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|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonaghJenny Valentine|title=The Glorious Race of Magical BeastsUs in the Before and After|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Eli Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a busy lad – by day an apprentice once in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runslifetime connection. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is They meet as children one day on a generation missing in trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the familytime. A few short years agoBut then chance brings them back together, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beastand they are inseparable. This Something has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from granhappened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hatesand their friendship, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his grantogether.|isbn=05713822311471196585
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|isbn=178763681X1787333175|title=Knife Skills for BeginnersYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Orlando MurrinBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didnI was tempted to read ''You Don't really want Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had Hurt}}, a way glorious mixture of insight into the workings of getting both men the NHS, humour and women to do what he wantedautobiography. Paul ''somehowYou Don't Have to be Mad...' got the impression that he'd be at promised the school same elements but moved from physical problems to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - mental illness and the problems - are all his ownwork of a psychiatrist. The one thing he hadn't expected I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspectit is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|author=Sarah MarshOnyi Nwabineli|title=A Sign of Her OwnAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=After a bout 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 scarlet fever as a childAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, Ellen Lark loses her hearingbasically, monetary gain. Suddenly plunged into a world of silenceNow Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, everything suing her step-mother to take down the content about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages doAnuri is battling alcoholism, Ellen is sent failing to a school where she is taught to lip readstart her PhD, but physically restrained undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from signingthem for doing so. From hereMost importantly, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell is desperately worried about her little sister, who has been teaching is the deaf and using a system called Visible Speechnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. At Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.?|isbn=10354016140861546873
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|isbnauthor=1803816759David Chadwick|title=The Unravelling|author=Will GibsonHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=It's 2038 and Joe September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for Mojave desert town of a bit few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of adventure LA and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detectionLas Vegas both a significant drive away. But then something goes horribly wrong with Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for manymain local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and riots start to spreadJoshua trees. FinallyLife is quiet, Joe gets to do some real policinguntil.. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=1529421284Tom Percival|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate WebbThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers Will's life is difficult, in a heatwavemultitude of ways. In a gullyHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', a human skeleton came to he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the surface most basic of things like food, and forensic testing proved his dad can't work because he lost his job at the body to be Lee Gearycollege, who was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had disappeared nine years earlieran accident. He'd been a known drug user Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and had learning disabilitiesdad are separated, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasnand Will't convinceds life seems bleak in every direction. Geary was a townieAnd yet, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? still has a tiny amount of hope. There are connections He is good at art, and clings to the suicide moments of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad end of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigatea long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=0571379559Sylvie Cathrall|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona WilliamsA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots There are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she few greater joys than a book which lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles up to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his fathera compelling premise. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max And this is out with his mother that she's his nannyone of them.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=15294258671786482126|title=Lost and Never Found The Janus Stone (A D I Wilkins MysteryDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Simon MasonElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I WilkinsBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressedThere was no skull. D I Ryan WilkinsWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is notDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. HeIt's not any of those things. Hedifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn's whitet, originated from that she is pregnant with his child as a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly result of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughsthe one night they spent together some three months ago. WellHer condition will be obvious before long, you're notleast because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness. }}{{Frontpage|author=Joan Didion|title=The two men are just different sides Year of the same policing coinMagical Thinking|rating=4. Sometimes 5|genre=Autobiography|summary=This book is Joan Didion's heartbreaking autobiographical account of the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes itgrief she endured following her husband's problematicsudden death. Books that shed light on taboo topics like death are such a beautiful and necessary resource to help people feel less alone. Didion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self-pity, denial and delusion and makes them utterly normal, lends them a human face to wear.|isbn=0007216858
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|author=Mosby WoodsAlba de Cespedes |title=A Whirly Man Loses His TurnForbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= The West isn't This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war heremoment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine thenpurchases her forbidden notebook, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage and learns about herself in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this abilityintimate and revealing ways. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R11782278222
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|author=Alastair HumphreysOttessa Moshfegh|title=LocalMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=53|genre=Travel Literary Fiction|summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked At best, this novel is a scathing critique of modern society and cycled all over reveals the world. And then written about fragility of human relationships; at worst, it. For this book he walked is the cynical, predictable and cycled very close to home and then wrote about itslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. As he says in his introductionThis unlikely heroine, the book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature lossslim, pollution, land use attractive and access, agriculture, newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the food systemworld, rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answersbut resolves not to lose sleep over it: in fact, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices aheadher solution lies in her hibernation.|isbn=17856336781784707422
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|isbn=18051418720008551324|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too MuchDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Rob KeeleyNeil Lancaster
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=It''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on . Neither side likes or has any respect for the runother. But Al needs them for one last job...'Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he' Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage s prepared to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, tell the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, police where the son body of a famous magician missing person is buried and who has ambitions to be as good as his father some daywas responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and who thinks Miss Judson is it will be worth saving}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760381267|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating=3the police doing what he wants.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''The most important part of a garden And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the one who enjoys it''. I've 'gardened' in a vague, indefinite sort remainder of way for more than half a centuryhis sentence and to get an early parole date. I know (most of) the basics but life has changed and I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment Not much to gardening. ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'Verduras even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what'' with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the answers happening. So, how did it stack up?
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|isbn=B0CP95J1CG1739526910|title=Of Ghosts & Broken PromisesWhere I've Not Been Lost|author=Mark LinganeGlen Sibley
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|genre=Science General Fiction|summary= Ronan''One year after a suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's not entirely sure why life, he decides arrives in an unfamiliar Devon town to go to the party but recover. Living with an unexpected housemate at his interest is piqued by the way it arrived. And it seems like a good opportunity to get out former manager’s holiday home, he dreams of his room and away from the online activities reconnecting with everything he makes a living athas lost. So But as those tentative plans falter, he makes his way there, dodging the buses that make becomes swept up most in a local world of the traffic unlikely friendships, mobile discos and watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefullysurprising romantic possibilities.''
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|isbn=14549555460008405026|title=SugarlessA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Nicole M AvenaJane Casey
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|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=It''This isn't a diet books sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'' There She was never found and the investigation ground to a timehalt. Now, not that long agoher mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, when it was thought looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat contentmakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Fat was the demon food which What looked as though it was going to elevate your cholesterol be an open-and cause heart disease. Sugar was -shut case is now a carbohydrate, so goodcomplex double murder. ThereKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's a problem, though. Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much the same way disappearance: others (such as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Does that sound over the top? WellDerwent's boss, it isn'tUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbnauthor=1521129886Jo Callaghan|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith RedfernLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he chargescase alongside her sidekick, the AI 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, Kat is suddenly struggling with a good job too because Greg potential serial killer and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delightedvery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Joyce will Will they be more delighted about able to solve the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-case in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sistertime, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet or will Kat find herself taken off the case and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicidepotentially, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=B0CK3MYJ561529077745|title=Responsibilities The Dark Wives (Greg Mason mysteriesD I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann MacarthurCleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years oldpark near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. He used The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to have work a high-flying job in shift the city night before but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself who had never turned up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but where's her only clue is the life experience that backs up this profession? On disappearance of one of the other handresidents, he has been asked to look into somethingfourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen Some people believe that Chloe was killed in whatresponsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossingdiary makes it clear that she adored Josh. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what She knows that she was doing there - or how she could come has to find Chloe to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked discover what happened to investigateJosh.
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|authorisbn=Katherine Howe1399613073|title=A True AccountMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Hannah Masury Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is living in Bostonruthlessly ambitious, having been sent which is a bonus when you aim to live with be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a family who run an inn, perfectionist and being made to work there from a young agetrauma doctor. When she hears there Anjali is to be a hanging the free spirit of some pirates in the town, group and she decides to go and watchbecomes a GP. Enthralled When we first meet them they're at a drug and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boyalcohol-fuelled party and it's death at the hands of two vicious piratesgoing to end in tragedy. She hides away, so that they We don't find and kill her tooknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, and then it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to escape them completely she runs away bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to seathink of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, dressing as a boy where he was familiar with violence, poverty and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boyinjustice. She soon finds herself in There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the thick London School of things when there Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a 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 ability at what was, essentially, a mutiny on boardcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean wavesthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=0861547438
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|authorisbn=Tananarive DueB0DB64PYV5|title=The ReformatoryWhite Rose|author=Dave Baines|rating=54|genre=Historical Dystopian Fiction|summary= GracetownIn 2033, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise superstorm known as the ReformatoryWhite Rose devastates the Northern Hemisphere. ItAnd it's not a place with a brutal and dark reputationstorm that gathers, wreaks havoc, then dissipates. But Instead, it hovers across half the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrorsEarth with its octopus-like tentacles, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor not giving up and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations..never going away.|isbn=1803366532}}
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|isbnauthor=1471180158Leanne Egan|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny ParkesLover Birds
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|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery storeWhen new girl, for a man whoIsabel, moves to Lou's a control freak with all the subtlety hometown of a half brickLiverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. JamieA misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, and that's son, Bodefinitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn'has his problems'. t it? He's asthmatic and the more you readBecause Lou is straight, the more youisn'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. t she? Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's never had a frequent flier in the local A&E good kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and sometimes Bo's not fit enough wanting to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled hang out with her because fighting with her is fun, and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?|isbn=000862657X
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|authorisbn=Harry Allen1009473085|title=Children of the SunThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)
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|genre=TeensPolitics and Society|summary= Ra Eun Seo lives in Sometimes it's simpler to explain a North Korean town book by describing what it ''isn't'' and she is a talented singerthat 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 book for you. Life is hard and food is difficult to come by If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening{{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, looking can be bettered for tree bark those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and edible grasses should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to supplement politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in 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 meagre rations state of rice the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and kimchi at homethe situation in 2024.|isbn=1805140493
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|author=Edel RodriguezMax Boucherat|title=Worm: A Cuban American OdysseyThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary=Wemeet Lori on the first evening she're s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in childhood, and we're in Cubababysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a saviour of the countryblanket fort, she has proven himself a Communistone main intention, and not done nearly enough that is to create a level playing field for all. Welllog on to Voxminer, the world-building, those hourscritter-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time awaycollecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Our narrator's family werenBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't in the happiest of places herefind herself entirely on her own, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and then she finds something even more spooky. For the father being watched server she and watched, her bestie and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned uponnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heatWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, but and her safe place in this sultry island countrythe game has been doctored – well, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…where is a girl to turn?|isbn=14746167200008666482
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|author=K P O'DonnellJenny Lecoat|title=The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)Beyond Summerland|rating=3.54|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she isJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, During the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. Over half-a-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her fatherJean's legacy, building father was arrested for listening to a world where machines banned radio and humans can live together in harmonysoldiers took him away one night, but internal frictions leaving Jean and external enemies might bring it all crashing down againher mother waiting for years for news of him. Craig Anderson As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, leader of a group of salvagers called and the Exhumerswar is finally over, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herselftheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in But will the slightesttruth come as a relief, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem or will stop her on her quest for answers…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 occupation?|isbn=B0CKRYFRZM1846976537
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|isbn=18389544811529428289|title=The MisperA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Kate LondonMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about thatBecause of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun They dated back to World War II and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due fell to Bruno, the vagaries Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the jury system he was found not guilty identities of both the murder bodies and the manslaughter of the officerestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. And so lives must go onAs if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. For DI Sarah Collins It's not just the local autumn rains that means leaving have caused the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found problem: various dams upstream on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - another river have had to release water and back into St Denis faces the orbit possibility of Ryan Kennedya devastating flood.
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|isbn=1035025299152919640X|title=Went to London, Took the DogThe Suspect|author=Nina StibbeRob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=Nina Stibbe is returning to London for a sabbatical after being away for twenty years. SheThe nation's been at Victoriafavourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's smallholding in Leicestershire which isnonly one suspect. He't all s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that conducive he must not serve anything containing miso to writing, as thereJessica Holby. She's always something smallholding happening seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as you might expectnormal 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 was dead within minutes. The other side of the decision It was soon clear that this was sealed when a room became available (courtesy of Deborah Moggach) at a very reasonable rentno accident.
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|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL0008385068|title=Radio Free OlympiaThe Midnight Feast|author=Jeffrey DunnLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary= Petr is an orphanIt's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. Rescued It's all headed up by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and busy human society, in the forests of Washingtonshe's Olympic Peninsulaconverted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human companyHer husband, Owen, was the architect and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes work is still ongoing on a journey through parts of the forest, broadcasting site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the strange, wild guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and rarely heard voices he encountersit won't be long before a body is found.
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|isbnauthor=1635866243Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth Wild East
|rating=4.5
|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=Written in verse, this is Ronny''I quickly discovered that putting words s story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and numbers on start at a page wasn't enoughmostly white school. Creating The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a pattern that was correct, clear, concisetragic event, and consistent required so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a great deal of trial and errornew town, patiencea new school, and perseverance.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a knitting pattern for which she'd paid good moneykeep himself out of trouble. The first line He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of the instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitches.being a rapper..'' It was clear that no good could come But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of this - a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the instructions didn't get any better - connections between rap and (finally) PayPal obliged with a refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repayment. The pattern looked prettypoetry, but and the creator didn't have the basic knowledge power of creativity and skills to enable her to connect with her knitters. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|authorisbn=Adam Baron and Benji Davies1635866847|title=Oscar's LionThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=We start incredibly bluntlyIt's strange, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is more likely – read him his very favourite the book a couple of times before he has to be ready for schoolyou. But when he enters his parentsBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'' bedroom, all he sees is I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a mahoosive male lion slice of chocolate cake on their bed, looking sheepish, the homepage. I don't eat cakes and admitting desserts - but I wanted that he won't be hungry for another two dayscake viscerally. But there are benefits (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to having make a lion around – mess of it can be shown as an unspoken threat . Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other monthcorners of pages. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and it can get him out You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. And itI ''loved's wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful timethis book already.|isbn=0008596751
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|isbnauthor=B0BC3YTCMRRob Keeley|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura AyiraChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children'This story is s author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not for everyoneto lecture or hector.''
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|author=V CastroKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Haunting of AlejandraDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=3.54|genre=HorrorConfident Readers|summary=''This was Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a part team of her past that had warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to stop the exit, perhaps bothering with herthe treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. She would be Unfortunately for Kit, the one to confront this.only thing he'' At some point during her life, Alejandra lost herself. She feels as if she s seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is playing parts for others in her life – her husband and her children – without ever giving any thought to her own desiresthat one team has been retired, her own futureeaten, her own identity. Day by day she goes through quotient motions without anyone seeing that there and a new trio of questors is something fundamentally wrongneeded. For invisible to all but Alejandra Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, there is a darkness threatening he has taken to consume her. More the goading from the token bully of his world and more she is visited by stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a ghostteam. What chance does this friendless, a weeping woman muscle-free-zone have in a fraying white gown dripping with wateractually managing that, who leaves distress in her wake.and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=18033656171839945184
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|authorisbn=Richard Kadrey0008517061|title=The Pale House DevilDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Ford and Neuland are a couple ofFormer Metropolitan Police detective, wellJake Johnson, guys for hire I guess, though really the way I thought of them through has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the book was as a couple of strange detectives! One future of them is living, you seehis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and the other is undeadher daughter Diana, and so one as moving in together would mean a lot of them kills the living, compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and the other kills the undead. (Only not each other, obviously). They're on a job relaxing life to move in New York that goes badly, and so they head out with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the West coast to try to lay low future she wants for a while herself and find some other work to keep them going. her daughter? But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill For the moment they’re enjoying life in the 'something' that appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, present and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|isbn=1803363894putting the future on the back burner.
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