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|isbnauthor=0571370977Tom Percival|title=The Lock-Up|author=John BanvilleWrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=ItWill's six months since the dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke life is now back difficult, in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebea multitude of ways. The worst of his grief He is over but bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficult. Theywrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when t have enough money for even the body most basic of a youngthings like food, Jewish scholarand his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, Rosa Jacobswas 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, is found and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a lock-uptiny amount of hope. At firstHe is good at art, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke and clings to the moments of joy when he is convinced drawing, that it was murder rather than suicidefeel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|author=Julia BartzSylvie Cathrall|title=The Writing Retreat|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.|isbn=0861544439}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back A Letter to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|author=M R Carey|title=Infinity GateLuminous Deep

|summary= I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a genre I dislike – nothing of the sort. My standards There are high precisely because it's few greater joys than a hard genre book which lives up to get right – and when it's bad, it's often terrible. But the a compelling premise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, it'd be fantastic. So And this is where I sum up that premiseone of them.|isbn=03565180430356522776

|isbn=13985095820008517061|title=The FavourDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Nicci FrenchStig Abell

|summary=It was 2 amFormer Metropolitan Police detective, not long after A levelsJake Johnson, when has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the car crash happened. It future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would cause problems mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he herself and Jude Winter were together. She was utterly driven by her determination to go to medical school. daughter? Liam was For the reverse. He just acted ''as if moment they’re enjoying life just rolled him over in the present and carried him along''. A bit of weed here, a few drinks there: putting the legal effects of future on the car crash really didn't worry him at all. The relationship broke up soon after that - or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any moreback burner.

|isbn=08570517411786482126|title=The Sins Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly 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 Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigationsickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|authortitle= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry The Devil You Know (TranslatorD S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=Lars Pohjanen It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has only a few weeks to live but any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going prepared to investigate tell the police where the case of a body found in a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholicmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. The problem This person, he promises, is that someone big and it will be worth the case has long passed the statute of limitationspolice doing what he wants. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He was And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the father remainder of Olympic boxing champion Borje Stromhis sentence and to get an early parole date. Rebecka wants nothing Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do with a fifty-yearthe other thing that Hardie demanded -old case on which she can take no action: the problem is make certain that this DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is a dying mankept well away from what's wish. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, the dead alcoholic, was also murderedhappening. Is there a connection between the two deaths?

|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni0008405026|title=Her Deadly GameA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the lifeIt's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clientssixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion She was never found and inevitably the latter was beginning investigation ground to overshadow the formera halt. Enter Keera DugganNow, her mother, Helena, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the hideous position positioning of asking the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her father for boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a job at complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularlyexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, southUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1662500181

|authorisbn= Rob Keeley0571379877|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other StoriesKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley Edward Jevons is back a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a return theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to eleven new tales, each as fun 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 read as his previous offeringsstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn= B0BVW69N1G

|author= Michael GrothausJo Callaghan|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleLeave No Trace

|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It''s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But fearing something when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and having it come a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to pass are two different thingstheir AI Future Policing project. And I'm willing Will they be able to bet most of what we fear will never happensolve the case in time, or we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around will Kat find herself taken off the question of identity case and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development potentially, out of technology is exciting or frightening.a career?|isbn=191458564X139851120X

|isbn=B09BLBP3P81399613073|title=Neville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940Moral Injuries|author=Frederic SeagerChristie Watson

|genre=HistoryThrillers|summary=Received wisdom Olivia, Laura and simplified narrative often lead Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to misconceptions about historybe a cardiothoracic surgeon. One such Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the scrubbing from the popular imagination free spirit of the early days of World War II from 1939group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-40, known as the ''Phoney Warfuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, and Churchill coming in to save Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the daythree friends. Very little This time is spent on this period in cultural reflections and yet, as Frederic Seager argues in this book, it was of vital significance in how the war played out's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=07603781340241636604|title=The First-Time GardenerTrading Game: Container Food GardeningA Confession|author=Pamela FarleyGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyAutobiography|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be were to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for bring up an image of a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the book you need. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow city banker in your own foodmind, what you're going unlikely to grow, what you'll grow it in (both containers think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and soil)his background is the East End, where you'll put these containershe was familiar with violence, how you'll water poverty and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshootinginjustice. There's also a good glossarywas no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. So, Stevenson is it any good?}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of uscan only envy. It is used as a way He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process thembe stupid. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'' It was his ability at what was, whether that is a home invaderessentially, a monster or a ghostcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is this turned into permanent employment as a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''trader.

|authorisbn=Amelia Estelle Dellos1035021803|title=Delilah RecoveredThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= We meet Dee at a point when her life isnIt't going as planned but things might, just might, be about s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to look the English country village where she grew up. Out She's back now because of work, about to lose a request for help from her flatbeloved aunt, Dee is up for an accountantCarole. Freya's job. But itformer mentor and Carole's not close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunterssay the least. She survives Arthur was the attack but reason why Freya had not unscathedbeen back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Witch Even though they were in business together as antique hunters? What on earth , she has that not felt able to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary womanbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, living an ordinary life. Slivers met and married James (on the rebound from the love of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her life, who was murdered) and things will never be the same...Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=B0BKYFDLLV

|isbn=0008404976AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Jane CaseyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It was because ''Opening up new ways of Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Closethinking about the shape of things to come.''

If 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 regular reader few decades of the [[Jane Caseytechnology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] youadvantageous to me but I'll have read m left with the feeling that sentence twice and wondered if it's a massive spoiler because there all getting away from me. Some of it is a delicious sexual chemistry between the two which seems very, very real- frankly - quite frightening. But (there's always a Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'butm reading someone who knows what they', isn't there?) Josh has a partner and he dotes on her son, even if re talking about or the relationship with Melissa can be a little rockylatest conspiracy theorist. As for Maeve, she's just come out of an abusive relationship which has left her more than I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a little uncertainway I could understand.

|author=Merryn GloverSunny Singh|title=The Hidden FiresHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=TravelThrillers |summary= It The Hotel Arcadia is always about a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the bookterrorists who are rampaging through, not the writerkilling everyone on site, but there are times when the author's hinterland is also Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the background hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the book and so it is necessary to understand that context, residents who are still alive in order to appreciate the book. Merryn Glover is of Australian parentagehotel, was born in Kathmanduhe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, grew up in the Annapurna and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotland. I can think keeps on venturing out of no-one better a combination her room to try to give us a re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence in the Cairngorms National Parkcapture what's happened through her photography. Merryn walks, not so much in Although they only ever talk over the shadow of Shepherdphone, but in their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her spirit. I think keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the two would have gotten along famouslyterrorists.|isbn=1846975751086154742X

|authorisbn=Alice M Ross1529153298|title=The Nowhere ThiefList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=At last there It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside townPrime Minister. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it(A woman? I mean, honestly... ) She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out'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 has 's overheard that her father wants to move the ability to leave this worldfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worldsforeign place, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunderbest avoided. With eviction imminentFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, can Elsbeth nab and she'll do anything to actually generate custom at the shop? prevent that. Well yes, is She's not worried about the answer, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=1839943769dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=15295047751398524085|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Elsie Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive pastdaughter, Etty. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park are all worried but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David strangely - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at homehusband, Alec, is not. GraduallyShortly afterwards, David learned to stand upEtty and Greg, use find the bus for supportbody of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, and walk behind itin the river. Many decades later, Elsie brought It was an easy assumption for the bus, now damaged and rusted, police to the Repair Shop, hoping make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the experts guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there could make it so that her grandchildren could play 's little else they can do but get on with ittheir lives and wonder about what really happened.

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

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

|author=Natasha FarrantChristopher Edge|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54

|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the author nickname of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk'The Black Hole'. Ravenwood is an old houseAll big movie fans, in the North they're looking forward to lots of Englandexciting films, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. many, many snacks! They are part of a complex, extended family arrangementHowever, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leothe movie starts, and Raffy they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is there with his mumvery different, and they are living together as a family. They have grown swept up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the placeinto an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure they lurch from his other two brothers one film genre to sell the property to a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? The children find themselves worrying not only about where Will they're going ever get back to live, but if they'll even be togetherthe cinema, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.to their real lives?|isbn=05713487851839942738

|author=Nick BrooksRachel Greenlaw|title=Promise BoysCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=When ''I can hear the principal (headmaster) song of Urban Promise Prep school is murderedthe sea. The call of the deep, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspectsanswering beat in my heart. Each'' Rosevear, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Mooreremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and each could have been there at plundering the time wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of his murderthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But who killed when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save himfrom death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and whywith only coordinates to guide her, and if any she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the boys are innocentsmuggler's territory, will they Mira must be able determined to stop at nothing to clear their names?save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=10350031550008664730

|author=G K HollowayJames Sherwood Metts|title=In the Shadows of CastlesPlanet Storyland

|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary= We begin after Things have been a bit sticky for the momentous battle in 1066 Earthlings. AI and on the day of William of Normandyautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's coronation re paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as King they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of England. William's position is not secure and the other, new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. And William is right ways to worryspend time, along came an awful pandemic. While the previous kingLife was pretty much shut down and, Haroldalong with it, is dead and all the likelihood of more pitched battles is over, the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to recognise a new overlordmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=18004224661736128426

|isbnauthor=0008506337Matthew Tree|title=The Garnett GirlsWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=Georgina MooreA G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that RichardThere's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle part of Wight. Margo did go me that wants to Oxford and went on keep this just to become a well-respected journalistmyself for however long I can. The couple had three children: RachelThis secret magic of my own, all mine, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wightlast. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able I just want to leave him in chargeenjoy it for a while.''.

Then Richard 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 them, 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 trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1529900360|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching 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. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the start help of her maternity leave when there is a brutalpsychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedinwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Suddenly She knew that the involvement was something that the man she finds herself embroiled loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the hunt for swimming pool of a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfremote property in Bel Air. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let He was the case go heir to an Italian shoe empire and she starts is married to follow every thread to uncover whatan extremely rich man and it's actually happening, and not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the increasingly disturbing worry Bag: The Secret Life of just what might happen nexta Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|isbnsummary=1914585577Siôn 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 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.

|isbn=15291259600861541774|title=Unnatural HistoryA Nye of Pheasants|author=Jonathan KellermanSteve Burrows

|summary=Donny Klement DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a photographerman armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Well, it was Adonis, actually Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but Donny had stuck unless evidence came to light that suggested that he got Danny but whichever - it's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bedmight have planned to murder the man. Three shots were placed neatly through his heartNow he could be facing the death penalty. 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The PAPerfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, Mel Gornicktailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is distraught and it falls planning to psychologist Alex Delaware take a trip to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as he tries Canada to establish what's happenedget away for a while. Donny had just finished Katie is coming out of a series of photographs called ''The Wishers''break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. He'd taken eight homeless people off 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 streets and asked them what they'd really like Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to becharm. They were then dressed up as their fantasyKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, photographed and sent on their way with there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a generous gift in dollars.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson0811771741|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver StreetInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=JaydenMelissa Leapman's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns collection of the world, for exampleknits from toys to blankets. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might Some will be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they quick knits - others are never 'out there' themselves, exploring of the outside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's cousinlong, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many cosy afternoons in front of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks shefire's seen on a bit of local footagevariety. The crew of projects are divided by the boattime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, including a living gargoylefive to ten hours, are tasked with saving the rare critters – ten to twenty hours and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join inmore than twenty hours. Dare they side with Leila, All the woman on boardprojects are attractive, modern and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=0241573483useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1913839656Dean Koontz|title=Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey DeeThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=For SharingParanormal|summary=Todd was excited about spending the weekend with Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his grandmotherfiancee, not least because she made the best beetle juiceand his house gets trashed. He packed two pairs of dungarees Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his favourite hat home, and then gathered together it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his button collection house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to show his grandmotherdeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. She had promised to take him to So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted delivery to make his house is a new friendsfriend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. At homeSpike is going to take care of Benny, his only friend was his mum and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different, 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=1787301036Adam Stower|title=What July Knew|author=Emily KochMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's Murray is supposed to be a carefulhumble, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hoopertidy and friendly cat, one who is not prepared able to discuss the death of his wifesleep and eat and eat and sleep and, July's motherwell, and any hint that whatever takes his fancy next of the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a Lessontwo. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and But he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. Julya bad magician's teacher is concerned cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and brings up the possibility of abuse with catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the head regular back garden, but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to the schoolbe honest, has but he's turned up and he not? The playground wouldn't ll have been resurfaced but for him.to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Lucy AsheB0C47LV1PC|title=Clara and OliviaFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=The year Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is 1933. The placethe question should you make it? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on Or is the outside but notquestion if you did, we learn, on would it land? The catch is that the insideanswer for both could well be... And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancerno. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that  ''je ne sais quoiFragility''is set as the city of Portland, that don't come Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|isbn=0861544080restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic