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|authorisbn=Ally Wilkes0241636604|title=All the White SpacesThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorAutobiography|summary=In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on If you were to bring up an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents image of a chance for a fresh startcity banker in your mind, and the opportunity you're unlikely to live life as his authentic self think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and true gender, without jeans replaces the disapproval pin-stripe suit and constraints of his parents. However, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing background is the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expedition. GuiltEast End, mistrust and grief stalk the party andwhere he was familiar with violence, when disaster strikes poverty and they are forced to overwinter injustice. There was no posh public school on land, a menacing presence waits his CV - but he had been to prey on their darknessthe London School of Economics. If Jonathan Stevenson is to make it out bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of the Arctic winter alive, he will have us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to face be stupid. It was his demons once and for allability at what was, essentially, or risk making the barrena card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, icy landscape his tombthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=1789097835

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1035021803|title=QuicksilverThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=23.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Meet Quinn QuicksilverIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. He She's not had the chance to get to be back now because of a mercurial character yetrequest for help from her beloved aunt, for heCarole. Freya's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, former mentor and now is starting a career on a needless magazineCarole's staffclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind''the village: Arthur, for something – call it unearthly intuitionshe feels, call it mind-controllet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, call it a supernatural urge – she has demanded of him that he go not felt able to a derelict dinerbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, find she worked in a gold coin worth a fortunecafe, cash the value of it out of his bank met and prepare for going married James (on the lam. And all this is just in time for two rebound from the love of those typical Men in Black types to turn up her life, who was murdered) and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – Freya and a whole lot more besidesJames have now divorced.|isbn=1542019885

|isbn=0008441618AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Other ParentsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Sarah StovellBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Women's Science Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live 'Opening up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part new ways of thinking about the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit shape of things to the schoolcome. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable I've heard it said that ', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jotechnology's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Ann Juckes|title=The Hunt for the Nightingale|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jasper is a little boy who has some struggles, and whilst wewhat happens after you're never told why exactlyeighteen. Well, we can see I must confess that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotions. His big sister, Rosie, has there have been more than a huge support few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, and writing a book me but I'm left with him, the feeling that it's all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm downgetting away from me. His parents seem completely caught up in their business, and so Some of it is Rosie he always turns to- frankly - quite frightening. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and she isnend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in m reading someone who knows what they're sayingtalking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Nothing seems to be right, I needed people I knew I could trust and the only who could deliver information in a way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its song, as they do together every SpringI could understand.|isbn=1398510890

|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Sunny Singh|title=Red is My HeartHotel Arcadia

|genre=Literary Fiction Thrillers |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been black and white and read in my houseviolently taken over by a terrorist group. And so was this one Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one waskilling everyone on site, and there isSam, black a wartime photographer and white and redAbhi, the hotel manager. Yes As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceforms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and I think itkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's possible 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 say not one page lacks see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the influence of some striking visual ideasterrorists.|isbn=1913547183086154742X

|isbn=15291355671529153298|title=One Step Too FarThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Lisa GardnerJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's five years since the stag weekend1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmenA woman? I mean, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggyhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, Neil and Joshthough. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander offWomen have been disappearing. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that TimWell, who was experienced in survival techniquesthey've been murdered, would go for helpbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. When help didnMiv's upset because she't come s overheard that her father wants to move the remaining three finally made their way back to townfamily 'Down South'. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of TimWhen you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Every yearFor Miv, Tim's fatherthe move would mean leaving her best friend, MartinSharon, and the four friends have been back she'll do anything to continue prevent that. She's not worried about the search although they do now acknowledge dangers or that theyher Mum're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tims stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1398524085|title=Bitter FlowersHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5

|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is now returning to worknot. However Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the quiet job hebody of Greg's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigationfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and a mystery around a missing womanthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Varg finds himself The Salter children are not only investigating these, convinced but there's little else they can do but also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night get on with their lives and was never foundwonder about what really happened. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308X

|authorisbn=Kia Ahankoob1035906708|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsGeneral Fiction|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, each with its own strength and weakenessNew York, in the hope they would complement each other December 1923 and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous societyonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. But it didnCallas't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding make it more manageable in the cost of war too high, a solution is proposedStates. Each of When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to Nazi occupation by a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings mother who mercilessly exploited her and become the supreme ruler made no secret of Dunivaher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV

|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsChristopher Edge|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Meet Tomas. Happy to work with Lucas and his father friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the blacksmithnickname of 's forgeThe Black Hole'. All big movie fans, hethey's almost re looking forward to lots of the age to become a full apprenticeexciting films, and help with many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new batch of dragonswords film format is certainly needed. Not that there very different, and they are any dragons, of course – swept up into an adventure they vanished centuries ago. Except..couldn't even imagine. Strange signals But as they lurch from within one film genre to the forge furnacenext, and a peculiar invite can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the wash, that yes dragons do still exist in this worldcinema, and that Tom is rare in the ability to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with them...their real lives?|isbn=18399400261839942738

|isbnauthor=1529346541Rachel Greenlaw|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth GeorgeCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James is at a meeting with Dominique Shaw'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, Undersecretary for the school systemanswering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a representative from remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the NHSwrecks. Mira, Mr Oh from Barnardoslike her mother before her, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn is one of the seven who swim out to be Zawadi survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and Narissa Cameronany treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, a filmmaker. It follows on from they capture the success of Deborahisland's book leader and Mira''London Voices'': the meeting s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is an exploration secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the possibility watched streets of foreign islands to the idea behind heart of the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communities. Deborahsmuggler's uncertain about quite how successful she could territory, Mira must be as the problem seems determined to stop at nothing to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting save the trust future of her home and the people ones she speaks to and photographsholds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbn=B09Q3P283Y|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the rut he's in. He's good in training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmyJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondPlanet Storyland

|summary=There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be Things have been a friend bit sticky for her in amongst all the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold tasks that took time to the mill-owners by the London workhouse accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to call home. Bess knows there is no all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind of existencealong came an awful pandemic. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little DotLife was pretty much shut down and, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harmalong with it, there might be a glimmer of companionship in all the tired-out mill workersmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X1736128426

|isbnauthor=1785633074Matthew Tree|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh BerryWe'll Never Know

|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=Members of Parliament like us Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to believe that the country is run by politiciansbe different from his father, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of you who are Eton being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmenthad endless crises of self confidence. We are in the privileged position of having access So Tim applied himself to the memoirs of Rafe Hubrishis studies, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but he will certainly be the man to watchachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=B09MYXSRV4A G Slatter|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya SmithBriar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary=When '' There's a 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 last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world was made, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the animals were given giftswider world from the Darklands. Bear Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was given strength so that he could become young, her training as a protectorsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the present 'town's leader, and'' the futureEllie takes her place beside her. Rabbit developed intelligence - butAs challenges come her way left, unfortunatelyright and centre, not Ellie uncovers the rare ability to use it wellcommunicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. He liked Reeling from one family secret to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came another, Ellie must decide who to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait trust and see. Things are not always determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they seem. I'll tell you how it came abouthave sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Giovanna Fletcher1529900360|title=Walking on SunshineThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=MikeIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's wifefault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Pia, who he Sturgis was with reluctant to ask for seventeen years, has diedhis help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. And whilst he is dealing with his grief Finally, so are their best friendsit was Robin, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some Delaware'rules' to follows partner, knowing who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that she the involvement was dying and something that they would need help to carry on livingthe man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Whilst some Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him heir to take one of their trips away, an Italian shoe empire and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide she is married to drop everything in their own lives, an extremely rich man and go along with himit's not the Italian.|isbn=140593560X But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=15293939301529395224|title=Making Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Living: How to Craft Your BusinessVet|author=Sophie RochesterSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=CraftsAnimals and Wildlife|summary=''Starting Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a creative business has never been easier.GP and Rowlands didn'' ''If not nowt want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when?'' I know he considered the strain that Ibeing on-call put on his father'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a businesss life. There's a lot When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are doing work experience with a lot of people family friend who have been delighted to accept what I make as giftswas a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Selling would offset the costsBefore long, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun to do, couldnhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't it? - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. But where to start? What do I need to think about? WellIf anything, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is he'd wanted to read ''Making be a Living''professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Freya Marske0861541774|title=A Marvellous LightNye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a job short holiday in the Civil ServiceSingapore to meet up with an old ally, much to his chagrinGuy Trueman. There Maik was involved in a street brawl - he meets Edwin Courcey and learns would later maintain that the streets of London are threaded he was facing a man armed with magica knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Desperate Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to remove a curse light that suggested that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin he might have planned to murder the countryside, where man. Now he could be facing the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with powerdeath penalty. There they uncover Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a sinister plot that threatens the lives of diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all magicians in the British Isles. |isbn=1529080886

|isbnauthor=0241480442Alexander McCall Smith|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienPerfect Passion Company

|genre=CookeryGeneral Fiction|summary=EmotionallyThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, I am run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a veganmore personal, tailored service. MentallyNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, I am as Ness is planning to take a vegantrip to Canada to get away for a while. I read [[How to Love Animals in Katie is coming out of a break up with a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] bad boyfriend, and was appalled by so jumps at the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) foodchance to come home to Edinburgh. PracticallyAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, I am not a vegan. It worked for a while apart from bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the odd blip Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with regard some new characters who quickly begin to cheese but then charm. Katie has no experience in running a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often business, or in your lifetime tempted me back to animalmatch-based protein. It wasnmaking, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there't the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in lend a few spare moments.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=suppl_stafl0811771741|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect InstaKnits for Book LoversBaby|author=Kim Staflund|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=So, you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - and you had a talent for delivering the written word. You knew your subject back to front. Now you're going to have to get to grips with the book supply chain, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and no one wants to be the first to try. Then, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to you.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398706906|title=The Lost|author=Simon BeckettMelissa Leapman

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyMelissa Leapman's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself ''InstaKnits for what had happened. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and when he woke, Theo had gone. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later heBaby's largely come through it and he's out with his team when he gets gives us a phone call collection of knits from DS Gavin McKinneytoys to blankets. Gavin used to Some will be his best friend but itquick knits - others are of the 's a long , cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time since they've spokenll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - All the projects are attractive, modern and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quayuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'Therebut that's no one else I can trust'', he saysme being picky.

|author=Amanda MasonDean Koontz|title=The Hiding PlaceBad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorParanormal|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent lifeBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to Whitbyhis home, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder House. She hopes that and it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But there's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere possible that whoever or whatever was inside is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect the thing that she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{Frontpage|author=Paul Cleave|title=has trashed his house! The Quiet People|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= I am not a fan of "thing is, Benny is the Prologue"very last person to deserve all this bad luck. Most books are the worse for them He is a nice person. In this case I might make an exception A really nice person. We start with Luca Pittman So fortunately for Benny 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 in clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a hurrygood person. He has Spike is going to hurry because he has children that he should not havetake care of Benny, and when will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he hurries, when he bundles things into the back of his car and tries to run and then hears sirens behind himBenny, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badlyare.|isbn=19131939421662500491

|author=Will CarverAdam Stower|title=Psychopaths AnonymousMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=Maeve Murray is supposed to be a high functioning alcoholichumble, drinking continuously tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and also, curiouslywell, addicted to attending numerous AA groupswhatever takes his fancy next of the two. She is also But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encountersregular back garden, targets to feed her desire to hear but into a world of people's misery, frightening adventure and targets for her violent behaviourwhiffs. Yet she also seems This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be searching for others who think as she doeshonest, and when shebut he's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set turned up her own, hoping and he'll have to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.do…|isbn=19131937560008561249

|isbn=1529418100B0C47LV1PC|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesFragility|author=Martin WalkerMosby Woods

|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=ICan you make a ''m not usually a fan of short stories - I find Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it all too easy to put ? Or is the book down between stories and forget to pick question if you did, would it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so land? The catch is that the temptation to read answer for both could well be.... no. ''BrunoFragility's Challenge'' was hard to resist and I'm rather glad that I didn't even try. For those new to is set as the seriescity of Portland, Oregon, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need cautiously begins to know about who's who and emerge from the restrictions imposed during the background to why Bruno is in St Denis.covid pandemic

|isbn=B09GJW49GF1529431735|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)The Winter Visitor|author=Jenny O'BrienJames Henry

|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her sonIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Hunter The return has come about because he's had diabetes and this was controlled by a pump attached to letter from his stomach, so her overex-protectiveness was understandablewife, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her to get married and saying that she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was 's ill and hasn'really'' liket long to live. Her friendIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Milly, had arranged stripped to his underwear and sent to take her boyfriend, Liam, for a night watery grave in the boot of a posh hotel but then he dumped her and she couldn't get the money back, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go in his placestolen Ford Sierra. She would return Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missing.?

|isbnauthor=B09GV3WS1QAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Without a Trace|author=Jane BettanyThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Life hadn't been easy Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through there is a divorce and right now it was raining hardgeneration missing in the family. All she wanted was A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to get back the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to her new home and settle down for navigate the world in the company of a quiet eveningmagical beast. It wasn't going This has made the race anathema to be though: the pair – but when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed with bad incident at the eatery leads to a knife in confession from gran, Eli knows his chest. She'd no idea who only hope is to dare to enter what he wasmost hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=1838774823178763681X|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemKnife Skills for Beginners|author=S J BennettOrlando Murrin|rating=54

|summary=It's 2016 and the Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a strain on his waistbandresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Swimming, he decides, is the He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to go and do what he can use wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the Buckingham Palace pool which is how impression that he came to 'd be there early one morning and discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at the side of the pool. There was school to assist Paul, who had a broken glass - a crystal tumblerarm, by the look at but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - probably one of and the young royals being careless problems - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled outare all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. StillUnfortunately, it he was a shock for Sir Simonthe person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=057136358XSarah Marsh|title=April in Spain|author=John BanvilleA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Terry Tice was After a bout of scarlet fever as a hitmanchild, although he didn't think of himself in those termsEllen Lark loses her hearing. He saw what he did as ''Suddenly plunged into a matter world of making things tidy''silence, everything about her life changes. I couldn't resist Living in a time when the thought that he use of sign language was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his jobseen as something only savages do, something which occurred Ellen is sent to him when he was in Burma with the army ''a school where he got the chance she is taught to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''lip read, but physically restrained from signing. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know has been teaching the purpose of deaf and using a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? system called Visible Speech. It was after Percy's death that he saw At the benefits of taking same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a job in Spaincomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Dave Letterfly Knoderer1803816759|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre=AutobiographyScience Fiction|summary=How It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to summarise get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence easier for many, and riots start to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you knowspread. Finally, I really don't think I canJoe gets to do some real policing.  Dave In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is an author kidnapped and an artistJoe is assigned to bring her home. An inspirational speaker and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholic. The son of a Lutheran minister, heJoe isn's struggled with a controlling fathert the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, run away to join the circus (not a metaphor), trained horses, painted caravans, designed British superfan and painted theatre setstech nerd, and hit rock bottom when is also on the bottle took overcase.|isbn=B0965V3LLNWhat went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Tade Thompson1529421284|title=Far From Laying Out the Light of HeavenBones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream It was one of going to space. As first officer aboard those flash downpours that the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be British weather often delivers in a babysitter for the ship's AI captainheatwave. However In a gully, when she wakes up at a human skeleton came to the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered surface and forensic testing proved the Ragtimebody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He's AI almost non-responsived been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, she begins to realise that her first mission wonso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't be going as smoothly as she hoped it wouldconvinced. Down Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Ragtimetime. Meanwhile, former astronaut Lockyer and friend DC Gemma Broad of Shellthe Major Crimes Review Unit (that's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle cold cases to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking you and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosme) investigate. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323

|authorisbn=Rob Keeley0571379559|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating= 45|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary= ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrotsTess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, broccolishe lives in the house on the riverbank, cabbage and auberginesbuilt of broken bricks. When her friends at school turn up their noses Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you storms and how nice to eatfloods. One day Her husband, poor Lily gets tricked by JordanRichard, who tells her that carrots struggles to grow on trees. Infuriatedhis vegetables, Lily checks with to complete the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and vegetables, like carrotsMax, grow in the groundrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her People don't believe that they're related, Miss!" much less twins and everyone laughs at poor Lilythere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|isbn= B09HHN541V

|isbn=178607981X1529425867|title=Bad ApplesLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Will DeanSimon Mason

|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of the roadshell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Wondering You might wonder if someone needed help she got out you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the car - and heard the screams from deep inside same policing coin. Sometimes the forestcombination works brilliantly well. Determining the direction of a sound Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|author=Mosby Woods|title=A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= The West isn't easy when you need hearing aids and dampness the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is causing interference but Tuva made her way quite sure how to where mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a woman push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was holding her coat over a man with precognition. Imagine the body of strategic advantage in this asset; a manwho can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. He'd been decapitatedThat man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. He was Arne Gustav PerssonImagine then, a resident of Visbergthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1