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<!{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HEREthe site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments ->when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}

|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Will BrookerNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one of the most successful British authors I've never knowingly readsummer night. Now meet Will Brooker, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently She was never have read. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, found and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer togetherinvestigation ground to a halt. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seemsNow, of her anecdote about cup cakesmother, the words of her latest book she was recitingHelena, and her being father are dead 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 outputtheir bed. Brooker decides he'd Initially, it looks like nothing more than to follow her through a year in the published authorstraightforward murder/suicide but there's life, working to make a success something about the positioning of the latest title, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and struggling with the next in lineher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agreesWhat looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. And this Kerrigan is convinced that the resultexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1529136024

|isbn=18011092650571379877|title=The CompanionKellerby Code|author=Lesley ThomsonJonny Sweet|rating=3.5

|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''Edward Jevons is a punctual working-class young man who was inexplicably never on time, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He' and he was s also self- as usual - late to pick up his sonobsessed, Wilburdemanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for their 'boys' day out'him. These were always Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur - and, competing for the boyhe's attention, his mother, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when drunkenly confided how he returnedfeels to Robert. The dinner Most men in Robert's position would never be served, as James and Wilbur are the victims of stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a double stabbing on the beach. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. Sherelationship had begun between them but he's feeling not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughtwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=B09Y451X9KJo Callaghan|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)|author=Richard F WalkerLeave No Trace

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= ''Anything can happen at When a birthday party, particularly when the birthday boy man is found crucified on the young Lord top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Manorcase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when an eerie signal there is picked up in the early hoursa second body found crucified a few days later, George Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and his new girlfriend, the vivacious Lady Antonia, embark on a quest very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to uncover its incredible messagetheir AI Future Policing project. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the cat case and, potentially, out of the bag and the world goes into a state of panic.''career? Could it be? Could it? Have aliens reached out and contacted Earth? George and Antonia find themselves lifted out of their privileged lives of parties and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into the world of advanced science, secret agents.and politicians hungry for power.|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1399613073|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary= So. We're back to the Merge with Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first chapter in the third volume day of Darren Shan's saga medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of Archibald Loxa century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a young man who can pick the locks of portals from our world bonus when you aim to another, called the ''Merge''be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Since his last adventure, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into Laura is a perfectionist and a slightly uneasy truce on trauma doctor. Anjali is the topic free spirit of his regular disappearancesthe group and she becomes a GP. They don When we first meet them they't ask too many questions re at a drug and Archie has settled into a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winston, his lockalcohol-picking mentor fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the ''Merge'' and showing Kojo, tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the young guardianthree friends. This time, around our world of the Bornit's their teenage children who are involved. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD

|authorisbn=John Henry Phillips0241636604|title=The SearchTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryAutobiography|summary=Archaeology cannot be child's playIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, when you're scraping in the dirt looking unlikely to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident whatthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is a case of the latterEast End, where he was familiar with violence, as our author promises poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to locate the topic London School of the titular searchEconomics. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area Stevenson is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, bright - extremely bright - and it's underwater, when he cannot divehas a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Latching on He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to Francebe stupid. It was his ability at what was, our author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandyessentially, and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath a card game which got himan internship with Citibank. The secondary aim is to erect Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perishedtrader. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182

|authorisbn=Fiona Longmuir1035021803|title=Looking for EmilyThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet LilyIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She and her mother have just moved from 's back now because of a city to a tiny seaside town called Edge, and everyone request for help from said mother to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friendsbeloved aunt, Carole. It turns out that she doesn Freya's former mentor and Carole't have any s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say in the matterleast. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emilyfeels, she is unaware let her neighbourdown badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, Sam, is just about she has not felt able to make herself known, and in a big waybe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. But where does Emily come from? Well After the split, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of the most mundane objects, worked in some converted houses behind a most unassuming doorcafe, in a place calling itself 'The Museum met and married James (on the rebound from the love of Emily'. Sam is completely unaware of this 'museum'her life, too, leaving the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behind the intrigue..who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1839942754

|isbn=B09XZMCDVFAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=StoriesAll Tomorrow's Futures: 13 tantalising talesFictions that Disrupt|author=Richard F WalkerBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary=''A news vendor is crying out Opening up new ways of thinking about the headlines in the middle shape of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; a stickler for correct grammar goes back in time to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person things to have around in a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team is very useful with his feet, and awfully familiar…come.''

This collection I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to offer the eclectic reader. Tying them together is me but I'm left with the idea that remarkable and strange, even miraculous, things can happen to ordinary people. And feeling that ordinary doesnit't mean boring or uninterestings all getting away from me. Form and tone varies so this little treasury Some of short fiction it is never boring - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and youthe probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I're never quite sure m reading someone who knows whatthey's coming nextre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1800901232Sunny Singh|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve ColeHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyThrillers |summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a fashion designerterrorist group. Life in Hiding from the rural village where she lived with her family was happyterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, if not prosperousa wartime photographer and Abhi, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the village to offer Hahn residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not bond with Sam who refuses to be missed. Some money changed hands cowed by events, and Hanh was keeps on the mini-bus venturing out of her room to try to Hanoicapture what's happened through her photography. OnlyAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, Hanh their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and the other girls were not going they both wait to work in a shop, see if they will be rescued before they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with are discovered by the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made themterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Daisy Hildyard1529153298|title=Emergency|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The summary List of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the premise.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage Suspicious Things|author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss Jennie Godfrey|rating=4 5|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary= Marianne It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is grievingPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly. Traumatised after the death of her sister..) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she awakes 's overheard that her father wants to find strangemove the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volumeforeign place, best avoided. Her GP For Miv, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to move would mean leaving her griefbest friend, recommends Sharon, and she go 'll do anything to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Walesprevent that. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and She's not worried about the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Mariannedangers or that her Mum's memories threaten stopped talking - to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itselfanyone.|isbn= 086154112X

|authorisbn=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)1398524085|title=Little DrummerHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=35

|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives seriesCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, this crime story is a mixture of police procedural Paul and Ollie and thrillerher daughter, Etty. Beginning with the death of a young woman in a carpark, that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into a farare all worried but - strangely -reaching investigation of murderher husband, fraudAlec, and international pharmaceutical dealingsis not. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda Shortly afterwards, Etty and FrolichGreg, who end up working separately on find the case as Gunnarstranda remains body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in Norway whilst Frolich is led the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to Africa as they follow the twists make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and turns of then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the investigationguilt. Gunnarstranda and Frolich The Salter children are tenacious, chasing down the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard to uncover the truth as not convinced but there's little else they are sure that something much bigger, can do but get on with their lives and much more dangerous, is going onwonder about what really happened.|isbn=1914585127

|isbn=00085414771035906708|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!Diva|author=Lauren ChildDaisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=It was a hot summer day right at the beginning We tend to think of the summer holidays and Clarice Bean Maria Callas as Greek, but she was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except for sometimes... And only on rare-sh occasions, which is hardly ever.'' There are seven members of the Bean family living born to Greek parents in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because he's wobbly)Manhattan, Mum and DadNew York, Clarice's older brother, Kurt in December 1923 and younger brother, Minal Cricketonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. ThereHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's also Marcie, whoCallas's main claim to fame seems to be that she steals the batteries from Clarice's torch, which means that she can't read make it more manageable in the airing cupboardStates. Clarice would love to have someone who listened to When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her, rather than wanting to talk, but voice - she was raised under the only one Nazi occupation by a mother who does that is Granny mercilessly exploited her and she lives in New York. The Bean family is ''different''made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=0711266204Christopher Edge|title=The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=I have recently discovered Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a great pleasure: I sit and watch movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the vast numbers nickname of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis'The Black Hole'. An hour can pass without my noticing. IAll big movie fans, they've established which species feed from the ground, which pop re looking forward to the feeders for a quick snatch lots of some food exciting films, and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. many, many snacks! It would have been wonderful ifHowever, as a childthe movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds'and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. So – But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is itgoing on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=1737030942Rachel Greenlaw|title=Bag O'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker BittickCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre= AnthologiesTeens|summary=Sometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'GoodiesI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. I first encountered his writing about a year agoMira, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]like her mother before her, a rollicking tale is one of what happens the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when five young men find the Council Watch lays a base for their partyingtrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Right nowDesperate to save him from death, I didn't want 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 a full-length novelfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, so I turned as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to this anthology the heart of verse and short stories. Bittickthe smuggler's writing has matured - territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and so have his charactersthe ones she holds most dear. Well... most of them!|isbn=0008664730

|author=Caryl Lewis and George ErmosJames Sherwood Metts|title=SeedPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his life, and they both might be thought of as complete embarrassments. His grandfather runs an allotment, and manages to stink Things have been a bit sticky for the entire town out from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetablesEarthlings. His mother somehow combines the dual roles of housebound failure AI and hoarder – while she seems automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do nothing and hasn't left the building in years she has still managed other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to fill it get used to the brim with junk. What Marty's classmates don't know about all this they can draw lines technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to from how poor Marty always looksspend time, with his one school uniform built from lost propertyalong came an awful pandemic. We see him as once again the council threaten her Life was pretty much shut down and him , along with evictionit, and as he celebrates his birthday with all the gift from his grandfather of a solitary plant seedmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=15290776641736128426

|author=Sophie CameronMatthew Tree|title=Our Sister, AgainWe'll Never Know

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora dies, her family struggle Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to find a way forward. In particularbe different from his father, Isla's mum who can’t seem to be able to let her daughter go. When Isla passes her mum's details onto a support group she finds online, she thinks they might be able to help. But actually, it turns out they are part drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of an experimental company his artistic passions all failed miserably and who offer the family the chance had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to have Flora back again, in robot form. But this won't just be a look-a-like. They use all of Flora's online historyhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and interviews with family and friends, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possibleset himself high but achievable ambitions. But what will it really mean for the family, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1398507504A G Slatter|title=Cold Reckoning|author=Russ ThomasThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed '' There's a part of me that his father committed suicide and wants to keep this just to myself for the however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last sixteen years he. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'s been searching for evidence to prove that he's right. When  Within a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoirremote mountain pass, far away from the world, there was lies Silverton; a link back to town under the protection of the Briar's, a cold case family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from 2002the Darklands. There didn't immediately seem Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be any connection with DI Richard Tylerborn into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the case his father was investigating before he died. Above all theretown's a growing sense that leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going rare ability to be brought out into communicate with the dead, putting her at the openheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Perhaps Tyler is going Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to get do as the answers he needs?Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=07278505471529900360|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)The Ghost Orchid|author=David MarkJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even had time after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for breakfast when the call came throughhis help on difficult cases. A body had been found in His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the roots help of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullpsychologist only worked for a while. When he gets to the sceneFinally, it was Robin, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imagined. A young manDelaware's corpse is entangled with the roots of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyespartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. It would seem She knew that this the involvement was done whilst something that the man was still aliveshe loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. McAvoy makes Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a promise to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justiceremote property in Bel Air. But justice always comes at a cost He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and this time the cost might be she is married to McAvoyan extremely rich man and it's own familynot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire1529395224|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delightSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but ' His father was a delightGP and Rowlands didn' is perhaps using t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the expression in a way Istrain that being on-call put on his father'm not familiar s life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience witha family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. I have to confess my ignorance of the SpanishIt hadn't -language literary tradition as with so forgive my generalisation heremany students - been his dream since he was a child. From the little I have read (in translationIf anything, I donhe't read Spanish) there does seem d wanted to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismprofessional footballer. |isbn=0861541901

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin0861541774|title= Rebel SkiesA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 54|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, taken a massive dining hall floating short holiday in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come Singapore to drink and make merry between their conquestsmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. However, when Maik was involved in a man named Himura arrives to tell her street brawl - he would later maintain that she is he was facing a Crafter like him, someone man armed with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empireknife - and he killed a Ghurka. He asks her to come with him Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to leave the life of dreary servitude light that suggested that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't he might have any say in planned to murder the matter, because man. Now he could be facing the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a shikigami, diplomatic incident and she is forced to flee out into the worldwouldn't help Danny at all. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590

|author=Patrice LawrenceAlexander McCall Smith|title=NeedleThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=BraveThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Charlene Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, the 'heroine' of this piece as Ness is extremely hard planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for some people to like, characters and readers botha while. Kicked Katie is coming out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering a break up with a pleasant yoga tutor, Anniebad boyfriend, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's so jumps at unithe chance to come home to Edinburgh. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, you might perhaps thinkbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the creation of one such item is part of the plot hereIsabel Dalhousie novels, as Charlene is but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a wonder knitterbusiness, and is or in match-making something , but Ness has full of love for confidence in her younger sister – a younger sister sheabilities, and there's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove always her belligerence with a store detective, very helpful (and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... wellrather handsome) neighbour, what exactly happens is not for me to sayWilliam, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...lend a hand…|isbn=18009010111846976596

|isbn=14059409800811771741|title=The BirdcageInstaKnits for Baby|author=Eve ChaseMelissa Leapman

|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=ItMelissa Leapman's the 7th ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of January 2019 and we know that a body has been pulled out knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the sea at Zennor 'long, cosy afternoons in Cornwallfront of the fire' variety. We donThe projects are divided by the time they't know whose body it is. Four days earlierll take to complete - less than five hours, Florafive to ten hours, Kat ten to twenty hours and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at more than twenty hours. All the request of their fatherprojects are attractive, Charlie Finch, a famous artistmodern and useable. The girls are actually I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'halfbut that''-sisters and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closes me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. Finch was known for He loses his job, he loses his fecundityfiancee, if not for and his fidelityhouse gets trashed. ItOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's been a long time since possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years agothing that has trashed his house! The thing is, at Benny is the time of very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the total eclipsedelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, something happenedwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Kat Spike is going to take care of Benny, and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a victim and itwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's left her very wary of her sisterswild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1787634906Adam Stower|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBrideMurray and Bun

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=We're in Oldcastle Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and Malcolm friendly cat, one who is in troubleable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. He's in an abandoned house and But he's being threatened by two young people. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn that shea bad magician's Allegra Dean-Edwards) cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and Hugowhiffs. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm This time round it drops them into a new coat Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peoplebe honest, apparently) but shehe'd put a tracking device in it so that she s turned up 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 ll have to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backs.do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Jennifer SaintB0C47LV1PC|title=ElektraFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|summary=Can you make a 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the story of three women who live in question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the heavily male-dominated world city of Ancient Greece. CassandraPortland, ClytemnestraOregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Elektra are Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all bit players in the story of more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Trojan WarCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that often the silent women have the most compelling stories she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the most extreme furiesboot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=1472273915 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1529149800Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=We begin with Eli is a telling story. All busy lad – by day an apprentice in the birds wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and animals fled when in the evening a helper at the forest fire took hold dessert cafe his gran owns and most of them stood and watchedruns. Eli lives with his lovely gran, unable to think of anything they could dotoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. The tiny hummingbird flew A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to drop them into navigate the fireworld in the company of a magical beast. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I'm doing This has made the race anathema to the best I can'', said pair – but when a bad incident at the hummingbird. And thateatery leads to a confession from gran, reallyEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, is with the only way that we will solve sole aim the problem prize of climate change magic at the end – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might bethe only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=1776574338178763681X|title=Leilong's Too Long!Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnOrlando Murrin

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goesin Belgravia. Children who live at the top of tower blocks donHe didn't even need really want to go downstairs – they simply climb out but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of the window getting both men and slide down his neckwomen to do what he wanted. ItPaul ''somehow''s perfect, isngot the impression that he't it? What could d be a more fun way of going at the school to school? There is assist Paul, who had a problembroken arm, though. Leilong isnbut it didn't happy in turn out that way. The teaching - and the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts problems - are all his feet and – because own. The one thing hehadn's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending t expected was for someone to and traffic regularly gets snarled turn updead. The school decides Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that he can't person to be the bus anymoreprime suspect.