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|author=Kia AhankoobTom Percival|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsWrong Shoes|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high, a solution is proposed. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV}}{{Frontpage|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and Ironskin|rating=45
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|summary=Meet TomasWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. Happy to work with his father in He is bullied because he has 'the blacksmithwrong shoes's forge, hehas the wrong shoes because his dad can's almost t work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the age to become college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a full apprentice, building site and help with had an accident. Throw into that mix the new batch of dragonswords is certainly needed. Not fact that there his mum and dad are any dragonsseparated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except..hope. Strange signals from within the forge furnaceHe is good at art, and a peculiar invite clings to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the washmoments of joy when he is drawing, that yes dragons do still exist in this world, and that Tom is rare in feel like a light at the ability to summon themend of a long, share magical attributes, and ride with them..dark tunnel.|isbn=18399400261398527122
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|isbnauthor=1529346541Sylvie Cathrall|title=Something A Letter to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth Georgethe Luminous Deep
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James is at There are few greater joys than a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school system, a representative from the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out book which lives up to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakercompelling premise. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting is an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which And this is causing concern in some communities. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the problem seems to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust one of the people she speaks to and photographsthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=B09Q3P283Y0008517061|title=ShadebringerDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Grayson W HooperStig Abell
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam WarFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. He's not really that invested in There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the fight against Communismfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, nor is he particularly interested Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a career lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices future she wants for herself and this one, at least, gets him out of her daughter? For the rut he's moment they’re enjoying life in. He's good in training the present and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himselfputting the future on the back burner.
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|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy1786482126|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=There is no mermaid Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold site was going to the millhold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments -owners by when they discovered the London workhouse they used to call homebones of a child beneath a doorway. Bess knows there is There was no time for friendship in skull. Was this a hand-to-mouthritual killing or murder? Inevitably, every man for himself kind of existenceDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be she is pregnant with his child as a glimmer result of companionship in the tired-out mill workersone night they spent together some three months ago. But surely that doesn't mean there Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is any truth in the existence prone to sudden bouts of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049Xsickness.
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|isbn=17856330740008551324|title=Staggering HubrisThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Josh BerryNeil Lancaster
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|genre=HumourCrime|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (thatIt's unusual for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but anyone from the reality is that Hardie family to approach the ''prime'' movers are police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmentother. We are But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the privileged position of having access to police where the memoirs body of Rafe Hubris, the man a missing person is buried and who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020responsible for her death. You might not know the name now but This person, he promises, is someone big and it will certainly be worth the man police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to watchbe transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's 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's happening.
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|isbn=B09MYXSRV40008405026|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Cordellya SmithJane Casey|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When the world was made, the animals were given giftsIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Bear She was given strength so that he could become never found and the investigation ground to a protectorhalt. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burnNow, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Owl had excellent sight so Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that he could see the present ''makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and'' the futureher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use What looked as though it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came going to be in an open-and-shut case is now a race with Turtlecomplex double murder. You might think Kerrigan is convinced thatthe explanation lies in Rosalie's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always disappearance: others (such as they seem. IDerwent'll tell you how it came abouts boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Giovanna Fletcher0571379877|title=Walking on SunshineThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen yearsEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, has died. And whilst he is dealing obsessed with his grief, so are their best upper-class friends, Vicky Robert and ZazaStanza. But Pia left them all some Robert'ruless a theatre director. He' to follows also self-obsessed, demanding, knowing that she was dying handsome and entitled and that they would need help uses Edward to carry on livingrun errands for him. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling Edward has been in love with Stanza since their grief university days - and their own life troubles, decide he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to drop everything stumble upon the two of them kissing in their own lives, and go along with hima dark passageway.|isbn=140593560X
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Robin Blyth When a man is nudged into found crucified on the top of a job hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Civil Servicecase alongside her sidekick, much to his chagrinthe AI detective Lock. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with magicseveral cold cases. Desperate to remove But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a curse very high profile case that threatens draws a lot of unwanted attention to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the countrysidecase in time, where or will Kat find herself taken off the hedgegrows bristle with incantations case and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover , potentially, out of a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles. career?|isbn=1529080886139851120X
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|isbn=02414804421399613073|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition ScienceMoral Injuries|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienChristie Watson
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|genre=CookeryThrillers|summary=EmotionallyOlivia, I am Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a vegancentury. MentallyOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, I am which is a bonus when you aim to be a vegancardiothoracic surgeon. I read [[How to Love Animals in Laura is a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] perfectionist and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) fooda trauma doctor. Practically, I am not Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a veganGP. It worked for When we first meet them they're at a while apart from the odd blip with regard drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often end in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based proteintragedy. It wasnWe don't know who suffered the tragedy or the taste - I know that I can get plantconsequences. Twenty-based food five years later there will be an eerily similar event that tastes just as good as anything plundered from will impact the animal kingdom - three friends. This time, it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=suppl_stafl0241636604|title=Supply Chain 20/20The Trading Game: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversConfession|author=Kim StaflundGary Stevenson
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|genre=ReferenceAutobiography|summary=So, If you've finished writing were to bring up an image of a city banker in your book and mind, you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need unlikely to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong againthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. You presumably wrote A hoodie and jeans replaces the book because you wanted to pin- stripe suit and you had a talent for delivering his background is the written wordEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. You knew your subject back There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to frontthe London School of Economics. Now you're going to have to get to grips Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with the book supply chain, numbers which even parts most of the publishing industry believe us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and no one wants to be the first to trystupid. ThenIt was his ability at what was, essentially, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book in your handscard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to youthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=13987069061035021803|title=The LostAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Simon BeckettC L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=The disappearance It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of Metropolitan police firearms officera request for help from her beloved aunt, Jonah ColleyCarole. Freya's young sonformer mentor and Carole's close friend, TheoArthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, just about finished himshe feels, particularly let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as he blamed himself for what had happenedantique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. He'd fallen asleep After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the park whilst Theo love of her life, who was playing murdered) and when he woke, Theo had gone. It cost him his marriage Freya and his homeJames have now divorced. Ten years later he}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's largely Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come through .'' I've heard it and hesaid that 'technology' is what happens after you's out with his team when he gets re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneyfew decades of technology in my lifetime. Gavin used I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to be his best friend me but I'm left with the feeling that it's a long time since they've spokenall getting away from me. He's obviously in some difficulty now Some of it is - Jonah can hear it in his voice frankly - and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quayquite frightening. Of course, I 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'There's no one else re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I can could trust'', he saysand who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|author=Amanda MasonSunny Singh|title=The Hiding PlaceHotel Arcadia
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|genre=HorrorThrillers |summary=Needing The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an escape unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from their turbulent lifethe terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, Nell Galilee takes her husband a wartime photographer and stepdaughter Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to Whitbytry to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, where they rent he forms a cliffside holiday cottage bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by the name events, and keeps on venturing out of Elder Househer room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. She hopes that it 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 perfect place to sort things outterrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... But there) She's something not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite right about Elder Houseso frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. The atmosphere When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is unsettling a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and off – and before long Nell starts she'll do anything to suspect prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that she and her family arenMum't alone there…|isbn=1838771964s stopped talking - to anyone.}}
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|authorisbn=Paul Cleave1398524085|title=The Quiet PeopleHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|summary= I am not a fan of "the Prologue"Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. Most books are the worse for them. In this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is in a hurrynot. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have Shortly afterwards, Etty and when he hurriesGreg, when he bundles things into find the back body of his car and tries Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to run make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then hears sirens behind him, which committed suicide when he should couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how convinced but there's little else they can do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badlybut get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1913193942
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|authorisbn=Will Carver1035906708|title=Psychopaths AnonymousDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholicWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, drinking continuously and alsobut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, curiouslyNew York, addicted in December 1923 and only moved to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps Athens when she is mainly using the groups to find targetswas thirteen...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her desire father changed it to hear of people's misery, and targets Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her violent behaviour. Yet voice - she also seems to be searching for others was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who think as she does, mercilessly exploited her and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any made no secret of the groups she decides to set up her ownpreference for her elder sister, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornJackie.|isbn=1913193756
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|isbnauthor=1529418100Christopher Edge|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin WalkerBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=I'm not usually Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put place that has the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan nickname of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to read ''Bruno's ChallengeThe Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they' was hard re looking forward to resist lots of exciting films, and I'm rather glad many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that I didnsomething about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even tryimagine. For those new But as they lurch from one film genre to the seriesnext, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to know about who's who the cinema, and the background to why Bruno is in St Denis.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|isbnauthor=B09GJW49GFRachel Greenlaw|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)|author=Jenny O'BrienCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her son''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart. Hunter had diabetes '' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and this was controlled by a pump attached to his stomachplundering the wrecks. Mira, so like her over-protectiveness was understandable, but mother before her fiance, Ian, was pestering her is one of the seven who swim out to get married survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and she thought it would be any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a good idea for him trap to find out what parenting was ''reallyend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira' likes father. Her friend, Milly, had arranged Desperate to take her boyfriendsave him from death, Liam, for Mira makes a night in bargain with a posh hotel but then wreck survivor who is as charming as he dumped is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her and , she couldn't get sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the money backsea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, so Hannah was offered as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the opportunity smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to go in his place. She would return save the future of her home to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missingthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|isbnauthor=B09GV3WS1QJames Sherwood Metts|title=Without a Trace|author=Jane BettanyPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Life hadn't Things have been easy a bit sticky for Ruth Prendergast: shethe Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they'd just come through a divorce re paid to do and right now it was raining hardother tasks that took time to accomplish. All she wanted was Just as they were beginning to get back used to her all this technological change and starting to think of other, new home and settle down for a quiet evening. It wasn't going ways to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed with a knife in his chestspend time, along came an awful pandemic. She'd no idea who he Life waspretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=1838774823Matthew Tree|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog Problem|author=S J BennettWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It's 2016 and the Queen's Private SecretaryTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistband. Swimming, he decides, is the way to go and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to be there early one morning drunk and discovered the body chronic underachiever whose dreams of Cynthia Harris being exceptional at the side any of the pool. There was broken glass - a crystal tumbler, by the look at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - his artistic passions all failed miserably and it looked as though Mrs Harris who had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled outendless crises of self confidence. StillSo Tim applied himself to his studies, it was a shock for Sir Simoncultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=057136358XA G Slatter|title=April in Spain|author=John BanvilleThe Briar Book of the Dead
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Fantasy|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think of himself in those terms. He saw what he did as 'There's a matter part of making things tidy''me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. I couldn't resist the thought that he was an extreme version This secret magic of Marie Kondomy own, all mine, at last. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred I just want to him when he was in Burma with the army enjoy it for a while.''where he got Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the chance to kill world, lies Silverton; a lot town under the protection of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old timeBriar''. He was spending s, a lot family of time with Percy Antrobus - witches who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the purpose of first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a swizzle stick - surely he wouldnsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't drink champagne with bubbles in s cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the ''morning''? It was after Percytown's death that he saw leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the benefits heart of taking up a job in Spainmaelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|authorisbn=Dave Letterfly Knoderer1529900360|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
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|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=How to summarise the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you know, I really donIt hadn't think I can. Dave is an author been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and an artisteven after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. An inspirational speaker His assertions that there were only open-and -shut cases which didn't need the help of a professional horseman. And psychologist only worked for a recovering alcoholicwhile. The son of a Lutheran minister Finally, it was Robin, heDelaware's struggled with a controlling fatherpartner, 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, run away to join though. Two lovers were murdered in the circus (not swimming pool of a metaphor), trained horses, painted caravans, designed remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and painted theatre sets, she is married to an extremely rich man and hit rock bottom when it's not the bottle took overItalian.|isbn=B0965V3LLN But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Tade Thompson1529395224|title=Far From Letting the Cat Out of the Light Bag: The Secret Life of Heavena Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Michelle Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going t want to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtimefollow in his footsteps, bound for particularly when he considered the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the shipstrain that being on-call put on his father's AI captainlife. However, when she wakes up at When he was seventeen he took the end opportunity of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsivejob for him. Before long, she begins to realise that her first mission wonhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't be going - as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and with so many students - been his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtimedream since he was a child. Meanwhile If anything, former astronaut and friend of Shellhe's father Lawrence Biz takes d wanted to be a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosprofessional footballer. 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 Keeley0861541774|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Lily loves eating fruit DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and vegetables. She likes carrotsformer colleague, broccoliDanny Maik, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up their noseswith an old ally, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and how nice to eathe killed a Ghurka. One day Initially, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that carrots grow on treeshe might have planned to murder the man. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in Now he could be facing the grounddeath penalty. Jordan says, "I did try Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to tell her, Miss!" help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and everyone laughs wouldn't help Danny at poor Lilyall.|isbn= B09HHN541V
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|isbnauthor=178607981XAlexander McCall Smith|title=Bad Apples|author=Will DeanThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up The Perfect Passion Company is a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an Audi 4x4 parked at alternative to all the side of the roadonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Wondering Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if someone needed help she got could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of the car - a break up with a bad boyfriend, and heard so jumps at the screams chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from deep inside Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the forestIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Determining the direction of Katie has no experience in running a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference business, or in match-making, but Tuva made Ness has full confidence in her way to where a woman was holding abilities, and there's always her coat over the body of a man. He'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Perssonvery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a resident of Visberg.hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir0811771741|title=Cold As HellInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary= In Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a red suitcase as collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the bottom 'long, cosy afternoons in front of a fissure in a lava fieldthe fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, there is a bodyten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. And All the man who has put her there has just discovered projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that he is capable of killing's me being picky.|isbn=1913193888
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|author=Lucy HopeDean Koontz|title=FledglingThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene Benny is having a most peculiar hilltop houseterrifically bad day. He loses his job, built bit by bit over the decadeshe loses his fiancee, and now looking imperiously down on the village his house gets trashed. Oh, and woods below. It's an eccentric housesomeone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to host eccentricshis home, so and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the library shelving system thing that has trashed his house! The thing is not as we'd know it, Benny is the roof is retractable, there very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it, and so on. At turns out that the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and delivery to his house is a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermynew friend, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroinebad weather friend called Spike, Cassie, a young lass who has been sent to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abodehelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Oh but it's also Spike is going to house someone or something elsetake care of Benny, when crashing through Cassieand will certainly take care of Benny's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And enemies, if you think such he, Benny, and Harper (a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again..waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=183994188X1662500491
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|isbnauthor=1846276772Adam Stower|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica NordellMurray and Bun
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|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers |summary=Anyone Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobssleep and eat and eat and sleep and, promotionswell, higher salaries are the preserve whatever takes his fancy next of the white mantwo. Even when those who wouldnBut he't pass the medical become s a part of an organisation itbad magician's rare that their views are heardcat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the receiving end regular back garden, but into a world of the bias frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but ithe's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his fatherCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountantis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, Mr Patrick, to ensure would it land? The catch is that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowanceanswer for both could well be.... Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrickno. It wasn ''Fragility't that Lowry senior didn't care for his sonis set as the city of Portland, Oregon, it was that he didn't care cautiously begins to have him 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 emerge from the restrictions imposed during the young man on his way.covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)1529431735|title=The Rabbit FactorWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths It's February 1991 and calculations than it Essex is other human beingsbitingly cold, hewhich made Bruce Hopkins's perfect for his job in return all the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, that theymore surprising. He'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic and keen been exiled on stupid-the Costa del Sol as workshoppinga wanted drug smuggler for a decade. This is when The return has come about because he finds 's had a letter from his brother has diedex-wife, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvosaying that she's radio channel, ill and has left Henri everythinghasn't long to live. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything It' s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is just an adventure parkabducted, and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants stripped to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out underwear and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene sent to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and watery grave in the activities boot of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan...|isbn=191319387X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471179311|title=The Unheard|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Tess, a teacher and Jason, a headmaster, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of the family home and Jason is now married to Emilystolen Ford Sierra. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was the family home and another in the flat she shares with her mother. It ''seemed'' to be working well until the day that Poppy came home with Is it a menacing drawing of warning from a woman falling from Spanish gang or a tall building and she started swearing, using words she was unlikely problem closer to have heard in either home. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems at nursery school. Tess turns to a therapist for help, then her doctor and finally the police but no one will take what she has to say seriously.}}?