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|isbnauthor=3949666079James Baldwin|title=Noema|author=Dael AkkermanGiovanni's Room
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=''This is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago.Giovanni's Room'' Maya is a young girl follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a hunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic eragay bar. Climate change While David is occurringengaged to Hella, the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest homewho is travelling in Spain, and food is becoming more and more scarce. What to do? Can the law givers real tension in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can novel arises not from his infidelity but from the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of All Life, provide solutions? his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=0141186356
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|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a runmostly white school. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Headsettle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. Was it suicide He listens to music constantly, or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall and fall has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to his death? Or was he pushed? On balancebe part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, it looked like an accident but then his 'accident' was linked Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the deaths power of others associated with him. Scott Paterson was released after a 'not-proven' verdict meant that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigor's last clientcreativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|isbn=09897153371635866847|title=Papa on the MoonThe Lavender Companion|author=Marco North|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.'' How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct Jessica Dunham and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. And author Marco North, who has the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to go on.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May SmithTerry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=Philippa Pheasant was It's strange, the things that make you ''tiredimmediately'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross feel that this is the Old Oak Roadbook for you. She wrote to Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the mayor about the problem but didnauthor't even get a replys [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Philippa wasncom/ website] and there't s a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was picture of a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits slice of chocolate cake on the lollipop lady at the school crossing homepage. I don't eat cakes and decided desserts - but I wanted that she would set up something similar herselfcake viscerally. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both (There's a little amateur to start recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with but some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the benefits were obviousbook and I was told to make a mess of it. All Notes in the animals used margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a safe path overnightproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|isbnauthor=000837936XJenny Valentine|title=The Last Girl to Die|author=Helen FieldsUs in the Before and After
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|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved to TobermoryElk and Mab are best friends, on the Isle of Mullor more than that even, their friendship is a once in search of a new lifelifetime connection. It was a bit of They meet as children one day on a change from Las Vegas, trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing a social life - until she disappearedtime. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been because Adriana's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob But then chance brings them back together, and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagersthey are inseparable. Brandon Something has happened though, Adriana's twinsomething terrible and tragic, was upset and surly. Four-year-old Luna just knew that she missed her big sister. It took four daysnow they must work through their grief, but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnon's Cave. She'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killingtheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbn=15098896121787333175|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Ann CleevesBenji Waterhouse
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|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=ItI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's fifty years since first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a group glorious mixture of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Island. Some insight into the workings of them found the Only Connect course transformative NHS, humour and theyautobiography. 've been coming back for a reunion every five years since then'You Don't Have to be Mad... There was a tragedy at '' promised the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close same elements but moved from physical problems to high tide mental illness and her car was swept away, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with the group each year as her husband, Ken, was one work of the original teenagersa psychiatrist. Ken now has Alzheimer's and he's a shadow of the man he used I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be. Philip Robson now a priest, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone looking for humour in this setting but the chapel. Annie Laidler lives locally laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and she provides much of the food: her deli it is famous in the areaalways delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|isbnauthor=1473680883Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Skeleton Key|author=Erin KellyAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri'The Golden Bones is going to follow me around s childhood for the rest of my lifesponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to you!'' Nell didn't want regain her confidence and to go get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the reunion to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of ''The Golden Bones''content about her. She'd had no benefit from it - in factAnuri is battling alcoholism, it had made failing to start her life precarious PhD, undergoing therapy and unbelievably challenging. I'd better explain. ''The Golden Bones'' was a treasure quest book painted secretly abusing people online and written by Frank and Cora Churcherreceiving money from them for doing so. The story revolved around murdered Elinore whose golden and bejewelled bones were hidden around Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the countrynew focus of Ophelia's online empire. The clues - some of them quite tortuous - were disguised in the words Can she save her sister, and pictures of the book - perhaps herself and all the parts were discovered except for the pelvis. As her relationship with such quests, some people were obsessive and her father at the theories became more and more outlandish.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|author=Holly WebbDavid Chadwick|title=The Story Headload of GreenriverNapalm
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|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Silken and Sedge, for all their differencesIt's September 1973 in Hicks, have a lot in commonCalifornia. Silken Hicks is a girl whose father is the Master Builder Mojave desert town of what might be the finest beaver lodge on the Greenriver. Unfortunately she is also a kind few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of runt figure, LA and as Las Vegas both a result is patronised, significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and given a defence contractor are the most tokenistic tasks when it comes to fetching wood and shoring the dam up. She also stands out for the unique artistic ability to sing. Otters like Sedge sing, main local employers but he toootherwise, as the son of the lady there's not much of the holt, has pressure on him to be a bit less feckless note other than dive bars and more attentive to classJoshua trees. HeLife is quiet, after all, will eventually inherit the job of keeping the otters safe from the wolf that both animal species fear the most, and from dreaded events like a Dark Springuntil....|isbn=1510109625B0D321VJ76
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|author=Anna Kemp and David WyattTom Percival|title=Into Goblyn WoodThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45
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|summary=Meet Hazel. For the last nine of her eleven yearsWill's life is difficult, she has been stuck as a foundling in a horrid, Victorian institution, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servantmultitude of ways. She He is bullied because he has 'd arrived at the place at wrong shoes', he has the same time as Pete, wrong shoes because his dad can't work and theydoesn're inseparably good friends now, until a chance t have enough money for them both to escapeeven the most basic of things like food, and enter his dad can't work because he lost his job at the outside worldcollege, does not go to planwas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. There had always been Throw into that mix the idea of a fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life idyllic seems bleak in the nearby forestsevery direction. And yet, Goblyn Wood, and he still has a tribe of Wild Children, but none of that comes to pass, as Hazel finds herself in the care tiny amount of a professor at the Natural History Museumhope. But life with him He is not anything like what she might have expected it to be – good at art, and Hazel is determined to return clings to the Woods, restore her friendship with Pete – and to work out just what moments of joy when he is going on in the forestdrawing, both the that feel like a light and at the shadeend of a long, and the deathly dark..tunnel.|isbn=13985038351398527122
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|isbnauthor=0241990165Sylvie Cathrall|title=Hope A Letter to Die (D I Fawley)|author=Cara Hunterthe Luminous Deep
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It began rather oddly. There was are few greater joys than a 999 call suggesting that book which lives up to a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadn't come from the householdercompelling premise. A couple And this is one of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright and it took quite a while for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come in. In the kitchen there was a body on the floor: the head had been blown off with a shotgun and the corpse was holding a knife in its right hand. Richard Swann told the police that he'd heard sounds of an intruder and had come downstairs to investigate. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'' and come at him with a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defence.|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn= Kit De Waal1786482126|title= Without Warning and Only SometimesThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= AutobiographyCrime|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, your mum and dad/ They may not mean Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to, but hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea discovered the bones of parenthood and the bonds that bind family. This book is a memoir focussing on the author’s formative years as child beneath a teenager living in doorway. There was no skull. Was this a lower class area of Birminghamritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Her father It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is from St. Kitts in the Caribbean and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by and marrying with his child as a black man. This intersectionality plays a large role in result of the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to her race, her class and her genderone night they spent together some three months ago. Her parents loom large and are written with carecondition will be obvious before long, love, and the kind not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of anger only a child can express to their parentssickness.|isbn=1472284836
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|author=David LagercrantzJoan Didion|title=Dark MusicThe Year of Magical Thinking|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=How far from the original can a This book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart of what little investigating is going on, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelength. For one, the main focus Joan Didion's heartbreaking autobiographical account of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MD. Shegrief she endured following her husband's a Chilean in the Stockholm police, put sudden death. Books that shed light on taboo topics like death are such a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of old, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, beautiful and just outside the stadium. Beppe, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic necessary resource to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogationhelp people feel less alone. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up withDidion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self-pity, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe denial and how she might dress – that kind) are told to go delusion and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it allmakes them utterly normal, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is lends them a shambles. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve the crime, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it all. Until, that may be, she manages human face to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt..wear.|isbn=15294131920007216858
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|isbnauthor=B0B2N7MVYMAlba de Cespedes |title=The Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel GodfreyForbidden Notebook|rating=54|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's at the front This Italian work of his mind. He's been convicted feminist fiction holds an air of murder. With suspense and tension from the current state of medical knowledgemoment our protagonist, it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's BenchValeria Cossati, a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervynpurchases her forbidden notebook, and learning to be wary of learns about herself in the McArthur brothersmost intimate and revealing ways.|isbn=1782278222
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|isbnauthor=1846976146Ottessa Moshfegh|title=The Bone Road|author=N E SolomonsMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=4.53|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Heather BishopAt best, this novel is a scathing critique of modern society and reveals the former Olympic cyclistfragility of human relationships; at worst, flew to Bosnia to surprise her boyfriendit is the cynical, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnonpredictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. She even took their bikes so they could have This unlikely heroine, a few days' break slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the region. It was a little worrying that he didn't seem exactly pleased world, but resolves not to see herlose sleep over it: she even wondered if he had a woman in the hotel room. Heather had to give up competitive cycling after a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but fact, her reactions and solution lies in her memory were not up to the standard she would need to race again. Sometimes she couldn't be certain about what she had or hadn't done and she simply couldn't cope in difficult situations. She didn't entirely trust herselfhibernation.|isbn=1784707422
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|authorisbn=Judith Eagle0008551324|title=The Accidental StowawayDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Patch It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. 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 body of a little girl missing person is buried and who has been passed from one relation to another, until it seems that there is nobody left was responsible for her to go todeath. Her father died when she was very youngThis person, he promises, is someone big and her mother ran awayit will be worth the police doing what he wants. The family lawyer, after consultation with ‘someone’, arranges for her And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to go serve the remainder of his sentence and to a school in Liverpool, but on her arrival there, she gets caught up in get an adventure with a little boy called Turo who works on a steamshipearly parole date. During a chase with him (when she is both trying Not much to get her rollerskate back and running away from the police!) she winds up on the steamship hiding in a lifeboatask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and before she knows it, 's even prepared to do the ship has left the docks other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and she anyone who works with him is an accidental stowaway!|isbn=0571363121kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=07603798741739526910|title=Super Easy Knitting for BeginnersWhere I've Not Been Lost|author=Carri HammettGlen Sibley
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|genre=CraftsGeneral Fiction|summary=I learned to knit in the nineteen-fifties: it wasn't 'One year after a choicesuicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's life, it was a requirement. Girls learned he arrives in an unfamiliar Devon town to knit and to embroider and boys did wood and metal workrecover. My knitting wa accompanied by a lot Living with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home, he dreams of criticism and quite a few tears: it was a long time before I realised that there was pleasure to be had reconnecting with everything he has lost. But as those tentative plans falter, he becomes swept up in the skill. Nearly seventy years later it's the only thing that keeps my hands at all supple. The turning point was a booklet published by Patons which gave all the basics local world of unlikely friendships, mobile discos and some patternssurprising romantic possibilities. I've been looking for something simple to recommend to people who'd like to master the skill. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?
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|authorisbn=Sarah Todd Taylor0008405026|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Alice Eclair. A perfect eye and very careful hands have made her one of ParisIt's best young cake makers and decorators, making sure sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her mother's establishment is a classy affairbed one summer night. Not bad for She was never found and the investigation ground to a thirteen year oldhalt. OhNow, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a perfect eye straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and a very careful handler her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and remote trainer have also made sure she -shut case is now a very competent young spycomplex double murder. Her first real mission will be to chase a traitor across the country – working behind the scenes on a posh sleeper train to the south of France, and hoping against hope Kerrigan is convinced that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents to creep into the country from getting into nefarious hands. But while nobody would have her down explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as a spyDerwent's boss, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find the baddy?|isbn=1839940956Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbnauthor=0760379912Jo Callaghan|title=Super Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Quarry BooksLeave No Trace
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|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to be turned into something new and usable when I was in my twentiesthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It would be a while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but I've never felt completely at home s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with quiltingseveral cold cases. I needed something But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knots. ''Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like very high profile case that draws a good place lot of unwanted attention to starttheir AI Future Policing project. SoWill they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, how did it stack upout of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=17883607371529077745|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of PostmodernismDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Alexander AdamsAnn Cleeves|rating=24.5|genre= Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, a vacuumcare home for troubled teens. It The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes called in to modifying investigate the murder - but her only clue is the social environment in which he develops’’. Thereforedisappearance of one of the residents, all art must be political, even implicitlyfourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ death but Vera thinks this is adamant unlikely as the girl's diary makes it clear that art is freer when it is art for art’s sakeshe adored Josh. The recent trend of so-called artivism She knows that she has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping find Chloe to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s discover what Alexander Adams believeshappened to Josh.
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|isbn=14087121721399613073|title=The Cliff HouseMoral Injuries|author=Chris BrookmyreChristie Watson|rating=4.5
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|summary=''Many of them didn't know each otherOlivia, one Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them didn't know anybody, including Jen, one inseparable for a quarter of them quite possibly hated hera century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and two of them definitely hated each othera trauma doctor. What could possibly go wrong?'' That's Anjali is the round-up for Jen's hen party which is to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south free spirit of Barrathe group and she becomes a GP. TheyWhen we first meet them they're all staying in The Cliff House, hosted by Lauren, at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's the utmost going to end in luxury living but then Jen can afford ittragedy. SheWe don's just sold her muffin business for millions but is staying on to run it. She's got her doubts about t know who suffered the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting a little strangely of late and wouldn't explain to her what tragedy or the email he was hurriedly deleting was aboutconsequences. Added to Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that, he's just about forced her to bring his sister, Samira, whom Jen's never met, on will impact the tripthree friends. This time, on the grounds that sheit's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months and desperately needs the breaktheir teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=17883607020241636604|title=Charles, The Alternative PrinceTrading Game: An Unauthorised BiographyA Confession|author=Edzard ErnstGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=For over forty yearsIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter you're unlikely to think of alternative medicine and complementary therapiessomeone like Gary Stevenson. ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses A hoodie and jeans replaces the Prince's opinions, beliefs pin-stripe suit and aims against the his background of is the scientific evidenceEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There are few instances of was no posh public school on his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage CV - but he had been to the reputation London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a man who is proud 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 refusal to apply evidence-basedability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, logical reasoning to his ambitionsthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|authorisbn=Will CarverB0DB64PYV5|title=The Daves Next DoorWhite Rose|author=Dave Baines
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|genre=General Dystopian Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment In 2033, a superstorm known as the White Rose devastates the Northern Hemisphere. And it's not a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlapstorm that gathers, the story is told in backwards orderwreaks havoc, leading up to the fateful momentthen dissipates.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1529125790|title=The Family Remains|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=In July 2019Instead, Jason Mott was mud larking on the banks of the River Thames when he came it hovers across a bag of what appeared to be human bones. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu and Saffron Brown from forensics were there to investigate. The bones were indeed human: a young woman had been killed by a blow to half the head many years ago Earth with its octopus- probably as long as twenty-five - but the bones had like tentacles, not been in the river longer than a year. There was no identification but the bag contained vegetation, some of which was quite unusualgiving up and never going away.
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|author=Jennifer MasonLeanne Egan|title=Partitions of UnityLover Birds|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary= Here at Bookbag TowersWhen new girl, we first met Elizabeth CromwellIsabel, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]]moves to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, when but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she investigated looks at Isabel or speaks with her, and unravelled a series of disappearances. In that's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, isn'Partitions t she? Even though none of Unityher relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's never had a good kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and wanting to hang out with her because fighting with her is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn', t she sets her mind to solving a murder....?|isbn=B09LQR9FRF000862657X
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|authorisbn=Fiona Parashar 1009473085|title=A Beautiful Way to Coach The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)
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|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary= So Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what am I doing reading this book, using this book, it ''isn't'' and being audacious enough that applies to review it''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years? ''. Truth is I bought it out of curiosityIf 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 was don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at an on-line launch 10}}, can be bettered for the those tumultuous years. book It's a compelling read and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to mepolitics. I wanted to see if there were things ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing them to a full day, series which I know would send them scurrying for their burrowlooks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. I also wanted to see if I could give myself This book follows the well-established format: a Vision Dayseries of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, to bring me away from their vision the changes that occurred and back to my ownthe situation in 2024.|isbn=103211603X
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|isbnauthor=1913750353Max Boucherat|title=Britannica's Word The Last Life of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue MacyLori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=''BritannicaWe meet Lori on the first evening she's Word of got the Day'' house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium one main intention, and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need is to know about this brilliant book. It starts log on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz''to Voxminer, tells you how to pronounce it (''razthe world-muhbuilding, critter-TAZcollecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn')t find herself entirely on her own, gives you a definition and then includes she finds something even more spooky. For the word in a sentence so that you know how it server she and her bestie and nobody else should be usedable to enter shows signs of tampering. You also get an engaging When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a word which uses the letter Z four times before!girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482
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|author=A C WiseJenny Lecoat|title=HookedBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It’s been twenty-two years since Captain Hook, now going by just ‘James’, has been in NeverlandJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. Living During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a new life in Londonbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, he has never completely escaped his pastleaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. But now he senses As the British finally free the edges of Channel islands from the beast circling around his life in LondonNazis, and when suddenly he finds himself face to face in the street with Wendywar is finally over, he knows their hopes rise that the line between this world and Neverland is growing thinthey will finally learn what became of him. The beast is finally coming to get himBut will the truth come as a relief, and in or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the process will pull Wendy and her daughter Jane back into their past once again.occupation?|isbn=17890968391846976537
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|isbn=17873017451529428289|title=ConfidenceA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Denise MinaMartin Walker|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We're back in the world Because of podcasters Anna and Finvarious property transactions, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]. It was Anna who'd organised people were searching for the 'family' holiday: her exgrave but when they found it, Hamish, is now it came with her best friend, Estelle and her children are living with themthree sets of bones. Fin (who was married They dated back to Estelle) is there too World War II and it was Anna who invited his girlfriendfell to Bruno, Sofia. It's the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not long before everyone realises that was a bad mistakecrime had been committed. SofiaAs if this isn's difficult and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation t enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - a lighthouse, in a storm normally tranquil - she begins talking about Annais flowing at record levels. It's past, including her real name and not just the local autumn rains that have caused the rape. This was something which Anna problem: various dams upstream on another river have had intended to tell the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess release water and ten-year-old Lizzie - when St Denis faces the time was right. And this wasn't the right timepossibility of a devastating flood.
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|isbn=178763566X152919640X|title=Listen to MeThe Suspect|author=Tess GerritsenRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeThe nation're s favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in Boston with Amycase of emergencies. When Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she set out for university was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this morning it was a spring day no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=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 headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she wore her new's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the library she knows that they're site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be ruined - settled and unsafe - in the snow thatit won't be long before a body is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children's now fallingauthor Rob Keeley. As she crosses the road, He's a car comes out ball of nowhere happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and hits her. It doesn't stopenjoyment, not to lecture or hector.
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