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|author=Richard BrookMax Boucherat|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to The Last Lifeof Lori Mills
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|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary= I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose booksWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and sometimes books choose uson her lonesome. In my caseWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, this is she has one of the latter. Not so very long agomain intention, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed itand that is to log on to Voxminer, found some of it interestingthe world-building, but it would not have 'critter-collecting game that is a hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The BookbagLori's uworld.s.p. is But first Lori has a tiny inkling that people chose their this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to like enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the bookgame has been doctored – well, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it where is a book I needed girl to read, right now.turn?|isbn=18004616820008666482
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|isbnauthor=B095CY7NBNJenny Lecoat|title=Autumn Camp|author=Barry FowlerBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5
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|summary=It was to be Brian's last campJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. HeDuring the war, Jean'd founded the organisation some four years ago s father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and had done all the organisation since but he was soldiers took him away one night, leaving school Jean and the time had come to hand the reins to someone elseher mother waiting for years for news of him. The obvious person was Gary, who'd always been As the British finally free the fun element of Channel islands from the camps Nazis, and Brian had said the war is finally over, their hopes rise that on this camp, Gary should act as the leader and he'd just be there to observethey will finally learn what became of him. The problem with this was that Gary wasn't really an organiserBut will the truth come as a relief, an administrator if you like. or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? He Who was the entertainer, the person informer who basked in told the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did the organising. He handed Nazis about the camp over - and then took it back. radio? And Gary determined to have his revenge. This should what other secrets have been ''his'' camp.kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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|isbn=194812467X1529428289|title=The Farm ShopA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicMartin Walker
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Kirelle 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 her best friend Sam it fell to Bruno, the cat decide Chief of Police for St Denis, to go for discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coatcrime had been committed. As they walk if this isn't enough to worry about, the top of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outsideDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a differencenot just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: all various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the stallholders and customers are farmyard animalspossibility of a devastating flood. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping. What will they buy?
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|isbn=0008404925152919640X|title=The Killing KindSuspect|author=Jane CaseyRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprise. After allThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it was her cross-examination of the seems that there'victims only one suspect. He' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentences celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. HeShe'd been accused s seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of stalking the woman but it didn't take long to establish that emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - if anything as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - it was the other way aroundand Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Soon Ingrid never seemed Her EpiPen was nowhere to be free of John Webster found and then she came to see him as a threat and was forced to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was the best chance they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous manno accident.
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|isbn=00083955940008385068|title=Both of YouThe Midnight Feast|author=Adele ParksLucy Foley|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all: great husband headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. ThenHer husband, one MondayOwen, she went to was the architect and work and never came homeis still ongoing on parts of the site. Mark, Oli The heat is oppressive and Seb amongst the guests are shatteredenemies as well as friends. WellOld scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in verse, Mark and Seb are but Olithis is Ronny's sixteen story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best looka mostly white school. HeThe move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's been safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a bit off with Leigh for new town, a while but she put it down new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him growing up to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and starting , slowly, Ronny begins to become independentsee the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441}}{{Frontpage|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. SebBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's only twelve [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and Leighthere's absence hits him harda 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 Daan Janssen, 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 wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missingproblem. She too has vanished without traceI ''loved'' this book already.
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|isbnauthor=1473685745Rob Keeley|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie MarshChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends Around here, we're big fans of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simonchildren's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has historyauthor Rob Keeley. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for those of you who are their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector. The ''au faitChildish Spirits'' with your medical acronymsseries is one of his greatest achievements. When he was bornIt's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly spirit world throws at her, and he needed open-heart surgery when he was Edward, a few days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|author=Louie StowellJenny Valentine|title=OtherlandUs in the Before and After
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.
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|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton
|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Myra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – Myra is loudthe sport where a team of warrior, bright mage and hates ruleshealer enter specially prepared, century-old, while Rohan is very politemagical mazes, serious and worries about race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born big bad and briefly dying at the same time at points they grant you along the same hospital on Midsummer's dayway. And so Unfortunately for Kit, every year their families get together to celebrate the twoonly thing he's birthday/deathday. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is taken by the fairy queenthat one team has been retired, they must journey to the Otherlandeaten, and a magical realm full new trio of fairiesquestors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, vampireshe has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, dragonsmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and Gods. It's going how could he possibly hope to be the worst night of their lives.succeed?|isbn=17880004631839945184
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|author=Saima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=walker140861541561}} {{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 Coldest Case police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelJohn Tanner)|author=Martin WalkerDavid Blake|rating=43.5
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|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies police station shouting that chief of police Bruno Courreges had he hasn't killed the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty yearsman. The A body at the bottom of a young male was found in the woods but freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he was never identified and his killer never brought 's been stabbed to justicedeath. What if an artist could recreate the face DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the skull and the resulting publicity birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be used to identify grateful for an easy answer but the young man? J-J calls the skull words 'Oscarperverse' and has a picture on his door: 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he sees it every time 's determined to keep going - probably because he leaves his office: he doesncan't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justiceget any sleep at home.
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|authorisbn= Martha Leigh1787333175|title= Invisible Ink: A Family MemoirYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating= 5|genre= BiographyPopular Science|summary= Martha Leigh begins her I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book talking about a childhood spent in a slightly eccentric{{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Her father is a Cambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits glorious mixture of insight into the complete correspondence workings of the philosopher Jean-Jacques RousseauNHS, his lifehumour and autobiography. ''You Don's workt Have to be Mad.. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in '' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the practicalities work of lifea psychiatrist. There is love I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the house but also darker undercurrents that laughter is directed at a situation rather than a child does not fully understand but knows person and it is therealways delivered with empathy and understanding.|isbn=1800460384
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|author=Darren ShanOnyi Nwabineli|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Allow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock Anuri spent her childhood on display to the Forgotten Cryptworld, from which the Departed communicate with the Mergethanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Archie now has ''grop'where she posted every step of 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 to get her life back, suing her step-mother to think take down the content abouther. But before that Anuri is battling alcoholism, soireesfailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Soirees! Archie Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, much to Inezwho is the new focus of Ophelia's amusement, doesn't even know what one of those isonline empire. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed Can she save her sister, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance and perhaps herself and her relationship with Inez was crushed in her father at the first volume of this series. same time?|isbn=B093J9TF730861546873
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|author= Adrian TchaikovskyDavid Chadwick|title= Shards Headload of EarthNapalm|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionThrillers|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architectIt's reshaping. ThenSeptember 1973 in Hicks, just when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanishedCalifornia. And so, the memories Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, LA and humanity begins to fracture Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with defence contractor are the Architectsmain local employers but otherwise, does there's not want to be rememberedmuch of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. ButLife is quiet, when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlightuntil.... As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=1848458428Tom Percival|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary KubicaThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Eleven years agoWill's life is difficult, in a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - againmultitude of ways. His wife was in He is bullied because he has 'the habit of going out for a run late at night. It was wrong shoes', he has the only time she had for herself when she didnwrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful enough money for even the unquestioning affection most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he gave herlost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappearedThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband to look after her disabled babyand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. Ten days laterAnd yet, he still has a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappearedtiny amount of hope. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula He is good at art, and she'd seemed clings to be under some strain for the last couple moments of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in joy when he is drawing, that feel like a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left light at the end of a note saying that her daughterlong, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for herdark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|author=Nicolas BouvierSylvie Cathrall|title=The Japanese ChroniclesA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=TravelScience Fiction|summary= It never does to start a review of There are few greater joys than a book with a quote from the blurb, but sometimes it's unavoidable. Le Monde reviewed this book, at some point, with the words ''what the old master craftsmen would call which lives up to a masterpiece.'' It is precisely thatcompelling premise. A masterpiece in the sense of the craft as well as the art of writing. I'm going to hesitate to call it 'travel writing' because And this is as much a history one of Japan, a mythology-primer for the Japanese culture as it is a personal response to living and travelling in the countrythem. |isbn=19060110440356522776
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|authorisbn=Genevieve Gornichec0008517061|title=The Witch's HeartDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named AngrbodaFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She hides in There’s perhaps a forest at little uncertainty about the edge future of the nine worldshis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, remembering nothing as moving in together would mean a lot of her past compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live move in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before reservations about whether or not this is the future she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall wants for Loki's charms, herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, present and another son that's a snakeputting the future on the back burner.|isbn=1789097061
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|isbn=17885497591786482126|title=The Distant DeadJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Lesley ThomsonElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was December 1940 and twenty-four-yeargoing to hold seventy-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening five 'with her friend Idaluxury' leaving her threeapartments -year-old son, Williamwhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, at home Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with her parentsDCI Harry Nelson. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the family than the shame of illegitimacyIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and WilliamNelson doesn's) on t, that she is pregnant with his child as a better footingresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. She was going to meet her well-to-do fiancéHer condition will be obvious before long, hoping not least because Ruth is prone to persuade him to come and meet her family the following week. Later, her body would be found in the bombed-out home where he had taken hersudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=15294072490008551324|title=The Perfect LieDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jo SpainNeil Lancaster
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|genre=Crime
|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happy's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. She Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: thathe's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married prepared to tell the police where the body of a cop but she missing person is buried and who was hopefulresponsible for her death. They'd been married for six months This person, he promises, is someone big and life was good with a decent apartment by it will be worth the sea in Newport, Long Islandpolice doing what he wants. The knock on And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the door was insistent remainder of his sentence and when to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it was opened, Danny? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officers. Danny took one look, turned, walked even prepared to do the open window other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and jumped to his death anyone who works with him is kept well away from the fourth floor. Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husbandwhat's murderhappening.
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|isbn=15230927340008405026|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming SpaceStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Eliza Van CortJane Casey
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|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=It''She brings a hugs sixteen years since nine-kickyear-thunderclap that every woman needs in old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her lifebed one summer night. Again She was never found and again and againthe investigation ground to a halt.'' (Alma Derricks Now, her mother, former CMOHelena, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravelyher father are dead in their bed. It is to live the life youInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there've always wanted.'' Sometimes s something about the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in positioning of the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my deskbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Now - What looked as though it was going to be clear an open- this book and-shut case is not now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manuals disappearance: itothers (such as Derwent's something far more effectiveboss, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they Una Burt) are big menless convinced.
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|authorisbn=Darren Shan0571379877|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with our herohis upper-class friends, Archie, back in London in the world of the BornRobert and Stanza. It Robert's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where hea theatre director. He's beenalso self-obsessed, demanding, or slipping back into ordinary life handsome and forgetting about Inez entitled and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has done his bestbeen in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston Most men in Big BenRobert's clock tower and except for fiddling with position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that sneaky master lock a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awaya dark passageway.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ
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|isbnauthor=0008444501Jo Callaghan|title=The Answer to Everything|author=Luke KennardLeave No Trace
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|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see When a man is found crucified on the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation top of sexual assault by a professor on a student. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the room before they'd even got case alongside her sidekick, the details from the victim? AI detective Lock. The problem was that Caleb Morgan It''was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fishers their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Just to complicate matters furtherBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Caleb's mother Kat is Petra Newson, the local MP, suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Professor Fisher is a big name in Artificial Intelligencevery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. She has an eight-year-old sonWill they be able to solve the case in time, buys her wine by or will Kat find herself taken off the case from Berry Brothers & Ruddand, potentially, spends more than £1000 out of a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be ''very'' public.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker1399613073|title=A Tattoo on my BrainMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=AutobiographyThrillers|summary=Alzheimer's is Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense quarter of selfa century. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, as have manywhich is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Your memories Laura is a perfectionist and personality worn away like a statue over time affected trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the elements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you group and your dignityshe becomes a GP. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs When we first meet them they' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is re at a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers drug and alcohol-fuelled party and has documented his journey 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'A Tattoo on my Brain''s their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1108838936
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|isbn=16358623530241636604|title=The Sandalmaking WorkshopTrading Game: A Confession|author=Rachel CorryGary Stevenson
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|genre=CraftsAutobiography|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe itIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, mainly because I'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the average home East End, where he was likely to be able to contain but I was intriguedfamiliar with violence, poverty and injustice. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally There was no posh public school on his CV - a small fire destroyed some but he had been to the London School of her shoesEconomics. One pair had come apart Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and she could see how the sandal was constructedhe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Then she He also realised that she couldn't afford most rich people expect poor people to replace all her shoesbe stupid. Could she combine these two facts to create It was his ability at what was, essentially, a new and worthwhile craft? card game which got him an internship with Citibank. She showed quite Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a few people her first pair and they all either wanted to know how to do it - or if she'd make them a pair. A new career was borntrader.
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|isbn=17873320981035021803|title=How The Antique Hunter's Guide to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped WorldMurder|author=Henry ManceC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'When we do think about animalss back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, we break them down into species Carole. Freya's former mentor and groups: cowsCarole's close friend, dogsArthur Crockleford, foxes, elephants is dead and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on platesthe circumstances seem suspicious, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on to say the next David Attenborough seriesleast.'' I Arthur was going the reason why Freya had not been back to arguethe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. I meanEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in she has not felt able to be near the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for man or pursue the sake of itprofession she loved. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between married James (on the company of humans and rebound from the company love of animalsher life, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one who was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken murdered) and fish Freya and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortableJames have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Ananda DeviAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Eve Out of Her Ruins|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins is one of the shortest books I've read in a long while, but itAll Tomorrow's one of the most dramatic. It's also told in a way Futures: Fictions that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing and pulls very few punches, the descriptions stark and unromantic.Disrupt|isbnauthor=0993009344}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241985137|title=The Whole Truth Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (D I FawleyEditors)|author=Cara Hunter
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|isbnauthor=1471181405Sunny Singh|title=Nighthawking|author=Russ ThomasHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Sheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in what's otherwise thought of as an industrial unnamed city but this was disrupted when the body of that has suddenly been violently taken over by a young woman was discoveredterrorist group. It had obviously been buried in one of Hiding from the beds but terrorists who would have started to dig her up? It had been in are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for yearshotel manager. The police need As Abhi continues to try to establish care remotely for the residents who stabbed her - and who left are still alive in the twohotel, very rarehe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, gold aurei and keeps on venturing out of her eyesroom to try to capture what's happened through her photography. DCI Diane Jordan is Although they only ever talk over the Investigating Officer phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and her foot soldiers they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined discovered by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuriesthe terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn= Jennifer Saint 1529153298|title= Ariadne The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's General Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne It's 1979 and the Minotaur Margaret Thatcher is interesting and unusualPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly.. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint) She's not what's worrying Miv's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadnefamily, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseusthough. |isbn=1472273869}} {{Frontpage|author=Gianna Pollero and Sarah Horne|title=Monster Doughnuts|rating=4 Women have been disappearing.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappeared Well, they've been murdered, Grace and Danni but to have been left 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to run move the family bakery'Down South'. But Grace needs the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reason...even though sheWhen you's only ten years oldre from Yorkshire, she Down South is a monster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet toothfrightening, and Grace uses a number of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on themforeign place, or tricking them into eating a sweet treat that will, ultimately, be their demisebest avoided. One dayFor Miv, thoughthe move would mean leaving her best friend, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr HarrisSharon, who has a weakness for doughnuts but doesnand she't seem ll do anything to explode as prevent that. She's not worried about the other monsters do, and so things start dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to get very strange…|isbn=1848129432anyone.
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