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|isbn=18382268341529428289|title=Carried Away With A Grave in the CarnivalWoods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Ed BoxallMartin Walker
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=It was one Because of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with our grandparentsthree sets of bones. They're there dated back to World War II and it fell to undo all Bruno, the good that parents doChief of Police for St Denis, so to discover the identities of the trips out were always so much funbodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. A young boy was going As if this isn't enough to worry about, the carnival with his Grandad, who told himDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem:various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation''It'll be brilliants favourite daytime TV presenter, just rememberJessica Holby, donwas murdered live on television and it seems that there't let go of my hands only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|isbn=15291353620008385068|title=The Long WeekendMidnight Feast|author=Gilly MacmillanLucy Foley
|rating=4.5
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|summary=It was a long drive to 's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend retreat in Northumbria, right and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up near the Scottish borders by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and to make she's converted it worse the three husbands had all - into an impressive retreat for one reason or another - had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morning. Jane wealthy and Ruth had known each other for a long time but Emily was a bit of an outsiderfamous. She and Paul had married only relatively recently and she Her husband, Owen, was ten years younger than the other two women. The friendship architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the group went back to school dayssite. Paul had coached rugby at The heat is oppressive and amongst the school where Mark, Toby and Rob were pupilsguests are enemies as well as friends. Mark had married Jane, Old scores are going to be settled and Toby it won't be long before a body is Ruth's husband. And Rob? Well, Rob's deadfound.
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|isbnauthor=gareth_steelAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth SteelWild East|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeTeens|summary=I donWritten in verse, this is Ronny't often begin my reviews with s story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a warning but with mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny'Never Work With Animals'' it seems s safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be appropriate. Stories part of a vetpoetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's life have proved popular since strange, the things that make you ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animalsimmediately'' feel that this is definitely not the companion volume book for you've been looking for. As a TV show the author would argue that Before I started reading ''All CreaturesThe Lavender Companion'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmesI visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Gareth Steel says that com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the book is not suitable for younger readers homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - after reading - but I agree with himwanted that cake viscerally. He says that he (There's written it to inform and provoke thoughta recipe in the book, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals which I'm avoiding with some uncomfortable difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and distressing issues but I was told to make a mess of it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there . Notes in the margins are occasions when you sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be best choosing between reading and eatinga problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|isbnauthor=1787634884Rob Keeley|title=The Herd|author=Emily EdwardsChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=54|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Our story opens in December 2019Around here, before most we're big fans of us had even heard children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of Covid or realised that whether or happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not we should be vaccinated would come to be a major issuelecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. WeIt're in Farley County Courts a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash Kohli. As they were best friends until just Edward, a few months ago we know that whatever has happened is major spoiled lordling and that, regardless of the outcome, this is not going to work out well for anyone.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|author=Annabel AbbsJenny Valentine|title=The Language of FoodUs in the Before and After
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|genre=Historical FictionTeens|summary=Eliza Acton Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an eggonce in a lifetime connection. When tasked with writing They meet as children one day on a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home lifetrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. Together But then chance brings them back together, and they testare inseparable. Something has happened though, craftsomething terrible and tragic, refine and reshape the world of domestic cookerynow they must work through their grief, reinventing the recipe book and changing the face of cookery writing forevertheir friendship, together.|isbn=13985022271471196585
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|author=Louie StowellKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=LokiDungeon Runners: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodHero Trial|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet LokiKit. The trickster god has got into trouble again Like most of the people in his world, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it seems, he must be banished. And transformed is an avid fan of Dungeon Running for Loki is spending the sport where a month both in exile team of warrior, mage and in the physical form of a middlehealer enter specially prepared, century-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parentsold, magical mazes, and Thor has come along as well, race to be the more suaveexit, more popular perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and more successful brother of the twopoints they grant you along the way. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation Unfortunately for Kit, and get his moral compass pointing the right way againonly thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, or elseeaten, and to prove it a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to write the text we read in goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a sentient notebookteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that is able to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progress. But Loki is the kind of god who insists how could he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going possibly hope to be a walk in the park...rightsucceed?|isbn=14063997521839945184
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|isbnauthor=0008454442Saima Mir|title=A Flicker in the Dark|author=Stacy WillinghamVengeance|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis, a medical psychologist, is completing a session with a new patient. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes I was instantly intrigued by the premise of getting her through this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the traumanorth of England run by a Muslim woman. You see, Chloe knows what The fact that it's like to have a traumatic childhood. Her father is Richard Davis, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to was the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away second in a cupboard at home series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and she screen) and her mother handed it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to the police. Dick Davis is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary speed, and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for the last twenty years. Her mother is in a care homeI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|author=Christopher EdgeStuart Douglas|title=Escape RoomLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=IDuring location filming for his 1970've seen junior variants of the s sitcom 'Choose Your Own AdventureFloggit and Leggit' format cover escape rooms – , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the process by which dead body of a character or characters start by being trapped in woman on the edge of a specific location, and have reservoir. The police seem happy to solve problems in order to get their way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such assign it as an adventureaccidental death, with the regular second person narrative replaced by but something about the first. Herewhole thing bothers Lowe, Ami and four other tweenagershe enlists the help of a fellow actor, all new John Le Breton to each other and booked into help him investigate matters further. They travel across the game without any of country during their friendsdays off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, are a team – starting out at link to death during the game's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerSecond World War. But could watching people engage with such is there really a pastime, despite link between the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literaturedeaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=17880079641803368209
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|isbn=1732898731B0CYV674G2|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for AdultsSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Michael Albanese David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxesIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. He had A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a box for everything and knife, comes into the police station shouting that he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldnhasn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and killed the like: all man. A body at the things which most children have in abundance. The Boybottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's delight was in been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the sense birth of order in his room: it made him feel happydaughter Samantha. As You would think he grew up 'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and became a Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes'John Tanner' were made for each other. Look carefully He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at the pictures and youwork but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can'll see that one of them has a padlock..t get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=B09MN1526W1787333175|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Liz MistryBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=ItI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's the third murder in the space of first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a few weeks and they've all been because glorious mixture of machetes used on teenagers. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst insight into the first to arrive on workings of the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of BradfordNHS, humour and autobiography. Only, this time, it's going 'You Don't Have to be differentMad. The body appears ..'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to Nikki to be that mental illness and the work of her beloved nephew, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdownpsychiatrist. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the body laughter is clad in designer clothes directed at a situation rather than a person and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be on sick leave for some time always delivered with anxiety empathy and depressionunderstanding.
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|author=Ally WilkesOnyi Nwabineli|title=All the White SpacesAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=In postAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathansocial media, this adventure represents a chance where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for a fresh start, sponsorships and the opportunity to live life as his authentic self influencer deals and true gender, without the disapproval and constraints of his parents. Howeverbasically, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expeditionmonetary gain. Guilt, mistrust Now Anuri is in her twenties and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and they are forced to overwinter on landget her life back, a menacing presence waits suing her step-mother to prey on their darknesstake down the content about her. If Jonathan Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to make it out of the Arctic winter alivestart her PhD, he will have to face his demons once undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for alldoing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, or risk making who is the barrennew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, icy landscape his tomb.and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=17890978350861546873
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|author=Dean KoontzDavid Chadwick|title=QuicksilverHeadload of Napalm|rating=24.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for heIt's lived September 1973 in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundlingHicks, and now California. Hicks is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes Mojave desert town of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of him that he go to a derelict diner, find LA and Las Vegas both a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lamsignificant drive away. And all this is just Not much happens in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up Hicks. A silver mine and suggest hea defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of interest to themnote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Helped to escape, he finds his flight Life is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in controlquiet, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besidesuntil....|isbn=1542019885B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=0008441618Tom Percival|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah StovellThe Wrong Shoes
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|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the new head most basic of West Burntridge First School: if she didnthings like food, and his dad can't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be work because he lost his job at the college, was working a house price slump cash-in that part of the town. The school -hand job on a building site and had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the schoolaccident. There was one difficultyThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, though - they were and Will''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, s life seems bleak in particularevery direction. And yet, causing problems for the headhe still has a tiny amount of hope. Laura Spence He is good at art, and Kate Monroe objected clings to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but moments of joy when he is drawing, that was just feel like a light at the end of a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationlong, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|author=Sarah Ann JuckesSylvie Cathrall|title=The Hunt for A Letter to the NightingaleLuminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Jasper is a little boy who has some struggles, and whilst we're never told why exactly, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotions. His big sister, Rosie, has been a huge support to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, and writing There are few greater joys than a book with him, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm down. His parents seem completely caught which lives up in their business, and so it is Rosie he always turns toa compelling premise. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be right, and the only way he feels he can find any peace And this is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its song, as they do together every Springone of them.|isbn=13985108900356522776
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|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)0008517061|title=Red is My HeartDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=[[:CategoryFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black does Jake give up his off-grid and white and read relaxing life to move in my house. And so was with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is, black the future she wants for herself and white her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator putting the future on this piece, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideasback burner.|isbn=1913547183
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|isbn=15291355671786482126|title=One Step Too FarThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Lisa GardnerElly Griffiths
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|genre=Crime
|summary=ItBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's five years since apartments - when they discovered the stag weekendbones of a child beneath a doorway. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who There was usually called Miggy), Neil and Joshno skull. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander off. Was this a ritual killing or murder? The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that TimInevitably, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for helpDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. When help didnIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't come , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the remaining one night they spent together some three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Timmonths ago. Every yearHer condition will be obvious before long, Tim's father, Martin, and the four friends have been back not least because Ruth is prone to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timsudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen0008551324|title=Bitter FlowersThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5
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|summary=Varg Veum It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint struggling in rehab prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is now returning to workburied and who was responsible for her death. However This person, the quiet job he's supposedly taken on caretaking promises, is someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, big and a mystery around a missing womanit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into And what he wants is to be transferred to an old, cold case open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never foundearly parole date. Somehow, these disparate cases appear Not much to be linkedask, but what is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the link, other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308Xanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|authorisbn=Kia Ahankoob0008405026|title=The Gold Lion and A Stranger in the Tournament of SentinelsFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, each with its own strength and weakenessher mother, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborateHelena, creating a dynamic and prosperous societyher father are dead in their bed. Each power is contained within Initially, it looks like a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriadstraightforward murder/suicide but there's children something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and their descendantsher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. But What looked as though it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went was going to war. Having fought themselves into be an endless open-and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high, -shut case is now a solution complex double murder. Kerrigan is proposed. Each of convinced that the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as sentinelsDerwent's boss, to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of DunivaUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV
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|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and Ironskin|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Tomas. Happy to work with his father in the blacksmith's forge, he's almost of the age to become a full apprentice, and help with the new batch of dragonswords is certainly needed. Not that there are any dragons, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except... Strange signals from within the forge furnace, and a peculiar invite to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the wash, that yes dragons do still exist in this world, and that Tom is rare in the ability to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with them...|isbn=1839940026}}{{Frontpage|isbn=15293465410571379877|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelThe Kellerby Code|author=Elizabeth GeorgeJonny Sweet|rating=3.5
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|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James Edward Jevons is at a meeting working-class young man, obsessed with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school systemhis upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a representative from the NHStheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, Mr Oh from Barnardosdemanding, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out handsome and entitled and uses Edward to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakerrun errands for him. It follows on from the success of DeborahEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's book ''London Voices'': the meeting is an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used drunkenly confided how he feels to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesRobert. DeborahMost men in Robert's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the problem seems 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 occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting stumble upon the trust two of the people she speaks to and photographsthem kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=B09Q3P283YJo Callaghan|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W HooperLeave No Trace
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for When a man is found crucified on the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the fight against Communismcase alongside her sidekick, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the militaryAI detective Lock. If he It's honest - which Clyde usually their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there isa second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices 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 time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and this one, at leastpotentially, gets him out of the rut he's in. He's good in training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy1399613073|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
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|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=There is no mermaid in Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the millpondfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. That at least Olivia is what Bess ruthlessly ambitious, which is telling herself. Neither will there a bonus when you aim to be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homecardiothoracic surgeon. Bess knows there Laura is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of existencethe group and she becomes a GP. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of When we first meet them they're at a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, drug and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal alcohol-fuelled party and how befriending people only leads it's going to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship end in the tired-out mill workerstragedy. But surely that doesn We don't mean know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there is any truth in will be an eerily similar event that will impact the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049Xthree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=17856330740241636604|title=Staggering HubrisThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Josh BerryGary Stevenson
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|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary=Members If you were to bring up an image of Parliament a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like us to believe that Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the country pin-stripe suit and his background is run by politiciansthe East End, headed by the Prime minister where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those London School of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality Economics. Stevenson is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers bright - the SPADS extremely bright - who are the driving force behind the governmentand he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. We are in the privileged position of having access He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to the memoirs of Rafe Hubrisbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis a card game which was completely contained by the end of 2020got him an internship with Citibank. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watchEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=B09MYXSRV41035021803|title=OtterThe Antique Hunter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareGuide to Murder|author=Cordellya SmithC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the world was made, the animals were given giftsEnglish country village where she grew up. Bear was given strength so that he could become She's back now because of a protectorrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present 'Freya's former mentor andCarole'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - buts close friend, unfortunatelyArthur Crockleford, not is dead and the ability circumstances seem suspicious, to use it wellsay the least. He liked Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to trick other animalsthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. He was also jealous which was how he came to be Even though they were in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always business together as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.}}{{Frontpage|author=Giovanna Fletcher|title=Walking on Sunshine|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen yearsantique hunters, she has diednot felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. And whilst he is dealing with his grief After the split, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to followshe worked in a cafe, knowing that she was dying met and that they would need help to carry married James (on living. Whilst some the rebound from the love of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips awaylife, who was murdered) and Vicky Freya and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with himJames have now divorced.|isbn=140593560X
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|isbn=1529393930AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Making a LivingAll Tomorrow's Futures: How to Craft Your BusinessFictions that Disrupt|author=Sophie RochesterBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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I know 've heard it said that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a businesstechnology' is what happens after you're eighteen. There's a lot of motivation to do so: Well, I make must confess that there have been more items than we can sensibly use and there are a lot few decades of people who have been delighted technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to accept what me but I make as gifts. Selling would offset 'm left with the costs, which can be quite considerable and feeling that it could be fun to do, couldn't s all getting away from me. Some of it? is - frankly - quite frightening. But where to start? What do Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I need to think 'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about? or the latest conspiracy theorist. Well, the first thing anyone I needed people I knew I could trust and who is considering turning could deliver information in a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making a Living''way I could understand.
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|author=Freya MarskeSunny Singh|title=A Marvellous LightHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers |summary=Robin Blyth The Hotel Arcadia is nudged into a job luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the Civil Serviceterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey a wartime photographer and learns that Abhi, the streets of London are threaded with magichotel manager. Desperate As Abhi continues to try to remove care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a curse that threatens bond with Sam who refuses to swallow himbe cowed by events, Robin follows Edwin 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 countrysidephone, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the lives of all magicians in the British Islesterrorists. |isbn=1529080886086154742X
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|isbn=02414804421529153298|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition ScienceList of Suspicious Things|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryGeneral Fiction|summary=EmotionallyIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, I am a veganthough. Women have been disappearing. MentallyWell, I am a veganthey've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. I read [[How Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by move the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) foodfamily 'Down South'. PracticallyWhen you're from Yorkshire, I am not Down South is a veganfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. It worked for a while apart from For Miv, the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope donmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back ll do anything to animal-based proteinprevent that. It wasnShe't s not worried about the taste - I know dangers or that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom her Mum's stopped talking - it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare momentsanyone.
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|isbn=suppl_stafl1398524085|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Kim StaflundNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceCrime|summary=SoCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, you've finished writing your book sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and you think the hard work her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is all done? not. You're convinced that all you need to do now is get it published Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the money will start rolling body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in? Wrong and wrong againthe river. You presumably wrote It was an easy assumption for the book because you wanted police to - make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and you had a talent for delivering then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the written wordguilt. You knew your subject back to front. Now youThe Salter children are not convinced but there're going to have to s little else they can do but get to grips on with the book supply chain, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change their lives and no one wants to be the first to try. Then, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to youwonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=13987069061035906708|title=The LostDiva|author=Simon BeckettDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=The disappearance We tend to think of Metropolitan police firearms officerMaria Callas as Greek, Jonah Colley's young son, Theobut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, just about finished himNew York, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happened. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing December 1923 and only moved to Athens when he woke, Theo had goneshe was thirteen. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later heHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's largely come through it and heCallas's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used to be his best friend but make it's a long time since they've spokenmore manageable in the States. He's obviously When she was back in some difficulty now Athens - Jonah can hear it in his supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quay. ''There's made no one else I can trust''secret of her preference for her elder sister, he saysJackie.
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