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|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=One Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the main events grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the liberation identities of the town from the English in 1370 bodies and Bruno's there to see the show with some friendsestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. ItAs if this isn's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelint enough to worry about, the man playing one of the main characters Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is seriously injured when he departs from the scriptflowing at record levels. Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as heIt's a senior government employee, not just the man who runs Frenchelon - local autumn rains that have caused the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some St Denis faces the possibility of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holidaydevastating flood.
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|isbn=1529196388152919640X|title=The TrialSuspect
|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyoneThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - live on television and itseems that there's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murderonly one suspect. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it He's Taylor-Cameron celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent himcontract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. KnightShe's determined to plead not guiltyseriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, despite all Taylorlive television studio -Cameron's recommendations and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to the contrarybe found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|authorisbn=Essie Fox0008385068|title=The FascinationMidnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers|summary= It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting Manor. 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 impressive retreat for historical fiction (matched onlythe wealthy and famous. Her husband, perhapsOwen, by was the Second World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. There's such a glut architect and work is still ongoing on parts of media set in the era that site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the hallmarks we've come to associate with it guests are familiar to the point of being cliched, hackneyed evenenemies as well as friends. All this is simply Old scores are going to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. But despite that, something about settled and it still grabs me – and something about this bookwon's description did as wellt be long before a body is found.|isbn=1914585526
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|author=Andrew CartmelAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Death in Fine ConditionWild East|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fictionWritten in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and in particular start at a series called Sleuth Houndmostly white school. She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for profit, sometimes Ronny'tweaking' thems safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to add valuesettle in a new town, a new school, in somewhat fraudulent waysand keep himself out of trouble. One day she discovers He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them rapper. But now, in the background this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a photograph on her drug dealer's living room wallpoetry writing workshop group and, and so she sets about discovering where this collection isslowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and how she can steal it! It's a next-level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too farpoetry, and what will happen when the owner power of the collection comes looking for their books?creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=17890989470241645441
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|isbn=15295079871635866847|title=The Repair Shop Craft BookLavender Companion|author=Walker Books Jessica Dunham and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I love started reading ''The Repair ShopLavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. ItI don's my got eat cakes and desserts -to programme when but I want to be cheered upwanted that cake viscerally. After (There's a hard dayrecipe in the book, therewhich I's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worthm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. You see, Notes in the value is in what these possessions margins are worth sanctioned. You get to fold down the people who own them and the memories they holdcorners of pages. No expense appears to You suspect that smears of butter would not be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the desired resulta problem. Regular viewers know the experts and theyI ''loved're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doingthis book already. But how did they start?
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|author=Nicole JarvisRob Keeley|title=A Portrait in ShadowChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He'I want all s a ball of Florence happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to know my name''lecture or hector.
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|isbnauthor=B0BVDC2VWHKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William FrankDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=The village is isolated and poorMeet Kit. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And Like most of the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the forest provides heat sport where a team of warrior, mage and warmthhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, roofs on homesmagical mazes, and even gallowsrace to the exit, if neededperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. The fear Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of being buried alive the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is an existential superstition in the village that one team has been retired, eaten, and that a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the reason Volushka, token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a drunkenteam. What chance does this friendless, selfmuscle-free-indulgentzone have in actually managing that, lazy lout of a man is tolerated. and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|isbnauthor=024162343XSaima Mir|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam SangheraVengeance|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers|summary=I was instantly intrigued by the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in religious education classes because I disputed the existence north of England run by a 'god'Muslim woman. Where was the proof? In history lessons, The fact that it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, second in a series I hadn't read didn't so much want to learn about the British armystop me – I's successes ve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and occasional failures, but we didnit needn't dwell on those) in what came to be called a hindrance if it'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first places good enough. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret And that I lacked the maturity to approach wasn'the t a problem' politelyhere. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|author=Amanda CraigStuart Douglas|title=Three GracesLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Few styles During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of contemporary fiction interest me like a woman on the state-edge of-the-nation novela reservoir. There's The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the day country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and capture it, crafting an image of seemingly, a link to death during the country as it stands in one particular momentSecond World War. To say that Amanda Craig But is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such there really a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their 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= 140871468X1803368209
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|isbn=1448309379B0CYV674G2|title=Flesh and Blood Swanton Morley (DS McAvoy 11John Tanner)|author=David MarkBlake
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's something of seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a surprise to find that you're deadknife, particularly when you're thinking comes into the police station shouting that youhe hasn're actually on t killed the man. A body at the bottom of a break with your wife and children, but thatfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's what happened been stabbed to DS Aector McAvoydeath. Whilst DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he was relieved to find that he was still, officially, alive, it was difficult 'd be grateful for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive an easy answer but the partially clad man whowords 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He'd dashed from her flat in s sleep-deprived to the early hours point of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoyfalling asleep at work but he's doppelganger determined to keep going - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aectorprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=09571811671787333175|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian LewisYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Alan MarshallBenji Waterhouse
|rating=5
|genre=ArtPopular Science|summary=There are few positive things which can I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be said about Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this timeglorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, in trying humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on be Mad...'' promised the walls - same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewisa psychiatrist. I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this book and setting but the print I wanted was ‘not available’. Oh, dear - then laughter is directed at a few doors down from the apartment, I found situation rather than a gift shop person and it is always delivered with a stack of brand new books - empathy and a framed print of the picture I wantedunderstanding.
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|author=Simon FoxOnyi Nwabineli|title=DeadlockAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Alice Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and Seth are a match made in heaven, basically, monetary gain. He Now Anuri is everything in her twenties and she has been searching for; handsomeis slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husbandsuing her step-materialmother to take down the content about her. She Anuri is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautifulbattling alcoholism, successfulfailing to start her PhD, confident… undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrivesMost importantly, Alice she is walked down the aisle by desperately worried about her fatherlittle sister, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys who is the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alicenew focus of Ophelia's world implodes because online empire. Can she has absolutely no idea who the man save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.same time?|isbn=16625070890861546873
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|author=Mark EdwardsDavid Chadwick|title=Keep Her SecretHeadload of Napalm
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Matthew and Helena are It's September 1973 in IcelandHicks, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first metCalifornia. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches Hicks is breath-taking and Helena seems intent 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 a Mojave desert town of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface few thousand people with just the snagged strap its nearest neighbours of her rucksack between her LA and Las Vegas both a 500 foot drop to certain death belowsignificant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. Convinced she is going to dieA silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, Helena must purge herself there's not much of the shocking secret she has been keeping note other than dive bars and makes a panickedJoshua trees. Life is quiet, cryptic declaration to Matthewuntil... Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893XB0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=B0BYF82CXTTom Percival|title=Semi-Detached|author=Deborah StoneThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'Bill the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and Amanda are living in doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a semicash-detached house, stuck in -hand job on a depressing rut of boredom building site and disappointment, when Terry had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and Fiona – glamorousdad are separated, successful and very much Will's life seems bleak in love – move in next doorevery direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. Despite their different outlooks on life He is good at art, the couples befriend each other and life appears clings to improve for both pairs. But all the moments of joy when he is not what it seemsdrawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedydark tunnel.''|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=1787636003Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie BishopA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the islandThere are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, There’s perhapsa little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, naiveLivia and her daughter Diana, so when thirtyas moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-four-year-old Alistair Wright started grid and relaxing life to take an interest move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her, reservations about whether or not this is the future she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to wants for herself and her and by that time she was obsessed by him. daughter? Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on For the moment they’re enjoying life in the island present and in particular in putting the bar where all future on the girls either worked or partiedback burner.
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|isbn=15291353891786482126|title=The FallJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Gilly MacmillanElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nicole Booth had spent Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the morning at site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the county fair before she returned homebones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barnskull. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted uponWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Some of them fought with each other and didnIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't work as reliably , that she is pregnant with his child as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and result of the one night they were still getting used to having that sort of money, toospent together some three months ago. EventuallyHer condition will be obvious before long, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound not least because Ruth is prone to his headsudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=Alan Parks0008551324|title=To Die in JuneThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=What first seems like It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the streets, suddenly starts other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to feel like something more sinister as another tell the police where the body of a missing person is discovered, buried and then anotherwho was responsible for her death. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoyperson, he promises, but all the more so because his own father is a down-and-out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he has been for yearswants. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry And what he wants is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and be transferred to an open prison to serve the arrival there remainder of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missinghis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, only no record of is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong other thing that Hardie demanded - not just make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just him is kept well away from what is going on?|isbn=1805300784's happening.
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|authorisbn=Laura Noakes0008405026|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Number OneIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Or rather, Cosima UnfortunateShe was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Or ratherNow, just Cos to her friendsmother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. The practice in Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the home she lives in is for positioning of the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly uponher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. But Cosima bears the tag What looked as a surname because nothing else seems though it was going to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, an open-and unique in having no known family in the outside world-shut case is now a complex double murder. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from Kerrigan is convinced that the kitchen one afternoonexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his InstituteUna Burt) are less convinced. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059
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|authorisbn=Thomas D Lee0571379877|title=Perilous TimesThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre= FantasyCrime|summary= ''Hate Edward Jevons is the path of least resistancea working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He' Set in the nears also self-distant futureobsessed, in a world on the verge of climate collapsedemanding, Britain is handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in great perillove with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. The British Isles desperately needs Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a hero (or several) relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to save the day and rescue what little remains. What no one expected was that one of stumble upon the Knights two of the Round Table would answer the callthem kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=0356518523
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|author=Madelaine LucasJo Callaghan|title=Thirst for SaltLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be When a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from man is found crucified on the top of a retrospective viewhill in Nuneaton, a young woman unravels DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the year-long relationship that once defined case alongside hersidekick, the AI detective Lock. Overlaid It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair Kat is suddenly struggling with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to its sorrowful end the summer aftertheir AI Future Policing project. Set against Will they be able to solve the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lovercase and, depicting its all-consuming naturepotentially, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.out of a career?|isbn=0861546490139851120X
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|isbn=15293828231399613073|title=The Last PassengerMoral Injuries|author=Will DeanChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') 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 ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is middle-aged the free spirit of the group and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Peteshe becomes a GP. TheyWhen we first meet them they're off on at a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Cazdrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge end in his suit pocket and she doesntragedy. We don't know whether she's relieved who suffered the tragedy or disappointedthe consequences. They've not been a couple for that long and the trip Twenty-five years later there will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit bettereerily similar event that will impact the three friends. MeanwhileThis time, Gemma is looking after Cazit's cafe as well as their mother teenage children who has dementiaare involved. It's going to be good, isn't it?
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|authorisbn=Lex Croucher0241636604|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=TeensAutobiography|summary=Who knew that what I really needed If you were to read right now was bring up an image of a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestlycity banker in your mind, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful wayyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. In this storyA hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, Gwen poverty and Arthur have injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! the London School of Economics. Gwen, you see, Stevenson is in love bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with Bridget (the kingdom's numbers which most of us can only female knight) - something envy. He also realised that Art discovers from her private diariesmost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing It was his ability at what was, essentially, a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love card game which got him an internship with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentsCitibank. But Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=1526651793trader.
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|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1035021803|title=One Puzzling AfternoonThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=84 year old Edie It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has lived in been back to the same small town English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for almost help from her whole lifebeloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house dead and bring Edie to live with his familythe circumstances seem suspicious, as Edie is starting to lose her memorysay the least. However, Edie is tormented by Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the memory of her childhood friendvillage: Arthur, Lucyshe feels, who went missing over 60 years agolet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might has not felt able to be near the thing that reveals man or pursue the truth of what happened all that time agoprofession she loved. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high streetsplit, just as she was worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the last time she saw love of herlife, she starts to find pockets who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of memories coming back things to hercome.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. And yet as she remembers the pastWell, she is forgetting more and I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in her day to day lifemy lifetime. Will she uncover I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the truth about Lucyfeeling that it's disappearance before her moveall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite 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 before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)Sunny Singh|title=Thirty Days of DarknessHotel Arcadia
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Hannah presents as The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unlikeableunnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, bitter womana wartime photographer and Abhi, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsthe hotel manager. Sorry As Abhi continues to try to leave her bottles of red wine behind her care remotely for an afternoon at the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a book fairbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, she flukes and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her way into a public argument with photography. Although they only ever talk over the latest hot shot in 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 world terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of crime fictionSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, saying hehonestly...) She's populist trash and only writing not what anyone could write'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. Cue the bet Miv's upset because she's overheard that she cannot live up her father wants to that accusationmove the family 'Down South'. Her publisher duly books her flights When you're from Denmark to IcelandYorkshire, where she Down South is put up for a wintry month away from it allfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Just on For Miv, the point of despairing – about move would mean leaving her writingbest friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more dangers or less about everything – word comes that the landladyher Mum's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615stopped talking - to anyone.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=18045456001398524085|title=The MonkHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Tim SullivanNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The body in the woods near Bristol Charlotte Salter was a nasty shock expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditchher husband, Alec, is not. He'd been savagely beaten. ItShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's a while before D S George Cross and father, Duncan Ackerley, in the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominicriver. He'd been missing It was an easy assumption for a few days the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and certainly hadnthen committed suicide when he couldn't asked permission to leave his abbeystand the guilt. As the team gradually unpick the monkThe Salter children are not convinced but there's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as an investment bankerGreek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, brotherNew York, neighbour in December 1923 and friendonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. HeHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'd also been very wealthy but had given Callas' to make it all up more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - 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 made no secret of her preference for his faithher elder sister, Jackie. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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