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|authorisbn=Will Brooker1529428289|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=54|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]]Because of various property transactions, one of people were searching for the most successful British authors I've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brookergrave but when they found it, one of the thousands it came with three sets of less successful authors I quite confidently never have readbones. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, They dated back to World War II and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seemsfell to Bruno, the Chief of her anecdote about cup cakesPolice for St Denis, to discover the words identities of her latest book she was reciting, the bodies and her being in establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get t enough to attend)worry about, but pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbitDordogne River - normally tranquil -hole that is Jewell's diverse outputflowing at record levels. Brooker decides heIt'd like nothing more than to follow her through a year in s not just the local autumn rains that have caused the published author's life, working problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to make a success of the latest title, release water and struggling with St Denis faces the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agreespossibility of a devastating flood. And this is the result.|isbn=1529136024
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|isbn=1801109265152919640X|title=The CompanionSuspect|author=Lesley ThomsonRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as The nation''a punctual man who s favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was inexplicably never murdered live on timetelevision and it seems that there's only one suspect. He' s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he was - as usual - late must not serve anything containing miso to pick up his son, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'Jessica Holby. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for the boyShe's attention, his mother, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when he returnedseriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. The dinner would never Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be servedin a busy, as James live television studio - and Wilbur are the victims of Brooks served a double stabbing on the beachragout to Holby. The case falls Her EpiPen was nowhere to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policebe found and she was dead within minutes. She's feeling the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughIt was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|isbn=B09Y451X9K0008385068|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)The Midnight Feast|author=Richard F WalkerLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary= It''Anything can happen s midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at a birthday party, particularly when the birthday boy is the young Lord of the The Manor. But when It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an eerie signal is picked up in impressive retreat for the early hourswealthy and famous. Her husband, George and his new girlfriendOwen, was the vivacious Lady Antonia, embark architect and work is still ongoing on a quest to uncover its incredible message. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets the cat out parts of the bag site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the world goes into a state of panicguests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won'' Could it t be? Could it? Have aliens reached out and contacted Earth? George and Antonia find themselves lifted out of their privileged lives of parties and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into the world of advanced science, secret agents.and politicians hungry for powerlong before a body is found.
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|author=Darren ShanAshley Hickson-Lovence|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 Wild East
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|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary= So. We're back to the Merge with the first chapter Written in the third volume of Darren Shanverse, this is Ronny's saga of Archibald Loxstory, a young man black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who can pick the locks of portals from our world suddenly has to move to another, called the Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny'Merge''. Since his last adventures safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce on the topic new school, and keep himself out of his regular disappearancestrouble. They don't ask too many questions He listens to music constantly, and Archie has settled into always dreamed of being a fairly peaceful routine rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of visiting Winstona poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, his lock-picking mentor in Ronny begins to see the ''Merge'' connections between rap and showing Kojopoetry, and the young guardian, around our world power of the Borncreativity and crafting your words. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD0241645441
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|authorisbn=John Henry Phillips1635866847|title=The SearchLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryLifestyle|summary=Archaeology cannot be childIt's playstrange, when the things that make you're scraping in 'immediately'' feel that this is the dirt looking to find what book for you can find. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', often knowing there should be something there but not always confident whatI visited the author's [https://www. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thingpinelavenderfarm. This book is com/ website] and there's a case picture of the latter, as our author promises to locate the topic a slice of chocolate cake on the titular searchhomepage. And he really hasn I don't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, eat cakes and itdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping recipe in the heroic old manbook, which I's visit back to France, our author has promised to find m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, book and that he I was lucky told to survive when make a mess of it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, fold down the vast majority corners of whom perishedpages. Who else You suspect that smears of butter would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|author=Fiona LongmuirRob Keeley|title=Looking for EmilyChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Lily. She and her mother have just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town called EdgeAround here, and everyone from said mother to her teacher are making demands we're big fans of Lily that she make new friends. It turns out that she doesnchildren't have any say in the matter, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she is unaware her neighbour, Sam, is just about to make herself known, and in a big ways author Rob Keeley. But where does Emily come from? Well, Lily used that name because of what sheHe'd just stumbled into – s a mysterious collection ball of the most mundane objectshappy positivity, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming doorhe understands children, in a place calling itself 'The Museum of Emily'. Sam is completely unaware of this 'museum', tooand he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, leaving the two girls not to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behind the intriguelecture or hector...|isbn=1839942754}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B09XZMCDVF|title=Stories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F Walker|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=''A news vendor is crying out the headlines in the middle of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; a stickler for correct grammar goes back in time to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person to have around in a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team is very useful with his feet, and awfully familiar…''
This collection The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of thirteen short his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories by Richard F Walker has centring on Ellie, a lot to offer stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the eclectic reader. Tying them together is the idea that remarkable spirit world throws at her, and strangeEdward, even miraculous, things can happen to ordinary people. And that ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form a spoiled lordling and tone varies so this little treasury of short fiction is never boring and you're never quite sure what's coming next.the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|isbnauthor=1800901232Jenny Valentine|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve ColeUs in the Before and After
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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happyElk and Mab are best friends, if not prosperousor more than that even, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn their friendship is a job once in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be misseda lifetime connection. Some money changed hands and Hanh was They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the mini-bus to Hanoitime. OnlyBut then chance brings them back together, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factoryare inseparable. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery Something has happened though, something terrible and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips tragic, and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh now they must work through their grief, and her co-workers made themtheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|author=Daisy HildyardKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=EmergencyDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=The summary Meet Kit. Like most of this book doesn't come close to explaining what the people in his world, it seems, he is done with the premise.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight an avid fan of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after Dungeon Running – the death sport where a team of her sisterwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, she awakes century-old, magical mazes, and race to find strangethe exit, thick black hairs sprouting from perhaps bothering with the treasure or the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size big bad and volumethe points they grant you along the way. Her GP Unfortunately for Kit, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her griefonly thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, recommends she go to stay at Nedeeaten, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis new trio of a kindquestors is needed. As Marianne's memories threaten Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release the goading from this cycle the token bully of memory his world and pain—but only at stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a terrible price: team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that of identity itself., and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn= 086154112X 1839945184
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|author=Kjell Ola Dahl Saima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and Don Bartlett (translatorscreen)and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}} {{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Little DrummerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives seriesDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', this crime story is a mixture of police procedural and thriller. Beginning with leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the death dead body of a young woman in on the edge of a carparkreservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, that looks very much like an overdosebut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, it unravels into and he enlists the help of a far-reaching investigation of murderfellow actor, fraudJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led seemingly, a link to Africa as they follow the twists and turns of death during the investigationSecond World War. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down But is there really a link between the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard deaths? And will they manage to uncover the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, and much who is responsible before more dangerous, is going on.people lose their lives?|isbn=19145851271803368209
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|isbn=0008541477B0CYV674G2|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Lauren ChildDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=It was seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a hot summer day right knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the beginning bottom of the summer holidays and Clarice Bean was bored: a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he''Nothing ever happens except for sometimess been stabbed to death... And only on rare-sh occasionsDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which is hardly evercoincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha.You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words There are seven members of the Bean family living in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because heperverse's wobbly), Mum and Dad, Clarice's older brother, Kurt and younger brother, Minal CricketJohn Tanner' were made for each other. ThereHe's also Marcie, who's main claim to fame seems sleep-deprived to be that she steals the batteries from Claricepoint of falling asleep at work but he's torch, which means that she determined to keep going - probably because he can't read in the airing cupboard. Clarice would love to have someone who listened to her, rather than wanting to talk, but the only one who does that is Granny and she lives in New York. The Bean family is ''different''get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=07112662041787333175|title=The Secret Life of BirdsYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Benji Waterhouse
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionPopular Science|summary=I have recently discovered 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 great pleasure: I sit and watch glorious mixture of insight into the vast numbers workings of birds which visit our garden on a daily basisthe NHS, humour and autobiography. An hour can pass without my noticing''You Don't Have to be Mad. I..''ve established which species feed promised the same elements but moved from the ground, which pop physical problems to mental illness and the feeders for a quick snatch work of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeablepsychiatrist. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. So – what is it?
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|isbnauthor=1737030942Onyi Nwabineli|title=Bag O'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker BittickAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre= AnthologiesGeneral Fiction|summary=SometimesAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittickthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri''Bag O'Goodies''s childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. I first encountered his writing Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about a year agoher. Anuri is battling alcoholism, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]failing to start her PhD, a rollicking tale of what happens when five young men find a base undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for their partyingdoing so. Right nowMost importantly, I didnshe is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia't want s online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|author=David Chadwick|title=Headload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a full-length novel, so I turned to this anthology few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of verse LA and short storiesLas Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. BittickA silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's writing has matured - not much of note other than dive bars and so have his charactersJoshua trees. Life is quiet, until. Well... most of them!|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|author=Caryl Lewis and George ErmosTom Percival|title=SeedThe Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his Will's lifeis difficult, and they both might be thought in a multitude of as complete embarrassmentsways. His grandfather runs an allotment He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', and manages to stink he has the entire town out from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring to fertilise wrong shoes because his vegetables. His mother somehow combines dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the dual roles most basic of housebound failure things like food, and hoarder – while she seems to do nothing and hasnhis dad can't left work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building in years she has still managed to fill it to site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the brim with junk. What Martyfact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's classmates don't know about this they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always lookslife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, with his one school uniform built from lost propertyhe still has a tiny amount of hope. We see him as once again the council threaten her and him with eviction He is good at art, and as clings to the moments of joy when he celebrates his birthday with is drawing, that feel like a light at the gift from his grandfather end of a solitary plant seedlong, dark tunnel.|isbn=15290776641398527122
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|author=Sophie CameronSylvie Cathrall|title=Our Sister, AgainA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora dies, her family struggle There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to find a way forwardcompelling premise. In particular, Isla's mum who can’t seem to be able to let her daughter goAnd this is one of them. When Isla passes her mum's details onto |isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a support group she finds onlineLonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, she thinks they might be able to helphas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. But actually There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, it turns out they are part of an experimental company who offer the family the chance to have Flora back againLivia and her daughter Diana, as moving in robot form. But this won't just be a look-together would mean alot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-like. They use all of Flora's online history, grid and interviews relaxing life to move in with family Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and friends, her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possible. But what will it really mean for putting the future on the family, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916burner.
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|isbn=13985075041786482126|title=Cold ReckoningThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Russ ThomasElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the last sixteen years hesite was going to hold seventy-five 's been searching for evidence to prove that heluxury's right. When apartments - when they discovered the bones of a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back to child beneath a cold case from 2002doorway. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DI Richard TylerDCI Harry Nelson. It's death difficult as Ruth knows, but Adam Tyler senses a link to the case Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his father was investigating before he died. Above all there's child as a growing sense that the criminality result of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the openone night they spent together some three months ago. Perhaps Tyler Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is going prone to get the answers he needs?sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=07278505470008551324|title=Blind Justice The Devil You Know (DS McAvoy 10D S Max Craigie)|author=David MarkNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnIt't even had time s unusual for breakfast when anyone from the call came throughHardie family to approach the police. A body had been found Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the roots police where the body of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. When This person, he gets to the scenepromises, he is someone big and it will find be worth the police doing what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedwants. A young man's corpse And what he wants is entangled with to be transferred to an open prison to serve the roots remainder of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – his sentence and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesto get an early parole date. It would seem that this was done whilst the man was still alive. Not much to ask, is it? McAvoy makes a promise The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at a cost other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and this time the cost might be to McAvoyanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's own familyhappening.
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|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire0008405026|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= Early comments on this debut novel It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delighther bed one summer night. I will agree with She was never found and the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'investigation ground to a delight' is perhaps using the expression halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a way Istraightforward murder/suicide but there'm not familiar withs something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. I have What looked as though it was going to confess my ignorance of the Spanishbe an open-and-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation hereshut case is now a complex double murder. From Kerrigan is convinced that the little I have read explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (in translationsuch as Derwent's boss, I don't read SpanishUna Burt) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismare less convinced. |isbn=0861541901
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|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin0571379877|title= Rebel SkiesThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 3.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as Edward Jevons is a servant on the Midoriworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink Robert and make merry between their conquestsStanza. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – Robert's a power sought after all across the Empiretheatre director. He asks her 's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to come with run errands for him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she . Edward has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say been in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, love with Stanza since their university days - and she is forced he's drunkenly confided how he feels to flee out into the worldRobert. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a sky-ship whose express purpose relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to hunt down shikigami, and stumble upon the two of them kissing in a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590dark passageway.
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|author=Patrice LawrenceJo Callaghan|title=NeedleLeave No Trace|rating=34|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Brave. Charlene, When a man is found crucified on the 'heroine' top of this piece is extremely hard for some people a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to likethe case alongside her sidekick, characters and readers boththe AI detective Lock. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, sheIt's fostering their first live case together, having previously been very successful with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uniseveral cold cases. Such But when there is a tempestuous personality may be in need of second body found crucified a comfort blanketfew days later, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene Kat is suddenly struggling with a wonder knitter, potential serial killer and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with very high profile case that draws a store detective, and then force people lot of unwanted attention to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignoranttheir AI Future Policing project. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me Will they be able to saysolve the case in time, only to remark how sharp or will Kat find herself taken off the case and pointy those knitting needles can be..., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1800901011139851120X
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|isbn=14059409801399613073|title=The BirdcageMoral Injuries|author=Eve ChaseChristie Watson|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the 7th first day of January 2019 medical school and we know that their friendship would keep them inseparable for a body has been pulled out quarter of the sea at Zennor in Cornwalla century. We don't know whose body it Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which isa bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat Laura is a perfectionist and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at a trauma doctor. Anjali is the request free spirit of their father, Charlie Finch, the group and she becomes a famous artistGP. The girls are actually ''half'When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-sisters fuelled party and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closeit's going to end in tragedy. Finch was known for his fecundity, if not for his fidelityWe don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty Twenty-five years ago, at later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time of the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and it's left her very wary of her sisterstheir teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=17876349060241636604|title=No Less the DevilThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Stuart MacBrideGary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=1035021803
|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder
|author=C L Miller
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|summary=WeIt're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in troubles twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. HeShe's in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young peopleback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. One is Allegra (weFreya'll soon learn that shes former mentor and Carole's Allegra Dean-Edwards) close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and Hugothe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to keep him warm (the village: Arthur, she often does this for homeless peoplefeels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingloved. It won't be long before After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the police realise that Malcolm love of her life, who was one of their own: not many other people are going to murdered) and Freya and James have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsnow divorced.
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|authorisbn=Jennifer SaintAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=ElektraAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells Opening up new ways of thinking about the story shape of three women who live things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the heavily malefeeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly -dominated world of Ancient Greecequite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Cassandra Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, Clytemnestrakilling everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Elektra Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are all bit players still alive in the story hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of the Trojan Warher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often Although they only ever talk over the silent women have the most compelling stories phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the most extreme furiesterrorists.|isbn=1472273915086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=15291498001398524085|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce WasteHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsNicci French|rating=45|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=We begin with a telling storyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. All the birds Her children, sons Niall, Paul and animals fled when the forest fire took hold Ollie and most of them stood and watchedher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, unable to think of anything they could dois not. The tiny hummingbird flew to Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the river and began taking tiny amounts body of water and flying back to drop them into Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the fireriver. The animals laughed: what good It was an easy assumption for the police to make that doingDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there''I'm doing the best I s little else they can'', said the hummingbird. And that, do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really, is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might behappened.
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|isbn=17765743381035906708|title=Leilong's Too Long!Diva|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Every morning LeilongWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, the brontosaurus school busbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, makes his way through the cityNew York, picking up children as he goesin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, isnCallas't to make it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, thoughmanageable in the States. Leilong isn't happy When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than Nazi occupation by a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to mother who mercilessly exploited her and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymoremade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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