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|isbn=1009473085|title=The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy HopeMax Boucherat|title=FledglingThe Last Life of Lori Mills
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decades, and now looking imperiously down We meet Lori on the village and woods below. Itfirst evening she's an eccentric got the house, to host eccentricsherself – no neighbour to pop in, so the library shelving system is not as we'd know itbabysitter poorly, the roof is retractablemother at work, there is a steamjust an avidly rule-poweredbreaking eleven year old, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so onher lonesome. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermyblanket fort, a woman who does nothing but quibbleshe has one main intention, kvetch and sing opera loudlythat is to log on to Voxminer, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassieworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a young lass who hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has to do all the maintenance of a tiny inkling that this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but itstormy night doesn's also going to house someone or t find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody elseshould be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going girl to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again...turn?|isbn=183994188X0008666482
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|isbnauthor=1846276772Jenny Lecoat|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica NordellBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyGeneral Fiction|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they may no longer even recognise are celebrating the extent to which they suffer from it: itend of the occupation. During the war, Jean's simply father was arrested for listening to a part banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of everyday lifehim. White men will always come first. The able will come before As the British finally free the Channel islands from the disabled. JobsNazis, promotionsand the war is finally over, higher salaries are the preserve their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of the white manhim. Even when those who wouldn't pass But will the medical become truth come as a part of an organisation relief, or will it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. raise further questions around what else happened during the war? It's personally appalling and degrading for Who was the individuals on informer who told the receiving end of Nazis about the bias but it's not just radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the individuals who are negatively impacted.occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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|authorisbn=Teresa Driscoll1529428289|title=Her Perfect FamilyA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The novel begins by introducing you 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 Gemma, who at first instance appears World War II and it fell to be your average studentBruno, faced with the familiar horrifying realisationChief of Police for St Denis, at to discover the identities of the eleventh hourbodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, that her graduation outfit the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is all wrongflowing at record levels. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating It''He is s not who he says he is…'', paving the way for just the sinister tone local autumn rains that remains throughout have caused the novel. In a twist of events, problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in St Denis faces the midst possibility of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you readdevastating flood.|isbn=1542028752
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|isbn=8409290103152919640X|title=If OnlyThe Suspect|author=Matthew TreeRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on maths television and calculations than it is other human beings, heseems that there's only one suspect. He's perfect for celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his job in the insurance company – until they decide contract stated that he's must not a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone serve anything containing miso to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshoppingJessica Holby. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo She's radio channel, seriously allergic and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just carries an adventure park, and nothing elseEpiPen in case of emergencies. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in the finances – it runs at a steady moneybusy, live television studio -moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanishedBrooks served a ragout to Holby. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene Her EpiPen was nowhere to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, be found and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan.she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbn=14711793110008385068|title=The UnheardMidnight Feast|author=Nicci FrenchLucy Foley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Tess, a teacher It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and Jason, a headmaster, have split splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up: she and Poppy have moved out of the family home and Jason is now married to Emilyby Francesca Meadows. The separation Manor was amicable - they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was the family ancestral home and another in the flat she shares with her mother. It ''seemed'' to be working well until s converted it into an impressive retreat for the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing of a woman falling from a tall building wealthy and she started swearingfamous. Her husband, Owen, using words she was unlikely to have heard in either homethe architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. Her behaviour deteriorated The heat is oppressive and there were problems at nursery schoolamongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Tess turns Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a therapist for help, then her doctor and finally the police but no one will take what she has to say seriouslybody is found.
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|isbnauthor=1471196615Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Iced|author=Felix FrancisWild East
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|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Miles Pussett used Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to be move to Norwich and start at a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourmostly white school. He was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - thatThe move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the saddling keep himself out of the horsestrouble. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him He listens to music constantly, and he swore that he'd never go back to ithas always dreamed of being a rapper. But when he sees that something suspicious is going onnow, Miles can't help but look for answersin this new school, even when it puts his teacher encourages him in dangerto be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|isbn=147228612X1635866847|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillLavender Companion|author=Alan JohnsonJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=We all know people like Gary NelsonIt's strange, although we probably haventhe things that make you 't taken much notice of them'immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. They live quietBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', uneventful lives and stay mostly under I visited the radar. In a city like London, thatauthor's quite easy - [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and even Garythere's three flatmates largely ignore him. The highlight a picture of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work slice of chocolate cake on the train each morning: hehomepage. I don'd love to ask her for a date t eat cakes and desserts - but he doesnI wanted that cake viscerally. (There't have s a recipe in the courage. book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks I started reading the book and I was told to him and asks for his helpmake a mess of it. Before long he finds himself on Notes in the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the Metropolitan policecorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|author=Claire McGowanRob Keeley|title=I Know YouChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children'Then:s author Rob Keeley. He'' Casey returns from s a walk with the babyball of happy positivity, Carsonhe understands children, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down. ''Now:'' Rachel is out he writes for a walk with her dogtheir pleasure and enjoyment, Brandy, when she comes across a body in the woods.|isbn=1542019974}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529148251|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''How am I able not to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from itlecture or hector.''
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|isbnauthor=0008433631Jenny Valentine|title=Next of Kin|author=Kia AbdullahUs in the Before and After
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|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=It was the sort of thing Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that happened every dayeven, although not to Leila Syed. She'd never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her their friendship is a once in a paniclifetime connection. He was supposed to be taking Max to school They meet as children one day on a trip out but heunfortunately they don'd been called into work and t get each other's contact details at the delay in getting there could lead to financial lossestime. As the school was only five minutes out of Leila's wayBut then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, could she drop him off? Of coursesomething terrible and tragic, she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her car. On the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her now they must work toothrough their grief, and their friendship, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at risktogether.|isbn=1471196585
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|author= Justine Avery Kieran Larwood and Naday MeldovaJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= TootsMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, trumpsit seems, farts. Whatever your word for themhe is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about mage and joke abouthealer enter specially prepared, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at century-old, magical mazes, and race to the wrong time. In classexit, say, when everyone will hear it perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and everyone will laugh. At the points they grant youalong the way. Justine Avery Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and gently and calmlya new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, with he has taken to the goading from the familiar humour attachedtoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, explains muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W1839945184}}
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|isbnauthor=1784165263Saima Mir|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma CurtisVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on I was instantly intrigued by the dot, despite premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that she it was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. If she the second in a series I hadn't read didn't get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was stop me – I've jumped midway into a paraplegic few series before (on page and confined to a wheelchair, but donscreen) and it needn't be too quick to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn'you're good at being t a disappointment''problem here. All this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about Vengeance swiftly brings you up to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2speed, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|isbnauthor=1784742775Stuart Douglas|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan HillLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Drugs hadnDuring location filming for his 1970't really been that much of a problem in Lafferton s sitcom 'Floggit and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of drugs ops as a bit woman on the edge of a waste of timereservoir. They still were, The police seem happy to a great extentassign it as an accidental death, but Serrailler knew that something had to be done. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport about the drugs whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the operation running the county lines was tighthelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. A mule might know They travel across the name (although it probably wouldn't be country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the correct one) of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisationSecond World War. The police might catch But is there really a few of link between the runners but deaths? And will they'd never get anywhere near those higher up.manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=B09FS89KX9B0CYV674G2|title=Fall On MeSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Penelope PottsDavid Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree It seemed like an open-and - three years later shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - was still working at BBand carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn's dinert killed the man. Bob - A body at the owner bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss's been stabbed to death. Hollie had moved in DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he was great 'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and he was doing well in his career'John Tanner' were made for each other. Hollie wasnHe't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted s sleep-deprived to control her and most the point of all falling asleep at work but he wanted her 's determined to leave her job keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at the diner. Then there was the fact that he would be violent, both to her and to other peoplehome.
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|authorisbn=John Gwynne1787333175|title=The Shadow Of The GodsYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
|rating=5
|genre=FantasyPopular Science|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is the first installment Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era workings of the Vikings in the shadow of RagnarokNHS, when the Gods have battled humour and their bones lie scattered for all autobiography. ''You Don't Have to seebe Mad. This story is ..'' promised the ultimate in High Fantasy, same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and John Gwynne certainly does justice the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and battles galore. This it is a thick book, always delivered with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic empathy and gritty world in which our heroes must do battleunderstanding.|isbn=0356514218
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|isbnauthor=B09HTWX47XOnyi Nwabineli|title=Endless Obsession|author=Dai HenleyAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=ItAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's some years since we last caught up with Andy Floodincreasingly popular presence on social media, formerly a DCI in the Met but now a well-respected private investigator. Hewhere she posted every step of Anuri's married to Laurachildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratorymonetary gain. Flood's daughters, Gemma Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and Pippato get her life back, have flown suing her step-mother to take down the nestcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, Pippa failing to Australiastart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from where them for doing so. Most importantly, she has very is desperately worried about her little contact with sister, who is the family, and Gemma to married lifenew focus of Ophelia's online empire. She's had mental problems since Can she was abducted many years ago but Andy save her sister, and Laura hope that married life will provide the support she needs. Flood's business is going well perhaps herself and that was why he felt able to turn down her relationship with her father at the case of Lisa Black.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|author=Peter PapathanasiouDavid Chadwick|title=The StoningHeadload of Napalm|rating=34.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous It's September 1973 in comparisonHicks, California. Hicks is a teacher has been transported across Mojave desert town at night in of a shopping trolley, few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and she's been taped to Las Vegas both a tree significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including a defence contractor are the main local copsemployers but otherwise, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and itthere's only fair, not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is the general opinionquiet, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditionsuntil. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...|isbn=1529416973B0D321VJ76
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|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Will''Stories have joy and surprises s life is difficult, in thema multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', we are told here. And none more so than in this wondrous story, which feels an instant classic with he has the freshness wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the agelessness it has in equal proportion. We start with a group most basic of monksthings like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowingcollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the demonic goat fact that loves nothing more than upendinghis mum and dad are separated, trampling on and biting the poor BrothersWill's life seems bleak in every direction. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girl And yet, one who he still has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memorya tiny amount of hope. Elsewhere sits a King in his castle He is good at art, desperate and clings to find the girlmoments of joy when he is drawing, for it is prophesied that feel like a young child can unseat the throne and cause great change. Who foretold that revolution but light at the Order end of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simplelong, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?dark tunnel.|isbn=15295008931398527122
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|isbnauthor=B09FFJF8YSSylvie Cathrall|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate ZhoidikA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is There are few greater joys than a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.'' And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains which lives up to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{Frontpage|author=Nick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=Locked Out Lily|rating=4compelling premise.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lily is, or was, or has been, very ill, and to give her parents relief she's been told to stay with her grandma for a few days. The parents need the relief as Lily's baby sibling And this is just about to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do with. But on tracking back home for word one of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parents, and the babe-in-arms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the family back intact, even if it's not the family Lily wants – and all she has to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snakethem.|isbn=14711948330356522776
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|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith0008517061|title=The Great Dream RobberyDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Maya's father is a professor who invented an amazing dream machine. But something went wrongFormer Metropolitan Police detective, and now he can't wake up. Or at leastJake Johnson, that's what Maya has been toldsettled into his rustic life at Little Sky. In There’s perhaps a rather strange dream one night Maya makes little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a new friend, lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and discovers that relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the only way to save future she wants for herself and her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and reality collide...really..putting the future on the back burner.and there's everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051X
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|isbn=18004644951786482126|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of MathsThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Emma SmithElly Griffiths
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in apartments - when they discovered the womb, being aware bones of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months olda child beneath a doorway. There was no skull.'' Did you know Was thisa ritual killing or murder? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement Inevitably, double that of literacy skillsDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It'' I didns difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't know this either! I think most parents are aware , that giving your children she is pregnant with his child as a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when result of the one night they start schoolspent together some three months ago. But do we think the same way about maths Her condition will be obvious before long, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part not least because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialsickness.
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|isbn=15293793850008551324|title=The Madness of Crowds Devil You Know (Chief Inspector GamacheD S Max Craigie)|author=Louise PennyNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the Canadian village of Three Pines, weIt're post-pandemic: s unusual for anyone from the scars are still there but life is starting Hardie family to get back to normalapproach the police. The villagers are beginning to return Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the Bistro body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the Aubergepolice doing what he wants. They're visiting each other's homes And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and having friends and relatives to stayget an early parole date. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize Not much to ask, is one such visitor it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she soon proves 's even prepared to do the other thing that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around Hardie demanded - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in the village as the Asshole Saintmake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn= B09F4CTKJR0008405026|title= Flights for FreedomA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author= Steven BurgauerJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=It's the later stages of World War I sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the United States has just entered the conflictinvestigation ground to a halt. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up Now, her mother, Helena, and joined the 17 Aero Squadronher father are dead in their bed. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the first to be attached to positioning of the RAF bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and the first her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be sent into the skies to fight an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the Germans explanation lies in active combat. But before that can happenRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith CamelUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=183885410X0571379877|title=The Dark RemainsKellerby Code|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinJonny Sweet
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Bobby Carter was Edward Jevons is a lawyer working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and consigliere to one of the major crime families in nineteen seventies GlasgowStanza. DC Jack Laidlaw is on the CID team charged with the investigationRobert's a theatre director. I say He''on the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to be a part of itrun errands for him. He does his own thing, goes his own way Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert'The Dark Remainss position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'' uncovers s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the truth top of why Bobby Cartera hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body was found behind one crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of Glasgow's seedier pubsunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=19424102551399613073|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)Moral Injuries|author=Michael PronkoChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=''Zangyo: overtime workOlivia, often unpaid'' It's Laura and Anjali met on the culturefirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are really just is a statement of the minimum bonus when you'll aim to be required to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and done to a trauma doctor. Anjali is the satisfaction free spirit of bullies like Shigeru Onizukathe group and she becomes a GP. When he was found dead in front of Senden Centralwe first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the way of regret tragedy or grief, even from his family, but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the roof of the building or been assisted in his descentconsequences. Gossip revolves around the fact Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that he left the roof at will impact the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlierfriends. SheThis time, it'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtimes their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=02414254250241636604|title=The Man Who Died TwiceTrading Game: A Confession|author=Richard OsmanGary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=1035021803
|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder
|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she received the lettergrew up. It came from She's back now because of a man whose body she had helped to pull request for help from the Thames her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and who had never existed but then this Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the sort of conundrum which retired spies have least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to deal with on a regular basisthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. When Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she visits has not felt able to be near the sender of man or pursue the profession she loved. After the letter split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (heon the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's moved into 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 Coopershape of things to come.'' I's Chase Retirement Village) ve heard it comes as no surprise said that it's someone with whom she has technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a long professional history - and who used to be her husbandfew decades of technology in my lifetime. HeI've kept up reasonably well with what's made a bad mistake - something advantageous to do me but I'm left with a mask being removed within the range feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of a CCTV camera on a raidit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and a few death threatsend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. He's now I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressway I could understand.
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|author=Andrew SharpSunny Singh|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionThrillers |summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - The Hotel Arcadia is, in his mind, the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests luxury hotel in an unnamed African countrycity that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Mozzy Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is earnest Sam, a wartime photographer and dedicated Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes try to care remotely for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become residents who are still alive in the head chef of hotel, he forms a restaurant in London or a big American city. Even bond with Sam who refuses to win a Michelin star. He is thwarted in this ambition be cowed by his bossevents, Mr Bin (Ben and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to you and me) who incurs Mozzycapture what's disapproval for his scruffy wayshappened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, his uninterest in his guests their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the houseterrorists.|isbn=B09926MK8H086154742X
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