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|isbnauthor=194812467XTom Percival|title=The Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicWrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for Will's life is difficult, in a walkmultitude of ways. Kirelle He is dressed bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies even the most basic of things like food, and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of dad can't work because he lost his job at the hillcollege, they see was working a big barn with cash-in-hand job on a sign outsidebuilding site and had an accident. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all Throw into that mix the stallholders fact that his mum and customers dad are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cowsseparated, goats and chickensWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, and even some micehe still has a tiny amount of hope. Excited He is good at art, Kirelle and Sam go shoppingclings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. What will they buy?|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=0008404925Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane CaseyA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surpriseFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. After allThere’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, it was Livia and her cross-examination of the 'victim' which saved him from daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lengthy prison sentence. He'd been accused lot of stalking the woman but it didn't take long to establish that compromise: does Jake give up his off- if anything - it was the other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster grid and then she came relaxing life to see him as a threat and was forced move in with Livia or does Livia move to remember that the police officer at his trial had told Little Sky despite her that reservations about whether or not this was is the best chance they'd had to put Webster away future she wants for a long time: he was a very dangerous manherself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.

|isbn=00083955941786482126|title=Both of YouThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Adele ParksElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoresBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. Then, one Monday, she went to work and never came homeThere was no skull. MarkWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Oli and Seb are shatteredDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. WellIt's difficult as Ruth knows, Mark and Seb are but OliNelson doesn's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom t, that she is pregnant with his best look. He's been child as a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independentresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan JanssenHer condition will be obvious before long, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without tracenot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=14736857450008551324|title=Unbreak Your HeartThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Katie MarshNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked SimonIt's son, Jake, off his bikeunusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. He wasn't hurt but Jake Neither side likes or has historyany respect for the other. He has HLHS - thatBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those prepared to tell the police where the body of you a missing person is buried and who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronymswas responsible for her death. When This person, he was bornpromises, is someone big and it will be worth the left side police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his heart hadn't developed properly sentence and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days oldto get an early parole date. SoNot much to ask, Simon has every right is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to be overdo the other thing that Hardie demanded -protective particularly when someone isnmake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what't looking where they're drivings happening.

|authorisbn=Louie Stowell0008405026|title=OtherlandA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Myra It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loudthe investigation ground to a halt. Now, bright and hates rulesher mother, while Rohan is very politeHelena, serious and worries about the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer's dayher father are dead in their bed. And so Initially, every year their families get together to celebrate the two's birthdayit looks like a straightforward murder/deathday. But when Rohansuicide but there's little sister Shilpa is taken by something about the fairy queen, they must journey to positioning of the Otherland, a magical realm full of fairies, vampires, dragons, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and Godsher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It's What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the worst night of their livesexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1788000463

|isbn=walker140571379877|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Kellerby Code|author=Martin WalkerJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his bossupper-class friends, chief of detectives JalipeauRobert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, known as J-Jdemanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to solve a case that had haunted run errands for him for thirty years. The body of a young male was found Edward has been in the woods but love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he was never identified and his killer never brought feels to justiceRobert. What if an artist could recreate the face Most men in Robert's position would stay away from the skull and the resulting publicity be used to identify the young man? J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' and has Stanza or tell Edward that a picture on his door: relationship had begun between them but he sees it every time he leaves his office's not like most men: he doesn't want Edward is left to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justicestumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author= Martha LeighJo Callaghan|title= Invisible Ink: A Family MemoirLeave No Trace|rating= 54|genre= BiographyCrime|summary= Martha Leigh begins her book talking about When a childhood spent in a slightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Her father man is a Cambridge don, forever clacking away found crucified on his typewriter as he edits the complete correspondence top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseaucase alongside her sidekick, his lifethe AI detective Lock. It's worktheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Her mother But when there is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is hugely interested in the practicalities suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of lifeunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. There is love Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the house but also darker undercurrents that case and, potentially, out of a child does not fully understand but knows is there.career?|isbn=1800460384139851120X

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1399613073|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=So. Having done Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the impossible first day of medical school and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypttheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, from which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the Departed communicate with free spirit of the Merge, Archie now has ''gropgroup and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it' s going to think about. But before that, soireesend in tragedy. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez's amusement, doesn We don't even know what one of those iswho suffered the tragedy or the consequences. But he manages to come through Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the fancy party unscathedthree friends. This time, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this seriesit's their teenage children who are involved. |isbn=B093J9TF73

|authorisbn= Adrian Tchaikovsky0241636604|title= Shards of EarthThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionAutobiography|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into If you were to bring up an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scatteredimage of a city banker in your mind, constantly fleeing as world after world falls you're unlikely to the architect's reshapingthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Then, just when they had A hoodie and jeans replaces the human race on pin-stripe suit and his background is the runEast End, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgottenwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselvesinjustice. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to try and communicate with the Architects, does not want to be rememberedLondon School of Economics. But, when Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he and the crew has a facility with numbers which most of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlightstupid. As he and It was his allies bounce from star system to star systemability at what was, chased by alien crime syndicatesessentially, human secret police and rich slaversa card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=18484584281035021803|title=Local Woman MissingThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Mary KubicaC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Eleven It's twenty years ago, a man regularly came home since Freya Lockwood has been back to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - againthe English country village where she grew up. His wife was in the habit She's back now because of going out a request for a run late at nighthelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. It was Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the only time she had for herself when she didn't have circumstances seem suspicious, to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful for say the unquestioning affection he gave herleast. The locality Arthur was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappearedthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, seemingly without a traceshe feels, leaving her husband to look after let her disabled babydown badly. Ten days laterEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed has not felt able to be under some strain for near the last couple of weeks man or sopursue the profession she loved. Her body was eventually found After the split, she worked in a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her daughter, Delilahlife, who was safe murdered) and Freya and there was no point in looking for herJames have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Nicolas BouvierAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Japanese ChroniclesAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=TravelScience Fiction|summary= It never does to start a review ''Opening up new ways of a book with a quote from thinking about the blurb, but sometimes shape of things to come.'' I've heard itsaid that 'technology' is what happens after you's unavoidablere eighteen. Le Monde reviewed this book, at some point Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with the words what's advantageous to me but I'what m left with the old master craftsmen would call a masterpiecefeeling that it's all getting away from me.'' It Some of it is precisely that- frankly - quite frightening. A masterpiece in Of course, I could research the sense of possibilities and the craft as well as the art of writing. probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm going to hesitate to call it 'travel writingreading someone who knows what they' because this is as much a history of Japan, a mythology-primer for re talking about or the Japanese culture as it is a personal response to living latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and travelling who could deliver information in the countrya way I could understand. |isbn=1906011044

|author=Genevieve GornichecSunny Singh|title=The Witch's HeartHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyThrillers |summary= A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that centres around has suddenly been violently taken over by a witch named Angrbodaterrorist group. She hides in Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a forest at the edge of the nine worldswartime photographer and Abhi, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrathhotel manager. Her attempts As Abhi continues to live try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in peacethe hotel, howeverhe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from and keeps on venturing out of her chest before she was tied room to the stake—and refuses try to leave capture what's happened through her alonephotography. After an initial period of mistrust Although they only ever talk over the phone, Angrboda begins their friendship grows as Abhi tries to fall for Loki's charms, help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and another son that's a snaketerrorists.|isbn=1789097061086154742X

|isbn=17885497591529153298|title=The Distant DeadList of Suspicious Things|author=Lesley ThomsonJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was December 1940 's 1979 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what'with her friend Idas worrying Miv' leaving her three-year-old sons family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, Williamthey've been murdered, at home with her parentsbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. The boy thought Miv's upset because she's overheard that Maple was his sister - it was better for her father wants to move the family than the shame of illegitimacy'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William's) on Down South is a better footingfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. She was going to meet For Miv, the move would mean leaving her well-to-best friend, Sharon, and she'll do fiancé, hoping anything to persuade him to come and meet her family the following weekprevent that. Later, She's not worried about the dangers or that her body would be found in the bombedMum's stopped talking -out home where he had taken herto anyone.

|isbn=15294072491398524085|title=The Perfect LieHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jo SpainNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=It Charlotte Salter was July 2019 and Erin was happy. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: thatexpected at her husband's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married to a cop fiftieth birthday party but she was hopefulnever turned up. They'd been married for six months Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and life was good with a decent apartment by the sea in Newporther daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, Long Islandis not. The knock on the door was insistent Shortly afterwards, Etty and when it was openedGreg, Dannyfind the body of Greg's partnerfather, Duncan Ackerley, Ben Mitchell in the river. It was there with a couple of other officers. Danny took one look, turned, walked an easy assumption for the police to the open window make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and jumped to his death from then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the fourth floorguilt. Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husbandThe Salter children are not convinced but there's murderlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=15230927341035906708|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming SpaceDiva|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.}}{{Frontpage|author=Darren Shan|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=The second trilogy We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our heroManhattan, ArchieNew York, back in London 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 world of the BornStates. It's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where he's been, or slipping When she was back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his best.... well, except in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and except made no secret of her preference for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awayher elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ

|isbnauthor=0008444501Christopher Edge|title=The Answer to Everything|author=Luke KennardBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Life should have been good Lucas and his friends are all booked in for Emily. She had a lovely husband, Stevenmovie marathon at their local cinema, who was a speech therapistplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. WeAll big movie fans, they'll pass over re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the fact movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they rarely speak to each other and donare swept up into an adventure they couldn't even sleep in the same bedimagine. It isn't so much that Emily has left the marital bed But as that she's sharing a bed with they lurch from one of her children as it's film genre to the only way to next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get him back to sleep during the night. Arthur cinema, and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and Emily has a job to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a week. They've not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: it's a trendy area that has been gentrified and it's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=0241985137Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College first'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principalanswering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor remote and partially forgotten island, survives on a student. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was luring ships into the alleged perpetrator doing in rocks and plundering the room wrecks. Mira, like her mother before they'd even got her, is one of the details from seven who swim out to survey the victim? The problem was ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that Caleb Morgan ''was'' lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island'victims leader and Mira' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fishers father. Just Desperate to complicate matters furthersave him from death, Caleb's mother Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is Petra Newsonsecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is she sets off in search of a big name family secret that lies buried deep in Artificial Intelligencethe sea. She has an eight-year-old sonWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, buys as her journey takes her wine by from the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When watched streets of foreign islands to the excrement encounters heart of the ventilation equipmentsmuggler's territory, this is going Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to be ''very'' publicsave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H BarkerJames Sherwood Metts|title=A Tattoo on my BrainPlanet Storyland|rating=34.5|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=Alzheimer's is Things have been a disease that slowly wears away your identity bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and sense of self. I automation have been directly affected by this cruel diseaseproceeding apace, as have many. Your memories often replacing jobs they're paid to do and personality worn away like a statue over other tasks that took time affected the elementsto accomplish. It seems Just as if nature wants that final victory over you they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and your dignitystarting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who Life was diagnosed pretty much shut down and, along with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo it, all the many daily social interactions on my Brain''which they depend so heavily.|isbn=11088389361736128426

|isbnauthor=1635862353Matthew Tree|title=The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel CorryWe'll Never Know

|genre=CraftsLiterary Fiction|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe it, mainly because I'd always thought that you'd need Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more equipment than the average home was likely to be able to contain but I was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - different from his father, a small fire destroyed some drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of her shoes. One pair his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had come apart and she could see how the sandal was constructedendless crises of self confidence. Then she realised that she couldn't afford So Tim applied himself to replace all her shoes. Could she combine these two facts to create a new his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few people her first pair and they all either wanted to know how to do it - or if she'd make them a pair. A new career was bornset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1787332098A G Slatter|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry ManceThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Politics and SocietyFantasy|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so onThere's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions This secret magic of wild animals stay out theremy own, ''somewhereall mine,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough seriesat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''

I was going to argue. I meanWithin a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, cows are for cheese (I couldnlies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar't consider eating red meat...) s, a family of witches who protect the town and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude first non-witch to animals - be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and I consider myself an animal loverpotions. If I had to choose between When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the company of humans town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the company of animalsrare ability to communicate with the dead, I would probably choose putting her at the animalsheart of a maelstrom of chaos. I insisted that I read this book: no Reeling from one was trying family secret to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheeseanother, eggs, chicken and fish Ellie must decide who to trust and I needed determine what to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making as the decision would not be comfortableBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Ananda Devi1529900360|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=At not It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even 200 pagesafter Alex recovered, Eve Out Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of Her Ruins is one of the shortest books I've read in a long psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, but itwas Robin, Delaware's one of partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the most dramaticman she loved needed. It's also told The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a way that I can only describe as brutal: remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it spares nothing and pulls very few punches, 's not the descriptions stark and unromanticItalian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=09930093441529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}

|isbn=02419851370861541774|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Cara HunterSteve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=DI Adam FawleyDCI Domenic Jejeune's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, called there by Jancis Appleby has taken a short holiday in Singapore to see the Principalmeet up with an old ally, Professor Hilary ReynoldsGuy Trueman. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a professor on man armed with a studentknife - and he killed a Ghurka. When Fawley arrived Initially, he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? The problem was faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that Caleb Morgan ''was'' he might have planned to murder the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisherman. Just to complicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, Now he could be facing the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligencedeath penalty. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 another police force could provoke a month on clothes diplomatic incident and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be ''very'wouldn' publict help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=0753558378Alexander McCall Smith|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeownThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=''The marginal return of working harder wasPerfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in factproviding a more personal, negative.'' That's what happened to Patrick McGinnistailored service. It's no exaggeration Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to say that he devoted his life take a trip to the company he worked for, struggling through, even when he was ill, only Canada to find that he was working get away for a bankrupt companywhile. His stock had fallen by 97%Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, he had lost his health and his job had little valueso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. He made a bargain And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with God; if he survived, he would make some changesnew characters who quickly begin to charm. He did survive Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and came through stronger - there's always her very helpful (and richerrather handsome) neighbour, William, 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 toys to blankets. There isSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, you see, a different way: cosy afternoons in front of the fire'variety. The projects are divided by the time they'great things ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are not reserved for those who bleedattractive, for those who almost breakmodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'but that's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1471181405Dean Koontz|title=Nighthawking|author=Russ ThomasThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=Sheffield's [http://wwwBenny is having a terrifically bad day.sbg He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, if you'd like disturbing coffin-sized object to visit) are an oasis of calm in whathis home, and it's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this possible that whoever or whatever was disrupted when inside is the body of a young woman was discovered. thing that has trashed his house! It had obviously been buried in one of The thing is, Benny is the beds but who would have started very last person to dig her up? deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. It had been in the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for yearsA really nice person. The police need So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to establish who stabbed her - and who left the twohis house is a new friend, very rarea bad weather friend called Spike, gold aurei on her eyeswho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. DCI Diane Jordan Spike is the Investigating Officer going to take care of Benny, and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley whowill certainly take care of Benny's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injurieswild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author= Jennifer Saint Adam Stower|title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting Murray 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 DoughnutsBun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappearedMurray is supposed to be a humble, Grace tidy and Danni have been left friendly cat, one who is able to run sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the family bakerytwo. But Grace needs the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for he's a rather unusual reason...even though shebad magician's only ten years oldcat, she is so his favourite bun has been turned into a monster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet toothhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and Grace uses the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a number world of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops theminto a Viking land, or tricking them into eating where a sweet treat that willtroll hunter is expected – well, ultimatelyone much bigger than Murray was, to be their demise. One dayhonest, though, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, who has a weakness for doughnuts but doesnhe't seem to explode as the other monsters do, s turned up and so things start he'll have to get very strange…do…|isbn=18481294320008561249

|isbn=0995647895B0C47LV1PC|title=Sadie and the Sea DogsFragility|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceMosby Woods|rating=3.54|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=SadieCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s mother always said that she was a dreamerjoke? And if you could, her mind never on what she is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark... no.

''Her class had gone one rainy afternoonFragility''<br>''When all is set as the houses cowered in the gloomcity of Portland, Oregon,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love cautiously begins 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 emerge from the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in restrictions imposed during the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Kristen O'Neal1529431735|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme diseaseIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the rest of her lifemore surprising. She joins He''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnessesdecade. They talk The return has come about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesnbecause he't respond to the chat for s had a whileletter from his ex-wife, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parentssaying that she' car s ill and drive to Brigidhasn's house t long to check up on herlive. But what she doesn It't expect s hard to find there feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a werewolf watery grave in the basement – and for that werewolf boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|isbn=1683692349}}home?