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|author=Richard BrookTom Percival|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary= I am Will's life is difficult, in a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose usmultitude of ways. In my case, this He is one of bullied because he has 'the latter. Not so very long agowrong shoes', if I had come across this book Ihe has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn'd t have skimmed it, found some enough money for even the most basic of it interestingthings like food, but it would not have 'hit homeand his dad can' t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in -hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the way fact that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbaghis mum and dad are separated, and Will's ulife seems bleak in every direction.s.p And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomlygood at art, so there is a predisposition towards expecting and clings to like the bookmoments of joy when he is drawing, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is feel like a light at the end of a book I needed to readlong, right nowdark tunnel.|isbn=18004616821398527122

|isbnauthor=B095CY7NBNSylvie Cathrall|title=Autumn Camp|author=Barry FowlerA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=It was There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to be Brian's last campa compelling premise. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since but he was leaving school and the time had come to hand the reins to someone else. The obvious person was Gary, who'd always been the fun element And this is one of the camps and Brian had said that on this camp, Gary should act as the leader and he'd just be there to observe. The problem with this was that Gary wasn't really an organiser, an administrator if you like. He was the entertainer, the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did the organising. He handed the camp over - and then took it back. And Gary determined to have his revenge. This should have been ''his'' campthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=194812467X0008517061|title=The Farm ShopDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicStig Abell

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Kirelle Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out daughter Diana, as ever moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his smart grey fur coat. As they walk off-grid and relaxing life to the top of the hill, they see a big barn move in with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders future she wants for herself and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shoppingputting the future on the back burner. What will they buy?

|isbn=00084049251786482126|title=The Killing KindJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Jane CaseyElly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=Difficult clients Builders were nothing new demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a surprisechild beneath a doorway. After all, it There was her cross-examination of the 'victim' which saved him from no skull. Was this a lengthy prison sentenceritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. HeIt'd been accused of stalking the woman s difficult as Ruth knows, but it didnNelson doesn't take long to establish , that - if anything - it was the other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him is pregnant with his child as a threat and was forced to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was result of the best chance one night they'd had spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous mansudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=00083955940008551324|title=Both of The Devil YouKnow (D S Max Craigie)|author=Adele ParksNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=You could be forgiven It's unusual for thinking that Leigh Fletcher anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has it all: great husband any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Then, one Monday, she went he's prepared to work tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and never came homewho was responsible for her death. MarkThis person, Oli and Seb are shattered. Wellhe promises, Mark is someone big and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at it will be worth the stage where police doing what he thinks boredom is his best lookwants. He's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to him growing up serve the remainder of his sentence and starting to become independentget an early parole date. SebNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's only twelve even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and Leighanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without tracehappening.

|isbn=14736857450008405026|title=Unbreak Your HeartA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Katie MarshJane Casey|rating=45|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange It's sixteen years since nine-year- well, Simon old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was angry never found and Beth was doing the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's sonmother, JakeHelena, off his bikeand her father are dead in their bed. He wasn't hurt Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but Jake has history. He has HLHS - thatthere's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those something about the positioning of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronymsthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. When he What looked as though it was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly going to be an open-and he needed open-heart surgery when he was shut case is now a few days oldcomplex double murder. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isnKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie't looking where theys disappearance: others (such as Derwent're drivings boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Louie Stowell0571379877|title=OtherlandThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Myra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra Edward Jevons is loud, bright and hates rulesa working-class young man, while Rohan is very politeobsessed with his upper-class friends, serious Robert and worries about the tiniest thingsStanza. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer Robert's daya theatre director. And so He's also self-obsessed, every year demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their families get together to celebrate the twouniversity days - and he's birthday/deathdaydrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. But when Rohan Most men in Robert's little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queen, they must journey to the Otherland, position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a magical realm full of fairies, vampires, dragons, and Gods. Itrelationship had begun between them but he's going not like most men: Edward is left to be stumble upon the worst night two of their livesthem kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1788000463

|isbnauthor=walker14Jo Callaghan|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerLeave No Trace

|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in When a man is found crucified on the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief top of police Bruno Courreges had a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the idea which he thought might help his bosscase alongside her sidekick, chief of detectives Jalipeauthe AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, known as J-Jhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, to solve Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that had haunted him for thirty years. The body draws a lot of a young male was found in the woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought unwanted attention to justicetheir AI Future Policing project. What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull and the resulting publicity Will they be used able to identify solve the young man? J-J calls case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the skull 'Oscar' case and has , potentially, out of a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justice.career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn= Martha Leigh1399613073|title= Invisible Ink: A Family MemoirMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyThrillers|summary= 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. Martha Leigh begins her book talking about Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a childhood spent in bonus when you aim to be a slightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English familycardiothoracic surgeon. Her father Laura is a Cambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the complete correspondence free spirit of the philosopher Jeangroup and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-Jacques Rousseau, his lifefuelled party and it's workgoing to end in tragedy. Her mother is a concert pianist We don't know who practises for hours every daysuffered the tragedy or the consequences. Neither parent is hugely interested in Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the practicalities of lifethree friends. There is love in the house but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows is there This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1800460384

|authorisbn=Darren Shan0241636604|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon RepellThe Trading Game: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=SoIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Having done A hoodie and jeans replaces the impossible pin-stripe suit and unpicked the lock to his background is the Forgotten CryptEast End, from which the Departed communicate where he was familiar with the Mergeviolence, Archie now has ''grop'' to think aboutpoverty and injustice. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to Inez's amusement, doesn't even know what one the London School of those Economics. Stevenson isbright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. But he manages He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to come through the fancy party unscathedbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, even after a card game which got him an uncomfortable encounter internship with KurtisCitibank. Eventually, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this seriesturned into permanent employment as a trader. |isbn=B093J9TF73

|authorisbn= Adrian Tchaikovsky1035021803|title= Shards of EarthThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= Eighty It's twenty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by since Freya Lockwood has been back to the moon-sized aliens known as the ArchitectsEnglish country village where she grew up. Humanity is scattered She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architectCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's reshaping. Thenclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, just when they had is dead and the human race on the runcircumstances seem suspicious, to say the Architects vanishedleast. And so, Arthur was the memories of reason why Freya had not been back to the war fadesvillage: Arthur, heroes are forgottenshe feels, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselveslet her down badly. Idris Telemmier Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architects, does she has not want felt able to be rememberednear the man or pursue the profession she loved. But After the split, when he she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the crew rebound from the love of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activityher life, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. As he who was murdered) and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police Freya and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886James have now divorced.

|isbn=1848458428AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Local Woman MissingAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Mary KubicaBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - againcome.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. His wife was Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in the habit of going out for a run late at nightmy lifetime. It was the only time she had for herself when she didnI've kept up reasonably well with what't have s advantageous to look after her baby - me but when she was out she would meet up I'm left with a manthe feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, grateful for I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the unquestioning affection he gave herlatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a trace, leaving her husband to look after her disabled babyterrorist group. Ten days laterHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a local woman wartime photographer and her six-year-old daughter disappearedAbhi, the hotel manager. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed As Abhi continues to try to be under some strain care remotely for the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a seedy motel - it appeared that shebond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what'd committed suicides happened through her photography. She left a note saying that Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her daughter, Delilah, was keep safe and there was no point in looking for herthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Nicolas Bouvier1529153298|title=The Japanese ChroniclesList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary= It never does to start a review of a book with a quote from the blurb's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, but sometimes ithonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's unavoidablefamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Le Monde reviewed this book Well, at some pointthey've been murdered, with the words but to have 'disappeared'doesn'what the old master craftsmen would call a masterpiecet sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she' It is precisely s overheard that. A masterpiece in the sense of the craft as well as her father wants to move the art of writing. Ifamily 'm going to hesitate to call it Down South'travel writing. When you' because this re from Yorkshire, Down South is as much a history of Japanfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, a mythology-primer for the Japanese culture as it is a personal response move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to living and travelling in prevent that. She's not worried about the countrydangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. |isbn=1906011044

|authorisbn=Genevieve Gornichec1398524085|title=The Witch's HeartHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest Charlotte Salter was expected at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odinhusband's wrathfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her attempts to live in peacechildren, howeversons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with all worried but - strangely - her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period body of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for LokiGreg's charmsfather, Duncan Ackerley, and in the two start river. It was an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son easy assumption for the police to make thatDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's a wolf, little else they can do but get on with their lives and another son that's a snakewonder about what really happened.|isbn=1789097061

|isbn=17885497591035906708|title=The Distant DeadDiva|author=Lesley ThomsonDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1940 1923 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old son, William, at home with her parentsonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. The boy thought that Maple Her original surname was his sister - it was better for the family than the shame of illegitimacy, Kalogeropoulos but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and Williamfather changed it to 'Callas's) on a better footingto make it more manageable in the States. She When she was going to meet back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her wellvoice -to-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and meet made no secret of her preference for her family the following week. Laterelder sister, her body would be found in the bombed-out home where he had taken herJackie.

|isbnauthor=1529407249Christopher Edge|title=The Perfect Lie|author=Jo SpainBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It was July 2019 Lucas and Erin was happy. She and Danny Ryan were planning his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a few days away: place thathas the nickname of 's always a dangerous thing to do when youThe Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're married looking forward to a cop but she was hopeful. They'd been married for six months lots of exciting films, and life was good with a decent apartment by the sea in Newportmany, Long Island. many snacks! The knock on However, as the door was insistent movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and when it was opened, Dannythey are swept up into an adventure they couldn's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officerst even imagine. Danny took But as they lurch from one lookfilm genre to the next, turned, walked can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the open window cinema, and jumped to his death from the fourth floor.their real lives? Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husband's murder.|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=1523092734Rachel Greenlaw|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van CortCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTeens|summary=''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in her life. Again and again and againmy heart.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)

''To claim space is to live Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the life of choosing unapologetically rocks and bravelyplundering the wrecks. It Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to live survey the life you've always wantedruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within.'' Sometimes But when the reviewing gods are generous: at Council Watch lays a time when violence against women is much in trap to end the newswrecking, they capture the island''A Womens leader and Mira's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my deskfather. Now - Desperate to be clear - this book save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is not a 'how secretive and with only coordinates to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effectiveguide her, but discussion at she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''sea. I've always thought that women need With only nine days to rise above thisunearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to be people who donthe heart of the smuggler't need protections territory, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent Mira must be determined to women would realise that we are not just an easy target stop at nothing to be used to prove that they are big mensave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Darren ShanJames Sherwood Metts|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Planet Storyland

|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in Things have been a bit sticky for the world of the BornEarthlings. It's not AI and automation have been easyproceeding apace, explaining often replacing jobs they're paid to his foster parents where he's been, or slipping back into ordinary life do and forgetting about Inez other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and his starting to think of other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his bestnew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic.... wellLife was pretty much shut down and, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling along with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awayit, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ1736128426

|isbnauthor=0008444501Matthew Tree|title=The Answer to Everything|author=Luke KennardWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Life should have been good for Emily. She had a lovely husband, StevenTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, who was a speech therapist. We'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and don't even sleep in the same bed. It isn't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that she's sharing a bed with one who had endless crises of her children as it's the only way to get him to sleep during the nightself confidence. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and Emily has a job So Tim applied himself 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 his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than owning their ownhis daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=0241985137A G Slatter|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterBriar Book of the Dead

|summary=DI Adam FawleyIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, called there by Jancis Appleby Sturgis was reluctant to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynoldsask for his help on difficult cases. There had been an accusation His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of sexual assault by a professor on psychologist only worked for a studentwhile. When Fawley arrived he Finally, it was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before theyRobin, Delaware'd even got the details from s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the victim? The problem involvement was something that Caleb Morgan ''was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisherman she loved needed. Just to complicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra NewsonThe next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the local MP, and Professor Fisher is swimming pool of a big name remote property in Artificial IntelligenceBel Air. She has He was the heir to an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes Italian shoe empire and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this she is going married to be an extremely rich man and it''very'' publics not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker1529395224|title=A Tattoo on my BrainLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands

|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Alzheimer's is Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a disease that slowly wears away your identity GP and sense of self. I have been directly affected by this cruel diseaseRowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a statue over time affected particularly when he considered the elements. It seems as if nature wants strain that final victory over you and your dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbsbeing on-call put on his father' memoir so admirables life. Daniel Gibbs is When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a neurologist family friend who was diagnosed a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with Alzheimers and has documented so many students - been his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain'dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.|isbn=1108838936

|isbn=16358623530861541774|title=The Sandalmaking WorkshopA Nye of Pheasants|author=Rachel CorrySteve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldnDCI Domenic Jejeune't really believe its close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, mainly because I'd always thought Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that you'd need more equipment than the average home he was likely to be able to contain but I was intriguedfacing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - Initially, he faced a small fire destroyed some charge of her shoesmanslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. One pair had come apart and she Now he could see how be facing the sandal was constructeddeath penalty. Then she realised that she couldn't afford Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to replace all her shoes. Could she combine these two facts to create help as any interference from another police force could provoke a new diplomatic incident and worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few people her first pair and they wouldn't help Danny at all either wanted to know how to do it - or if she'd make them a pair. A new career was born.

|isbnauthor=1787332098Alexander McCall Smith|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry ManceThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyGeneral Fiction|summary=''When we do think about animalsThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, we break them down into species run by Ness and groups: cows, dogs, foxesoperating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, elephants and so ontailored service. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and millions of wild animals stay out therelook after the business, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to argueget away for a while. I meanKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in so jumps at the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of itchance to come home to Edinburgh. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had Edinburgh we already love, thanks to choose between the company of humans 44 Scotland Street and the company of animalsIsabel Dalhousie novels, I would probably choose the animalsbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. I insisted that I read this book: Katie has no one was trying to stop me experience in running a business, or in match-making, but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggsNess has full confidence in her abilities, chicken and fish there's always her very helpful (and I needed rather handsome) neighbour, William, to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortable.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Ananda Devi0811771741|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary=At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins is one of the shortest books IMelissa Leapman's ''ve read in a long while, but itInstaKnits for Baby's one of the most dramatic. It's also told in gives us a way that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing and pulls very few punches, the descriptions stark and unromantic.|isbn=0993009344}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241985137|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|author=Cara Hunter|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got collection of knits from toys to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynoldsblankets. There had been an accusation Some will be quick knits - others are of sexual assault by a professor on a student. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the room before theyfire'd even got the details from the victim? variety. The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' projects are divided by the time they'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisher. Just ll take to complicate matters furthercomplete - less than five hours, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, the local MPfive to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligencemore than twenty hours. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by All the case from Berry Brothers & Ruddprojects are attractive, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes modern and has more than ten thousand Twitter followersuseable. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'verybut that'' publics me being picky.

|isbnauthor=0753558378Dean Koontz|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeownThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=LifestyleParanormal|summary=''The marginal return of working harder was, in fact, negative.'' That's what happened to Patrick McGinnisBenny is having a terrifically bad day. It's no exaggeration to say that He loses his job, he devoted loses his life to the company he worked forfiancee, struggling throughand his house gets trashed. Oh, even when he was illand someone has delivered a really weird, only disturbing coffin-sized object to find his home, and it's possible that he whoever or whatever was working for a bankrupt company. inside is the thing that has trashed his house! His stock had fallen by 97%The thing is, he had lost his health and his job had little valueBenny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He made is a bargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changesnice person. He did survive and came through stronger - and richerA really nice person. There So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house isa new friend, you seea bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a different way: good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny'great things s wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost break.''|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1471181405Adam Stower|title=Nighthawking|author=Russ ThomasMurray and Bun

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=Sheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like Murray is supposed to visit) are an oasis of calm in what's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the body of be a young woman was discovered. It had obviously been buried in humble, tidy and friendly cat, one of the beds but who would have started is able to dig her up? It had been in the earth for months sleep and eat and eat and could have been undiscovered for years. The police need to establish who stabbed her - sleep and who left the two, very rarewell, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is whatever takes his fancy next of the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbanitwo. TheyBut he're joined by DS Guy Daley whos a bad magician's just returned from extended sick leavecat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. Mina thinks This 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's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that turned up and he's not fully recovered from his injuries.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn= Jennifer Saint B0C47LV1PC|title= Ariadne Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Literary Fiction |summary= This re-telling of Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the myth of Ariadne and question should you make it? Or is the Minotaur question if you did, would it land? The catch is interesting and unusualthat the answer for both could well be.... Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audienceno. Saint ''Fragility''s narrative is told predominantly through set as the viewpoint city of AriadnePortland, spanning Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge 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 restrictions imposed during the heroics of Theseus. |isbn=1472273869covid pandemic}}

|authorisbn=Gianna Pollero and Sarah Horne1529431735|title=Monster DoughnutsThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappearedIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Grace and Danni have been left to run which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the family bakerymore surprising. But Grace needs He'd been exiled on the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a rather unusual reasondecade...even though she The return has come about because he's only ten years oldhad a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she 's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is a monster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet toothabducted, stripped to his underwear and Grace uses sent to a number watery grave in the boot of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, or tricking them into eating a sweet treat that will, ultimately, be their demisestolen Ford Sierra. One day, though, Grace finds herself facing Is it a warning from a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, who has Spanish gang or a weakness for doughnuts but doesn't seem to explode as the other monsters do, and so things start problem closer to get very strange…|isbn=1848129432}}home?