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|author=Claire McGowanTom Percival|title=I Know YouThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=ThrillersConfident 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'Then:t work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can' Casey returns from t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a walk with cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the baby, Carsonfact that his mum and dad are separated, and comes across three bodiesWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, almost he still has a whole family taken downtiny amount of hope. ''Now:'' Rachel He is out for a walk with her doggood at art, Brandyand clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, when she comes across that feel like a body in light at the woodsend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=15420199741398527122

|isbnauthor=1529148251Sylvie Cathrall|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela CoelLetter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of mind. You're not going to read There are few greater joys than a book of essays or a self-help book. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture lives up to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festivala compelling premise. You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud And this is one of exquisite writingthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=00084336310008517061|title=Next of KinDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Kia AbdullahStig Abell|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It was the sort of thing that happened every dayFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, although not to Leila Syedhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She'd never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his fathervet girlfriend, Andrew HansonLivia and her daughter Diana, had rung her as moving in together would mean a panic. He was supposed to be taking Max lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to school but he'd been called into work and the delay move in getting there could lead with Livia or does Livia move to financial losses. As Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the school was only five minutes out of Leila's way, could future she drop him offwants for herself and her daughter? Of course, she could For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into putting the future on the back of her car. On the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskburner.

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1786482126|title=Everybody Toots! The Janus Stone (Everybody Potties!Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= TootsBuilders 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. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, trumps, fartsDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Whatever your word for them It's difficult as Ruth knows, find us a child that but Nelson doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that she is. But horribly embarrassing if you let pregnant with his child as a result of the one go at the wrong timenight they spent together some three months ago. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone Her condition will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attachedbe obvious before long, explains that tooting not least because Ruth is perfectly normalprone to sudden bouts of sickness. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}}

|isbn=17841652630008551324|title=Invite Me InThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Emma CurtisNeil Lancaster

|summary=Martin CurranIt's wife, Eliza knew that she had unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to be home to make his lunch approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for one othe other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'clock on s prepared to tell the dot, despite police where the fact that she body of a missing person is buried and who was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letresponsible for her death. If she didn't get homeThis person, he promises, there would is someone big and it will be troubleworth the police doing what he wants. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined And what he wants is to a wheelchair, but don't be too quick transferred to be understandingan open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in Elizat think so and she's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about even prepared to leave: he wanted do the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=17847427750008405026|title=A Change of Circumstance Stranger in the Family (Simon SerraillerMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Susan HillJane Casey

|summary=Drugs hadnIt't really been that much of s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a problem halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of timetheir bed. They still were Initially, to it looks like a great extent, straightforward murder/suicide but Serrailler knew there's something about the positioning of the bodies that something had to be donemakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Children What looked as young as nine were being recruited though it was going to transport the drugs be an open-and the operation running the county lines was tight-shut case is now a complex double murder. A mule might know Kerrigan is convinced that the name explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (although it probably wouldnsuch as Derwent't be the correct ones boss, Una Burt) of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch a few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upare less convinced.

|isbn=B09FS89KX90571379877|title=Fall On MeThe Kellerby Code|author=Penelope PottsJonny Sweet

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and Edward Jevons is a working- three years later class young man, obsessed with his upper- was still working at BBclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's dinera theatre director. Bob He's also self- the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good bossobsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Hollie had moved Edward has been in love with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great Stanza since their university days - and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all s drunkenly confided how he wanted her feels to leave her job at the dinerRobert. Then there was the fact Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he would be violent, both 's not like most men: Edward is left to her and to other peoplestumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=John GwynneJo Callaghan|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=0356514218}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09HTWX47X|title=Endless Obsession|author=Dai HenleyLeave No Trace

|summary=It's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly When a DCI in man is found crucified on the Met but now top of a well-respected private investigator. He's married hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to Laurathe case alongside her sidekick, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratoryAI detective Lock. FloodIt's daughters, Gemma and Pippa, have flown the nest, Pippa to Australiatheir first live case together, from where she has having previously been very little contact successful with the family, and Gemma to married lifeseveral cold cases. She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Laura hope a very high profile case that married life will provide the support she needsdraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Flood's business is going well and that was why he felt Will they be able to turn down solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of Lisa Black.a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou1399613073|title=The StoningMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5

|summary=In Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a town sleazy enough century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, be a teacher has been transported across town at night in cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a shopping trolley, perfectionist and she's been taped to a tree trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and shebecomes a GP. When we first meet them they's had rocks bowled re at her as if she were the worlda drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's tallest cricket stumpsgoing to end in tragedy. When she We don's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident t know who suffered the culprit has come from tragedy or the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home toconsequences. An arson attack on Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that shows will impact the feeling – and three friends. This time, it's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants their teenage children who are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law..involved.|isbn=1529416973

|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H0241636604|title=The Mystery of HealingTrading Game: A Confession|author=A P McGrathGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Autobiography|summary=We meet Solon If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in Pergamon in the second century your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the common era pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he's the physician was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on duty at the munus his CV - but he had been to the games put on for the amusement London School of the populaceEconomics. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a feeling facility with numbers which most of virtue and hones us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his skills: Solon ''wantsability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It' s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the warriors to liveEnglish country village where she grew up. ItShe's quite back now because of a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and when we first see themCarole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, they're sprinkling gold dust onto is dead and the lions' manes circumstances seem suspicious, to make them look more impressivesay the least. The sagitarii are Arthur was the archers and reason why Freya had not been back to the beastiarii are 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 condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with man or pursue the wild animalsprofession she loved. TodayAfter the split, it's she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the crocodileslove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie BlackallAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Beatryce ProphecyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=''Stories have joy and surprises in themOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology'is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, we are told here. And none I must confess that there have been more so than a few decades of technology in this wondrous story, which feels an instant classic my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the freshness and the agelessness feeling that it has in equal proportion's all getting away from me. We start with a group Some of monksit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, possibilities and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on probabilities and biting end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the poor Brotherslatest conspiracy theorist. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girl, one I needed people I knew I could trust and who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King could deliver information in his castle, desperate to find the girl, for it is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne and cause great changeway I could understand. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simple, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=1529500893

|isbnauthor=B09FFJF8YSSunny Singh|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate ZhoidikHotel Arcadia

|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=''For The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the bigterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, grownup girls out thereis Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the potty masters residents who are still alive in trainingthe hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, "You Canand keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what't Wear Panties!" is a cry (s happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and persevering panty pridethey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.''|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General FictionAnd so it |summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girlPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's final goodbye family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her around as she proudly explains father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her dogbest friend, her catSharon, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling she'll do anything to prevent that . She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum'shes stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband'' can wear supers fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely -duper proper pantsher husband, while they cannotAlec, is not. Neither can Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the flowersbody of Greg's father, nor the fishDuncan Ackerley, nor in the birdsriver. Boy's certainly can It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn'tstand the guilt. She The Salter children are not convinced but there's a big girl now little else they can do but get on with their lives and she wants everyone to know it!wonder about what really happened.}}

|authorisbn=Nick Lake and Emily Gravett1035906708|title=Locked Out LilyDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Lily isWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, or but she wasborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, or has been, very illNew York, in December 1923 and only moved to give Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her parents relief shefather changed it to 'Callas's been told to stay with her grandma for a few daysmake it more manageable in the States. The parents need the relief as Lily's baby sibling is just about to be born – a child Lily swears When she hates already and wants nothing to do with. But on tracking was back home for word of her parents (and her plush toy in Athens - supposedly so that she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of could get appropriate training for her parents, and the babevoice -in-arms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get she was raised under the family back intact, even if it's not the family Lily wants – Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and all she has to help made no secret of her preference for her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Moleelder sister, Mouse and SnakeJackie.|isbn=1471194833

|author=Greg James and Chris SmithChristopher Edge|title=The Great Dream RobberyBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54

|summary=Maya's father is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a professor who invented an amazing dream machine. But something went wrongmovie marathon at their local cinema, and now he cana place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole't wake up. Or at least All big movie fans, thatthey's what Maya has been told. re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! In a rather strange dream one night Maya makes a However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new friendfilm format is very different, and discovers that the only way to save her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action they are swept up into an adventure story where dreams and reality collidethey couldn't even imagine...really...and there's everything But as they lurch from llamas and bananasone film genre to the next, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offscan they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to a talking cat called Bin Bag!their real lives?|isbn=024147051X1839942738

|isbnauthor=1800464495Rachel Greenlaw|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma SmithCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in I can hear the song of the womb, being aware sea. The call of quantities at seven hours oldthe deep, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months oldthe answering beat in my heart.''

Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on entry to school luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is a strong predictor one of later achievement, double the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that of literacy skillslies within.But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a good start wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children search of a solid foundation when they start schoolfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. But do we think 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 same way about maths, beyond counting? I donsmuggler't think we dos territory, in part because so many Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising her home and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1529379385James Sherwood Metts|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise PennyPlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=In Things have been a bit sticky for the Canadian village of Three PinesEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, weoften replacing jobs they're post-pandemic: the scars are still there but life is starting paid to get back do and other tasks that took time to normalaccomplish. The villagers are Just as they were beginning to return get used to the Bistro all this technological change and the Auberge. They're visiting each starting to think of other's homes and having friends and relatives , new ways to stayspend time, along came an awful pandemic. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor Life was pretty much shut down and she soon proves that not , along with it, all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in the village as the Asshole Saintmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor= B09F4CTKJRMatthew Tree|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven BurgauerWe'll Never Know

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=It's the later stages Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of World War I his artistic passions all failed miserably and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadronhad endless crises of self confidence. This company was the first US Aero Squadron So Tim applied himself to be trained in Canadahis studies, the first to be attached to the RAF cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult set himself high but majestic Sopwith Camelachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=183885410XA G Slatter|title=The Dark Remains|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinBriar Book of the Dead|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=Bobby Carter was '' There's a lawyer and consigliere part of me that wants to keep this just to one myself for however long I can. This secret magic of the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowmy own, all mine, at last. DC Jack Laidlaw is on the CID team charged with the investigationI just want to enjoy it for a while. I say ''on  Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the teamBriar'' but Laidlaw never really seems s, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a part of itsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. He does his own thingWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, goes his own and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and ''The Dark Remains'' centre, Ellie uncovers the truth rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind chaos. Reeling from one of Glasgowfamily secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches's seedier pubslegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=19424102551529900360|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)The Ghost Orchid|author=Michael PronkoJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=It hadn''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' Itt been Lt Milo Sturgis's the culturefault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, isn't it? Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. The hours for His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which youdidn're paid are really just a statement of the minimum you'll be required to do: you'll work more hours to get t need the job done and done to the satisfaction help of bullies like Shigeru Onizukaa psychologist only worked for a while. When he Finally, it was found dead in front of Senden CentralRobin, Delaware's headquarters in Tokyo there partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was nothing something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the way swimming pool of regret or grief, even from his family, but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the roof of the building or been assisted remote property in his descentBel Air. Gossip revolves around He was the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that heir to an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlier. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her Italian shoe empire and forcing her she is married to work an unreasonable amount extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of overtime.them was the primary target?

|isbn=02414254251529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Man Who Died TwiceSecret Life of a Vet|author=Richard OsmanSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letterSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. It came from His father was a man whose body she had helped GP and Rowlands didn't want to pull from follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the Thames and who had never existed but then this is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with strain that being on-call put on a regular basishis father's life. When she visits he was seventeen he took the sender opportunity of the letter (he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone doing work experience with whom she has a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long professional history - and who used to be her husband, he was at Liverpool University. HeIt hadn's made a bad mistake t - something to do as with a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twentyso many students -million pounds in diamonds and been his dream since he was a few death threatschild. HeIf anything, he's now in hiding with d wanted to be a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressprofessional footballer.

|authorisbn=Andrew Sharp0861541774|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - isDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, in his mindDanny Maik, the head chef of has taken a safari business catering short holiday in Singapore to VIP guests in meet up with an unnamed African countryold ally, Guy Trueman. Mozzy is earnest and dedicated to his task Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he puts all killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris manslaughter but his dream is evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to become murder the man. Now he could be facing the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American citydeath penalty. Even Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to win help as any interference from another police force could provoke a Michelin star. He is thwarted in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to you diplomatic incident and me) who incurs Mozzywouldn's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the houset help Danny at all.|isbn=B09926MK8H

|author=Alex FoulkesAlexander McCall Smith|title=Rules for VampiresThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) The Perfect Passion Company is a Vampire. She drinks blood, she sleeps during the daydating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats operating as an alternative to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Now, on the night of her hundredth birthnightonline apps in providing a more personal, she tailored service. Ness has to go out and hunt asked her first human. However, instead younger cousin Katie if she ends up killing two humans by accident could come and burning down an orphanagelook after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Oops! And to make things worse Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, the ghosts of one of the orphans and so jumps at the evil master of the orphanage chance to come back home to haunt herEdinburgh. So And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, not only does Leo have thanks to team up 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with the friendly ghost Minna some new characters who quickly begin to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulcharm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, she but Ness has to do it all while hiding it from full confidence in her family. Did I mention vampires abilities, and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a reason why there are rules for vampires…hand…|isbn=147119955X1846976596

|authorisbn=Tori Bovalino0811771741|title=The Devil Makes ThreeInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrafts|summary= Working all summer in her boarding schoolMelissa Leapman's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request ''InstaKnits for over Baby'' gives us a hundred books that she has collection of knits from toys to deliver herselfblankets. What makes it worse is the man who requested Some will be quick knits - others are of the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmasterlong, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each cosy afternoons in front of the books, scribbled with fire' variety. The projects are divided by the ugliest insults she can think of. Theytime they're never meant ll take to reach himcomplete - less than five hours, of course. Her plan is five to get her anger out like thisten hours, ten to twenty hours and then take them all off before delivering themmore than twenty hours. No harm done… Or it would be All the projects are attractive, if someone hadnmodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that't delivered them for hers me being picky.|isbn=1789098130

|isbnauthor= B09BG8V3Q6Dean Koontz|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=For SharingParanormal|summary= Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it''Who Needs Nappies? Not Mes possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house!'' The thing is, Benny is the latest release in very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the ''Everybody Potties!'' series delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from Justine Averynefarious forces for being a good person. This series of fun picture books aims Spike is going to take the pain out care of potty training children Benny, and replace it with some fun. Itwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=B098FFFBH9Adam Stower|title=Snowcub|author=Graham FulbrightMurray and Bun

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers |summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel Murray is her school's animal rights project leader supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and she sleep and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the animal worldtwo. She gets But he's a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrisonbad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a lecturer at Imperial Collegehyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, Londonand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, mother Kate not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and her twin, Nickwhiffs. Kate runs the family businessThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putneytroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, which is where webut he's turned up and he'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn= Angharad WalkerB0C47LV1PC|title= The Ash House|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his name, or why he is there but he is used to the system, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same again.|isbn=1912626977}}{{FrontpageFragility|author=Yancey Williams|title=Crosshairs of the DevilMosby Woods|rating=4.5

|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is getting on in years andthe question if you did, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of would it land? The catch is that the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, answer for palatable companyboth could well be. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work... no.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a word, rich. There ''Fragility'' is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond as the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends city of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the WatcherPortland, AndreweOregon, who has cautiously begins to keep notes of activity emerge from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into restrictions imposed during the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|isbn=1788452372covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Erling Kagge1529431735|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54|genre= LifestyleCrime|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book It's February 1991 and Essex is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turnedbitingly cold, so let me start this one with an apology to which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not minemore surprising. In my defence, I will say that He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – wanted drug smuggler for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why)a decade. Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who The return has walked to the South Pole, the North Pole and the summit of Everest. He knows a thing or two come about walking. However, this isnbecause he't s had a travelogue about any of those epic journeysletter from his ex-wife, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to walk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contentssaying that she' page s ill and I havenhasn't countedlong to live. In small format paperback It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, each essay is only stripped to his underwear and sent to a few pages long. Perhaps then, better thought watery grave in the boot of as a meditation rather than an essaystolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=0241357705}} Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?