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|author=Lucy AsheAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Clara and OliviaWild East
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|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=The Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year is 1933old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The place? Sadlermove is initiated by Ronny's Wells. Ballerinas Clara mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and Olivia are sistersso Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, twins no less. Identical on the outside but nota new school, we learn, on the insideand keep himself out of trouble. And not on stage He listens to music constantly, either. Because there's a lot that builds and has always dreamed of being a dancerrapper. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline But now, in this new school, attention his teacher encourages him to detail – be part of a poetry writing workshop group and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi''slowly, that don't come from Ronny begins to see the classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference connections between a hard-workerrap and poetry, and a starthe power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=08615440800241645441
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|isbn=00084544931635866847|title=All the Dangerous ThingsThe Lavender Companion|author=Stacy WillinghamJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnIt't really slept for a year - wells strange, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for a momentyou. ItBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the night homepage. I don't eat cakes and Izzy is consumed with guilt desserts - but I wanted that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping incake viscerally. In that year she(There's done everything she could to raise awareness about a recipe in the case. She does interviews and when we meet herbook, shewhich I's just been m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to TrueCrimeCon where she gave make a keynote presentationmess of it. On Notes in the plane back, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and margins are sanctioned. You get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a few hundred people at conferencesproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy GreeneJenny Valentine|title=Fritz Us in the Before and KurtAfter|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=We start with the pair of brothers Fritz Elk and KurtMab are best friends, or more than that even, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad friendship is a once in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational schoollifetime connection. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned They meet as children one day on at their very Orthodox neighboursa trip out but unfortunately they don' t get each Friday night – other's contact details at the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switchtime. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's willthen chance brings them back together, and instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open armsthey are inseparable. ''Kristallnacht'' Something has happened in Vienna just as much as in Germanythough, as did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother something terrible and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the UStragic, while Fritz and his father arenow they must work through their grief, unknown initially to each otherand their friendship, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry theretogether. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|isbn=024156574X1471196585
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|isbn=15294212411787333175|title=Stay BuriedYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Kate WebbBenji Waterhouse
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|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that itI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's actually first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a cold case unit and there are just two glorious mixture of insight into the workings of them doing the jobNHS, humour and autobiography. Lockyer's not unduly worried, though although he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: sheYou Don't Have to be Mad...''s probably capable promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of something bettera psychiatrist. It I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a bit of situation rather than a shock when he got person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the phone call from Hedy Lambert: world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where sheposted every step of Anuri's in H M Prison Eastwood Park childhood for murder - sponsorships and influencer deals and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years agobasically, monetary gain. She's keen Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to see him regain her confidence and to tell him that the man everyone thought she'd murdered get her life back, suing her step- but mother to take down the body turned out content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to be someone else - has returned home after being away start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for decadesdoing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|isbnauthor=B0BQXSYYTFDavid Chadwick|title=Just Looking|author=Matthew TreeHeadload of Napalm
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|genre=Dystopian FictionThrillers|summary=It was the summer 's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of 2035 LA and on Las Vegas both a cruise ship significant drive away. Not much happens in Marseilles, Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the end main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in the same sentence by a man! multitude of ways. Heis bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes's watching , he has the tornado - theywrong shoes because his dad can're more common in Europe these days - thatt work and doesn's keeping t have enough money for even the cruise ship in port most basic of things like food, and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierrehis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a French journalist cash-in his thirties-hand job on a building site and had an accident. He writes for a relatively new paperThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and heWill's interesting if life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a little wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France' and 'the French'tiny amount of hope. His partnerHe is good at art, Helenand clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, who's English and Jewishthat feel like a light at the end of a long, keeps him in check to some extentdark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=057137493XSylvie Cathrall|title=The Other Half|author=Charlotte VassellA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=Science Fiction
|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.
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|isbn=1786482126
|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)
|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The room Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was full of the sort of people going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'Tatler'' thinks you should know.'' ''The Other Half'' is apartments - when they discovered the story bones of two men, both with what looks like the same surname. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir to a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is child beneath a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Towndoorway. Think Bollinger and cocaineThere was no skull. His surname is pronounced 'Beecham'. Caius Beauchamp is Was this a detective inspector ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with the Metropolitan police and is bi-racialDCI Harry Nelson. His surname is pronounced It's difficult as you see it. The two encounter each other when Caius, out for a runRuth knows, stumbles across the body of Clemmie Obut Nelson doesn'Harat, Rupert's girlfriend. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for is pregnant with his partychild as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. She was dead under a bushHer condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|author=Joe ThomasJoan Didion|title=White RiotThe Year of Magical Thinking
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|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereThis book is Joan Didion's always heartbreaking autobiographical account of the danger of making it too reactionary; too rawgrief she endured following her husband's sudden death. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes Books that don't age well or properly capture the spirit of the moment. It takes shed light on taboo topics like death are such a truly talented writer beautiful and necessary resource to be able to capture the zeitgeist of a particular event or era of political historyhelp people feel less alone. Austerity Britain, the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much of what is, and has beenDidion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self-pity, written in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time to be frothy and insubstantial denial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisive. Inevitably (delusion and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature)makes them utterly normal, the best writing about current political events is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of lends them a more objective viewhuman face to wear.|isbn= 15294233760007216858
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|author=Heather FawcettAlba de Cespedes |title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of FaeriesForbidden Notebook
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, air of suspense and she has travelled extensivelytension from the moment our protagonist, and researched meticulouslyValeria Cossati, to write purchases her life's workforbidden notebook, and learns about herself in the very first encyclopaedia most intimate and revealing ways.|isbn=1782278222}}{{Frontpage|author=Ottessa Moshfegh|title=My Year of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research Rest and speaking to faeriesRelaxation|rating=3|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=At best, she this novel is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in a scathing critique of modern society and reveals the small village fragility of Hrafvsnikhuman relationships; at worst, having somehow offended it is the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has donecynical, nor how to redeem herself predictable and put her final investigations for her book back on the right trackslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. Enter Wendell BamblebyThis unlikely heroine, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedlya slim, all charm attractive and delightnewly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the world, much but resolves not to Emily's frustrationlose sleep over it: in fact, her solution lies in her hibernation. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=03565191201784707422
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|isbn=18484584360008551324|title=Just the Nicest CoupleThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Mary KubicaNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It''The whole thing s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm notany respect for the other.But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'' ''Just s prepared to tell the Nicest Couple'' is police where the story body of two couples: Christian a missing person is buried and Lily Scottwho was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and Nina and Jake Hayesit will be worth the police doing what he wants. The connection between the two And what he wants is that Lily and Nina teach in to be transferred to an open prison to serve the same school: Nina teaches English remainder of his sentence and Lily covers high school algebrato get an early parole date. The couples have mixed as a foursome but Not much to ask, is it's not a regular thing. ? Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they donThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but think so and she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want even prepared to tempt fate by making do the knowledge publicother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=19145854021739526910|title=Dashboard Elvis is DeadWhere I've Not Been Lost|author=David F RossGlen Sibley
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|Thereyear after a suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple life, he arrives in an unfamiliar Devon town to recover. Living with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home, he dreams of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it wasreconnecting with everything he has lost. It was But as those tentative plans falter, he becomes swept up in a gripping, emotionally wounding readlocal world of unlikely friendships, mobile discos and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on itsurprising romantic possibilities.''
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|isbn=178563335X0008405026|title=Sea DefencesA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Hilary TaylorJane Casey
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|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird sheIt's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects sixsixteen years since nine-year-old Hannah Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds the investigation ground to a sobbing parishionerhalt. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let Now, her see mother, Helena, and her grandsonfather are dead in their bed. HolthorpeInitially, on the Norfolk coast, is it looks like a lovely place, straightforward murder/suicide but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and shethere's in awe something about the positioning of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty yearsbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Rachel What looked as though it was going to be an open-and Christopher hoped that -shut case is now a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they neededcomplex double murder. And then Hannah went missingKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|author=Hadeer ElsbaiJo Callaghan|title=The Daughters of IzdiharLeave No Trace
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores When a man is found crucified on the lives top of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - a hill in a society pitted against them. NehalNuneaton, born into the upper class, wishes DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control case alongside her abilities and then join sidekick, the militaryAI 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 found crucified a few days later, but instead she Kat is forced into an arranged marriage suddenly struggling with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal potential serial killer and feels great pressure a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rightsAI Future Policing project. Giorgina also happens Will they be able to be solve the case in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust societytime, filled with hypocrisy or will Kat find herself taken off the case and cruelty, from which blossoms potentially, out of a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.career?|isbn=0356520471139851120X
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|authorisbn=Sarah Todd Taylor1529077745|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Spoonful of SpyingThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=[[Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for Trouble by Sarah Todd Taylor|Last time around]], Alice Eclair had to prove herself as a spy and as a master at all things French and fancy and fondant, as the only way to save man walking his dog in the day involved being an expert baker and icer on early morning discovered the French railways. Here, we start on body of a bateau-mouche man in Paristhe park near Rosebank, and even though the espionage isn't a complete success it proves to Alice and her handlers that things are afootcare home for troubled teens. And there will never be more feet than at The dead man was Josh - one of the World's Fair, reviving the huge expo that gave the city the Eiffel Tower and this time showing all her interwar glories off care workers who was due to work a shift the worldnight before but who had never turned up. Once again Alice will have D I Vera Stanhope is called in to present investigate the front to murder - but her only clue is the world disappearance of being a humble yet worldone of the residents, fourteen-year-class cake decorator, while seeking out cluesold Chloe Spencer. At stake? Pioneering flight technology Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the enemy just cannot be allowed girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to smuggle out…|isbn=1839940972Josh.
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|authorisbn=Amanthi Harris1399613073|title=Beautiful PlaceMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary= PadmaOlivia, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus Laura and Anjali met on the southern coast first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of her home countrya century. This Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a place she spent her formative yearsbonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. It Laura is not a place she was born into, but perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the one she thinks free spirit of as home. How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, group and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she becomes a GP. When we first arrived there provide the meet them they''score'' for this gentle re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and yet subtly violent novel. Padmait's present fails going to escape her past and much like end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the musical score of a film, consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at will impact the Villathree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1784631930
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|authorisbn=Nigel Baines0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Tricky Kind of MagicConfession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=Emerging ReadersAutobiography|summary=Cooper loves If you were to perform magic tricksbring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. His father A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was a magicianfamiliar with violence, poverty and named Cooper after injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the great Tommy CooperLondon School of Economics. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to bestupid. And when It was his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got himan internship with Citibank. Eventually, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|isbn=1444960261this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=1542037239B0DB64PYV5|title=Death in HeelsThe White Rose|author=Kitty MurphyDave Baines
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|genre=CrimeDystopian Fiction|summary=Set against the backdrop of Dublin's drag sceneIn 2033, ''Death in Heels'' tells a superstorm known as the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friend, Robyn, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae B. What is meant to be a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to White Rose devastates the stage to mock Mae BNorthern Hemisphere. As if the night could And it's not get any worse, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi is adamant storm that Eve was murderedgathers, yet the drag communitywreaks havoc, and the Guardsthen dissipates. Instead, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself to solve hovers across half the mystery as she fears for her friendsEarth with its octopus-like tentacles, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deepernot giving up and never going away.
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|isbnauthor=1800465270Leanne Egan|title=The Lensky Connection|author=Conrad DelacroixLover Birds
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|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri Grozkynew girl, itIsabel, moves to Lou's June 1995 and hehometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburgdisdain for everything around her. He's a pallbearer for his elder brotherA misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, Timurbut Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, whose death was drug-related. Valeri and Timurthat's fatherdefinitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, Keto, is also a pallbearer and heisn's disgusted by what his son had become. t it? Valeri thinks differently: heBecause Lou is straight, isn's determined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. t she? Within a matter Even though none of months, his obsession will her relationships with boys have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskayagone very well so far, a journalist. She's determined to expose any and all corruption - and she's less concerned than never had a good kiss with any of them? So she ought just finds herself watching Isabel, and wanting to be about hang out with her own safety. To because fighting with heris fun, he's a good source. For him, it's a way to get information publishedand she definitely just hates Isabel, which wouldndoesn't otherwise be possible.she?|isbn=000862657X
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|isbn=13997022891009473085|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Louise PennyAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)
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|genre=CrimePolitics and Society|summary=After Sometimes it's simpler to explain a harsh winter, the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of spring. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache book by describing what it ''isn't'' and Inspector Jeanthat applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 -Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québec14 Wasted Years?''. Gamache had offered help to a young woman after If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the murder of her mother: heinside story about what ''really''d been less happened on certain about her charismatic brother. For Jean-Guyoccasions, it had always been then this isn't the other way aroundbook for you. Now theyIf that's what you're both in the village and neither looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can fathom whatbe bettered for those tumultuous years. It's happeninga compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. Armand will soon find that theyIt're not just s the seventh book in Three Pines but 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 his home 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in his life2024.
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|isbnauthor=B0BHR8KWSKMax Boucherat|title=Dukkha|author=Martin HydeThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorConfident Readers|summary=Sam wakes up chained We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a basement. He rails against his captor blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the injustice of his imprisonment? Why? world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn'Why?'' But of courset find herself entirely on her own, he knows whyand then she finds something even more spooky. Sam is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down For the server she and her bestie and dirty life by going nobody else should be able to a retreat enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and emerging as a neophyte Buddhist monk. Recently returning to join her safe place in the community in his old neighbourhoodgame has been doctored – well, he knew his past would be hard where is a girl to escape but he hadn't imagined it exploding into this new life in quite such a violent fashion.turn?|isbn=0008666482
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|isbnauthor=B09XWSXSKYJenny Lecoat|title=Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne GrodzinskiBeyond Summerland
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the ticking end of a clock was playing over and over in his mindthe occupation. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadnDuring the war, Jean't really wanted s father was arrested for listening to come; after alla banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, he's ten now leaving Jean and all those old clocks don't appeal to her mother waiting for years for news of him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they do is tell the timewill finally learn what became of him. And time isn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at But will the clock beside truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the bed. war? It Who was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad - but where was heinformer who told the Nazis about the radio? And why had all what other secrets have been kept throughout the clocks stopped at twelve o'clockoccupation?|isbn=1846976537
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|isbn=37562287111529428289|title=CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Hans BodmerMartin Walker
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|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=''The history Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the development Chief of IT could fill books Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of several hundred pagesthe bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn'' Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that. He has chosen t enough to tell us worry about the short, but explosive, history of the Control Data Company, CDC, for whom he workedDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a fascinating tale, told in a mixture of technological summary and wry anecdotedevastating flood.
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|isbn=1529356660152919640X|title=The SanctuarySuspect|author=Emma HaughtonRob Rinder|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It was the quiet which woke Zoey up - orThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, ratherJessica Holby, the absence of the noise which was a constant in New Yorkmurdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. Here it was silent He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and the heat was overwhelminghis contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. When she looked out She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of the window all she could see was the desertemergencies. How did she get here? Zoey was houseEverything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio -sitting for Uncle Dan and his two Manx cats Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she remembered that she'd been out with Franny and Rocco last nightwas dead within minutes. She knew It was soon clear that she'd had quite a lot to drink but how could she have got to the desert from New York? She had this was no memory of getting on a plane but as she thought back, a memory of sirens, flashing lights and of being pushed into a car snagged on the edge of her mindaccident.
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|authorisbn=Christopher Golden0008385068|title=Road of BonesThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the It'Road of Bones'… s midsummer on the R504Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, itIt's one of the worldtheir opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's most notorious routesall headed up by Francesca Meadows. For months of the year itThe Manor was her ancestral home and she's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees converted it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium an impressive retreat for the wealthy and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it coversfamous. You can easily find documentaries about it onlineHer husband, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' TeiglandOwen, was the architect and work is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some still ongoing on parts of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projectssite. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, The heat is oppressive and fetch up at amongst the guide's childhood villageguests are enemies as well as friends. And thatOld scores are going to be settled and it won's where things start to go awry…|isbn=1803361476t be long before a body is found.
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|isbnauthor=1838776184Rob Keeley|title=Her Majesty the Queen InvestigatesChildish Spirits: Murder Most Royal|author=S J Bennett10th anniversary special edition|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He'The Queens a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, like the sunrise and the tideshe writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, was generally a reliable way of marking timenot to lecture or hector.''
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|isbnauthor=1916459943Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Squeakily Baby|author=Beth WebbDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|summary=May Wong is a long way from her family in Hong KongMeet Kit. She’s stuck Like most of the people in her schoolhis world, Deepdeanit seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and desperate to get awayhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and do something useful race to help end the war exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and to get homethe points they grant you along the way. She just knows that she would make Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the perfect spy! And when she finds herself turned away by latest race on the Ministryinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, she takes matters into her own handseaten, along with and a boy she meets outside the Ministry, Ericnew trio of questors is needed. They both go undercover in a large country housePossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, pretending to be evacuees, in an attempt to prove that someone there is passing secrets he has taken to the Nazisgoading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. But there is a lot more going on What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in Elysium Hall than either them have imaginedactually managing that, and suddenly they find themselves in the middle of a murder scene, with even more to try how could he possibly hope to unravel and solve.succeed?|isbn=02414298621839945184
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|isbn=19196350170008517061|title=A Thief to Catch Death in a KillerLonely Place|author=Kitt TownsendStig Abell
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|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Solomon Klyne isn't a bad ladFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for has settled into his grandmotherrustic life at Little Sky...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=First future of allhis life with his vet girlfriend, it was the earthquakeLivia and her daughter Diana, deep as moving in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this, in turn, caused is the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete future she wants for herself and utter devastation. her daughter? The deaths were uncountable, and For the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down moment they’re enjoying life in the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but present and putting the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon future on the dog jumped inback burner.
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