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|author=Alexia CasaleSylvie Cathrall|title=Sing if you Can't DanceA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of There are few greater joys than a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back book which lives up to a life that's as normal as she can possibly managecompelling premise. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day-to-day traumas And this is one of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigatethem. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=0571373801}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.0356522776

|isbn=15294136800008517061|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Martin WalkerStig Abell

|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friendsFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the man playing one future of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckilyhis life with his vet girlfriend, his doctor is there Livia and the man is whisked away her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend lot of Bruno) wonders about compromise: does Jake give up his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon off- the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby grid and another, who lives in California, is flying relaxing life to move in with some of Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her father's friends reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for a pre-arranged holidayherself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.

|isbn=15291963881786482126|title=The TrialJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Rob RinderElly Griffiths

|summary=Grant Cliveden Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up going to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when he was murdered in plain sight at they discovered the Old Baileybones of a child beneath a doorway. There's just one man in the frame for his was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court? Inevitably, charged Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with Cliveden's murderDCI Harry Nelson. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it It's Taylor-Cameron and his pupildifficult as Ruth knows, Adam Greenbut Nelson doesn't, who eventually represent himthat she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Knight's determined to plead Her condition will be obvious before long, not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations least because Ruth is prone to the contrarysudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=Essie Fox0008551324|title=The FascinationDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting It's unusual for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by anyone from the Hardie family to approach the Second World War) which police. Neither side likes or has often led to more than a few writers mishandling itany respect for the other. ThereBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's such a glut of media set in prepared to tell the era that police where the hallmarks we've come to associate with body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it are familiar to will be worth the point of being cliched, hackneyed evenpolice doing what he wants. All this And what he wants is simply to illustrate that it would be transferred to an easy thing open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to do poorlyget an early parole date. But despite that Not much to ask, something about is it still grabs me – ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and something about this bookshe's description did as even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept wellaway from what's happening.|isbn=1914585526

|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel0008405026|title=Death A Stranger in Fine Conditionthe Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=35

|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and in particular the investigation ground to a series called Sleuth Houndhalt. She spends Now, her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profitmother, sometimes 'tweaking' them, to add valueHelena, and her father are dead in somewhat fraudulent waystheir bed. One day she discovers Initially, it looks like a near perfect collection straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of these books after seeing them in the background of a photograph on bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her drug dealer's living room wall, boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and so she sets about discovering where this collection -shut case is, and how she can steal it! now a complex double murder. ItKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's a next-level step in her petty crime careerboss, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when the owner of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=15295079870571379877|title=The Repair Shop Craft BookKellerby Code|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop''Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. ItRobert's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered upa theatre director. After a hard day, thereHe's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You seealso self-obsessed, demanding, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them handsome and the memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time entitled and effort as is required uses Edward to achieve the desired resultrun errands for him. Regular viewers know the experts Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and theyhe're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doings drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. But how did they start?}}{{Frontpage|author=Nicole Jarvis|title=A Portrait Most men in Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'I want all of Florence s not like most men: Edward is left to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from stumble upon the powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians two of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their societykissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1803362340

|isbnauthor=B0BVDC2VWHJo Callaghan|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William FrankLeave No Trace

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=The village When a man is isolated and poorfound crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's surrounded by their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition potential serial killer and its blossom provides herbal medicinesa very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The black wood of Will they be able to solve the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallowscase in time, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in or will Kat find herself taken off the village case and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgentpotentially, lazy lout out of a man is tolerated. career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=024162343X1399613073|title=Stolen HistoryMoral Injuries|author=Sathnam SangheraChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers|summary=I was Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the bad company other people got into at first day of medical schooland their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a 'god'cardiothoracic surgeon. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse stillLaura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Not too long after Anjali is the end free spirit of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British armygroup and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they's successes (re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and occasional failures, but we didnit't dwell on those) s going to end in what came to be called tragedy. We don't know who suffered the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in tragedy or the first placeconsequences. Looking back, I still believe I was right Twenty- but I regret five years later there will be an eerily similar event that I lacked the maturity to approach 'will impact the problem' politelythree friends. I wish I'd had Sathnam SangheraThis time, it's ''Stolen History''their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Amanda Craig0241636604|title=Three GracesThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary= Few styles If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of contemporary fiction interest me someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the state-ofpin-stripe suit and his background is the-nation novelEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the atmosphere London School of the day Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and capture it, crafting an image he has a facility with numbers which most of the country as it stands in one particular momentus can only envy. To say He also realised that Amanda Craig is skilled most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with the genre of contemporary social fiction at Citibank. Eventually, this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day turned into the lives of her characters in permanent employment as a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselvestrader.|isbn= 140871468X

|isbn=14483093791035021803|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=David MarkC L Miller

|summary=It's something twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a surprise to find that you're deadrequest for help from her beloved aunt, particularly when youCarole. Freya're thinking that yous former mentor and Carole're actually on a break with your wife s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and childrenthe circumstances seem suspicious, but that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoysay the least. Whilst he Arthur was relieved the reason why Freya had not been back to find that he was stillthe village: Arthur, officiallyshe feels, alivelet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoahshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the partially clad man who'd dashed rebound from her flat in the early hours love of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her carlife, who was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - murdered) and Freya and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on AectorJames have now divorced.

|isbn=0957181167AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Blue Skies and Boat TripsAll Tomorrow's Futures: The Norfolk of Brian LewisFictions that Disrupt|author=Alan MarshallBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=ArtScience Fiction|summary=There are few positive ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things which can be to come.'' I've heard it said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this timethat 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking must confess that there have been more closely at than a couple few decades of pictures on technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the walls feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - and was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewisquite frightening. Of course, I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book research the possibilities and the print probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I wanted was ‘not available’'m reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Oh, dear - then a few doors down from the apartment, I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a framed print of the picture way I wantedcould understand.

|author=Simon FoxSunny Singh|title=DeadlockHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Late one night Graham Blake The Hotel Arcadia is late back a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from his shift the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on the forcesite, and then suddenly rings Archiethere is Sam, demanding he fetch something from a secret placewartime photographer and Abhi, and join him on the runhotel manager. They get together, but barely begin As Abhi continues to try to smell care remotely for the whiff of Southern trains when residents who are still alive in the father is arrestedhotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, leaving Archie and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the late express to Brightonphone, toting a tin his father was determined their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep away from his colleagues, safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the bearer of a whole heap of questionsterrorists.|isbn=1839944420086154742X

|authorisbn=Shalini Boland1529153298|title=The Silent BrideList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=35

|summary= Alice It's 1979 and Seth are a match made in heavenMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome(A woman? I mean, accomplishedhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, clever, funny; total and utter husband-materialthough. Women have been disappearing. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautifulWell, successfulthey've been murdered, confident… and but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and setfamily 'Down South'. When the much-anticipated day arrivesyou're from Yorkshire, Alice Down South is walked down a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the aisle by move would mean leaving her fatherbest friend, Sharon, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled 'll do anything to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Aliceprevent that. She's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who not worried about the man at the altar is, who is waiting for dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to become his wifeanyone.|isbn=1662507089

|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Mark EdwardsNicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Keep Her SecretDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= Matthew and Helena are We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in IcelandManhattan, New York, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first metin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to encapsulate make it more manageable in the joy States. When she is feeling was back in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the edge of Nazi occupation by a ravine gives way mother who mercilessly exploited her and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap made no secret of her rucksack between preference for her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panickedelder sister, cryptic declaration to MatthewJackie. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X

|isbnauthor=B0BYF82CXTChristopher Edge|title=Semi-Detached|author=Deborah StoneBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=''Bill Lucas and Amanda his friends are living all booked in for a semi-detached housemovie marathon at their local cinema, stuck in a depressing rut place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of boredom exciting films, and disappointmentmany, many snacks! However, when Terry and Fiona – glamorousas the movie starts, successful and they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairsthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But all as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is not what it seemsgoing on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=1787636003Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie BishopCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=It was ''I can hear the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on song of the sea. The call of the deep, the islandanswering beat in my heart. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was' Rosevear, perhapsa remote and partially forgotten island, naivesurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in like her mother before her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort is one of physical approach the seven who swim out to her survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and by any treasure that time she was obsessed by himlies within. Alistair worked for Henry TaylorBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, looking after his interests on they capture the island 's 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 with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in particular search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the bar where all 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 girls either worked or partiedheart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1529135389James Sherwood Metts|title=The Fall|author=Gilly MacmillanPlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at Things have been a bit sticky for the county fair before she returned homeEarthlings. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. TheyAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long re paid to do and were still getting used other tasks that took time to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted uponaccomplish. Some of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably Just as they should. It had were beginning to get used to all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win this technological change and they were still getting used starting to having that sort think of moneyother, toonew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. EventuallyLife was pretty much shut down and, Nicole found Tom dead in along with it, all the swimming pool with a wound to his headmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Alan ParksMatthew Tree|title=To Die in JuneWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because be different from his own father is a down-and-out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, drunk and the arrival there chronic underachiever whose dreams of a woman being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record had endless crises of the boy having existed can be foundself confidence. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationedSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but can Harry uncover just what is going on?achievable ambitions.|isbn=1805300784B0CVFXPGP8

|authorisbn=Laura Noakes1529900360|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Number One. Or ratherIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos Sturgis was reluctant to her friendsask for his help on difficult cases. The practice in His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the home she lives in is help of a psychologist only worked for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledgera while. Finally, it was Robin, and theyDelaware're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilitiess partner, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly uponwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. But Cosima bears She knew that the involvement was something that the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where man she came fromloved needed. The next case did look simple, as though. Two lovers were murdered in the first ever inmate, and unique swimming pool of a remote property in having no known family in the outside worldBel Air. During a daring escapade He was the heir to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, an Italian shoe empire and she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems is married to want to adopt all an extremely rich man and it's not the girls for his InstituteItalian. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to which of them was the past she has so little link withprimary target?|isbn=0008579059

|authorisbn=Thomas D Lee1529395224|title=Perilous TimesLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre= FantasyAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn''Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the nearstrain that being on-distant future, in a world call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the verge opportunity of climate collapsedoing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, Britain is in great perilhe was at Liverpool University. The British Isles desperately needs It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a hero (or several) child. If anything, he'd wanted to save the day and rescue what little remainsbe a professional footballer. What no one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|isbn=0356518523

|authorisbn=Madelaine Lucas0861541774|title=Thirst for SaltA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= DCI Domenic Jejeune''Loves close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, I'd readhas taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was supposed to be involved in a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a retrospective view, man armed with a young woman unravels the yearknife -long relationship that once defined herand he killed a Ghurka. Overlaid with later wisdom Initially, the narrator relives the affair with he faced a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to its sorrowful end murder the summer afterman. Set against Now he could be facing the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narratordeath penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its t help Danny at all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490

|isbnauthor=1529382823Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will DeanPerfect Passion Company

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') The Perfect Passion Company is middle-aged a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and has found herself somewhat surprisingly operating as an alternative to all the online apps in love with Pete. They're off on providing a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''more personal, tailored service. Caz's sisterNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, Gemma, reckons that Pete as Ness is going planning to take a trip to propose but Caz hasn't spotted Canada to get away for a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointedwhile. They've not been Katie is coming out of a break up with a couple for that long bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the trip will be an excellent opportunity chance to get come home to know him a bit betterEdinburgh. MeanwhileAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother but with some new characters who has dementiaquickly begin to charm. ItKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's going always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to be good, isn't it?lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Lex Croucher0811771741|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=TeensCrafts|summary=Who knew that what I really needed Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? blankets. But honestlySome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, it lifted my spirits cosy afternoons in a most delightful wayfront of the fire' variety. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since The projects are divided by the time they were tiny'll take to complete - less than five hours, much five to their mutual disgust! Gwenten hours, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diariesten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating All the subterfuge of falling in love with each otherprojects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentsI wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=1526651793

|author=Emily CritchleyDean Koontz|title=One Puzzling AfternoonThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she Benny is facing having a move as her son wants to move to another house terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memoryhouse gets trashed. HoweverOh, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friendand someone has delivered a really weird, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years agodisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and the worry it's possible that there whoever or whatever was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be inside is the thing that reveals has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the truth of what happened very last person to deserve all that time agothis bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. After 'seeing' Lucy in So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the high streetdelivery to his house is a new friend, just as she was the last time she saw hera bad weather friend called Spike, she starts who has been sent to find pockets of memories coming back to herhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. And yet as she remembers the pastSpike is going to take care of Benny, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucywill certainly take care of Benny's disappearance before her moveenemies, if he, Benny, and before her memories Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are gone forever?.|isbn=18041812501662500491

|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)Adam Stower|title=Thirty Days of DarknessMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=Thrillers Confident Readers |summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeableMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, bitter womanwell, an author whatever takes his fancy next of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsthe two. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at But he's a book fairbad magician's cat, she flukes her way so his favourite bun has been turned into a public argument with hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the latest hot shot in catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash frightening adventure and only writing what anyone could writewhiffs. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to IcelandThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where she a troll hunter is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of despairing expected – about her writingwell, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plotone much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, more or less about everything – word comes that the landladybut he's nephew has been found dead…turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=19145856150008561249

|isbn=1804545600B0C47LV1PC|title=The MonkFragility|author=Tim SullivanMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=The body in the woods near Bristol was Can you make a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditch. He'd been savagely beaten. It's a while before D S George Cross and Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the Major Crime Unit establish question if you did, would it land? The catch is that this is Father Dominicthe answer for both could well be.... no. He 'd been missing for a few days and certainly hadn't asked permission to leave his abbey. As the team gradually unpick the monkFragility's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved is set as an investment bankerthe city of Portland, brotherOregon, neighbour and friend. He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder him?cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Lauren Bravo1529431735|title=PrelovedThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary= Gwen It's February 1991 and Essex is pressing her middle-aged bosom bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a big number wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that starts with a four she's ill and ends with an oh-my-God-Ihasn'm-nearly-fortyt long to live. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - It's hard to feel any HR officer worth their salt would argue sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit boot of a mid-life crisisstolen Ford Sierra. Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the time Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to take back her life'|isbn=1398510629home?

|author=Cath HoweAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=My Life on FireThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54

|summary=Ren's family home Eli is destroyed a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a firehelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. SheEli lives with his lovely gran, her parents, and her little brother lose everythingtoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. She doesnA few short years ago, Eli't have any of her clothess parents were both lost to the titular race, or any of her special little knicka globe-knacks from her cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmother's house trotting adventure where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat all entrants have to navigate the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that world in the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes company of their lives, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a personmagical beast. But Ren This has nothing made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to put in a boxconfession from gran, and so she finds herself starting Eli knows his only hope is to dare to steal things. Small thingsenter what he most hates, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much alreadywith the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=18399428350571382231