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|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H BarkerDavid Chadwick|title=A Tattoo on my BrainHeadload of Napalm|rating=34.5|genre=AutobiographyThrillers|summary=AlzheimerIt's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a disease that slowly wears Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away your identity and sense of self. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease, as have manyNot much happens in Hicks. Your memories A silver mine and personality worn away like a statue over time affected defence contractor are the elements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and your dignityJoshua trees. This Life is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirablequiet, until... Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''.|isbn=1108838936B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=1635862353Tom Percival|title=The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel CorryWrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=A sandal-making workshop? Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. I couldnHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes't really believe it, mainly he has the wrong shoes because Ihis dad can'd always thought that yout work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can'd need more equipment than t work because he lost his job at the average home college, was likely to be able to contain but I was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally working a cash-in- hand job on a small fire destroyed some of her shoesbuilding site and had an accident. One pair had come apart and she could see how Throw into that mix the sandal was constructed. Then she realised fact that she couldnhis mum and dad are separated, and Will't afford to replace all her shoess life seems bleak in every direction. Could she combine these two facts to create And yet, he still has a new and worthwhile craft? tiny amount of hope. She showed quite a few people her first pair He is good at art, and they all either wanted clings to know how to do it - or if she'd make them the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a pair. A new career was bornlong, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=1787332098Sylvie Cathrall|title=How A Letter to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mancethe Luminous Deep

|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argue. I mean, cows There are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums few greater joys than a book which lives up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lovera compelling premise. If I had to choose between the company of humans and the company of animals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read And this book: no is one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortableof them.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Ananda Devi0008517061|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=At not even 200 pagesFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, Eve Out has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of Her Ruins his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a 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 one of the shortest books Ifuture she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 've read in luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a long whileritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but itNelson doesn's t, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of the most dramaticsickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4. 5|genre=Crime|summary=It's also told unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a way that I can only describe as brutal: missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it spares nothing will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and pulls very few punchesto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the descriptions stark other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and unromanticanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=0993009344}}

|isbn=02419851370008405026|title=The Whole Truth A Stranger in the Family (D I FawleyMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Cara HunterJane Casey

|summary=DI Adam FawleyIt's team got to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynoldssixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor on She was never found and the investigation ground to a studenthalt. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fishertheir bed. Just to complicate matters furtherInitially, Calebit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's mother is Petra Newson, something about the positioning of the local MP, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligenceher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. She has What looked as though it was going to be an eightopen-yearand-old son, buys her wine by the shut case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 is now a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followerscomplex double murder. When Kerrigan is convinced that the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'very'' publics boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=07535583780571379877|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What MattersThe Kellerby Code|author=Greg McKeownJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=''The marginal return of Edward Jevons is a working harder was-class young man, in factobsessed with his upper-class friends, negativeRobert and Stanza.'' That Robert's what happened to Patrick McGinnisa theatre director. ItHe's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the company he worked foralso self-obsessed, struggling throughdemanding, even when he was ill, only handsome and entitled and uses Edward to find that he was working run errands for a bankrupt companyhim. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and his job had little value. He made a bargain with God; if he survived, 's drunkenly confided how he would make some changesfeels to Robert. He did survive and came through stronger - and richer. There is, you see, Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a different way: relationship had begun between them but he''great things are s not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost breaklike most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.''

|isbnauthor=1471181405Jo Callaghan|title=Nighthawking|author=Russ ThomasLeave No Trace|rating=4.5

|summary=Sheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (When a man is found crucified on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in what's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the body top of a young woman was discovered. It had obviously been buried hill in one of Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the beds but who would have started to dig case alongside her up? sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It had 's their first live case together, having previously been in the earth for months very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and could have been undiscovered for yearsa very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The police need Will they be able to establish who stabbed her - and who left solve the two, very rarecase in time, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is or will Kat find herself taken off the Investigating Officer case and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuries., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn= Jennifer Saint 1399613073|title= Ariadne Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction Thrillers|summary= This re-telling of Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the myth first day of Ariadne medical school and the Minotaur their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is interesting and unusuala bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Jennifer Saint presents the story in Laura is a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to perfectionist and a modern audiencetrauma doctor. Saint's narrative Anjali is told predominantly through the viewpoint free spirit of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as group and she becomes a character in her own right rather than just GP. When we first meet them they're at a prop drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the heroics of Theseusthree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved. |isbn=1472273869}}

|authorisbn=Gianna Pollero and Sarah Horne0241636604|title=Monster DoughnutsThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappearedIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, Grace and Danni have been left you're unlikely to run the family bakerythink of someone like Gary Stevenson. But Grace needs A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the doughnuts East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reasoninjustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics..even though she's only ten years old, she Stevenson is a monster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet tooth, bright - extremely bright - and Grace uses he has a number facility with numbers which most of methods us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, or tricking them into eating a sweet treat that will, ultimately, be their demisestupid. One dayIt was his ability at what was, thoughessentially, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harriscard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, who has this turned into permanent employment as a weakness for doughnuts but doesn't seem to explode as the other monsters do, and so things start to get very strange…|isbn=1848129432trader.

|isbn=09956478951035021803|title=Sadie and the Sea DogsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceC L Miller

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=SadieIt's mother always said that twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was a dreamerthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her mind never on what down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she should has not felt able to be doingnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. She lives by After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the River Thames at Greenwich love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and she loves Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sarkcome.''

I've heard it said that 'Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museumtechnology'is what happens after you're eighteen. Her imagination was firedWell, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. SheI've kept up reasonably well with what'd love s advantageous to sail me but I'm left with the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) possibilities and missed the closing bell probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the attendant's warning shoutlatest conspiracy theorist. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she I needed people I knew I could trust and who could never have imagined deliver information in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasureway I could understand.

|author=Kristen OSunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |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 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 residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what'Neals happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme diseaseIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her lifehonestly... ) She joins 's not what'Oof Ouch My Boness worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, an online support group where she talks but to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesseshave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to just joke and mess aroundmove the family 'Down South'. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesnyou't respond to the chat for re from Yorkshire, Down South is a whilefrightening, Priya becomes concernedforeign place, best avoided. She decides to steal For Miv, the move would mean leaving her parents' car best friend, Sharon, and drive to Brigidshe's house ll do anything to check up on herprevent that. But what she doesn She't expect to find there is a werewolf in s not worried about the basement – and for dangers or that werewolf to be the girl she has been her Mum's stopped talking - to online for the past few monthsanyone.|isbn=1683692349

|authorisbn=Mercedes Helnwein1398524085|title=SlingshotHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=35|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonelyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. As a secret illegitimate Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter of a man with a "real" family, she Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is used to not being a priority in people. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's livesfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. But It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for goodhe couldn't stand the guilt. No longer The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfielddo but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=152905818X

|isbn=B005FM76AA1035906708|title=The Duke's ChildrenDiva|author=Anthony TrollopeDaisy Goodwin

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=The story opens We tend to probably the worst news think of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is deadMaria 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 husband, Plantagenet Palliser, original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' 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 Duke of Omnium, is nearly paralysed Nazi occupation by grief a mother who mercilessly exploited her and struggling - at the same time - to adjust to made no longer being prime ministersecret of her preference for her elder sister, or even in officeJackie. He seeks to protect }}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and guide his three adult childrenfriends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, which is easier said than done when none a place that has the nickname of them wishes to 'The Black Hole'be. All big movie fans, they'' guided. re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! Silverbridge (his elder sonHowever, as the movie starts, actually called Plantagenetthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, but always known by his title) and Gerald they are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run swept up gambling debts, occasionally in eye-watering sumsinto an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - and wishes But as they lurch from one film genre to marry - Frank Tregear, the penniless son of a poor squirenext, which can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the Duke cannot countenancecinema, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about and to learn that parents do not always get their way.real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Goldy MoldavskyRachel Greenlaw|title=The Last GirlCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary= Rachel Chavez is ''I can hear the song of the new girl at Manchester Prepsea. A school filled to The call of the brim with deep, the richest children answering beat in the city – and Rachel doesnmy heart.'t belong. She's not rich Rosevear, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbiaa remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and most of allplundering the wrecks. Mira, she spends the majority of like her mother before her spare time watching horror movies as a source , is one of comfortthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. She struggles But when the Council Watch lays a trap to find anyone end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to connect save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and withonly coordinates to guide her, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull sets off the best prank in true horror movie style, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the competitionsea. But With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the pranks escalatewatched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start Mira must be determined to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up stop at nothing to save the pranks, future of her home and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too lateones she holds most dear.|isbn=07555015270008664730

|author=Polly BartonJames Sherwood Metts|title=Fifty SoundsPlanet Storyland

|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has Things have been on my radar a bit sticky for a while the Earthlings. AI and if the world hadnautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they't gone into melt-down I would have visited by nowre paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. I may Just as they were beginning to get there later used to all this yeartechnological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, but I am not hopefulalong came an awful pandemic. And like BartonLife was pretty much shut down and, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of along with it, all the question in the first essay, which is many daily social interactions on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''they depend so heavily.|isbn=19130975011736128426

|author=Lucy HollandMatthew Tree|title=SistersongWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5

|summary=Sistersong is part of Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk drunk and fairy tales. These stories, for most chronic underachiever whose dreams of us, are a cornerstone being exceptional at any of childhood his artistic passions all failed miserably and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspectivewho had endless crises of self confidence. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning So Tim applied himself to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out charactershis studies, examining relationships cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel set himself high but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to endachievable ambitions.|isbn=1529039037B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1529124255A G Slatter|title=The Whispers|author=Heidi PerksBriar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=We know straight away that there'' There's going a part of me that wants to keep this just to be myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a bodywhile. It's on ' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the beach world, lies Silverton; a town under Craynethe protection of the Briar's Cliff near , a family of witches who protect the town of Clearwater and it's new year's day. To understand what happened we're going to have to go back to the previous Septemberwider world from the Darklands. Grace Goodwin Though she has a soft Australian accent always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non- witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she's lived there since was young, her teens training as a steward revolved around letters and nowadministration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, in her mid-thirtiesEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, shethe town's returned to leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her home town to live. Her husbandAs challenges come her way left, Grahamright and centre, works in Singapore and she and Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her eight-year-old daughterat the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Matilda, might Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as well be in the lovely apartment she's found. GraceBriar witches's best friendlegacy, Anna Robinsoneverything they have sacrificed to survive, is still in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child toounder threat. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joining. It's perfect!|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon1529900360|title=The SourceGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=2.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=1996. EssexIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Thirteen His assertions that there were only open-yearand-old schoolgirl Carly lives in shut cases which didn't need the help of a disenfranchised town dominated by psychologist only worked for a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats Finally, it was Robin, and offers an exclusive invitation to army partiesDelaware's partner, things start to who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a little less bleak.remote 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 not the Italian.|isbn=1913193594 But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=B004O37B6A1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Prime MinisterSecret Life of a Vet|author=Anthony TrollopeSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Plantagenet PalliserSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the Duke of Omnium, is strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the prime minister opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a coalition government but he's privately enraged at vet and was convinced this was the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand Lopezjob for him. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as JewishBefore long, others as Portuguese but the truth is that no one knows and Lopez is not going to explainhe was at Liverpool University. The ladies of society, even PalliserIt hadn's own wife, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in the position of having to support t - as with so many students - been his wife's actions when Lopez loses dream since he was a by-electionchild. The DukeIf anything, he's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt d wanted to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt himbe a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Jessie Greengrass0861541774|title=The High HouseA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to pass on its genetic material meet up with the implied belief an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that your progeny will then pass on theirshe was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. However Initially, that train he faced a charge of thought is slowly seems manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have fallen out of favourplanned to murder the man. Today's young generation are discovering that their parents and their parents' parents did not seem to think that far ahead Now he could be facing the death penalty. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I Domenic Jejeune can do". Raising nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a child diplomatic incident and living in a world on the precipice of catastrophe is what drives wouldn''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrass. This is not a science-fiction novel. This is our realityt help Danny at all. This is the life our children and their children will have to live.|isbn=1800750072

|author=Ruth HoganAlexander McCall Smith|title=Madame BurovaThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=This book lets us discover several people The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in different stages of life Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in the early 1970sproviding a more personal, all vaguely connectedtailored service. So we have Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), trip to Canada to get away for a girl in while. Katie is coming out of a humdrum job wanting to become break up with a singerbad boyfriend, and chiefly, Imelda, so jumps at the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', chance to come home to use her family's sea-front boothEdinburgh. The singerAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, the scryer thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday campIsabel Dalhousie novels, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stallwith some new characters who quickly begin to charm. We also see her on her last dayKatie has no experience in running a business, fifty years lateror in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is sheher abilities, and who delivered the secrets about there's always her to Imeldavery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, and why did it have to remain lend a secret all this time?hand…|isbn=152937331X1846976596

|authorisbn= Jonathan Stroud0811771741|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating= 4|genre= TeensCrafts|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses knits from toys to wander blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain'long, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles cosy afternoons in front of the London Lagoonfire' variety. Together, The projects are divided by the time they must brave man'll take to complete -eating wildlifeless than five hours, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society five to reach the Free Islesten hours, but will they be any ten to twenty hours and more accepted there than they twenty hours. All the projects are in the rest of Britain?|isbn=1406394815attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=B08R7LXQ9SDean Koontz|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingParanormal|summary=Remy Benny is feeling miserablehaving a terrifically bad day. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jaydenloses his job, together with he loses his sidekicks Ryan fiancee, and Brandon, have been laughing at Remyhis house gets trashed. Oh, calling him names because he is short and someone has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to wind up Remy when nobody can see his home, and then push him just it's possible that little bit further when whoever or whatever was inside is the other kids are aroundthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. Sofortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, when Remy reactsa bad weather friend called Spike, it looks as though he was the instigatorwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. And then Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he gets , Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into trouble at school and the teachers donBenny't believe him when he tries to explain what happeneds wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=B00474HVX4Adam Stower|title=Phineas Redux|author=Anthony TrollopeMurray and Bun

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers |summary=It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]. Having succeeded in parliament Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and achieved a paying position he fell out with those friendly cat, one who provided his income is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and returned to Ireland where he married Mary, well, whatever takes his childhood sweetheartfancy next of the two. He was fortunate to get But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a job in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and seemed settled the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a life world of domesticityfrightening adventure and whiffs. To bring Finn backThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary be honest, but he's turned up and Phineas emerges in London as a childless widower with a legacy from an aunt who died at just the right time he'll have to allow the move to be possible.do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Dean KoontzB0C47LV1PC|title=The Other EmilyFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|summary=Can you make a ''Melody Janie RoweYo birthing person'' even joke? And if you could, is the name question should you make it? Or is evocative of…probably of whatever we want the question if you did, would it to be, and maybe land? The catch is that's the pointanswer for both could well be... To me the name sings of English folk music, but even in my use of that word English, I know I'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmetno. |isbn=1529334179}}{{Frontpage|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=The Day the Screens Went Blank|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Stella and her family. They're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when 'Fragility'poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their home, but is set as the entire south-western village city of Mousehole, and not just thatPortland, eitherOregon, but the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first cautiously begins to get a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do emerge from the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but no. For restrictions imposed during the family finally remember Stella's grandma, and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too – for it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.|isbn=1471196887covid pandemic