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|isbn=15294096590241636604|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongings. She was intrigued by the discovery of a picture of her own houseTrading Game: it was an old photograph, taken in misty conditions and on the back it said 'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was born. It was before her parents were married. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and the country was in lockdown. Ruth and Kate are restricted to the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate and continue with her university teaching duties. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carers.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1847941834|title=Atomic HabitsA Confession|author=James ClearGary Stevenson

|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=I've said this before but there are some books that If you seek outwere to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, some books that you stumble across 're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themjeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, likewhere he was familiar with violence, right now! poverty and injustice. ''Atomic Habits'' There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is in the last categorybright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=B09MSC981W1035021803|title=The Woke IliadAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=George BoreasC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Helen is It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a popular activistrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anyway Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, Helen is so popular that dead and the United States government circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has made her its Ambassador of Wokenot felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on behalf the rebound from the love of the governmenther life, including the Shaming Conference who was murdered) and the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''for indoctrinating Freya and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how to James have it''now divorced. Ouch!

|isbn=B09D95TRKZAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Wedding MurdersAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Sarah LinleyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get a permanent job with the newspaper and the case she was covering was her big chance. It was even more important to her than the celebrity wedding she was to attend the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthew. She was leaving her seven-year-old son, Patrick with her sister, Emma, and heading off to a grand manor house hotel in the North Yorkshire countryside. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter and former member of the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phones.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=Carried Away With Opening up new ways of thinking about the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=It was one shape of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparentsthings to come. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:'

I've heard it said that 'Ittechnology'll be brilliantis what happens after you're eighteen. Well, just remember, donI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it't let go s all getting away from me. Some of my handit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1529135362Sunny Singh|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It was The Hotel Arcadia is a long drive to the weekend retreat luxury hotel in Northumbria, right up near the Scottish borders and to make it worse the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morningan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Jane and Ruth had known each other for Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a long time but Emily was a bit of an outsider. She wartime photographer and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than Abhi, the other two womenhotel manager. The friendship of As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the group went back to school days. Paul had coached rugby at residents who are still alive in the school where Markhotel, Toby and Rob were pupils. Mark had married Janehe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and Toby is Ruthkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's husbandhappened through her photography. And Rob? WellAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, Rob's deadtheir 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

|isbn=gareth_steel1529153298|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories The List of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that he's written it to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787634884|title=The HerdSuspicious Things|author=Emily EdwardsJennie Godfrey

|summary=Our story opens in December 2019It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, before most of us had even heard of Covid or realised they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come her father wants to be a major issuemove the family 'Down South'. WeWhen you're in Farley County Courtfrom Yorkshire, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash KohliDown South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. As they were For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened is major friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that, regardless of . She's not worried about the outcome, this is not going dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to work out well for anyone.

|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs1398524085|title=The Language of FoodHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never had the slightest inclination to boil an eggturned up. When tasked with writing a cookery book Her children, sons Niall, she recruits Ann KirbyPaul and Ollie and her daughter, a local woman with a troubled home lifeEtty. Togetherare all worried but - strangely - her husband, they testAlec, craftis not. Shortly afterwards, refine Etty and reshape Greg, find the world body of domestic cookeryGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, reinventing in the river. It was an easy assumption for the recipe book police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and changing then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the face of cookery writing foreverguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1398502227

|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1035906708|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile Lucas and his friends are all booked in the physical form of for a middle-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by movie marathon at their local cinema, a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor place that has come along as well, to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother nickname of the two'The Black Hole'. Loki has a month All big movie fans, they're looking forward to redeem his reputationlots of exciting films, and get his moral compass pointing the right way againmany, or elsemany snacks! However, and to prove it he has to write as the text we read in a sentient notebookmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is able to cry foul of his liesvery different, and judge his progressthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But Loki is as they lurch from one film genre to the kind of god who insists he next, can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to be a walk in the park...rightcinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=14063997521839942738

|isbnauthor=0008454442Rachel Greenlaw|title=A Flicker in the Dark|author=Stacy WillinghamCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a medical psychologistremote and partially forgotten island, is completing a session with a new patientsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Lacey Mira, like her mother before her, is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes one of getting her through the traumaseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. You seeBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, Chloe knows what itthey capture the island's leader and Mira's like father. Desperate to have save him from death, Mira makes a traumatic childhood. Her father bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is Richard Davissecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the man who murdered six girls some twenty years agosea. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed it watched streets of foreign islands to the police. Dick Davis is in heart of the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to do with him for save the last twenty years. Her mother is in a care future of her homeand the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Christopher EdgeJames Sherwood Metts|title=Escape RoomPlanet Storyland|rating=34.5

|summary=I've seen junior variants of Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific location, re paid to do and have other tasks that took time to solve problems in order accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get their way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, Ami used to all this technological change and four starting to think of other tweenagers, all new ways to each other spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and booked into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at along with it, all the game's main offices, where many daily social interactions on which they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerdepend so heavily. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=17880079641736128426

|isbnauthor=1732898731Matthew Tree|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A ChildrenWe's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese ll Never Know

|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=There was Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything drunk and he was meticulous about storage: chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys artistic passions all failed miserably and the like: all the things which most children have in abundancewho had endless crises of self confidence. The Boy's delight was in the sense of order in So Tim applied himself to his room: it made him feel happy. As he grew up and became a Manstudies, cultivated his abilities rather than his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger daydreams and better boxes. Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that one of them has a padlock..set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' 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, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09MN1526W1529900360|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)The Ghost Orchid|author=Liz MistryJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's the third murder in the space of a few weeks fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and they've all been because of machetes used even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on teenagersdifficult cases. DS Nikki Parekh His assertions that there were only open-and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on -shut cases which didn't need the outskirts help of Bradforda psychologist only worked for a while. OnlyFinally, this timeit was Robin, itDelaware's going to be differentpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The body appears to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephewnext case did look simple, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdownthough. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but Two lovers were murdered in the body is clad swimming pool of a remote property in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied backgroundBel Air. What it does mean though He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is that Nikki is going married to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety an extremely rich man and depressionit's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Ally WilkesSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn 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 strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=All the White SpacesA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=In post-WWI EnglandDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For JonathanDanny Maik, this adventure represents a chance for has taken a fresh start, and the opportunity short holiday in Singapore to live life as his authentic self and true gendermeet up with an old ally, without the disapproval and constraints of his parentsGuy Trueman. However, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and the shadow of the war hangs like he killed a funeral shroud over the expeditionGhurka. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land Initially, he faced a menacing presence waits charge of manslaughter but evidence came to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is light that suggested that he might have planned to make it out of murder the Arctic winter alive, man. Now he will have could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to face his demons once help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and for wouldn't help Danny at all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.|isbn=1789097835

|author=Dean KoontzAlexander McCall Smith|title=QuicksilverThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be The Perfect Passion Company is a mercurial character yetdating agency in Edinburgh, for he's lived run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundlingmore personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and now look after the business, as Ness is starting planning to take a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject trip to Canada to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', get away for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded while. Katie is coming out of him that he go to a derelict diner, find break up with a gold coin worth a fortunebad boyfriend, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on so jumps at the lamchance to come home to Edinburgh. And all so begins this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to turn up 44 Scotland Street and suggest he's of interest the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to themcharm. Helped to escape Katie has no experience in running a business, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being or in controlmatch-making, the discovery that he is not unique but Ness has full confidence in having some kind of burgeoning power – her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a whole lot more besides.hand…|isbn=15420198851846976596

|isbn=00084416180811771741|title=Other ParentsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Sarah StovellMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Women's FictionCrafts|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up knits from toys to her retired predecessor there could well blankets. Some will be a house price slump quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in that part front of the townfire' variety. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and projects are divided by the funds which time they raised were a considerable benefit 'll take to the school. There was one difficulty, though complete - they were ''devastatingly shockable''less than five hours, with two membersfive to ten hours, in particularten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, causing problems for the headmodern and useable. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to JoI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'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's me being picky.

|author=Sarah Ann JuckesDean Koontz|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleBad Weather Friend

|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Jasper Benny is having a little boy who has some struggles, and whilst we're never told why exactlyterrifically bad day. He loses his job, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacksloses his fiancee, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotionshis house gets trashed. His big sister, Rosie Oh, and someone has been delivered a huge support really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging himhis home, and writing a book with himit's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm downthis bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. His parents seem completely caught up in their business, and so So fortunately for Benny it is Rosie he always turns out that the delivery to. Even though she his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has gone away been sent to University now, she has promised help him that she will still be there when he needs hersince Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would Spike is going to take care of Benny, and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or will certainly take in what theycare of Benny're saying. Nothing seems to be rights enemies, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, Benny, and if they Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can find the nightingale and listen to its song, as figure out who exactly they do together every Springare.|isbn=13985108901662500491

|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Adam Stower|title=Red is My HeartMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Fiction Confident Readers |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and read in my house. And so was this onefriendly cat, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, who is able to sleep and eat and is, black eat and white sleep and red, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. Yes But he's a bad magician's cat, he so his favourite bun has an artistic collaborator on this piecebeen turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and I think whiffs. This time round itdrops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's possible turned up and he'll have to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas.do…|isbn=19135471830008561249

|isbn=1529135567B0C47LV1PC|title=One Step Too FarFragility|author=Lisa GardnerMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=ItCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's five years since ' joke? And if you could, is the stag weekend. Five of them had set out: Tim (question should you make it? Or is the groom) and his four groomsmenquestion if you did, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Josh. would it land? The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in catch is that the night Scot managed to wander offanswer for both could well be.. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. When help didn't come the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Tim. Every year, Tim ''Fragility''s fatheris set as the city of Portland, MartinOregon, and cautiously begins to emerge from the four friends have been back to continue restrictions imposed during the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tim.covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1529431735|title=Bitter FlowersThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54

|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab It's February 1991 and Essex is now returning to work. Howeverbitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the quiet job hemore surprising. He's supposedly taken d been exiled on caretaking someonethe Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's house quickly turns into had a murder investigationletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and a mystery around a missing womanhasn't long to live. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear It's hard to be linked, but what feel any sympathy when Hopkins is the linkabducted, stripped to his underwear and how can Varg possibly unravel sent to a watery grave in the truthboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?|isbn=191319308X

|author=Kia AhankoobAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament Glorious Race of SentinelsMagical Beasts

|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with different powershim, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating evening a dynamic helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and prosperous societyruns. Each power Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriadgeneration missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's children and their descendants. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and parents were both lost to the eight countries went titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding navigate the world in the cost company of war too high, a solution is proposedmagical beast. Each of This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eight countries will send their greatest warriorseatery leads to a confession from gran, known as sentinelsEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession with the sole aim the prize of all magic at the rings and become end – the supreme ruler of Dunivaonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV0571382231

|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps178763681X|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet TomasChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. Happy He didn't really want to work with his father in but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the blacksmith's forge, impression that he's almost of d be at the age school to become assist Paul, who had a full apprenticebroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and help with the new batch of dragonswords is certainly needed. Not that there problems - are any dragons, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except.all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Strange signals from within Unfortunately, he was the forge furnace, and a peculiar invite to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in person who discovered the wash, that yes dragons do still exist in this world, body and everyone knows that Tom is rare in the ability police consider that person to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with thembe the prime suspect...|isbn=1839940026

|isbnauthor=1529346541Sarah Marsh|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth GeorgeA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James is at After a bout of scarlet fever as a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school systemchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a representative from the NHSworld of silence, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakereverything about her life changes. It follows on from Living in a time when the success use of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used sent to highlight an area which a school where she is causing concern in some communitiestaught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful From here, she could be as ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the problem seems to occur in Nigerian deaf and Somali communities as she relies using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on getting the trust other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of the people she speaks to and photographsespionage.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=B09Q3P283Y1803816759|title=ShadebringerThe Unravelling|author=Grayson W HooperWill Gibson

|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. HeIt's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor 2038 and Joe is he particularly interested in a career in bored cop policing the militarywealthy and peaceful New York City. If he's honest - which Clyde usually isJoe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, with himself at least - he hasn't got making life easier for many choices , and this one, at leastriots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets him out to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rut he's inrioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. HeJoe isn's good in training t the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training coursealso on the case. HeWhat went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's chuffed with himself.kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy1529421284|title=The Mermaid in Laying Out the MillpondBones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=There is no mermaid It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herselfa heatwave. Neither will there be In a friend for her in amongst all the other kidsgully, who have had their entire childhoods sold a human skeleton came to the mill-owners by surface and forensic testing proved the London workhouse they used body to call homebe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in He'd been a hand-to-mouthknown drug user and had learning disabilities, every man for himself kind so it could have been a simple case of existencemisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. But despite herself Bess does find Geary was a bit townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of a kindred spirit in Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal time. Lockyer and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer DC Gemma Broad of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely Major Crimes Review Unit (that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049Xs cold cases to you and me) investigate.

|isbn=17856330740571379559|title=Staggering HubrisThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Josh BerryFiona Williams|rating=4.5|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter paresThe House of Broken Bricks'' (thatis the story of four people. Tess Hembry's for those of you who roots are Eton and Oxbridge educated) in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the reality is that house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it''prime'' movers are s stood the special advisers - passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the SPADS delivery rounds - who are the driving force behind the governmentand to bring in sufficient money. We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe HubrisThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watchPeople don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.

|isbn=B09MYXSRV41529425867|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: Lost and Never Found (A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Cordellya SmithSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When the world was madeIn Oxford, the animals were given giftsthere are two D I Wilkins. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protectorRaymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present He''and'' the futures not any of those things. Rabbit developed intelligence - butHe's white, unfortunatelyoriginated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not the ability to use it well''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. He liked to trick other animalsThey're usually in lime green or acid yellow. He was also jealous which was how he came You might wonder if you're being introduced to be in a race with Turtlepolice procedural written for laughs. You might think thatWell, you's re not a fair contest but wait and see. Things The two men are not always as they seemjust different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. ISometimes it'll tell you how it came abouts problematic.

|author=Giovanna FletcherMosby Woods|title=Walking on SunshineA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=MikeThe West isn's wife, Pia, who he t the dominant force it once was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is dealing with his grief, so the best course of action. Governments are their best friends, Vicky and Zazaflailing. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to followA war here, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on livinga push for climate action there. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one A feeling that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything nobody is in their own livesactual charge. Imagine then, and go along there was a man with himprecognition.|isbn=140593560X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529393930|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=''Starting a creative business has never been easier.'' ''If not now, when?'' I know that I'm not alone Imagine the strategic advantage in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into this asset; a business. There's a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we man who can sensibly use and there are a lot tell you what will happen given any set of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as giftscircumstances. Selling That man would offset the costs, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun to dovaluable, couldn't itright? But where to start? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do I need to think aboutget it back? Well, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making a Living''.|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1