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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-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->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.}}

|authorisbn=Frederic Seager1786482126|title= Jesus, the Man and the Myth: A Jewish Reading of the New TestamentThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre= Spirituality and ReligionCrime|summary= Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. I There was brought up in no skull. Was this a family where religion played little ritual killing or no partmurder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side and Welsh Methodist on the other It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, nobody really discussed religion and that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the adults around me ranged from lapsed to agnostic to atheistone night they spent together some three months ago. Other than the odd church wedding or baptism or the school nativity play Her condition will be obvious before long, I didn't think too much about faith or what people did or didn't believenot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=B092BWWG9Y

|isbn=05713709770008551324|title=The LockDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil 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 -Upmake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=John BanvilleJane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and 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 two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's six months since When a man is found crucified on the dramatic events which we read about top of a hill in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughterNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, Phoebe. The worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficultAI detective Lock. TheyIt're brought s their first live case together by Chief Inspector Hackett , having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when the there is a second body of found crucified a young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobsfew days later, Kat is found in suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lock-uplot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. At firstWill they be able to solve the case in time, it looked as though she'd gassed or will Kat find herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide.taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Julia Bartz1399613073|title=The Writing RetreatMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the world first day of publishing knows the namemedical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Writers want Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be her, agents want to represent hera cardiothoracic surgeon. She's something of Laura is a perfectionist and a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when the group and she was barely out of childhoodbecomes a GP. Alex, When we first meet them they're at a writerdrug and alcohol-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, fuelled party and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be part of her month-long writersan eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it' retreats their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=0861544439

|authorisbn=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix0241636604|title=Different for BoysThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Teens Autobiography|summary=Ant is If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in Year Eleven at quite a standard schoolyour mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography background is ever learnt) has been restructuredthe East End, so his desk is one of four where he was familiar with both violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his best buddy from CV - but he had been to the football team, London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to primary school days togetherbe stupid. As they're all fired upIt was his ability at what was, essentially, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sexcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Which is confusing for AntEventually, this turned into permanent employment as he doesna trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It't know what his score is, s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where his achievements in that regard lieshe grew up. HeShe's had back now because of a casual relationshiprequest for help from her beloved aunt, a secret oneCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, for several months nowArthur Crockleford, is dead and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced'circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, but whether that's set let her down badly. Even though they were in stonebusiness together as antique hunters, he can't she has not felt able to be surenear the man or pursue the profession she loved. And that's mostly because After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who he's been having the relationship was murdered) and Freya and the sex withJames have now divorced.|isbn=1529509491

|authorisbn=M R CareyAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Infinity GateAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|summary= I'm annoyingly picky when it comes 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to science fictioncome. Not because '' I've heard itsaid that 'technology' is what happens after you's re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a genre I dislike – nothing few decades of the sorttechnology in my lifetime. My standards are high precisely because it I've kept up reasonably well with what's a hard genre advantageous to get right – and when itme but I's bad, m left with the feeling that it's often terribleall getting away from me. But the premise Some of Infinity Gate had me hookedit is - frankly - quite frightening. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well Of course, itI could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they'd be fantasticre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. So this is where I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I sum up that premisecould understand.|isbn=0356518043

|isbnauthor=1398509582Sunny Singh|title=The Favour|author=Nicci FrenchHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=It was 2 amThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, not long after A levelsa wartime photographer and Abhi, when the car crash happenedhotel manager. It would cause problems As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and Jude Winter were together. She was utterly driven by keeps on venturing out of her determination room to go try to medical schoolcapture what's happened through her photography. Liam was Although they only ever talk over the reverse. He just acted ''phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if life just rolled him over and carried him along''. A bit of weed here, a few drinks there: the legal effects of they will be rescued before they are discovered by the car crash really didn't worry him at all. The relationship broke up soon after that - or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any moreterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=08570517411529153298|title=The Sins List of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationSuspicious Things|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Jennie Godfrey

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but heIt's determined that Rebecka Martinsson 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is going to investigate the case of a body found in a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholicPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. The problem is that the case has long passed the statute of limitationsWomen have been disappearing. Raimo Koskela Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared without a trace in 1962' doesn't sound quite so frightening. He was the Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: move the problem is that this is a dying manfamily 'Down South's wish. The situation changes when When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a post-mortem establishes that frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Henry PekkariFor Miv, the dead alcoholicmove would mean leaving her best friend, was also murderedSharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. Is there a connection between She's not worried about the two deaths?dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni1398524085|title=Her Deadly GameHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the lifeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's work 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 not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed Greg'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances s father, Duncan Ackerley, in defence of his clientsthe river. Along with It was an indisputable talent easy assumption for the lawpolice to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself but she was born to oblivion Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and inevitably the latter only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was beginning Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to overshadow 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the formerStates. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the hideous position Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of asking her father preference for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularlyher elder sister, southJackie.|isbn=1662500181

|author= Rob KeeleyChristopher Edge|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other StoriesBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a return to place that has the short story format! nickname of 'The Boy Who Disappeared treats us Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to eleven lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new talesfilm format is very different, each and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as fun they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to read as his previous offerings.their real lives?|isbn= B0BVW69N1G1839942738

|author= Michael GrothausRachel Greenlaw|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre= Literary FictionTeens|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different thingsI can hear the song of the sea. And I'm willing to bet most The call of what we fear will never happenthe deep, or we can take steps to change itthe answering beat in my heart.''

''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the question wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of identity the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and acceptanceany treasure that lies within. Of what it means But when the Council Watch lays a trap to be humanend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Of what Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is real 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 is artificialmight save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and whether the development of technology is exciting or frighteningones she holds most dear.|isbn=191458564X0008664730

|isbnauthor=B09BLBP3P8James Sherwood Metts|title=Neville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic SeagerPlanet Storyland

|genre=HistoryConfident Readers|summary=Received wisdom Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and simplified narrative automation have been proceeding apace, often lead replacing jobs they're paid to misconceptions about historydo and other tasks that took time to accomplish. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of the early days of World War II from 1939-40other, known as the ''Phoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitlernew ways to spend time, war breaking out, and Churchill coming in to save the dayalong came an awful pandemic. Very little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections Life was pretty much shut down and yet, as Frederic Seager argues in this bookalong with it, it was of vital significance in how all the war played outmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=0760378134Matthew Tree|title=The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela FarleyWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyLiterary Fiction|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the book you need. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything different from why you should grow your own foodhis father, what you're going to grow, what you'll grow it in (both containers a drunk and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you'll water chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and fertilise them and you finish the main part who had endless crises of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossaryself confidence. SoTim applied himself to his studies, is it any good?}}{{frontpagecultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Amelia Estelle DellosA G Slatter|title=Delilah RecoveredThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45

|summary= We meet Dee at '' There's a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, part of me that wants to keep this just might, be about to look upmyself for however long I can. Out This secret magic of workmy own, about all mine, at last. I just want to lose her flat, Dee is up enjoy it for an accountanta while.'s job. But it' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's not to be, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Dee Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is attacked by two men calling themselves the first non-witch huntersto 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. She survives When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the attack but not unscathed. Briar Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She, the town's just an ordinary womanleader, living an ordinary lifeand Ellie takes her place beside her. Slivers As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of memory a maelstrom of things that are not ordinary at all return chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to her trust and things will never be determine what to do as the same...Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=B0BKYFDLLV1803364548

|isbn=00084049761529900360|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Ghost Orchid|author=Jane CaseyJonathan Kellerman|rating=54

|summary=It was because of Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Close. If youhadn're a regular reader of the [[Jane Caseyt been Lt Milo Sturgis's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read fault that sentence twice Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and wondered if it's a massive spoiler because there is a delicious sexual chemistry between the two which seems veryeven after Alex recovered, very realSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. But (His assertions that therewere only open-and-shut cases which didn's always t need the help of a psychologist only worked for a 'but'while. Finally, it was Robin, isnDelaware't there?) Josh has a s partner and he dotes on her son, even if who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the relationship with Melissa can be swimming pool of a little rockyremote property in Bel Air. As for Maeve, He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and sheis married to an extremely rich man and it's just come out not the Italian. But which of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertain.them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Merryn Glover1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Hidden FiresSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=TravelAnimals and Wildlife|summary= It is always about the book, not the writerSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, but there are times particularly when he considered the authorstrain that being on-call put on his father's hinterland is also life. When he was seventeen he took the background to the book opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and so it is necessary to understand that context, in order to appreciate was convinced this was the bookjob for him. Merryn Glover is of Australian parentageBefore long, he was born in Kathmandu, grew up in the Annapurna and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotlandat Liverpool University. I can think of noIt hadn't - as with so many students -one better been his dream since he was a combination child. If anything, he'd wanted to give us be a re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence in the Cairngorms National Parkprofessional footballer. Merryn walks, not so much in the shadow of Shepherd, but in her spirit. I think the two would have gotten along famously.|isbn=1846975751

|authorisbn=Alice M Ross0861541774|title=The Nowhere ThiefA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=At last there is new stock DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in the impoverished yet overa street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in he killed a seaside townGhurka. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found outInitially, because she has the ability he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to leave this world, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours light that suggested that he might have planned to enter other worlds, where murder the sea levels are rising dramatically and man. Now he could be facing the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunderdeath penalty. With eviction imminent, Domenic Jejeune can Elsbeth nab anything do nothing to actually generate custom help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at the shop? Well yes, is the answer, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=1839943769all.

|isbnauthor=1529504775Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyPerfect Passion Company

|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Elsie The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and her little brother David loved to go operating as an alternative to all the park online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and watch look after the red buses drive pastbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Elsie would race the buses along the side Katie is coming out of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born a break up with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - bad boyfriend, and was happy to use so jumps at the coins from her money box chance to pay for it as cash was tight at come hometo Edinburgh. GraduallyAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, David learned bringing us to stand upan Edinburgh we already love, use thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the bus for supportIsabel Dalhousie novels, and walk behind itbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Many decades laterKatie has no experience in running a business, Elsie brought the busor in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, now damaged and rustedthere's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=18479418340811771741|title=Atomic HabitsInstaKnits for Baby|author=James ClearMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleCrafts|summary=IMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire've said this before but there variety. The projects are some books that you seek outdivided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, some books that you stumble across ten to twenty hours and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themmore than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, like, right now! modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'Atomic Habitsbut that'' is in the last categorys me being picky.

|author=Natasha FarrantDean Koontz|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=This story Benny is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''having a terrifically bad day. Ravenwood is an old houseHe loses his job, in the North of Englandhe loses his fiancee, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their liveshis house gets trashed. They are part of Oh, and someone has delivered a complexreally weird, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leodisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and Raffy it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is there with the thing that has trashed his mumhouse! The thing is, and they are living together as Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a familynice person. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the placeA really nice person. But now So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is under threata new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, as Leo who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under pressure attack from his other two brothers to sell the property to nefarious forces for being a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintaingood person. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're Spike is going to live, but if they'll even be togethertake care of Benny, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|isbn=0571348785}}{{Frontpage|author=Nick Brooks|title=Promise Boys|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When the principal (headmaster) certainly take care of Urban Promise Prep school is murderedBenny's enemies, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Eachif he, seeminglyBenny, has and Harper (a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder. But waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who killed him, and why, and if any of the boys exactly they are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?.|isbn=10350031551662500491

|author=G K HollowayAdam Stower|title=In the Shadows of CastlesMurray and Bun

|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers |summary= We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and on , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the day of William of Normandytwo. But he's coronation as King of England. Williama bad magician's position is 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 secure into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and the new king has many challengeswhiffs. Imposing authority through This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a coronation troll hunter is important. And William is right to worry. While the previous kingexpected – well, Haroldone much bigger than Murray was, is dead and the likelihood of more pitched battles is overto be honest, the rebels are stirring but he's turned up and much of the country does not wish he'll have to recognise a new overlord.do…|isbn=18004224660008561249

|isbn=0008506337B0C47LV1PC|title=The Garnett GirlsFragility|author=Georgina MooreMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by MargoCan you make a 's mother as 'an older manYo birthing person'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she joke? And if you could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In , is the question should you make it? Or is the eventquestion if you did, they eloped and Richard took her away from would it land? The catch is that the Isle of Wightanswer for both could well be. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''no.

|author=Vanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577}}{{Frontpage|isbn=15291259601529431735|title=Unnatural HistoryThe Winter Visitor|author=Jonathan KellermanJames Henry

|summary=Donny Klement was a photographer. WellIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, it was Adonis, actually, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - itwhich made Bruce Hopkins's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bedreturn all the more surprising. Three shots were placed neatly through his heartHe'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The PA, Mel Gornick, is distraught and it falls to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as return has come about because he tries to establish what's happened. Donny had just finished a series of photographs called ''The Wishersletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. HeIt'd taken eight homeless people off the streets and asked them what they'd really like s hard to be. They were then dressed up as their fantasyfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, photographed stripped to his underwear and sent on their way with to a generous gift watery grave in dollarsthe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Robin Birch Alex Bell and Jobe AndersonTim McDonagh|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns Glorious Race of Silver StreetMagical Beasts

|summary=Jayden's nose Eli is forever a busy lad – by day an apprentice in a bookthe wondrous library we start by visiting with him, which means he knows and in the evening a lot about mythological creatures – helper at the phoenixes dessert cafe his gran owns and unicorns of the world, for exampleruns. Aisha is addicted to her new tabletEli lives with his lovely gran, where she can see videos of anything that might be out too – for thereis a generation missing in the family. The problemA few short years ago, as their mothers see it, is that they are never Eli'out there' themselvess parents were both lost to the titular race, exploring a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the outside world in the company of Hackney, Londona magical beast. But This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a narrowboat turns up carrying bad incident at the eatery leads to a science-mindedconfession from gran, educational purposeEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, and with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew sole aim the prize of magic at the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters end – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed only thing to join inpossibly save his gran. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=02415734830571382231

|isbn=1913839656178763681X|title=Let's Celebrate Being DifferentKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Lainey DeeOrlando Murrin|rating=3.54|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juiceChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He packed two pairs didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of dungarees getting both men and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him women to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as do what he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that it might be because he looked different.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787301036|title=What July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooperd be at the school to assist Paul, who is not prepared to discuss the death of his wifehad a broken arm, Julybut it didn's mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading t turn out that way will lead to the necessity of a Lesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons The teaching - and he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries problems - are visibleall his own. JulyThe one thing he hadn's teacher is concerned and brings t expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the possibility of abuse with body and everyone knows that the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good police consider that person to be the school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for himprime suspect.