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| − | =='''10 SEPTEMBER'''==
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| − | |isbn=194241028X
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| − | |title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)
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| − | |author=Michael Pronko
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| − | |rating=5
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| − | |genre=Crime
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| − | |summary=''You can't put 'good at golf' on your tombstone, can you?''
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| − | When we meet Patrick Walsh he's outside his family's home in the Azabu district of Tokyo, hoping that his key will still work but prepared to break in if it doesn't. He's there to remove his daughters, Jenna and Kiri, and take them back to Honolulu. It's a quick day trip, with just one purpose in mind. Patrick's employed by Nine Dragons Wealth Management and for the past year, he's been working in Wyoming because the privacy laws there are conducive to the business he's in. His wife, Miyuki, hasn't been in Wyoming with him and is in the process of divorcing him after photographs sent to her anonymously suggested that Patrick had not been faithful to her. Patrick's plan didn't work out and he finds himself on the run in Tokyo with the two girls.
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| − | =='''19 SEPTEMBER'''==
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| − | |isbn=1739593901
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| − | |title=22 Ideas About The Future
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| − | |author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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| − | |rating=5
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| − | |genre=Science Fiction
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| − | |summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''
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| − | I've got a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it.
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| − | =='''22 SEPTEMBER'''==
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| − | |author=Christopher Bowden
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| − | |title=Mr Magenta
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| − | |rating=4
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| − | |genre=General Fiction
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| − | |summary= Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to find it all out.
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| − | =='''6 OCTOBER'''==
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| − | |author=Alison Hughes
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| − | |title=Fly
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| − | |rating=4.5
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| − | |genre=Confident Readers
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| − | |summary=This is a very impressive read, as it does a lot of what mainstream teen and tween fiction still struggles with. Its focus is courtesy of the first-person narration from Fly, a secondary school lad with cerebral palsy, a down-on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being a cleaner, a carer while at school, and a bundle of assumptions people lay on him. First they assume that with a broken body comes a broken mind, then they decide he's a maths savant – they even believe they can get away with calling him Fly, which isn't his real name, but everybody just uses it.
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| − | |isbn=1525305832
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| − | =='''13 OCTOBER'''==
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| − | |author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)
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| − | |title=Red as Blood
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| − | |rating=4
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| − | |genre=Thrillers
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| − | |summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missing, all the evidence seems to point towards her having been kidnapped. The ransom note tells him not to have any contact with the police, so instead he enlists the help of Arora, a financial investigator. She manages to persuade Flosi that they will need the help of the police, and she calls her detective friend, Daniel, whom she met when he was investigating her sister’s disappearance. Together, they start to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearance, trying not to arouse the suspicion of anyone, since they have no idea who the kidnappers might be, yet the more they uncover, the more confusing things become.
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| − | |isbn=1914585321
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| − | =='''21 OCTOBER'''==
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| − | |author=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams
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| − | |title=The Book of Hope
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| − | |rating=5
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| − | |genre=Politics and Society
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| − | |summary= The done thing is to read a book all the way through before you sit down to review it. I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing book, I want to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears.
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| − | =='''25OCTOBER'''==
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| − | |author=Lisa Gray
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| − | |title=The Dark Room
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| − | |rating=4
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| − | |genre=Crime
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| − | |summary=What if you knew someone was dead, because you'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened in a different place and time? This is what happens to Leonard in this story. He is an ex-crime reporter for a newspaper, and since leaving journalism he's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds old, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them in his own dark room at home. One of these photographs turns out to show the murder scene of a young woman he met some years ago, and who he ''thought'' he had watched die in front of him one night in a hotel. He'd felt guilty ever since that night, and lost everything because of it - his fiancee and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died the night she was with him, what on earth actually happened?
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