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|isbnauthor=0241480442Tom Percival|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienWrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryConfident Readers|summary=EmotionallyWill's life is difficult, I am in a veganmultitude of ways. MentallyHe 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, I am was working a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals cash-in -hand job on a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] building site and was appalled by had an accident. Throw into that mix the way in which we treat animals fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in our search for (preferably cheap) foodevery direction. PracticallyAnd yet, I am not a vegan. It worked for he still has a while apart from the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm tiny amount of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. It wasn't He is good at art, and clings to the taste - I know moments of joy when he is drawing, that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from feel like a light at the animal kingdom - it was the ease end of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare momentslong, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=suppl_staflSylvie Cathrall|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on Letter to the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim StaflundLuminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceScience Fiction|summary=So, you've finished writing your There are few greater joys than a book and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted which lives up to - and you had a talent for delivering the written wordcompelling premise. You knew your subject back to front. Now you're going to have to get to grips with the book supply chain, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and no And this is one wants to be the first to try. Then, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to youthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=13987069060008517061|title=The LostDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Simon BeckettStig Abell
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|summary=The disappearance of Former Metropolitan police firearms officerPolice detective, Jonah Colley's young sonJake Johnson, Theohas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, just about finished himLivia and her daughter Diana, particularly as he blamed himself moving in together would 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 what had happened. herself and her daughter? He'd fallen asleep For the moment they’re enjoying life in the park whilst Theo was playing present and when he woke, Theo had goneputting the future on the back burner. It cost him his marriage and his home}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4. Ten years later he5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's largely come through it and heluxury's out with his team apartments - when he gets they discovered the bones of a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneychild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Gavin used to be his best friend but it's Was this a long time since they've spokenritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. HeIt's obviously in 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 difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quaythree months ago. ''There's no one else I can trust''Her condition will be obvious before long, he saysnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=Amanda Mason0008551324|title=The Hiding PlaceDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Needing an escape It's unusual for anyone from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and stepdaughter he's prepared to Whitby, tell the police where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name body of Elder Housea missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. She hopes that This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the perfect place remainder of his sentence and to sort things outget an early parole date. But there Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts even prepared to suspect do the other thing that she Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and her family arenanyone who works with him is kept well away from what't alone there…|isbn=1838771964s happening.}}
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|authorisbn=Paul Cleave0008405026|title=The Quiet PeopleA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary= I am not a fan of "the Prologue"It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Most books are She was never found and the worse for them. In this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who is in investigation ground to a hurryhalt. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have Now, her mother, Helena, and when he hurriesher father are dead in their bed. Initially, when he bundles things into it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the back positioning of his car the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and tries her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to run be an open-and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is New Zealand and convinced that is not how they do things therethe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, he takes a risk. It ends badlyUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1913193942
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|authorisbn=Will Carver0571379877|title=Psychopaths AnonymousThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Maeve Edward Jevons is a high functioning alcoholicworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, drinking continuously Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's alsoself-obsessed, curiouslydemanding, addicted handsome and entitled and uses Edward to attending numerous AA groupsrun errands for him. She is also a self Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups he's drunkenly confided how he feels to find targetsRobert...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people Most men in Robert's misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and when sheposition would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's unable not like most men: Edward is left to find like-minded people stumble upon the two of them kissing in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is borna dark passageway.|isbn=1913193756
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|isbnauthor=1529418100Jo Callaghan|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin WalkerLeave No Trace
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|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=I'm not usually When a fan man is found crucified on the top of short stories - I find it all too easy a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to put the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so case alongside her sidekick, the temptation to read ''BrunoAI detective Lock. It's Challenge'' was hard to resist their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and I'm rather glad a very high profile case that I didn't even trydraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. For those new Will they be able to solve the seriescase in time, there's an excellent introduction that or will tell you all you need to know about who's who Kat find herself taken off the case and the background to why Bruno is in St Denis., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF1399613073|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)Moral Injuries|author=Jenny O'BrienChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first night away from her sonday of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Hunter had diabetes and this was controlled by Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a pump attached bonus when you aim to his stomach, so her over-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her to get married and she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likecardiothoracic surgeon. Her friend, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for Laura is a night in perfectionist and a posh hotel but then he dumped her trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she couldnbecomes 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 get know who suffered the money back, so Hannah was offered tragedy or the opportunity to go in his placeconsequences. She would return home to find Ian dead and Twenty-five-year-old Hunter missingyears later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q0241636604|title=Without a TraceThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Jane BettanyGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Life hadnIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through a divorce re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and right now it his background is the East End, where he was raining hardfamiliar with violence, poverty and injustice. All she wanted There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to get back to her new home the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and settle down for he has a quiet eveningfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. It wasn't going He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a dead man on her bed card game which got him an internship with a knife in his chestCitibank. She'd no idea who he wasEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=18387748231035021803|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=S J BennettC L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's 2016 and twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the QueenEnglish country village where she grew up. She's Private Secretaryback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistbandCarole. SwimmingFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, he decidesArthur Crockleford, is the way to go dead and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came circumstances seem suspicious, to be there early one morning and discovered say the body of Cynthia Harris at least. Arthur was the side of reason why Freya had not been back to the poolvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. There was broken glass - a crystal tumblerEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, by she has not felt able to be near the look at it - probably one of man or pursue the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that profession she had bled outloved. StillAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, it who was a shock for Sir Simonmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=057136358XAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=April in SpainAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=John BanvilleBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)Science Fiction|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of himself in those termsthings to come. He saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy I've heard it said that 'technology'is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I couldn't resist the thought must confess that he was an extreme version there have been more than a few decades of Marie Kondotechnology in my lifetime. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to him when he was in Burma me but I'm left with the army feeling that it''where he got s all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the chance to kill a lot of possibilities and the little yellow fellows probabilities and had a fine old timeend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - I needed people I knew I could trust and who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles could deliver information in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spainway I could understand.
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|author=Dave Letterfly KnodererSunny Singh|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=AutobiographyThrillers |summary=How to summarise the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you knowterrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, I really don't think I can. Dave there is an author Sam, a wartime photographer and an artistAbhi, the hotel manager. An inspirational speaker and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholic. The son of a Lutheran minister As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he's struggled forms a bond with a controlling fatherSam who refuses to be cowed by events, run away and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to join capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the circus (not a metaphor)phone, trained horses, painted caravans, designed their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the bottle took overterrorists.|isbn=B0965V3LLN086154742X
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|authorisbn=Tade Thompson1529153298|title=Far From the Light The List of HeavenSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=Michelle It'Shell' Campion s 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to spacePrime Minister. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime (A woman? I mean, bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the shiphonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's AI captainfamily, though. However Women have been disappearing. Well, when she wakes up at the end of her trip they've been murdered, but to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtimehave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's AI almost non-responsive, upset because she begins to realise 's overheard that her first mission wonfather wants to move the family 'Down South't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. When you're from Yorkshire, Down on BloodrootSouth is a frightening, foreign place, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtimebest avoided. Meanwhile For Miv, former astronaut and the move would mean leaving her best friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in towSharon, and she'll do anything to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosprevent that. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications She's not just for Bloodroot, but potentially worried about the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=Rob Keeley1398524085|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrotsHer children, broccolisons Niall, cabbage Paul and auberginesOllie and her daughter, Etty. When are all worried but - strangely - her friends at school turn up their noseshusband, Alec, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eatnot. One day Shortly afterwards, poor Lily gets tricked by JordanEtty and Greg, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with find the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetablesbody of Greg's father, like carrotsDuncan Ackerley, grow in the groundriver. Jordan says, "I did try It was an easy assumption for the police to tell her, Miss!" make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and everyone laughs at poor Lilywonder about what really happened.|isbn= B09HHN541V
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|isbn=178607981X1035906708|title=Bad ApplesDiva|author=Will DeanDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Tuva Moodyson We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the roadStates. Wondering if someone needed help When she got out of the car was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - and heard the screams from deep inside the forest. Determining she was raised under the direction of Nazi occupation by a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids mother who mercilessly exploited her and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made no secret of her way to where a woman was holding preference for her coat over the body of a man. He'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Perssonelder sister, a resident of VisbergJackie.
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|author=Lilja SigurdadottirChristopher Edge|title=Cold As HellBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary= In Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a red suitcase place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. 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 new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the bottom 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 a fissure the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a lava fieldremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, there is one of 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 bodytrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. And the man Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who has put is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her there has just discovered , she sets off in search of a family secret that he is capable 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 smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of killingher home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=19131938880008664730
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|author=Lucy HopeJames Sherwood Metts|title=FledglingPlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is Things have been a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over sticky for the decadesEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. Itoften replacing jobs they's an eccentric house, re paid to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as we'd know it, the roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, do and so onother tasks that took time to accomplish. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and a passion for the long-standing family hobby starting to think of taxidermyother, a woman who does nothing but quibblenew ways to spend time, kvetch along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassiealong with it, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again..many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=183994188X1736128426
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|isbnauthor=1846276772Matthew Tree|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell'll Never Know
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to which they suffer be different from it: it's simply his father, a part drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve being exceptional at any of the white man. Even when those his artistic passions all failed miserably and who wouldn't pass the medical become a part had endless crises of an organisation it's rare that their views are heardself confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias set himself high but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=Teresa DriscollA G Slatter|title=Her Perfect FamilyThe Briar Book of the Dead
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|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=The novel begins by introducing you '' There's a part of me that wants to Gemmakeep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, who at first instance appears last. I just want to be your average studentenjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, faced with far away from the familiar horrifying realisationworld, at lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the eleventh hourBriar's, that her graduation outfit is all wronga family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. SuddenlyThough she has always wished for magic, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He Ellie Briar is not who he says he is…'', paving the way 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 sinister tone that remains throughout Briar Witch, the noveltown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. In a twist of eventsAs challenges come her way left, right and after a change of outfitcentre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, Gemma is shot in putting her at the midst heart of her graduation ceremonya maelstrom of chaos. With Gemma then in a comaReeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow do as the further you readBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=15420287521803364548
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|isbn=84092901031529900360|title=If OnlyThe Ghost Orchid|author=Matthew TreeJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: badly injured but he asked his accountant, Mr Patrickfelt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ensure that the young man got ask for his help on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowancedifficult cases. Patrick sent the money regularly His assertions that there were only open-and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior shut cases which didn't care need the help of a psychologist only worked for his sona while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that he didn't care to have him the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in this country where he might be the swimming pool of a danger remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to his wife an extremely rich man and other childrenit's not the Italian. The alcohol problem But which of them was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.primary target?
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|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Rabbit FactorSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands
|rating=3.5
|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|summary=Siôn 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.
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|isbn=0861541774
|title=A Nye of Pheasants
|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Henri. With DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beingsshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, he's perfect for his job Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a teamstreet brawl -member, he would later maintain that they'd prefer everyone to be all openhe was facing a man armed with a knife -plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having killed a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, and nothing elseGhurka. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind Initially, but he perks up faced a little when charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans might have been made out and planned to murder the amount vanishedman. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on Now he could be facing the scene death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to explain that missing money – it's been turned into help as any interference from another police force could provoke a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, diplomatic incident and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan..wouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbnauthor=1471179311Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Unheard|author=Nicci FrenchPerfect Passion Company
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=TessThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, a teacher run by Ness and Jason, operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a headmastermore personal, have split up: tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and Poppy have moved look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the family chance to come home and Jason is now married to EmilyEdinburgh. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apartAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. They coKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-parent three-year-old Poppy who making, but Ness has full confidence in her bedroom in what was the family home abilities, and another in the flat she shares with there's always her mother. It very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''seemedInstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be working well until quick knits - others are of the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing of a woman falling from a tall building and she started swearing'long, using words she was unlikely to have heard cosy afternoons in either homefront of the fire' variety. Her behaviour deteriorated The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and there were problems at nursery schoolmore than twenty hours. Tess turns to a therapist for helpAll the projects are attractive, then her doctor modern and finally the police useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but no one will take what she has to say seriouslythat's me being picky.
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|isbnauthor=1471196615Dean Koontz|title=Iced|author=Felix FrancisThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=Miles Pussett used to be Benny is having a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he now gets loses his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Runfiancee, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourand his house gets trashed. He was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin- thatsized object to his home, and it's high-class horseracing on possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the frozen lake and against thing that has trashed his better judgement he gets talked into helping with house! The thing is, Benny is the saddling of the horsesvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore So fortunately for Benny it turns out that he'd never go back the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to ithelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. But when he sees that something suspicious Spike is going onto take care of Benny, Miles canand will certainly take care of Benny't help but look for answerss enemies, if he, Benny, even when it puts him in dangerand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=147228612XAdam Stower|title=The Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Alan JohnsonMurray and Bun
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=We all know people like Gary NelsonMurray is supposed to be a humble, although we probably haven't taken much notice of them. They live quiettidy and friendly cat, uneventful lives one who is able to sleep and stay mostly under eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the radartwo. In But he's a city like London, thatbad magician's quite easy - cat, so his favourite 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 even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himwhiffs. The highlight of his day This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to work on the train each morning: be honest, but he'd love to ask her for a date but s turned up and he doesn't ll have the courage. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and asks for his help. Before long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan police.do…|isbn=0008561249
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|authorisbn=Claire McGowanB0C47LV1PC|title=I Know YouFragility|author=Mosby Woods
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|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Then:Yo birthing person'' Casey returns from a walk with joke? And if you could, is the baby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down. ''Now:'' Rachel question should you make it? Or is out for a walk with her dog, Brandy, when she comes across a body in the woods.|isbn=1542019974}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529148251|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rapequestion if you did, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalisewould it land? It's as though I were telling The catch is that the truth whilst simultaneously running away from itanswer for both could well be.... no.''
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|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1529431735|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
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|summary=Martin CurranIt's wifeFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one owhich made Bruce Hopkins'clock on the dot, despite return all the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letmore surprising. If she didnHe't get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a paraplegic and confined to wanted drug smuggler for a wheelchair, but don't be too quick to be understandingdecade. He was also a very unpleasant person: The return has come about because he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being available.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784742775|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan Hill|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Drugs hadn't really been that much of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of time. They still wereletter from his ex-wife, to a great extent, but Serrailler knew saying that something had to be done. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport the drugs she's ill and the operation running the county lines was tight. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldnhasn't be the correct one) of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch a few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher up.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09FS89KX9|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=3long to live.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BBIt's diner. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted hard to control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the diner. Then there was the fact that he would be violentfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, both stripped to her his underwear and sent to other people.}}{{Frontpage|author=John Gwynne|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set a watery grave in the era boot of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to seea stolen Ford Sierra. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together problem closer to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=0356514218}}home?
