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|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1009473085|title=GalaxyThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Science FictionPolitics and Society|summary=Spark, who is 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 elite pilot with easy read which will deliver the Space Academyinside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, barely makes it through a battle alivethen this isn't the book for you. His co-pilot was not so fortunate 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. Waking from It's a coma that lasted years, he remembers little compelling read and is in no physical shape should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to resume his dutiespolitics. But Earth ''The Conservative Effect'' is under threat an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and he mustco-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. Returned by his superiors to This book follows the space station, he finds himself amid well-established format: a last ditch attempt to save humanity - and not just series of experts from various fields review the state of the alien threats against itnation when the coalition took over in 2010, but also from its own sins against itselfthe changes that occurred and the situation in 2024. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W
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|author=Lissa EvansMax Boucherat|title=WishedThe Last Life of Lori Mills
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When things contrive We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) herself – no neighbour to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanpop in, babysitter poorly, Miss Fileymother at work, for a week of halfjust an avidly rule-termbreaking eleven year old, they're not looking forward to iton her lonesome. For What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one thingmain intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, she thinks Wicritter-Fi collecting game that is a special brand of biscuithit in Lori's world. They donBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't particularly take to Willard eitherfind herself entirely on her own, the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywherethen she finds something even more spooky. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candles, For the server she and her bestie and manage nobody else should be able to work out that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come trueenter shows signs of tampering. How will things change for a second time when they realise that, having used When malevolent eyes spark up three of themon her phone screen, these should really be used for and her safe place in the wishes of someone two generations older than themgame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=178845202X0008666482
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|author=Justyn EdwardsJenny Lecoat|title=The Great Fox IllusionBeyond Summerland
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is a contest Jean lives on Jersey with a differenceher mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. No singing During the war, no dancingJean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, this show is looking leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks worknews of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and who can attempt to win The Great Fox's magical legacy - the secrets to all of his tricks! Flick war is determined to winfinally over, but not because she wants to own their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the tricks. She is interested in just ''one'' tricktruth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the trick that The Great Fox stole from her father. Nazis about the radio? And she's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able to bring her missing father home.what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=15295019461846976537
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|authorisbn=Jason Rohan1529428289|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access DeniedGrave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=3.54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Arun and Sam have had little to do with DonnaBecause of various property transactions, a girl at their school. But things immediately change at people were searching for the start of this extended sprint of a novelgrave but when they found it, when she insists Arun's house has become the attention it came with three sets of plain-clothes coppers bones. They dated back to World War II and that they should bunk off school it fell to find out why. And thus an unlikely trio of misfit young heroes is formed – Sam is really not Donna's idea of companyBruno, but he is the computer buffChief of Police for St Denis, Donna seems to know all discover the identities of the criminal ins bodies and outs and survival skills, and Arun? Well, it's his lot to find out that all he based his family life on establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't trueenough to worry about, and that his father – kidnapped that very morning – the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is involved in something quite unexpectedflowing at record levels. But how can this disparate trio hope It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to best MI6, kidnappers, people able to keep release water and St Denis faces the truth about themselves secret for decades, and so much more?|isbn=1839943386possibility of a devastating flood.
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|isbn=1638485216152919640X|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law EnforcementThe Suspect|author=Frederick ReynoldsRob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there'Corruption is not department, gender or race specifics only one suspect. It has everything He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to do with character. PeriodJessica Holby. She'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''s seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. The murder of George Floyd Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, a fortylive television studio -six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, and Brooks served a forty-four-year-old police officer, in the US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the worldragout to Holby. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floyd's death Her EpiPen was an exception. The image of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I'll ever forget nowhere to be found and the protests which followed cannot have been unexpectedshe was dead within minutes. There It was a backlash against the police - and not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brushsoon clear that this was no accident.
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|isbn=B09DD1QJKJ0008385068|title=The ClubMidnight Feast|author=Ellery LloydLucy Foley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It''s midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The party of the year turned into the murder mystery of the decadeManor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It' Just off Littlesea, in Essex s all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and a mile or so she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the Blackwater Estuarywealthy and famous. Her husband, The Manor stood Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on an islandparts of the site. It was now known as Island Home, one of The Home Group's exclusive clubs heat is oppressive and amongst the opening weekend was guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be something specialsettled 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, even by Homethis is Ronny's standards. Speedboatsstory, helicopters a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and blacked-out SUVs were converging on the island, which was linked to the mainland by start at a causeway that was inaccessible at high tidemostly white school. HomeThe move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's CEOsafety after a tragic event, Ned Groomand so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, is determined that everythinga new school, ''everything'' will be perfectand keep himself out of trouble. Home He listens to music constantly, and has 5761 members: just 150 always dreamed of them have received invites for the weekendbeing a rapper. Those who have not been invited have not stopped ringing..But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to 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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|authorisbn=Melissa Fu 1635866847|title=Peach Blossom Spring The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=Historical Fiction Lifestyle|summary= I loved It's strange, the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled things that make you ''Originsimmediately''feel that this is the book for you. Unfortunately it is Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the only truly poetic part author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a book slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that I expected more fromcake viscerally. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family (There's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during a recipe in the war book, which I'm avoiding with Japan, a young mother (Meilinsome difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and her four-year-old son (Renshu) I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are among those who fleesanctioned. The story follows them on their journey across China, and in Renshu's case eventually You get to Americafold down the corners of pages. |isbn=1472277538You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|author=Vanda SymonRob Keeley|title=FacelessChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpointsAround here, several troubled people are thrown into the same story thanks to just one mis-stepwe're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. Set in New Zealand, the first He's a ball of our characters is Bradleyhappy positivity, a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing boss, a weighty mortgagehe understands children, and what he feels is an unappreciative wife. Then there’s Billywrites for their pleasure and enjoyment, a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes in order not to pay for the materials she needslecture or hector. And then we have Max, who The ''Childish Spirits'' series is also living on the streets and who keeps an eye on Billyone of his greatest achievements. He is It's a shell sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a man, barely able to take any care of himself, and yet we stalwart young girl who can sense that he was once something more than he is now. One nightcope with anything the spirit world throws at her, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress and anxietyEdward, driving down the street looking for a prostitute. He picks up Billy, spoiled lordling and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and a spiral away from the person he thought he was into someone very different.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=19145850461783064617
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|isbnauthor=0760373531Jenny Valentine|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf Us in the Before and Sock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue FlandersAfter
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|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=Just occasionally you encounter Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a book of knitting patterns which seems to meet your every needonce in a lifetime connection. Right now, itThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's bitterly cold and we're in contact details at the sandwich filling between two storms: I need sockstime. But then chance brings them back together, scarvesand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, hats something terrible and mittens. They have to look stylishtragic, keep me warm and be so cheerful that now they make me feel better. If that sounds like a lot to askmust work through their grief, have a look at ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and I don't think that there was one of them which I couldn't see myself wearing. We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the history of knitting. It's not essential but it's a nice extratheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbnauthor=1776574028Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David ElliottDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=I love a good board book! Meet Kit. ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is aimed at quite an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a niche market: it's for team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the child who still enjoys board books (erexit, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' perhaps bothering with words the treasure or the big bad and make something quite different from each onethe points they grant you along the way. We have Unfortunately for Kit, the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a only thing he''balletphant''. The buffalo who s seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) been retired, eaten, and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''new trio of questors is needed. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his potty changes world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a ''sm....team...'' OKWhat chance does this friendless, let's not go there Some people are eating!muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|isbnauthor=B09V1NQ5SXSaima Mir|title=Death at Friar's Inn|author=Rob KeeleyVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were in I was instantly intrigued by the finals premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society north of Friar's InnEngland run by a Muslim woman. For aspiring barristers, moots test The fact that it was the participantssecond in a series I hadn't read didn' knowledge of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: itt stop me – I's ve jumped midway into a great way of getting invaluable practice few series before (on page and of getting yourself noticed. Tom screen) and Nat are from it needn't be a provincial universityhindrance if it' and theys good enough. And that wasn're ''almost'' looked down on because of thist a problem here. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and Becca has an abundance of confidence. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any betterI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|isbnauthor=1529125944Stuart Douglas|title=City of Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dead|author=Jonathan KellermanDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles During location filming for a living, youhis 1970's sitcom 're careful Floggit and itLeggit's not just about , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the way that you driveedge of a reservoir. You restrict your alcohol intake The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and if it's he enlists the help of a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleepfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. When you're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head They travel across the country during their days off at 5 filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a.m. when link to death during the roads are quieter, even if you have to wait up when you get to where you're goingSecond World War. And it was going well until But is there really a link between the men hit something in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeles. deaths? The man was stark naked and couldn't be identified.And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has It seemed like an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Asperger's Syndromeopen-and-shut case. He can be rudeA man, difficult covered in mud and awkward with peopleblood - and carrying a knife, although it's never intentional. It's just comes into the police station shouting that he thinks differently and social niceties simply donhasn't occur to himkilled the man. There's A body at the bottom of a reason why freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and it's that he has the best conviction rate with cases, everbeen stabbed to death. His partner DCI John Tanner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with affection (not the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) easy answer but the words 'perverse' and even attempts 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to instil some the point of those missing social niceties into Crossfalling asleep at work but he's behaviourdetermined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=15291516001787333175|title=Give Unto OthersYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Donna LeonBenji Waterhouse
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|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changed. The I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'pandemia'after enjoying Adam Kay' stripped s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the city workings of its tourists for nearly two years the NHS, humour and a lot of businesses have closed, most never autobiography. ''You Don't Have to reopenbe Mad... There's now a cascade of money as life begins again ' promised the same elements but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end moved from physical problems to greedmental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going I did wonder whether it was acceptable to launder all be looking for humour in this setting but the money which laughter is coming their way? Whilst he's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was directed at a child. Elisabetta Foscarini has situation rather than a problem person and it is always delivered with empathy and she'd like Brunetti's adviceunderstanding.
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|author=Marcus SedgwickOnyi Nwabineli|title=WrathAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet FitzAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, a young Scottish lad full where she posted every step of frustration at himselfAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Lockdown Now Anuri is only just over, in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and he should be free to do what he wantsget her life back, suing her step-mother to go where he wants and with whom he wantstake down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks failing to his best friendstart her PhD, Cassieundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. They were half of a desultory school band Most importantly, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of is desperately worried about her eco-warrior parents saying little sister, who is the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind focus of music sheOphelia's dreaming of? Is online empire. Can she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the truthsame time? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=18009008990861546873
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|isbnauthor=1635864070David Chadwick|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah TalleyHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsThrillers|summary=If youIt've ever started knitting s September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a pair Mojave desert town of socks, finished the first one and either got bored by the idea a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of doing the same thing all over again, or started on the second sock LA and lost the first before you finished it, this is the book for youLas Vegas both a significant drive away. Where is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you to knit two socks Not much happens in one, divide them up Hicks. A silver mine and have a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds good? Itdefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's clever not much of note other than dive bars and well-thought-outJoshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|author=Olivie BlakeTom Percival|title=The Atlas SixWrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary= DarkWill's life is difficult, sharpin a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and highly inquisitivedoesn'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 college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will'The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming s life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a Tik-Tok sensationlong, dark tunnel.|isbn=15290952391398527122
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|isbnauthor=0008384983Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Paris Apartment|author=Lucy FoleyA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=''Things There are not what they seem''. It was few greater joys than a Friday and Jess Hadley was keen book which lives up to get to her half-brother's flat in Parisa compelling premise. She'd come across from London on Eurostar, courtesy And this is one of the money she'd stolen from The Pervert's till in the Copacabana Bar in Brighton. It wasn't likely that the police would be on to her yet but she'd like to be somewhere safe and with food and drink inside her. She'd phoned Ben and got the address - 12 Rue des Amants - and he told her that the apartment was on the third floor. She's outside what's obviously a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get in touch with Benthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=07603735580008517061|title=Nordic KnitsDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Sue FlandersStig Abell
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|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I was so delighted by Sue Flanders' [[Cozy Knits: 30 HatFormer Metropolitan Police detective, MittenJake Johnson, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didn't need any persuading has settled into his rustic life at all to pick up her ''Nordic Knits''Little Sky. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and local traditions from Norwayher daughter Diana, Sweden as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and Iceland. There are a few sweaters relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or jackets but not this is the majority of patterns are future she wants for smaller items such as mittens, gloves, hats herself and bags. her daughter? All are bright For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and cheerful and very cosyputting the future on the back burner.
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|isbn=19160720381786482126|title=The House in the Hollow Janus Stone (The Talbot SagaDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Allie CresswellElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire Builders were demolishing an old house in November 1811. TwentyNorwich -seventhe site was going to hold seventy-yearfive 'luxury' apartments -old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to when they discovered the house in the hollowbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. The two women are angry Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her motherDCI Harry Nelson. It's strengths and weaknesses: difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn''She t, that she is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath pregnant with his child as a facade result of respectability, the deplorable truth''one night they spent together some three months ago. Hester Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is furious about Jocelyn's refusal prone to do as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''. Then we are told sudden bouts of the birth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshiresickness.
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|authorisbn=Matthieu Aikins0008551324|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=It's easy unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to forget at times that The Naked Donapproach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he't Fear s prepared to tell the police where the Water isn't actually fictionbody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, because is someone big and it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at timeswill be worth the police doing what he wants. This And what he wants is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided be transferred to an open prison to accompany serve the remainder of his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast sentence and at times painful journeyto get an early parole date. There are tense moments Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But itshe's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader even prepared to perfectly envisage do the environments other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and people describedanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn= B09N9157T6
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger0008405026|title=Unhinged A Stranger in the Family (Volume 3) (Blix and RammMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Ramm, investigation ground to a crime journalisthalt. In this book we find that when one of Blix's colleaguesNow, Kovicher mother, uncovers a connection between several Oslo casesHelena, she tries to contact and her superior, Blixfather are dead in their bed. Before she can reach himInitially, however, she is murdered, and Blixit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's daughter Iselin who shares something about the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered too. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and Ramm, who are being interviewed by positioning of the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What had Kovic discovered? looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. And what did Blix and Ramm uncover Kerrigan is convinced that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Daniel Abraham0571379877|title=Age of AshThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= We meet Alys under the most northerly of OldgateEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's four bridgesalso self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. she Edward has a knife been in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile, the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at love with Stanza since their thinnest university days - and all things are possiblehe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. It Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the night between the funeral two of them kissing in a Prince and the coronation of his successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruleddark passageway.|isbn=0356515427
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|isbnauthor=1529095522Jo Callaghan|title=The Interview|author=C M EwanLeave No Trace
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Kate Harding When a man is going for an interview for found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her dream job at Edge Communicationssidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's the last interview of the day at one of London's newest office buildings their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Edge have fitted out their part a very high profile case that draws a lot of the building unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be something special. Maggie, Kate's recruitment agent, is keen able to see that Kate approaches solve the interview case in a good state of mind: Kate assumes that this is because Maggie time, or will get a decent bonus if Kate gets Kat find herself taken off the job - case and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recently., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK1399613073|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Moral Injuries|author=Neil LancasterChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Loch Torridon ''is'' Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the back first day of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place to land illegal deliveries medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of drugsa century. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a nice little earner, only bonus when you aim to find that Macca, be a cardiothoracic surgeon. the man he thought he was working with, Laura is deada perfectionist and a trauma doctor. His remains would never be found. The delivery Anjali is hijacked by Davie the free spirit of the group and Callumshe becomes a GP. As the story progresses When wefirst meet them they'll get re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know them quite wellwho 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's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn= B09NDJ77LM0241636604|title=Me and My ShadowThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Deborah StoneGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary= ''What happens when someone is pushed too far and they begin to lose their grip on reality? How would If you cope if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go were to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off the shadows bring up an image of her past and attempts a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to repair decades worth think of painsomeone like Gary Stevenson.'' Rachel A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is in a current conversation the East End, where he was familiar with her psychiatristviolence, who pushes her poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to recall her life from very young childhood onwardsthe London School of Economics. But Rachel Stevenson is combative bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with Doctor Blake, sometimes even contemptuous numbers which most of herus can only envy. You can see He also realised that it's not most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an easy therapeutic relationshipinternship with Citibank. Rachel's recall of her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute and unforgiving clarity Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=15294096591035021803|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Elly GriffithsC L Miller|rating=3.5
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|summary=It was some time 's twenty years since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen Freya Lockwood has been back to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongingsthe English country village where she grew up. She was intrigued by the discovery 's back now because of a picture of request for help from her own house: it was an old photographbeloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, taken in misty conditions is dead and on the back it said 'dawn 1963'circumstances seem suspicious, some years before Ruth was bornto say the least. It Arthur was before the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her parents were marrieddown badly. When she returned to Norfolk Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she was determined has not felt able to find out what was behind be near the photograph but Covid intervened and man or pursue the country was in lockdownprofession she loved. Ruth After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and Kate are restricted to married James (on the rebound from the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate and continue with love of her university teaching duties. The good thing life, who was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carersmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1847941834AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Atomic HabitsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=James ClearBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said this before but there are some books that 'technology' is what happens after you seek out're eighteen. Well, some books I must confess that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! 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'Atomic Habitsm 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. is I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in the last categorya way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WSunny Singh|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionThrillers |summary=Helen The Hotel Arcadia is a popular activist. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anyway, Helen is so popular luxury hotel in an unnamed city that the United States government has made her its Ambassador of Wokesuddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on behalf of the governmentsite, there is Sam, including the Shaming Conference a wartime photographer and Abhi, the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for indoctrinating and legislating against summer fun for any the residents who are still knew how to have it''. Ouch!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09D95TRKZ|title=The Wedding Murders|author=Sarah Linley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get alive in the hotel, he forms a permanent job bond with the newspaper Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and the case she was covering was keeps on venturing out of her big chance. It was even more important room to her than the celebrity wedding she was try to attend the following day with capture what's happened through her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthewphotography. She was leaving her seven-year-old sonAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, Patrick with their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her sister, Emma, keep safe and heading off they both wait to a grand manor house hotel in see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the North Yorkshire countryside. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter and former member of the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phonesterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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