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|isbn=00085512780008517061|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Neil LancasterStig Abell|rating=4.5

|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the bottom future of Fyrishhis life with his vet girlfriend, where she'd been doing Livia and her training. She'd been daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a bit lot of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics compromise: does Jake give up his off- grid and it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squad. That's quite an achievement for someone relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her background: you see, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at reservations about whether or not this is the age of twelve. She was rescued when future she was carrying a kilo of drugs wants for herself and three years later she's happy with her foster family. daughter? There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sister, Melodi is For the moment they’re enjoying life in a children's home in Tirana - the present and anyone could get to herputting the future on the back burner.

|authorisbn=Emily Tesh1786482126|title=Some Desperate GloryThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'While Earthapartments - 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 children livedifficult as Ruth knows, the enemy shall fear usbut Nelson doesn'' Following the destruction of the Eartht, amongst that she is pregnant with his child as a rare number result of survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the world that should have been hersone night they spent together some three months ago. All her life Her condition will be obvious before long, she has been conditioned not least because Ruth is prone to fall in line, to fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveressudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=0356521834

|isbn=08615440560008551324|title=Twin TruthsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jacqueline SutherlandNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Belle and DavidIt's twin daughters are just coming unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the end of their first term at universitypolice. KitNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's been at Bristol prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and Jess's in Exeterwho was responsible for her death. It's not only This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each otherpolice doing what he wants. Belle can't wait And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to have them all serve the remainder of his sentence and to herself for a whileget an early parole date. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with herNot much to ask, is it? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivothink so and she's apparently 'older': he's twentyeven prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures make certain that she can cope DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with that. And theyhim is kept well away from what'll be sharing a bedrooms happening.

|isbn=17856334570008405026|title=Charging Around: Exploring A Stranger in the Edges of England by Electric CarFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Clive WilkinsonJane Casey

|genre=TravelCrime|summary=Clive Wilkinson has 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 history of travelling by unconventional means with halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the idea positioning of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageousbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. In fact, What looked as though it should was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wifecomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Joan, shouldn't it?Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Frederic Seager0571379877|title= Jesus, the Man and the Myth: A Jewish Reading of the New TestamentThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre= Spirituality and ReligionCrime|summary= Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. I was brought up in Robert's a family where religion played little or no parttheatre director. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and Welsh Methodist on the other, nobody really discussed religion entitled and the adults around me ranged from lapsed uses Edward to agnostic run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to atheistRobert. Other than the odd church wedding or baptism or the school nativity play, I didn Most men in Robert't think too much about faith s position would stay away from Stanza or what people did or didntell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he't believes not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=B092BWWG9Y

|isbnauthor=0571370977Jo Callaghan|title=The Lock-Up|author=John BanvilleLeave 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 his best buddy from the football teamviolence, poverty and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days togetherinjustice. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a singleThere was no posh public school on his CV -sex school can form, but he had been to the talk in class and out often turns to sexLondon School of Economics. Which Stevenson is confusing for Ant, as bright - extremely bright - and he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard liehas a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether also realised that's set in stone, he can't most rich people expect poor people to be surestupid. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship withCitibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=1529509491

|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=M R CareyC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|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 GardeningWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=Pamela FarleyA G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Home and FamilyFantasy|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for ' There's a meal – but realised part of me that you wouldn't know where wants to start, keep this is the book you needjust to myself for however long I can. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your This secret magic of my own food, what youall mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'re going to grow, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil) Within a remote mountain pass, where you'll put these containersfar away from the world, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish lies Silverton; a town under the main part protection of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. ThereBriar's also , a good glossaryfamily of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. SoThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is it any good?}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps the first non-witch to be born into something primeval within us. It is used her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a way to reflect our darkest emotions steward revolved around letters and how we as humans react administration rather than spells and process thempotions. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big BadWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghostand Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, it usually something tangible right andcentre, by Ellie uncovers the end of rare ability to communicate with the storydead, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is putting her at the heart of a collection maelstrom of short stories more interested in the horrors of illnesschaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, grief Ellie must decide who to trust and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder determine what to defeat than any ''Big Bad'do as the Briar witches'legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Amelia Estelle Dellos1529900360|title=Delilah RecoveredThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= We meet Dee at a point when her life isnIt hadn't going as planned been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but things might, just mighthe felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, be about Sturgis was reluctant to look upask for his help on difficult cases. Out His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up a psychologist only worked for an accountant's joba while. But Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunterspartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She survives knew that the attack but not unscathedinvolvement was something that the man she loved needed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman The next case did look simple, living an ordinary lifethough. Slivers Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to her an extremely rich man and things will never be it's not the sameItalian....|isbn=B0BKYFDLLV But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=00084049761529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Secret Life of a Vet|author=Jane CaseySion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was because of Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan a GP and DI Josh Derwent were living together Rowlands didn't want to follow in Jellicoe Close. If you're a regular reader of his footsteps, particularly when he considered the [[Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read strain that sentence twice and wondered if itbeing on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a massive spoiler because there is family friend who was a delicious sexual chemistry between vet and was convinced this was the two which seems veryjob for him. Before long, very realhe was at Liverpool University. But (there's always a 'but', isnIt hadn't there?) Josh has a partner and - as with so many students - been his dream since he dotes on her son, even if the relationship with Melissa can be was a little rockychild. As for MaeveIf anything, shehe's just come out of an abusive relationship which has left her more than d wanted to be a little uncertainprofessional footballer.

|authorisbn=Merryn Glover0861541774|title=The Hidden FiresA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54|genre=TravelCrime|summary= It is always about the book, not the writer, but there are times when the authorDCI Domenic Jejeune's hinterland is also the background to the book close friend and so it is necessary to understand that contextformer colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in order Singapore to appreciate the bookmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Merryn Glover is of Australian parentage, Maik was born involved in Kathmandu, grew up in the Annapurna and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotland. I can think of noa street brawl -one better he would later maintain that he was facing a combination to give us man armed with a reknife -appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence in the Cairngorms National Parkand he killed a Ghurka. Merryn walks Initially, not so much in the shadow he faced a charge of Shepherd, manslaughter but in her spiritevidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. I think Now he could be facing the two would have gotten along famouslydeath penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1846975751

|author=Alice M RossAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Nowhere ThiefPerfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=At last there The Perfect Passion Company is new stock a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run online apps in providing a seaside townmore personal, tailored service. Elsbeth knows this because Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she has stolen itcould come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found Katie is coming outof a break up with a bad boyfriend, because she has and so jumps at the ability chance to leave come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this worldnew story from Alexander McCall Smith, and use bringing us to an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours Edinburgh we already love, thanks to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically 44 Scotland Street and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminentIsabel Dalhousie novels, can Elsbeth nab anything but with some new characters who quickly begin to actually generate custom at the shop? charm. Well yesKatie has no experience in running a business, is the answeror in match-making, but the fact Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…hand…|isbn=18399437691846976596

|isbn=15295047750811771741|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=Elsie and her little brother David loved Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to go to the park and watch the red buses drive pastblankets. Elsie would race Some will be quick knits - others are of the buses along the side 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the park but David couldn't - hefire'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficultvariety. One day Elsie spotted a bus in The projects are divided by the toy shop window which would help David time they'll take to complete - and was happy less than five hours, five to use the coins from her money box ten hours, ten to pay for it as cash was tight at hometwenty hours and more than twenty hours. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use All the bus for supportprojects are attractive, modern and walk behind ituseable. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1847941834Dean Koontz|title=Atomic Habits|author=James ClearThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=LifestyleParanormal|summary=I've said this before but there are some books that you seek outBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you someone has delivered a really MUST read themweird, likedisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, right nowand it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! ''Atomic Habits'' The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is in a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the last categorydelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Natasha FarrantAdam Stower|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This story Murray is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is an old houseable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, in the North of Englandwell, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most whatever takes his fancy next of their livesthe two. They are part of But he's a complexbad magician's cat, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with so his mumfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the coveboth use can chuck them out, roaming through not into the treesregular back garden, completely at one with all but into a world of the nature around the house frightening adventure and loving every inch of the placewhiffs. But now the house This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is under threatexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as itbe honest, but he's becoming more turned up and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where theyhe're going ll have to live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.do…|isbn=05713487850008561249

|authorisbn=Nick BrooksB0C47LV1PC|title=Promise BoysFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=When Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school question should you make it? Or is murderedthe question if you did, three boys find themselves called into would it land? The catch is that the police station answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time city of his murder. But who killed himPortland, and whyOregon, and if any of cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|isbn=1035003155covid pandemic

|authorisbn=G K Holloway1529431735|title=In the Shadows of CastlesThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= We begin after It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the momentous battle in 1066 and more surprising. He'd been exiled on the day of William of NormandyCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's coronation as King of England. Williamhad a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's position is not secure ill and the new king has many challengeshasn't long to live. Imposing authority through a coronation It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is important. And William is right abducted, stripped to worry. While the previous king, Harold, is dead his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the likelihood boot of more pitched battles is over, the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to recognise a new overlordstolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=1800422466 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=0008506337Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Georgina MooreGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sidesruns. Margo was just sixteen when they fell Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in lovethe family. Richard was twenty-one and described by MargoA few short years ago, Eli's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve were both lost to the titular race, a globe- going trotting adventure where all entrants have to Oxford and having a glittering career. In navigate the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from world in the Isle company of Wighta magical beast. Margo did go This has made the race anathema to Oxford and went on the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachelconfession from gran, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at SandcoveEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the family home on sole aim the Isle prize of Wight. Even then magic at the end – the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able only thing to leave him in charge''possibly save his gran. Then Richard left them.|isbn=0571382231

|authorisbn=Vanda Symon178763681X|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4.5

|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman residential cookery school in DunedinBelgravia. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a killer targeting pregnant way of getting both men and women, with all to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the extra pressure impression that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk dutieshe'd be at the school to assist Paul, which she rails againstwho had a broken arm, she just canbut it didn't let turn out that way. The teaching - and the case go and she starts problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happeningturn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen nextprime suspect.|isbn=1914585577