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|author= Jennifer Saint Tom Percival|title= Ariadne The Wrong Shoes|rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. |isbn=1472273869}} {{Frontpage|author=Gianna Pollero and Sarah Horne|title=Monster Doughnuts|rating=4.5

|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappearedWill's life is difficult, Grace and Danni have been left to run the family bakeryin a multitude of ways. But Grace needs He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the doughnuts wrong shoes because his dad can't work and sweet treats that Danni bakes doesn't have enough money for a rather unusual reason...even though shethe most basic of things like food, and his dad can's only ten years oldt work because he lost his job at the college, she is was working a monster hunter! Monsters have cash-in-hand job on a very sweet tooth, building site and Grace uses a number of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, or tricking them had an accident. Throw into eating a sweet treat that willmix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, ultimatelyand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, be their demisehe still has a tiny amount of hope. One dayHe is good at art, thoughand clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, Grace finds herself facing that feel like a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, who has light at the end of a weakness for doughnuts but doesn't seem to explode as the other monsters dolong, and so things start to get very strange…dark tunnel.|isbn=18481294321398527122

|isbnauthor=0995647895Sylvie Cathrall|title=Sadie and A Letter to the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceLuminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was There are few greater joys than a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She book which lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves up to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sarka compelling premise. ''Her class had gone And this is one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''of them. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Kristen O'Neal0008517061|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=54|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme diseaseFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her settled into his rustic lifeat Little Sky. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to There’s perhaps a bunch little uncertainty about the future of other teens living his life with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other outhis vet girlfriend, while also providing an escape to just joke Livia and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and drive relaxing life to Brigid's house move in with Livia or does Livia move to check up on Little Sky despite her. But what reservations about whether or not this is the future she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the basement – present and for that werewolf to be putting the girl she has been talking to online for future on the past few monthsback burner.|isbn=1683692349

|authorisbn=Mercedes Helnwein1786482126|title=SlingshotThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to being lonelyhold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. As Was this a secret illegitimate daughter of a man ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with a "real" familyDCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is used to not being pregnant with his child as a priority in people's livesresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot Her condition will be obvious before long, her simple existence not least because Ruth is changed for goodprone to sudden bouts of sickness. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=152905818X

|isbn=B005FM76AA0008551324|title=The Duke's ChildrenDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Anthony TrollopeNeil Lancaster

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The story opens 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 prison and he's prepared to probably tell the worst news police where the body of all: Lady Glencora Palliser a missing person is deadburied and who was responsible for her death. Her husbandThis person, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omniumhe promises, is nearly paralysed by grief someone big and struggling - at it will be worth the same time - to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even in officepolice doing what he wants. He seeks to protect and guide his three adult children, which And what he wants is easier said than done when none of them wishes to ''be'' guided. Silverbridge (transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, but always known by his title) sentence and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and get an early parole date. Not much to run up gambling debtsask, occasionally in eye-watering sums. is it? Lady Helen has fallen in love with - The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and wishes she's even prepared to marry do the other thing that Hardie demanded - Frank Tregear, the penniless son of a poor squire, which the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos of make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about to learn that parents do not always get their wayhappening.

|authorisbn=Goldy Moldavsky0008405026|title=The Last GirlA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesnIt't belongs sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, was never found and most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as investigation ground to a source of comforthalt. She struggles to find anyone to connect with Now, her mother, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie styleHelena, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed her father are dead in the competitiontheir bed. But as the pranks escalate Initially, and Rachel finally feels it looks like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the pranks, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and people begin her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to get hurtbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. When Kerrigan is convinced that the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before itexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's too lateboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=0755501527

|authorisbn=Polly Barton0571379877|title=Fifty SoundsThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Where do I start? I could start Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with where Barton herself startshis upper-class friends, with the question Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He'Why Japan?'' Japan s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been on my radar for a while in love with Stanza since their university days - and if the world hadnhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert't gone into melt-down I s position would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but I am he's not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect two of the question them kissing in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''a dark passageway.|isbn=1913097501

|author=Lucy HollandJo Callaghan|title=SistersongLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Sistersong When a man is part found crucified on the top of a genre I particularly enjoyhill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the modern retelling of folk and fairy talesAI detective Lock. These stories, for most of us It's their first live case together, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold having previously been very successful with fresh eyes and a fresh perspectiveseveral cold cases. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong But when there is a perfect example of second body found crucified a modern retelling done wellfew days later, the plot Kat is handled suddenly struggling with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to come their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to lifesolve the case in time, to feel real or will Kat find herself taken off the case and human, most importantly they feel relatable in potentially, out of a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.career?|isbn=1529039037139851120X

|isbn=15291242551399613073|title=The WhispersMoral Injuries|author=Heidi PerksChristie Watson

|summary=We know straight away that there's going Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a bodycardiothoracic surgeon. It's on Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the beach under Crayne's Cliff near free spirit of the town of Clearwater group and it's new year's dayshe becomes a GP. To understand what happened When wefirst meet them they're going to have to go back to the previous September. Grace Goodwin has at a soft Australian accent drug and alcohol- she's lived there since her teens fuelled party and now, in her mid-thirties, sheit's returned going to her home town to liveend in tragedy. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the lovely apartment she's foundconsequences. Grace's best friend, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater and she has an eightTwenty-year-old child too. Ethan's in the class Matilda five years later there will be joiningan eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. ItThis time, it's perfect!their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon0241636604|title=The SourceTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=1996If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Essex A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Thirteen There was no posh public school on his CV -yearbut he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright -old schoolgirl Carly lives in extremely bright - and he has a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingebe stupid. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats It was his ability at what was, essentially, and offers a card game which got him an exclusive invitation to army partiesinternship with Citibank. Eventually, things start to look this turned into permanent employment as a little less bleaktrader...|isbn=1913193594

|isbn=B004O37B6A1035021803|title=The Prime MinisterAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Anthony TrollopeC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Plantagenet Palliser, It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the Duke of Omnium, is the prime minister of a coalition government but heEnglish country village where she grew up. She's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise back now because of Ferdinand Lopeza request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as JewishFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, others as Portuguese but the truth is that no one knows dead and Lopez is not going the circumstances seem suspicious, to explainsay the least. The ladies of societyArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, even Palliser's own wifeshe feels, Lady Glencoralet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the position of having to support his wife's actions when Lopez loses a by-electionprofession she loved. The Duke's payment After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt himher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1787332098AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped WorldAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Henry ManceBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=''When we do think Opening up new ways of thinking about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions the shape of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough seriesthings to come.''

I was going to argue've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. I meanWell, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meatmust confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild 've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but then I realised 'm left with the feeling that I was quibbling for the sake it's all getting away from me. Some of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals is - frankly - and I consider myself an animal loverquite frightening. If Of course, I had to choose between could research the company of humans possibilities and the company of animals, probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I would probably choose 'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the animalslatest conspiracy theorist. I insisted that needed people I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but knew I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken could trust and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. who could deliver information in a way I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortablecould understand.

|author=Jessie GreengrassSunny Singh|title=The High HouseHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers |summary=Charles Darwin taught The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that all living matter evolved to pass has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on its genetic material with site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirshotel manager. However As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, that train of thought is slowly seems he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to have fallen be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of favour. Todayher room to try to capture what's young generation are discovering that happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their parents friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and their parents' parents did not seem they both wait to think that far aheadsee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists. Or they did think that far ahead |isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and thought "itMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not my problem" or "therewhat's worrying Miv's nothing I can do"family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Raising a child and living in a world on the precipice of catastrophe is what drives Miv's upset because she'The High Houses overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South' by Jessie Greengrass. This When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is not a science-fiction novelfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. This is our reality For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. This is She's not worried about the life our children and their children will have dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to liveanyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=18007500721398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. 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.

|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan1035906708|title=Madame BurovaDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary=This book lets us discover several people We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in different stages of life Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the early 1970s, all vaguely connectedStates. So we have When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then)mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, a girl Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a humdrum job wanting to become movie marathon at their local cinema, a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, place that has the third generation nickname of Madame Burova, 'The Black Hole'Tarot-Reader. All big movie fans, Palmist and Clairvoyantthey'', re looking forward to use her family's sea-front booth. The singerlots of exciting films, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday campmany, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. many snacks! We also see her on her last dayHowever, fifty years lateras the movie starts, in possession of a pair of letters they very quickly realise that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who something about this new film format is shevery different, and who delivered they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the secrets about her next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to Imeldathe cinema, and why did it have to remain a secret all this timetheir real lives?|isbn=152937331X1839942738

|author= Jonathan StroudRachel Greenlaw|title= The Outlaws Scarlett Compass and BrowneBlade|rating= 43.5|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, rejecting survives on luring ships into the draconian conformity rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the Surviving Towns seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and Faith Houses any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to wander end the wildlands between wrecking, they capture the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks island's leader and shooting other outlaws Mira's father. Desperate to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Brownesave him from death, Mira makes a dark boy bargain with dark powers a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a darker pastfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With mysterious militiamen hunting them downonly nine days to unearth what might save her father, they plan to flee as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the mythical Free Isles heart of the London Lagoon. Togethersmuggler's territory, they Mira must brave man-eating wildlife, be determined to stop at nothing to save the cannibalistic Tainted future of her home and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?ones she holds most dear.|isbn=14063948150008664730

|isbnauthor=B08R7LXQ9SJames Sherwood Metts|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Remy is feeling miserableThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan AI and Brandon, automation have been laughing at Remyproceeding apace, calling him names because he is short often replacing jobs they're paid to do and has small eyesother tasks that took time to accomplish. They are mean but Just as they are not stupid. They are careful were beginning to get used to wind up Remy when nobody can see all this technological change and then push him just that little bit further when the starting to think of other kids are around. So, when Remy reactsnew ways to spend time, it looks as though he along came an awful pandemic. Life was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school pretty much shut down and , along with it, all the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happenedmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=B00474HVX4Matthew Tree|title=Phineas Redux|author=Anthony TrollopeWe'll Never Know

|summary=It's some time since we heard Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]. Having succeeded in parliament his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and achieved a paying position he fell out with those who provided had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his income abilities rather than his daydreams and returned set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to Ireland where he married Marymyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, his childhood sweetheartat last. He was fortunate I just want to get enjoy it for a while.'' Within a job in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a life family of domesticitywitches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. To bring Finn backThough she has always wished for magic, Trollope had Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to kill off poor Mary be born into her family for generations and Phineas emerges in London as such since she was young, her training as a childless widower steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a legacy maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from an aunt one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who died at just the right time to allow trust and determine what to do as the move Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to be possiblesurvive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1529900360|title=The Other EmilyGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's the western coast we're concerned with, a place fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he has to return tofelt responsible and even after Alex recovered, and a place he has Sturgis was reluctant to be able to leaveask for his help on difficult cases. David lost contact with his partner His assertions that there ten years ago, when she vanished from were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a remote road late at nightwhile. HeFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer nowpartner, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recordnudged Milo into asking for help again. David is trying to pry the connection between She knew that the murderer and his girl from involvement was something that the man's mind, but to no availshe loved needed. He's also having a recharge ready for his The next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imagecase did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, swimming pool of his lovea remote property in Bel Air. What He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is a married to an extremely rich man to doand it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?|isbn=1542019958

|authorisbn=Charlie Carroll1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The LipSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn''Melody Janie Rowe'' even the name is evocative of…probably of whatever we t want it to befollow in his footsteps, and maybe particularly when he considered the strain thatbeing on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the pointopportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. To me the name sings of English folk musicBefore long, but even in my use of that word English, I know Ihe was at Liverpool University. It hadn'm putting an emmet take on thingst - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmetIf anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer. |isbn=1529334179

|authorisbn=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll0861541774|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Stella DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and her family. They're just innocently trying to have former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a Sunday evening short holiday in together, watching a film – using three different screens Singapore to watch three different thingsmeet up with an old ally, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blankGuy Trueman. And it's not just their home, but the entire southMaik was involved in a street brawl -western village of Mousehole, and not just he would later maintain that, either, but the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get he was facing a man armed with a screen back, knife - and not what they were constantly doing on them beforehe killed a Ghurka. Toasters can toastInitially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but TVs cannot do evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computationsman. You might think this is going to Now he could be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but nofacing the death penalty. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, and see if they Domenic Jejeune can get across country to her. Hence this has do nothing to go down help as any interference from another police force could provoke a road-trip book. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too – for itdiplomatic incident and wouldn's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of t help Danny at all ages will love.|isbn=1471196887

|isbnauthor=1913193527Alexander McCall Smith|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)|author=Vanda SymonThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard of The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the murder business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a wealthy break up with a bad boyfriend, and apparently respectable businessman out so jumps at Seacliffthe chance to come home to Edinburgh. His wife had been bound and gagged and placed And so that she was forced begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to watch 44 Scotland Street and the murderIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with the scene being discovered by their sonsome new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, DeclanWilliam, when he returned home to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from an evening outtoys to blankets. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson had been involved Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalfront of the fire' variety. His company, Eros Global, manufactured and marketed The projects are divided by the time they''vitaminll take to complete -type supplements andless than five hours, wellfive to ten hours, sexual enhancersten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, that kind of thingmodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects', as Hendersonbut that's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedme being picky.

|isbnauthor=1529109116Dean Koontz|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah JacksonThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=LifestyleParanormal|summary=''I want the image of 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 British farmer really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to simply be his home, and it's possible that of a person who whoever or whatever was inside is proudly employed in feeding the nation. thing that has trashed his house! I don't think that The thing is, Benny is too much the very last person to ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generationsdeserve all this bad luck. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be is a farmernice person. It's not always the case thoughA really nice person. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the Wirral: she'd never set foot on delivery to his house is a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had new friend, a deep love of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jacksonbad weather friend called Spike, whale scientist' and she was well on her way who has been sent to achieving this when her life changed on help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a family holiday to the Lake Districtgood person. She saw a lamb being born Spike is going to take care of Benny, andwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, although 'Hannah Jacksonif he, farmer' lacked the kudos of her original intentionBenny, she knew that she wanted to be and Harper (a shepherd. With the determination that youwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambitions wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=0857527231Adam Stower|title=Dog Days|author=Ericka WallerMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=George Dempsey Murray is exceedingly angry. It's eight days since his wifesupposed to be a humble, Ellentidy and friendly cat, died one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and it's , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the first time that shetwo. But he's let him down. Hea bad magician's lostcat, bereft without her ( he ''needs so his wifefavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, like a snail needs its shell''). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the doorstepcatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, he'd much rather have but into a good row with someoneworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. He's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to contradict him when he told her that the dog wasn't staying. Now be honest, but he's lumbered with a dog turned up and he doesn't want and a load of busybodies who are trying ll have to interfere in his life. Worst of all is Betty, who won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying to escape from and destroy them.do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=B003UH99X4B0C47LV1PC|title=The Eustace DiamondsFragility|author=Anthony TrollopeMosby Woods|rating=54

|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he didnCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''t live long enough for this to become a problem. After his deathjoke? And if you could, his wifeis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession of a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined that she would not hand it over to her husband's executors. She was adamant land? The catch is that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutely, although the precise circumstances of the giving varied from telling to tellinganswer for both could well be. Lady Eustace was not a woman to whom truth meant a great deal. All that was important to her now, she maintained, was her son. And, of course, her diamonds.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529047315|title=The Lamplighters|author=Emma Stonex|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two faces. You have to take them both, he said, the good and the bad, and never turn your back on either one of themno.''

In 1972, fifteen miles off the coast of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in ''the frigid pause between Christmas and New YearFragility''. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeperis set as the city of Portland, the weather such that ''the boat [was] rocking and bobbing like a bath toy over the wavelets'' but they were unable Oregon, cautiously begins to get any response emerge from the Maiden Rock. It was broken into the next day, but there was no sign of the men. The table was set for a meal for two - and the clocks were stopped at 8.45. Contact with the light had not been possible as the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened to restrictions imposed during the men.covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Mary H K Choi1529431735|title=YolkThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Jayne Baek It's February 1991 and Essex is a fashion student thatbitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about return all the men she sleeps withmore surprising. She He's an all-round messy character; and that's her charm. June, d been exiled on the other hand, is Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a complete contrast to Jaynedecade. She The return has come about because he's had a typical older sister: letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's smart, thinks she knows it all, ill and has a successful jobhasn't long to live. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. This is until June finds out she It's sickhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and Jayne is sent to a watery grave in the only person she can turn toboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they'll go Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identities.|isbn= 0349003696}}home?