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|isbn=14711801581529428289|title=Maybe TomorrowA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Penny ParkesMartin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the 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 Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne 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
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery storeThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, for a man whowas murdered live on television and it seems that there's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brickonly one suspect. JamieHe's son, Bo, 'has celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his problems'contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. HeShe's asthmatic seriously allergic and the more you readcarries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, the more you'll suspect 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 hethis was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the autistic spectrumDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - 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 a frequent flier in converted it into an impressive retreat for the local A&E wealthy and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to schoolfamous. Missed shifts or Her husband, Owen, was the need to be away architect and work is still ongoing on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and put in amongst the wrongguests are enemies as well as friends. It was Old scores are going to come to be settled and it won't be long before a headbody is found.
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|author=Harry AllenAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Children of the SunWild East|rating=4.5
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|summary= Ra Eun Seo lives Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a North Korean town young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and she is start at a talented singermostly white school. Life The move is hard initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and food is difficult so Ronny finds himself trying to come bysettle in a new town, a new school, so Seo and her friends Nari keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and Min go foraging every eveninghas always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, looking for tree bark in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and edible grasses , slowly, Ronny begins to supplement see the meagre rations connections between rap and poetry, and the power of rice creativity and kimchi at homecrafting your words.|isbn=18051404930241645441
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|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.}}{{Frontpage|author=Edel RodriguezRob Keeley|title=WormChildish Spirits: A Cuban American Odyssey10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary=We're in childhoodAround here, and we're in Cubabig fans of children's author Rob Keeley. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as He's a saviour ball of the countryhappy positivity, has proven himself a Communisthe understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for alllecture or hector. Well, those hours-long speeches The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his were kind of taking his time awaygreatest achievements. Our narratorIt's family weren't in the happiest a sequence of places hereghost stories centring on Ellie, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmishspirit world throws at her, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watchedEdward, a spoiled lordling and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=14746167201783064617
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|author=K P O'DonnellJenny Valentine|title=The Vital Link (A Spark Us in the Ashes)Before and After|rating=3.5|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary=VL-15Elk and Mab are best friends, a prototype robotor more than that even, their friendship is desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, consumed a once in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renadaa lifetime connection. Over half- They meet as children one day on a-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her fathertrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's legacy, building a world where machines and humans can live contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down againthey are inseparable. Craig Anderson, leader of a group of salvagers called the Exhumers, Something has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 yearshappened though, her determination hasn't diminished in the slightestsomething terrible and tragic, and no errant machinenow they must work through their grief, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…their friendship, together.|isbn=B0CKRYFRZM1471196585
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|isbnauthor=1838954481Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Misper|author=Kate LondonDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about thatMeet Kit. He was Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the fifteen-yearsport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old holding the gun , magical mazes, and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due race to the vagaries of exit, perhaps bothering with the jury system he was found not guilty of both treasure or the murder big bad and the manslaughter of points they grant you along the officerway. And so lives must go Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race onthe inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the capital token bully of his world and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory shestumbled into declaring he's drawn into ll enter as a wider investigation team. What chance does this friendless, muscle- free-zone have in actually managing that, and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|isbnauthor=1035025299Saima Mir|title=Went to London, Took the Dog|author=Nina StibbeVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=AutobiographyThrillers|summary=Nina Stibbe is returning to London for I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a sabbatical after being away for twenty yearsMuslim woman. SheThe fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn's been at Victoriat stop me – I's smallholding in Leicestershire which isnve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't all that conducive to writing, as therebe a hindrance if it's always something smallholding happening - as you might expectgood enough. The other side of the decision was sealed when And that wasn't a room became available (courtesy of Deborah Moggach) at a very reasonable rentproblem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|isbnauthor=B0CKD1L5JLStuart Douglas|title=Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey DunnLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Petr is During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an orphan. Rescued by accidental death, but something about the strange, reclusive Bearwhole thing bothers Lowe, and he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in enlists the forests help of Washington's Olympic Peninsulaa fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. After Bear dies They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitterseemingly, Petr goes on a journey through link to death during the forest, broadcasting Second World War. But is there really a link between the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=1635866243B0CYV674G2|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing HandbookSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=''I quickly discovered that putting words It seemed like an open-and numbers on a page wasn't enough-shut case. Creating a pattern that was correct, clear, conciseA man, covered in mud and blood - and consistent required carrying a great deal of trial and errorknife, patience, and perseverancecomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me body at the bottom of a knitting pattern for freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which shecoincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd paid good money. The first line of be grateful for an easy answer but the instructions began: words 'perverse'Cast off 100 stitches...and 'John Tanner' It was clear that no good could come of this - the instructions didnwere made for each other. He't get any better s sleep- and (finally) PayPal obliged with a refund when deprived to the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repayment. The pattern looked pretty, point of falling asleep at work but the creator didnhe't have the basic knowledge and skills s determined to enable her to connect with her knitters. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook'keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|authorisbn=Adam Baron and Benji Davies1787333175|title=OscarYou Don's Liont Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=35|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping I was tempted to have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has ''You Don't Have to be ready for school. But when he enters his parentsMad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay' bedrooms first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepishglorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and admitting that he wonautobiography. ''You Don't Have to be hungry for another two daysMad... But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to '' promised the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it same elements but moved from physical problems to school mental illness and it can get him out the work of a problempsychiatrist. And I did wonder whether it's wonderful was acceptable to have around be looking for humour in this setting but the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful timeis always delivered with empathy and understanding.|isbn=0008596751
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|isbnauthor=B0BC3YTCMROnyi Nwabineli|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura AyiraAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of Anuri spent her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright studentchildhood on display to the world, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid thanks to hug her in case itstep-mother Ophelia's contagious. Itincreasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% whitechildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. She had a crush on seventeenNow Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice mother to take down the content about her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and Reggie asked if she would tutor himreceiving money from them for doing so. She readily agreed: tutoring was something Most importantly, she gladly did at church: this was just an extensionis desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. She went to his house Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give relationship with her a lift home.father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|author=V CastroDavid Chadwick|title=The Haunting Headload of AlejandraNapalm|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=It''This was s September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a part Mojave desert town of her past that had to stop a few thousand people with herits nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. She would be A silver mine and a defence contractor are the one to confront this.main local employers but otherwise, there'' At some point during her life, Alejandra lost herselfs not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. She feels as if she Life is playing parts for others in her life – her husband and her children – without ever giving any thought to her own desires, her own futurequiet, her own identityuntil. Day by day she goes through quotient motions without anyone seeing that there is something fundamentally wrong. For invisible to all but Alejandra, there is a darkness threatening to consume her. More and more she is visited by a ghost, a weeping woman in a fraying white gown dripping with water, who leaves distress in her wake.|isbn=1803365617B0D321VJ76
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|author=Richard KadreyTom Percival|title=The Pale House DevilWrong Shoes|rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=Ford and Neuland are a couple of, well, guys for hire I guess, though really the way I thought of them through the book was as a couple of strange detectives! One of them is living, you see, and the other is undead, and so one of them kills the living, and the other kills the undead. (Only not each other, obviously). They're on a job in New York that goes badly, and so they head out to the West coast to try to lay low for a while and find some other work to keep them going. But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill the 'something' that appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|isbn=1803363894}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Cooper|title=The Taming of the Cat|rating=3.5
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|summary=Once againWill's life is difficult, mice are pitched against catin a multitude of ways. In this case, principally, we have Brie He is bullied because he has 'the mousewrong shoes', up against Gorgonzola he has the cat – wrong shoes because his dad can't work and in case youdoesn're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be t have enough money for even the names most basic of cheeses. Anywaythings like food, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits dondad can't match the other mice work because he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from lost his job at the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and makes stories based on the visuals on ithad an accident. And Throw into that mix the fact that story-telling will come in handy one nighthis mum and dad are separated, when he feels all alone and cast out. ItWill's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alivelife seems bleak in every direction. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse communityAnd yet, thoughhe still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, as all the others had the chance and clings to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs moments of joy when he is drawing, that cheese runs out?feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=05713760101398527122
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|isbnauthor=B0CDZRGT1MSylvie Cathrall|title=Super Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C WallfischA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary=''Got There are few greater joys than a minute book which lives up to be amused, entertained, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super shorta compelling premise. None And this is more than 300 words. You can read one in a flash.''''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.'' Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a flavour of a fully rounded little story if that story is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to draw out themes from all the flash fictions in a book of them? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't a fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collection, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limit. That's about a single page in your average paperback.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=17328987660008517061|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk DragonDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)Stig Abell
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind themFormer Metropolitan Police detective, spewing hotJake Johnson, sour milk from has settled into his nostrils. (Please don't try this rustic life at home: it won't end wellLittle Sky.) FortunatelyThere’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - Livia and when her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a ladder lot of moss compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and vines was lowered relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for them, they escaped. herself and her daughter? They climbed up to For the Tree Wee homes high up moment they’re enjoying life in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook present and Granny Crannyputting the future on the back burner.
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|isbn=14722639361786482126|title=The FigurineJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Victoria HislopElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was Builders were demolishing an old house in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She Norwich - the site was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused going to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helenahold seventy-five 'luxury's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in upapartments -market Kolonaki would be when they discovered the first bones of several annual visitsa child beneath a doorway. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but There was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannisno skull. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate themWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. His prejudices included HelenaIt's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.}}{{Frontpage|author=Cody Goodfellow|title=Vertical|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't love , that she is pregnant with his child as a good view from up highresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, after all? Even the drabbest office building not least because Ruth is somewhere I'm intrigued prone to get inside if it's 40 stories tallsudden bouts of sickness. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991
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|authorisbn=Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold0008551324|title=Finding BearThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called BearIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Back home, things on Neither side likes or has any respect for the domestic other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and family front are he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a bit advanced, but not perfect missing person is buried and who was responsible for herdeath. This person, he promises, is someone big and so can easily it will be ignored when word comes through from worth the islands Bear was last left onpolice doing what he wants. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and woundedto get an early parole date. Desperate Not much to make sure heask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's OK, she and her father return even prepared to do the Arctic and hope other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that in a world of very white DS Max Craigie and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continueanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=0008582017
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|isbn=18041832100008405026|title=No ReserveA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Felix FrancisJane Casey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Thirty-fourIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auctioninvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, but Peter RadwayHelena, the chairmanand her father are dead in their bed. Initially, hadnit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there't arrived, so he continued his sessions something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. To say that he What looked as though it was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would going to be an understatement. A lovely animal open- but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industryshut case is now a complex double murder. Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed Kerrigan is convinced that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance explanation lies in place. The following morningRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, the horse was dead in its stallUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Sarah Wilson0571379877|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured worldThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre= LifestyleCrime|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line Edward Jevons is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do a working-class young man, obsessed with your one wild his upper-class friends, Robert and precious life?Stanza. Robert'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely thiss a theatre director.'' IHe'm lucky enough to be living my one wild s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and precious life the way I want uses Edward torun errands for him. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes OliverEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us drunkenly confided how he feels to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be livingRobert. Her answer is an unequivocal Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'no, we are s not''. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the fact that we are nottwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1785633848
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|isbnauthor=1839948493Jo Callaghan|title=A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa UribeLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=In When a man is found crucified on the interests top of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decadeshill in Nuneaton, I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the same about human beings. Socase alongside her sidekick, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and devourthe AI detective Lock. Then IIt'm going to go back and read it properlys their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. And so it was But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with ''A World a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely unwanted attention to my four-legged friendstheir AI Future Policing project. Author Carlie Sorosiak found Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the accidental owner case and, potentially, out of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=14059516801399613073|title=The Safe HouseMoral Injuries|author=Cameron WardChristie Watson|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OKOlivia, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friendLaura 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, Rupert) which is a bonus when you aim to caretake be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a luxury property in the Australian outback for perfectionist and a couple of monthstrauma doctor. After Anjali is the free spirit of the problems group and shebecomes a GP. When we first meet them they'd had re at worka drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it seemed 's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary 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 just Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the break she neededEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. She There was no longer a data analyst for posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country School of her birth Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and in need he has a facility with numbers which most of the space us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to get over the traumatic end of her relationship be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with CharlesCitibank. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticketEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|authorisbn=Rachel Harrison1035021803|title=Bad DollsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been some time since I've read any horrorback to the English country village where she grew up. I had a couple She's back now because of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night request for fear of the vampires outside! help from her beloved aunt, Carole. DonFreya't worry - this short story collection isns former mentor and Carole't like that! It doesn't have those jump scaress close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and I didn't have the circumstances seem suspicious, to read it during daylight hours only! say the least. But it is creepy, and I found most of that feeling came from Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the fact that these are stories about womenvillage: Arthur, living normal livesshe feels, and that at least let her down badly. Even though they were in partbusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the horrors arises from very normal situations such as man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a breakupcafe, trying a new dieting appmet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, going to a hen party who was murdered) and Freya and a coping with griefJames have now divorced.|isbn=1803363932
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|isbn=1394159544AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Recycling for DummiesAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Sarah WinklerBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save Opening up to 16.3 barrels new ways of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton thinking about the shape of paper can save 17 trees from being cut downthings to come.'' If you send an apple core to landfill, it will take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years.
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|author=Lauren St JohnSunny Singh|title=Finding WonderHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Roo's life The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has become almost impossibly difficultsuddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Her mum died when she was youngHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and now she finds herself awoken Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the middle of the night hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by the police banging events, and keeps on venturing out of her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way room to the corner shop try to buy a lottery ticket. When asked capture what other family she has, she can only name 's happened through her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly ofphotography. But she has no one elseAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, and so off she goes their friendship grows as Abhi tries to live with help her unreliable aunt. Things continue keep safe and they both wait to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!terrorists.|isbn=0571376169086154742X
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|isbn=14483097431529153298|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)List of Suspicious Things|author=Caro RamsayJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murderedIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House(A woman? I mean, death will followhonestly... ) The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, thatShe's an easy conclusion given that two of them not what'discovereds worrying Miv' the bodys family, though. Women have been disappearing. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald Well, they've been murdered, but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to have 'disappeared'shadowdoesn' himt sound quite so frightening.}}{{Frontpage|author= Kay Chronister|title= Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world 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 becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanitya frightening, foreign place, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrillbest avoided. Whether it is a robotic takeover For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaustSharon, this genre is a way for humans and she'll do anything to cathartically experience their most existential fearsprevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of posts stopped talking -apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hopeanyone.|isbn=1803364998
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|authorisbn=Christopher Fowler1398524085|title=Word MonkeyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary= ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's the first of August in the middle of a cool wet summer in East Angliafiftieth birthday party but never turned up. I decided not to swim at the pool in favour of going to my beach hutHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. The weather closed inare all worried but - strangely - her husband, rain arrivedAlec, and I decided is not to do that either. When I finished reading this bookShortly afterwards, I realised it was because (a) I wanted to finish reading this book Etty and (b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shack. No spoiler alertsGreg, find the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler body of Greg'was' – and his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosiss father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. There is something very strange about being made It was an easy assumption for the police to laugh by a man who repeatedly reminds you make that he is dying, Duncan had murdered Charlie and you know then committed suicide when he actually is at that point, because he doescouldn't stand the guilt. He didThe Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=0857529625
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|isbn=15290776991035906708|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)Diva|author=Ann CleevesDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=''It's all bloody peculiarWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, isn't itbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, Sir?'' Well yesNew York, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked December 1923 and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close only moved to the village of Greystone, in DevonAthens when she was thirteen. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrityHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'to make it more manageable in the States. I ''nearly'' said 'allWhen she was back in Athens -round good egg' but as we'll find out, he supposedly so that she could be more than get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a little bit close with money mother who mercilessly exploited her and his background isn't exactly an open bookmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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