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|isbn=16358646740241636604|title=Tomato LoveThe Trading Game: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and MoreA Confession|author=Joy Howard|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=''Think of it as no-whining dining.'' We know it's a fruit rather than a vegetable but the fact that so many people get confused just goes to show how versatile the tomato is. Then there are all the different types, not to mention the cultivars - and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't love. I'd argue with her there - I have no affection for the ones you find in the supermarket ''next'' to the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from the ones that have obviously just been grown for profit. Personally, I'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those - and Howard makes good use of these. She's not at all precious if you get the taste.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241989027|title=We All Have Our Secrets|author=Jane CorryGary Stevenson

|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for live-If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in help as he was failing your mind, you're unlikely to cope at Willowmead House on his ownthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. His advert was fairly specific: A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke of the ability to cook a good steakfamiliar with violence, enjoy decent wine poverty and be free from any food fadsinjustice. The first person who came There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the house was Francoise, a French woman in her early twenties, who fit the bill perfectlyLondon School of Economics. She got the job but Francoise didn't know about the advert: she was there for Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a completely different reasonfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Emily Gentle is Harold's daughter and she came He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to Willowmead House because she be stupid. It was running away from his ability at what was, essentially, a problem in Londoncard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Emily's a midwife and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a complaint had been madetrader.

|authorisbn=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)1035021803|title=Tasting SunlightThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Sally is a teenager who It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has run away from an anorexia treatment clinicbeen back to the English country village where she grew up. She just wants space's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and for people to stop questioning herCarole's close friend, tiptoeing around herArthur Crockleford, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding her. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss who is in her forties dead and seems the circumstances seem suspicious, to live alonesay the least. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally as Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she isfeels, giving let her a room to sleep down badly. Even though they were inbusiness together as antique hunters, and the space she has not felt able to just benear the man or pursue the profession she loved. As they work together on After the farmsplit, she worked in a closeness develops between themcafe, becoming a beautifulmet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, powerful friendshipwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1914585143

|authorisbn=Jennifer MasonAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=PreposterousAll Tomorrow's Futures: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryFictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in Opening up new ways of thinking about the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-shape of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia..things to come.''

This I've heard it said that 'technology' is just what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a sample 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 cast feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of characters and settings in Preposterousit is - frankly - quite frightening. As you can see Of course, some keeping I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this.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.|isbn=B09STS96HS

|author=Will BrookerSunny Singh|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=BiographyThrillers |summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the most successful British authors I've never knowingly readThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Now meet Will BrookerHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the two meeting each otherkilling everyone on site, as wellthere is Sam, a wartime photographer and shows how 2021 drew Abhi, the two closer and closer togetherhotel manager. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the words of her latest book she was recitinghotel, and her being in he forms a ''black lace mini-dress bond with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author Sam who refuses to be cowed by events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, a professor and keeps on venturing out of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that is Jewellher room to try to capture what's diverse outputhappened through her photography. Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through a year in Although they only ever talk over the published author's lifephone, working their friendship grows as Abhi tries to make a success of the latest title, help her keep safe and struggling with the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the resultterrorists.|isbn=1529136024086154742X

|isbn=18011092651529153298|title=The CompanionList of Suspicious Things|author=Lesley ThomsonJennie Godfrey

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'a punctual man who was inexplicably never on times not what's worrying Miv' and he was - as usual - late to pick up his sons family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, Wilburthey've been murdered, for their but to have 'boysdisappeared' day outdoesn't sound quite so frightening. These were always days which appealed more to James than Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to Wilbur and, competing for move the boyfamily 'Down South's attention. When you're from Yorkshire, his motherDown South is a frightening, Annaforeign place, promised him a roast dinner when he returnedbest avoided. The dinner For Miv, the move would never be servedmean leaving her best friend, Sharon, as James and Wilbur are the victims of a double stabbing on the beach. The case falls she'll do anything to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policeprevent that. She's feeling not worried about the pressure. You can always tell dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughto anyone.

|isbn=152941363X1398524085|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Martin WalkerNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Nobody knows what the truth is any mores fiftieth birthday party but never turned up.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis Her children, sons Niall, Paul and much of the Vézère valley Ollie and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')her daughter, the head of detectives for the départment of the DordogneEtty. They're not just policemen are all worried but - they're both deeply committed to the wellstrangely -being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Franceher husband, Alec, is not. The discovery of an oldShortly afterwards, stolen PeugeotEtty and Greg, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldnfind the body of Greg't normally have worried them so much had it not been for the strange bullets father, with Russian letters stamped on the baseDuncan Ackerley, which they found in the carriver. Oh, It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and there was a golf ball too, which didnthen committed suicide when he couldn't belong to the owner of stand the carguilt. A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniperThe Salter children are not convinced but there's weaponlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?

|isbn=02415424051035906708|title=Meredith AloneDiva|author=Claire AlexanderDaisy Goodwin

|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she's not left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'' was born to: Greek parents in factManhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she so nearly doeswas thirteen. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, she canCallas't. She simply can't force herself to leave make it more manageable in the safety of her homeStates. She's fortunate When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she has could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a good friend, Sadie, mother who visits regularly with mercilessly exploited her two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full made no secret of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in preference for her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Handselder sister, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'sJackie.

|isbnauthor=B09Y451X9KChristopher Edge|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)|author=Richard F WalkerBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= ''Anything can happen Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a birthday party, particularly when place that has the birthday boy is the young Lord nickname of the Manor'The Black Hole'. But when an eerie signal is picked up in All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the early hoursmovie starts, George and his they very quickly realise that something about this new girlfriendfilm format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the vivacious Lady Antonianext, embark can they figure out what on earth is going on a quest ? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to uncover its incredible messagetheir real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets 5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the cat out sea. The call of the bag and deep, the world goes into a state of panicanswering beat in my heart.''

Could it be? Could it? Have aliens reached Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and contacted Earth? George any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Antonia find themselves lifted out Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of their privileged lives 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 watched streets of parties and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into foreign islands to the world heart of advanced sciencethe smuggler's territory, secret agents.Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and politicians hungry for powerthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Darren ShanJames Sherwood Metts|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 Planet Storyland

|summary= SoThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. WeAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're back paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to the Merge with the first chapter in the third volume of Darren Shan's saga think of Archibald Loxother, a young man who can pick the locks of portals from our world new ways to anotherspend time, called the ''Merge''. Since his last adventure, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce on the topic of his regular disappearancesalong came an awful pandemic. They don't ask too many questions Life was pretty much shut down and Archie has settled into a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winston, his lock-picking mentor in the ''Merge'' and showing Kojoalong with it, all the young guardian, around our world of the Bornmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD1736128426

|author=John Henry PhillipsMatthew Tree|title=The SearchWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryLiterary Fiction|summary=Archaeology cannot Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be child's playdifferent from his father, when you're scraping in the dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is a case drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of the latter, as our author promises to locate the topic his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of the titular searchself confidence. And he really hasn't made it easy for So Tim applied himself – the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandyhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perishedset himself high but achievable ambitions. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Fiona LongmuirA G Slatter|title=Looking for EmilyThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=Meet Lily'' 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. She and her mother have I just moved want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a city to town under the protection of the Briar's, a tiny seaside family of witches who protect the town called Edge, and everyone the wider world from said mother to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friendsthe Darklands. It turns out that Though she doesn't have any say in has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the matter, first non-witch to be born into her family for while pretending when phoning home that generations and as such since she was with someone called Emilyyoung, she is unaware her neighbourtraining as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, SamEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, is just about to make herself knownthe town's leader, and in a big wayEllie takes her place beside her. But where does Emily As challenges come from? Wellher way left, right and centre, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the most mundane objectsdead, in some converted houses behind putting her at the heart of a most unassuming door, in a place calling itself 'The Museum maelstrom of Emily'chaos. Sam is completely unaware of this 'museum'Reeling from one family secret to another, too, leaving the two girls Ellie must decide who to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding trust and determine whatto do as the Briar witches's behind the intrigue..legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=18399427541803364548

|isbn=B09XZMCDVF1529900360|title=Stories: 13 tantalising talesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Richard F WalkerJonathan Kellerman

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'A news vendor is crying out t need the headlines in the middle help of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; psychologist only worked for a stickler while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for correct grammar goes back in time to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the ideal person to have around man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team is very useful with his feet, and awfully familiar…'' This collection swimming pool of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot to offer the eclectic readerremote property in Bel Air. Tying them together is He was the idea that remarkable and strange, even miraculous, things can happen heir to ordinary people. And that ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form an Italian shoe empire and tone varies so this little treasury of short fiction she is never boring married to an extremely rich man and you're never quite sure whatit's coming nextnot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=18009012321529395224|title=Stitched UpLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Steve ColeSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designerSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Life His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperoushis footsteps, so particularly when he considered the smartlystrain that being on-dressed man and woman came to call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the village to offer Hahn opportunity of doing work experience with a job in Hanoi it family friend who was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands a vet and Hanh was on convinced this was the mini-bus to Hanoijob for him. OnlyBefore long, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factoryhe was at Liverpool University. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones It hadn't - as with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfullyso many students -placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? been his dream since he was a child. ItIf anything, he's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made themd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Daisy Hildyard0861541774|title=EmergencyA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The summary of this book doesnDCI Domenic Jejeune't come s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to explaining what is done meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the premiseman. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Weight of Loss Perfect Passion Company|rating=4 .5|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary= Marianne The Perfect Passion Company is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sistera dating agency in Edinburgh, she awakes run by Ness and operating as an alternative to find strangeall the online apps in providing a more personal, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of tailored service. Ness has asked her spine which steadily increase in size younger cousin Katie if she could come and volume. Her GPlook after the business, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as Ness is planning to take a physical reaction trip to Canada to her griefget away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, recommends she go and so jumps at the chance to come home to stay at NedeEdinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening Edinburgh we already love, thanks to Marianne 44 Scotland Street and the other patients at Nede: Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a metamorphosis of a kind. As Mariannebusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's memories threaten to overwhelm always hervery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at to lend a terrible price: that of identity itself.hand…|isbn= 086154112X 1846976596

|authorisbn=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)0811771741|title=Little DrummerInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=34|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a mixture collection of police procedural and thrillerknits from toys to blankets. Beginning with the death of a young woman in a carpark, that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into a far Some will be quick knits -reaching investigation others are of murder, fraud, and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolichthe 'long, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains cosy afternoons in Norway whilst Frolich is led to Africa as they follow the twists and turns front of the investigationfire' variety. Gunnarstranda and Frolich The projects are tenacious, chasing down divided by the truth in increasingly difficulttime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, frustrating circumstancesfive to ten hours, trying hard ten to uncover twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the truth as they projects are sure that something much biggerattractive, modern and much more dangerous, is going onuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1914585127

|isbnauthor=0008541477Dean Koontz|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!|author=Lauren ChildThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=It was Benny is having a hot summer terrifically bad day right at the beginning of the summer holidays and Clarice Bean was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except for sometimes... And only on rare-sh occasions He loses his job, which is hardly ever.'' There are seven members of the Bean family living in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because he's wobbly)loses his fiancee, Mum and Dadhis house gets trashed. Oh, Clarice's older brother, Kurt and younger brothersomeone has delivered a really weird, Minal Cricket. There's also Marciedisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, whoand it's main claim to fame seems to be possible that she steals whoever or whatever was inside is the batteries from Clarice's torchthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, which means that she can't read in Benny is the airing cupboardvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. Clarice would love He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to have someone who listened to herhis house is a new friend, rather than wanting to talka bad weather friend called Spike, but the only one who does that has been sent to help him since Benny is Granny and she lives in New Yorkclearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. The Bean family Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny'different''s wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=0711266204Adam Stower|title=The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield Murray and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers |summary=I have recently discovered Murray is supposed to be a great pleasure: I sit humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and watch eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basistwo. An hour can pass without my noticing. IBut he's a bad magician've established which species feed from s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the groundcatflap they both use can chuck them out, which pop to not into the feeders for regular back garden, but into a quick snatch world of some food frightening adventure and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeablewhiffs. It would have been wonderful ifThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, as where a childtroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, I'd had access to a book such as be honest, but he's turned up and he'The Secret Life of Birds''. So – what is it?ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1737030942B0C47LV1PC|title=Bag O'GoodiesFragility|author=Jolly Walker BittickMosby Woods

|genre= AnthologiesLiterary Fiction|summary=Sometimes, Can you deserve make a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's 'Yo birthing person'Bag O'Goodies''. I first encountered his writing about a year agojoke? And if you could, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, a rollicking tale of what happens when five young men find a base would it land? The catch is that the answer for their partyingboth could well be. Right now, I didn't want a full-length novel, so I turned to this anthology of verse and short stories. Bittick's writing has matured - and so have his characters. Well.no.. most  ''Fragility'' is set as the city of them!Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Caryl Lewis and George Ermos1529431735|title=SeedThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his lifeIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, and they both might be thought of which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as complete embarrassmentsa wanted drug smuggler for a decade. His grandfather runs an allotment, and manages to stink the entire town out The return has come about because he's had a letter from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetables. His mother somehow combines the dual roles of housebound failure and hoarder – while ex-wife, saying that she seems to do nothing 's ill and hasn't left the building in years she has still managed long to fill it to the brim with junklive. What Marty It's classmates don't know about this they can draw lines hard to from how poor Marty always looksfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, with stripped to his one school uniform built from lost property. We see him as once again the council threaten her underwear and him with eviction, and as he celebrates his birthday with sent to a watery grave in the gift from his grandfather boot of a solitary plant seedstolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=1529077664 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Sophie CameronAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Our Sister, AgainThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5

|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora diesEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, her family struggle to find and in the evening a way forwardhelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. In particular Eli lives with his lovely gran, Isla's mum who can’t seem to be able to let her daughter gotoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. When Isla passes her mum A few short years ago, Eli's details onto a support group she finds online, she thinks they might be able parents were both lost to help. But actually, it turns out they are part of an experimental company who offer the family the chance to have Flora back againtitular race, in robot form. But this won't just be a look-aglobe-like. They use trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of Flora's online history, and interviews with family and friends, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possiblea magical beast. But what will it really mean for This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the familyeatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to have Flora back? And is it really Flora dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at all?the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=17889539160571382231

|isbn=1398507504178763681X|title=Cold ReckoningKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Russ ThomasOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5

|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and for the last sixteen years women to do what hewanted. Paul ''somehow's been searching for evidence to prove ' got the impression that he's right. When d be at the school to assist Paul, who had a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoirbroken arm, there was a link back to a cold case from 2002. There but it didn't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to turn out that way. The teaching - and the case problems - are all his father own. The one thing he hadn't expected was investigating before for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he died. Above all there's a growing sense was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going police consider that person to be brought out into the openprime suspect. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?

|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=07278505471803816759|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)The Unravelling|author=David MarkWill Gibson

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadn't even had time for breakfast when It was one of those flash downpours that the call came throughBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. A body had been found in the roots of In a fallen tree at Brantinghamgully, near Hull. When he gets a human skeleton came to the scenesurface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedwho had disappeared nine years earlier. A young manHe's corpse is entangled with the roots of d been a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – known drug user and two silver Roman coins had learning disabilities, so it could have been nailed through his eyesa simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. It would seem that this Geary was done whilst the man a townie, so what was still alive. he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? McAvoy makes a promise There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the victim: I will find answers. You will know justicetime. But justice always comes at a cost Lockyer and this time DC Gemma Broad of the cost might be to McAvoyMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's own familycold cases to you and me) investigate.

|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire0571379559|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight'The House of Broken Bricks'' is perhaps using the expression story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in a way IJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it'm not familiar withs stood the passage of time, storms and floods. I have Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to confess my ignorance of complete the Spanishdelivery rounds -language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation hereand to bring in sufficient money. From the little I They have read (in translationtwin boys - Sonny and Max, I the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't read Spanish) believe that they're related, much less twins and there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny. |isbn=0861541901

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin1529425867|title= Rebel SkiesLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the MidoriIn Oxford, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of the Empire come to drink Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and make merry between their conquestsalways exquisitely dressed. However D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empirenot. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life 's not any of dreary servitude that is all she has knownthose things. Well, soon Kurara won He't have any say in the matters white, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as originated from a shikigamitrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and she is forced trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to flee out into a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the worldsame policing coin. She joins Himura aboard Sometimes the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|author=Patrice LawrenceMosby Woods|title=Needle|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=1800901011}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405940980|title=The Birdcage|author=Eve ChaseA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=ItThe West isn's t the 7th of January 2019 and we know that a body has been pulled out of dominant force it once was. Nobody in the sea at Zennor in Cornwall. We don't know whose body West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at the request best course of their father, Charlie Finch, a famous artistaction. The girls are actually ''half''-sisters and their dates of birth Governments are embarrassingly closeflailing. Finch was known for his fecundityA war here, if not a push for his fidelityclimate action there. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years agoA feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, at the time of the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren there was a victim and it's left her very wary of her sistersman with precognition.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787634906|title=No Less Imagine the Devil|author=Stuart MacBride|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=We're strategic advantage in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in troublethis asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. He's That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young peoplehistory. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn Imagine then, that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugothis man loses this ability. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat What would governments do to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in get it so that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleeping. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backs.back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1