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|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=14059409801398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The BirdcageJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Eve ChaseElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders 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, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It'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 halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, 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 he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace

|summary=It's Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the 7th first day of January 2019 medical school and we know that their friendship would keep them inseparable for a body has been pulled out quarter of the sea at Zennor in Cornwalla century. We don't know whose body it Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which isa bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat Laura is a perfectionist and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at a trauma doctor. Anjali is the request free spirit of their father, Charlie Finch, the group and she becomes a famous artistGP. The girls are actually ''half'When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-sisters fuelled party and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closeit's going to end in tragedy. Finch was known for his fecundity, if not for his fidelityWe don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty Twenty-five years ago, at later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time of the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and it's left her very wary of her sisterstheir teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=17876349060241636604|title=No Less the DevilThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Stuart MacBrideGary Stevenson

|summary=WeIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya're in Oldcastle s former mentor and Malcolm Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in troublebusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. HeAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's in an abandoned house Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and heStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''s being threatened by two young peopleOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn ' I've heard it said that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugotechnology' is what happens after you're eighteen. It seems Well, I must confess that Allegra bought Malcolm there have been more than a new coat few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) me but sheI'm left with the feeling that it'd put a tracking device in s all getting away from me. Some of it so that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingis - frankly - quite frightening. It wonOf 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't be long before re talking about or the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsI knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Jennifer SaintSunny Singh|title=ElektraHotel 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 Abhi, 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=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her 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 best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's 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'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=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club

|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of three women being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who live in the heavily male-dominated world had endless crises of Ancient Greeceself confidence. Cassandra, ClytemnestraSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and Elektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furiesset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1472273915B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1529149800A G Slatter|title=Things You Can Do: How The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' 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, 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 the Briar'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 steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to Fight Climate Change trust and Reduce Wastedetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsJonathan Kellerman

|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=We begin with a telling storyIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. All the birds His assertions that there were only open-and animals fled when -shut cases which didn't need the forest fire took hold and most help of them stood and watcheda psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, unable to think of anything they could dowho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The tiny hummingbird flew to next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the river and began taking tiny amounts swimming pool of water a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and flying back she is married to drop them into an extremely rich man and it's not the fireItalian. The animals laughed: what good But which of them was that doing. ''I'm doing the best I can'', said primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the hummingbirdBag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. And thatHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, really, is particularly when he considered the only way strain that we will solve being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the problem of climate change – by each opportunity of us doing what we canwork experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, however small that might he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to bea professional footballer.

|isbn=17765743380861541774|title=Leilong's Too Long!A Nye of Pheasants|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnSteve Burrows

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks donDCI Domenic Jejeune't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window s close friend and slide down his neck. It's perfectformer colleague, Danny Maik, isn't it? What could be has taken a more fun way of going short holiday in Singapore to school? There is a problemmeet up with an old ally, thoughGuy Trueman. Leilong isn't happy Maik was involved in the city: a street brawl - he's always having to be careful about where would later maintain that he puts his feet was facing a man armed with a knife - and – because he's longer than killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a tennis court – charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he often causes damage without intending might have planned to and traffic regularly gets snarled upmurder the man. The school decides that Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune cando nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't be the bus anymorehelp Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=303091657XAlexander McCall Smith|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=Boards must act The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the best interests of their stakeholders online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and ensure that they are well-managed and financially securelook after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. This might seem obvious but Katie is coming out of a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or the collapse of break up with a major company - have left interested parties asking what bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the board was doingchance to come home to Edinburgh. Where were they? Occasionally And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to turn charm. Katie has no experience in running a blind eyebusiness, leaving watchers wondering which was worse or in match- ignorance or criminality. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals making, but what Ness has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown full confidence in her abilities, and Randall S Peterson give us a there's always her very readable trip through such major debacles as railway maniahelpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very little.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=15293379680811771741|title=In Place of FearInstaKnits for Baby|author=Catriona McPhersonMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Crafts|summary=ItMelissa Leapman's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS is bornblankets. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job Some will be to help patients with those nonquick knits -medical problems which affect their healthothers are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The hardest part of the job will be to persuade people that projects are divided by the services she offers really are free and that time they don't have ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to do anything ten hours, ten to qualify for themtwenty hours and more than twenty hours. Some of All the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insightprojects are attractive, modern and useable. Her marriage has never been consummatedI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|author=Mark LinganeDean Koontz|title=GalaxyThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionParanormal|summary=SparkBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, who is an elite pilot with the Space Academyhe loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, barely makes it through and someone has delivered a battle alive. His coreally weird, disturbing coffin-pilot sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma inside is the thing that lasted yearshas trashed his house! The thing is, he remembers little and Benny is in no physical shape the very last person to resume his dutiesdeserve all this bad luck. But Earth He is under threat and he musta nice person. A really nice person. Returned by So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his superiors house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to the space station, he finds himself amid help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a last ditch attempt good person. Spike is going to save humanity - take care of Benny, and not just from the alien threats against itwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, but also from its own sins against itselfand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W1662500491

|author=Lissa EvansAdam Stower|title=WishedMurray and Bun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When things contrive Murray is supposed to force Ed be a humble, tidy and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) friendly cat, one who is able to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old womansleep and eat and eat and sleep and, Miss Fileywell, for a week whatever takes his fancy next of half-term, they're not looking forward to itthe two. For one thing, she thinks Wi-Fi is But he's a special brand of biscuit. They donbad magician't particularly take to Willard eithers cat, the new kid next doorso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywhere. But things soon change when the catflap they find some tiny old birthday candles, and manage to work both use can chuck them out that these candles, for as long as their flames lastnot into the regular back garden, make birthday wishes come truebut into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. How will things change for This time round it drops them into a second time when they realise thatViking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, having used up three of themone much bigger than Murray was, these should really to be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than them?honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=178845202X0008561249

|authorisbn=Justyn EdwardsB0C47LV1PC|title=The Great Fox IllusionFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is Can you make a contest with a difference. No singing''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, no dancing, this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks workthe question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, and who can attempt to win would it land? The Great Fox's magical legacy - the secrets to all of his tricks! Flick catch is determined to win, but not because she wants to own that the tricksanswer for both could well be. She is interested in just ... no. ''oneFragility'' trickis set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the trick that The Great Fox stole from her father. And she's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able to bring her missing father home.|isbn=1529501946covid pandemic