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|isbnauthor= B09F4CTKJRJenny Lecoat|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven BurgauerBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=It's Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the later stages end of World War I and the United States has just entered occupation. During the conflict. Petrol Petronus is war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a young American who has signed up banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and joined the 17 Aero Squadronher mother waiting for years for news of him. This company was As the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, British finally free the first to be attached to Channel islands from the RAF Nazis, and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combatwar is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But before that can happenwill the truth come as a relief, Petrol has to master flying or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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|isbn=183885410X1529428289|title=The Dark RemainsA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinMartin Walker|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Bobby Carter was a lawyer 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 consigliere it fell to one Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the major bodies and establish whether or not a crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowhad been committed. DC Jack Laidlaw As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is on the CID team charged with the investigationflowing at record levels. I say 'It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems another river have had to be a part of it. He does his own thing, goes his own way release water and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers St Denis faces the truth possibility of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubsa devastating flood.
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|isbn=1942410255152919640X|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)The Suspect|author=Michael PronkoRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The nation''Zangyo: overtime works favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, often unpaid'' Itwas murdered live on television and it seems that there's the culture, isn't it? only one suspect. The hours for which youHe're paid are really just a statement of the minimum you'll be required to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and done his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru OnizukaJessica Holby. When he was found dead in front of Senden CentralShe's headquarters seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in Tokyo there was nothing case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in the way of regret or griefa busy, even from his family, but there was live television studio - and Brooks served a mild curiosity as ragout to whether he'd jumped from the roof of the building or been assisted in his descentHolby. Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlierHer EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtimeIt was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|isbn=02414254250008385068|title=The Man Who Died TwiceMidnight Feast|author=Richard OsmanLucy Foley
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received It's midsummer on the letterDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames 's their opening weekend and who had never existed but then this is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basissplendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. When The Manor was her ancestral home and she visits the sender of the letter (he's moved converted it into an impressive retreat for the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she has a long professional history - wealthy and who used to be her husbandfamous. He's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within Her husband, Owen, was the range architect and work is still ongoing on parts of a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds the site. The heat is oppressive and a few death threatsamongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. HeOld scores are going to be settled and it won's now in hiding with t be long before a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressbody is found.
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|author=Andrew SharpAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingWild East|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - Written in verse, this isRonny's story, in his mind, the head chef of a safari business catering young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to VIP guests in an unnamed African countryNorwich and start at a mostly white school. Mozzy The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is earnest worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and dedicated so Ronny finds himself trying to his task settle in a new town, a new school, and he puts all of keep himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become the head chef out of a restaurant in London or a big American citytrouble. Even He listens to win music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a Michelin starrapper. He is thwarted But now, in this ambition by new school, his bossteacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, Mr Bin (Ben slowly, Ronny begins to you see the connections between rap and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy wayspoetry, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing the power of bush animals into the housecreativity and crafting your words.|isbn=B09926MK8H0241645441
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|authorisbn=Alex Foulkes1635866847|title=Rules for VampiresThe 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.
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|author=Rob Keeley
|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or Around here, we're big fans of children'Leos author Rob Keeley. He' for short) is s a Vampire. She drinks bloodball of happy positivity, she sleeps during the dayhe understands children, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel aroundhe writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, although not all of them remember to come back)lecture or hector. Pretty cool stuff. Now, on the night The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of her hundredth birthnight, she has to go out and hunt her first humanhis greatest achievements. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worse, the ghosts It's a sequence of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt her. Soghost stories centring on Ellie, not only does Leo have to team up a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulspirit world throws at her, she has to do it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? YeahEdward, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=147119955X1783064617
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|author=Tori BovalinoJenny Valentine|title=The Devil Makes ThreeUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over once in a hundred books that she has to deliver herselflifetime connection. What makes it worse is They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the man who requested the books: Mr Birchtime. The boarding school's headmaster But then chance brings them back together, and a man Tess hatesthey are inseparable. As a petty act of revenge for making her find Something has happened though, something terrible and deliver such a large requesttragic, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like thisand now they must work through their grief, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would betheir friendship, if someone hadn't delivered them for hertogether.|isbn=17890981301471196585
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|isbnauthor= B09BG8V3Q6Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is Meet Kit. Like most of the latest release people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series sport where a team of fun picture books aims warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to take the pain out of potty training children exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and replace it with some funthe points they grant you along the way. It Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a worthy aimnew trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as any frustrated parent will tell youa team. .What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|isbnauthor=B098FFFBH9Saima Mir|title=Snowcub|author=Graham FulbrightVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight I was instantly intrigued by the way premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in which human beings exploit the animal world. She gets a great deal north of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, England run by a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, NickMuslim woman. Kate runs The fact that it was the family business, second in a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where weseries I hadn't read didn'll meet Rachelt stop me – I's main ve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toysit's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|author= Angharad WalkerStuart Douglas|title= The Ash HouseLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident ReadersCrime|summary= A new boy arrives at 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 Ash House. He doesn't know his namepolice seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, or why he is there but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he is used to enlists the systemhelp of a fellow actor, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out John Le Breton to teach help him the rules of The Ash Houseinvestigate matters further. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by They travel across the absent Headmaster. All children must remember country during their Niceness days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and complete their chores, working as seemingly, a hive in link to death during the smouldering shadows of The Ash HouseSecond World War. But soon their easy peace is shattered by there really a link between the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same again.?|isbn=19126269771803368209
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|authorisbn=Yancey WilliamsB0CYV674G2|title=Crosshairs of the DevilSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=AwardIt seemed like an open-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and-shut case. A man, despite his strenuous objections covered in mud and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living blood - or imprisonedand carrying a knife, from Eddiecomes into the police station shouting that he hasn's point of view - in room 315 of t killed the man. A body at the Garden bottom of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable companyfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. Nothing DCI John Tanner is going to keep Eddie just back from his stock-in-trade of writing thoughhoneymoon, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and which coincided with the Face birth of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a word, richhis daughter Samantha. There is certainly You would think he'd be grateful for an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British easy answer but way west, beyond the Scillieswords 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. There are troll people on it, and seaHe's sleep-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has deprived to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewegoing - probably because he can's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or nott get any sleep at home.|isbn=1788452372
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|authorisbn=Erling Kagge1787333175|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
|rating=5
|genre= LifestylePopular Science|summary= Those who have I was tempted to read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology Going to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defenceHurt}}, I will say that as a reader glorious mixture of this type insight into the workings of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why). Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South PoleNHS, the North Pole humour and the summit of Everestautobiography. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn ''You Don't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means Have to walkbe Mad.. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I haven't counted. In small format paperback, each essay did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is only a few pages long. Perhaps then, better thought of as directed at a meditation situation rather than an essaya person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.|isbn=0241357705
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|author=Ian Mark and Louis GhibaultOnyi Nwabineli|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quickAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, for hethanks to her step-mother Ophelia's a slight boyincreasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and although he wants for danger , basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and peril she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sight. That's because Jack's get her life back, suing her step-mother knew all to take down the content about monstersher. Anuri is battling alcoholism, and look what happened failing to start her – she diedPhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Luckily or unluckily then Most importantly, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOLshe is desperately worried about her little sister, Jack will fluke who is the ogrenew focus of Ophelia's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunteronline empire. Can she save her sister, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's namesame time? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=07555019420861546873
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|author=Keith GrayDavid Chadwick|title=The ClimbersHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Sully is the best tree climber in the village. He has whatIt's known amongst the kids as 'reach'September 1973 in Hicks, California. But what happens when Hicks is a new kid shows up in Mojave desert town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees a few thousand people with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, its nearest neighbours of LA and not only that, that his chance to name the final, unnamed big tree Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the park by being the first to conquer itmain local employers but otherwise, might be snatched from his handsthere's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friendLife is quiet, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so?until....|isbn=1781129991B0D321VJ76
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|author=Emma CarrollTom Percival|title=The Week at World's EndWrong Shoes|rating=45
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=First, the title. We're in WorldWill's End Closelife is difficult, in a mediocre set multitude of housesways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with he has the family dog wrong shoes because his dad can't work and with doesn't have enough money for even the boy over most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the road. But we could also be at World's Endcollege, because something taking was working a cash-in-hand job on a great chunk of the fun away is building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats his mum and dad are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshoreseparated, and not much else is able to make the newsWill's life seems bleak in every direction. That said And yet, Vie he still has news a tiny amount of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shedhope. Anna has He is good at art, in no short timeand clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, taken that feel like a strong interest in light at the American airforce base behind the Closeend of a long, said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed to leave, and implied her life was at riskdark tunnel. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=05713644381398527122
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|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonSylvie Cathrall|title=Julia and A Letter to the SharkLuminous Deep|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for There are few greater joys than a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, book which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind lives up to hunt the elusive Greenland sharka compelling premise. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company this is one nightof them.|isbn=15101077890356522776
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|authorisbn=Freya Sampson0008517061|title=The Last LibraryDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=I am always Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little nervous to start a story uncertainty about a library, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought future of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main character, June, does put her hair in a bun, and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett)his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the book out of the windowdaughter Diana, because I found I was interested as moving in June, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used to be together would mean a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave lot of compromise: does Jake give up on going his off-grid and relaxing life to University and stayed at home move in with Livia or does Livia move to take care of Little Sky despite her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at reservations about whether or not this is the local library. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, future she is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, wants for herself and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in her life is about the changepresent and putting the future on the back burner.|isbn=183877369X
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|isbn=00083709821786482126|title=Rock Paper ScissorsThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Alice FeeneyElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=For those who, like me, haven't come across Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the Skelfs before, Isite was going to hold seventy-five 'll risk a quick synopsis of wholuxury's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing apartments - when they discovered the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it is merely the surname bones of a family of undertakerschild beneath a doorway. Undertakers and private investigators There was no skull. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, she married a scot and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with a black Swedish police officerDCI Harry Nelson. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny It's difficult as Ruth knows, 46but Nelson doesn't, that she is haunted by her still-living husband – pregnant with his child as a violent escaped prisonerresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. And grand-daughter Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is about prone to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next termsudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1913193837
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|isbn=19015149780008551324|title=There's a Problem With DadThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Carlos AlbaNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Life It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is different for George Lovelace struggling in prison and he can't really understand why. He's always done everything he ought prepared to: steady worker, husband tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and father - and a father who was always there responsible for school plays and sports daysher death. So why This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he never quite in tune with those around him? wants. Why does And what he upset people? Why wants is someone with such a ''good'' mind unable to progress at work or be transferred to relate an open prison to serve the remainder of his colleaguessentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? Why does he make The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so many breath-taking gaffes? Itand she's almost become a cliche these days even prepared to suggest do the other thing that someone Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is a little different is 'on the spectrum', but George Lovelace has all the symptoms of Aspergerkept well away from what's Syndrome: high-functioning autismhappening.
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|authorisbn=Louise Candlish0008405026|title=The HeightsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Ellen doesnIt't expect to see Kieran that days sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She's on site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in was never found and the investigation ground to a building across the wayhalt. There are lots of things Now, lots of peopleher mother, you might see when you look out across LondonHelena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but this isnthere't one Ellen expected s something about the positioning of the bodies that day or in fact any other daymakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, What looked as though it was going to be an open-and Ellen knows this for -shut case is now a factcomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, because she had a hand in his murderUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1471183483
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|isbn=00084217140571379877|title=Mrs MarchThe Kellerby Code|author=Virginia FeitoJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George MarchEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's most successful novel to datea theatre director. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to either be reading it or had already done sorun errands for him. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's based a character on you?'' drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had Most men in Robert'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this s position would not have mattered, except for the fact stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''}}{{Frontpage|author=John Boyne|title=The Echo Chamber|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him sherelationship had begun between them but he's carrying his child, but then his author wife not like most men: Edward is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants left to save stumble upon the world's homeless with out-two of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add them kissing in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern worlddark passageway. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219
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|isbnauthor=0241989094Jo Callaghan|title=The Perfect Life|author=Nuala EllwoodLeave No Trace
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In August 2018 we meet When a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing man is found crucified on the top of a house hill in Goring-on-Thames and telling Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the estate agent about case alongside her three childrensidekick, Lavenderthe AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, Freddie and Barclayhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. The boys are But when there is a bit of second body found crucified a handful which few days later, Kat is why she's making this trip on her ownsuddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The house would Will they be perfect for them. It's able to solve the same month but now we're case in Wimbledon and we encounter time, or will Kat find herself taken off the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting case and living in her sister, Georgie'spotentially, spare room, where she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Darren Shan1399613073|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
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|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=So. Having done Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the impossible first day of medical school and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypttheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, from which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the Departed communicate with free spirit of the Merge, Archie now has ''gropgroup and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it' s going to think about. But before that, soireesend in tragedy. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez's amusement, doesn We don't even know what one of those iswho suffered the tragedy or the consequences. But he manages to come through Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the fancy party unscathedthree friends. This time, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this seriesit's their teenage children who are involved. |isbn=B093J9TF73
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|isbn=B07GZ81J7C0241636604|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and MendedThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Peter CottonGary Stevenson
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|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=Meet Fred. Well, actuallyIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're going unlikely to be meeting Fredthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quicklystripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. But I'm getting ahead There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about FredEconomics. Fred Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a snake and even those facility with numbers which most of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to himcan only envy. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so also realised that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, most rich people expect poor people to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walkbe stupid. And that It was his ability at what was where the problem started, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakesEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1035021803|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn'ts twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, as any parent will tell youCarole. But really Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why shouldn't it be? We all have Freya had not been back to learn about our bodily functions just the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as we have antique hunters, she has not felt able to learn about everything else when we are smallbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as After the split, sayshe worked in a cafe, learning about why the sun met and married James (on the moon take turns in rebound from the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHHlove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1787634493AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Her FaultTomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Andrea MaraBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=It had seemed like one ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of those serendipitous events which sometimes happenthings to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Marissa Irvine had Well, I must confess that there have been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on more than a play datefew decades of technology in my lifetime. She was concerned I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that he didnit't have any friends at his new schools all getting away from me. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob Some of it is - frankly - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little laterquite frightening. What Of course, I could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at research the possibilities and the house, expecting to meet Jacobprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, m reading someone who didnknows what they't know Jenny re talking about or Jacobthe latest conspiracy theorist. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nannyI needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|author=Claire NorthSunny Singh|title=Notes from the Burning AgeHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers |summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Flemingterrorist group. However Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, as with the best novelskilling everyone on site, it wears many masks and its most affecting one there is that of Sam, a new wartime photographer and timely genreAbhi, cli-fi, or climate change fictionthe hotel manager. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced As Abhi continues to try to start anew and live alongside nature without any of care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuelshotel, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is he forms a growing unhappiness bond with this limiting worldSam who refuses to be cowed by events, and one group, keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the Brotherhoodphone, aims their friendship grows as Abhi tries to master these processes no matter the cost help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the Earthterrorists.|isbn=0356514757086154742X
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|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)1529153298|title=Girls Who LieThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=35|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers It's 1979 and crime books before nowMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. You think(A woman? I mean, seeing on the map that wehonestly...) She's not what're set in Akranes, and finding its worrying Miv's only twenty kilometres from the capital cityfamily, that this author is clutching at the few final straws leftthough. Women have been disappearing. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feelWell, itthey's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed ve been murdered, but to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen againhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed Miv's upset because she's overheard that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for father wants to move the girl back, and a couple of delighted adoptersfamily 'Down South'. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the womanWhen you's car was found miles away in a second placere from Yorkshire, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in Down South is a thirdfrightening, even more remote foreign place, best avoided. MeanwhileFor Miv, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depressionthe move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and very little maternal feeling in her bodyshe'll do anything to prevent that. Is She's not worried about the assumption dangers or that is so easy for the reader her Mum's stopped talking - to make the right one?|isbn=191319373Xanyone.
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|isbn=B0925KS87N1398524085|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Neil LancasterNicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to Charlotte Salter was 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 - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the grave - and it took some finding - body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in an overgrown old cemeterythe river. It was a strange thing an easy assumption for Scotland's premier criminal the police to do, but Tam was getting old make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and there were things then committed suicide when he wanted to do. Only, his family didncouldn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found the grave - stand the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and his three sons began to worryguilt. Tam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldnThe Salter children are not convinced but there't normally go to the police s little else they can do but they weren't certain where get on with their father had been lives and they were worriedwonder about what really happened.
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