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|author= Tahi SaihateSylvie Cathrall|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Science Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though it is There are few greater joys than a place book which lives up to which we can never returna compelling premise. And this is one of them. Tahi Saihate|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, in her debut novel ''Astral SeasonJake Johnson, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often liehas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Her novel is There’s perhaps a meditation on youth little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and how the things we do her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a teenager can seem intensely important lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and often relaxing life-alteringto move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn= 19162771011786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no 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, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn= Andrea Stewart0008551324|title= The Bone Shard Daughter Devil You Know (The Drowning EmpireD S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre= FantasyCrime|summary=It''I could never be what s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he wanted if I did not take what I wanted'' In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructs, an heir s prepared to tell the thronepolice where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, a smugglerhe promises, is someone big and a warrior it will fight to find their place in be worth the worldpolice doing what he wants. Lin And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the emperor's forgotten daughter, kept locked away in a palace remainder of secrets his sentence and closed doorsto get an early parole date. When her father refuses Not much to recognise her as heir to the throneask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she vows 's even prepared to show do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him she is capable of reviving a dying empire and kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in secret, she begins to unlock one door after another, searching for the mysteries of Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her past bed one summer night. She was never found and the forbidden art of bone shard magicinvestigation ground to a halt. Yet Lin is playing a deadly game Now, her mother, Helena, and her quest for power will come at great costfather are dead in their bed. With revolution in Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the air bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and creeping closer her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and closer to -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the gates of the palaceexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become a catalyst of change and save her peopleUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=0356514943

|authorisbn=Sharon Doering0571379877|title=She Lies CloseThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missingEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, around 6 months ago. There has been no sign of her sinceobsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and no arrests have been madeStanza. Robert's a theatre director. And yet He's also self-obsessed, demanding, this book is not about Avahandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Not really. This book is about Grace, who Edward has just discovered her neighbour been in her new house is a suspect love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in AvaRobert's disappearance. As position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a single mother relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two young children, she's really wishing this sort of information had come to light before they moved them kissing ina dark passageway.|isbn=1789094194

|author=Yara Evans and Luciana BettiJo Callaghan|title=The Adventures of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesLeave No Trace

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Black Cat and Tabby Cat are minding their own business in their own house when When a very alarming thing happens. A creature - man is found crucified on the top of a large, dog-like creature - appears hill in their house. Black CatNuneaton, always one DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to take chargethe case alongside her sidekick, challenges this fearsome creature with all the courage he can musterAI detective Lock. Tabby Cat backs him It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases.... from But when there is a second body found crucified a rather safe distance. The creature few days later, Kat is indignant - ''I'm not suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a doglot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. I'm Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a fox!''career?|isbn=1511658649 139851120X

|isbn=17124357281399613073|title=Jamie's KeepsakeMoral Injuries|author=Michael GallagherChristie Watson

|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahOlivia, he's just being released from Laura and Anjali met on the Southern General Hospitalfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. The nurse thinks he'll come back Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to visit be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the other patients but Alex has no intention free spirit of doing that: hethe group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they's been there for re at a year, on the same ward where his brother died drug and alcohol-fuelled party and now, with his hair all shorn off, heit's going home to end in his dead brothertragedy. We don's clothest know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. He wants to get outside and back with his friends: his brother, Forbes, says Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that he's not to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitisthree friends. Good luck with that oneThis time, Alexit's their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman0241636604|title=SolitaireThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=TeensAutobiography|summary= Victoria Spring has returned If you were to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to the worldthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Nothing is interesting. People are stupid A hoodie and boring. She has one real friend; jeans replaces the rest are just people she sits near so she's not a complete loner. She hates a lot of things pin- including herself. But suddenly, a blog called Solitaire has arrived stripe suit and his background is pulling pranks throughout the school. And Michael Holden has appeared East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and is showing up everywhere in Tori's lifeinjustice. Tori doesn't know (or care) why she's involved, There was no posh public school on his CV - but suddenly she he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson isbright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. What does Solitaire want? Who's behind it? Why does it all seem He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be linked to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Tori's life so badly and who is hestupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, really? Things are only getting stranger and darkera card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymorethis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=9780007559220

|authorisbn=Natasha Farrant1035021803|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Set in England in It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the aftermath English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of World War Onea request for help from her beloved aunt, this is the story of two children, Lotti Carole. Freya's former mentor and BenCarole's close friend, who have lost everyone they loveArthur Crockleford, but don't want to let go of their last, tiny glimpses of hope. Ben is living on a narrowboat on dead and the canalcircumstances seem suspicious, lying to say the police about his brother's imminent return from the battlefields to take care of himleast. Lotti, meanwhile, has Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been expelled from school and is back at home; it's a beautiful house that belongs to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship fordown badly. The day Lotti meets Ben (Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the day profession she steals a dog!) is the beginning of a deep, and powerful friendshiploved. It sees them become each other's familyAfter the split, and undertake she worked in a perilous trip to Francecafe, in met and married James (on the boat, to try to find out rebound from the truth love of the people they both loveher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=0571348769

|isbn=1471179273AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=House of CorrectionAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Nicci FrenchBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, she's I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in prison, on remandmy lifetime. SheI've kept up reasonably well with what's sharing a cell advantageous to me but I'm left with Michaela, whothe feeling that it's more caring than she first appearsall getting away from me. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking Some of it is - frankly - and encourages her to have a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might bequite frightening. And how did Tabitha get here? WellOf course, on 21 December I could research the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who was helping with knows what they're talking about or the renovations to Tabitha's houselatest conspiracy theorist. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person I needed people I knew I could trust and who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered deliver information in his blooda way I could understand.

|author=Darren ShanSunny Singh|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment Hotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=This third and final book 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 first volume of Darren Shan's new ''Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Inez make it almost all Abhi, the way hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the Cuckooresidents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's Nesthappened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, where the Vote of Alignment their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be heldrescued before they are discovered by the terrorists. But how will they get in?|isbn=B086LLWP4V086154742X

|isbn=00083147211529153298|title=Truth Be ToldThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Kia AbdullahJennie Godfrey

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=The Hadids are an It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'effortfuls not what's worrying Miv' s family, though. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in returnWomen have been disappearing. There are two sons of the familyWell, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their motherthey've been murdered, Sofia, regrets that she didnbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't name them the other way round: sound quite so frightening. Miv'Adam and Kamrans upset because she' trips off s overheard that her father wants to move the tongue so much more easily than family 'Kamran and AdamDown South'. Sofia worries about that sort of thingWhen you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Both boys go to For Miv, the prestigious Hampton schoolmove would mean leaving her best friend, where they boardSharon, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed she'll do anything to be going well until prevent that. She's not worried about the night when he was rapeddangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=15098895151398524085|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Ann CleevesNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=It Charlotte Salter was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzardexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. If she hadn't the car might not have been found until the morning Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seather daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, particularly as the car door had been left openis not. Vera took Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the boy and drove to body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the nearest habitationriver. She ''thought'' it would be the village but it It was Brockburn, an easy assumption for the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father police to make that Duncan had been the younger brother of the man who inherited - murdered Charlie and Hector was the black sheep of then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the familyguilt. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassing, The Salter children are not convinced but there was 's little else that she could they can do in the circumstancesbut get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=02414254411035906708|title=The Thursday Murder ClubDiva|author=Richard OsmanDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=The first member We tend to think of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce MeadowcroftMaria 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. She used Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to be a nurse and is thus the perfect person for Elizabeth 'Callas' to consult about how long make it would take a person who has been stabbed to bleed outmore manageable in the States. Details of where and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that it would have taken about fortyWhen she was back in Athens -five minutes and supposedly so that the victim she could have been saved if get appropriate training for her voice - she'd received prompt medical help. It didn't put Joyce off her shepherd's pie (which tells us that it was raised under the Nazi occupation by a Monday) but it does get mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her interested in The Thursday Murder Club. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villageelder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=1948124440Christopher Edge|title=What Wonders Await Outdoors|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The second book in Justine AveryBlack Hole'. All big movie fans, they's Wonders series is the perfect antidote re looking forward to long summer days with bored children - orlots of exciting films, indeedand many, many snacks! However, as wethe movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn've found recentlyt even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic can they figure out what on earth is rolling across going on? Will they ever get back to the world. What do you do when every book has been read and every toy has been played with, repurposedcinema, and played with againto their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author= Samira AhmedRachel Greenlaw|title= Mad, Bad Compass and Dangerous to KnowBlade|rating= 3.5

|summary=''In I can hear the endsong of the sea. The call of the deep, we all become storiesthe answering beat in my heart.''

Spending Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the summer in Paris sounds rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a dream for most peopletrap to end the wrecking, especially art-lovers, but Khayyam canthey capture the island't relax s leader and stop thinking about the mess she left behind in ChicagoMira's father. On Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a chance encounter bargain with a descendant wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of Alexandre Dumasa family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, Khayyam finds herself on a historical as her journey with him takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to unveil the truth about heart of the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumassmuggler's territory, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byron. As Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselves, but uncover the true story future of her home and the woman and why it was one that should never have been forgottenones she holds most dear.|isbn=03490035560008664730

|author=Alice OsemanJames Sherwood Metts|title=LovelessPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Georgia is Things have been a teenager whobit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's embarking on her first year of university re paid to do and is in a desperate struggle other tasks that took time to figure herself outaccomplish. She's always been in love with love. With the idea Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of loveother, the idea of falling madly for someone new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and finding bliss. But , along with it, all the reality for her has always been differentmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. She|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We's never had a crushll Never Know|rating=4. She's never been kissed. And she's desperate 5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to feel something be different from his father, a drunk and fall for someone. But when the opportunity presents itself in chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any kind of realhis artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, tangible cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and physical way for her - she's disgusted by itset himself high but achievable ambitions. But isn't that what she's supposed to want? Isn't that what everyone is supposed to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't she?|isbn=000824412XB0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=B086LLRZFHA G Slatter|title=Archibald Lox and The Briar Book of the Empress of SuanpanDead|author=Darren Shan|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=Archie's second foray into 'the MergeThere' opens with s a fantastic vistapart of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. All This secret magic of the Bornmy own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''s most famous buildings and monuments - Big Ben Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the Taj Mahalworld,  lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Eiffel Tower - are collected together, joined by those clever Merge vines. But thereBriar's no time to waste in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help , a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from Inez to a venerable locksmith called Winstonthe Darklands.Winston Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is a darling but is afraid to help the first non- what is witch to be done? Despite yearning to go home 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 worry for his foster parentspotions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, Archie feels an obligation to take Winstonthe town's leader, and Ellie takes her placebeside her. And so Archie embarks on 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 newmaelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and even more dangerousdetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, adventure...everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=14087122881529900360|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)The Ghost Orchid|author=Val McDermidJonathan Kellerman

|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the middle of February and bitterly cold when a fishing boat out help of St Monans pulled a body out the Firth of Forth instead of psychologist only worked for a lobster potwhile. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate and Finally, it didnwas Robin, Delaware't take too long to establish s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man was Paul Allard, ostensibly a Frenchmanshe loved needed. The next case did look simple, but in reality James Auld of Edinburghthough. A decade earlier he's gone missing when he was the prime suspect Two lovers were murdered in the disappearance and possible murder swimming pool of his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Aulda remote property in Bel Air. DCI Karen Pirie, as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been He was the last person heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to review the case, a couple of years earlier an extremely rich man and it seemed sensible to bring her into 's not the case at an early stageItalian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn= Adrian Tchaikovsky1529395224|title= Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Doors Secret Life of Edena Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating= 43.5|genre=Science FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Wow – this novel is giganticSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, in every sense of particularly when he considered the word. "Epic" is a word strain thatbeing on-call put on his father's thrown around life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a lot these days, but if family friend who was a book ever earned vet and was convinced this was the name it's this onejob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. Ithadn's t - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a doorstopper full of big ideaschild. If anything, and at times it almost felt too big for my brainhe'd wanted to be a professional footballer.|isbn=1509865888

|authorisbn=Will Carver0861541774|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Hinton HollowDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, population 5Danny Maik,120has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways Maik was involved in America's mida street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -west, but this particular Hinton Hollow is and he killed a small town in Berkshire, EnglandGhurka. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereInitially, until something happened and he ran away faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the citydeath penalty. HeDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's running away again…only this time evil is following him and is going to touch just about everyone in townt help Danny at all.|isbn=1913193306

|author=Jacqueline WilsonAlexander McCall Smith|title=Love FrankieThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Frankie The Perfect Passion Company is nearly fourteena dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum Ness has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided to leave asked her for another woman, when your older sister has turned into younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the girliest girl who ever livedbusiness, andas Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, above all when Sally and her mates are bullying you so jumps at schoolthe chance to come home to Edinburgh. Oh And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and when Samthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, your best friend since foreverbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you or in match- making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and you donthere't fancy him back. Poor Frankie! s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn= 0857535897 1846976596

|isbn=17765728580811771741|title=How Do You Make a InstaKnits for Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Home and FamilyCrafts|summary=ItMelissa Leapman's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that sheSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire'd get me a book about itvariety. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the basicsprojects are attractive, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) modern and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'knew'' more, but was little that''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changeds me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1542017432Dean Koontz|title=The Nidderdale Murders|author=J R EllisBad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=It was Benny is having a Friday in mid-September when the shoot was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgillterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. The shooters at the butts were Oh, and someone has delivered a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his friends) home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the owner of thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the moor and a retired judgevery last person to deserve all this bad luck. James Symonds was He is a local landowner and Henry Saunders was a bankernice person. He and Fraser had known each other since their school daysA really nice person. The fourth member was Gideon RawnsleySo fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Ripon. Rawnsley had a gripe with Fraser: he'd sold has been sent to help him an expensive car and Fraser was since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being slow to paya good person. Other people had reason Spike is going to comment on Frasertake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's attitude to money: his gamekeeperenemies, Ian Davis thought if he was stingy , Benny, and very difficult to work forHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=0241433568Adam Stower|title=Eight Detectives|author=Alex PavesiMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers |summary=It's 1930 Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and Megan sleep and Henry are staying with Bunny at , well, whatever takes his house in Spainfancy next of the two. ItBut he's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: hea bad magician's going to have cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a rest hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and then he wants to talk to Megan the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and Henry about something seriouswhiffs. Only This time round it never gets that far: when Bunny doesndrops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he't emerge after his siesta his guests find that s turned up and he's been murdered. How can that ll have happened? There's no one else in the house, so one of them must be the killer.to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1526362759B0C47LV1PC|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give ItFragility|author=Rashmi SirdeshpandeMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-Literary Fiction|summary=What Can you make a relief! A book about money''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, for children, with clear explanations of what is the question should you make it ? Or isthe question if you did, why it matters, how to acquire more of would it (nope - robbing banks land? The catch is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons that the answer for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, both could well be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the possibility of using to do good in the world.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008378363|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela Crane|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=A husband is about to have his throat cut in his own bed. To find out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty yearsno.

Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best of friends. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls 'Fragility'' is set as a nod to the famous girl band city of the day. Lily would be Adventure SpicePortland, Oregon, Robin cautiously begins to emerge from the Homemaker and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be restrictions imposed during the supporting actress in her own life. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-old.covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529431735|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Time to catch you all up with some of my lockdown reading - IIt've been doing so much of it that Is February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'm a bit late to return all the party with actual reviewingmore surprising. Oops! And where better to start than with He'd been exiled on the new series from Bookbag favourite, Darren Shan? Archie is very downCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. He The return has come about because he's lost had a dear friend recently, in a tragic accidentletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and Archie blames himself. He canhasn't face school so he takes himself for a truanting wander around Londonlong to live. As he strolls across a footbridge It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, he sees stripped to his underwear and sent to a girl who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men watery grave in white suitsthe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. He watches, aghast. What is going on Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?|isbn=B086LKBHD6

|author=Antony WoottenAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Season The Glorious Race of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Magical Beasts

|summary= Tannash and her brother Geb are waiting in great excitement for the hunting party led Eli is a busy lad – by their uncle to return. They're hoping for a feast of mammoth meat. Geb longs for the day he can join his uncle Gagba and the other warriors on a hunting party and take part an apprentice in their deeds of derring-do. But their father, the leader of the villagewondrous library we start by visiting with him, thinks that they also need an education; that knowledge is power.|isbn=1939269679}}{{Frontpage|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= Seven Devils|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eris is one of the foremost operatives of in the Novantae, evening a resistance movement fighting against helper at the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for yearsdessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Clo Eli lives with his lovely gran, an ace pilot too – for the Novantae, has there is a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to generation missing in the war effortfamily. Although she A few short years ago, Eli's less than pleased parents were both lost to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with titular race, a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the runnerglobe-up heir trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and world in the last company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the free alien species. It's pair – but when a race against time as bad incident at the rebels move eatery leads to put a stop Damocles' plansconfession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with millions the sole aim the prize of lives hanging in magic at the end – the balance…only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=14732311400571382231