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|isbnauthor=1785633457Tom Percival|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive WilkinsonThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=TravelConfident Readers|summary=Clive Wilkinson has Will's life is difficult, in a history multitude of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travelways. As He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he neared has the wrong shoes because his eightieth birthday dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the idea most basic of exploring things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the edges of England college, was working a cash-in -hand job on a building site and had an electric car was not totally outrageousaccident. In Throw into that mix the factthat his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, it should be he still has a pleasant holiday for Clive tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and his wifeclings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, Joanthat feel like a light at the end of a long, shouldn't it?dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|author=Frederic SeagerSylvie Cathrall|title= Jesus, the Man and the Myth: A Jewish Reading of Letter to the New TestamentLuminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre= Spirituality and ReligionScience Fiction|summary= I was brought There are few greater joys than a book which lives up in to a family where religion played little or no partcompelling premise. Culturally Irish Catholic on And this is one side and Welsh Methodist on the other, nobody really discussed religion and the adults around me ranged from lapsed to agnostic to atheist. Other than the odd church wedding or baptism or the school nativity play, I didn't think too much about faith or what people did or didn't believeof them.|isbn=B092BWWG9Y0356522776

|isbn=05713709770008517061|title=The Lock-UpDeath in a Lonely Place|author=John BanvilleStig Abell

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's six months since Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughterDiana, Phoebe. The worst as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his grief 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 over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford the future she wants for what happened herself and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficult. her daughter? They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when For the body of a young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found moment they’re enjoying life in a lock-up. At first, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicidethe present and putting the future on the back burner.

|authorisbn=Julia Bartz1786482126|title=The Writing RetreatJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the world site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of publishing knows the namea child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Writers want to be her Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, agents want to represent herDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. She It's something of a legend with an impressivedifficult as Ruth knows, if compactbut Nelson doesn't, 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 pregnant with Roza, and is stunned when, following his child as a series result of unexpected eventsthe one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, she not least because Ruth is invited prone to be part sudden bouts of her month-long writers' retreatsickness.|isbn=0861544439

|authorisbn=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix0008551324|title=Different for BoysThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Teens Crime|summary=Ant It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, prison and is surprised he's prepared to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography tell the police where the body of a missing person is ever learnt) has been restructuredburied and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from someone big and it will be worth the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days togetherpolice doing what he wants. As they're all fired up, straining at And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class remainder of his sentence and out often turns to sexget an early parole date. Which Not much to ask, is confusing for Ant, as he it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. Hethink so and she's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up even prepared to do the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether other thing that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And Hardie demanded - make certain that's mostly because of DS Max Craigie and anyone who heworks with him is kept well away from what's been having the relationship and the sex withhappening.|isbn=1529509491

|authorisbn=M R Carey0008405026|title=Infinity GateA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|summary=It was 2 am, not long after A levels, when the car crash happened. It would cause problems for Liam Birch but then no 's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one could really understand why he and Jude Winter were togethersummer night. She was utterly driven by her determination never found and the investigation ground to go to medical schoola halt. Liam was the reverse. He just acted ''as if life just rolled him over Now, her mother, Helena, and carried him along''her father are dead in their bed. A bit of weed hereInitially, it looks like a few drinks straightforward murder/suicide but there: 's something about the legal effects positioning of the car crash really didn't worry him at allbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. The relationship broke up soon after Kerrigan is convinced that - or ratherthe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Liam simply didn't see Jude any moreUna Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=08570517410571379877|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationKellerby Code|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5

|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson Edward Jevons is going to investigate the case of a body found in a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholicworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. The problem is that the case has long passed the statute of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without Robert's a trace in 1962theatre director. He was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Rebecka wants nothing to do Edward has been in love with a fiftyStanza since their university days -year-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is that this is a dying manand he's wishdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that Henry Pekkari, the dead alcoholic, was also murdered. Is there a connection relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two deaths?of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Robert DugoniJo Callaghan|title=Her Deadly GameLeave No Trace|rating=54

|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been When a man is found crucified on the life's work top of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clientsthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Along It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with an indisputable talent for the lawseveral cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Patsy also has Kat is suddenly struggling with a gift for drinking himself to oblivion potential serial killer and inevitably the latter was beginning a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to overshadow the formertheir AI Future Policing project. Enter Keera DugganWill they be able to solve the case in time, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds or will Kat find herself in taken off the hideous position case and, potentially, out of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.career?|isbn=1662500181139851120X

|authorisbn= Rob Keeley1399613073|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other StoriesMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley Olivia, Laura and 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 back with a return bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to eleven new talesend in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, each as fun to read as his previous offeringsit's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn= B0BVW69N1G

|authorisbn= Michael Grothaus0241636604|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre= Literary FictionAutobiography|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come If you were to pass are two different things. And Ibring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you'm willing re unlikely to bet most think of what we fear will never happensomeone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, or we can take steps poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question London School of identity Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and acceptancehe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Of what it means He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be humanstupid. Of It was his ability at what is real and what is artificialwas, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, and whether the development of technology is exciting or frighteningthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=191458564X

|isbn=B09BLBP3P81035021803|title=Neville ChamberlainThe Antique Hunter's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940Guide to Murder|author=Frederic SeagerC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to misconceptions about historythe English country village where she grew up. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of the early days She's back now because of World War II a request for help from 1939-40her beloved aunt, known as the ''Phoney WarCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, war breaking outshe feels, and Churchill coming let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to save be near the man or pursue the dayprofession she loved. Very little time is spent on this period After the split, she worked in cultural reflections a cafe, met and yet, as Frederic Seager argues in this bookmarried James (on the rebound from the love of her life, it who was of vital significance in how the war played outmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=0760378134AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The First-Time GardenerAll Tomorrow's Futures: Container Food GardeningFictions that Disrupt|author=Pamela FarleyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Home and FamilyScience Fiction|summary=If you''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've ever thought how good heard it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised said that 'technology' is what happens after you wouldn't know where to startre eighteen. Well, this is the book you needI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. ItI's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, ve kept up reasonably well with what you're going s advantageous to grow, what youme but I'll grow m left with the feeling that it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containerss all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, how you'll water I could research the possibilities and fertilise them the probabilities and you finish end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshootinglatest conspiracy theorist. There's also I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a good glossaryway I could understand. So, is it any good?

{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002Frontpage|author= Eric LaRoccaSunny Singh|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled ThereHotel Arcadia|rating= 3.5|genre= HorrorThrillers |summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It The Hotel Arcadia is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process themluxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'' Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, whether that there is a home invaderSam, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible wartime photographer andAbhi, by the end of hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the storyhotel, beatable. Eric LaRoccahe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like thathappened through her photography. It is a collection of short stories more interested in Although they only ever talk over the horrors of illnessphone, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger 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 harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Amelia Estelle Dellos1529153298|title=Delilah RecoveredThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= We meet Dee at a point when her life isnIt't going as planned but things mights 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, just mighthonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, be about to look upthough. Women have been disappearing. Out of work Well, they've been murdered, about but to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountanthave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's job. But itupset because she's not overheard that her father wants to bemove the family 'Down South'. Dee When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is attacked by two men calling themselves witch huntersa frightening, foreign place, best avoided. She survives For Miv, the attack but not unscathedmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things not worried about the dangers or that are not ordinary at all return her Mum's stopped talking - to her and things will never be the sameanyone....|isbn=B0BKYFDLLV

|isbn=00084049761398524085|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jane CaseyNicci French

|summary=It Charlotte Salter was because of expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Closeher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. If you're a regular reader Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of the [[Jane CaseyGreg's Maeve Kerrigan series father, Duncan Ackerley, in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that sentence twice Duncan had murdered Charlie and wondered if itthen committed suicide when he couldn's a massive spoiler because there is a delicious sexual chemistry between t stand the two which seems very, very realguilt. But (The Salter children are not convinced but there's always a 'little else they can do but', isn't there?) Josh has a partner and he dotes get on her son, even if the relationship with Melissa can be a little rocky. As for Maeve, she's just come out of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertaintheir lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Merryn Glover1035906708|title=The Hidden FiresDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary= It is always about the book, not the writer, but there are times when the author's hinterland is also the background We tend to the book and so it is necessary to understand that context, in order to appreciate the book. Merryn Glover is think of Australian parentageMaria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in KathmanduManhattan, New York, grew up in the Annapurna December 1923 and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotlandonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. I can think of no-one better a combination Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to give us a re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence make it more manageable in the Cairngorms National ParkStates. Merryn walks, not When she was back in Athens - supposedly so much in that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the shadow Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of Shepherdher preference for her elder sister, but in her spirit. I think the two would have gotten along famouslyJackie.|isbn=1846975751

|author=Alice M RossChristopher Edge|title=The Nowhere ThiefBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5

|summary=At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth Lucas and her mother run his friends are all booked in for a seaside townmovie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Elsbeth knows All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this because she has stolen itnew film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. She also knows she should be free But as they lurch from worries about being found one film genre to the next, can they figure outwhat on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, because she has the ability to leave this worldanswering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and use an unworldly portal plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of kaleidoscope colours the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to enter other worldsend the wrecking, where they capture the sea levels are rising dramatically island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a 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 a family secret that lies buried deep in the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plundersea. With eviction imminentonly nine days to unearth what might save her father, can Elsbeth nab anything as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yesheart of the smuggler's territory, is Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the answer, but future of her home and the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…ones she holds most dear.|isbn=18399437690008664730

|isbnauthor=1529504775James Sherwood Metts|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyPlanet Storyland

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to Things have been a bit sticky for the park Earthlings. AI and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldnautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy re paid to do and even just standing up was very difficultother tasks that took time to accomplish. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and was happy starting to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Graduallythink of other, David learned new ways to stand upspend time, use the bus for support, and walk behind italong came an awful pandemic. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged Life was pretty much shut down and rusted, to the Repair Shopalong with it, hoping that all the experts there could make it many daily social interactions on which they depend so that her grandchildren could play with itheavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=1847941834Matthew Tree|title=Atomic Habits|author=James ClearWe'll Never Know

|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=I've said this before but there are some books that you seek outTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, some books that you stumble across a drunk and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themchronic 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, like, right now! ''Atomic Habits'' is in the last categorycultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Natasha FarrantA G Slatter|title=The Rescue Briar Book of Ravenwoodthe Dead

|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This story is another excellent adventure secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the author world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar''Voyage 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 Sparrowhawkfirst 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. Ravenwood is an old houseAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, in putting her at the North heart of a maelstrom of Englandchaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, where Bea Ellie must decide who to trust and Raffy 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 living 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 most of their liveshis help on difficult cases. They are part His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a complexpsychologist only worked for a while. Finally, extended family arrangementit was Robin, as Bea is there with her Uncle LeoDelaware's partner, and Raffy is there with his mumwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, and they are living together as a familythough. They have grown up Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the cove, roaming through heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the trees, completely at one with all Italian. But which of them was the nature around primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the house and loving every inch Cat Out of the placeBag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. But now His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from strain that being on-call put on his other two brothers to sell father's life. When he was seventeen he took the property to opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a developer as it's becoming more vet and more expensive to maintainwas convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. The children find themselves worrying not only about where theyIt hadn're going to livet - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, but if theyhe'll even d wanted to be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn downa professional footballer.|isbn=0571348785

|authorisbn=Nick Brooks0861541774|title=Promise BoysA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murderedDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seeminglyDanny Maik, has taken a grudge of some description against Principal Mooreshort 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 man armed with a knife - and each could have been there at the time of his murderhe killed a Ghurka. But who killed himInitially, and why, and if any he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the boys are innocent, will they man. Now he could be able facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to clear their names?|isbn=1035003155help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|author=G K HollowayAlexander McCall Smith|title=In the Shadows of CastlesThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary= We begin after The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the momentous battle online apps in 1066 providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and on look after the day of William of Normandy's coronation business, as King of EnglandNess is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. William's position Katie is not secure coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is importantchance to come home to Edinburgh. And William is right 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 worrycharm. While the previous king Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, Haroldbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, is dead and the likelihood of more pitched battles is overthere's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to recognise lend a new overlord.hand…|isbn=18004224661846976596

|isbn=00085063370811771741|title=The Garnett GirlsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Georgina MooreMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard OMelissa Leapman'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margos 's mother as 'an older manInstaKnits for Baby'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away gives us a collection of knits from what they felt she could achieve - going toys to Oxford and having a glittering careerblankets. In Some will be quick knits - others are of the event'long, they eloped and Richard took her away from cosy afternoons in front of the Isle of Wightfire' variety. Margo did go The projects are divided by the time they'll take to Oxford and went on complete - less than five hours, five to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachelten hours, Imogen ten to twenty hours and Sashamore than twenty hours. Life was lived in London All the projects are attractive, modern and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wightuseable. Even then the doubts I perhaps show my age when I wonder about Richard's drinking were never far from Margosocial-media-worthy projects' but that's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''. Then Richard left themme being picky.

|author=Vanda SymonDean Koontz|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)The Bad Weather Friend

|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there Benny is having a brutalterrifically bad day. He loses his job, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedinhe loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for Oh, and someone has delivered a killer targeting pregnant womenreally weird, with all disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the extra pressure thing that entails being pregnant herselfhas trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. Finding herself put on desk dutiesSo fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, which she rails againsta bad weather friend called Spike, she just can't let the case go and she starts who has been sent to follow every thread help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to uncover whattake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's actually happeningenemies, if he, Benny, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen nextHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=19145855771662500491

|isbnauthor=1529125960Adam Stower|title=Unnatural History|author=Jonathan KellermanMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=Donny Klement was Murray is supposed to be a photographer. Wellhumble, tidy and friendly cat, it was Adonisone who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, actuallywell, but Donny had stuck unless whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he got Danny but whichever - it's past tense as a bad magician's cat, so his PA found him dead in his bedfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. Three shots were placed neatly through his heart. The PAThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, Mel Gornickone much bigger than Murray was, is distraught and it falls to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as be honest, but he tries to establish what's happened. Donny had just finished a series of photographs called ''The Wishers''. He'd taken eight homeless people off the streets turned up and asked them what theyhe'd really like ll have to be. They were then dressed up as their fantasy, photographed and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollars.do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Robin Birch and Jobe AndersonB0C47LV1PC|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver StreetFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=JaydenCan you make a 's nose 'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of question should you make it? Or is the worldquestion if you did, for example. Aisha would it land? The catch is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might the answer for both could well be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never ... no. ''out thereFragility' themselves, exploring 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 cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including is set as the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew city of the boatPortland, including a living gargoyleOregon, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed cautiously begins to join in. Dare they side with Leila, emerge from the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of restrictions imposed during the unseen?|isbn=0241573483covid pandemic

|isbn=19138396561529431735|title=Let's Celebrate Being DifferentThe Winter Visitor|author=Lainey DeeJames Henry|rating=3.54|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmotherIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, not least because she which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the best beetle juicemore surprising. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. She The return has come about because he's had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted hasn't long to make new friendslive. At homeIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his only friend was his mum underwear and he wondered why that could besent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Grandma thought that Is it might be because he looked different.}}a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?