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|authorisbn=Tania Unsworth0008385068|title=Nowhere IslandThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley
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|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Meet GilIt's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. Just twelveIt's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, he Owen, was the architect and work is so determined to escape still ongoing on parts of the care system – site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are not homes – going to be settled and find it won't be long before a home for himselfbody is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4. He 5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in verse, this is en route Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, move to Norwich and lets it ride him to his futurestart at a mostly white school. That future seems The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother settle in a camp on an island between the two directions of new town, a motorwaynew school, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusionkeep himself out of trouble. ThemHe listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfullyrapper. Over But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a few weeks we poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see if their oddball destinies can combinethe connections between rap and poetry, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=18045400800241645441
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|isbn=00085300251635866847|title=Murder in the FamilyThe Lavender Companion|author=Cara HunterJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=It was in December 2003 's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found this is the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryderbook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', in I visited the garden author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of their West London homechocolate cake on the homepage. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if heI don'd slipped down the steps t eat cakes and desserts - but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberateI wanted that cake viscerally. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it(There's now a recipe in the subject of book, which I''Infamous'', m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a true-crime showmess of it. A group of experts has been brought together to review Notes in the evidence and to take the investigation furthermargins are sanctioned. More You get to fold down the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episodecorners of pages. There's no dump You suspect that smears of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangersbutter would not be a problem. ItI ''loved''s compelling viewingthis book already.
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|author=Rob Keeley
|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.
The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters
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|author=Judith EagleJenny Valentine|title=The Stolen SongbirdUs in the Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|summary=Caro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missingMeet Kit. Her other motherLike most of the people in his world, Ronnieit seems, he is having to go up North to take care an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of her sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gamwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, someone Caro has heard her mother despisesmagical mazes, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment race to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's housethe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there toothe way. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mysteryUnfortunately for Kit, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mumthe only thing he's old suitcaseseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising peoplenew trio of questors is needed. Is Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the painting somehow linked to goading from the gang? And what has happened to Carotoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's mother? ll enter as a team. Is she somehow involved What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in the mystery tooactually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=05713631481839945184
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|isbnauthor=1529195977Saima Mir|title=None of this is True|author=Lisa JewellVengeance|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd I was instantly intrigued by the premise of friends this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fairnorth of England run by a Muslim woman. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she The fact that it was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are second in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst theyseries I hadn're not t read didn't stop me – I'exactlyve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it' rowdy, they're enjoying themselvess good enough. Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the sense And that Walterwasn's not too happyt a problem here. He's not used Vengeance swiftly brings you up to spending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after allspeed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Love is love; although humans continue to be confused by this sentiment. Gay conversion therapy is ongoingDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The UK government ruled out plans police seem happy to make assign it a crime andas an accidental death, in but something about the USwhole thing bothers Lowe, nearly 700 000 adults have received it. Although it is both a secular and he enlists the help of a religious prejudicefellow actor, Chuck TingleJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, in his new horroruncovering more possible murders and, ''Camp Damascus''seemingly, peels back a link to death during the skin of Christian ''pray Second World War. But is there really a link between the gay away'' camps deaths? And will they manage to show the reader the horror lurking within.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=1803136383B0CYV674G2|title=Tin SoldiersSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David ChadwickBlake|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in Vietnam under something mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a cloudfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. What actually happened out there DCI John Tanner is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took placejust back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice the words 'perverse' and disgrace seems 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to be the consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to his chest, as keep going - probably because he always doescan't get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=B0C7J9D21B1787333175|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=A J LewisBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionPopular Science|summary=When we I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first meet our herobook {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, his name is Ettore a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallowsautobiography. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was bornYou Don't Have to be Mad... He's not been short of mothers, though - ' promised the same elements but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult moved from physical problems to obtain decent employment. The stint working with mental illness and the preparation work of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boatsa psychiatrist. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and I did wonder whether it was not long before he had acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a successful business as situation rather than a guide for visitors. He was even saving some moneyperson and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|author=Dean KoontzOnyi Nwabineli|title=After DeathAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Michael MaceAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a biothanks to her step-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuarymother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies where she posted every step of his dead friends Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=Arkspire|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Two sisters, Juniper influencer deals and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apartbasically, are growing to be chalk and cheesemonetary gain. Juniper Now Anuri is an eager hunter in her twenties and trader in illicit magicshe is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, including relics from prior major wars left out in suing her step-mother to take down the Badlandscontent about her. Elodie Anuri is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspirebattling alcoholism, perhaps even failing to become the child in line to inherit the power of the Watcher, the closest to a ruler the district hasstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and one of the five major victors in said earlier warreceiving money from them for doing so. Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the status new focus of the whole familyOphelia's online empire. But in finding something oddly magicalCan she save her sister, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of and perhaps herself and her relationship with her own – for good, or for very, very bad…father at the same time?|isbn=02415861430861546873
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|author=Thiago de MoraesDavid Chadwick|title=Old Gods New TricksHeadload of Napalm
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|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when sheIt's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacherSeptember 1973 in Hicks, the world changesCalifornia. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a power-out, even few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, Hicks. A silver mine and all that powers a defence contractor are the Internetmain local employers but otherwise, just for our conveniencethere's sake)not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. TrixieLife is quiet, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from usuntil... And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.|isbn=178845295XB0D321VJ76
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|author=Alexia CasaleTom Percival|title=Sing if you Can't DanceThe Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=EnglandWill's life is difficult, WW2in a multitude of ways. Two young girls are new at He is bullied because he has 'the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancywrong shoes', destined to be in service all her life it seemshe 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, like and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the female generations before her. The other is Sidneycollege, was working a girl from a hoitycash-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flightin-pathshand job on a building site and had an accident. The girls Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are chalk and cheeseseparated, and if we hadnWill't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it sos life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. But something He is amissgood at art, and first separately and then in combination they realise clings to the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover moments of secrecy, talk joy when he is made of meetings with Germansdrawing, and not only that, feel like a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely light at the girls are wrongend of a long, and the upper class could never be so underhand?dark tunnel.|isbn=17880046471398527122
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|isbnauthor=0241996104Sylvie Cathrall|title=Coming A Letter to Find You|author=Jane Corrythe Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives There are few greater joys than a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received book which lives up to a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of itcompelling premise. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' And this is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spokenof them.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=15294136800008517061|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Martin WalkerStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friendsFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the man playing one future of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckilyhis life with his vet girlfriend, his doctor is there Livia and the man is whisked away her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend lot of Bruno) wonders about compromise: does Jake give up his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon off- the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby grid and another, who lives in California, is flying relaxing life to move in with some of Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her father's friends reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for a pre-arranged holidayherself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.
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|isbn=15291963881786482126|title=The TrialJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Rob RinderElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Grant Cliveden Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up going to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when he was murdered in plain sight at they discovered the Old Baileybones of a child beneath a doorway. There's just one man in the frame for his was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court? Inevitably, charged Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with Cliveden's murderDCI Harry Nelson. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it It's Taylor-Cameron and his pupildifficult as Ruth knows, Adam Greenbut Nelson doesn't, who eventually represent himthat she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Knight's determined to plead Her condition will be obvious before long, not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations least because Ruth is prone to the contrarysudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=Essie Fox0008551324|title=The FascinationDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting It's unusual for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by anyone from the Hardie family to approach the Second World War) which police. Neither side likes or has often led to more than a few writers mishandling itany respect for the other. ThereBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's such a glut of media set in prepared to tell the era that police where the hallmarks we've come to associate with body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it are familiar to will be worth the point of being cliched, hackneyed evenpolice doing what he wants. All this And what he wants is simply to illustrate that it would be transferred to an easy thing open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to do poorlyget an early parole date. But despite that Not much to ask, something about is it still grabs me – ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and something about this bookshe's description did as even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept wellaway from what's happening.|isbn=1914585526
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|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel0008405026|title=Death A Stranger in Fine Conditionthe Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=35
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and in particular the investigation ground to a series called Sleuth Houndhalt. She spends Now, her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profitmother, sometimes 'tweaking' them, to add valueHelena, and her father are dead in somewhat fraudulent waystheir bed. One day she discovers Initially, it looks like a near perfect collection straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of these books after seeing them in the background of a photograph on bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her drug dealer's living room wall, boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and so she sets about discovering where this collection -shut case is, and how she can steal it! now a complex double murder. ItKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's a next-level step in her petty crime careerboss, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when the owner of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=15295079870571379877|title=The Repair Shop Craft BookKellerby Code|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop'Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. ItHe's my goalso self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to programme when I want to be cheered uprun errands for him. After a hard day, thereEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worthdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. You see, the value is Most men in what these possessions are worth to the people who own Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them and the memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as but he's not like most men: Edward is required left to achieve stumble upon the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doingtwo of them kissing in a dark passageway. But how did they start?
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|author=Nicole JarvisJo Callaghan|title=A Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|isbn=1803362340}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William FrankLeave No Trace
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=The village When a man is isolated and poorfound crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's surrounded by 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 Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition potential serial killer and its blossom provides herbal medicinesa very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The black wood of Will they be able to solve the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallowscase in time, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in or will Kat find herself taken off the village case and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgentpotentially, lazy lout out of a man is tolerated. career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=024162343X1399613073|title=Stolen HistoryMoral Injuries|author=Sathnam SangheraChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers|summary=I was Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the bad company other people got into at first day of medical schooland their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a 'god'cardiothoracic surgeon. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse stillLaura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Not too long after Anjali is the end free spirit of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British armygroup and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they's successes (re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and occasional failures, but we didnit't dwell on those) s going to end in what came to be called tragedy. We don't know who suffered the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in tragedy or the first placeconsequences. Looking back, I still believe I was right Twenty- but I regret five years later there will be an eerily similar event that I lacked the maturity to approach 'will impact the problem' politelythree friends. I wish I'd had Sathnam SangheraThis time, it's ''Stolen History''their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Amanda Craig0241636604|title=Three GracesThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary= Few styles If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of contemporary fiction interest me someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the state-ofpin-stripe suit and his background is the-nation novelEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the atmosphere London School of the day Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and capture it, crafting an image he has a facility with numbers which most of the country as it stands in one particular momentus can only envy. To say He also realised that Amanda Craig is skilled most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with the genre of contemporary social fiction at Citibank. Eventually, this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day turned into the lives of her characters in permanent employment as a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselvestrader.|isbn= 140871468X
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|isbn=14483093791035021803|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=David MarkC L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's something twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a surprise to find that you're deadrequest for help from her beloved aunt, particularly when youCarole. Freya're thinking that yous former mentor and Carole're actually on a break with your wife s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and childrenthe circumstances seem suspicious, but that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoysay the least. Whilst he Arthur was relieved the reason why Freya had not been back to find that he was stillthe village: Arthur, officiallyshe feels, alivelet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoahshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the partially clad man who'd dashed rebound from her flat in the early hours love of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her carlife, who was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - murdered) and Freya and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on AectorJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=0957181167AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Blue Skies and Boat TripsAll Tomorrow's Futures: The Norfolk of Brian LewisFictions that Disrupt|author=Alan MarshallBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=ArtScience Fiction|summary=There are few positive ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things which can be to come.'' I've heard it said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this timethat 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking must confess that there have been more closely at than a couple few decades of pictures on technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the walls feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - and was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewisquite frightening. Of course, I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book research the possibilities and the print probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I wanted was ‘not available’'m reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Oh, dear - then a few doors down from the apartment, I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a framed print of the picture way I wantedcould understand.
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|author=Simon FoxSunny Singh|title=DeadlockHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Late one night Graham Blake The Hotel Arcadia is late back a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from his shift the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on the forcesite, and then suddenly rings Archiethere is Sam, demanding he fetch something from a secret placewartime photographer and Abhi, and join him on the runhotel manager. They get together, but barely begin As Abhi continues to try to smell care remotely for the whiff of Southern trains when residents who are still alive in the father is arrestedhotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, leaving Archie and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the late express to Brightonphone, toting a tin his father was determined their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep away from his colleagues, safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the bearer of a whole heap of questionsterrorists.|isbn=1839944420086154742X
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|authorisbn=Shalini Boland1529153298|title=The Silent BrideList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=35
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|summary= Alice It's 1979 and Seth are a match made in heavenMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome(A woman? I mean, accomplishedhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, clever, funny; total and utter husband-materialthough. Women have been disappearing. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautifulWell, successfulthey've been murdered, confident… and but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and setfamily 'Down South'. When the much-anticipated day arrivesyou're from Yorkshire, Alice Down South is walked down a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the aisle by move would mean leaving her fatherbest friend, Sharon, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled 'll do anything to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Aliceprevent that. She's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at not worried about the altar is, who is waiting for dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to become his wifeanyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=16625070891398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to 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 wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Mark Edwards1035906708|title=Keep Her SecretDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= Matthew and Helena are We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in IcelandManhattan, New York, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first metin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to encapsulate make it more manageable in the joy States. When she is feeling was back in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the edge of Nazi occupation by a ravine gives way mother who mercilessly exploited her and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap made no secret of her rucksack between preference for her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panickedelder sister, cryptic declaration to MatthewJackie. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X
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|isbnauthor=B0BYF82CXTChristopher Edge|title=Semi-Detached|author=Deborah StoneBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=''Bill Lucas and Amanda his friends are living all booked in for a semi-detached housemovie marathon at their local cinema, stuck in a depressing rut place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of boredom exciting films, and disappointmentmany, many snacks! However, when Terry and Fiona – glamorousas the movie starts, successful and they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairsthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But all as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is not what it seemsgoing on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|isbnauthor=1787636003Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie BishopCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=It was ''I can hear the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on song of the sea. The call of the deep, the islandanswering beat in my heart. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was' Rosevear, perhapsa remote and partially forgotten island, naivesurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in like her mother before her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort is one of physical approach the seven who swim out to her survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and by any treasure that time she was obsessed by himlies within. Alistair worked for Henry TaylorBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, looking after his interests on they capture the 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 particular search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the bar where all 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 girls either worked or partiedheart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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