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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=09897153371398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=Papa on A Letter to the MoonLuminous 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=Marco NorthStig Abell

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=''Some frogs had gotten Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the well.'' ''Walter stood waistfuture 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-deep 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 fragrant water, naked except future she wants for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of herself and her daughter? For the dogs leaned over moment they’re enjoying life in the opening present and barked down at putting the strange noise of future on the buckets as he filled themback burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.''5|genre=CrimeHow is that for |summary=Builders were demolishing an opening? The style of this novel old house in Norwich - the form site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musinga child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, turning on a sixpenceDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. And author Marco North It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, who has that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the most wonderful turn of phraseone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, starts as he means not least because Ruth is prone to go onsudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=140639131X0008551324|title=A Practical Present for Philippa PheasantThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Briony May SmithNeil Lancaster

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Philippa Pheasant was It''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to cross approach the Old Oak Roadpolice. She wrote Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the mayor about police where the problem but didn't even get body of a replymissing 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. Philippa wasn't a bird And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw serve the benefits remainder of the lollipop lady at the school crossing his sentence and decided that she would set up something similar herselfto get an early parole date. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur Not much to start with but the benefits were obvious. ask, is it? All the animals used the crossing The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and Hedgehog was she's even trained up prepared to provide a safe path overnightdo 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.

|isbn=000837936X0008405026|title=The Last Girl to DieA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Helen FieldsJane Casey

|summary=SeventeenIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved to Tobermory, on the Isle of Mull, in search of a new lifeRosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. It She was a bit of a change from Las Vegas, but never found and the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing investigation ground to a social life - until she disappearedhalt. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been because Adriana's Now, her mother is obviously Latino?) , Helena, and Rob and Isabella Clarke called her father are dead in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagerstheir bed. BrandonInitially, Adrianait looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's twin, was upset something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and surlyher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. FourWhat looked as though it was going to be an open-yearand-old Luna just knew that she missed her big sistershut case is now a complex double murder. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in MackinnonRosalie's Cave. Shedisappearance: others (such as Derwent'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killings boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=15098896120571379877|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)Kellerby Code|author=Ann CleevesJonny 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|rating=4

|summary=It's fifty years since When a group man is found crucified on the top of teenagers went on a weekend retreat hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to Holy Islandthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative and theyIt've s their first live case together, having previously been coming back for a reunion every five years since thenvery successful with several cold cases. There was But when there is a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide and her car was swept awaysecond body found crucified a few days later, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned Kat is suddenly struggling with the group each year as her husband, Ken, was one of the original teenagers. Ken now has Alzheimer's a potential serial killer and he's a shadow very high profile case that draws a lot of the man he used unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be. Philip Robson now a priest, always gets there early as he likes able to have some quiet solve the case in time alone in , or will Kat find herself taken off the chapel. Annie Laidler lives locally case and she provides much , potentially, out of the food: her deli is famous in the area.a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=14736808831399613073|title=The Skeleton KeyMoral Injuries|author=Erin KellyChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=''The Golden Bones is going to follow me around Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for the rest a quarter of my lifea century. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you!'' Nell didn't want aim to go to the reunion to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of ''The Golden Bones''be a cardiothoracic surgeon. She'd had no benefit from it - in fact, it had made her life precarious Laura is a perfectionist and unbelievably challenginga trauma doctor. I'd better explainAnjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they''The Golden Bones'' was re at a treasure quest book painted drug and written by Frank alcohol-fuelled party and Cora Churcherit's going to end in tragedy. The story revolved around murdered Elinore whose golden and bejewelled bones were hidden around We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the countryconsequences. The clues Twenty- some of them quite tortuous - were disguised in five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the words and pictures of the book - and all the parts were discovered except for the pelvisthree friends. As with such questsThis time, some people were obsessive and the theories became more and more outlandishit's their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Holly Webb0241636604|title=The Story of GreenriverTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Silken and Sedge, for all their differences, have If you were to bring up an image of a lot city banker in commonyour mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Silken is a girl whose father A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Master Builder of what might be the finest beaver lodge There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the GreenriverLondon School of Economics. Unfortunately she Stevenson is also a kind of runt figure, bright - extremely bright - and as he has a result is patronised, and given the facility with numbers which most tokenistic tasks when it comes to fetching wood and shoring the dam upof us can only envy. She He also stands out for the unique artistic ability realised that most rich people expect poor people to singbe stupid. Otters like Sedge sing, but he tooIt was his ability at what was, as the son of the lady of the holtessentially, has pressure on a card game which got him to be a bit less feckless and more attentive to classan internship with Citibank. HeEventually, after all, will eventually inherit the job of keeping the otters safe from the wolf that both animal species fear the most, and from dreaded events like this turned into permanent employment as a Dark Springtrader.|isbn=1510109625

|authorisbn=Anna Kemp and David Wyatt1035021803|title=Into Goblyn WoodThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Hazel. For the last nine of her eleven It's twenty years, she since Freya Lockwood has been stuck as back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a foundling in a horrid, Victorian institutionrequest for help from her beloved aunt, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servantCarole. She Freya'd arrived at the place at the same time as Pete, s former mentor and theyCarole're inseparably good friends nows close friend, until a chance for them both to escapeArthur Crockleford, is dead and enter the outside worldcircumstances seem suspicious, does not go to plansay the least. There Arthur was the reason why Freya had always not been back to the idea of a life idyllic in the nearby forestsvillage: Arthur, Goblyn Woodshe feels, and a tribe of Wild Childrenlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, but none of that comes she has not felt able to pass, as Hazel finds herself in be near the care of a professor at man or pursue the Natural History Museumprofession she loved. But life with him is not anything like what After the split, she might have expected it to be – and Hazel is determined to return to the Woodsworked in a cafe, restore her friendship with Pete – met and to work out just what is going married James (on in the forestrebound from the love of her life, both the light who was murdered) and the shade, Freya and the deathly darkJames have now divorced...|isbn=1398503835

|isbn=0241990165AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Cara HunterBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadn't come from 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the householder. A couple shape of PCs went things to make certain that everything was alright and come.'' I've heard it took quite a while for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them said that they'd better come intechnology' is what happens after you're eighteen. In the kitchen Well, I must confess that there was a body on the floor: the head had have been blown off with more than a shotgun and the corpse was holding a knife few decades of technology in its right handmy lifetime. Richard Swann told I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the police feeling that heit'd heard sounds s all getting away from me. Some of an intruder and had come downstairs to investigateit is - frankly - quite frightening. The ignorant young lout had called him 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'Grandad'' and come at him with a knifere talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Swann had shot him I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in self-defencea way I could understand.

|author= Kit De WaalSunny Singh|title= Without Warning and Only SometimesHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= AutobiographyThrillers |summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, your mum and dad/ They may not mean to, but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood and the bonds that bind family. This book The Hotel Arcadia is a memoir focussing on the author’s formative years as a teenager living luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a lower class area of Birminghamterrorist group. Her father is Hiding from St. Kitts in the Caribbean and her mother terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by Sam, a wartime photographer and marrying a black manAbhi, the hotel manager. This intersectionality plays a large role As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to her racebe cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her class and room to try to capture what's happened through her genderphotography. Her parents loom large 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 written with care, love, and discovered by the kind of anger only a child can express to their parentsterrorists.|isbn=1472284836086154742X

|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz1529153298|title=Dark MusicThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=35|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaksIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart of what little investigating is going onI mean, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthhonestly.. For one, the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MD. ) She's a Chilean in the Stockholm policenot what's worrying Miv's family, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of old, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, and just outside the stadiumthough. Women have been disappearing. BeppeWell, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutesthey've been murdered, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogationhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. 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 Miv's upset because she might dress – 's overheard that kind) are told her father wants to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it allmove the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation Down South is a shamblesfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. But taken off For Miv, the casemove would mean leaving her best friend, she can no longer help solve the crimeSharon, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it allll do anything to prevent that. Until, She's not worried about the dangers or that may be, she manages her Mum's stopped talking - to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attemptanyone...|isbn=1529413192

|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM1398524085|title=The Calculations of Rational MenHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Daniel GodfreyNicci French

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marrfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Just to put what happens in contextHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's mindsnot. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe MarrShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, it's not find the missile crisis thatbody of Greg's at father, Duncan Ackerley, in the front of his mindriver. He's been convicted of murder. With It was an easy assumption for the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard police to think otherwise than make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prisonguilt. HeThe Salter children are not convinced but there's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, little else they can do but get on with their lives and learning to be wary of the McArthur brotherswonder about what really happened.

|isbn=18469761461035906708|title=The Bone RoadDiva|author=N E SolomonsDaisy Goodwin

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Heather BishopWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, the former Olympic cyclistNew York, flew in December 1923 and only moved to Bosnia to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan MackinnonAthens when she was thirteen. She even took their bikes so they could have a few daysHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' break to make it more manageable in the regionStates. It When she was a little worrying back in Athens - supposedly so that he didn't seem exactly pleased to see she could get appropriate training for her: voice - she even wondered if he had a woman in was raised under the hotel room. Heather had to give up competitive cycling after Nazi occupation by a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but mother who mercilessly exploited her reactions and made no secret of her memory were not up to the standard she would need to race again. Sometimes she couldn't be certain about what she had or hadn't done and she simply couldn't cope in difficult situations. She didn't entirely trust herselfpreference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Judith EagleChristopher Edge|title=The Accidental StowawayBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5

|summary=Patch is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a little girl who has been passed from one relation to anothermovie marathon at their local cinema, until it seems a place that there is nobody left for her to go tohas the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Her father died when she was very youngAll big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and her mother ran away. many, many snacks! The family lawyerHowever, after consultation with ‘someone’as the movie starts, arranges for her to go to a school in Liverpoolthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, but on her arrival there, she gets caught and they are swept up in into an adventure with a little boy called Turo who works on a steamshipthey couldn't even imagine. During a chase with him (when she But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is both trying to going on? Will they ever get her rollerskate back and running away from to the police!) she winds up on the steamship hiding in a lifeboatcinema, and before she knows it, the ship has left the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!to their real lives?|isbn=05713631211839942738

|isbnauthor=0760379874Rachel Greenlaw|title=Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri HammettCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=''I learned to knit can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in the nineteen-fifties: it wasnmy heart.''t  Rosevear, a choiceremote and partially forgotten island, it was a requirementsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Girls learned Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to knit survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to embroider end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and boys did wood and metal workMira's father. My knitting wa accompanied by Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a lot bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of criticism and quite a few tears: it was a long time before I realised family secret that there was pleasure to be had lies buried deep in the skillsea. Nearly seventy years later itWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's the only thing that keeps my hands territory, Mira must be determined to stop at all supple. The turning point was a booklet published by Patons which gave all nothing to save the basics future of her home and some patterns. I've been looking for something simple to recommend to people who'd like to master the skillones she holds most dear. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?|isbn=0008664730

|author=Sarah Todd TaylorJames Sherwood Metts|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroublePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Alice EclairThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. A perfect eye AI and very careful hands automation have made her one of Paris's best young cake makers and decoratorsbeen proceeding apace, making sure her motheroften replacing jobs they's establishment is a classy affair. Not bad for a thirteen year old. Oh, re paid to do and a perfect eye and a very careful handler and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spyother tasks that took time to accomplish. Her first real mission will be Just as they were beginning to chase a traitor across the country – working behind the scenes on a posh sleeper train get used to all this technological change and starting to the south think of Franceother, and hoping against hope that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents new ways to creep into the country from getting into nefarious handsspend time, along came an awful pandemic. But while nobody would have her Life was pretty much shut down as a spyand, along with it, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find all the baddy?many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=18399409561736128426

|isbnauthor=0760379912Matthew Tree|title=Super Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Quarry BooksWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsLiterary Fiction|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be turned into something new different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and usable when I was in my twentieswho had endless crises of self confidence. It would be a while before it became a pleasure So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than a chore his daydreams and set himself high but I've never felt completely at home with quiltingachievable ambitions. I needed something a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knots. ''Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like a good place to start. So, how did it stack up?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360737|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=2|genre= Politics and Society|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1408712172A G Slatter|title=The Cliff House|author=Chris BrookmyreBriar Book of the Dead

|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=''Many There's a part of them didn't know each other, one me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of them didn't know anybodymy own, including Jenall mine, one of them quite possibly hated her, and two of them definitely hated each otherat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. What could possibly go wrong?''

ThatWithin 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 round-up town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for Jen's hen party which magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barrabe 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. They're all staying in The Cliff House, hosted by LaurenWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, and itEllie's cousin Audra becomes the utmost in luxury living but then Jen can afford it. SheBriar Witch, the town's just sold leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her muffin business for millions but is staying on to run it. She's got As challenges come her doubts about way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting a little strangely of late and wouldn't explain rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her what at the email he was hurriedly deleting was aboutheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Added Reeling from one family secret to thatanother, he's just about forced her Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to bring his sister, Samira, whom Jendo as the Briar witches's never metlegacy, on the tripeverything they have sacrificed to survive, on the grounds that she's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months and desperately needs the breakis under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=17883607021529900360|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised BiographyGhost Orchid|author=Edzard ErnstJonathan Kellerman

|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=For over forty years, Prince Charles has It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine badly injured but he felt responsible and complementary therapieseven after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn''Charlest need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the PrinceDelaware's opinionspartner, beliefs and aims against who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the background of involvement was something that the scientific evidenceman she loved needed. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the reputation swimming pool of a man who remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is proud of his refusal married to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitionsan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Will Carver1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Daves Next DoorSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a suicide bomber prepares GP and Rowlands didn't want to detonate follow in his vest footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a London tube linefamily friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. As their fates overlap Before long, the story is told in backwards orderhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, leading up he'd wanted to the fateful momentbe a professional footballer.|isbn= 1914585186}}

|isbn=15291257900861541774|title=The Family RemainsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Lisa JewellSteve Burrows

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In July 2019DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Jason Mott Guy Trueman. Maik was mud larking on the banks of the River Thames when involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he came across was facing a man armed with a bag of what appeared to be human bones. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu knife - and Saffron Brown from forensics were there to investigatehe killed a Ghurka. The bones were indeed human: Initially, he faced a young woman had been killed by a blow charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the head many years ago - probably as long as twenty-five - but the bones had not been in man. Now he could be facing the river longer than a yeardeath penalty. There was no identification but the bag contained vegetation, some of which was quite unusualDomenic 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.

|author=Jennifer MasonAlexander McCall Smith|title=Partitions of UnityThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary= Here at Bookbag TowersThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix run by Ness and unintentional detective operating as an alternative to all the online apps in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]]providing a more personal, when tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she investigated could come and unravelled look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a series while. Katie is coming out of disappearancesa break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. 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 Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. In ''Partitions of Unity' Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, she sets her mind to solving lend a murder....hand…|isbn=B09LQR9FRF1846976596

|authorisbn=Fiona Parashar 0811771741|title=A Beautiful Way to Coach |rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary= So what am I doing reading this book, using this book, and being audacious enough to review it? Truth is I bought it out of curiosity. I was at an on-line launch InstaKnits for the book and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed to me. 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 day, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted to see if I could give myself a Vision Day, to bring me away from their vision and back to my own.|isbn=103211603X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1913750353|title=Britannica's Word of the DayBaby|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!}}{{Frontpage|author=A C Wise|title=HookedMelissa Leapman

|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary=It’s been twenty-two years since Captain Hook, now going by just ‘James’, has been in Neverland. Living Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a new life in London, he has never completely escaped his pastcollection of knits from toys to blankets. But now he senses the edges Some will be quick knits - others are of the beast circling around his life in London'long, and when suddenly he finds himself face to face cosy afternoons in front of the street with Wendy, he knows that the line between this world and Neverland is growing thinfire' variety. The beast is finally coming projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to get himten hours, ten to twenty hours and in more than twenty hours. All the process will pull Wendy projects are attractive, modern and her daughter Jane back into their past once againuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1789096839

|isbnauthor=1787301745Dean Koontz|title=Confidence|author=Denise MinaThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=We're back in the world of podcasters Anna and Fin, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]Benny is having a terrifically bad day. It was Anna who'd organised the 'family' holiday: her exHe loses his job, Hamishhe loses his fiancee, is now with her best friend, Estelle and her children are living with themhis house gets trashed. Fin (who was married Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to Estelle) is there too his home, and it 's possible that whoever or whatever was Anna who invited inside is the thing that has trashed his girlfriendhouse! The thing is, SofiaBenny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. It's not long before everyone realises that was He is a bad mistakenice person. A really nice person. Sofia's difficult and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a lighthousenew friend, in a storm - she begins talking about Anna's pastbad weather friend called Spike, including her real name and the rapewho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. This was something which Anna had intended Spike is going to tell the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and ten-year-old Lizzie - when the time was right. And this wasnHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny't the right times wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=178763566XAdam Stower|title=Listen to Me|author=Tess GerritsenMurray and Bun

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=We're in Boston with Amy. When she set out for university this morning it was Murray is supposed to be a spring day humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and she wore her new, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out well, whatever takes his fancy next of the library she knows that theytwo. But he're going to be ruined - and unsafe - in the snow thats a bad magician's now falling. As she crosses the roadcat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a car comes hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out of nowhere and hits her. It doesn't stop. Two months later, we're with Angela Rizzolinot into the regular back garden, mother but into a world of Detective Jane Rizzoli, frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a keen defender of the suburb of Revere, north of BostonViking land, where she lives. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, a troll hunter is in Californiaexpected – well, looking after his sisterone much bigger than Murray was, she has the time to watch whatbe honest, but he's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 turned up and he'll have aroused her suspicions.to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=0008395632B0C47LV1PC|title=One Last SecretFragility|author=Adele ParksMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Natalya is an escort. Well, her nameCan you make a 's not 'Yo birthing person'actually'' Natalya: that's her professional name but 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 a nod to her Serbian heritagethat the answer for both could well be.... no. She 's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora Dziewulski, usually known as Dora Wulski. If you're thinking of Fragility'escort' is set as being a polite description the city of a prostitutePortland, run by a pimpOregon, who's turning tricks cautiously begins to fund a drug habit, forget it. Dora is a professional in all senses of the word. She has an agent, Elspeth, who takes 30% of her income and deals with emerge from the payments but checks out restrictions imposed during the clients to see that Dora is going to be safe. Dora describes herself as a self-employed clairvoyant to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. covid pandemic

|authorisbn=David Solomons1529431735|title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Gavin It's February 1991 and Essex is being followedbitingly cold, seemingly constantly, by which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the new (very annoying) girl at schoolmore surprising. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl storyHe'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Because in this instanceThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, the girl in question saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is Nikiabducted, stripped to his underwear and she is sent to a galactic princess (no, really, she is!) So what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled watery grave in the boot of a situation where, potentially, Earth and everyone on stolen Ford Sierra. Is it will be blown a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to smithereens, all because of Nikihome?|isbn=0857639935}}