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{{Frontpage'''Read [[Forthcoming Publications|reviews of books about to be published]].<!-author=Ashley Hickson- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|isbn=1529125960Lovence|title=Unnatural History|author=Jonathan KellermanWild East|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Donny Klement was a photographer. WellWritten in verse, it was Adonis, actually, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - itthis is Ronny's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bed. Three shots were placed neatly through his heartstory, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The PA, Mel Gornickmove is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, is distraught and it falls so Ronny finds himself trying to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as he tries to establish what's happened. Donny had just finished settle in a new town, a series new school, and keep himself out of photographs called ''The Wishers''trouble. He'd taken eight homeless people off the streets listens to music constantly, and asked them what they'd really like has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be. They were then dressed up as their fantasypart of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, photographed and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollarsthe power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|authorisbn=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson1635866847|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver StreetLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=JaydenIt's nose is forever in a bookstrange, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the world, book for example. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out thereyou. Before I started reading ''The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never Lavender Companion'out there' themselves, exploring I visited the outside world of Hackney, Londonauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, com/ website] and with a past involving Jaydenthere's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existedpicture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks sheI don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of recipe in the boatbook, including a living gargoyle, are tasked which I'm avoiding with saving some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the rare critters – book and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed I was told to join make a mess of it. Notes inthe margins are sanctioned. Dare they side with Leila, You get to fold down the woman on board, and her relative who lives as corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=0241573483problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|isbnauthor=1913839656Jenny Valentine|title=Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey DeeUs in the Before and After|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmotherElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, not least because she made their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the best beetle juicetime. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and But then gathered chance brings them back together his button collection to show his grandmother, and they are inseparable. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At homenow they must work through their grief, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked differenttheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbn=17873010361787333175|title=What July KnewYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Emily KochBenji Waterhouse
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|genre=ThrillersPopular Science|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 sheI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here''s just ten years old. Sheafter enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a carefulglorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, meticulous childhumour and autobiography. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared ''You Don't Have to discuss the death of his wife, Julybe Mad...''s mother, and any hint that promised the conversation is heading that way will lead same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the necessity work of a Lessonpsychiatrist. Other infractions of his requirements also lead I did wonder whether it was acceptable to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not be looking for humour in this setting but the injuries are visible. July's teacher laughter is concerned directed at a situation rather than a person and brings up the possibility of abuse it is always delivered with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for himempathy and understanding.
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|author=Lucy AsheOnyi Nwabineli|title=Clara and OliviaAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical Anuri spent her childhood on display to the outside but notworld, we learn, on the inside. And not thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on stagesocial media, either. Because therewhere she posted every step of Anuri's a lot that builds a dancerchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, attention suing her step-mother to detail – and some thingstake down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, that ''je ne sais quoi''failing to start her PhD, that don't come undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from the classroomthem for doing so. A stage presence Most importantly, a charmshe is desperately worried about her little sister, a ''joie de vivre'who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. The difference between a hard-worker Can she save her sister, and a star.perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=08615440800861546873
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|isbnauthor=0008454493David Chadwick|title=All the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy WillinghamHeadload of Napalm
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnIt't really slept for a year - wells September 1973 in Hicks, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a momentCalifornia. It's now Hicks is a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle Mojave desert town of the night and Izzy is consumed a few thousand people with guilt that she heard nothing its nearest neighbours of LA and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens inHicks. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. She does interviews A silver mine and when we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On defence contractor are the plane backmain local employers but otherwise, shethere's approached by a podcasternot much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferencesuntil....|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy GreeneTom Percival|title=Fritz and KurtThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45
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|summary=We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckersWill's life is difficult, doing things any Jewish lad 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 schoolmultitude of ways. Kurt He is bullied because he has to make sure 'the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbourswrong shoes' each Friday night – , he has the Sabbath preventing them wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for using anything nearly as mechanical even the most basic of things like food, and workmanlike as his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a light switchcash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. But this is Throw into that mix the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitlerfact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them life seems bleak in with open armsevery direction. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in GermanyAnd yet, as did all the round-ups he still has a tiny amount of Jewshope. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt He is good at home with his mother art, and sisters anxious clings to hear word the moments of an evacuation to Britain or joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each otherend of a long, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry theredark tunnel. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|isbn=024156574X1398527122
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|isbnauthor=1529421241Sylvie Cathrall|title=Stay Buried|author=Kate WebbA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review There are few greater joys than a book which sounds quite grand until you realise that it's actually lives up to a cold case unit and there are just two compelling premise. And this is one of them doing the job. Lockyer's not unduly worried, though although he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable of something better. It was a bit of a shock when he got the phone call from Hedy Lambert: she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years ago. She's keen to see him and to tell him that the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decades.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF1786482126|title=Just LookingThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Matthew TreeElly 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 winterbook by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines book for you. If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is enjoying the arrival of springan entirely different beast. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and Inspector Jeanco-Guy Beauvoir of editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the Sûreté du Québecmost important. Gamache had offered help to This book follows the well-established format: a young woman after series of experts from various fields review the murder state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.}}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of her Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother: he'd been less certain about at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her charismatic brotherlonesome. For JeanWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-Guybuilding, it had always been the other way aroundcritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Now theyBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn're both in t find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the village server she and her bestie and neither can fathom what's happeningnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Armand will soon find that they're not just in Three Pines but in his home When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in his life.the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482
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|isbnauthor=B0BHR8KWSKJenny Lecoat|title=Dukkha|author=Martin HydeBeyond Summerland
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|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=Sam wakes up chained in Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a basementbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. He rails against his captor As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the injustice war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of his imprisonment? Why? ''Why?'' him. But of course, he knows why. Sam is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down and dirty life by going to a retreat and emerging will the truth come as a neophyte Buddhist monk. Recently returning to join the community in his old neighbourhoodrelief, he knew his past would be hard to escape but he hadn't imagined or will it exploding into this new life in quite such a violent fashion.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 occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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|isbn=B09XWSXSKY1529428289|title=Maestro Orpheus and A Grave in the World ClockWoods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Robert Penee and Joanne GrodzinskiMartin Walker
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Frederick (or FredBecause of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but never Freddywhen they found it, please) couldn't sleepit came with three sets of bones. A tuneThey dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, rather like to discover the ticking identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a clock was playing over and over in his mindcrime had been committed. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadnAs if this isn't really wanted enough to come; after allworry about, he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is tell the time. And time isn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking flowing at the clock beside the bedrecord levels. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight s not just the local autumn rains that have caused the clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to go release water and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all St Denis faces the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?possibility of a devastating flood.
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|isbn=3756228711152919640X|title=CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'Suspect|author=Hans BodmerRob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there'The history of the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pagess only one suspect. He'' Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that. He has chosen he must not serve anything containing miso to tell us about the short, but explosive, history of the Control Data Company, CDC, for whom he workedJessica Holby. It She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a fascinating talebusy, told in live television studio - and Brooks served a mixture of technological summary ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and wry anecdoteshe was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|isbn=15293566600008385068|title=The SanctuaryMidnight Feast|author=Emma HaughtonLucy Foley|rating=34.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It was 's midsummer on the quiet which woke Zoey up - or, rather, the absence of the noise which was a constant in New YorkDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. Here it was silent It's their opening weekend and the heat was overwhelmingsplendid celebrations are promised. When she looked out of the window It's all she could see was the desertheaded up by Francesca Meadows. How did she get here? Zoey The Manor was house-sitting for Uncle Dan and his two Manx cats her ancestral home and she remembered that she'd been out with Franny s converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and Rocco last nightfamous. She knew that she'd had quite a lot to drink but how could she have got to the desert from New York? She had no memory of getting on a plane but as she thought backHer husband, a memory of sirensOwen, flashing lights was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of being pushed into the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a car snagged on the edge of her mindbody is found.
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|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 author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.
The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters
|isbn= 1783064617
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|author=Christopher GoldenKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Road of BonesDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=3.54|genre=HorrorConfident Readers|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504Meet Kit. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one Like most of the people in his world's most notorious routes. For months , it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the year it's sport where a spread team of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding itwarrior, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremittingmage and healer enter specially prepared, apocalypticcentury-level mudold, which dries into ruttedmagical mazes, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian mineralsrace to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it coversthe points they grant you along the way. You can easily find documentaries about it onlineUnfortunately for Kit, but thatthe only thing he's a bit rich, for seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one of our main charactersteam has been retired, Felix 'Teig' Teiglandeaten, and a new trio of questors is a film-makerneeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there he has taken to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some goading from the token bully of the funds his world and stumbled into declaring he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projectsll enter as a team. They pick up their ohWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-sofree-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beautyzone have in actually managing that, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start how could he possibly hope to go awry…succeed?|isbn=18033614761839945184
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|isbn=18387761840008517061|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalDeath in a Lonely Place|author=S J BennettStig Abell|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The QueenFormer Metropolitan Police detective, like the sunrise and the tidesJake Johnson, was generally a reliable way of marking time.'' It seemed to begin as a coldhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering for There’s perhaps a couple little uncertainty about the future of days but seemed to be getting better. Hopefullyhis life with his vet girlfriend, the Queen thoughtLivia and her daughter Diana, her cold as moving in together would go the same way. She'd probably caught it from one mean a lot of the great-grandchildren. Unfortunately, it didn't get better and when the doctor called he diagnosed fullcompromise: does Jake give up his off-blown flu. She grid and the Duke were due relaxing life to go move in with Livia or does Livia move to Sandringham by train that day but Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the doctor put his foot down. future she wants for herself and her daughter? He'd have preferred that For the moment they’re enjoying life in the queen have a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had to be satisfied with present and putting the thought that they'd go by helicopter future on the following day. It was annoying: people would be ready for her today and Her Majesty did not like to disappointback burner.
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