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|isbn=07515815770241636604|title=Lying Beside YouThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Michael RobothamGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthday. Voices told him If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to do itthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Only two people survived A hoodie and jeans replaces the carnage pin- Eliasstripe suit and his background is the East End, who where he was sent to Ramptonfamiliar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his thirteenCV -year-old brother, Cyrus, who hid in a shed until but he had been to the police found himLondon School of Economics. Twenty years later, Cyrus Stevenson is a forensic psychologist bright - extremely bright - and he's been told that his brother is being released. Can Cyrus forgive the sinner whilst having to live on has a daily basis facility with the results numbers which most of the crime? us can only envy. Can he bear He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to have Elias living in the same house? be stupid. How will It was his lodgerability at what was, essentially, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormaca card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, cope?this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=140595115X1035021803|title=A Stranger on BoardThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Cameron WardC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Right 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 request for help from the beginningher beloved aunt, we know this will not turn out wellCarole. Eight days into the trip to deliver the superyacht Freya's former mentor and Carole'Escape'' to Antiguas close friend, Arthur Crockleford, all 300 tonnes is dead and six decks will be floundering without power in the Atlanticcircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Those of Arthur was the crew who are left will be cowering in fear a fellow crew member tries reason why Freya had not been back to pick them offthe village: Arthur, she feels, one by onelet her down badly. Some are already deadEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. They are three days After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from shore and there is no way the love of making contact. But let's go back to when all this startedher life, in Southamptonwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1398508632AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Wilderness CureAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Mo WildeBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary=It had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end ''Opening up new ways of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where thinking about the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety shape of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her things to run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635864674|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy Howard|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=''Think of it as no-whining diningcome.''

We know I've heard itsaid that 'technology's a fruit rather than a vegetable but the fact that so many people get confused just goes to show how versatile the tomato iswhat happens after you're eighteen. Then there are all the different typesWell, not to mention the cultivars - and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says I must confess that she hasn't met one she didn't lovethere have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I'd argue ve kept up reasonably well with her there - what's advantageous to me but I have no affection for the ones you find in the supermarket ''next'' to m left with the ones labelled feeling that it'grown for flavour' to distinguish them s all getting away from the ones that have obviously just been grown for profitme. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. PersonallyOf course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those - and Howard makes good use of thesem reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. She's not at all precious if you get the tasteI needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=0241989027Sunny Singh|title=We All Have Our Secrets|author=Jane CorryHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for live-The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in help as he was failing to cope at Willowmead House on his ownan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. His advert was fairly specific: he was a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke of Hiding from the ability to cook a good steakterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fads. The first person who came to the house was Francoisethere is Sam, a French woman in her early twentieswartime photographer and Abhi, who fit the bill perfectlyhotel manager. She got As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the job but Francoise didn't know about residents who are still alive in the advert: she was there for hotel, he forms a completely different reason. Emily Gentle is Harold's daughter bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and she came keeps on venturing out of her room to Willowmead House because she was running away from a problem in London. Emilytry to capture what's a midwife and happened through her last shift had seen photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her lacking concentration keep safe and a complaint had been madethey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)1529153298|title=Tasting SunlightThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5

|summary=Sally It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a teenager who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinicPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) She just wants space's not what's worrying Miv's family, and for people to stop questioning herthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, tiptoeing around herthey've been murdered, and trying but to fix her without ever truly understanding herhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss who is in Miv's upset because she's overheard that her forties and seems father wants to live alonemove the family 'Down South'. Liss When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is unlike any other adult Sally has ever meta frightening, foreign place, best avoided. She just accepts Sally as she is For Miv, giving the move would mean leaving her a room to sleep inbest friend, Sharon, and the space she'll do anything to just beprevent that. As they work together on She's not worried about the farm, a closeness develops between them, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendshipdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1914585143

|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in 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-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...'' This is just a sample of the cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=B09STS96HS}}{{Frontpage|author=Will Brooker|title=The Truth About Lisa Jewell|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the most successful British authors I've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the words of her latest book she was reciting, and her being in a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that is Jewell's diverse output. Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through a year in the published author's life, working to make a success of the latest title, and struggling with the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the result.|isbn=1529136024}}{{Frontpage|isbn=18011092651398524085|title=The CompanionHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Lesley ThomsonNicci French

|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''a punctual man who was inexplicably s fiftieth birthday party but never on time'' turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and he was her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - as usual strangely - late to pick up his sonher husband, WilburAlec, for their 'boys' day out'is not. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur Shortly afterwards, Etty andGreg, competing for find the boybody of Greg's attentionfather, his motherDuncan Ackerley, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when he returnedin the river. The dinner would never be served, as James It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and Wilbur are the victims of a double stabbing on then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the beachguilt. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. SheSalter children are not convinced but there's feeling the pressure. You little else they can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughdo but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=152941363X1035906708|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Diva|author=Martin WalkerDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=''Nobody knows what the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis and much We tend to think of the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known Maria Callas as 'JJ')Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, the head of detectives for the départment of the Dordognein December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. TheyHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 're not just policemen - theyCallas're both deeply committed to make it more manageable in the well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of FranceStates. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned When she was back in a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them Athens - supposedly so much had it not been that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the car. Oh, Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and there was a golf ball toomade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, which didn't belong to the owner of the carJackie. A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniper's weapon. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?

|isbnauthor=0241542405Christopher Edge|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire AlexanderBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 Lucas and she's not left her home his friends are all booked in for 1a movie marathon at their local cinema,214 days. She'd ''likea place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole' to: in fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. ThenAll big movie fans, she can't. She simply canthey't force herself re looking forward to leave the safety lots of her home. exciting films, and many, many snacks! She's fortunate that she has a good friendHowever, Sadieas the movie starts, who visits regularly with her two childrenthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, James and Matilda. Sadiethey are swept up into an adventure they couldn's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fredt even imagine. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith But as JIGSAWGIRLthey lurch from one film genre to the next, so you can guess they figure out what she does in her spare time. on earth is going on? Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding HandsWill they ever get back to the cinema, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=B09Y451X9KRachel Greenlaw|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)|author=Richard F WalkerCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary= ''Anything I can happen at a birthday party, particularly when hear the birthday boy is the young Lord song of the Manorsea. But when an eerie signal is picked up in The call of the early hours, George and his new girlfrienddeep, the vivacious Lady Antonia, embark on a quest to uncover its incredible message. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets the cat out of the bag and 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 women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the last sixteen years impression that he's been searching for evidence d be at the school to prove assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing hehadn's rightt expected was for someone to turn up dead. When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir Unfortunately, there he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a link back to bout of scarlet fever as a cold case from 2002child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death but Adam Tyler senses Suddenly plunged into a link to the case his father was investigating before he diedworld of silence, everything about her life changes. Above all there's Living in a growing sense that time when the criminality use of Det Supt Stevens sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is going taught to be brought out into 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 opendeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. Perhaps Tyler At the same time, Bell is going to get the answers he needs?working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|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