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|author=Marcus SedgwickTom Percival|title=WrathThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meet FitzWill's life is difficult, in a young Scottish lad full multitude of frustration at himselfways. Lockdown He is only just over, and bullied because he should be free to do what he wantshas 'the wrong shoes', to go where he wants has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and with whom he wantsdoesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, but and his dad can't work because he cannot stop himself from putting lost his foot job at the college, was working a cash-in it when he talks to -hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his best friendmum and dad are separated, Cassieand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. They were half And yet, he still has a tiny amount of a desultory school bandhope. He is good at art, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent and clings to the enigmatic – saying she could hear moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying light at the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Welllong, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't..dark tunnel.|isbn=18009008991398527122

|isbnauthor=1635864070Sylvie Cathrall|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah TalleyA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=CraftsScience Fiction|summary=If you've ever started knitting There are few greater joys than a pair of socks, finished the first one and either got bored by the idea of doing the same thing all over again, or started on the second sock and lost the first before you finished it, this is the book for youwhich lives up to a compelling premise. Where And this is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you to knit two socks in one, divide of them up and have a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds good? It's clever and well-thought-out.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Olivie Blake0008517061|title=The Atlas SixDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= DarkFormer Metropolitan Police detective, sharpJake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and highly inquisitiveher daughter Diana, ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming as moving in together would mean a Tiklot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-Tok sensationgrid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.|isbn=1529095239

|isbn=00083849831786482126|title=The Paris ApartmentJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Lucy FoleyElly Griffiths

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'Things are not what apartments - when they seem''discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. It There was no skull. Was this a Friday and Jess Hadley was keen to get to her half-brother's flat in Paris. ritual killing or murder? She'd come across from London on EurostarInevitably, courtesy of the money she'd stolen from The Pervert's till in the Copacabana Bar in BrightonDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It wasn's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't likely , that the police would be on to her yet but she'd like to be somewhere safe and is pregnant with food and drink inside her. She'd phoned Ben and got his child as a result of the address - 12 Rue des Amants - and he told her that the apartment was on the third floorone night they spent together some three months ago. She's outside what's obviously a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to get in touch with Bensudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=07603735580008551324|title=Nordic KnitsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Sue FlandersNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I was so delighted by Sue FlandersIt' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects s unusual for anyone from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didnHardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he't need any persuading at all s prepared to pick up tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her ''Nordic Knits''death. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norwayperson, he promises, Sweden is someone big and Icelandit will be worth the police doing what he wants. There are a few sweaters or jackets but And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the majority remainder of patterns are for smaller items such as mittens, gloves, hats his sentence and bagsto get an early parole date. All are bright Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and cheerful she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and very cosyanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=19160720380008405026|title=The House A Stranger in the Hollow Family (The Talbot SagaMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Allie CresswellJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-sevenIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Jocelyn Talbot Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother have travelled , Helena, and her father are dead in some discomfort from their home at Ecklingtonbed. Initially, to it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the house in positioning of the hollowbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The two women are angry with each other What looked as though it was going to be an open-and Jocelyn -shut case is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath now a facade of respectability, the deplorable truth''complex double murder. Hester Kerrigan is furious about Jocelynconvinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's refusal to do disappearance: others (such as she was askedDerwent's boss, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''. Then we Una Burt) are told of the birth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshireless convinced.

|authorisbn=Matthieu Aikins0571379877|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=ItEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's easy to forget at times that The Naked Dona theatre director. He't Fear the Water isn't actually fictions also self-obsessed, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticismdemanding, but rather a testament handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided he feels to accompany his friend as a refugee Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts Stanza or tell Edward that a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which relationship had me on edge the whole way through. But itbegun between them but he's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader not like most men: Edward is left to perfectly envisage stumble upon the environments and people describedtwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn= B09N9157T6

|author=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas EngerJo Callaghan|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)Leave No Trace|rating=4.5

|summary=This When a man is found crucified on the third book in a series top of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officerhill in Nuneaton, and Emma RammDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, a crime journalistthe AI detective Lock. In this book we find that when one of BlixIt's colleaguestheir first live case together, Kovic, uncovers a connection between having previously been very successful with several Oslo cold cases, she tries to contact her superior, Blix. Before she can reach him, however, she But when there is murdered, and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered too. We then find ourselves a second body found crucified a few days later , Kat is suddenly struggling with Blix a potential serial killer and Ramma very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, who are being interviewed by or will Kat find herself taken off the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot case and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happen. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someonepotentially, out of a career?|isbn=1914585003139851120X

|authorisbn=Daniel Abraham1399613073|title=Age of AshMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary= We meet Alys under Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the most northerly first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of Oldgate's four bridgesa century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. she has Laura is a knife in her hand perfectionist and a meeting that she dreadstrauma doctor. Meanwhile, the City of Kithamar Anjali is at a point in the turning free spirit of years when the worlds are group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at their thinnest a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and all things are possibleit's going to end in tragedy. It is We don't know who suffered the night between tragedy or the funeral of a Prince and consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the coronation of his successorthree friends. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruledThis time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=0356515427

|isbn=15290955220241636604|title=The InterviewTrading Game: A Confession|author=C M EwanGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Kate Harding is going for If you were to bring up an interview for her dream job at Edge Communications. Itimage of a city banker in your mind, you's the last interview re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the day at one of London's newest office buildings pin-stripe suit and Edge have fitted out their part of his background is the building to be something special. MaggieEast End, Kate's recruitment agentwhere he was familiar with violence, is keen poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to see that Kate approaches the interview in a good state London School of mind: Kate assumes that this Economics. Stevenson is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets the job bright - extremely bright - and she he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlybe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=B097XNMCRK1035021803|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Neil LancasterC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Loch Torridon It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'is'' the s back now because of beyond: therea request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's not even any light pollution which close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is why it was dead and the perfect place circumstances seem suspicious, to land illegal deliveries of drugssay the least. Jimmy McLeish thought that he Arthur was onto a nice little earner, only the reason why Freya had not been back to find that Maccathe village: Arthur, the man he thought he was working withshe feels, is deadlet her down badly. His remains would never Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be foundnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. The delivery is hijacked by Davie After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and Callum. As married James (on the rebound from the story progresses we'll get to know them quite welllove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn= B09NDJ77LMAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Me All Tomorrow's 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.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and My ShadowAbhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, 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 phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they 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=Deborah StoneJennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary= It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'What happens when someone is pushed too far and s not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they begin 've been murdered, but to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that no one loved you? And how far would you go her father wants to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off move the shadows of her past and attempts to repair decades worth of painfamily 'Down South'. When you'' Rachel re from Yorkshire, Down South is in a current conversation with her psychiatristfrightening, foreign place, who pushes her to recall her life from very young childhood onwardsbest avoided. But Rachel is combative with Doctor Blake For Miv, sometimes even contemptuous of the move would mean leaving herbest friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. You can see that it She's not an easy therapeutic relationship. Rachelworried about the dangers or that her Mum's recall of her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute and unforgiving claritystopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=15294096591398524085|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Elly GriffithsNicci French

|summary=It Charlotte Salter was some time since expected at her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her motherhusband's belongingsfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She was intrigued by the discovery of a picture of her own house: it was an old photographHer children, sons Niall, taken in misty conditions Paul and Ollie and on the back it said 'dawn 1963'her daughter, some years before Ruth was bornEtty. It was before are all worried but - strangely - her parents were marriedhusband, Alec, is not. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the country was in lockdownriver. Ruth and Kate are restricted to It was an easy assumption for the cottage with Ruth attempting police to home school Kate make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and continue with her university teaching dutiesthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they got to know whilst clapping for carerscan do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=18479418341035906708|title=Atomic HabitsDiva|author=James ClearDaisy Goodwin

|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=I've said this before We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but there are some books that you seek outshe was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, some books that you stumble across in December 1923 and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'Atomic Habits'' to make it more manageable in the States. is When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the last categoryNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WChristopher Edge|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Helen is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a popular activist. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps movie marathon at their local cinema, a popular franchise owner? Anyway, Helen is so popular place that has the United States government has made her its Ambassador nickname of Woke'The Black Hole'. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the governmentmovie starts, including they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the Shaming Conference and next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''for indoctrinating cinema, and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how to have it''. Ouch!their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=B09D95TRKZRachel Greenlaw|title=The Wedding Murders|author=Sarah LinleyCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get a permanent job with ''I can hear the newspaper and song of the case she was covering was her big chancesea. It was even more important to her than The call of the celebrity wedding she was to attend deep, the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthew. She was leaving her seven-year-old son, Patrick with her sister, Emma, and heading off to a grand manor house hotel answering beat in the North Yorkshire countrysidemy heart. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter and former member of the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phones.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:

Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'It'll be brilliants 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, just remembershe sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, donas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler't let go s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of my handher home and the ones she holds most dear.''|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1529135362James Sherwood Metts|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanPlanet Storyland

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It was Things have been a long drive to bit sticky for the weekend retreat in NorthumbriaEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, right up near the Scottish borders often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to make it worse the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - had this technological change and starting to delay making the trip until the Saturday morning. Jane and Ruth had known each think of other for a long , new ways to spend time but Emily was a bit of , along came an outsiderawful pandemic. She and Paul had married only relatively recently and she Life was ten years younger than the other two women. The friendship of the group went back to school days. Paul had coached rugby at the school where Mark, Toby pretty much shut down and Rob were pupils. Mark had married Jane, and Toby is Ruth's husband. And Rob? Wellalong with it, Rob's deadall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=gareth_steelMatthew Tree|title=We'll Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth SteelKnow|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeLiterary Fiction|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be appropriate. Stories of different from his father, a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great drunk and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and - after reading - I agree with himwho had endless crises of self confidence. He says that he's written it So Tim applied himself to inform and provoke thoughthis studies, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and distressing issues set himself high but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eatingachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1787634884A G Slatter|title=The Herd|author=Emily EdwardsBriar Book of the Dead

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=Our story opens in December 2019'' 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, before most all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of us had even heard the Briar's, a family of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come 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 major issuesteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. WeWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town're in Farley County Courts leader, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash KohliEllie takes her place beside her. As they were best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened is major challenges come her way left, right and thatcentre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, regardless putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the outcomeBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, this is not going to work out well for anyoneunder threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs1529900360|title=The Language of FoodGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had the slightest inclination been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to boil an eggask for his help on difficult cases. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a local woman with psychologist only worked for a troubled home lifewhile. Together Finally, it was Robin, they testDelaware's partner, craftwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, refine and reshape though. Two lovers were murdered in the world swimming pool of domestic cookery, reinventing a remote property in Bel Air. He was the recipe book heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and changing it's not the face Italian. But which of cookery writing forever.|isbn=1398502227them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1529395224|title=LokiLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodThe Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got Siôn Rowlands fell into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banishedveterinary science accidentally. And transformed – for Loki is spending His father was a month both in exile GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the physical form of a middlestrain that being on-school kid here call put on Earth. Hehis father's guarded by life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a giant and family friend who was a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, to be the more suave, more popular vet and more successful brother of was convinced this was the twojob for him. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation Before long, and get he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and to prove it dream since he has to write the text we read in was a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progresschild. But Loki is the kind of god who insists he can do If anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going he'd wanted to be a walk in the parkprofessional footballer...right?|isbn=1406399752

|isbn=00084544420861541774|title=A Flicker in the DarkNye of Pheasants|author=Stacy WillinghamSteve Burrows

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's May 2019 close friend and Dr Chloe Davisformer colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a medical psychologistshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, is completing Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a session street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a new patientknife - and he killed a Ghurka. Lacey is suffering mentally Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but Chloe has hopes of getting her through the trauma. You see, Chloe knows what it's like evidence came to light that suggested that he might have a traumatic childhood. Her father is Richard Davis, planned to murder the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed it to Now he could be facing the policedeath penalty. Dick Davis is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to do with him for the last twenty years. Her mother is in a care home.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Escape Room|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which help as any interference from another police force could provoke a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific location, diplomatic incident and have to solve problems in order to get their way out. What Iwouldn've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, t help Danny at all new to each other and booked into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at the game's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964

|isbnauthor=1732898731Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese Perfect Passion Company

|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=There was The Perfect Passion Company is a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art suppliesdating agency in Edinburgh, stuffed toys run by Ness and the like: operating as an alternative to all the things which most children have online apps in abundanceproviding a more personal, tailored service. The Boy's delight was in Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happybusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. As he grew Katie is coming out of a break up and became with a Manbad boyfriend, his life became more complicated and he dealt with so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this by getting bigger new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and better boxesthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Look carefully at the pictures Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and youthere'll see that one of them has s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a padlock...hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=B09MN1526W0811771741|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Liz MistryMelissa Leapman

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=ItMelissa Leapman's the third murder in the space of ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a few weeks and they've all been because collection of machetes used on teenagersknits from toys to blankets. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik Some will be quick knits - others are amongst of the first to arrive on 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of Bradfordfire' variety. Only, this The projects are divided by the time, itthey's going ll take to be different. The body appears complete - less than five hours, five to Nikki ten hours, ten to be that of her beloved nephew, Haqib, twenty hours and she has a very public meltdownmore than twenty hours. It isn't Haqib: there All the projects are similarities but the body is clad in designer clothes attractive, modern and comes from an obviously monied backgrounduseable. What it does mean though is I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that Nikki is going to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depression's me being picky.

|author=Ally WilkesDean Koontz|title=All the White SpacesThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorParanormal|summary=In post-WWI EnglandBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randalland his house gets trashed. For Jonathan Oh, this adventure represents and someone has delivered a chance for a fresh startreally weird, and the opportunity disturbing coffin-sized object to live life as his authentic self and true genderhome, without the disapproval and constraints of his parents. However, Jonathan isnit't s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the only one fleeing the confines of thing that has trashed his past and house! The thing is, Benny is the shadow of the war hangs like very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a funeral shroud over the expeditionnice person. A really nice person. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced delivery to overwinter on landhis house is a new friend, a menacing presence waits bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to prey on their darknesshelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. If Jonathan Spike is going to make it out take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of the Arctic winter aliveBenny's enemies, if he will have to face his demons once and for all, or risk making the barrenBenny, icy landscape his tomband Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=17890978351662500491

|author=Dean KoontzAdam Stower|title=QuicksilverMurray and Bun|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get Murray is supposed to be a mercurial character yethumble, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundlingtidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staffeat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind's a bad magician's cat, for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – so his favourite bun has demanded of him that he go to been turned into a derelict dinerhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, find a gold coin worth a fortuneand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, cash not into the value of it out regular back garden, but into a world of his bank frightening adventure and prepare for going on the lamwhiffs. And all this This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to turn be honest, but he's turned up and suggest he's of interest ll have to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.do…|isbn=15420198850008561249

|isbn=0008441618B0C47LV1PC|title=Other ParentsFragility|author=Sarah StovellMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there answer for both could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. There was one difficulty, though - they were .. no. ''devastatingly shockableFragility''is set as the city of Portland, with two membersOregon, in particular, causing problems for cautiously begins to emerge from the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on imposed during the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Sarah Ann Juckes1529431735|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Jasper It's February 1991 and Essex is a little boy who has some strugglesbitingly cold, and whilst wewhich made Bruce Hopkins're never told why exactly, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotionsreturn all the more surprising. His big sister, Rosie, has He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a huge support to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, and writing wanted drug smuggler for a book with him, all decade. The return has come about birds, that because he can read when he gets scared to help him calm down. His parents seem completely caught up in their business's had a letter from his ex-wife, and so it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him saying that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She s ill and hasn't come home when she said she would, and she isn't answering her phonelong to live. His parents won It't speak s hard to him or feel any sympathy when they doHopkins is abducted, he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems stripped to be right, his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to its song, as they do together every Spring.|isbn=1398510890}}home?