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|isbn=17876348840008517061|title=The HerdDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Emily EdwardsStig Abell|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Our story opens in December 2019Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, before most has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of us had even heard his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of Covid compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or realised that does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not we should be vaccinated would come to be a major issue. this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? We're For the moment they’re enjoying life in Farley County Court, where Elizabeth the present and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash Kohli. As they were best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened is major and that, regardless of putting the future on the outcome, this is not going to work out well for anyoneback burner.

|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs1786482126|title=The Language of FoodJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the slightest inclination site was going to boil an egghold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. When tasked with writing Was this a cookery bookritual killing or murder? Inevitably, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with a troubled home lifeDCI Harry Nelson. Together It's difficult as Ruth knows, they testbut Nelson doesn't, craft, refine and reshape that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the world of domestic cookeryone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, reinventing the recipe book and changing the face not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of cookery writing foreversickness.|isbn=1398502227

|authorisbn=Louie Stowell0008551324|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet LokiIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. The trickster god Neither side likes or has got into trouble again, so any respect for the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki But Davie Hardie is spending a month both struggling in exile prison and in the physical form of a middle-school kid here on Earth. Hehe's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, prepared to be tell the police where the more suave, more popular and more successful brother body of the two. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation, missing person is buried and get his moral compass pointing the right way againwho was responsible for her death. This person, or elsehe promises, is someone big and to prove it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he has wants is to be transferred to an open prison to write serve the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul remainder of his lies, sentence and judge his progressto get an early parole date. But Loki Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the kind of god other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month works with him is going to be a walk in the park..kept well away from what's happening.right?|isbn=1406399752

|isbn=00084544420008405026|title=A Flicker Stranger in the DarkFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Stacy WillinghamJane Casey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's May 2019 sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and Dr Chloe Davis, a medical psychologist, is completing a session with the investigation ground to a new patienthalt. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes of getting Now, her mother, Helena, and her through the traumafather are dead in their bed. You seeInitially, Chloe knows what itlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's like to have a traumatic childhood. Her father is Richard Davis, something about the positioning of the man who murdered six girls some twenty years agobodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging What looked as though it was going to the girls be an open- trophies taken from their bodies and- tucked away in shut case is now a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed it to the policecomplex double murder. Dick Davis Kerrigan is in convinced that the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for the last twenty years. Her mother is explanation lies in a care homeRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Christopher Edge0571379877|title=Escape RoomThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=I've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which Edward Jevons is a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific locationworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and have to solve problems in order to get their way outStanza. What I Robert've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen s a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the firsttheatre director. Here He's also self-obsessed, Ami and four other tweenagersdemanding, all new to each other handsome and booked into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at the game's main offices, where they're told they entitled and their quest uses Edward to run errands for The Answer are a world-changerhim. But could watching people engage Edward has been in love with such a pastime, despite the rampedStanza since their university days -up threat levels, change much and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898731|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A ChildrenRobert's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese |rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=There was position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a Boy who loved boxes. He relationship had a box for everything and begun between them but he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and the s not like: all the things which most children have in abundance. The Boy's delight was in the sense of order in his roommen: it made him feel happy. As he grew up and became a Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. Look carefully at Edward is left to stumble upon the pictures and you'll see that one two of them has kissing in a padlock..dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=B09MN1526WJo Callaghan|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)|author=Liz MistryLeave No Trace

|summary=It's When a man is found crucified on the third murder in the space top of a few weeks and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagers. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on case alongside her sidekick, the outskirts of BradfordAI detective Lock. Only, this time, itIt's going to be differenttheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. The But when there is a second body appears to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephew, Haqibfound crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and she has a very public meltdownhigh profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but Will they be able to solve the body is clad case in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety , or will Kat find herself taken off the case and depression., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Ally Wilkes1399613073|title=All the White SpacesMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=In post-WWI EnglandOlivia, Jonathan Morgan stows away Laura and Anjali met on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randallfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. For Jonathan Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, this adventure represents which is a bonus when you aim to be a chance for cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a fresh start, perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, without free spirit of the disapproval group and constraints of his parentsshe becomes a GP. However, Jonathan isn When we first meet them they't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like re at a funeral shroud over the expedition. Guilt, mistrust drug and grief stalk the alcohol-fuelled party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced it's going to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darknessend in tragedy. If Jonathan is to make it out of We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the Arctic winter alive, he consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will have to face his demons once and for all, or risk making impact the barrenthree friends. This time, icy landscape his tombit's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1789097835

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0241636604|title=QuicksilverThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance If you were to get to be bring up an image of a mercurial character yetcity banker in your mind, for heyou's lived in a nunre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-run orphanage since stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was a three-day old foundlingfamiliar with violence, poverty and now is starting a career injustice. There was no posh public school on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mindhis CV -control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that but he go had been to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value London School of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lamEconomics. And all this Stevenson is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up bright - extremely bright - and suggest he's has a facility with numbers which most of interest us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to thembe stupid. Helped to escape It was his ability at what was, essentially, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of a card game which got him acting without being in controlan internship with Citibank. Eventually, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and this turned into permanent employment as a whole lot more besidestrader.|isbn=1542019885

|isbn=00084416181035021803|title=Other ParentsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Sarah StovellC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the new head of West Burntridge First School: if English country village where she didngrew up. She't live up to s back now because of a request for help from her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the townbeloved aunt, Carole. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit circumstances seem suspicious, to say the schoolleast. There Arthur was one difficultythe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particularbusiness together as antique hunters, causing problems for she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the headprofession she loved. Laura Spence After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions married James (on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that rebound from the love of her life, who was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Sarah Ann JuckesAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Jasper ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is a little boy who has some struggles, and whilst wewhat happens after you're never told why exactlyeighteen. Well, we can see I must confess that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotions. His big sister, Rosie, has there have been more than a huge support few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, and writing a book me but I'm left with him, the feeling that it's all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm downgetting away from me. His parents seem completely caught up in their business, and so Some of it is Rosie he always turns to- frankly - quite frightening. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and she isnend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in m reading someone who knows what they're sayingtalking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Nothing seems to be right, I needed people I knew I could trust and the only who could deliver information in a way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its song, as they do together every SpringI could understand.|isbn=1398510890

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

|isbnauthor=B09Q3P283YJames Sherwood Metts|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W HooperPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up Things have been a bit sticky for the US Army during the Vietnam WarEarthlings. HeAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's not really re paid to do and other tasks that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the militarytook time to accomplish. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and this onestarting to think of other, at leastnew ways to spend time, gets him out of the rut he's inalong came an awful pandemic. He's good in training Life was pretty much shut down and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed , along with himselfit, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmyMatthew Tree|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondWe'll Never Know

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a friend for her in amongst drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all the other kids, failed miserably and who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homeendless crises of self confidence. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-So Tim applied himself to-mouthhis studies, every man for cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workershigh but achievable ambitions. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049XB0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1785633074A G Slatter|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh BerryThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=HumourFantasy|summary=Members '' There's a part of Parliament like us 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 believe that enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the country is run by politiciansworld, headed by lies Silverton; a town under the Prime minister - protection of the ''primus inter pares'' (thatBriar's for those , a family of you witches who are Eton protect the town and Oxbridge educated) but the reality wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is that 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''prime'' movers are s cousin Audra becomes the special advisers - Briar Witch, the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmenttown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. We are in As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the privileged position of having access rare ability to communicate with the memoirs of Rafe Hubrisdead, putting her at the man who was behind the skilful control heart of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end a maelstrom of 2020chaos. You might not know Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the name now but he will certainly be the man Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to watchsurvive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=B09MYXSRV41529900360|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareGhost Orchid|author=Cordellya SmithJonathan Kellerman

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that felt responsible and even fire could not burnafter Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Owl had excellent sight so His assertions that he could see the present ''there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'' t need the futurehelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Rabbit developed intelligence - butFinally, it was Robin, unfortunatelyDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. not She knew that the involvement was something that the ability to use it wellman she loved needed. He liked to trick other animalsThe next case did look simple, though. He was also jealous which was how he came to be Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a race with Turtleremote property in Bel Air. You might think thatHe was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not a fair contest but wait and seethe Italian. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.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=Giovanna FletcherSion 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=Walking on SunshineA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=MikeDCI Domenic Jejeune's wifeclose friend and former colleague, PiaDanny Maik, who he was has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with for seventeen yearsan old ally, has diedGuy Trueman. And whilst Maik was involved in a street brawl - he is dealing would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky a knife - and Zazahe killed a Ghurka. But Pia left them all some 'rules' Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to follow, knowing light that she was dying and suggested that they would need help he might have planned to carry on livingmurder the man. Whilst some of Now he could be facing the rules are around practicalities such death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as clearing out her wardrobe, any interference from another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with himwouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=140593560X

|isbnauthor=1529393930Alexander McCall Smith|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie RochesterThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsGeneral Fiction|summary=''Starting The Perfect Passion Company is a creative business has never been easier.'' ''If not nowdating agency in Edinburgh, when?'' I know that I'm not alone run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into providing a businessmore personal, tailored service. There's Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a lot of motivation trip to Canada to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are get away for a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as giftswhile. Selling would offset the costsKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun so jumps at the chance to do, couldn't it? But where come home to start? Edinburgh. What do I need And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to think about? Wellan Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the first thing anyone Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who is considering turning a crafting hobby into quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business should do is , or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to read ''Making lend a Living''.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Freya Marske0811771741|title=A Marvellous LightInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=Historical FictionCrafts|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a job in the Civil Service, much collection of knits from toys to his chagrinblankets. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that Some will be quick knits - others are of the streets 'long, cosy afternoons in front of London the fire' variety. The projects are threaded with magic. Desperate divided by the time they'll take to remove a curse that threatens complete - less than five hours, five to swallow himten hours, Robin follows Edwin ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the countrysideprojects are attractive, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations modern and the people shimmer with poweruseable. There they uncover a sinister plot I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles's me being picky. |isbn=1529080886

|isbnauthor=0241480442Dean Koontz|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienBad Weather Friend

|genre=CookeryParanormal|summary=Emotionally, I am Benny is having a veganterrifically bad day. MentallyHe loses his job, I am a veganhe loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. I read [[How to Love Animals in Oh, and someone has delivered a Humanreally weird, disturbing coffin-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was appalled by inside is the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) foodthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. Practically, I am not He is a vegannice person. It worked A really nice person. So fortunately for a while apart from Benny it turns out that the odd blip with regard delivery to cheese but then his house is a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to animal-based proteinhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. It wasnSpike 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't the taste - I know that I s wild adventure) can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare momentsfigure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=suppl_staflAdam Stower|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim StaflundMurray and Bun

|genre=ReferenceConfident Readers |summary=SoMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, youwell, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician've finished writing your book s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and you think the hard work catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is all doneexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? You're convinced that all And if you need to do now could, is get the question should you make it published and ? Or is the money will start rolling inquestion if you did, would it land?The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.

Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - and you had a talent for delivering the written word. You knew your subject back to front. Now you're going to have to get to grips with the book supply chain, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and no one wants to be the first to try. Then, when you Fragility''finally'' have a copy is set as the city of the book in your handsPortland, Oregon, you're going cautiously begins to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to you.emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=13987069061529431735|title=The LostWinter Visitor|author=Simon BeckettJames Henry

|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyIt's young sonFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd fallen asleep in been exiled on the park whilst Theo was playing and when he woke, Theo had goneCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later he's largely The return has come through it and about because he's out with his team when he gets had a phone call letter from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used to be his best friend but itex-wife, saying that she's a ill and hasn't long time since they've spokento live. HeIt's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his voice - underwear and he asks Jonah sent to meet him at Slaughter Quaya watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. ''There's no one else I can trust'', he says.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Amanda MasonAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Hiding PlaceGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=3.54|genre=HorrorConfident Readers|summary=Needing Eli is a busy lad – by day an escape from their turbulent lifeapprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to Whitbythe titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by all entrants have to navigate the world in the name company of Elder Housea magical beast. She hopes that it will be This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the perfect place eatery leads to sort things out. But there's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is unsettling and off to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – and before long Nell starts the only thing to suspect that she and her family aren't alone there…possibly save his gran.|isbn=18387719640571382231}}

|authorisbn=Paul Cleave178763681X|title=The Quiet PeopleKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=54

|summary= I am not Chef Paul Delamare took a fan of "the Prologue". Most books are the worse for them. In this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who is teaching job at a residential cookery school in a hurryBelgravia. He has didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to hurry because do what he has children wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he should not have, and when he hurries, when he bundles things into 'd be at the back of his car and tries school to run and then hears sirens behind himassist Paul, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badly.|isbn=1913193942}}{{Frontpage|author=Will Carver|title=Psychopaths Anonymous|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Maeve is who had a high functioning alcoholicbroken arm, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groupsbut it didn't turn out that way. She is also a selfThe teaching -acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targetsproblems - are all his own...targets The one thing he hadn't expected was for sexual encounters, targets someone to feed her desire to hear of people's miseryturn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems everyone knows that the police consider that person to be searching for others who think as she does, and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornprime suspect.|isbn=1913193756