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|isbnauthor=1504321383Tom Percival|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again …: What Do You Do When Life Doesn't Go to Plan?|author=Louisa PatemanThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'You , he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't be happy work and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a mandoesn''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasnt have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't unkind: it work because he lost his job at the college, was simply the adults working a cash-in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her-hand job on a building site and had an accident. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where Throw into that mix the girl (shefact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's usually fairly young) life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is rescued by good at art, and clings to the handsome prince who then marries her so moments of joy when he is drawing, that they can live happily ever afterfeel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. Few girls are lucky enough |isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and have children. It was Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''book which lives up to a belief compelling premise. And this is a choice''one of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=17873014350008517061|title=Dark WatersDeath in a Lonely Place|author=G R HallidayStig Abell

|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her second mistake when she opted to drive down the private road daughter Diana, as moving in Glen Turrit. It was together would mean a long road through some breathlot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-taking scenery 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 could push the car to its limits without fear of being caught speeding. wants for herself and her daughter? When For the blond child stepped out moment they’re enjoying life in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel present and hit a tree. When she came round after putting the accident she couldn't work out where she was, but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospital. She'd made her first mistake some time ago, although future on the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for a long time. She'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4back burner.

|authorisbn=Suzanne Collins1786482126|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Coriolanus Snow is refined, charming, and one of Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the only surviving members of the affluent Snow family. But their world site was destroyed by the war. Their riches gone, his parents dead going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - and yet the facade must be maintained. As the 10th Hunger Games begins, Coriolanus and other students of the Academy become when they discovered the first Mentors bones of the tributes in the gamesa child beneath a doorway. This is his chance to prove himself to the world and secure his place in the Capitol for good. But when he is assigned a tribute with There was no hope - a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning (both for her and for him) are goneskull. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself to be Was this a spark in his worldritual killing or murder? Inevitably, in a way he could never have imaginedDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. As the Games commence It's difficult as Ruth knows, Lucy Gray fights for her life in the arena - but behind the scenesNelson doesn't, in the sly, complex and strangely dangerous world that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the Capitolone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, Coriolanus not least because Ruth is fighting for his life tooprone to sudden bouts of sickness. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=0702300179

|authorisbn=Sakinu Ahronglong0008551324|title=Hunter SchoolThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary= The flyleaf to this little collection tells us that it is a work of fiction. ThatIt's possibly misleadingunusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. I am not sure whether it Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is "fiction" struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the sense that Ahronglong made it all upbody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, or whether is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is as to be transferred to an open prison to serve the blurb goes on remainder of his sentence and to say get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'recollections, folklore s even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and autobiographical storiesanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. It feels like She was never found and the latterinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. It feels Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the stories he tells about his experiences positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a child, complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as an adolescentDerwent's boss, as an adult Una Burt) are real less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|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 trueStanza. But memory is Robert's a fickle thingtheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and maybe poetic licence entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has taken over here been in love with Stanza since their university days - and there and maybe calling it fiction means that its safer and therefore more people will read ithe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. More people shouldMost 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.|isbn=1999791282

|author=Kat EllisJo Callaghan|title=Harrow LakeLeave No Trace|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old Lola, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residents. But when she a man is found by her father's assistant and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked door, crucified on the top of a trail of blood, and her father dying hill in his study. And soNuneaton, while he recovers, she is sent off DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to live with the case alongside her grandmother in Harrow Lakesidekick, the small 1920s town in Indiana that served as the location for the film that made her parents famous. But something about this place isn't rightAI detective Lock. There It's a darkness inside the people here. Secrets about her mother and dark tales of the town's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every cornertheir first live case together, and disturbing happenings plague Lolahaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully to light a potential serial killer and she begins a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to think that these stories may not their AI Future Policing project. Will they be stories at allable to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lake., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=0241397049139851120X

|authorisbn= Helly Acton1399613073|title= The ShelfMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's FictionThrillers|summary= When we meet AmyOlivia, she's in Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a relationship with Jamiecentury. You can't really call it Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a partnership, because things tend bonus when you aim to get done on his terms, but be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she's sticking around because she hopes she can change himbecomes a GP. Ah, yes. Haven When we first meet them they't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for re at a surprise trip. Could this be drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it? Is he ''finally'' s going to get down on one knee? Was end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the work (and consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the wait) worth three friends. This time, it?|isbn=1838770879's their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Daria Yudina0241636604|title= This Book Wants to Make You Laugh (Living Book)The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingAutobiography|summary=This Living Book is on If you were to bring up an image of a mission. What's the mission? To make city banker in your mind, you laugh! I can't re unlikely to think of many better missions than that, can you? Let's see how it doessomeone like Gary Stevenson... .... well A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, it opens up where he was familiar with a terrible jokeviolence, poverty and injustice. A groany joke, an eye There was no posh public school on his CV -roll jokebut he had been to the London School of Economics. The joke isn't very funny but it Stevenson is funny to see how enthusiastic bright - extremely bright - and how generously this book wants he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to make you be stupid. laugh - ''OhIt was his ability at what was, essentially, I'm terrible at jokesa card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Some books are so good at them. I always wanted to help someone laugh Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.'' |isbn= 194812453X

|isbn=15294022711035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder on the Moorland (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)|author=Helen CoxC L Miller

|summary=DI Malcolm Halloran and Kitt HartleyIt's relationship is developing nicely: theytwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She're even into s back now because of a spot of bandage nowrequest for help from her beloved aunt, although the details are (mercifully) scantCarole. After a night of passion Halloran Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is called away in dead and the early hours of circumstances seem suspicious, to say the morningleast. There's Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been a murder in Irendale, where Halloran used back to live and where his wifethe village: Arthur, Kamalashe feels, was strangled five years agolet her down badly. There are sufficient details of the current murder Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to make Halloran suspect that be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered his wife - ) and Freya and others - is in some way involved, despite being in prison. The DI heads off to speak to Jeremy KerrJames have now divorced.

|authorisbn= Mark DawsonAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= The CleanerAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= Ruthless and coldly competent''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, John Milton is one 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 British governmentfeeling that it's best assets – a contract killer with lethal instinctsall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Now Of course, after ten years, he wants outI 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. But his job isn't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462X

|author=Angela MackSunny Singh|title=I Am UnworthyHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=TeensThrillers |summary= Isabel The Hotel Arcadia is determined to start fresha luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Start again. Sixth form will be different. Her tormentor doesn't go to Gilleford Secondary School anymore. She can escape Hiding from the hurtterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, the fearthere is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the person she becamehotel manager. Josh is determined As Abhi continues to try to keep going, even through care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the ragehotel, the painhe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and using his fists keeps on venturing out of her room to solve any problem or situation. But he has secrets that threaten try to tear him and his brothers apart. When Josh and Isabelcapture what's worlds collidehappened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, can they make their relationship work? Can friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both finally wait to see if they will be happy? Or will Josh's time run out?rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=B089FL7H4H086154742X

|authorisbn=Laura Imai Messina1529153298|title=The Phone Box at the End List of the WorldSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary= In the northeast of JapanIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, in Inwate Prefecture a man installed a telephone box in his gardenhonestly... ) She's not what'Inside there is an old blacks worrying Miv's family, telephonethough. Women have been disappearing. Well, disconnectedthey've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that carries voices into her father wants to move the windfamily 'Down South'. When you'' It re from Yorkshire, Down South is a real frightening, foreign place, a necessary placebest avoided. For Miv, and I am pleased to see the IMPORTANT NOTE that the author attaches to move would mean leaving her storybest friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that . She's not worried about the place is not a tourist destination, it is a sacred place, a place dangers or that must be left her Mum's stopped talking - to those who really need itanyone.|isbn=178658039X

|isbn=B0859115X51398524085|title=Lies to Tell (DI Clare Mackay)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Marion ToddNicci French|rating=45

|summary=When we meet up with DI Clare Mackay again sheCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's at Daisy Cottage on the outskirts of St Andrews with fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her English Bull Terrierhusband, Alec, Benjyis not. She's just had a postcard from Geoffrey Dark Shortly afterwards, Etty and heGreg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in Provincetown, Cape Codthe river. He wishes that she It was there, but Clare's struggling an easy assumption for the police to think of what make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he ''actually'' is to her now. Is he her boyfriend? Her ex-boyfriend? She cancouldn't work it out and thinks that Geoffrey probably can't eitherstand the guilt. WorkThe Salter children are not convinced but there's about to little else they can do but get very busy on with their lives and she can't work out why DCI Alastair Gibson has cancelled a meeting she'd arranged without discussing it with her first. They're off somewhere top secretwonder about what really happened.

|isbn=17808998581035906708|title=To Tell You the TruthDiva|author=Gilly MacmillanDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=When Lucy Bewley We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was nine-years-old she crept out of the house on the night of the summer solstice born to watch the pagan celebrations Greek parents in Stoke Woods. Her four-year-old brotherManhattan, TeddyNew York, would have woken the house if in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she hadn't taken him with herwas thirteen. But in the early hours of the morning, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping that he would have got home before Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her. He hadnfather changed it to 't and no one has seen him since. LucyCallas's story was crucial to make it more manageable in the police investigation, but it keeps subtly changingStates. Lucy is being advised 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 imaginary friendand made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell the policeJackie.

|isbnauthor=0008214700Christopher Edge|title=Cut to the Bone (DI Meg Dalton)|author=Roz WatkinsBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=DI Meg Dalton Lucas and Ds Jai Sanghera his friends are dealing with the case of all booked in for a missing teenager. Violet Armstrong is well-known as movie marathon at their local cinema, a vlogger - championing place that has the cause nickname of meat-eating'The Black Hole'. She barbeques meat wearing only a bikini All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and has attracted many, many snacks! However, as the attention of animal rights activists. The meat-eaters (movie starts, they wear meat suits) are determined very quickly realise that Meg Dalton something about this new film format is corrupt very different, and not running a decent investigation (they are swept up into an adventure they couldn''obviously'' she only got the job because she's a woman) because she's a vegetariant even imagine. As if But as they lurch from one film genre to the case wasn't enoughnext, Meg's father can they figure out what on earth is coming going on? Will they ever get back to stay with her despite having had little to do with her for fifteen years and Jai's convinced that his girlfriendthe cinema, Suki, doesn't like his children and that she wants more, but he doesn't.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=1784385166Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger MoorhouseCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=HistoryTeens|summary=What ''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 first image ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that comes to mind lies within. But when you think of the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate Council Watch lays a trap to a concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but end the wrecking, they are emblematic of capture the Third Reichisland's leader and Mira's fascist regime in all its iniquityfather. But some objects Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and images from with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that time may be less familiar lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to you. In this short volumeunearth what might save her father, Roger Moorhouse has attempted as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to illustrate the period heart of the Third Reich through one hundred smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of its material artefactsher home and the ones she holds most dear. |isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1409187438James Sherwood Metts|title=The First Lie|author=A J ParkPlanet Storyland|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=On Things have been a bit sticky for the second of October 37-year-old barrister, Paul Reeve, returned home at 9 pm to find his house in darkness and the front door openEarthlings. His wife was in the bedroom in a state of shock AI and in the bathroom there was a dead man who had automation have been stabbed repeatedly in the neck with Paulproceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's paper-knifere paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. In that moment Paul takes a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and Alice are not going starting to think of other, new ways to ring the police spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and tell the truth. They're going to bury , along with it, all the body in woodland and go many daily social interactions on as though nothing has happenedwhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=1529401801Matthew Tree|title=GraveWe's End (DS Alexandra Cupidi)|author=William Shawll Never Know

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Gram Hickman, who worked for an estate agent, took Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his girlfriendfather, Angela Booth, to a house which his firm was marketing. Guildeford Hall was an old Kentish oast house drunk and was on the market for millions chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of pounds. Gram was hoping that he could get Angela into bed his artistic passions all failed miserably and he'd brought a bottle who had endless crises of prosecco alongself confidence. It was when searching for somewhere So Tim applied himself to chill the bottle that he found the body of a man in the freezer in the garage. DS Alexandra Cupidi his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and DC Jill Ferriter are on the caseset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author= Ukamaka OlisakweA G Slatter|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating= 5|genre= Literary FictionFantasy|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is '' There's a look part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at the trauma and heartache of being last. I just want to enjoy it for a woman in 1980s Nigeriawhile. The title is ''Ogadinma Or Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, Everything Will Be All Right'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. Ogadinma Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the eponymous heroine of the story. We are with first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her in every scene training as a steward revolved around letters and it is administration rather than spells and potions. When her narrative voice that leads grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the storyBriar Witch, although Olisakwe writes in the third persontown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. This provides a sense of detachment for As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the reader and highlights dead, putting her at the isolation heart of Ogadinmaa maelstrom of chaos. She is exiled Reeling from her father's home and sent one family secret to Lagos where she is married another, Ellie must decide who to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence trust and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to escapesurvive, is under threat.|isbn=19116481601803364548

|authorisbn=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)1529900360|title=Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered HopesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary=I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it 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 playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you knowreluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. I certainly His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and need the birth help of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long been a venue psychologist only worked for political protesta while. Finally, and I didnit was Robin, Delaware't know more than a spit about s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the people involved on either sideman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. This book is practically flawless Two lovers were murdered in giving the swimming pool of a general browserremote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's context for not the whole season Italian. But which of protests back in 1989.|isbn=1684056993them was the primary target?

|authorisbn= Joan He1529395224|title= Descendant Letting the Cat Out of the CraneBag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre= FantasyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=''Heroes cannot be forged without villains''Princess Hesina of the kingdom of Yan has never wanted the throneSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Instead of craving power, she has always considered the crown her inescapable duty His father was a GP and shrank away from the responsibilities of being Queen. To her, it has always been a distant, faraway future. Until that is, it isnRowlands didn't. When her beloved father suddenly dieswant to follow in his footsteps, she is thrust into ruling. But contrary to particularly when he considered the official report, Hesina knows all is not as it seems, her strain that being on-call put on his father didn't dies life. He When he was murdered.Determined to seek seventeen he took the truth opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and discover her father's killerwas convinced this was the job for him. Before long, Princess Hesina will stop he was at nothing to find justice, even committing treasonLiverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. Under the cover of darkness If anything, her feet lead her he'd wanted to be a soothsayer to learn what happened that day and who killed the Kingprofessional footballer.|isbn=1789094046

|authorisbn=Pat Grant0861541774|title=The Grot: The Story A Nye of the Swamp City GriftersPheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary=Everything in this world runs on pedal-powerDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, and that includes the punk bands. There are three pedallers at the front of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to Falter CityDanny Maik, where has taken a mother and her two sons aim short holiday in Singapore to set meet up a yoghurt factorywith an old ally, Guy Trueman. You could say Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that yoghurt would be the only culture around, for this is he was facing a man armed with a really roughknife -and-ready dump of he killed a placeGhurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but everyone is interested in small things evidence came to light that suggested that growhe might have planned to murder the man. For the only money to Now he could be had – facing the only fortunes death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to be found in Falter City – come help as any interference from algae, gunk another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and other crud that – well, the use of it is never really made clearwouldn't help Danny at all. Once there, the two brothers set themselves each up with a guide – Lippy, the more forward-thinking, industrious of the two, with a besuited gent, Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of the two will come off the worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|isbn=1603094660

|author= Ashley PostonAlexander McCall Smith|title= Bookish and the BeastThe Perfect Passion Company|rating= 34.5|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Set after the ExcelsiConThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, we are introduced run by Ness and operating as an alternative to Rosie Thorne, all the online apps in providing a Small Townmore personal, USA girl who tailored service. Ness has recently lost asked her mother younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is entering her final year of high school. Things keep piling up planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for Rosie, and when she follows a stray dog into what she thinks while. Katie is an abandoned castle in her town, things just get worse. Rosie accidentally destroys coming out of a rare book and break up with her mother's hospital a bad boyfriend, and funeral costs she has no money so jumps at the chance to come home to cover the damageEdinburgh. She finds herself working for Vance Reigns And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, Hollywood royalty on a paparazzi escapebringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to repay 44 Scotland Street and the debtIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm.  For most Starfield superfans this would be Katie has no experience in running a dream business, or in match-making, but Rosie soon realises Vance is a jerk - Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and he isnthere't too fond of s always her either. Howeververy helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, as the two are forced to get to know each otherWilliam, their guards begin to lower and they discover that maybe this situation might not be so terrible after all. lend a hand…|isbn=16836919381846976596

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Daria Yudina0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby Trolls Get a Bad Rap (Underrated Babies Book 1)|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary= Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. HoratioSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, Saul cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. 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 Grizelda more than twenty hours. All the projects are three baby trolls who are fed up attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that everyone forgets about baby trolls's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. They are ignored in books Oh, and TV shows someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and films in favour of their it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very scary grown upslast person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. Our three heroes want equal rights A really nice person. So fortunately for baby trollsBenny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. They want Spike is going to be seen take care of Benny, and heard will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and theyHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny've started a petition about it that s wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they want you to signare. But how should they go about it? |isbn= B07XGN4LGY1662500491}}

|author= Samira AhmedAdam Stower|title= Mad, Bad Murray and Dangerous to KnowBun|rating= 34.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers |summary=''In the end, we all become stories'' Spending the summer in Paris sounds like Murray is supposed to be a dream for most peoplehumble, especially art-loverstidy and friendly cat, but Khayyam can't relax one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and stop thinking about , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the mess she left behind in Chicagotwo. On But he's a chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre Dumasbad magician's cat, Khayyam finds herself on so his favourite bun has been turned into a historical journey with him to unveil the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alexandre Dumashyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byron. As the two teenagers travel the city catflap they both use can chuck them out, not only discover themselvesinto the regular back garden, but uncover the true story into a world of the woman frightening adventure and why whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was one that should never , to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have been forgotten.to do…|isbn=03490035560008561249

|authorisbn= Hazel BarkworthB0C47LV1PC|title= HeatstrokeFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating= 3.54|genre= CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Too hot to sleepYo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... Too hot to think straightno. Too hot to go back''

During a British heatwave 15-year-old, Lily Dixon, has left home and ''Fragility'' is reported missing. Rachel is a teacher at Lily's school and set as the mother city of MiaPortland, Lily's best friend. As Lily's family and the police struggle to find any evidence that may lead to LilyOregon, Rachel takes it upon herself cautiously begins to start looking for clues. However, as emerge from the case goes on Rachel becomes fixated on finding Lily and finds herself crossing boundaries, breaking trust and facing some impossible choices. Will they find Lily? Does Lily want to be found? And will life for Rachel ever be restrictions imposed during the same again?|isbn=1472265602covid pandemic