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|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Our story opens in December 2019, before most Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of us had even heard of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come to be a major issuethe occupation. WeDuring the war, Jean're in Farley County Courts father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, where Elizabeth leaving Jean and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash Kohliher mother waiting for years for news of him. As they were best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is major and finally over, their hopes rise that, regardless they will finally learn what became of him. But will the outcometruth come as a relief, this is not going to work out well for anyone.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 occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs1529428289|title=The Language A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of FoodPolice Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=54|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirbygrave but when they found it, a local woman it came with a troubled home lifethree sets of bones. Together They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, they testthe Chief of Police for St Denis, craft, refine and reshape to discover the world identities of domestic cookerythe bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, reinventing the recipe book 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 changing St Denis faces the face possibility of cookery writing forevera devastating flood.|isbn=1398502227
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|authorisbn=Louie Stowell152919640X|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble againnation's favourite daytime TV presenter, so the other gods have decided Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one thing for it – suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must be banishednot serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in the physical form case of a middleemergencies. Everything seemed as normal -school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along normal as well, to they can be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother of the two. Loki has in a month to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or elsebusy, live television studio - and to prove it he has to write the text we read in Brooks served a sentient notebook, that is able ragout to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progressHolby. But Loki is the kind of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going Her EpiPen was nowhere to be a walk in the parkfound and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident..right?|isbn=1406399752
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|isbn=00084544420008385068|title=A Flicker in the DarkThe Midnight Feast|author=Stacy WillinghamLucy Foley|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's May 2019 midsummer on the Dorset coast and Dr Chloe Davis, a medical psychologist, is completing a session with a new patientguests gather at The Manor. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes of getting her through the traumaIt's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. You see, Chloe knows what itIt's like to have a traumatic childhoodall headed up by Francesca Meadows. Her father is Richard Davis, The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the man who murdered six girls some twenty years agowealthy and famous. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to Her husband, Owen, was the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home architect and she and her mother handed it to work is still ongoing on parts of the policesite. Dick Davis The heat is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary oppressive and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for amongst the last twenty yearsguests are enemies as well as friends. Her mother Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is in a care homefound.
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|author=Christopher EdgeAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Escape RoomWild East|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=IWritten in verse, this is Ronny've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which s story, a character or characters young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by being trapped in Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a specific locationtragic event, and have so Ronny finds himself trying to solve problems settle in order to get their way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventurenew town, a new school, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the firstand keep himself out of trouble. Here He listens to music constantly, Ami and four other tweenagershas always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, all in this new school, his teacher encourages him to each other and booked into the game without any be part of their friends, are a team – starting out at the game's main officespoetry writing workshop group and, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastimeslowly, despite Ronny begins to see the ramped-up threat levelsconnections between rap and poetry, change much in and the world power of literature?creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=17880079640241645441
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|isbn=17328987311635866847|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for AdultsLavender Companion|author=Michael Albanese Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxesIt's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldnBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''t believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and I visited the likeauthor's [https: all //www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the things which most children have in abundancehomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. The Boy(There's delight was a recipe in the sense book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of order in his room: it made him feel happy. As he grew up and became a Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxesNotes in the margins are sanctioned. Look carefully at You get to fold down the pictures and you'll see corners of pages. You suspect that one smears of them has butter would not be a padlock.problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|isbnauthor=B09MN1526WRob Keeley|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)|author=Liz MistryChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=ItAround here, we's the third murder in the space re big fans of a few weeks and theychildren've all been because of machetes used on teenagerss author Rob Keeley. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of Bradford. Only, this time, itHe's going to be different. The body appears to Nikki to be that a ball of her beloved nephewhappy positivity, Haqibhe understands children, and she has a very public meltdown. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but the body is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be on sick leave he writes for some time with anxiety and depression.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ally Wilkes|title=All the White Spaces|rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, their pleasure and the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true genderenjoyment, without the disapproval and constraints of his parents. However, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expedition. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, he will have not to face his demons once and for all, lecture or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tombhector.|isbn=1789097835}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now The ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mindChildish Spirits'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out series is one of his bank and prepare for going on the lamgreatest achievements. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest heIt's a sequence of interest to them. Helped to escapeghost stories centring on Ellie, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in controla stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and Edward, a whole lot more besides.spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=15420198851783064617
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|isbnauthor=0008441618Jenny Valentine|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah StovellUs in the Before and After
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|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary=Jo Fairburn knew Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that she was under intense pressure even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didnchildren one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of get each other's contact details at the towntime. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association But then chance brings them back together, and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the schoolare inseparable. There was one difficulty, Something has happened though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two memberssomething terrible and tragic, in particularand now they must work through their grief, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationfriendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|author=Sarah Ann JuckesKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Jasper Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a little boy who has some strugglesteam of warrior, mage and whilst we're never told why exactlyhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacksrace to the exit, and has difficulty dealing perhaps bothering with change the treasure or the big bad and big emotionsthe points they grant you along the way. His big sister, Rosie Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been a huge support to him, talking him down when things were difficultretired, encouraging himeaten, and writing a book with him, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm downnew trio of questors is needed. His parents seem completely caught up in their business Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, and so it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away taken to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, and she isn't answering her phonell enter as a team. His parents won't speak to him or when they do What chance does this friendless, he doesn't understand or take muscle-free-zone have in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be rightactually managing that, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if how could he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen possibly hope to its song, as they do together every Spring.succeed?|isbn=13985108901839945184
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Saima Mir|title=Red is My HeartVengeance
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction Thrillers|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in my housethe north of England run by a Muslim woman. And so The fact that it was this one, although the second in a series I could have spelled that more accurately hadn't read didn't stop me – this one was, I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and is, black screen) and white and redit needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideasnever felt lost.|isbn=19135471830861541561
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|isbnauthor=1529135567Stuart Douglas|title=One Step Too Far|author=Lisa GardnerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItDuring location filming for his 1970's five years since sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the stag weekend. Five dead body of them had set out: Tim (a woman on the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Joshedge of a reservoir. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed police seem happy to wander off. The remaining four searched for him in vain and assign it was decided that Timas an accidental death, who was experienced in survival techniquesbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, would go for John Le Breton to helphim investigate matters further. When help didn't come They travel across the remaining three finally made country during their way back days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to towndeath during the Second World War. Scott followed soon after but But is there was no sign of Tim. really a link between the deaths? Every year, Tim's father, Martin, and the four friends have been back And will they manage to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tim.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|authorisbn=Gunnar StaalesenB0CYV674G2|title=Bitter FlowersSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Varg Veum is It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a stint in rehab and is now returning freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to workdeath. HoweverDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the quiet job birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's supposedly taken on caretaking someonedetermined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's house quickly turns first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into a murder investigationthe workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a mystery around psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a missing womansituation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. Varg finds himself not only investigating these}}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, but also looking into an oldthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, cold case where she posted every step of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and was never foundto get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Somehow Anuri is battling alcoholism, these disparate cases appear failing to be linkedstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, but what who is the linknew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and how can Varg possibly unravel perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the truthsame time?|isbn=191319308X0861546873
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|author=Kia AhankoobDavid Chadwick|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament Headload of SentinelsNapalm|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsThrillers|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersIt's September 1973 in Hicks, each California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its own strength nearest neighbours of LA and weakeness, Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the hope they would complement each other and collaboratemain local employers but otherwise, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriadthere's children and their descendants. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out not much of them note other than dive bars and the eight countries went to warJoshua trees. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too highLife is quiet, a solution is proposeduntil.. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva.|isbn=B09MMQJFPVB0D321VJ76
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|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsTom Percival|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet TomasWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. Happy to work with his father in He is bullied because he has 'the blacksmithwrong shoes's forge, hehas the wrong shoes because his dad can's almost t work and 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 age to become college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a full apprentice, building site and help with had an accident. Throw into that mix the new batch of dragonswords is certainly needed. Not fact that there his mum and dad are any dragonsseparated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except..hope. Strange signals from within the forge furnaceHe is good at art, and a peculiar invite clings to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the washmoments of joy when he is drawing, that yes dragons do still exist in this world, and that Tom is rare in feel like a light at the ability to summon themend of a long, share magical attributes, and ride with them..dark tunnel.|isbn=18399400261398527122
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|isbnauthor=1529346541Sylvie Cathrall|title=Something A Letter to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth Georgethe Luminous Deep
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James is at There are few greater joys than a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school system, a representative from the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out book which lives up to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakercompelling premise. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting is an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which And this is causing concern in some communities. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the problem seems to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust one of the people she speaks to and photographsthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=B09Q3P283Y0008517061|title=ShadebringerDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Grayson W HooperStig Abell
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam WarFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. He's not really that invested in There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the fight against Communismfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, nor is he particularly interested Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a career lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices future she wants for herself and this one, at least, gets him out of her daughter? For the rut he's moment they’re enjoying life in. He's good in training the present and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himselfputting the future on the back burner.
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|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy1786482126|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=There is no mermaid Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold site was going to the millhold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments -owners by when they discovered the London workhouse they used to call homebones of a child beneath a doorway. Bess knows there is There was no time for friendship in skull. Was this a hand-to-mouthritual killing or murder? Inevitably, every man for himself kind of existenceDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be she is pregnant with his child as a glimmer result of companionship in the tired-out mill workersone night they spent together some three months ago. But surely that doesn't mean there Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is any truth in the existence prone to sudden bouts of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049Xsickness.
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|isbn=17856330740008551324|title=Staggering HubrisThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Josh BerryNeil Lancaster
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|genre=HumourCrime|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (thatIt's unusual for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but anyone from the reality is that Hardie family to approach the ''prime'' movers are police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmentother. We are But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the privileged position of having access to police where the memoirs body of Rafe Hubris, the man a missing person is buried and who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020responsible for her death. You might not know the name now but This person, he promises, is someone big and it will certainly be worth the man police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to watchbe transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=B09MYXSRV40008405026|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Cordellya SmithJane Casey|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When the world was made, the animals were given giftsIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Bear She was given strength so that he could become never found and the investigation ground to a protectorhalt. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burnNow, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Owl had excellent sight so Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that he could see the present ''makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and'' the futureher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use What looked as though it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came going to be in an open-and-shut case is now a race with Turtlecomplex double murder. You might think Kerrigan is convinced thatthe explanation lies in Rosalie's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always disappearance: others (such as they seem. IDerwent'll tell you how it came abouts boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Giovanna Fletcher0571379877|title=Walking on SunshineThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Mike's wife, PiaEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is dealing obsessed with his grief, so are their best upper-class friends, Vicky Robert and ZazaStanza. But Pia left them all some Robert'ruless a theatre director. He' to follows also self-obsessed, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips awaydemanding, handsome and Vicky entitled and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide uses Edward to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with run errands for him.|isbn=140593560X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529393930|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=''Starting a creative business Edward has never been easier.'' ''If not now, when?'' I know that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. Therelove with Stanza since their university days - and he's a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are a lot of people who have been delighted drunkenly confided how he feels to accept what I make as giftsRobert. Selling Most men in Robert's position would offset the costs, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun to do, couldnstay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he't it? But where s not like most men: Edward is left to start? What do I need to think about? Well, stumble upon the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making two of them kissing in a Living''dark passageway.
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|author=Freya MarskeJo Callaghan|title=A Marvellous LightLeave No Trace
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Robin Blyth When a man is nudged into found crucified on the top of a job hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Civil Servicecase alongside her sidekick, much to his chagrinthe AI detective Lock. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with magicseveral cold cases. Desperate to remove But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a curse very high profile case that threatens draws a lot of unwanted attention to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the countrysidecase in time, where or will Kat find herself taken off the hedgegrows bristle with incantations case and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover , potentially, out of a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles. career?|isbn=1529080886139851120X
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|isbn=02414804421399613073|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition ScienceMoral Injuries|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienChristie Watson
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|genre=CookeryThrillers|summary=EmotionallyOlivia, I am Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a vegancentury. MentallyOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, I am which is a bonus when you aim to be a vegancardiothoracic surgeon. I read [[How to Love Animals in Laura is a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] perfectionist and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) fooda trauma doctor. Practically, I am not Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a veganGP. It worked for When we first meet them they're at a while apart from the odd blip with regard drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often end in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based proteintragedy. It wasnWe don't know who suffered the tragedy or the taste - I know that I can get plantconsequences. Twenty-based food five years later there will be an eerily similar event that tastes just as good as anything plundered from will impact the animal kingdom - three friends. This time, it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=suppl_stafl0241636604|title=Supply Chain 20/20The Trading Game: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversConfession|author=Kim StaflundGary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=ReferenceAutobiography|summary=So, If you've finished writing were to bring up an image of a city banker in your book and mind, you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need unlikely to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong againthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. You presumably wrote A hoodie and jeans replaces the book because you wanted to pin- stripe suit and you had a talent for delivering his background is the written wordEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. You knew your subject back There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to frontthe London School of Economics. Now you're going to have to get to grips Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with the book supply chain, numbers which even parts most of the publishing industry believe us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and no one wants to be the first to trystupid. ThenIt was his ability at what was, essentially, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book in your handscard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to youthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=13987069061035021803|title=The LostAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Simon BeckettC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyIt's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedtwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. HeShe'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and when he wokes back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Theo had goneCarole. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later heFreya's largely come through it former mentor and heCarole's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneyclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Gavin used Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to be his best friend but it's a long time since they've spokenthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. He's obviously Even though they were in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and he asks Jonah business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to meet him at Slaughter Quaybe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. ''There's no one else I can trust''After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, he sayswho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|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 things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all 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 who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda MasonSunny Singh|title=The Hiding PlaceHotel Arcadia
|rating=3.5
|genre=HorrorThrillers |summary=Needing The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an escape unnamed 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, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her husband keep safe and stepdaughter they both wait to Whitby, where see if they will be rescued before they rent a cliffside holiday cottage are discovered by the name terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Elder HouseSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) She hopes 's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that it will be her father wants to move the perfect family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place , best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to sort things outprevent that. But there She's something not quite right worried about Elder Housethe dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. The atmosphere }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=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 unsettling not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and off – and before long Nell starts Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to suspect make that she Duncan had murdered Charlie and her family arenthen committed suicide when he couldn't alone there…|isbn=1838771964stand the guilt. The 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.
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