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|isbn=14447761851786482126|title=Haven't they GrownThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Sophie HannahElly Griffiths

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when Beth Leeson they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was ferrying her sonno skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, Benbut Nelson doesn't, to a football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbotsis pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. ActuallyHer condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a little disingenuous unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to say 'found herself' as Beth had made a deliberate detour on approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the grounds that she didn't find herself other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in this neck of the woods very often prison and she was curious he's prepared to see tell the police where the body of a family missing person is buried and who'd come into money had lived before they'd all lost contact twelve years agowas responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And it might have gone no further than that had Beth not seen a car draw up what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and her friend Flora to get out along with two children she called Thomas and Emilyan early parole date. Beth remembered Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the names well other thing that Hardie demanded - but these children were about three make certain that DS Max Craigie and five and Floraanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and seventeenhappening.

|isbn=15291237630008405026|title=Miss AustenA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Gill HornbyJane Casey

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=It's long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most of sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the letters which she investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and other members her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her sister Janeboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What is not known is ''why'' she did this looked as though it was going to be an open-and at this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane's death - shut case is now a definitive answer is unlikely to forthcomingcomplex double murder. Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in a book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expectingRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Rory Clements0571379877|title=Hitler's SecretThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=So, Hitler had Edward Jevons is a secret? Twoworking-class young man, if you include the reproductive detail mentioned in a certain singobsessed with his upper-song aspersionclass friends, Robert and Stanza. But this is Robert's a secret that is counter to that, and in fact is a secret that Hitler himself doesn't even know abouttheatre director. His neiceHe's also self-obsessed, Geli Raubaldemanding, the attractive young woman he seemed to be very close handsome and entitled and uses Edward to in the early 1930s, had had his daughter behind his backrun errands for him. Protected under a false identity ever Edward has been in love with Stanza since, the girl is completely ignorant of her past, their university days - and the truth is a very rare thinghe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Martin Bormann, the Most men in Robert'gatekeeper' to Hitler and his right hand man, knows – and is desperately intent on wiping the slate clean and removing all connected with her existence s position would stay away from the Reich. So itStanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's down not like most men: Edward is left to Tom Wilde, an American history professor at Oxbridge, to go stumble upon the two of them kissing in and extract her, in this most shadowy race against timea dark passageway.|isbn=1838770275

|isbnauthor=0241985110Jo Callaghan|title=All the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterLeave No Trace|rating=4.5

|summary=A very beautiful, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by When a minicab driver man is found crucified on the outskirts top of Oxford. She didn't want to go a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the police station or case alongside her sidekick, the hospital: she just wanted to be taken homeAI detective Lock. The driver wasnIt't so certain though - and after dropping the girl at home he went to the polices their first live case together, which having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is why DI Adam Fawley a second body found himself talking to Faith Appleford crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and her mother. Both were adamant a very high profile case that this was nothing more than an April Fool's joke which had gone wrongdraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. No crime had been committed and Faith didn't want Will they be able to take solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the matter any further. Fawley case and his team weren't prepared to leave it at that and they began investigating. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didn't seem to have much , potentially, out of a history.career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=15294002791399613073|title=Six Wicked ReasonsMoral Injuries|author=Jo SpainChristie Watson

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was early summer 2018 Olivia, Laura and Adam Latimer returned home to Spanish Cove after an absence Anjali met on the first day of ten years. The family had thought him dead - in fact, that's what the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told medical school and their friendship would keep theminseparable for a quarter of a century. He was cagey about exactly where he'd been but he seemed content, if not happyOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be homea cardiothoracic surgeon. What brought him? Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Well, nine years ago his mother died Anjali is the free spirit of the group and he'd seen the she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in memoriamtragedy. We don'' in t know who suffered the paper: this was tragedy or the first he'd heard about what had happenedconsequences. His Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three sisters and two brothers had mixed feelings about his return, but his father is delightedfriends. In factThis time, he's determined to have a party. Only, with Frazer Latimer, what happens has to be about him. He has an announcement to make - it's nine years since Kathleen died and he's been lonely. He's met Ana, a Polish immigrant, and they're getting marriedtheir teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Penny Chrimes0241636604|title=Tiger HeartThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=''Fly never meant If you were to end bring up an image of a city banker in the cage with a man-eating tigeryour mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. She just saw her chance to skedaddle, A hoodie and she took it. And even when jeans replaces the cloud of soot cleared pin-stripe suit and she saw his background is the golden eyes of a killer staring into hersEast End, where he was familiar with violence, she still didn't turn round poverty and climb back up the chimney straightawayinjustice. 'Cos there There was worse waiting for her back no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the roofLondon School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid.''What It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an opener! And there's plenty more to come!|isbn=1510107045internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Tanya Landman1035021803|title=Jane Eyre: a RetellingThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and It's twenty years in a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – since Freya Lockwood has been back to have something like the life English country village where she wants – and with only one job, to tutor grew up. She's back now because of a young half-French girlrequest for help from her beloved aunt, whose father is almost always absentCarole. When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding Freya's former mentor and troubled – but thatCarole's nothing compared 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 darkervillage: Arthur, she feels, more broody and even more troubled secret let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the houseman or pursue the profession she loved. YesAfter the split, if you know Jane Eyre then you know she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the rest – but if you don'tlove of her life, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn towho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1781129126

|authorisbn= T R HendrickAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= What if They KnewAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 45|genre= General Science Fiction|summary= It's 2025'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. Underneath a lodge in the Blue Mountain resort in Pennsylvania, '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is a secret facilitywhat happens after you're eighteen. Here Well, Dr Benton and his team are making some critical scientific advances on behalf I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of the Benefactor, their anonymous fundertechnology in my lifetime. Already, I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the team have succeeded in teleporting small primates feeling that it's all getting away from one place to anotherme. But, unbeknownst to the Benefactor, Dr Benton has also coded for another type Some of teleportation altogether it is - frankly - travel through timequite frightening. And he Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's ready to testm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. If successful, Benton has I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a very specific use for his technology in mind|isbn=1734277211way I could understand.

|author= Catherine SteadmanSunny Singh|title= Mr NobodyHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Don't you just hate it when people The 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 multi-talented? Author Catherine Steadman rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is both Sam, a successful actress wartime photographer and writerAbhi, with this her second novelthe hotel manager. I think As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a way bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her acting background shows in her writing as room to try to my mind the 'fight scene' at the end was somewhat unrealistic – you know the kind where the hero has been hurt so many times that itcapture what's virtually impossible happened through her photography. Although they'd still be alive let alone able to fight off an attacker. The story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until only ever talk over the ending which felt overstuffed in a frenetic bid to wrap everything up in the last few chapters. It was almost phone, their friendship grows as if the author wanted Abhi tries to help her keep the suspense until the last possible moment (which I liked) but then was somewhat left with too much safe and they both wait to do in see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the closing stagesterrorists.|isbn=1984890646086154742X

|isbn=14736818471529153298|title=In Her EyesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Sarah AldersonJennie Godfrey

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Ava lives a charmed lifeIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, but those things sometimes rub other people up the wrong wayhonestly... One evening she returns from a night out with a friend) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, and before she can finish her bedtime routinethough. Women have been disappearing. Well, her homethey've been murdered, and her life, are under attack: masked men but to have broken in and are demanding money from 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside himfather wants to move the family 'Down South'. In the scuffle than ensues When you're from Yorkshire, Ava Down South is hurta frightening, foreign place, badlybest avoided. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happened For Miv, but she knows it was life-changing. With the move would mean leaving her daughter still fighting for her life in a room down the corridorbest friend, Sharon, Ava has a lot to contend with as and she tries 'll do anything to recover, wills prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her daughter to recover, and attempts Mum's stopped talking - to piece together what happened and whyanyone.

|author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Diana, being unique on her island, is the victim of a lot of taunts, and claims of nepotism. It's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of Men, and this Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more...|isbn=1401282555}}{{Frontpage|isbn=17860756951398524085|title=When the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Helen SedgwickNicci French

|summary=It began with the discovery of a body under the swings in the childrenCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's playgroundfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. It was Dr Alexis Crosse Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and he was found by PC Simon Hunterher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, who loved him deeplyAlec, but who had reason to mistrust himis not. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up in GreeceShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners), a community which regards anyone not born and brought up there as an outsiderthe river. DI Georgie Strachan is It was an outsider - you've only got easy assumption for the police to look at her skin to realise make that, Duncan had murdered Charlie and her husband, Fergus, well, then committed suicide when hecouldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's a little strange too, not entirely ''here''else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm1035906708|title=Orion LostDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary=Thirteen-year-old Beth Lucas and her parents board the transport ship Orion ready his friends are all booked in for a new life on Eos Fivemovie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Their All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new home film format is still being terra-formed very different, and life there isnthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't going even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to be easythe next, but it ''can they figure out what on earth is'' going on? Will they ever get back to be a fresh start. As Beth's mum puts itthe cinema, ''There's a future waiting for us. A chance and to make our own decisions, create our own their real lives.''?|isbn=17880059291839942738

|isbnauthor=0753553236Rachel Greenlaw|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J FoggCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=LifestyleTeens|summary=Go on''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, admit it - youthe answering beat in my heart.''re not quite perfect Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. You still have those oddMira, quirkylike her mother before her, even loveable (is one of the seven who swim out to you) habits survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that seem lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to annoy other peopleend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Other peopleDesperate to save him from death, of course, are sorely afflicted Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correctonly coordinates to guide her, if only they would make just she sets off in search of a little bit of effortfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try With only nine days to make unearth what seem might 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 quite monumental changes I never quite seem determined to get stop at nothing to grips with save the concepts. I constantly fail future of her home and then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the listones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author= B T KeatonJames Sherwood Metts|title= TransferencePlanet Storyland|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= Barrabus Madzimure is about to die, stranded on Things have been a mining planet millions of light-years from home, executed bit sticky for high crimes against the Church, the ruling body of EarthEarthlings. Except he's not Barrabus MadzimureAI and automation have been proceeding apace, heoften replacing jobs they's Thaniel Kilraven in Barrabus Madzimure's body. Such is the magic of Transference, the ability re paid to transplant a person's soul or consciousness into a different body - do and a power other tasks that the Church has exclusive control overtook time to accomplish. As if Thaniel doesn't have enough things Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to worry aboutthink of other, a Church employee named Corvus has arrived from Earth new ways to interrogate himspend time, along came an awful pandemic. All Thaniel wants is to see his family againLife was pretty much shut down and, and he'll stop at nothing to accomplish thisalong with it, but all the Church isn't going to give in without a hell of a fight..many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=B082WPHTHH1736128426

|author=Christine BrownMatthew Tree|title=Bucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West AfricaWe'll Never Know

|genre=TravelLiterary Fiction|summary=In the summer Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of 2008, this book's author was spending her days working in an office job in the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else. Long story short, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africa. Now coincidentally, in the summer exceptional at any of 2010, this review's author was spending ''her'' days working in an office job (albeit in the UK) while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else, his artistic passions all failed miserably and ''she'' ended up just 3 countries away, volunteering in Sierra Leone, West Africawho had endless crises of self confidence. So you can see whyTim applied himself to his studies, when this book came up, said reviewer was delighted to have the opportunity to read cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and critique itset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=171024299XB0CVFXPGP8

|author=Mark LinganeA G Slatter|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to 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. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. 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 a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'Degrade'' opens as it means s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to go ask for his help on - with inyerface, banging actiondifficult cases. Poor Arid, alone in the desert since his parents His assertions that there were killed, has a narrow escape as two megaonly open-rigs fight it out and his is pretty much destroyed. He finds himself rescued by the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella and onboard the shut cases which didn''Moonlight'' under t need the suspicious eyes help of its leadera psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Queen Bea. BeaDelaware's eyes flash with recognition when he tells her his name - Arid Geiger - but before he can find out why partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that isthe man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, there's though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an assassination attempt Italian shoe empire and Arid she is under suspicion married to an extremely rich man and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella - Queen Beait's daughter - sees Arid and her other daughter, Frey, stranded in not the desertItalian...|isbn= 099461649X But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=B07XLM3SM61529395224|title=Murder at Letting the Cat Out of the Dolphin HotelBag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Helena DixonSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Animals and Wildlife|summary=Elowed Underhay Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in June 1916his footsteps, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in particularly when he considered the care of her grandmotherstrain that being on-call put on his father's life. A great deal When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of money had been spent to find out what happened to her doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and the conclusion was that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with convinced this and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was illjob for him. She Before long, he was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand whyat Liverpool University. SheIt hadn's always coped t - as with the mix of holidaymakers, boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before so many students - and she's done every job in the hotelbeen his dream since he was a child. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmotherIf anything, he's friends have been roped in d wanted to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotelbe a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)0861541774|title=The Honjin MurdersA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=To many readers, the phrase DCI Domenic Jejeune'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. For those who need mores close friend and former colleague, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan in the 1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting marriedDanny Maik, although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet upwith an old ally, what with it being arranged at great hasteGuy Trueman. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thingMaik 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. Either wayInitially, the celebrations he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have gone ahead as planned, only for to murder the wedded couple to man. Now he could be slashed to facing the death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriagepenalty. What with Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, diplomatic incident and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument wouldn't help Danny at the time of the crime, this case has a lot of the peculiar about itall.|isbn=1782275002

|author=Cixin LiuAlexander McCall Smith|title=Death's EndThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Science General Fiction|summary= If I'd been paying The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more attention when I picked this book uppersonal, I would have put it back on tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the shelfbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Not because I didn't want to read it, but because I'd have figured Katie is coming out that it was the final part of a trilogy. Coming in partway through break up with a saga is never bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the easiest thing chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to do 44 Scotland Street and it's particularly true in science fiction because without knowing the back-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to you (when it's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts that you won't understandcharm. This latter is particularly true of Cixin Liu's work – his range is phenomenal. George R R MartinKatie has no experience in running a business, who knows a thing or two about worldin match-creationmaking, described it as ''a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculationbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, conspiracy theory and cosmologythere''. All of that s always her very helpful (and more.rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=17849716501846976596

|isbn=17808945110811771741|title=Die AloneInstaKnits for Baby|author=Simon KernickMelissa Leapman

|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=Ray Mason is in prison awaiting trial Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for murder and heBaby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 's long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a coptime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, he's something of a targetfive to ten hours, but ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the unit is not as secure as the inmates would have hoped projects are attractive, modern and Mason useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is injured in having a riotterrifically bad day. On He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his way house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to hospital hehis home, and it's broken free by armed men and an offer possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is made the very last person to himdeserve all this bad luck. He's is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to assassinate the man 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 likely going to become the countrytake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's next prime minister enemies, if he, Benny, and heHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny'll then be given a new identity so that he s wild adventure) can start afresh abroad. His captors say that figure out who exactly they're MI6, but Mason has his doubts. His choices are limited though and he has personal reasons to believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was dead.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Akwaeke EmeziAdam Stower|title=PetMurray and Bun

|genre=TeensConfident Readers |summary=The people Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the town Lucille believe that all the monsters are gonetwo. Their children are raised to understand that But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they were saved by both use can chuck them out, not into the angelsregular back garden, those who rid the town but into a world of evil, frightening adventure and there are no monsters anymorewhiffs. But This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one daymuch bigger than Murray was, to be honest, Jam accidentally cuts herself but he's turned up and bleeds 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 little onto one ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of her motherPortland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's paintingsFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The blood awakens return has come about because he's had a bizarre, terrifyingletter from his ex-looking creature named Petwife, who somehow comes to life saying that she's ill and declares that it is here hasn't long to hunt the monsterlive. Though Jam tries It's hard to convince it that all the monsters are gone, Pet is certain that there feel any sympathy when Hopkins is one, stillabducted, stripped to his underwear and that the monster is hiding sent to a watery grave in the home boot of her best friend, Redemptiona stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=0571355110 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1686751680Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarres|author=Amelie Julien and GustyawanThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Which child doesn't think that their mother Eli isa busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, well, ''weird''? It might be that and in the morning their mother doesn't like speaking much when every self-respecting child knows that that is when you're evening a helper at your brightest the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with lots to say? ''Why'' then does Mummy stick her fingers his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in her ears? the family. Then thereA few short years ago, Eli's doing yoga parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in front the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the televisioneatery leads to a confession from gran, which could be worrying if it wasn't so funny. We won't go into too much detail about Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what goes on in he most hates, with the bathroom and sole aim the colour changes which have occurred when Mummy emerges and frankly, prize of magic at the less said end – the better about her reactions only thing to your artistic efforts on the wallpossibly save his gran. I mean, what else would you use paint for?|isbn=0571382231