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|author=Terry MilesTom Percival|title=RabbitsThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is 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 even the most basic of things like food, and 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 fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5

|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this There are few greater joys than a book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and which lives up to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very shortcompelling premise. However And this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed..of them.|isbn=15290169320356522776

|authorisbn=C J Carey0008517061|title=WidowlandDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It's April 1953Former Metropolitan Police detective, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to LondonJake Johnson, parading around has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to little uncertainty about the throne future of Edward VIII his life with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know itvet girlfriend, Livia and we are now a protectorate – wellher daughter Diana, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly moving in together would mean a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas lot of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from highcompromise: does Jake give up his off-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, grid and beyond those, right on down relaxing life to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement future she wants for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, herself and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and so they just get a hefty tweak towards putting the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until future on the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visitback burner.|isbn=152941198X

|authorisbn=Louise Beech1786482126|title=This Is How We Are HumanThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to her son, Sebastian hold seventy- but she canfive 'luxury't give him everything he wantsapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Sebastian has decided that it It's time for him to have sex. But difficult as an autistic 20 year-oldRuth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that's easier said than doneshe is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. And it's starting Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to cause them both problemssudden bouts of sickness. |isbn=1913193713

|isbn=B093VPBL5L0008551324|title=Cape Henry HouseThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jolly Walker BittickNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet Bosner, or, It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosnerapproach the police. We never really find out if Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he has a first name: there's merely prepared to tell the police where the body of a hint that missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he had promises, is someone big and it will be worth the nickname 'Secretary' at one pointpolice doing what he wants. He's simply Bosner And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to one serve the remainder of his sentence and allto get an early parole date. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helosNot much to ask, as they were called) at a naval establishment. is it? The hours could be long new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and he was often working nights but at she's even prepared to do the age of twentyother thing that Hardie demanded -one, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking make certain that DS Max Craigie and eating) into his dayanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|authorisbn=Hannah Whitten0008405026|title=For A Stranger in the WolfFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=In RedIt's family, the first daughter becomes queen, sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the second daughter becomes investigation ground to a sacrificehalt. To Red's misfortune Now, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her backmother, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolfHelena, and he is the one who will decide the fate of her father are dead in their kingdombed. If she is not Initially, it looks like a worthy sacrifice, straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the monsters he keeps contained to positioning of the woods will be released, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories goher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than What looked as though it was going to be killed within the hour, she finds an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the legends are explanation lies. The wolf is not a monster—hein Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's a manboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=0356516369

|authorisbn=M G Leonard0571379877|title=TwitchThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Twitch Edward Jevons is a boy who loves birdsworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He keeps pigeons at home's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and chickens, entitled and even uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has swallows nesting been in his bedroom! His time spent watching love with Stanza since their university days - and helping birds is easy compared he's drunkenly confided how he feels to that of his time in schoolRobert. But things are about to change for Twitch Most men in all aspects of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the run, and itRobert's possible that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has his secret hide and position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he knows 's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the back two of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mystery, and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1838853804Jo Callaghan|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro RamsayLeave No Trace

|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory 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 of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pondruthlessly ambitious, only which is a bonus when you aim to find that he'd hanged himselfbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Twenty years later she's back home again Laura is a perfectionist and this time the occasion is no less sada trauma doctor. She's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who Anjali is dying the free spirit of anorexiathe group and she becomes a GP. As she dies, Melissa whispers When we first meet them they'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor re at a drug and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry alcohol- or was fuelled party and it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? going to end in tragedy. The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the County and money was never in short supply consequences. Twenty- but five years later there did seem to will be a cursean eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. In addition to MelissaThis time, it's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years beforeteenage children who are involved. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?

|isbn=02414001200241636604|title=The Girl Who DiedTrading Game: A Confession|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Una was not thriving If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then sheyour mind, you'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teacherre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. She A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was thirty years old familiar with violence, poverty and money was tightinjustice. Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the Langanes PeninsulaLondon School of Economics. There were Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only ten envy. He also realised that most rich people in the village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would expect poor people to be paid and accommodation providedstupid. Una It was his ability at what was the only applicant and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefullyessentially, save some money over the winter a card game which her contract coveredgot him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=18469757191035021803|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Denzil MeyrickC L Miller

|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to awkward placesthe English country village where she grew up. But thatShe's Londonback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, isnCarole. Freya't it? s former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. WhatArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's happening in Kinloch?Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''

When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight awayI've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. It soon becomes evident though Well, I must confess that both occupants there have been more than a few decades of the plane were dead before take offtechnology in my lifetime. How could that be? The sort of tech which would make that possible isnI've kept up reasonably well with what't available s advantageous to me but I'm left with the paying publicfeeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. And why have Of course, I could research the possibilities and the man no identification on them - probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or even labels the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in their clothes?a way I could understand.

|author=Richard BrookSunny Singh|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleThrillers |summary= I am The Hotel Arcadia is a firm believer luxury hotel in an unnamed city that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose ushas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. In my caseHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, this there is one of Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the latterhotel manager. Not so very long ago As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed ithe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, found some and keeps on venturing out of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came her room to me not just because I was likely try to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbagcapture what's uhappened through her photography.s.p. is that people chose Although they only ever talk over the phone, their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to like see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right nowterrorists.|isbn=1800461682086154742X

|isbn=B095CY7NBN1529153298|title=Autumn CampThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Barry FowlerJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5

|summary=It was to be Brian's last camp1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. He(A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'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 elses not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. The obvious person was GaryWell, whothey'd always ve been the fun element of the camps and Brian had said that on this campmurdered, Gary should act as the leader and hebut to have 'disappeared' doesn'd just be there to observet sound quite so frightening. The problem with this was Miv's upset because she's overheard that Gary wasnher father wants to move the family 'Down South't really an organiser, an administrator if you like. He was the entertainerWhen you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did the organisingbest avoided. He handed For Miv, the camp over - move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and then took it back. And Gary determined she'll do anything to have his revengeprevent that. This should have been She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum'his'' camps stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=194812467X1398524085|title=The Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Kirelle 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 as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping. What will they buyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008404925|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane CaseyNicci French

|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but John Webster came as something of a surprisenever turned up. After allHer children, sons Niall, it was Paul and Ollie and her crossdaughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely -examination of the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentenceher husband, Alec, is not. He'd been accused Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of stalking the woman but it didnGreg't take long to establish that - if anything - it was s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the other way aroundriver. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him as a threat and It was forced an easy assumption for the police to remember make that the police officer at his trial Duncan had told her that this was murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the best chance guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous mancan do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=00083955941035906708|title=Both of YouDiva|author=Adele ParksDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Then, one MondayWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she went was born to work and never came home. MarkGreek parents in Manhattan, Oli and Seb are shattered. WellNew York, Mark in December 1923 and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best lookonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. He's been a bit off with Leigh for a while Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but she put her father changed it down to him growing up and starting to become independent. Seb's only twelve and LeighCallas's absence hits him hardto make it more manageable in the States. Then Daan Janssen, 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 wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wifemother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Kai missing. She too has vanished without traceJackie.

|isbnauthor=1473685745Christopher Edge|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie MarshBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary= Myra Lucas and Rohan his friends are like Yin all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and Yang – Myra is loudmany, many snacks! However, bright and hates rulesas the movie starts, while Rohan they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very politedifferent, serious and worries about the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummerthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn's dayt even imagine. And so, every year their families get together But as they lurch from one film genre to celebrate the two's birthday/deathday. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa next, can they figure out what on earth is taken by the fairy queen, going on? Will they must journey ever get back to the Otherland, a magical realm full of fairies, vampires, dragonscinema, and Gods. It's going to be the worst night of their real lives.?|isbn=17880004631839942738

|isbnauthor=walker14Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in 'I can hear the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief song of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief sea. The call of detectives Jalipeauthe deep, known as J-Jthe answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty yearsremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. The body Mira, like her mother before her, is one of a young male was found in the woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought seven who swim out to justice. What if an artist could recreate the face from survey the skull ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the resulting publicity be used Council Watch lays a trap to identify end the young man? J-J calls wrecking, they capture the skull island'Oscars leader and Mira' s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and has with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesnfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler't want s territory, Mira must be determined to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought stop at nothing to justicesave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author= Martha LeighJames Sherwood Metts|title= Invisible Ink: A Family MemoirPlanet Storyland|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyConfident Readers|summary= Martha Leigh begins her book talking about Things have been a childhood spent in a slightly eccentricbit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, immediately recognisable upper middle class English familyoften replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Her father is a Cambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter Just as he edits the complete correspondence they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseauother, new ways to spend time, his life's workalong came an awful pandemic. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the practicalities of life. There is love in the house but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows is theremany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=18004603841736128426

|author=Darren ShanMatthew Tree|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3We'll Never Know

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to the Forgotten Crypt, be different from which the Departed communicate with the Mergehis father, Archie now has ''grop'' to think about. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez's amusement, doesn't even know what one a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of those isself confidence. But he manages So Tim applied himself to come through the fancy party unscathedhis studies, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this seriescultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. |isbn=B093J9TF73B0CVFXPGP8

|author= Adrian TchaikovskyA G Slatter|title= Shards The Briar Book of Earththe Dead|rating= 45|genre= Science FictionFantasy|summary= Eighty years ago'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, Earth was destroyedall mine, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architectsat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. Humanity is scattered'' Within a remote mountain pass, constantly fleeing as far away from the world after world falls to , lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the architectBriar's reshaping. Then, just when they had a family of witches who protect the human race on town and the run, wider world from the Architects vanishedDarklands. And soThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgottenfirst non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and humanity begins to fracture administration rather than spells and fight among themselvespotions. Idris TelemmierWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architectstown's leader, does not want to be rememberedand Ellie takes her place beside her. ButAs challenges come her way left, when he right and centre, Ellie uncovers the crew of rare ability to communicate with the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activitydead, suddenly he is thrust back into putting her at the spotlightheart of a maelstrom of chaos. As he and his allies bounce Reeling from star system one family secret to star systemanother, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police Ellie must decide who to trust and rich slaversdetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, he slowly begins everything they have sacrificed to realise that the real war survive, is only just getting started…under threat.|isbn=15290518861803364548

|isbn=18484584281529900360|title=Local Woman MissingThe Ghost Orchid|author=Mary KubicaJonathan Kellerman

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Eleven years agoIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, a man regularly came home Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his wife with lipstick marks help on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - againdifficult cases. His wife was in assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the habit help of going out a psychologist only worked for a run late at nightwhile. It Finally, it was the only time she had for herself when she didnRobin, Delaware't have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a mans partner, grateful who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the unquestioning affection he gave herman she loved needed. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a tracenext case did look simple, leaving her husband to look after her disabled babythough. Ten days later, Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappearedremote property in Bel Air. Meredith Dickey He was a birth doula the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she'd seemed is married to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - an extremely rich man and it appeared that she'd committed suicides not the Italian. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, But which of them was safe and there was no point in looking for her.the primary target?

|authorisbn=Nicolas Bouvier1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Japanese ChroniclesSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=TravelAnimals and Wildlife|summary= It never does to start Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a review of a book with a quote from the blurb, but sometimes itGP and Rowlands didn's unavoidable. Le Monde reviewed this bookt want to follow in his footsteps, at some point, with particularly when he considered the words ''what the old master craftsmen would strain that being on-call a masterpiece.put on his father'' It is precisely thats life. A masterpiece in When he was seventeen he took the sense opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the craft as well as the art of writingjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. I It hadn'm going to hesitate to call it 'travel writing' because this is t - as much with so many students - been his dream since he was a history of Japanchild. If anything, he'd wanted to be a mythology-primer for the Japanese culture as it is a personal response to living and travelling in the countryprofessional footballer. |isbn=1906011044

|authorisbn=Genevieve Gornichec0861541774|title=The Witch's HeartA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= A modern DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a witch named Angrbodashort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. She hides Maik was involved in a forest at the edge of the nine worldsstreet brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, remembering nothing he faced a charge of her past life manslaughter but evidence came to light that fact suggested that she was survived burnt at he might have planned to murder the stake three times because of Odin's wrathman. Her attempts to live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to Now he could be facing the stake—and refuses to leave her alonedeath penalty. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to fall for Loki's charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, help as any interference from another police force could provoke a son that's a wolf, diplomatic incident and another son thatwouldn's a snaket help Danny at all.|isbn=1789097061

|isbnauthor=1788549759Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Distant Dead|author=Lesley ThomsonPerfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was December 1940 The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for operating as an alternative to all the evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old son, Williamonline apps in providing a more personal, at home with her parentstailored service. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the family than the shame of illegitimacybusiness, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William's) on as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a better footingwhile. She was going Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to meet her well-come home to-do fiancéEdinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, hoping bringing us to persuade him an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to come 44 Scotland Street and meet her family the following weekIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. LaterKatie has no experience in running a business, her body would be found or in the bombedmatch-out home where he had taken making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her.very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=15294072490811771741|title=The Perfect LieInstaKnits for Baby|author=Jo SpainMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happy. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: thatMelissa Leapman's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married to a cop but she was hopeful. They'd been married InstaKnits for six months and life was good with Baby'' gives us a decent apartment by collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the sea 'long, cosy afternoons in Newport, Long Islandfront of the fire' variety. The knock on projects are divided by the door was insistent and when it was opened, Dannytime they's partnerll take to complete - less than five hours, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officers. Danny took one lookfive to ten hours, turned, walked ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the open window projects are attractive, modern and jumped to his death from the fourth flooruseable. Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husbandI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's murderme being picky.

|isbnauthor=1523092734Dean Koontz|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van CortThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyParanormal|summary=''She brings Benny is having a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her lifeterrifically bad day. Again He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and again his house gets trashed. Oh, and again.'' (Alma Derrickssomeone has delivered a really weird, former CMOdisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, Cirque du Soleil RSD) and it''To claim space s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. thing that has trashed his house! It The thing is, Benny is the very last person to live the life you've always wanteddeserve all this bad luck.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at He is a time when violence against women is much in the news, ''nice person. A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my deskreally nice person. Now - So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to be clear - this book his house is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effectivenew friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, but discussion at the moment seems who has been sent to be about how women can be ''protected''help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. I've always thought that women need Spike is going to rise above thistake care of Benny, to be people who donand will certainly take care of Benny't need protections enemies, if he, Benny, people and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that exactly they are big men.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Darren ShanAdam Stower|title=Archibald Lox Murray and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Bun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our heroMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, Archiewell, back in London in the world whatever takes his fancy next of the Borntwo. It But he's a bad magician's not been easycat, explaining to so his foster parents where he's favourite bun has beenturned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, or slipping not into the regular back garden, but into ordinary life a world of frightening adventure and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Mergewhiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, but Archie has done his best.... where a troll hunter is expected – well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Benone much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's clock tower turned up and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.'ll have to do…|isbn=B093H8DPQZ0008561249

|isbn=0008444501B0C47LV1PC|title=The Answer to EverythingFragility|author=Luke KennardMosby Woods

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Life Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should have been good you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for Emilyboth could well be. She had a lovely husband, Steven, who was a speech therapist. We.. no. 'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other and don't even sleep in the same bed. It isnFragility't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that she's sharing a bed with one of her children is set as it's the only way city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to get him to sleep emerge from the restrictions imposed during the night. Arthur 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.covid pandemic

|isbn=02419851371529431735|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)Winter Visitor|author=Cara HunterJames Henry|rating=54

|summary=DI Adam FawleyIt's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, called there by Jancis Appleby to see which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynoldsmore surprising. There had He'd been an accusation of sexual assault by exiled on the Costa del Sol as a professor on wanted drug smuggler for a studentdecade. When Fawley arrived The return has come about because he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before they'd even got the details s had a letter from the victim? The problem was his ex-wife, saying that Caleb Morgan she's ill and hasn'was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fishert long to live. Just to complicate matters further, CalebIt's mother hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is Petra Newson, the local MPabducted, stripped to his underwear and Professor Fisher is sent to a big name watery grave in Artificial Intelligencethe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case Is it a warning from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going Spanish gang or a problem closer to be ''very'' public.}}home?