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|isbn=1398509582152919640X|title=The FavourSuspect|author=Nicci FrenchRob Rinder|rating=4.5
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|summary=It was 2 amThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, not long after A levelsJessica Holby, when the car crash happened. It would cause problems for Liam Birch but then no was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one could really understand why he and Jude Winter were togethersuspect. She was utterly driven by her determination He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to go to medical schoolJessica Holby. Liam was the reverseShe's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. He just acted ''Everything seemed as normal - as normal as if life just rolled him over they can be in a busy, live television studio - and carried him along''Brooks served a ragout to Holby. A bit of weed here, a few drinks there: the legal effects of the car crash really didn't worry him at allHer EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. The relationship broke up It was soon after clear that - or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any morethis was no accident.
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|isbn=08570517410008385068|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationMidnight Feast|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but heIt's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate midsummer on the case of a body found in a freezer Dorset coast and guests gather at the home of a deceased alcoholicThe Manor. The problem is that the case has long passed the statute of limitationsIt's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. He The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Stromwealthy and famous. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on which she can take no action: parts of the problem is that this is a dying man's wishsite. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, heat is oppressive and amongst the dead alcoholic, was also murderedguests are enemies as well as friends. Is there Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a connection between the two deaths?body is found.
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|author=Robert DugoniAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Her Deadly GameWild East|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has been the lifeto move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed mum who is worried for Ronny'The Irish Brawler' due s safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances settle in defence a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of his clientstrouble. Along with an indisputable talent for the lawHe listens to music constantly, Patsy also and has always dreamed of being a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the formerrapper. Enter Keera DugganBut now, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleaguepoetry writing workshop group and, Miller Ambroseslowly, had goneRonny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, rather spectacularly, southand the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=16625001810241645441
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|authorisbn= Rob Keeley1635866847|title= The Boy Who Disappeared Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Other StoriesTerry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is back with the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a return to recipe in the short story formatbook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us ) Then I started reading the book and I was told to eleven new tales, each as fun make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to read as his previous offeringsfold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn= B0BVW69N1G
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|author= Michael GrothausRob Keeley|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre= Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= Around here, we're big fans of children'But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different thingss author Rob Keeley. And IHe'm willing to bet most s a ball of what we fear will never happenhappy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or we can take steps to change ithector.''
The ''Beautiful Shining PeopleChildish Spirits'' revolves around the question series is one of identity and acceptancehis greatest achievements. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real 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 what is artificialEdward, a spoiled lordling and whether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=191458564X1783064617
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|isbnauthor=B09BLBP3P8Jenny Valentine|title=Neville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic SeagerUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryTeens|summary=Received wisdom Elk and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about historyMab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of the early days of World War II from 1939-40, known They meet as the ''Phoney Warchildren one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler But then chance brings them back together, war breaking outand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and Churchill coming in to save the day. Very little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections tragic, and yetnow they must work through their grief, as Frederic Seager argues in this bookand their friendship, it was of vital significance in how the war played outtogether.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbnauthor=0760378134Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The First-Time GardenerDungeon Runners: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela FarleyHero Trial|rating=54|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=If you've ever thought how good Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it would be to be able to pop out into seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the garden sport where a team of warrior, mage and pick some fruit healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where race to startthe exit, this is perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the book points they grant you needalong the way. ItUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own foodseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, what you're going to groweaten, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil)a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish he has taken to the goading from the main part token bully of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. Therehis world and stumbled into declaring he's also ll enter as a good glossaryteam. SoWhat chance does this friendless, is it any goodmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002Frontpage|author= Eric LaRoccaSaima Mir|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled ThereVengeance|rating= 3.5|genre= HorrorThrillers|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process themMuslim woman. Most horror fiction feature The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn'Big Badt stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn', whether that is a home invader, a monster or t be a ghost, hindrance if it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's good enough. And that wasn''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like thatt a problem here. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illnessVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|author=Amelia Estelle DellosStuart Douglas|title=Delilah RecoveredLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= We meet Dee at During 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 point when her life isn't going reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as planned an accidental death, but things mightsomething about the whole thing bothers Lowe, just mightand he enlists the help of a fellow actor, be about John Le Breton to look uphelp him investigate matters further. Out of work They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, about a link to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's jobdeath during the Second World War. But it's not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives there really a link between the attack but not unscathed. Witch huntersdeaths? What on earth has that And will they manage to do with Deeuncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the same....|isbn=B0BKYFDLLV1803368209
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|isbn=0008404976B0CYV674G2|title=The Close Swanton Morley (DS Maeve KerriganJohn Tanner)|author=Jane CaseyDavid Blake|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was because of Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan seemed like an open-and DI Josh Derwent were living together -shut case. A man, covered in Jellicoe Close. If you're mud and blood - and carrying a regular reader of knife, comes into the [[Jane Caseypolice station shouting that he hasn's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read that sentence twice and wondered if itt killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's a massive spoiler because there been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is a delicious sexual chemistry between just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the two which seems very, very realbirth of his daughter Samantha. But (there's always a You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer butthe words ', isnperverse't there?) Josh has a partner and he dotes on her son, even if the relationship with Melissa can be a little rocky'John Tanner' were made for each other. As for Maeve, sheHe's just come out sleep-deprived to the point of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertainfalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|authorisbn=Merryn Glover1787333175|title=The Hidden FiresYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
|rating=5
|genre=TravelPopular Science|summary= It is always about the book, not the writer, but there are times when the authorI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's hinterland is also the background to the first book and so it {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is necessary Going to understand that contextHurt}}, in order to appreciate a glorious mixture of insight into the book. Merryn Glover is workings of Australian parentage, was born in Kathmanduthe NHS, grew up in the Annapurna and Himalayan humour and now lives in Badenoch in Scotlandautobiography. I can think of no-one better a combination ''You Don't Have to give us a re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than be Mad...'' promised the first Writer in Residence in same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the Cairngorms National Park. Merryn walks, not so much in the shadow work of Shepherd, but in her spirita psychiatrist. I think did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the two would have gotten along famouslylaughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.|isbn=1846975751
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|author=Alice M RossOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Nowhere ThiefAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=At last there is new stock in Anuri spent her childhood on display to the impoverished yet overworld, thanks to her step-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she has stolen itposted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. She also knows Now Anuri is in her twenties and she should be free from worries about being found outis slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, because she has suing her step-mother to take down the ability to leave this worldcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours failing to enter other worldsstart her PhD, where the sea levels are rising dramatically undergoing therapy and the buildings are generally empty of humans secretly abusing people online and ripe receiving money from them for plunderdoing so. With eviction imminentMost importantly, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yesshe is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the answernew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, but and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…same time?|isbn=18399437690861546873
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|isbnauthor=1529504775David Chadwick|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyHeadload of Napalm
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive pastIt's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Elsie would race the buses along the side Hicks is a Mojave desert town of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born a few thousand people with cerebral palsy its nearest neighbours of LA and even just standing up was very difficultLas Vegas both a significant drive away. One day Elsie spotted a bus Not much happens in the toy shop window which would help David - Hicks. A silver mine and was happy to use a defence contractor are the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for supportmain local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and walk behind itJoshua trees. Many decades laterLife is quiet, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with ituntil....|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=1847941834Tom Percival|title=Atomic Habits|author=James ClearThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=IWill've said this before but there are some books that you seek outs life is difficult, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because you really MUST read themhe 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 likefood, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, right now! 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''Atomic Habits'' 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 in drawing, that feel like a light at the last categoryend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|author=Natasha FarrantSylvie Cathrall|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, in the North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They There are part of few greater joys than a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as book which lives up to a familycompelling premise. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at And this is one with all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn downthem.|isbn=05713487850356522776
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|authorisbn=Nick Brooks0008517061|title=Promise BoysDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murderedFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, three boys find themselves called has settled into the police station as suspectshis rustic life at Little Sky. EachThere’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, seeminglyLivia and her daughter Diana, has as moving in together would mean a grudge lot of some description against Principal Moore, 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 herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and each could have been there at putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the time bones of his a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. But who killed himIt's difficult as Ruth knows, and whybut Nelson doesn't, and if any that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the boys are innocent, one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will they be able obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to clear their names?|isbn=1035003155sudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=G K Holloway0008551324|title=In the Shadows of CastlesThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= We begin after It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the momentous battle other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in 1066 prison and on the day of William of Normandyhe's coronation as King prepared to tell the police where the body of Englanda missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. William's position This person, he promises, is not secure someone big and it will be worth the new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is importantpolice doing what he wants. And William what he wants is right to worrybe transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. While the previous king, Harold Not much to ask, is dead it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the likelihood of more pitched battles other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is over, the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to recognise a new overlordkept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1800422466
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|isbn=00085063370008405026|title=The Garnett GirlsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Georgina MooreJane Casey
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard OIt'Leary was alls sixteen years since nine-year-consuming, apparently on both sidesold Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Margo She was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one never found and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going the investigation ground to Oxford and having a glittering careerhalt. In the eventNow, her mother, Helena, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wightfather are dead in their bed. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become Initially, it looks like a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and Sashaher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Life What looked as though it was lived in London going to be an open-and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight-shut case is now a complex double murder. Even then Kerrigan is convinced that the doubts about Richardexplanation lies in Rosalie's drinking were never far from Margodisappearance: others (such as Derwent's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''. Then Richard left themboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon0571379877|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there Edward Jevons is a brutalworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, shocking murder of an expectant woman in DunedinRobert and Stanza. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for Robert's a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselftheatre director. Finding herself put on desk dutiesHe's also self-obsessed, which she rails againstdemanding, she just can't let the case go handsome and entitled and she starts uses Edward to follow every thread run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to uncover whatRobert. Most men in Robert's actually happening, and position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the increasingly disturbing worry two of just what might happen nextthem kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbnauthor=1529125960Jo Callaghan|title=Unnatural History|author=Jonathan KellermanLeave No Trace
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement was When a photographer. Wellman is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, it was AdonisDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, actually, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - itthe AI detective Lock. It's past tense as his PA their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found him dead crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and 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 his bedtime, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4. Three shots were placed neatly through his heart5|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. The PA, Mel GornickOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is distraught and it falls a bonus when you aim to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as he tries to establish what's happenedbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Donny had just finished Laura is a perfectionist and a series of photographs called ''The Wishers''trauma doctor. He'd taken eight homeless people off Anjali is the free spirit of the streets group and asked she becomes a GP. When we first meet them what they'd really like 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 bean eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. They were then dressed up as their fantasyThis time, photographed and sent on it's their way with a generous gift in dollarsteenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson0241636604|title=Secret Beast ClubThe Trading Game: The Unicorns of Silver StreetA Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Jayden's nose is forever If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in a bookyour mind, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns you're unlikely to think of the world, for examplesomeone like Gary Stevenson. Aisha A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is addicted to her new tabletthe East End, where she can see videos of anything that might be out therehe was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the outside world London School of Hackney, LondonEconomics. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a scienceStevenson is bright - extremely bright -minded, educational purpose, and he has a facility with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existednumbers which most of us can only envy. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footageHe also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. The crew of the boatIt was his ability at what was, essentially, including a living gargoyle, are tasked card game which got him an internship with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join inCitibank. Dare they side with LeilaEventually, the woman on board, and her relative who lives this turned into permanent employment as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=0241573483trader.
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|isbn=19138396561035021803|title=LetThe Antique Hunter's Celebrate Being DifferentGuide to Murder|author=Lainey DeeC L Miller
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Todd was excited about spending It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the weekend with his grandmother, not least because English country village where she made the best beetle juicegrew up. He packed two pairs She's back now because of dungarees a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and his favourite hat Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and then gathered together his button collection the circumstances seem suspicious, to show his grandmothersay the least. She Arthur was the reason why Freya had promised not been back to take him 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 Friday Night Club at man or pursue the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friendsprofession she loved. At homeAfter the split, his only friend she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was his mum murdered) and Freya and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked differentJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=1787301036AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=What July KnewAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Emily KochBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. She's a careful, meticulous child' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. The care has Well, I must confess that there have been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death more than a few decades of his wife, Julytechnology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's mother, and any hint that advantageous to me but I'm left with the conversation is heading feeling that way will lead to the necessity it's all getting away from me. Some of a Lessonit is - frankly - quite frightening. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and heend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's not even careful m reading someone who knows what they're talking about whether or not the injuries are visiblelatest conspiracy theorist. July's teacher is concerned I needed people I knew I could trust and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for himwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|author=Lucy AsheSunny Singh|title=Clara and OliviaHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionThrillers |summary=The year Hotel Arcadia is 1933a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia Hiding from the terrorists who are sistersrampaging through, twins no less. Identical killing everyone on the outside but notsite, we learnthere is Sam, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – wartime photographer and some thingsAbhi, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the classroomhotel manager. A stage presence As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a charmbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, a ''joie de vivre'and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. The difference between a hard-worker Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and a starthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=0861544080086154742X
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|isbn=00084544931529153298|title=All the Dangerous The List of Suspicious Things|author=Stacy WillinghamJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnIt't really slept for a year - wells 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a momenthonestly... ) ItShe's not what's worrying Miv's now a year since her sonfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, Masonthey've been murdered, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping inbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. In that year Miv's upset because she's done everything she could overheard that her father wants to raise awareness about move the casefamily 'Down South'. She does interviews and when we meet When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving herbest friend, Sharon, and she's just been ll do anything to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentationprevent that. On She's not worried about the plane back, shedangers or that her Mum's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches stopped talking - to a few hundred people at conferencesanyone.
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|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that itCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's actually a cold case unit fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and there her daughter, Etty. are just two of them doing the joball worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. LockyerShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's not unduly worriedfather, Duncan Ackerley, though although he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable of something betterin the river. It was a bit of a shock an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he got couldn't stand the phone call from Hedy Lambert: she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years agoguilt. SheThe Salter children are not convinced but there's keen to see him little else they can do but get on with their lives and to tell him that the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadeswonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF1035906708|title=Just LookingDiva|author=Matthew TreeDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=Dystopian General Fiction|summary=It We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was the summer of 2035 and on a cruise ship born to Greek parents in MarseillesManhattan, New York, Jim in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was celebrating his new-found wealth and the end of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a man! thirteen. HeHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's watching the tornado - theyCallas're to make it more common manageable in the States. When she was back in Europe these days Athens - supposedly so that's keeping she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the cruise ship in port Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierremade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, a French journalist Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in his thirties. He writes for a relatively new papermovie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the right-wing nickname of 'The Black Hole'La Tribune Gauloise'. All big movie fans, they' re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and he's interesting if a little wordy on subjects such many, many snacks! However, as the difference between 'France' 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'the French't even imagine. His partnerBut as they lurch from one film genre to the next, Helencan they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, who's English and Jewish, keeps him in check to some extent.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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