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|isbnauthor=B077K6BQFDSylvie Cathrall|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Jane AustenA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=Yes - that's over eighty-There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one hours of listening for them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the purchase future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of one audio book. All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and they're presented relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the order future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in which they were publishedthe present and putting the future on the back burner.

|isbn=02414535851786482126|title=Banking On It: How I Disrupted an IndustryThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Anne BodenElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Anne Boden had Builders were demolishing an impressive track record old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at bones of a child beneath a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bankdoorway. AIB There was in the throes of recovering from the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one of the first to realise that banks needed to do things differentlyno skull. AIB thought it was at the cutting edge when it proposed opening Was this a branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a terminalritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Boden took things a step further It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: she is pregnant with his child as a result of the old branch networkone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, employing thousands not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of people, would soon become redundantsickness.

|authorisbn=Lauren Martin0008551324|title=The Book of MoodsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary= I was It'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 a great mood when I first learnt of this book, prison and because sarcasm doesnhe't always translate well into writing, imagine s prepared to tell the word ''great'' being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. I had spent police where the best part body of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone missing person is buried and who was racing needed supportresponsible for her death. It's a volunteer duty we all do during the year This person, he promises, is someone big and normally I'm happy it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to, but that day serve the weather was miserable remainder of his sentence and I was miserableto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and it all came she's even prepared to a head do the other thing that evening when I noticed on the website Hardie demanded - make certain that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave DS Max Craigie and wife". Wowanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. I had never needed this book more.|isbn=1538733625

|authorisbn=Becky Albertalli0008405026|title= Simon vs. A Stranger in the Homo Sapiens AgendaFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= SixteenIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Simon Spier has Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a great lifehalt. He has a close group of friends Now, her mother, a loving familyHelena, and even an adorable dogher father are dead in their bed. But he has Initially, it looks like a secret: hestraightforward murder/suicide but there's gaysomething about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Only one person knows this, What looked as though it was going to be an open-and -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced thatthe explanation lies in Rosalie's Blue – a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out that there was another closeted guy at his school. Their emails are a safe space for Simon; itdisappearance: others (such as Derwent's his own private universe without the fear of being judged. Until one dayboss, these emails fall into the wrong hands, and everything Simon knows is turned upside downUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=014135609X

|isbn=31106411190571379877|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey MappingKellerby Code|author=Jerry AngraveJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=I had no idea what Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert'journey mappings a theatre director. He' was until I read this playbook but any business that engages s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their customers will benefit from reading the book university days - and acting on the contents. Youhe're going to learn s drunkenly confided how to run a workshop to discover what it he feels like to be one of your own customersRobert. At this point, please donMost men in Robert't say s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'oh (expletive deleted) s not another workshop' because this like most men: Edward is going left to be fun and you're going to be surprised by what emergesstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=3110641291Jo Callaghan|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=So, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the same thing in a slightly different form and quite When a bit of money spent. Why not just leave it as it man is? After all, it's ''roughly'' working, isn't it? You might not have said it, but you've probably thought it. You've also thought found crucified on the smalltop of a hill in Nuneaton, incremental improvements which you have been able DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to make - the optimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possiblecase alongside her sidekick, the extension of your existing products into new areas - haven't really delivered in terms of ''growth''AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been manageable very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor who takes very high profile case that draws a more radical approachlot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. You've merely kept Will they be able to solve the business ticking over and there's a nagging suspicion case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the back case and, potentially, out of your mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the twenty-first. What you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovation.a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=14729620441399613073|title=Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your BusinessMoral Injuries|author=Andrew HampshireChristie Watson

|genre=Business and FinanceThrillers|summary=I was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're eighteenOlivia, so there's been a lot Laura and Anjali met on the first day of technology in my life. I once worked medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they had quarter of a typewritercentury. Times - thankfully - have moved on. Nowadays the problem Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is that someone running a business doesn't have the time bonus when you aim to keep up with constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expecteda cardiothoracic surgeon. It's also Laura is a fact that no one develops perfectionist and a business because they have trauma doctor. Anjali is the knowledge free spirit of the required technology, so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a disadvantagedrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. They need help, but they frequently We don't know what help they needwho suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Mark Lingane0241636604|title=Note to SelfThe Trading Game: An EducationA Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionAutobiography|summary= In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in If you were to bring up an image of a cascade of medical "advances": city banker in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years beforeyour mind, in 2035 ityou's possible re unlikely to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect think of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the cosmetics industry pin-stripe suit and his background is using the same technique East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to "dethe London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright -age" their customers by seven yearsand 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. In It was his ability at what was, essentially, a society obsessed card game which got him an internship with image and youthCitibank. Eventually, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KSthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}

|isbn=18387700461035021803|title=Body LanguageThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=A K TurnerC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk to the dead, she also hears what they have to say to her. It's not something she's inclined twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to share with people as the English country village where she's pretty certain about what their reaction will begrew up. She's certainly not going to share it with the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer back now because of a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harrovianrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. HeFreya's very conscious of his position former mentor and isnCarole't even inclined s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to ask for say the view of least. Arthur was the anatomical pathology technicians despite reason why Freya had not been back to the fact that village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they have a lot more experience than him and he were in business together as antique hunters, she has only a limited amount of time not felt able to spend on each bodybe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. That will prove to be After the split, she worked in a mistakecafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=0578761718AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Inspiring History of a Special RelationshipAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Nancy CarverBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryScience Fiction|summary=The church ''Opening up new ways of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in thinking about the City shape of London from at least 1181, when things to come.'' I've heard it was first mentioned in recordssaid that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Sadly Well, the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of London technology in 1666my lifetime. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, when feeling that it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz's all getting away from me. But that wasn't the end Some of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effortit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the stones from possibilities and the churchprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they's walls were transported to Fulton, Missourire talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. There, I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and today serves as a memorial to Winston Churchillway I could understand.

|isbnauthor=B08NF79QXTSunny Singh|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke AdamsHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Women's FictionThrillers |summary=Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has had her shopsuddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, the Cherry Blossom Boutiquethere is Sam, for just six months when she's nominated for - a wartime photographer and wins - Abhi, the Retail Best Newcomer Awardhotel manager. She's delighted and As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the two people she's brought 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 the event couldncapture what't be more pleaseds happened through her photography. SonjaAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her mother, is an ex-model keep safe and Brazilian: you can they both wait to see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: if they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would will be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her liferescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=B08BTXSS841529153298|title=Fallen Angel The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (Gaby Darin Book 3A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family '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, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jenny O'BrienNicci French|rating=45

|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling Charlotte Salter was expected at her thumbs: the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than a dribble and shehusband's looking through cold cases for inspiration as to which one she should have a good look atfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder of eighteenHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but -yearstrangely -old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby her husband, Alec, is intriguednot. She canShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg't see any immediate failings in the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room in a securely-locked houses father, wearing her pyjamasDuncan Ackerley, and was found dead by a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno the next dayriver. She It was wearing a hand-made nightdress which her mother an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had never seen before. Bates hasnmurdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't ''quite'' told stand the whole story: heguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's married to Kate Brock, Angelica's younger sisterlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Nick Jones and Si Clark1035906708|title=One Night in Beartown|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X}} {{FrontpageDiva|author=Gail Honeyman|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineDaisy Goodwin

|summary= Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30. She lives in GlasgowWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, alone. And but she likes it that way. She works 9-5was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, 5 days a weekNew York, in December 1923 and spends the weekend not drunk, only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but not sober. alone. And she likes her father changed it that way. She lives by a routine, and thatto 'Callas's fine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing is missing from her life. Except everything is. Until one day, at a concert she won tickets for to make it more manageable in an office raffle, she sees the man she is sure will be her husbandStates. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself the best version of herself that When she can, was back in order to secure this beautiful musician. Then, as Athens - supposedly so that she's on could get appropriate training for her way home one Friday, voice - she and was raised under the new IT guy at her office see Nazi occupation by a man collapse in the street and stay close to him in hospital. Then, before she knows it, mother who mercilessly exploited her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with the man's family and friends, with Raymond from IT and made no secret of course her side project of falling in love with Johnnie Lomond. But just as preference for her life seems to be looking upelder sister, things take a turn for the worse. Is Johnnie all he's cracked up to be? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanor's walls have been broken down and she has to fight her way out of the shadows - but maybe she doesn't have to do it aloneJackie.|isbn=0008172145

|isbnauthor=1838887334Christopher Edge|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)|author=Angela MarsonsBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=DI Kim Stone Lucas and DS Jim Bryant were on his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their way back from Diversity Awareness training. The need for coffee overtook Stone - the course had been local cinema, a complete waste of time for her as she knew place that she was equally rude to everyone. It was in has the shopping centre that Stone caught sight nickname of a little girl clutching a teddy bear in the absence of her mother'The Black Hole'. Stone and Bryant didnAll big movie fans, they't realise the extent re looking forward to which this case was going to occupy their minds lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the body of Katrina Nock movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is discovered some hours latervery different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Her neck had been broken and it had all But as they lurch from one film genre to the hallmarks of a quicknext, functional killcan they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, but who would do that and to a young mother out shopping with her childtheir real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Roxanne BouchardRachel Greenlaw|title=The Coral BrideCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - a female fisherwoman''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, making her living the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a man's worldremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. When Mira, like her lobster trawler mother before her, is found drifting off one of the coast of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in seven who swim out to come survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and head the investigationany treasure that lies within. Although But when the signs seem Council Watch lays a trap to point end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to an obvious conclusionsave him from death, Morales feels something more sinister Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is going on, as charming as he is secretive and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendaswith only coordinates to guide her, fishing histories and she sets off in search of a family secret family feudsthat lies buried deep in the sea. At With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the same time as trying watched streets of foreign islands to run his investigationthe heart of the smuggler's territory, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving Mira must be determined to stop at his door, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable nothing to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiessave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=19131933220008664730

|isbnauthor=1472134710James Sherwood Metts|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death|author=M C BeatonPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and she's left South Moulton Street Things have been a bit sticky for a cottage in the Cotswold village of CarsleyEarthlings. SheAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they'd have preferred one of the more romantic names but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail with all the problems re paid to do and other tasks that bringstook time to accomplish. Now the problem is settling into a different way of life - and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant Just as they were beginning to people. The first move is get used to enter the village quiche-baking competition all this technological change and the beginning starting to think of the campaign is taking the judgeother, Reginald Cummings-Brownenew ways to spend time, and his wife Vera out to dinneralong came an awful pandemic. She knows she's being ripped off at the pub in the next village but this is necessary Life was pretty much shut down and , along with it's a good investment as she knows that she's going to win. How? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author= Claire McGowanMatthew Tree|title=The PushWe'll Never Know|rating= 4.5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= Six mums-Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to-be meet at a prenatal class. It's NCT ''style'', but not the proper NCT. This bit is importantdifferent from his father, but you have to wait a little to see why. This drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being London, such a class attracts a wide variety exceptional at any of people, from his artistic passions all sorts failed miserably and who had endless crises of backgroundsself confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is it's their first baby. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down patachievable ambitions.|isbn=1542019990B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1472255917A G Slatter|title=The Roots Briar Book of Evil (Bob Skinner)|author=Quintin Jardinethe Dead|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=On New Year'' There's Evea part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the golf club with his wifeworld, Professor Sarah Gracelies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, daughter Alex Skinner a family of witches who protect the town and the man with whom wider world from the Darklands. Though she shares a househas always wished for magic, Dominic Jackson. Jackson would be betterEllie Briar is the first non-known witch to the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as Lennie Plenderleith but he's reformed a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and the new name reflects a new manpotions. The Skinners donWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't stay much after midnight at s cousin Audra becomes the clubhouse and are dropped home not long into Briar Witch, the new year. Skinnertown's tempted leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to let communicate with the phone ring but knows that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence dead, putting her at the heart of a crime scene in the centre maelstrom of Edinburghchaos. Skinner's not technically with Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the police now - heBriar witches's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experiencelegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ1529900360|title=The Long Dark RoadGhost Orchid|author=P R BlackJonathan Kellerman

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaIt hadn's Healeyt been Lt Milo Sturgis's nineteenfault 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-yearand-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along shut cases which didn't need the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgehelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. There Finally, it was a furious storm going on and sheRobin, Delaware'd already refused the offer of s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help from one man in a big vehicleagain. We'll see - but no one else will know - She knew that the involvement was something that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven offman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. There has been no sign Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of her - or her body - a remote property in the two years sinceBel Air. Georgia He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is back is Ferngate, determined married to find out what happened an extremely rich man and sheit's not going to be stoppedthe Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}

|authorisbn= Katharine Orton1529395224|title= GlassheartLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating= 43.5|genre= Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Nona Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since the Blitz claimed the lives of her family. Now, Rowlands didn't want to follow in the aftermath of the warhis footsteps, they travel all over particularly when he considered the country, replacing stainedstrain that being on-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombscall put on his father's life. Their latest job takes them out to When he was seventeen he took the wilds opportunity of Dartmoor, where Nona discovers that her world is full of ancient doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and powerful magicwas convinced this was the job for him. She also discovers that a mysterious entity Before long, known only he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as The Soldier, is hellwith so many students -bent on using Nona's innate magic for been his own endsdream since he was a child. If anything, and will not stop until he has her…|isbn=1406385239'd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|isbn=B08KKQ85FN0861541774|title=But Never For LunchA Nye of Pheasants|author=Sandra AragonaSteve Burrows

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''If s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a woman approaching the menopause can be likened short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Rottweiler in lipstickGhurka. Initially, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles he faced a pampered peacock about to be released into the company charge of carrion crows or, more manslaughter but evidence came to the point, about light that suggested that he might have planned to discover murder the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas billsman.'' You don't get many better opening sentences than that, do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the Priorities]] and we learned what it was like to Now he could be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but facing the time has come for HE to retires and for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of Former Ambassador..death penalty. They have left The Career Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and settled in Rome. Well wouldn'settled' rather overstates the situation and their dog, Beagle, has no intention of slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deaft help Danny at all.

|author= Susi Holliday Alexander McCall Smith|title= The Last Resort Perfect Passion Company|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=A group of strangers gather on 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 private islandmore personal, tailored service. They have been invited Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to an all-expenses paid retreat take a trip to Canada to test get away for a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology companywhile. The group includes Katie is coming out of a break up with a games designerbad boyfriend, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund managerso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. Everyone seems And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessaryEdinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. All except Amelia whose presence is Katie has no experience in running a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the islandbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and each otherthere's histories always her very helpful (and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks downhandsome) neighbour, these well-kept secrets are revealedWilliam, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really to lend a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. hand…|isbn=15420200181846976596

|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ0811771741|title=The Karma TrapInstaKnits for Baby|author=Lisette BoydMelissa Leapman

|genre=Women's FictionCrafts|summary=George Jackson is thirtyMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits -three years oldothers are of the 'long, absolutely gorgeous cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to look at complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and singleuseable. SheI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's not had sex for eight months me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and sheit's stuck in possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the karma trap: an awful lot of very last person to deserve all this bad luck . He is being visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting dramanice person. A really nice person. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the stairs delivery to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left herhis house is a new friend, stark nakeda bad weather friend called Spike, staring at the pervy postmanwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. She only has Spike is going to take her mothercare of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a photo being taken by someone waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who shares it around the officeexactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=0008333173Adam Stower|title=Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More|author=Grace DentMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers |summary=I'm always relieved when Grace Dent 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 judges on ''Masterchef''two. You know that youBut he're going to get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of s a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the time. You also ponder on how she catflap they both use can look so elegant with all that good food in front chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of herfrightening adventure and whiffs. IThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he've often wondered about the woman behind the media image s turned up and he''Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More'' is a stunning read which will make you laugh and break your heart in equal measures.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1838773169B0C47LV1PC|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotFragility|author=S J BennettMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=ItCan you make a 's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for the Easter Court. She's having a dine and sleep at the request of Prince Charles, whoYo birthing person's attempting to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projects. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to joke? And if you could, is the evening and one of question should you make it? Or is the performers brought in to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstances. question if you did, would it land? The immediate reaction catch is that one of the guests is responsibleanswer for both could well be.... The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an ex-ambassador to Moscow, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenboroughno. One couldn 't bear to go down any of 'Fragility'those'' roads.is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Matt Haig1529431735|title=The Midnight LibraryWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Between life It's February 1991 and death there Essex is a library. And sobitingly cold, 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, she finds herself in which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Midnight Librarymore surprising. Everything that could He've gone wrong in Norad been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's life has. Her cat diedhad a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she lost her job, her brother won's ill and hasn't speak long to her, her parents are dead, the boy she teaches piano to no longer cares about piano, she called off her wedding, and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her help. She gave up on all the things that would've let her escape the wet, cold town of Bedford and given her life some purposeful directionlive. So at 23:22, she realises that she isn It't made for life and decides s hard to die. But instead of death, she finds the library. Each infinite shelf feel any sympathy when Hopkins is filled with booksabducted, each book providing stripped to his underwear and sent to a chance to try another life she could have lived, watery grave in the boot of a parallel timestolen Ford Sierra. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday the 18th of April, Nora Seed begins Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to live every life she could've.|isbn=1786892731home?

|isbnauthor=0349423083Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Death and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances BrodyThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by Jim Sykesvisiting with him, who lives and in Woodhouse the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugdenruns. She's been approached by William Lofthouse of Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the Barleycorn Brewery in Mashamfamily. Something is going wrong with his business and heA few short years ago, Eli'd like Kate s parents were both lost to look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew and right-hand manthe titular race, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to Germany before longnavigate the world in the company of a magical beast. James went This has made the race anathema to see what the continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to make. William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is going to bring back a German bride but dare to enter what he'd like most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the business only thing to be ship-shape before possibly save his nephew returnsgran.|isbn=0571382231