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|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ560008517061|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Ann MacarthurStig Abell

|summary=It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years oldFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. He used to have There’s perhaps a high-flying job in little uncertainty about the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades future of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the his life experience that backs up this profession? On the other handwith his vet girlfriend, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce Livia and Helen are half-sistersher daughter Diana, or rather, they were until Helen was killed as moving in what's been written together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - reservations about whether or how not this is the future she could come to fall wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigatethe present and putting the future on the back burner.

|authorisbn=Katherine Howe1786482126|title=A True AccountThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Hannah Masury is living Builders were demolishing an old house in Boston, having been sent Norwich - the site was going to live with hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from child beneath a young agedoorway. When she hears there is to be There was no skull. Was this a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. ritual killing or murder? Enthralled and horrified in equal measureInevitably, Hannah Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself embroiled in a young boyworking with DCI Harry Nelson. It's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides awaydifficult as Ruth knows, so that they donbut Nelson doesn't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely that she runs away to sea, dressing is pregnant with his child as a boy and joining result of the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boyone night they spent together some three months ago. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale prone to sudden bouts of life on the ocean wavessickness.|isbn=0861547438

|authorisbn=Tananarive Due0008551324|title=The Reformatory|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe TomorrowDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Penny ParkesNeil Lancaster

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Jamie Matson works 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 an upper-class grocery store, for a man whoprison and he's a control freak with all prepared to tell the police where the subtlety body of a half brickmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Jamie's sonThis person, Bohe promises, 'has his problems'is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that And what he's on wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the autistic spectrumremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Sometimes Jamie needs Not much to take time off at short notice - sheask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's a frequent flier in the local A&E t think so and sometimes Boshe's not fit enough to go even prepared to school. Missed shifts or do the need to be other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a headwhat's happening.

|authorisbn=Harry Allen0008405026|title=Children of A Stranger in the SunFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and she is the investigation ground to a talented singerhalt. Life is hard and food is difficult to come by Now, her mother, Helena, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every eveningfather are dead in their bed. Initially, looking for tree bark it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and edible grasses her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to supplement be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at homeexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1805140493

|authorisbn=Edel Rodriguez0571379877|title=Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720}}{{FrontpageKellerby Code|author=K P O'Donnell|title=The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)Jonny Sweet

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=VLEdward Jevons is a working-15class young man, a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answersobsessed with his upper-class friends, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel Robert and RenadaStanza. Over half- Robert's a-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuildtheatre director. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father He's legacyalso self-obsessed, building a world where machines demanding, handsome and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions entitled and external enemies might bring it all crashing down againuses Edward to run errands for him. Craig Anderson, leader of a group of salvagers called the Exhumers, Edward has his entire life turned upside down when been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herselffeels to Robert. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn Most men in Robert't diminished in the slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexels position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=B0CKRYFRZMnot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1838954481Jo Callaghan|title=The Misper|author=Kate LondonLeave No Trace

|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed When a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was man is found crucified on the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of case alongside her sidekick, the officerAI detective Lock. And so lives must go onIt's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for But when there is a quieter life in the countryside but when second body found crucified a missing teenager few days later, Kat is found on her territory she's drawn into suddenly struggling with a wider investigation - potential serial killer and back into a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the orbit case and, potentially, out of Ryan Kennedy.a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=10350252991399613073|title=Went Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=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 a bonus when you aim to Londonbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the 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 end 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, Took the Dogit's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Nina StibbeGary Stevenson|rating=4.5

|summary=Nina Stibbe If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is returning the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London for School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a sabbatical after being away for twenty yearsfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. She's been at Victoria's smallholding in Leicestershire which isn't all He also realised that conducive most rich people expect poor people to writing, as there's always something smallholding happening - as you might expectbe stupid. The other side of the decision It was his ability at what was sealed when , essentially, a room became available (courtesy of Deborah Moggach) at card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a very reasonable renttrader.

|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL1035021803|title=Radio Free OlympiaThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Jeffrey DunnC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Petr is an orphanIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Rescued by the strange Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, reclusive BearArthur Crockleford, he is brought up far from bustling cities dead and busy human societythe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsulaprofession she loved. After Bear dies and the split, she worked in a brief sojourn in human companycafe, met and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes married James (on a journey through the forest, broadcasting rebound from the strangelove of her life, wild who was murdered) and Freya and rarely heard voices he encountersJames have now divorced.

|isbn=1635866243AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing HandbookAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Kristina McGrath Benjamin Greenaway and Sarah Walworth Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsScience Fiction|summary=''I quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on a page wasn't enough. Creating a pattern that was correct, clear, concise, and consistent required a great deal Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of trial and error, patience, and perseverancethings to come.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy)

A friend recently showed me a knitting pattern for which sheI've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you'd paid good moneyre eighteen. The first line Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of the instructions began: technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what'Cast off 100 stitches...s advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it' It was clear that no good could come s all getting away from me. Some of this it is - the instructions didn't get any better frankly - and (finally) PayPal obliged with a refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repaymentquite frightening. The pattern looked prettyOf course, but I could research the possibilities and the creator didnprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I't have m reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the basic knowledge and skills to enable her to connect with her knitterslatest conspiracy theorist. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Adam Baron and Benji DaviesSunny Singh|title=Oscar's LionHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother The Hotel Arcadia is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has to be ready for schoolsuddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. But when he enters his parents' bedroomHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion killing everyone on their bedsite, looking sheepishthere is Sam, a wartime photographer and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two daysAbhi, the hotel manager. But there are benefits As Abhi continues to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat try to care remotely for the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar residents who are still alive in the other month. And it can shapeshifthotel, so he can take it forms a bond with Sam who refuses to school be cowed by events, and it can get him keeps on venturing out of a problemher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. And it's wonderful to have around Although they only ever talk over the house – not limiting his biscuit intakephone, being much more lax about their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the rules, and so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful timeterrorists.|isbn=0008596751086154742X

|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR1529153298|title=Good Girls DieThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Ayura AyiraJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5

|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'This story is s not for everyonewhat'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' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of s overheard that her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happenedfather wants to move the family 'Down South'. She was When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a very bright studentfrightening, foreign place, a bit too nerdy if truth be toldbest avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid she'll do anything to hug prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her in case itMum's contagiousstopped talking - to anyone. It}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% whitefiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She had a crush on seventeenHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but -yearstrangely -old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice herhusband, Alec, is not. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math Shortly afterwards, Etty and Reggie asked if she would tutor himGreg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this It was just an extension. She went easy assumption for the police to his house make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he raped hercouldn't stand the guilt. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift homeThe Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=V Castro1035906708|title=The Haunting of AlejandraDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=''This We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was a part of her past that had born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to stop with Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her. She would be the one father changed it to confront this.'Callas' At some point during her life, Alejandra lost herselfto make it more manageable in the States. She feels as if When she is playing parts for others was back in her life – her husband and her children – without ever giving any thought to her own desires, her own future, her own identity. Day by day Athens - supposedly so that she goes through quotient motions without anyone seeing that there is something fundamentally wrong. For invisible to all but Alejandra, there is a darkness threatening to consume could get appropriate training for her. More and more voice - she is visited was raised under the Nazi occupation by a ghost, a weeping woman in a fraying white gown dripping with water, mother who leaves distress in mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her wakeelder sister, Jackie.|isbn=1803365617

|author=Richard KadreyChristopher Edge|title=The Pale House DevilBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=HorrorConfident Readers|summary=Ford Lucas and Neuland his friends are all booked in for a couple ofmovie marathon at their local cinema, well, guys for hire I guess, though really a place that has the way I thought nickname of them through the book was as a couple of strange detectives! 'The Black Hole'. One All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of them is living, you seeexciting films, and the other is undeadmany, and so one of them kills the livingmany snacks! However, and the other kills as the undead. (Only not each othermovie starts, obviously). They're on a job in New York they very quickly realise that goes badlysomething about this new film format is very different, and so they head out are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the West coast to try to lay low for a while and find some other work to keep them next, can they figure out what on earth is going. on? But when a young woman called Tilda hires them Will they ever get back to kill the 'something' that appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family historycinema, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!to their real lives?|isbn=18033638941839942738

|author=Helen CooperRachel Greenlaw|title=The Taming of the CatCompass and Blade

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against cat''I can hear the song of the sea. In this case, principally, we have Brie The call of the mousedeep, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and answering beat in case youmy heart.'re seeing a connection' Rosevear, they live in a cheese shop remote and therefore all partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the names used here seem to be rocks and plundering the names of cheeseswrecks. AnywayMira, like her mother before her, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for one of the way his habits don't match seven who swim out to survey the other mice he lives withruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. They nibble up paper wrapping from But when the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on Council Watch lays a trap to end the visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one nightwrecking, when he feels all alone they capture the island's leader and cast out. ItMira's almost as if there were another character father. Desperate to save him from fable death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who had had is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the mouse community, thoughsea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as all her journey takes her from the others had watched streets of foreign islands to the chance heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to half-inch some cheese while stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the cat was distractedones she holds most dear. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=05713760100008664730

|isbnauthor=B0CDZRGT1MJames Sherwood Metts|title=Super Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C WallfischPlanet Storyland

|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=''Got Things have been a minute to be amused, entertainedbit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, or challenged?often replacing jobs they''''These 100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can read one in a flash.''''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.'' Question: how re paid to do you review flash fiction? How do you give a flavour of a fully rounded little story if and other tasks that story is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to draw out themes from all the flash fictions in a book this technological change and starting to think of them? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't a fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collectionother, new ways to spend time, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limitalong came an awful pandemic. That's about a single page in your average paperbackLife was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=1732898766Matthew Tree|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)We'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunatelyfather, they were nearly a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at Nobby Lob-lolly - any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and when a ladder who had endless crises of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escapedself confidence. They climbed up So Tim applied himself to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Weeshis studies, Nester Nook cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and Granny Crannyset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1472263936A G Slatter|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria HislopBriar Book of the Dead

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=It was in 1968 '' There's a part of me that Helena McCloud made her first trip wants to keep this just to Greecemyself for however long I can. She was alone: her motherThis secret magic of my own, all mine, Greek by birthat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, had left far away from the family home and refused to returnworld, but Mary and Hamish (Helenalies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's parents) felt that it would be , a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritagefamily of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Her trip to Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the family apartment in upfirst non-market Kolonaki would witch to be the first of several annual visitsborn 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. She grew to love When her grandmother and suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the familytown's maidleader, Dinaand Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, but was wary - right and frightened - of her grandfathercentre, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the Junta and expected his dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to uphold his values but saw no reason another, Ellie must decide who to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair trust and green eyes - inherited from her fatherdetermine what to do as the Briar witches's Scottish ancestorslegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Cody Goodfellow1529900360|title=VerticalThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= ThereIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's something about tall buildings fault that just captures my imaginationAlex 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. Who doesn His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't love need the help of a good view from up highpsychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who 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, after all? Even though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the drabbest office building heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is somewhere I'm intrigued married to get inside if an extremely rich man and it's 40 stories tallnot the Italian. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I But which of them was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991the primary target?

|authorisbn=Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold1529395224|title=Finding BearLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a lot further north than many people would ventureGP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – particularly when he considered the strain that she called Bearbeing on-call put on his father's life. Back home, things on When he was seventeen he took the domestic and opportunity of doing work experience with a family front are friend who was a bit advanced, but not perfect vet and was convinced this was the job for herhim. Before long, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear he was last left onat Liverpool University. For a bear doing very BearIt hadn't - as with so many students -y things has been shot and woundedhis dream since he was a child. Desperate to make sure If anything, he's OK, she and her father return d wanted to the Arctic and hope that in be a world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continueprofessional footballer.|isbn=0008582017

|isbn=18041832100861541774|title=No ReserveA Nye of Pheasants|author=Felix FrancisSteve Burrows

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldnDCI Domenic Jejeune't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auctions close friend and former colleague, but Peter RadwayDanny Maik, the chairmanhas taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, hadn't arrived, so he continued his sessionGuy Trueman. To say Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal facing a man armed with a knife - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industryhe killed a Ghurka. Jennings was in one Initially, he faced a charge of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men manslaughter but evidence came in and their conversation revealed to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figureman. Both were happy that they had insurance in placeNow he could be facing the death penalty. The following morning, the horse was dead in its stallDomenic 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=Sarah WilsonAlexander McCall Smith|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured worldThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5|genre= LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the one online apps in which providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she asks ''What could come and look after the business, as Ness is it you plan planning to take a trip to Canada to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely thisaway for a while.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and precious life so jumps at the way I want chance to come home toEdinburgh. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to think about whether an Edinburgh we really ''are'' living already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the life we want – the best life that we could be livingIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Her answer is an unequivocal ''Katie has noexperience in running a business, we are not''. Don't care what you're doingor in match-making, she thinks you (webut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, I) could be doing more…And sheand there's effing furious about the fact that we are not.always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=17856338481846976596

|isbn=18399484930811771741|title=A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker InstaKnits for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'm going to go back and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405951680|title=The Safe HouseBaby|author=Cameron WardMelissa Leapman

|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a couple collection of monthsknits from toys to blankets. After Some will be quick knits - others are of the problems she'd had at worklong, it seemed like just cosy afternoons in front of the break she neededfire' variety. She was no longer a data analyst for The projects are divided by the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the country of her birth projects are attractive, modern and in need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charlesuseable. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticketI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|author=Rachel HarrisonDean Koontz|title=The Bad DollsWeather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesParanormal|summary=It's been some time since I've read any horrorBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. I had Oh, and someone has delivered a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen Kingreally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to the point it's possible that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of whoever or whatever was inside is the vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like thing thathas trashed his house! It doesn't have those jump scaresThe thing is, and I didn't have Benny is the very last person to read it during daylight hours only! deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. But So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is creepya new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, and I found most who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of that feeling came from the fact that these are stories about women, living normal livesBenny, and that at least in partwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakupif he, trying a new dieting appBenny, going to a hen party and Harper (a coping with griefwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=18033639321662500491

|isbnauthor=1394159544Adam Stower|title=Recycling for Dummies|author=Sarah WinklerMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers |summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up Murray is supposed to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core who is able to landfillsleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, it will take between 6 months and 2 years to decomposewhatever takes his fancy next of the two. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As But he's a just-post-WWII babybad magician's cat, I faced so his favourite bun has been turned into a dilemma: reducinghyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' come in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you catflap they both use can cobble together something that would serve chuck them out, not into the purposeregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. Almost everything can be used one more This time and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other handround it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, I suspected I one much bigger than Murray was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must , to be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and dropping it in the kerbside bin. Yeshonest, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible.he'sturned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Lauren St JohnB0C47LV1PC|title=Finding WonderFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=RooCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was youngjoke? And if you could, and now she finds herself awoken in is the middle of question should you make it? Or is the night by the police banging on her door to tell her question if you did, would it land? The catch is that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticketanswer for both could well be... When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. But she has no one else, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervanOregon, it breaks down in cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169covid pandemic

|isbn=14483097431529431735|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)Winter Visitor|author=Caro RamsayJames Henry

|summary=In It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the village of Cronchie more surprising. He'd been exiled on the West coast of Scotland, five members of Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a wealthy family are found murdereddecade. The only item missing return has come about because he's had a letter from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many wayshis ex-wife, saying thatshe's an easy conclusion given that two of them ill and hasn'discoveredt long to live. It' the body. The Senior Investigating Office s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappearsabducted, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to 'shadow' him.}}home?