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|author=Vincent PanettiereSylvie Cathrall|title=These Thy GiftsA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=''2006 is Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a tumultuous year for the Catholic Church. Reports of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled. He worries for little uncertainty about the future of the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and hit closer to home than he ever imagined.'' As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense of the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking his beloved Catholic churchher daughter Diana, he discovers that one child as moving in his own parish has been abused by together would mean a priest sent by lot of compromise: does Jake give up his bishop. And this isn't just any boy: off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is Steve's grandson whose mother is the offspring of a long past relationship between Steve future she wants for herself and a gangster's widow. Steve is determined to seek justice for this boy her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and all children victimised by priests who have been protected by his church. But he must also face up to his own failings, going right putting the future on the back to his breaking of the celibacy vowsburner.|isbn=1503199886}}

|isbn=18003211041786482126|title=The Body on the IslandJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Nick LouthElly Griffiths

|summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefield, heading for HMP Spring Hill. Steve and Aaron Builders were accompanying Neil Wright who demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was 67 years old and had served six years for going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the manslaughter bones of his wifea child beneath a doorway. Only that wasn't who he There wasno skull. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for the Was this a ritual killing or murder of five boys between the ages of ten and seventeen? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. He was being ghosted out of Wakefield and into a new identity set up in It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts result of the body of one of his victimsnight they spent together some three months ago. The Bogeyman was going to Her condition will be set free on 2 July 2019. He appeared obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to be a reformed character but he had a list sudden bouts of people upon whom he wished to exact revengesickness.

|isbn=14736924070008551324|title=The Book of Two WaysDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jodi PicoultNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Dawn Edelstein is a death doula: thatIt's someone who is there unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the person who other. But Davie Hardie is dying, to make their passage to whatever they believe struggling in as easy as possible prison and to support their carers. Ithe's prepared to tell the police where the body of a rewarding, caring occupation missing person is buried and Dawn puts who was responsible for her heart death. This person, he promises, is someone big and soul into it but this wasn't always her lifewill be worth the police doing what he wants. Some fifteen years ago she was a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an Egyptologistearly parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she was working with her supervisor, Professor Ian Dumphries, on 's even prepared to do the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir elother thing that Hardie demanded -Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egypt. Then she was Dawn McDowell: make certain that was her maiden name, the name she published underDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|authorisbn=Delia Owens0008405026|title=Where The Crawdads SingA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= In 1952, KyaIt's mother disappeared up the dirt track to town, wearing her alligator heels, and never came home. Then one by one her siblings left, ran from the shack on the North Carolina marsh that served as home and the life that would lead to nothing but suffering, leaving 7sixteen years since nine-year-old Kya with Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her drunken fatherbed one summer night. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed 'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for a mother that would She was never return found and grew up far too fast for the investigation ground to a girl who can neither read nor writehalt. Finally Now, her mother, Helena, one night and her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone to survive on the marshare dead in their bed. Eventually Initially, as it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the years drift painfully by, positioning of the time comes when Kya, now an emotional bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and vastly intelligent young woman, yearns for company besides the gulls and the land, yearning her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be loved an open-and to be held. So, when 2 boys from the town of Barkley Cove find their way to her, she finds -shut case is now a new way of lifecomplex double murder. But in 1969, the body of former star quarterback and new husband Chase Andrews Kerrigan is found lying in the mud of convinced that the marsh, and everyone explanation lies in town immediately suspects the mysteriousRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, run-down Marsh-GirlUna Burt) are less convinced. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=1472154665

|authorisbn=David C Mason0571379877|title=Pandora's GardenerThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5

|summary= John Cranston Edward Jevons is a gardenerworking-class young man, although what he did before he became obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a gardenertheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, he claimsdemanding, is classifiedhandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. That is just as well because Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he is about feels to be caught up Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only relationship had begun between them but he can save 's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the daytwo of them kissing in a dark passageway. |isbn=0956180523

|isbn=0356512479|author= Alix E HarrowJo Callaghan|title= The Once and Future WitchesLeave No Trace|rating= 54|genre= FantasyCrime|summary=''ThereWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's no such thing as witchestheir first live case together, but having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there used to be.'' In 1893is a second body found crucified a few days later, after the purges Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and the burnings, witching has been reduced a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to little more than weak charms and simple spellstheir AI Future Policing project. If women want Will they be able to hold power solve the case in their handstime, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, to have their voices heardpotentially, it is now through women's suffrage.out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Onjali Q Rauf1399613073|title=The Night Bus HeroMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Hector is a bully. Egged on by his two 'friends', he takes other children's sweetsOlivia, harasses Laura and threatens, plays pranks at Anjali met on the first day of medical school, and gets into trouble at every turntheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Yet he finds himself frustrated Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when something actually isn't his fault, but then he isn't believed as everyone expects him you aim to be telling liesa cardiothoracic surgeon. Nothing seems fairLaura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. His parents are barely home, Anjali is the free spirit of the group and seem to only care about his perfect sister she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and his annoying little brother when they are, alcohol-fuelled party and his teachers have abandoned him as a lost causeit's going to end in tragedy. So what happens when, in trying to tell We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the truth & fight to consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be believed, Hector finds himself embroiled with an eerily similar event that will impact the police; first trying to accusethree friends. This time, and then trying to save a homeless man from his local park?|isbn=1510106774it's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=18497673430241636604|title=Count on MeThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Miguel TancoGary Stevenson

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAutobiography|summary=The title and format If you were to bring up an image of this book might lead a city banker in your mind, you 're unlikely to think that it's either about responsibility of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin- or it's a basic 1stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV -2-3 book for those just starting out on but he had been to the numbers journeyLondon School of Economics. It isn't: it's Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a hymn facility with numbers which most of praise us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to mathsbe stupid. It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday lifewas his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=18497669201035021803|title=Everything is MINEThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Andrea D'AquinoC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson is a schnauzer: what else could you be with a name like that? He knows that you'll realise that heIt's kind, clever and loyal. You'll also need twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to know that everything is '''MINE'''. And he means ''everything''. It begins with the slipper: mum still has one. Why would English country village where she need more? You sense that Marcello feels that he's being generous in allowing thatgrew up. Then it was the pork chop. Well, did you see anyoneShe's name on it? ''And'' he left the carrots back now because of a request for Leohelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. ThatFreya's another example of Marcelloformer mentor and Carole's generosityclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. There Arthur was the acorn which squirrel was gnawing atreason why Freya had not been back to the village: there was no documentation to prove ownershipArthur, she feels, let her down badly. And talking of ownership Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the tree would provide all man or pursue the sticks he could ever want to chewprofession she loved. There's nothing unreasonable After the split, she worked in any a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of thather life, is there?who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1849767009AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=It IsnAll Tomorrow't Rude to be Nudes Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Rosie HaineBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=This could have been one ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of those books which things to come.'preaches to the choir': the only people who I'll buy ve heard it are the people who know said that nudity 'technology' is OK and the ones who what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I'knowve kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I' m left with the feeling that it's shameful will avoid all getting away from me. Some of it like they avoid is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the hot-possibilities and-bothered person in the supermarket probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who is coughing fit to bustknows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. ButI needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.. Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than 5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a book about not wearing clothesterrorist group. It's Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a celebration of bodies: bodies large wartime photographer and small and of every possible hueAbhi, the hotel manager. Bodies As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with disabilities Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and markings. Theykeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what're fines happened through her photography. In factAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they're wonderfulboth wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=02412959551529153298|title=TrioThe List of Suspicious Things|author=William BoydJennie Godfrey

|summary=It was 1968: the year when Bobby Kennedy 's 1979 and Martin Luther King were assassinatedMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. It(A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's also the year when YSK Films are making a movie in Brightonfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. ItWell, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared's called doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv'Emily Bracegirdles upset because she's Extremely Useful Ladder overheard that her father wants to move the Moonfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, or and she'll do anything to prevent that. She'Ladder s not worried about the Moondangers or that her Mum'' as its stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's known on setfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Anny Viklund is the female star in a production which Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is proving to be just a little bit racketynot. There are odd pressures on Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the producerbody of Greg's father, Talbot KyddDuncan Ackerley, to employ this old actor friend in the river. It was an easy assumption for a couple of days because he needs the money, allow a fading star police to use his catchphrase, or include a song from make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the leading man, whose musical star is fadingguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=B08B39QNRH1035906708|title=The Curious History of Writer's Cramp: Solving an age-old problemDiva|author=Michael PritchardDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceGeneral Fiction|summary=''Society is based on speech We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but civilisation requires the written word''. I came she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History of Writer's Cramp'' by a rather strange routeAthens when she was thirteen. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to as 'interestingCallas': I prefer the word 'painful' but I have an interest to make it more manageable in the way that hands workStates. An exploration of When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the history of Nazi occupation by a problem which has defeated some mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of the best medical minds her preference for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it provedher elder sister, with the book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and the changing medical attitudes as the problem itselfJackie.

|author=Blake Nuto and Charlotte AgerChristopher Edge|title=Child of GalaxiesBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=What does it mean to be alive? What Lucas and his friends are we made ofall booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, and where are we going? ''Child a place that has the nickname of Galaxies'The Black Hole' is a lovely children. All big movie fans, they's picture book that deals with all the big questions. re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! Written However, as a poemthe movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, the lyrical words donand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't shy away even imagine. But as they lurch from darknessone film genre to the next, nor talk down can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the children you are reading tocinema, but rather than work beautifully together with the illustrations and to create a powerful, uplifting reading experience.their real lives?|isbn=19124974251839942738

|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)Rachel Greenlaw|title=BetrayalCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Meet Ursula''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the stand-answering beat in ministermy heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, drafted in from outside survives on luring ships into the leading party to cover rocks and plundering the post for a yearwrecks. You might get to meet Mira, like her mother before her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, and is one of the children seven who are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs in swim out to survey the foreign aid charity sectorruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. YouBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island'll meet her ministrys leader and Mira's cleanerfather. Desperate to save him from death, who bizarrely has fallen into the task of helping Mira makes a famous newsreader bargain with her Tinder profile. You'll certainly meet a homeless tramp, wreck survivor who has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursula, is as charming as he is secretive and, knowing with only coordinates to guide her of old, decided she needs saving from sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the devil posing beside sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her. You'll meet father, as her journey takes her from the ministerial bodyguard and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula watched streets of foreign islands to accept. But as for the first ministerial case, heart of a woman demanding her daughterthe smuggler's rape get looked territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursula's meeting with the woman have been wiped…ones she holds most dear.|isbn=19131934030008664730

|author=Tania UnsworthJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerPlanet Storyland

|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girlThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. The sort of small girl who often gets overlooked, AI and forgotten. She is quietautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and compliant, and makes the best of whatever happens other tasks that took time to heraccomplish. So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free to take care of her, Just as they have were beginning to arrange for her get used to go all this technological change and stay with her Great Uncle for a week. Poor Elsie, forgotten againstarting to think of other, just decides new ways to make the best of things. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India as a boyspend time, and he has along came an enormous tiger rug on the floor of one of the roomsawful pandemic. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappyLife was pretty much shut down and, and he says he has to keep along with it because he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years old, and he says it was all the worst thing he ever did. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years old, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tiger, in order to put something right that happened a long time agodaily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=17885417071736128426

|isbnauthor=1472127013Matthew Tree|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to Trot|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenWe'll Never Know

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a bit drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of work on hand. The chairman being exceptional at any of Philpott Electronics was concerned about his managing director, Harold Cheeseman, artistic passions all failed miserably and who had apparently returned from Australia because endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his wife did not like it there. This was unusualstudies, as cultivated his wife had died before Cheeseman went to Australiaabilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. Then there was |isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' There's a part of me that his wife, Sheraton, was seeing another man. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations wants to instal listening devices in the staff canteen: he wanted keep this just to know what the staff were saying about him and his secretarymyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, who was from Geneva. Apparentlyall mine, the staff called her The Swiss Rollat last. Then there was the murderI just want to enjoy it for a while.''

|isbn=00084203861529900360|title=Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrongThe Ghost Orchid|author=Elizabeth DayJonathan Kellerman

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=What do Malcolm GladwellIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Alain de Botton, Phoebe WallerSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-Bridgeshut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, Lemn Sissayit was Robin, Nigel SlaterDelaware's partner, Emeli Sandéwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in common? Bel Air. They've all failed He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and - more importantly - they've been willing she is married to appear on Elizabeth Dayan extremely rich man and it's podcast to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwardsnot the Italian. You'll find But which of them was the results of these discussions in ''Failosophy''primary target?

|isbn=05713626721529395224|title=SnowLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=John BanvilleSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn''Wellt want to follow in his footsteps, at least you're a Wexford man.'' So said Colonel Osborne particularly when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced considered the strain that being on-call put on his father'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957s life. Osborne When he was master seventeen he took the opportunity of the Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable doing work experience with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirk. The niceties had to be established even when there a family friend who was a Catholic priest dead on vet and was convinced this was the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missingjob for him. Strafford Before long, he was from Roslea at Bunclody and this, along with his good-butLiverpool University. It hadn't -shabby suit, marked him out as of Osborne's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite the different religions with so many students - been his dream since he was in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass Housea child. His horse was stabled thereIf anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|isbn=17874776300861541774|title=The Postscript MurdersA Nye of Pheasants|author=Elly GriffithsSteve Burrows

|summary=When a 90-year-old-woman with a heart condition dies peacefully in her armchair, it really shouldnDCI Domenic Jejeune't be suspicious s close friend and that was the view former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke a short holiday in Singapore to Peggy Smith's carermeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Natalka Kolisnyk Maik was adamant involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that there he was more to Peggy's death than met the eye facing a man armed with a knife - particularly as she knew that there was no heart condition and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that Peggy had worried suggested that she was being followedhe might have planned to murder the man. Then there was Now he could be facing the fact that Peggy was death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need to knowt help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=0008330131Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Stolen Sisters|author=Louise JensenPerfect Passion Company|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know that twenty-years on from Perfect Passion Company is a dreadful event they are dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all healthy adultsthe online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Well, they're healthy in the physical sense, but Carly Ness has trust issues, Leah has OCD asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and Marie drinks. They're look after the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolenbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Carly was thirteen-years-old and she was in charge Katie is coming out of her sistersa break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the eight-year-old twinschance to come home to Edinburgh. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to get a text from Dean Malden 44 Scotland Street and her mobile phone held her attentionthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Leah and Marie were nattering about Katie has no experience in running a lost ball business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasnthere't shut properly s always her very helpful (and Brunorather handsome) neighbour, their boxer dogWilliam, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two men.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Stephen Fabes0811771741|title=Signs of LifeInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=TravelCrafts|summary= I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of tales of far away placesknits from toys to blankets. I was birth Some will be quick knits -righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunatelyothers are of the 'long, I didncosy afternoons in front of the fire't inherit what Drvariety. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was The projects are divided by the guts time they'll take to simply go out complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and do itmore than twenty hours. I also didn't inherit All the kind of steady nerveprojects are attractive, ability to talk to strangers modern and basic practicality that would have meant that useable. I would have survived if perhaps show my age when I had been gifted with the requisite wonder about 'bottlesocial-media-worthy projects'. In order words Ibut that'm not the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely thats me being picky.|isbn=1788161211

|author=Arvin AhmadiDean Koontz|title=How It All Blew UpThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=TeensParanormal| summary=18-year-old Amir Benny is American Iranian, having a Muslim, and gayterrifically bad day. He struggles with loses his identityjob, unable to face telling he loses his parents who he really isfiancee, so when another student at and his school starts blackmailing himhouse gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, threatening disturbing coffin-sized object to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his boyfriend Amir panics and runs awayhouse! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person.to Italy! So begins fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a journey for Amirnew friend, and his familya bad weather friend called Spike, where they all discover more about who has been sent to help himsince Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and who will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he really is, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who he really wants to befinds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=14714099291662500491

|author=Antoine LaurainAdam Stower|title=The Readers RoomMurray and Bun|genrerating=General Fiction4.5|ratinggenre=3.5Confident Readers |summary=Violaine's publishing house has had Murray is supposed to be a great successhumble, tidy and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscripts. The three people friendly cat, one who work in the Readers' Room is able to sift through what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smash, and so it has proventwo. But there are several he'howeverss a bad magician' to that. As ins cat, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own way, for she so his favourite bun has been involved in turned into a near-fatal accidenthyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and starts this book coming round from the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a comaworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. AndThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, however where a troll hunter is expected – despite all urgingwell, one much bigger than Murray was, the author of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in personbe honest, and in fact offered but he's turned up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last email. What is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of it due he'll have to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?do…|isbn=19104779740008561249

|isbn=1948124572B0C47LV1PC|title=Think Outside the BoxFragility|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukMosby Woods

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=''Whenever Can you find make a problem <br>''Wherever thereYo birthing person's a puzzle to solve <br>''However joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you get stuck in a sticky situation <br>''Just think outside did, would it land? The catch is that the box''answer for both could well be.... no.

And so ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the latest picture book from Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk. It's a clarion call to children to use their imaginations and not logic alone when it comes to solving problems.restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)1529431735|title=The Seven DoorsWinter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesnIt't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until wes February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins're a full fifth of return all the way throughmore surprising. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at He'd been exiled on the council, being forced to move out of their home, Costa del Sol as a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied wanted drug smuggler for over thirty yearsa decade. The building return has come about because he's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to had a single motherletter from his ex-wife, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant saying that she'take a hike, I'm moving in s ill and you're moving outhasn't long to live. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is a genre readabducted, think it's going stripped to his underwear and sent to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us watery grave in the 1980s, but noboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant is found Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to have completely vanished.|isbn=1913193381home?

|author=Michael J Malone|title=A Song of Isolation|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up a career that is only beginning to hit the heights to retire to the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant of all things, though to his credit he would rather be working in forestry. They have found a hideaway on a small Scottish estate, but things are starting to feel wrong between them. |isbn=1913193365}}{{Frontpage|author= Christopher PaoliniAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= To Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfits, and the news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as the Staff Glorious Race of Blue can stop them. As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|isbn=1529046505}}{{Frontpage|author=Carlie Sorosiak|title=My Life as a CatMagical Beasts|rating=4.5

|summary=This Eli is the story of a busy lad – by day an alien who has come down to spend some time on earth living as a human. It's something that each member apprentice in the alien collective is allowed to dowondrous library we start by visiting with him, for 1 month, once they reach and in the evening a certain agehelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en route, and so something goes wrong Eli lives with his arrival and he finds that instead of landing lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in Yellowstone Parkthe family. A few short years ago, ready Eli's parents were both lost to work as the titular race, a park ranger, he is instead globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the body company of a cat on the other side of the country! magical beast. This is not what he had planned! Not only is he in has made the wrong place and race anathema to the wrong body, he is also in pair – but when a bad incident at the middle of eatery leads to a stormconfession from gran, stuck in a tree! And so Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he meets Olivemost hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the little girl who rows out in a boat only thing to rescue him, and who names him Leonardpossibly save his gran.|isbn=17880060890571382231