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|isbn=00085170100008517061|title=Death Under in a Little SkyLonely Place

|rating=54

|summary=The marriage had run its courseFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. It might have been different if There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the pregnancies hadn't ended future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in miscarriages but no one else was involved together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- certainly grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not on Jake's side and he didn't think there was this is the future she wants for Faye either. They were still polite to each other herself and wished each other well - but didn't wish to remain married. her daughter? The perfect solution arrived in For the form of a legacy from Jake's Uncle Arthur. He'd been left a secluded property moment they’re enjoying life in the hamlet of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - present and enough money to live there without putting the future on the need to workback burner.

|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.|isbn=1472292154}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152915118X1786482126|title=Pineapple StreetThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Jenny JacksonElly Griffiths

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'Pineapple Street'' is apartments - when they discovered the story bones of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgianaa child beneath a doorway. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother CordThere was no skull. They're StocktonsWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribeDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The problemIt's exacerbated when the clan matriarchdifficult as Ruth knows, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if theybut Nelson doesn'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another propertyt, that she is pregnant with his child as a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any result of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight inone night they spent together some three months ago. NominallyHer condition will be obvious before long, they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start not least because Ruth is prone to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=00085512780008551324|title=Blood Runs Cold The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)

|summary=Affi Smith was snatched It's unusual for anyone from the bottom of Fyrish, where she'd been doing her trainingHardie family to approach the police. SheNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'd been a bit s prepared to tell the police where the body of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it now looks as though she could will be heading for worth the national squadpolice doing what he wants. That's quite And what he wants is to be transferred to an achievement for someone with her background: you see, Affo came open prison to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at serve the age remainder of twelvehis sentence and to get an early parole date. She was rescued when she was carrying a kilo of drugs Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and three years later she's happy even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with her foster family. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sister, Melodi him is in a childrenkept well away from what's home in Tirana - and anyone could get to herhappening.

|authorisbn=Emily Tesh0008405026|title=Some Desperate Glory|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us'' Following the destruction of the Earth, amongst a rare number of survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of A Stranger in the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the world that should have been hers. All her life, she has been conditioned to fall in line, to fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveres.|isbn=0356521834}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861544056|title=Twin TruthsFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jacqueline SutherlandJane Casey

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Belle and DavidIt's twin daughters are just coming sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to the end of their first term at universitya halt. Kit's been at Bristol Now, her mother, Helena, and Jess's her father are dead in Exetertheir bed. ItInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's not only something about the first time they've been away from their parents for any length positioning of time - but they've also been apart from each otherthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Belle can't wait What looked as though it was going to have them all to herself for be an open-and-shut case is now a whilecomplex double murder. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer Kerrigan is convinced that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivothe explanation lies in Rosalie's apparently 'older'disappearance: heothers (such as Derwent's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroomboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=17856334570571379877|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric CarThe Kellerby Code|author=Clive WilkinsonJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=TravelCrime|summary=Clive Wilkinson has Edward Jevons is a history of travelling by unconventional means working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a preference theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for slow travelhim. As Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring '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 edges two of England them kissing in an electric car was not totally outrageousa dark passageway. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?

|author=Frederic SeagerJo Callaghan|title= Jesus, the Man and the Myth: A Jewish Reading of the New Testament|rating=4.5|genre= Spirituality and Religion|summary= I was brought up in a family where religion played little or no part. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side and Welsh Methodist on the other, nobody really discussed religion and the adults around me ranged from lapsed to agnostic to atheist. Other than the odd church wedding or baptism or the school nativity play, I didn't think too much about faith or what people did or didn't believe.|isbn=B092BWWG9Y}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571370977|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 law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself police to oblivion make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and inevitably then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the latter was beginning to overshadow the formerguilt. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southwonder about what really happened.|isbn=1662500181

|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author= Rob KeeleyDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher 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 ' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to be able myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables enjoy it for a meal – but realised that you wouldnwhile.''t know where to start Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, this is lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the book you need. ItBriar's comprehensive: you'll cover everything , a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from why you should grow your own foodthe Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, what you're going Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to growbe born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, what you'll grow it in (both containers her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and soil)potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, where youEllie'll put these containerss cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, how youthe town'll water s leader, and fertilise them Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and you finish centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the main part heart of the book with a handy section on troubleshootingmaelstrom of chaos. ThereReeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches's also a good glossary. Solegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is it any good?under threat.|isbn=1803364548

{{frontpageFrontpage|isbn=18033630021529900360|authortitle= Eric LaRoccaThe Ghost Orchid|titleauthor= The Trees Grew Because I Bled ThereJonathan Kellerman|rating= 54|genre= HorrorCrime|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 Badhadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, whether Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that is there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a home invader, psychologist only worked for a monster or a ghostwhile. Finally, it usually was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something tangible andthat the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, by though. Two lovers were murdered in the end swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the story, beatable. Eric LaRoccaheir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like thatthe Italian. It is a collection But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of short stories more interested in the horrors Bag: The Secret Life of illness, grief a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and humiliationWildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Horrors that linger His father was a GP and are harder Rowlands didn't want to defeat than any follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn'Big Bad't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Amelia Estelle Dellos0861541774|title=Delilah RecoveredA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= We meet Dee at a point when her life isnDCI Domenic Jejeune't going as planned but things mights close friend and former colleague, just mightDanny Maik, be about has taken a short holiday in Singapore to look meet upwith an old ally, Guy Trueman. Out Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of work, about manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's jobmurder the man. But it's not to Now he could be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives facing the attack but not unscatheddeath penalty. Witch hunters? What on earth has that Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to do with Dee? Shehelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary t help Danny at all return to her and things will never be the same....|isbn=B0BKYFDLLV

|isbnauthor=0008404976Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)|author=Jane CaseyPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was because of Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and DI Josh Derwent were living together operating as an alternative to all the online apps in Jellicoe Closeproviding a more personal, tailored service. If you're Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a regular reader while. Katie is coming out of the [[Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read that sentence twice and wondered if it's a massive spoiler because there is break up with a delicious sexual chemistry between bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the two which seems very, very realchance to come home to Edinburgh. But (there's always a 'but'And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, isn't there?) Josh has a partner thanks to 44 Scotland Street and he dotes on her sonthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, even if the relationship but with Melissa can be a little rockysome new characters who quickly begin to charm. As for MaeveKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, sheand there's just come out of an abusive relationship which has left always her more than very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a little uncertain.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Merryn Glover0811771741|title=The Hidden FiresInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=TravelCrafts|summary= It is always about Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the book'long, not cosy afternoons in front of the writer, but there fire' variety. The projects are times when divided by the authortime they's hinterland is also the background ll take to the book and so it is necessary complete - less than five hours, five to understand that contextten hours, in order ten to appreciate the booktwenty hours and more than twenty hours. Merryn Glover is of Australian parentage, was born in KathmanduAll the projects are attractive, grew up in the Annapurna and Himalayan modern and now lives in Badenoch in Scotlanduseable. I can think of noperhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-one better a combination to give us a remedia-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence in the Cairngorms National Park. Merryn walks, not so much in the shadow of Shepherd, worthy projects' but in her spiritthat's me being picky. I think the two would have gotten along famously.|isbn=1846975751

|author=Alice M RossDean Koontz|title=The Nowhere ThiefBad Weather Friend

|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=At last there Benny is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in having a seaside townterrifically bad day. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen itHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found outOh, because she and someone has the ability delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to leave this worldhis home, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worldsit's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, where Benny is the sea levels are rising dramatically and very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe delivery 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 plunderbeing a good person. With eviction imminentSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yesif he, is the answerBenny, but the fact and Harper (a mysterious man knows waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…they are.|isbn=18399437691662500491

|isbnauthor=1529504775Adam Stower|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes Murray and Katie HickeyBun

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Elsie Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and her little brother David loved friendly cat, one who is able to go to the park sleep and eat and eat and sleep and watch , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the red buses drive pasttwo. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldnBut he't - hes a bad magician'd s cat, so his favourite bun has been born with cerebral palsy turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the coins from her money box to pay for regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it as cash drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand be honest, but he's turned upand he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, use is the question should you make it? Or is the bus for supportquestion if you did, and walk behind would itland? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. Many decades later, Elsie brought  ''Fragility'' is set as the buscity of Portland, now damaged and rustedOregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the Repair Shop, hoping that restrictions imposed during the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.covid pandemic

|isbn=18479418341529431735|title=Atomic HabitsThe Winter Visitor|author=James ClearHenry|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=IIt've said this before but there are some books that you seek out, some books that you stumble across s February 1991 and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themEssex is bitingly cold, like, right now! 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 decade. The return has come about because he'Atomic Habitss had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn' t long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the last categoryboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Natasha FarrantAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Rescue Glorious Race of RavenwoodMagical Beasts|rating=54

|summary=This story Eli is another excellent adventure from a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old housewondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the North of England, where Bea evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and Raffy have been living for most of their livesruns. They are part of a complexEli lives with his lovely gran, extended family arrangement, as Bea is too – for there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as a generation missing in the family. They have grown up swimming in the coveA few short years ago, roaming through Eli's parents were both lost to the treestitular race, completely at one with a globe-trotting adventure where all of entrants have to navigate the nature around world in the house and loving every inch company of the placea magical beast. But now This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the house is under threateatery leads to a confession from gran, as Leo Eli knows his only hope is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the property only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a developer as itresidential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's becoming more t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and more expensive women to maintaindo what he wanted. The children find themselves worrying not only about where theyPaul ''somehow'' got the impression that he're going d be at the school to liveassist Paul, who had a broken arm, but if theyit didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn'll even be togethert expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and if Ravenwood itself will everyone knows that the police consider that person to be torn downthe prime suspect.|isbn=0571348785