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|author=David LagercrantzTom Percival|title=Dark MusicThe Wrong Shoes|rating=35|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart of what little investigating Will's life is going ondifficult, but there is not in a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthmultitude of ways. For oneHe 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 main focus most basic of the narrativethings like food, Micaela, is no John Watson MD. Sheand his dad can's a Chilean in t work because he lost his job at the Stockholm policecollege, put on was working a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of old, cash-in -hand job on a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, building site and just outside the stadiumhad an accident. Beppe, Throw into that mix the suspectfact that his mum and dad are separated, was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogationWill's life seems bleak in every direction. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it allAnd yet, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is still has a shamblestiny amount of hope. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve the crimeHe is good at art, and with Rekke clings to the most erratic, irregular kind moments of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it all. Untiljoy when he is drawing, that may be, she manages to stop him in feel like a light at the middle end of an apparent suicide attempt..a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=15294131921398527122

|isbnauthor=B0B2N7MVYMSylvie Cathrall|title=The Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel GodfreyA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had There are few greater joys than a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard book which lives up to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prisoncompelling premise. He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be wary And this is one of the McArthur brothersthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=18469761460008517061|title=The Bone RoadDeath in a Lonely Place|author=N E SolomonsStig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Heather BishopFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the former Olympic cyclistfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, flew to Bosnia to surprise Livia and her boyfrienddaughter Diana, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnon. She even took their bikes so they could have a few days' break as moving in the region. It was together would mean a little worrying that he didn't seem exactly pleased to see herlot of compromise: she even wondered if he had a woman in the hotel room. Heather had to does Jake give up competitive cycling after a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but her reactions his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her memory were reservations about whether or not up to this is the standard future she would need to race again. wants for herself and her daughter? Sometimes she couldn't be certain about what she had or hadn't done For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and she simply couldn't cope in difficult situations. She didn't entirely trust herselfputting the future on the back burner.

|authorisbn=Judith Eagle1786482126|title=The Accidental StowawayJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Patch is 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 little girl who has been passed from one relation to another, until it seems that there is nobody left for her to go todoorway. Her father died when she There was very young, and her mother ran awayno skull. The family lawyerWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, after consultation Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with ‘someone’, arranges for her to go to a school in LiverpoolDCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but on her arrival thereNelson doesn't, that she gets caught up in an adventure is pregnant with his child as a little boy called Turo who works on a steamshipresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. During a chase with him (when she is both trying to get her rollerskate back and running away from the police!) she winds up on the steamship hiding in a lifeboat, and Her condition will be obvious before she knows itlong, the ship has left the docks and she not least because Ruth is an accidental stowaway!|isbn=0571363121prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=07603798740008551324|title=Super Easy Knitting for BeginnersThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Carri HammettNeil Lancaster

|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I learned It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to knit in approach the nineteen-fifties: it wasn't a choice, it was a requirementpolice. Girls learned to knit Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to embroider tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and boys did wood and metal workwho was responsible for her death. My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of criticism This person, he promises, is someone big and quite a few tears: it was a long time before I realised that there was pleasure will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be had in transferred to an open prison to serve the skillremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Nearly seventy years later Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the only other thing that keeps my hands at all supple. The turning point was a booklet published by Patons which gave all the basics Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and some patterns. I've been looking for something simple to recommend to people anyone whoworks with him is kept well away from what'd like to master the skills happening. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?

|authorisbn=Sarah Todd Taylor0008405026|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Alice Eclair. A perfect eye and very careful hands have made her one of ParisIt's best young cake makers and decorators, making sure sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her mother's establishment is a classy affairbed one summer night. Not bad for She was never found and the investigation ground to a thirteen year oldhalt. OhNow, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a perfect eye straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and a very careful handler her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and remote trainer have also made sure she -shut case is now a very competent young spycomplex double murder. Her first real mission will be to chase a traitor across the country – working behind the scenes on a posh sleeper train to the south of France, and hoping against hope Kerrigan is convinced that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents to creep into the country from getting into nefarious hands. But while nobody would have her down explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as a spyDerwent's boss, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find the baddy?|isbn=1839940956Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=07603799120571379877|title=Super Easy Quilting for BeginnersThe Kellerby Code|author=Editors of Quarry BooksJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and usable when I was in my twentiesStanza. It would be Robert's a while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but Itheatre director. He've never felt completely at home with quiltings also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. I needed something a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knotsEdward 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'Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a good place to startdark passageway. So, how did it stack up?

|isbnauthor=1788360737Jo Callaghan|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander AdamsLeave No Trace|rating=24|genre= Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art When a man is political because art is not made found crucified on the top of a hill in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Therefore It's their first live case together, all art must be politicalhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ Kat is adamant suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend draws a lot of so-called artivism has caused artists unwanted attention to become more overtly political (read: left wing)their AI Future Policing project. Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and media elites hoping to create , potentially, out of a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=14087121721399613073|title=The Cliff HouseMoral Injuries|author=Chris BrookmyreChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=''Many of them didn't know each otherOlivia, one Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them didn't know anybody, including Jen, one inseparable for a quarter of them quite possibly hated hera century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and two of them definitely hated each othera trauma doctor. What could possibly go wrong?'' That's Anjali is the round-up for Jen's hen party which is to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south free spirit of Barrathe group and she becomes a GP. TheyWhen we first meet them they're all staying in The Cliff House, hosted by Lauren, at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's the utmost going to end in luxury living but then Jen can afford ittragedy. SheWe don's just sold her muffin business for millions but is staying on to run it. She's got her doubts about t know who suffered the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting a little strangely of late and wouldn't explain to her what tragedy or the email he was hurriedly deleting was aboutconsequences. Added to Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that, he's just about forced her to bring his sister, Samira, whom Jen's never met, on will impact the tripthree friends. This time, on the grounds that sheit's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months and desperately needs the breaktheir teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=17883607020241636604|title=Charles, The Alternative PrinceTrading Game: An Unauthorised BiographyA Confession|author=Edzard ErnstGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=For over forty yearsIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter you're unlikely to think of alternative medicine and complementary therapiessomeone like Gary Stevenson. ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses A hoodie and jeans replaces the Prince's opinions, beliefs pin-stripe suit and aims against the his background of is the scientific evidenceEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There are few instances of was no posh public school on his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage CV - but he had been to the reputation London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a man who is proud facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his refusal to apply evidence-basedability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, logical reasoning to his ambitionsthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Will Carver1035021803|title=The Daves Next Door|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up Antique Hunter's Guide to the fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1529125790|title=The Family RemainsMurder|author=Lisa JewellC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In July 2019, Jason Mott was mud larking on It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the banks English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of the River Thames when he came across a bag of what appeared to be human bonesrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and Saffron Brown from forensics were there the circumstances seem suspicious, to investigatesay the least. The bones were indeed human: a young woman Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been killed by a blow back to the head many years ago - probably village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as long as twenty-five - but antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the bones had not been in man or pursue the river longer than a yearprofession she loved. There was no identification but After the bag contained vegetationsplit, some she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of which her life, who was quite unusualmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Jennifer MasonAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Partitions of UnityAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary= Here at Bookbag Towers''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, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled I must confess that there have been more than a series few decades of disappearancestechnology in my lifetime. In I've kept up reasonably well with what'Partitions of Unitys advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it', she sets her mind to solving a murders 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.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF

|author=Fiona Parashar Sunny Singh|title=A Beautiful Way to Coach Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Business and FinanceThrillers |summary= So what am I doing reading this bookThe 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, using this bookthere is Sam, a wartime photographer and being audacious enough to review it? Truth is I bought it out of curiosityAbhi, the hotel manager. I was at an on-line launch As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the book residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and Fiona’s description keeps on venturing out of her Vision Days appealed room to try to mecapture what's happened through her photography. I wanted to see if there were things in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing them to a full dayAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if I could give myself a Vision Day, to bring me away from their vision and back to my ownthey will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=103211603X086154742X

|isbn=19137503531529153298|title=Britannica's Word The List of the DaySuspicious Things|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue MacyJennie Godfrey

|summary=It’s 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 twenty-two years since Captain Hookdisappearing. Well, now going by just ‘James’they've been murdered, has been in Neverlandbut 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'. Living When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a new life in Londonfrightening, he has never completely escaped his pastforeign place, best avoided. But now he senses For Miv, the edges of the beast circling around his life in Londonmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and when suddenly he finds himself face she'll do anything to face in the street with Wendy, he knows prevent that the line between this world and Neverland is growing thin. The beast is finally coming to get him, and in She's not worried about the process will pull Wendy and dangers or that her daughter Jane back into their past once againMum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1789096839

|isbn=17873017451398524085|title=ConfidenceHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Denise MinaNicci French|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=We're back in the world of podcasters Anna and Fin, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]. It was Anna who'd organised the 'family' holiday: her ex, Hamish, is now with her best friend, Estelle and her children are living with them. Fin (who was married to Estelle) is there too and it was Anna who invited his girlfriend, Sofia. It's not long before everyone realises that was a bad mistake. Sofia's difficult and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - a lighthouse, in a storm - she begins talking about Anna's past, including her real name and the rape. This was something which Anna had intended to tell the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess and ten-year-old Lizzie - when the time was right. And this wasn't the right time.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763566X|title=Listen to Me|author=Tess Gerritsen|rating=4.5

|summary=WeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband're in Boston with Amys fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and she wore her newdaughter, buttery-leather pumps Etty. are all worried but as she comes out of the library she knows that they're going to be ruined - and unsafe strangely - in the snow that's now falling. As she crosses the road, a car comes out of nowhere and hits her. It doesn't stop. Two months laterhusband, we're with Angela RizzoliAlec, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoliis not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and a keen defender of Greg, find the suburb body of RevereGreg's father, north of BostonDuncan Ackerley, where she livesin the river. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has It was an easy assumption for the time police to watch whatmake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's happening in t stand the neighbourhoodguilt. The people who Salter children are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsnot convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=00083956321035906708|title=One Last SecretDiva|author=Adele ParksDaisy Goodwin

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Natalya is an escort. WellWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, her name's not ''actually'' Natalya: that's her professional name but it is a nod she was born to her Serbian heritage. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora DziewulskiGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, usually known as Dora Wulskiin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. If you're thinking of Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'escort' as being a polite description of a prostitute, run by a pimp, whoCallas's turning tricks to fund a drug habit, forget make it. Dora is a professional more manageable in all senses of the wordStates. She has an agent, Elspeth, who takes 30% of When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her income and deals with voice - she was raised under the payments but checks out the clients to see that Dora is going to be safe. Dora describes herself as Nazi occupation by a self-employed clairvoyant to Her Majesty's Revenue mother who mercilessly exploited her and Customsmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=David SolomonsChristopher Edge|title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Gavin is being followedLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, seemingly constantly, by a place that has the new (very annoying) girl at schoolnickname of 'The Black Hole'. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl story. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! Because in this instanceHowever, as the girl in question movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is Nikivery different, and she is a galactic princess (nothey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, really, she can they figure out what on earth is!) going on? So what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled in a situation whereWill they ever get back to the cinema, potentially, Earth and everyone on it will be blown to smithereens, all because of Nikitheir real lives?|isbn=08576399351839942738

|author=Alex CotterRachel Greenlaw|title=The Mermaid CallCompass and Blade

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids don't exist'I can hear the song of the sea. But she also knows they have to exist – at least The call of the deep, the answering beat in the public eyemy heart. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – '' Rosevear, a far northern English resort – without themremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. A hundred years and change agoMira, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaidslike her mother before her, but were forced is one of the seven who swim out to return survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to help out with end the Great War effort. They also showed female emancipationwrecking, which helped create they capture the townisland's tourism industry, now faded leader and falling apart but once a feminist success storyMira's father. AliceDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a girl bargain with a wreck survivor who stumbles into Vivien's gran's tourist shop one dayis as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, knows she certainly wants mermaids sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to exist – she thinks unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her familyfrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's black sheep died searching for themterritory, or else was just too successful in Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her hunthome and the ones she holds most dear. When the shy, doubting Thomasina that is Vivien collides with the exuberant, gung-ho Alice, what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they find?|isbn=18399419010008664730

|isbnauthor=1739805100James Sherwood Metts|title=Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of war|author=Andrew MarchPlanet Storyland

|genre=BiographyConfident Readers|summary= ''Loving Things have been a bit sticky for the Enemy'' tells the quite extraordinary story of author Andrew MarchEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's grandparents, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went re paid to Dresden do and other tasks that took time to teach in the early days of the Nazi regime in the 1930saccomplish. Fred, a sensitive Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and thoughtful manstarting to think of other, had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Fred's attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships Life was pretty much shut down and connections that lasted for a lifetime, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=B0B575J99NMatthew Tree|title=Beneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke AdamsWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and a teacher chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and now was the time to make a changewho had endless crises of self confidence. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she So Tim applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interviewhimself to his studies, she was offered the position cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and it wasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class set himself high but it went surprisingly wellachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1529125898A G Slatter|title=Godmersham Park|author=Gill HornbyThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary=''If it were not There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for the casual dereliction however long I can. This secret magic of the odd gentleman's dutymy own, all mine, there would no women at last. I just want to teach well-bred daughters at allenjoy it for a while.''

Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the position protection of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was the Briar's, a case family of necessitywitches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Until Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the death of first non-witch to be born into her motherfamily for generations and as such since she was young, Anne had her training as a comfortable life steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the householdpotions. When her mother diedgrandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her father cast . As challenges come her off way left, right and would have nothing more centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to do communicate with the dead, putting herat 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 Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It 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. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of £35 a yearpsychologist only worked for a while. Her maidFinally, it was Robin, AgnesDelaware's partner, would receive nothing but who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was fortunately taken something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in by some neighboursBel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Lev Parikian 1529395224|title=Light Rains Sometimes FallLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5

|summary= If you’re Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a writer yourself, or an aspiring writer, or someone who pretends GP and Rowlands didn't want to writefollow in his footsteps, then you know particularly when he considered the strain that there are unnumbered types being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of books. Some you read for fun, some for distraction, some for vicarious emotion, some to learn from in doing work experience with a family friend who was a random way, some for focussed research, vet and some because they are, broadly speaking, was convinced this was the kind of thing you think you might like to writejob for him. OrBefore long, indeedhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, are actually trying he'd wanted to writebe a professional footballer.|isbn=1783966386

|isbn=07515815770861541774|title=Lying Beside YouA Nye of Pheasants|author=Michael RobothamSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthday. Voices told him former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to do itmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Only two people survived the carnage - Elias, who Maik was sent to Rampton, and his thirteen-year-old brother, Cyrus, who hid involved in a shed until the police found him. Twenty years street brawl - he would later, Cyrus is maintain that he was facing a man armed with a forensic psychologist knife - and he's been told that his brother is being releasedkilled a Ghurka. Can Cyrus forgive the sinner whilst having to live on Initially, he faced a daily basis with the results charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the crime? man. Can Now he bear to have Elias living in could be facing the same house? death penalty. How will his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=140595115XAlexander McCall Smith|title=A Stranger on Board|author=Cameron WardThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Right from The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the beginningonline apps in providing a more personal, we know this will not turn out welltailored service. Eight days into Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to deliver the superyacht ''Escape'' Canada to Antiguaget away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, all 300 tonnes and six decks will be floundering without power in so jumps at the Atlanticchance to come home to Edinburgh. Those of 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 crew Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who are left will be cowering quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in fear running a fellow crew member tries to pick them offbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, one by one. Some are already dead. They are three days from shore and there is no way of making contact. But let's go back always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to when all this started, in Southampton.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=13985086320811771741|title=The Wilderness CureInstaKnits for Baby|author=Mo WildeMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=LifestyleCrafts|summary=It had been on the cards Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a while but it was collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the week-'long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year , cosy afternoons in front of eating only wild foodthe fire' variety. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not projects are divided by the best time they'll take to startcomplete - less than five hours, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate changefive to ten hours, Brexit ten to twenty hours and a pandemicmore than twenty hours. Wilde had a few advantages: All the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridgeprojects are attractive, freezer modern and dehydratoruseable. She had a car I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media- and fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to worthy projects'but that'live'' wild just to live off its produces me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1635864674Dean Koontz|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy HowardThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryParanormal|summary=''Think of it as noBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-whining dining.'' We know sized object to his home, and it's a fruit rather than a vegetable but possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the fact thing that so many people get confused just goes has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to show how versatile the tomato deserve all this bad luck. He isa nice person. Then there are all the different types, not to mention the cultivars - and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't loveA really nice person. I'd argue with her there - I have no affection So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the ones you find in the supermarket ''next'' delivery to the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to distinguish them help him since Benny is clearly under attack from the ones that have obviously just been grown nefarious forces for profitbeing a good person. PersonallySpike is going to take care of Benny, I'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those - and Howard makes good use will certainly take care of these. SheBenny's not at all precious enemies, if you get the tastehe, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=0241989027Adam Stower|title=We All Have Our Secrets|author=Jane CorryMurray and Bun

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=Harold Gentle advertised for live-in help as he was failing Murray is supposed to cope at Willowmead House on his own. His advert was fairly specific: he was a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke of the ability to cook be a good steakhumble, enjoy decent wine tidy and be free from any food fads. The first person friendly cat, one who came is able to the house was Francoisesleep and eat and eat and sleep and, a French woman in her early twentieswell, who fit whatever takes his fancy next of the bill perfectlytwo. She got the job but Francoise didnBut he't know about the advert: she was there for s a completely different reason. Emily Gentle is Haroldbad magician's daughter cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and she came to Willowmead House because she was running away from the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a problem in Londonworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. EmilyThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's a midwife turned up and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had been made.he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)B0C47LV1PC|title=Tasting SunlightFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Sally Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is a teenager who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinic. She just wants spacethe question if you did, and would it land? The catch is that the answer for people to stop questioning her, tiptoeing around her, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding herboth could well be.... She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss who is in her forties and seems to live aloneno. Liss  ''Fragility'' is unlike any other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally set as she isthe city of Portland, Oregon, giving her a room cautiously begins to sleep in, and emerge from the space to just be. As they work together on restrictions imposed during the farm, a closeness develops between them, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendship.|isbn=1914585143covid pandemic