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|isbn=1529507987152919640X|title=The Repair Shop Craft BookSuspect|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Rob Rinder
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I love ''The Repair Shopnation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. ItHe's my go-to programme when I want celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to be cheered upJessica Holby. After a hard day, thereShe's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worthseriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. You seeEverything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, the value is in what these possessions are worth live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to the people who own them and the memories they holdHolby. No expense appears Her EpiPen was nowhere to be spared found and the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the desired resultshe was dead within minutes. Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doingIt was soon clear that this was no accident. But how did they start?
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|authorisbn=Nicole Jarvis0008385068|title=A Portrait in ShadowThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley
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|genre=Historical FictionThrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It'I want s all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her art can find a ancestral home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from 's converted it into an impressive retreat for the powerful Accademiawealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the self-proclaimed guardians architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and cursessite. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art heat is oppressive and architecture for centuries amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled 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 societywon't be long before a body is found.|isbn=1803362340
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|isbnauthor=B0BVDC2VWHAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William FrankWild East|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=The village Written in verse, this is isolated and poor. ItRonny's surrounded by story, a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The young black wood of the forest provides heat fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if neededstart at a mostly white school. The fear of being buried alive move is an existential superstition in the village and that initiated by Ronny's mum who is the reason Volushkaworried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a drunkennew town, self-indulgenta new school, lazy lout and keep himself out of a man is tolerated. }} {{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I was the bad company other people got into at schooltrouble. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a 'god'rapper. Where was the proof? In history lessonsBut now, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWIIin this new school, I didn't so much want his teacher encourages him to learn about the British army's successes (be part of a poetry writing workshop group and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came slowly, Ronny begins to be called 'see the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. Looking backconnections between rap and poetry, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked and the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|authorisbn=Amanda Craig1635866847|title=Three GracesThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary= Few styles It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is 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 contemporary fiction interest me like the state-a slice of-chocolate cake on thehomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -nation novelbut I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of a recipe in the atmosphere of book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the day book and capture it, crafting an image I was told to make a mess of the country as it stands . Notes in one particular momentthe margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. To say You suspect that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this smears of butter would not be embarrassingly inadequate: shea problem. I ''loved''s practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this pointbook already. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in 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 themselves.|isbn= 140871468X
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|isbnauthor=1448309379Rob Keeley|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=David MarkChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It's something of a surprise to find that you're deadAround here, particularly when youwe're thinking that you're actually on a break with your wife and big fans of children, but that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoyauthor Rob Keeley. Whilst He's a ball of happy positivity, he was relieved to find that understands children, and he was stillwrites for their pleasure and enjoyment, officially, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoahnot to lecture or hector. The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man whoIt'd dashed from her flat in the early hours s a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with spirit world throws at her car, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aector.Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|isbnauthor=0957181167Jenny Valentine|title=Blue Skies Us in the Before and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian Lewis|author=Alan MarshallAfter
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|genre=ArtTeens|summary=There Elk and Mab are few positive things which can be said about best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a substandard apartment when you’re once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on holiday a trip out but this time, in trying to avoid looking unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls - and was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewistime. I searched online But then chance brings them back together, and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and the print I wanted was ‘not available’. Ohtragic, dear - then a few doors down from the apartmentand now they must work through their grief, I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - and a framed print of the picture I wantedtheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|author=Simon FoxKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=DeadlockDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5
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|summary=Late one night Graham Blake Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is late back from his shift on an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the forcesport where a team of warrior, mage and then suddenly rings Archiehealer enter specially prepared, demanding he fetch something from a secret placecentury-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and join him on the runpoints they grant you along the way. They get togetherUnfortunately for Kit, but barely begin to smell the whiff only thing he's seen of Southern trains when the father latest race on the inn TV equivalent is arrestedthat one team has been retired, leaving Archie on the late express to Brightoneaten, toting and a tin his father was determined new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to keep away the goading from the token bully of his colleagues, world and the bearer of stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a whole heap of questionsteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=18399444201839945184
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|author=Shalini BolandSaima Mir|title=The Silent BrideVengeance|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary= Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted north of England run by Alice and the wedding is planned and seta Muslim woman. When The fact that it was the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day screen) and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Aliceit needn't be a hindrance if it's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar isgood enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, who is waiting for her to become his wifeand I never felt lost.|isbn=16625070890861541561
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|author=Mark EdwardsStuart Douglas|title=Keep Her SecretLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Matthew During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Helena are in IcelandLeggit', rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent a woman on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death belowreservoir. Convinced she is going The police seem happy to dieassign it as an accidental death, Helena must purge herself of but something about the shocking secret she has been keeping whole thing bothers Lowe, and makes he enlists the help of a panickedfellow actor, cryptic declaration John Le Breton to Matthewhelp him investigate matters further. Just moments later They travel across the country during their heroicdays off filming, uncovering more possible murders and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to safety and Matthew uncover who is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=166250893X1803368209
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|isbn=B0BYF82CXTB0CYV674G2|title=Semi-DetachedSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Deborah StoneDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=''Bill It seemed like an open-and Amanda are living in a semi-detached houseshut case. A man, stuck covered in a depressing rut of boredom mud and disappointment, when Terry blood - and Fiona – glamorouscarrying a knife, successful and very much in love – move in next doorcomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. Despite their different outlooks on life, A body at the couples befriend each other and life appears bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to improve for both pairsdeath. But all DCI John Tanner is not what it seemsjust 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 the words 'perverse' and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated 'John Tanner' were made for tragedyeach other.He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=17876360031787333175|title=The Girls of SummerYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Katie BishopBenji Waterhouse
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|genre=General FictionPopular Science|summary=It I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she workings of the NHS, humour and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the islandautobiography. Rachel wasn''You Don't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started Have to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than warybe Mad... It was quite a while before he made any sort of '' promised the same elements but moved from physical approach problems to her mental illness and by that time she was obsessed by himthe work of a psychiatrist. Alistair worked I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on humour in this setting but the island laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partiedunderstanding.
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|isbnauthor=1529135389Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Fall|author=Gilly MacmillanAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Nicole Booth had Anuri spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing childhood on display to the stateworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of-the-art music system installed in The Glass BarnAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. They'd not been Now Anuri is in the architecther twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used mother to all take down the high-tech systems Tom had insisted uponcontent about her. Some of Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they shouldfor doing so. It had all come Most importantly, she is desperately worried about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort her little sister, who is the new focus of money, tooOphelia's online empire. EventuallyCan she save her sister, Nicole found Tom dead in and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the swimming pool with a wound to his head.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|author=Alan ParksDavid Chadwick|title=To Die in JuneHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discoveredIt's September 1973 in Hicks, and then anotherCalifornia. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father Hicks is a down-and-out alcoholic, Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with no fixed abode, its nearest neighbours of LA and he has been for yearsLas Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. At A silver mine and a defence contractor are the same time as facing these possible murdersmain local employers but otherwise, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and the arrival there 's not much of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missingnote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, only no record of the boy having existed can be founduntil.... Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784B0D321VJ76
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|author=Laura NoakesTom Percival|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45
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|summary=Meet Number One. Or ratherWill's life is difficult, Cosima Unfortunatein a multitude of ways. Or ratherHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', just Cos to her friends. The practice in he has the home she lives in is wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledgermost basic of things like food, and theyhis dad can're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilitiest work because he lost his job at the college, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly uponwas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. But Cosima bears Throw into that mix the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmatefact that his mum and dad are separated, and unique Will's life seems bleak in having no known family in the outside worldevery direction. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoonAnd yet, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – he still has a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institutetiny amount of hope. But whyHe is good at art, and what does clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to feel like a light at the past she has so little link with?end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=00085790591398527122
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|author=Thomas D LeeSylvie Cathrall|title=Perilous TimesA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=35|genre= FantasyScience Fiction|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set in the near-distant future, in There are few greater joys than a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs book which lives up to a hero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little remainscompelling premise. What no one expected was that And this is one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the callthem.|isbn=03565185230356522776
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|authorisbn=Madelaine Lucas0008517061|title=Thirst for SaltDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= ''LoveFormer Metropolitan Police detective, I'd readJake Johnson, was supposed to be has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a light little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and weightless feelingher daughter Diana, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from as moving in together would mean a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the yearlot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-long relationship that once defined grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her. Overlaid with later wisdom, reservations about whether or not this is the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years future she wants for herself and her senior from its inception – daughter? For the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end moment they’re enjoying life in the summer after. Set against present and putting the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details future on the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocablyback burner.|isbn=0861546490
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|isbn=15293828231786482126|title=The Last PassengerJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Will DeanElly Griffiths
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'Cazluxury') is middleapartments -aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Petewhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. They're off on Was this a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. CazIt's sisterdifficult as Ruth knows, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she Nelson doesn't know whether , that she's relieved or disappointedis pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. They've not been a couple for that long and the trip Her condition will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhileobvious before long, Gemma not least because Ruth is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementiaprone to sudden bouts of sickness. It's going to be good, isn't it?
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|authorisbn=Lex Croucher0008551324|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Who knew that what I really needed It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But honestly, it lifted my spirits Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a most delightful waymissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! GwenThis person, you seehe promises, is in love with Bridget (someone big and it will be worth the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diariespolice doing what he wants. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the subterfuge remainder of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentshis sentence and to get an early parole date. But as their impending wedding draws ever closerNot much to ask, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=1526651793do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|authorisbn=Emily Critchley0008405026|title=One Puzzling AfternoonA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=84 It's sixteen years since nine-year -old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house bed one summer night. She was never found and bring Edie the investigation ground to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memorya halt. HoweverNow, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friendmother, LucyHelena, who went missing over 60 years agoand her father are dead in their bed. Initially, and the worry that it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be 's something about the thing that reveals positioning of the truth of what happened all bodies that time agomakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just What looked as she though it was the last time she saw her, she starts going to find pockets of memories coming back to herbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. And yet as she remembers Kerrigan is convinced that the past, she is forgetting more and more explanation lies in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about LucyRosalie's disappearance before her move: others (such as Derwent's boss, and before her memories Una Burt) are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)0571379877|title=Thirty Days of DarknessThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
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|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeableEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, bitter womanobsessed with his upper-class friends, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsRobert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. Sorry He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to leave her bottles of red wine behind her run errands for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument him. Edward has been in love with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying Stanza since their university days - and he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up drunkenly confided how he feels to that accusationRobert. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month Most men in Robert's position would stay away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more Stanza or less about everything – word comes tell Edward that the landladya relationship had begun between them but he's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1804545600Jo Callaghan|title=The Monk|author=Tim SullivanLeave No Trace|rating=54
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|summary=The body in When a man is found crucified on the woods near Bristol was top of a nasty shock - a monk strapped hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to a chair and dumped in a ditchthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. He'd been savagely beaten. It's a while before D S George Cross and the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominictheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. He'd been missing for But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and certainly hadn't asked permission a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to leave his abbeytheir AI Future Policing project. As Will they be able to solve the team gradually unpick case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the monk's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved as an investment bankercase and, brotherpotentially, neighbour and friend. He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder himout of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Lauren Bravo1399613073|title=PrelovedMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionThrillers|summary= Gwen Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is pressing her middle-aged bosom on ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a big number that starts with cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a four perfectionist and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-fortya trauma doctor. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue Anjali is the free spirit of the toss - Gwen finds herself having group and she becomes a bit of GP. When we first meet them they're at a middrug and alcohol-life crisisfuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time to take back her life, it'|isbn=1398510629s their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Cath Howe0241636604|title=My Life on FireThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=RenIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's family home is destroyed in a firere unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. She, her parents, A hoodie and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knickjeans replaces the pin-knacks from her cupboard, stripe suit and now she his background is living at her grandmother's house the East End, where they can't touch anythinghe was familiar with violence, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eatpoverty and injustice. When she goes back There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to school she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes London School of their lives, to display things that are important to them Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and show who they are as he has a personfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. But Ren has nothing to put in a box, and so she finds herself starting He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to steal thingsbe stupid. Small thingsIt was his ability at what was, things that people might not really missessentially, not when they have so much alreadya card game which got him an internship with Citibank. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=1839942835Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=00085170101035021803|title=Death Under a Little SkyThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Stig AbellC L Miller|rating=3.5
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|summary=The marriage had run its course. It might have 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been different if back to the pregnancies hadnEnglish country village where she grew up. She't ended in miscarriages but no one else was involved - certainly not on Jakes back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's side former mentor and he didnCarole't think there s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was for Faye eitherthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. They Even though they were still polite in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to each other and wished each other well - but didn't wish to remain marriedbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. The perfect solution arrived After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the form of a legacy rebound from Jake's Uncle Arthur. He'd been left a secluded property in the hamlet love of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - her life, who was murdered) and Freya and enough money to live there without the need to workJames have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Jennifer SaintAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=AtalantaAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=''I was as worthy as any one Opening up new ways of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was for thinking about the sake shape of my name, toothings to come. Atalanta''
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|isbn=152915118X1529153298|title=Pineapple StreetThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jenny JacksonJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'Pineapple Streets not what's worrying Miv' is the story of three women: Sashas family, Darley and Georgianathough. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother CordWomen have been disappearing. TheyWell, they're Stocktonsve been murdered, only Sasha isnbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't a Stockton by birth sound quite so she isn't readily accepted into the tribefrightening. The problemMiv's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if theyupset because she'd like s overheard that her father wants to move into the Pineapple Street propertyfamily 'Down South'. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another propertyWhen you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a street or so awayfrightening, foreign place, which they ownbest avoided. They won't need any of For Miv, the furniture from Pineapple Streetmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but she'll do anything to prevent that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha She's not worried about the gold digger'. Shedangers or that her Mum's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it stopped talking - to 'the GD'anyone.
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|isbn=00085512781398524085|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Neil LancasterNicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Affi Smith Charlotte Salter was snatched from the bottom of Fyrishexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, where she'd been doing Paul and Ollie and her trainingdaughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. She'd been a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - Shortly afterwards, Etty and it now looks as though she could be heading for Greg, find the national squad. Thatbody of Greg's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seefather, Duncan Ackerley, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at in the age of twelveriver. She It was rescued an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when she was carrying a kilo of drugs and three years later shehe couldn's happy with her foster familyt stand the guilt. ThereThe Salter children are not convinced but there's just one cloud little else they can do but get on her horizon: her little sister, Melodi is in a children's home in Tirana - with their lives and anyone could get to herwonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Emily Tesh1035906708|title=Some Desperate GloryDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=''While Earth's children liveWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, the enemy shall fear us'' Following the destruction of the Earthbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, amongst a rare number of survivorsNew York, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of humanity – in December 1923 and trained relentlessly only moved to avenge Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her people and father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the world States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that should have been hers. All she could get appropriate training for her life, voice - she has been conditioned to fall in line, to fulfil was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her duty and ensure that humanity perseveresmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=0356521834
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|isbnauthor=0861544056Christopher Edge|title=Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline SutherlandBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Belle Lucas and David's twin daughters his friends are just coming to all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the end nickname of their first term at university'The Black Hole'. KitAll big movie fans, they's been at Bristol re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and Jess's in Exeter. many, many snacks! It's not only However, as the first time movie starts, they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure theycouldn've also been apart from each othert even imagine. Belle can't wait But as they lurch from one film genre to have them all to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - the next, can she bring her boyfriend home with herthey figure out what on earth is going on? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want Will they ever get back to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four the cinema, and to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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