinter Visitor|author=Edzard ErnstJames Henry

|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=For over forty yearsIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Prince Charles has which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapiesexiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he''Charless had a letter from his ex-wife, The Alternative Princesaying that she's ill and hasn' critically assesses the Princet long to live. It's opinionshard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, beliefs stripped to his underwear and aims against sent to a watery grave in the background boot of the scientific evidencea stolen Ford Sierra. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the reputation of Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning problem closer to his ambitions.}}home?