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|authorisbn=Sarah Todd Taylor0008517061|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Alice EclairFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. A perfect eye There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and very careful hands have made her one daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of Paris's best young cake makers compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and decorators, making sure relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her mother's establishment reservations about whether or not this is a classy affair. Not bad the future she wants for a thirteen year old. Oh, herself and a perfect eye and a very careful handler and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spy. her daughter? Her first real mission will be to chase a traitor across For the moment they’re enjoying life in the country – working behind present and putting the scenes future on a posh sleeper train to the south of France, and hoping against hope that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents to creep into the country from getting into nefarious handsback burner. But while nobody would have her down as a spy, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find the baddy?|isbn=1839940956

|isbn=07603799121786482126|title=Super Easy Quilting for BeginnersThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Editors of Quarry BooksElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: Builders were demolishing an old or outgrown clothes needed house in Norwich - the site was going to be turned into something new and usable hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when I was in my twentiesthey discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. It would be a while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but I've never felt completely at home with quiltingThere was no skull. I needed something Was this a little more stylish than my usual buttons ritual killing or knotsmurder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn'Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like t, that she is pregnant with his child as a good place to startresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. SoHer condition will be obvious before long, how did it stack up?not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=17883607370008551324|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of PostmodernismDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Alexander AdamsNeil Lancaster|rating=24.5|genre= Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art 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 political because art is not made struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a vacuummissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. It This person, he promises, is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying someone big and it will be worth the social environment in which police doing what he develops’’wants. Therefore, all art must And what he wants is to be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in transferred to an open prison to serve the Era remainder of Postmodernism’ his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. ? The recent trend of new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so-called artivism has caused artists and she's even prepared to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “leftdo the other thing that Hardie demanded -wing” donors make certain that DS Max Craigie and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s anyone who works with him is kept well away from what Alexander Adams believes's happening.

|isbn=14087121720008405026|title=The Cliff HouseA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Chris BrookmyreJane Casey

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It''Many of them didn't know each other, one of them didn't know anybody, including Jen, s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one of them quite possibly hated her, and two of them definitely hated each othersummer night. What could possibly go wrong?'' That's She was never found and the round-up for Jen's hen party which is investigation ground to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barraa halt. They're all staying in The Cliff HouseNow, her mother, hosted by LaurenHelena, and it's the utmost her father are dead in luxury living but then Jen can afford ittheir bed. She's just sold her muffin business for millions Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but is staying on to run it. Shethere's got her doubts something about the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting a little strangely positioning of late the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and wouldn't explain to her what the email he boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was hurriedly deleting was aboutgoing to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Added to Kerrigan is convinced that, hethe explanation lies in Rosalie's just about forced her to bring his sister, Samira, whom Jendisappearance: others (such as Derwent's never met, on the tripboss, on the grounds that she's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months and desperately needs the breakUna Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=17883607020571379877|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised BiographyKellerby Code|author=Edzard ErnstJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=For over forty yearsEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and complementary therapiesStanza. Robert's a theatre director. He'Charless also self-obsessed, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's opinionsdemanding, beliefs handsome and entitled and aims against the background of the scientific evidenceuses Edward to run errands for him. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the reputation two of them kissing in a man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitionsdark passageway.

|author=Will CarverJo Callaghan|title=The Daves Next DoorLeave No Trace

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as When a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest man is found crucified on the top of a London tube linehill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. As It's their fates overlapfirst live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the story is told case in backwards ordertime, leading up to or will Kat find herself taken off the fateful moment.case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn= 1914585186139851120X}}

|isbn=15291257901399613073|title=The Family RemainsMoral Injuries|author=Lisa JewellChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=In July 2019Olivia, Jason Mott was mud larking Laura and Anjali met on the banks first day of the River Thames when he came across medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a bag quarter of what appeared a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be human bonesa cardiothoracic surgeon. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu Laura is a perfectionist and Saffron Brown from forensics were there to investigatea trauma doctor. The bones were indeed human: Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a young woman had been killed by GP. When we first meet them they're at a blow drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the head many years ago - probably as long as twentytragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five - but years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the bones had not been in the river longer than a yearthree friends. There was no identification but the bag contained vegetationThis time, some of which was quite unusualit's their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason0241636604|title=Partitions of UnityThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary= Here at Bookbag TowersIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, we first met Elizabeth Cromwellwhere he was familiar with violence, dominatrix poverty and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and unravelled he has a series facility with numbers which most of disappearancesus can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. In ''Partitions of Unity'' It was his ability at what was, essentially, she sets her mind to solving a murder.card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader..|isbn=B09LQR9FRF

|authorisbn=Fiona Parashar 1035021803|title=A Beautiful Way The Antique Hunter's Guide to Coach Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary= So what am I doing reading this bookIt'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 her beloved aunt, using this bookCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and being audacious enough the circumstances seem suspicious, to review it? Truth is I bought it out of curiositysay the least. I Arthur was at an on-line launch for the book and Fiona’s description of reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her Vision Days appealed to medown badly. I wanted to see if there Even though they were things in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to mentor – without committing them to a full daybe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted to see if I could give myself she worked in a Vision Daycafe, to bring me away met and married James (on the rebound from their vision the love of her life, who was murdered) and back to my ownFreya and James have now divorced.|isbn=103211603X

|isbn=1913750353AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=BritannicaAll Tomorrow's Word of the DayFutures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly Benjamin Greenaway and Sue MacyStephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=''Britannica's Word Opening up new ways of thinking about the Dayshape of things to come.'' has a sub-title:  I've heard it said that '366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerustechnology'is what happens after you' which probably tells you all re eighteen. Well, I must confess that you need to know about this brilliant bookthere have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. It starts on January 1st I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'Razzmatazzm left with the feeling that it'', tells you how to pronounce s all getting away from me. Some of it (''razis -muhfrankly -TAZ'')quite frightening. Of course, gives you a definition I could research the possibilities and then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging probabilities and frequently amusing illustration tooend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I don't think needed people I knew I've ever encountered could trust and who could deliver information in a word which uses the letter Z four times before!way I could understand.

|author=A C WiseSunny Singh|title=HookedHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionThrillers |summary=It’s The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been twenty-two years since Captain Hook, now going violently taken over by just ‘James’, has been in Neverlanda terrorist group. Living Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a new life in Londonwartime photographer and Abhi, he has never completely escaped his pastthe hotel manager. But now he senses As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the edges of residents who are still alive in the beast circling around his life in Londonhotel, and when suddenly he finds himself face forms a bond with Sam who refuses to face in the street with Wendybe cowed by events, he knows that the line between this world and Neverland is growing thinkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. The beast is finally coming Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to get him, help her keep safe and in they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the process will pull Wendy and her daughter Jane back into their past once againterrorists.|isbn=1789096839086154742X

|isbn=17873017451529153298|title=ConfidenceThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Denise MinaJennie Godfrey|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=WeIt're back in the world of podcasters Anna s 1979 and FinMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]honestly... ) It was Anna whoShe's not what'd organised the s worrying Miv's family' holiday: her ex, Hamishthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, is now with her best friendthey've been murdered, Estelle and her children are living with thembut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Fin (who was married to Estelle) is there too and it was Anna who invited his girlfriend, Sofia. ItMiv's upset because she's not long before everyone realises overheard that was a bad mistakeher father wants to move the family 'Down South'. SofiaWhen you's difficult and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - re from Yorkshire, Down South is a lighthousefrightening, in a storm - she begins talking about Anna's pastforeign place, including her real name and the rapebest avoided. This was something which Anna had intended to tell For Miv, the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and ten-year-old Lizzie - when the time was rightshe'll do anything to prevent that. And this wasnShe't s not worried about the right timedangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=178763566X1398524085|title=Listen to MeHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Tess GerritsenNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=WeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband're in Boston with Amys fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and she wore her newdaughter, buttery-leather pumps Etty. are all worried but as she comes out of the library she knows that they're going to be ruined - and unsafe strangely - in the snow that's now falling. As she crosses the road, a car comes out of nowhere and hits her. It doesn't stop. Two months laterhusband, we're with Angela RizzoliAlec, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoliis not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and a keen defender of Greg, find the suburb body of RevereGreg's father, north of BostonDuncan Ackerley, where she livesin the river. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has It was an easy assumption for the time police to watch whatmake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's happening in t stand the neighbourhoodguilt. The people who Salter children are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsnot convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=00083956321035906708|title=One Last SecretDiva|author=Adele ParksDaisy Goodwin

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Natalya is an escort. WellWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, her name's not ''actually'' Natalya: that's her professional name but it is a nod she was born to her Serbian heritage. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora DziewulskiGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, usually known as Dora Wulskiin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. If you're thinking of Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'escort' as being a polite description of a prostitute, run by a pimp, whoCallas's turning tricks to fund a drug habit, forget make it. Dora is a professional more manageable in all senses of the wordStates. She has an agent, Elspeth, who takes 30% of When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her income and deals with voice - she was raised under the payments but checks out the clients to see that Dora is going to be safe. Dora describes herself as Nazi occupation by a self-employed clairvoyant to Her Majesty's Revenue mother who mercilessly exploited her and Customsmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=David SolomonsChristopher Edge|title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Gavin is being followedLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, seemingly constantly, by a place that has the new (very annoying) girl at schoolnickname of 'The Black Hole'. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl story. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! Because in this instanceHowever, as the girl in question movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is Nikivery different, and she is a galactic princess (nothey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, really, she can they figure out what on earth is!) going on? So what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled in a situation whereWill they ever get back to the cinema, potentially, Earth and everyone on it will be blown to smithereens, all because of Nikitheir real lives?|isbn=08576399351839942738

|author=Alex CotterRachel Greenlaw|title=The Mermaid CallCompass and Blade

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids don't exist'I can hear the song of the sea. But she also knows they have to exist – at least The call of the deep, the answering beat in the public eyemy heart. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – '' Rosevear, a far northern English resort – without themremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. A hundred years and change agoMira, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaidslike her mother before her, but were forced is one of the seven who swim out to return survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to help out with end the Great War effort. They also showed female emancipationwrecking, which helped create they capture the townisland's tourism industry, now faded leader and falling apart but once a feminist success storyMira's father. AliceDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a girl bargain with a wreck survivor who stumbles into Vivien's gran's tourist shop one dayis as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, knows she certainly wants mermaids sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to exist – she thinks unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her familyfrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's black sheep died searching for themterritory, or else was just too successful in Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her hunthome and the ones she holds most dear. When the shy, doubting Thomasina that is Vivien collides with the exuberant, gung-ho Alice, what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they find?|isbn=18399419010008664730

|isbnauthor=1739805100James Sherwood Metts|title=Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of war|author=Andrew MarchPlanet Storyland

|genre=BiographyConfident Readers|summary= ''Loving Things have been a bit sticky for the Enemy'' tells the quite extraordinary story of author Andrew MarchEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's grandparents, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went re paid to Dresden do and other tasks that took time to teach in the early days of the Nazi regime in the 1930saccomplish. Fred, a sensitive Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and thoughtful manstarting to think of other, had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Fred's attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships Life was pretty much shut down and connections that lasted for a lifetime, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=B0B575J99NMatthew Tree|title=Beneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke AdamsWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and a teacher chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and now was the time to make a changewho had endless crises of self confidence. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she So Tim applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interviewhimself to his studies, she was offered the position cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and it wasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class set himself high but it went surprisingly wellachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1529125898A G Slatter|title=Godmersham Park|author=Gill HornbyThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary=''If it were not There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for the casual dereliction however long I can. This secret magic of the odd gentleman's dutymy own, all mine, there would no women at last. I just want to teach well-bred daughters at allenjoy it for a while.''

Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the position protection of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was the Briar's, a case family of necessitywitches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Until Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the death of first non-witch to be born into her motherfamily for generations and as such since she was young, Anne had her training as a comfortable life steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the householdpotions. When her mother diedgrandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her father cast . As challenges come her off way left, right and would have nothing more centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to do communicate with the dead, putting herat the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|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. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of £35 a yearpsychologist only worked for a while. Her maidFinally, it was Robin, AgnesDelaware's partner, would receive nothing but who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was fortunately taken something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in by some neighboursBel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Lev Parikian 1529395224|title=Light Rains Sometimes FallLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5

|summary= If you’re Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a writer yourself, or an aspiring writer, or someone who pretends GP and Rowlands didn't want to writefollow in his footsteps, then you know particularly when he considered the strain that there are unnumbered types being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of books. Some you read for fun, some for distraction, some for vicarious emotion, some to learn from in doing work experience with a family friend who was a random way, some for focussed research, vet and some because they are, broadly speaking, was convinced this was the kind of thing you think you might like to writejob for him. OrBefore long, indeedhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, are actually trying he'd wanted to writebe a professional footballer.|isbn=1783966386

|isbn=07515815770861541774|title=Lying Beside YouA Nye of Pheasants|author=Michael RobothamSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthday. Voices told him former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to do itmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Only two people survived the carnage - Elias, who Maik was sent to Rampton, and his thirteen-year-old brother, Cyrus, who hid involved in a shed until the police found him. Twenty years street brawl - he would later, Cyrus is maintain that he was facing a man armed with a forensic psychologist knife - and he's been told that his brother is being releasedkilled a Ghurka. Can Cyrus forgive the sinner whilst having to live on Initially, he faced a daily basis with the results charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the crime? man. Can Now he bear to have Elias living in could be facing the same house? death penalty. How will his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?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.

|isbnauthor=140595115XAlexander McCall Smith|title=A Stranger on Board|author=Cameron WardThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Right from the beginningThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, we know this will not turn out well. Eight days into the trip to deliver the superyacht ''Escape'' run by Ness and operating as an alternative to Antigua, all 300 tonnes and six decks will be floundering without power in the Atlantic. Those of the crew who are left will be cowering online apps in fear providing a fellow crew member tries to pick them offmore personal, one by onetailored service. Some are already dead. They are three days from shore Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and there look after the business, as Ness is no way of making contact. But let's go back planning to take a trip to Canada to when all this started, in Southampton.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398508632|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It had been on the cards get away 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 Katie is coming out of Novembera break up with a bad boyfriend, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not and so jumps at the best time chance to come home to startEdinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate changebringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, Brexit thanks to 44 Scotland Street and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with a variety of terrainssome new characters who quickly begin to charm. She had electricity which allowed Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her to run a fridgeabilities, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - there's always her very helpful (and fuel. Most importantlyrather handsome) neighbour, William, she had shelter: this was not to lend a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=16358646740811771741|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes InstaKnits for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and MoreBaby|author=Joy HowardMelissa Leapman

|genre=CookeryCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's 'Think of it as no-whining dining.'InstaKnits for Baby' We know it's gives us a fruit rather than a vegetable but the fact that so many people get confused just goes collection of knits from toys to show how versatile the tomato isblankets. Then there Some will be quick knits - others are all of the different types'long, not to mention cosy afternoons in front of the cultivars - and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didnfire't lovevariety. IThe projects are divided by the time they'd argue with her there ll take to complete - I have no affection for the ones you find in the supermarket ''next'' less than five hours, five to the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' ten hours, ten to distinguish them from twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the ones that have obviously just been grown for profitprojects are attractive, modern and useable. Personally, Iperhaps show my age when I wonder about 'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those social-media- and Howard makes good use of these. Sheworthy projects' but that's not at all precious if you get the tasteme being picky.

|isbnauthor=0241989027Dean Koontz|title=We All Have Our Secrets|author=Jane CorryThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for live-in help as Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he was failing to cope at Willowmead House on loses his fiancee, and his ownhouse gets trashed. His advert was fairly specific: he was Oh, and someone has delivered a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke of the ability really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to cook a good steakhis home, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fads. it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The first thing is, Benny is the very last person who came to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house was Francoiseis a new friend, a French woman in her early twentiesbad weather friend called Spike, who fit the bill perfectly. She got the job but Francoise didn't know about the advert: she was there has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a completely different reasongood person. Emily Gentle Spike is Haroldgoing to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's daughter enemies, if he, Benny, and she came to Willowmead House because she was running away from Harper (a problem in London. Emilywaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's a midwife and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had been madewild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)Adam Stower|title=Tasting SunlightMurray and Bun

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=Sally Murray is supposed to be a teenager who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinic. She just wants spacehumble, tidy and for people to stop questioning her, tiptoeing around herfriendly cat, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding her. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss one who is in her forties able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and seems to live alone, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has ever met. She just accepts Sally as she is, giving her been turned into a room to sleep inhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the space to just be. As catflap they work together on both use can chuck them out, not into the farmregular back garden, but into a closeness develops between world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops theminto a Viking land, becoming where a beautifultroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, powerful friendship.but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=19145851430008561249

|authorisbn=Jennifer MasonB0C47LV1PC|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Yo birthing person''A struggling poetry zinejoke? And if you could, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in is the question should you make it? Or is the Northern California redwoodsquestion if you did, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed would it land? The catch is that the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen answer 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 Georgiaboth could well be....no.''

This ''Fragility'' is just a sample of set as the cast city of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can seePortland, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=B09STS96HSOregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|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=18011092651529431735|title=The CompanionWinter Visitor|author=Lesley ThomsonJames Henry|rating=54

|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a punctual man who was inexplicably never on timedecade. The return has come about because he'' and he was s had a letter from his ex- as usual - late to pick up his sonwife, Wilbur, for their saying that she'boys' day outs ill and hasn't long to live. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for the boyIt's attentionhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his mother, Anna, promised him underwear and sent to a roast dinner when he returned. The dinner would never be served, as James and Wilbur are watery grave in the victims boot of a double stabbing on the beachstolen Ford Sierra. The case falls Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. She's feeling the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets tough.home?

|isbnauthor=152941363XAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief The Glorious Race of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerMagical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=''Nobody knows what the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the police chief for St Denis wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and much of in the evening a helper at the Vézère valley dessert cafe his gran owns and works closely runs. Eli lives with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')his lovely gran, the head of detectives too – for there is a generation missing in the départment of the Dordognefamily. TheyA few short years ago, Eli're not just policemen - they're s parents were both deeply committed lost to the well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of France. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeottitular race, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldn't normally globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have worried them so much had it not been for to navigate the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found world in the carcompany of a magical beast. Oh, and there was a golf ball too, which didn't belong This has made the race anathema to the owner of pair – but when a bad incident at the car. A golf bag would be a good place eatery leads to hide a sniper's weapon. Was there going confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to be an attempt dare to kill someoneenter what he most hates, or were with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=0241542405178763681X|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'' 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. Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09Y451X9K|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in Knife Skills for tea)Beginners|author=Richard F WalkerOrlando Murrin

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= ''Anything can happen Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a birthday party, particularly when the birthday boy is the young Lord of the Manorresidential cookery school in Belgravia. But when an eerie signal is picked up in the early hours, George and his new girlfriend, the vivacious Lady Antonia, embark on He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a quest to uncover its incredible message. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets the cat out way of the bag getting both men and the world goes into a state of panicwomen to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' Could it got the impression that he'd 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Darren Shan|title= Archibald Lox and at the Sinkhole school to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 |rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= So. We're back to the Merge with the first chapter in the third volume of Darren Shan's saga of Archibald Loxassist Paul, who had a young man who can pick the locks of portals from our world to anotherbroken arm, called the ''Merge'but it didn't turn out that way. Since his last adventure, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce on The teaching - and the topic of problems - are all his regular disappearancesown. They don The one thing he hadn't ask too many questions and Archie has settled into a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winstonexpected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, his lock-picking mentor in he was the person who discovered the ''Merge'' body and showing Kojo, everyone knows that the young guardian, around our world of police consider that person to be the Bornprime suspect. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD