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|isbnauthor=B09GV3WS1QTom Percival|title=Without a Trace|author=Jane BettanyThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Life hadnWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't been easy have enough money for Ruth Prendergast: sheeven the most basic of things like food, and his dad can'd just come through t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a divorce cash-in-hand job on a building site and right now it was raining hardhad an accident. All she wanted was to get back to her new home Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and settle down for Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a quiet eveningtiny amount of hope. It wasn't going He is good at art, and clings to be though: the moments of joy when she went into her bedroom she found he is drawing, that feel like a dead man on her bed with light at the end of a knife in his chest. She'd no idea who he waslong, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=1838774823Sylvie Cathrall|title=Her Majesty A Letter to the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog Problem|author=S J BennettLuminous Deep
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It's 2016 and the Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting There are few greater joys than a strain on his waistband. Swimming, he decides, is the way to go and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool book which is how he came lives up to be there early one morning and discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at the side of the poola compelling premise. There was broken glass - a crystal tumbler, by the look at it - probably And this is one of the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled out. Still, it was a shock for Sir Simonthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=057136358X0008517061|title=April Death in Spaina Lonely Place|author=John BanvilleStig Abell|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Terry Tice was a hitmanFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, although he didn't think of himself in those termshas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. He saw what he did as ''There’s perhaps a matter of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist little uncertainty about the thought that he was an extreme version future of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his joblife with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, something which occurred as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to him when he was move in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance Livia or does Livia move to kill a lot of Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the little yellow fellows future she wants for herself and had a fine old time''. her daughter? He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know For the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles moment they’re enjoying life in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw present and putting the future on the benefits of taking up a job in Spainback burner.
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|authorisbn=Dave Letterfly Knoderer1786482126|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=How Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to summarise hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the life bones of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off child beneath a review of his memoir? Do you know, I really don't think I candoorway. Dave is an author and an artist There was no skull. An inspirational speaker and Was this a professional horsemanritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. And a recovering alcoholic. The son of a Lutheran minister It's difficult as Ruth knows, hebut Nelson doesn's struggled t, that she is pregnant with his child as a controlling fatherresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, run away not least because Ruth is prone to join the circus (not a metaphor), trained horses, painted caravans, designed and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when the bottle took oversudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=B0965V3LLN
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|authorisbn=Tade Thompson0008551324|title=Far From the Light of HeavenThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Michelle It'Shells unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he' Campion s prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is fulfilling buried and who was responsible for her lifelong dream of going to spacedeath. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime This person, bound for the world of Bloodroothe promises, she is someone big and it will essentially be a babysitter for worth the ship's AI captainpolice doing what he wants. However, when she wakes up at And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the end remainder of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered his sentence and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it wouldget an early parole date. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up Not much to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhileask, former astronaut is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and friend of Shellshe's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle even prepared to Bloodroot, halfdo the other thing that Hardie demanded -alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking make certain that DS Max Craigie and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323
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|authorisbn=Rob Keeley0008405026|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Lily loves eating fruit She was never found and vegetablesthe investigation ground to a halt. She likes carrots Now, her mother, broccoliHelena, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up father are dead in their nosesbed. Initially, Lily is keen it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to explain how good they are for you be an open-and how nice to eat-shut case is now a complex double murder. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her Kerrigan is convinced that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow explanation lies in the ground. Jordan saysRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor LilyUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn= B09HHN541V
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|isbn=178607981X0571379877|title=Bad ApplesThe Kellerby Code|author=Will DeanJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
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|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up Edward Jevons is a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of the road. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of the car working-class young man, obsessed with his upper- class friends, Robert and heard the screams from deep inside the forestStanza. Determining the direction of Robert's a sound isntheatre director. He't easy when you need hearing aids s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way uses Edward to where a woman was holding her coat over the body of a manrun errands for him. HeEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he'd been decapitateds drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. He was Arne Gustav Persson, Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a resident relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of Visbergthem kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Lilja SigurdadottirJo Callaghan|title=Cold As HellLeave No Trace
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|genre=Crime
|summary= In When a red suitcase as man is found crucified on the bottom top of a fissure hill in a lava fieldNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case 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 bodyfound crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. And Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the man who has put her there has just discovered that he is capable case and, potentially, out of killing.a career?|isbn=1913193888139851120X
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|authorisbn=Lucy Hope1399613073|title=FledglingMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
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|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decadesOlivia, Laura and now looking imperiously down Anjali met on the village first day of medical school and woods belowtheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. It's an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system Olivia is not as we'd know itruthlessly ambitious, the roof which is retractable, there a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, perfectionist and so ona trauma doctor. At Anjali is the free spirit of the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD group and she becomes a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy, GP. When we first meet them they're at a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch drug and sing opera loudly, alcohol-fuelled party and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going to house someone end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or something elsethe consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, when crashing through Cassieit's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherubtheir teenage children who are involved. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again...|isbn=183994188X
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|isbn=18462767720241636604|title=The End of BiasTrading Game: How We Change Our MindsA Confession|author=Jessica NordellGary Stevenson
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|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=Anyone who is not If you were to bring up an ableimage of a city banker in your mind, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent you're unlikely to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part think of everyday lifesomeone like Gary Stevenson. White men will always come first. The able will come before A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the disabledEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the preserve London School of the white manEconomics. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a part facility with numbers which most of an organisation it's rare us can only envy. He also realised that their views are heardmost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, that their concerns are acknowledgedessentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|authorisbn=Teresa Driscoll1035021803|title=Her Perfect FamilyThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The novel begins by introducing you It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to Gemmathe English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, who at first instance appears to be your average studentArthur Crockleford, faced with is dead and the familiar horrifying realisationcircumstances seem suspicious, at to say the eleventh hourleast. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, that let her graduation outfit is all wrongdown badly. Suddenly Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is she has not who he says he is…'', paving felt able to be near the way for man or pursue the sinister tone that remains throughout profession she loved. After the novel. In split, she worked in a twist of eventscafe, met and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in married James (on the rebound from the midst love of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a comalife, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you readwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1542028752
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|isbn=8409290103AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=If OnlyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Matthew TreeBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to ensure come.'' I've heard it said that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Patrick sent the money regularly and Well, I must confess that there have been more than a correspondence - few decades of sorts - sprang technology in my lifetime. I've kept up between the two although we hear more about reasonably well with what Lowry has 's advantageous to say than Patrick. It wasnme but I't m left with the feeling that Lowry senior didnit't care for his sons all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, it was that he didnI could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they't care to have him re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his wayI could understand.
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|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)Sunny Singh|title=The Rabbit FactorHotel Arcadia
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|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Meet Henri. With The Hotel Arcadia is a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-memberterrorists who are rampaging through, that they'd prefer killing everyone to be all open-planon site, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This there is when he finds his brother has diedSam, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, wartime photographer and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure parkAbhi, and nothing elsethe hotel manager. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants As Abhi continues to try to occupy his mindcare remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, but he perks up forms a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideasbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly keeps on the scene venturing out of her room to try to explain that missing money – itcapture what's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henrihappened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan..terrorists.|isbn=191319387X086154742X
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|isbn=14711793111529153298|title=The UnheardList of Suspicious Things|author=Nicci FrenchJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Tess, a teacher It's 1979 and Jason, a headmaster, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of the family home and Jason Margaret Thatcher is now married to EmilyPrime Minister. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart(A woman? I mean, honestly... ) They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in She's not what was the 's worrying Miv's family home and another in the flat she shares with her mother, though. Women have been disappearing. It Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared'doesn'seemedt sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she' s overheard that her father wants to be working well until move the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing of a woman falling family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a tall building and she started swearingfrightening, foreign place, using words she was unlikely to have heard in either homebest avoided. Her behaviour deteriorated For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and there were problems at nursery schoolshe'll do anything to prevent that. Tess turns to a therapist for help, then She's not worried about the dangers or that her doctor and finally the police but no one will take what she has Mum's stopped talking - to say seriouslyanyone.
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|isbn=14711966151398524085|title=IcedHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Felix FrancisNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Miles Pussett used to be a Steeplechase jockey Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but those days never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling headall worried but -first down the threestrangely -quarter-mile Cresta Runher husband, Alec, occasionally reaching eighty miles an houris not. He was in St Moritz Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the same weekend as White Turf - thatbody of Greg's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with father, Duncan Ackerley, in the saddling of the horsesriver. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he swore that hecouldn'd never go back to itt stand the guilt. But when he sees that something suspicious is going on, Miles The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can't help do but look for answers, even when it puts him in dangerget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=147228612X1035906708|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillDiva|author=Alan JohnsonDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelsontend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, although we probably haven't taken much notice of them. They live quietNew York, uneventful lives in December 1923 and stay mostly under the radaronly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. In a city like London, thatHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's quite easy - and even GaryCallas's three flatmates largely ignore himto make it more manageable in the States. The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her makeup as voice - she goes to work on was raised under the train each morning: he'd love to ask Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her for a date but he doesn't have the courage. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and asks made no secret of her preference for his help. Before long he finds himself on the run from mobstersher elder sister, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan policeJackie.
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|author=Claire McGowanChristopher Edge|title=I Know YouBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'Then:. All big movie fans, they'' Casey returns from a walk with re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the babymovie starts, Carsonthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and comes across three bodiesthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, almost a whole family taken down. ''Now:'' Rachel can they figure out what on earth is out for a walk with her doggoing on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, Brandy, when she comes across a body in the woods.and to their real lives?|isbn=15420199741839942738
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|isbnauthor=1529148251Rachel Greenlaw|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela CoelCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTeens|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rapecan hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from itanswering beat in my heart.''
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|isbnauthor=0008433631James Sherwood Metts|title=Next of Kin|author=Kia AbdullahPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It was Things have been a bit sticky for the sort of thing that happened every dayEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, although not often replacing jobs they're paid to Leila Syed. She'd never driven her nephew, Max, do and other tasks that took time to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her in a panicaccomplish. He was supposed Just as they were beginning to be taking Max get used to school but he'd been called into work all this technological change and the delay in getting there could lead starting to financial losses. As the school was only five minutes out think of Leila's wayother, could she drop him off? Of coursenew ways to spend time, she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her caralong came an awful pandemic. On the way Leila took a phone call - there Life was panic at her work toopretty much shut down and, along with a problem it, all the many daily social interactions on which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskthey depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaMatthew Tree|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesnWe't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1784165263|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma Curtisll Never Know
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|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that she had Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be home to make different from his lunch for one o'clock on the dotfather, despite the fact that she was actually painting one a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of their properties prior to it being let. If she didn't get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and confined to a wheelchair, but don't be too quick to be understandingwho had endless crises of self confidence. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about So Tim applied himself to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2his studies, 42 Linden Road cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the Bloodsworn Sagaworld, set in lies Silverton; a town under the era protection of the Vikings in the shadow Briar's, a family of Ragnarok, when witches who protect the Gods have battled town and their bones lie scattered the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for all to see. This story magic, Ellie Briar is the ultimate in High Fantasyfirst non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and John Gwynne certainly does justice to potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the genreBriar Witch, with mythical creaturesthe town's leader, archaic language and battles galoreEllie takes her place beside her. This is a thick bookAs challenges come her way left, with an intricate plot right and fascinating characters that are woven together centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to create communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a wonderfully realistic maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and gritty world in which our heroes must determine what to do battleas the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=03565142181803364548
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|isbn=B09HTWX47X1529900360|title=Endless ObsessionThe Ghost Orchid|author=Dai HenleyJonathan Kellerman
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|summary=Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's some years since we last caught up with Andy Floodfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, formerly Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a DCI in the Met but now psychologist only worked for a well-respected private investigatorwhile. HeFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's married to Laurapartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, formerly his DS though. Two lovers were murdered in the Murder Squad but now working swimming pool of a remote property in a forensics laboratoryBel Air. Flood's daughters, Gemma and Pippa, have flown He was the nest, Pippa heir to Australia, from where an Italian shoe empire and she has very little contact with the family, is married to an extremely rich man and Gemma to married life. Sheit's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide not the support she needsItalian. Flood's business is going well and that But which of them was why he felt able to turn down the case of Lisa Black.primary target?
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|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The StoningSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands
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|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=In Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a town sleazy enough GP and Rowlands didn't want to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous follow in comparisonhis footsteps, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were particularly when he considered the worldstrain that being on-call put on his father's tallest cricket stumpslife. When she's discovered by he was seventeen he took the town gossip everyone, including opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home tojob for him. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, is the general opinion Before long, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest he was at their conditionsLiverpool University. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a higher rank from the city, to sort everything outchild. Because such an aggrieved If anything, insular community is really going he'd wanted to welcome be a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law..professional footballer.|isbn=1529416973
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|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H0861541774|title=The Mystery A Nye of HealingPheasants|author=A P McGrathSteve Burrows
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|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and heDCI Domenic Jejeune's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populaceclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a feeling of virtue knife - and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to livehe killed a Ghurka. It's quite Initially, he faced a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the lions' manes to make them look more impressiveman. The sagitarii are the archers and Now he could be facing the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with the wild animalsdeath penalty. Today, itDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's the crocodilest help Danny at all.
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|author=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie BlackallAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Beatryce ProphecyPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=''Stories have joy The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and surprises operating as an alternative to all the online apps in them''providing a more personal, we are told heretailored service. And none more so than in this wondrous story, which feels an instant classic with the freshness Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the agelessness it has in equal proportionbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. We start Katie is coming out of a break up with a group of monksbad boyfriend, and so jumps at the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowingchance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upendingbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, trampling on thanks to 44 Scotland Street and biting the poor Brothers. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girlIsabel Dalhousie novels, one but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits no experience in running a King business, or in his castlematch-making, desperate to find the girlbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, for it is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne and cause great change. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simplethere's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, amnesiac lass ever prove to lend a threat to anyone?hand…|isbn=15295008931846976596
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|isbn=B09FFJF8YS0811771741|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Justine Avery and Kate ZhoidikMelissa Leapman|rating=3.54|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is gives us a cry (the bigcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits -girl kind!) others are of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girlvariety. The projects are divided by the time they's final goodbye ll take to nappies and pullcomplete -ups and graduation less than five hours, five to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains ten hours, ten to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit twenty hours and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannotmore than twenty hours. Neither can All the flowersprojects are attractive, nor the fish, nor the birdsmodern and useable. Boy I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 's certainly cansocial-media-worthy projects't. Shebut that's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!me being picky.}}
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|author=Nick Lake and Emily GravettDean Koontz|title=Locked Out LilyThe Bad Weather Friend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Lily Benny ishaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, or wasand his house gets trashed. Oh, or and someone has beendelivered a really weird, very illdisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and to give her parents relief sheit's been told possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to stay with her grandma for deserve all this bad luck. He is a few daysnice person. A really nice person. The parents need So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the relief as Lily's baby sibling delivery to his house is just about a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to be born – help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing good person. Spike is going to do with. But on tracking back home for word take care of her parents (Benny, and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra will certainly take care of her parentsBenny's enemies, and the babe-in-armsif he, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the family back intactBenny, even if itand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's not the family Lily wants – and all she has to help her in the task wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snake.|isbn=14711948331662500491
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|author=Greg James and Chris SmithAdam Stower|title=The Great Dream RobberyMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Maya's father Murray is supposed to be a professor humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who invented an amazing dream machineis able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But something went wrong, and now he can't wake up. Or at least, thats a bad magician's what Maya cat, so his favourite bun has been toldturned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. In This time round it drops them into a rather strange dream Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one night Maya makes a new friendmuch bigger than Murray was, and discovers that the only way to save her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams and reality collide...really...and therehonest, but he's everything from llamas turned up and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, he'll have to a talking cat called Bin Bag!do…|isbn=024147051X0008561249
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|isbn=1800464495B0C47LV1PC|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of MathsFragility|author=Emma SmithMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Literary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Yo birthing person''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the wombquestion if you did, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months oldwould it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.''
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|isbn=1529431735
|title=The Winter Visitor
|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
