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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=1398527122}}{{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=07278505470008517061|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)Death in a Lonely Place|author=David MarkStig Abell

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadn't even had time for breakfast when the call came throughFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. A body had been found in There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the roots future of a fallen tree at Brantinghamhis life with his vet girlfriend, near Hull. When he gets to the sceneLivia and her daughter Diana, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imagined. A young man's corpse is entangled with the roots as moving in together would mean a lot of a newlycompromise: does Jake give up his off-fallen tree – 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 roots have grown through him – future she wants for herself and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyes. her daughter? It would seem that this was done whilst For the man was still alive. McAvoy makes a promise to moment they’re enjoying life in the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at a cost present and this time putting the future on the cost might be to McAvoy's own familyback burner.

|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Natalia Garcia FreireElly 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 World Does 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 Belong To Usmuch 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

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= Early comments on this debut novel It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delighther bed one summer night. I will agree with She was never found and the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'investigation ground to a delight' is perhaps using the expression halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a way Istraightforward murder/suicide but there'm not familiar withs something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. I have What looked as though it was going to confess my ignorance of the Spanishbe an open-and-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation hereshut case is now a complex double murder. From Kerrigan is convinced that the little I have read explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (in translationsuch as Derwent's boss, I don't read SpanishUna Burt) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismare less convinced. |isbn=0861541901

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin0571379877|title= Rebel SkiesThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 3.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as Edward Jevons is a servant on the Midoriworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink Robert and make merry between their conquestsStanza. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – Robert's a power sought after all across the Empiretheatre director. He asks her 's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to come with run errands for him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she . Edward has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say been in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, love with Stanza since their university days - and she is forced he's drunkenly confided how he feels to flee out into the worldRobert. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a sky-ship whose express purpose relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to hunt down shikigami, and stumble upon the two of them kissing in a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590dark passageway.

|author=Patrice LawrenceJo Callaghan|title=NeedleLeave No Trace|rating=34|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Brave. Charlene, When a man is found crucified on the 'heroine' top of this piece is extremely hard for some people a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to likethe case alongside her sidekick, characters and readers boththe AI detective Lock. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, sheIt's fostering their first live case together, having previously been very successful with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uniseveral cold cases. Such But when there is a tempestuous personality may be in need of second body found crucified a comfort blanketfew days later, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene Kat is suddenly struggling with a wonder knitter, potential serial killer and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with very high profile case that draws a store detective, and then force people lot of unwanted attention to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignoranttheir AI Future Policing project. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me Will they be able to saysolve the case in time, only to remark how sharp or will Kat find herself taken off the case and pointy those knitting needles can be..., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1800901011139851120X

|isbn=14059409801399613073|title=The BirdcageMoral Injuries|author=Eve ChaseChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|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're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in troubles twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. HeShe's in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young peopleback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. One is Allegra (weFreya'll soon learn that shes former mentor and Carole's Allegra Dean-Edwards) close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and Hugothe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to keep him warm (the village: Arthur, she often does this for homeless peoplefeels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingloved. It won't be long before After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the police realise that Malcolm love of her life, who was one of their own: not many other people are going to murdered) and Freya and James have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsnow divorced.

|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=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 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=Jennifer SaintChristopher Edge|title=ElektraBlack 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. The tiny hummingbird flew to She knew that the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into involvement was something that the fireman she loved needed. The animals laughed: what good was that doingnext case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. ''I'm doing He was the best I canheir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it'', said s not the hummingbirdItalian. And that, really, is But which of them was the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.primary target?

|isbn=17765743381529395224|title=LeilongLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's Too Long!life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, 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 be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=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 be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to force Ed sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with fancy next of the neighbourhood spinsterish old womantwo. But he's a bad magician's cat, Miss Filey, for so his favourite bun has been turned into a week of half-termhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they're both use can chuck them out, not looking forward to it. For one thinginto the regular back garden, she thinks Wi-Fi is but into a special brand world of biscuitfrightening adventure and whiffs. They don't particularly take to Willard eitherThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, the new kid next doorone much bigger than Murray was, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywhere. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candlesbe honest, but he's turned up and manage he'll have to work out that these candles, for as long as their flames last, do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make birthday wishes come true. How will things change for a second time when they realise that''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, having used up three of themis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, these should really would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be used for .... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the wishes city of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202XPortland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic