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|author=Sarah Ann JuckesTom Percival|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleWrong Shoes|rating=4.5
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|summary=Jasper Will's life is difficult, in a little boy who multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has some struggles, and whilst we're never told why exactlythe wrong shoes', we can see that he has anxiety the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotions. His big sister, Rosie, has been a huge support to him, talking him down when doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things were difficult, encouraging himlike food, and writing a book with him, all about birds, that he his dad can read when 't work because he gets scared to help him calm down. His parents seem completely caught up lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in their business, -hand job on a building site and so it is Rosie he always turns tohad an accident. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him Throw into that mix the fact that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she wouldhis mum and dad are separated, and she isnWill't answering her phones life seems bleak in every direction. His parents won't speak to him or when they do And yet, he doesn't understand or take in what they're sayingstill has a tiny amount of hope. Nothing seems to be right He is good at art, and clings to the only way he feels moments of joy when he can find any peace is if he can find Rosiedrawing, and if they can find that feel like a light at the nightingale and listen to its songend of a long, as they do together every Springdark tunnel.|isbn=13985108901398527122
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Sylvie Cathrall|title=Red is My HeartA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Science Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my houseThere are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideasthem.|isbn=19135471830356522776
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|isbn=15291355670008517061|title=One Step Too FarDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Lisa GardnerStig Abell|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's five years since the stag weekendFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Five There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmenlife with his vet girlfriend, ScotLivia and her daughter Diana, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Josh. The first night they had plenty as moving in together would mean a lot of alcohol - too much really 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 night Scot managed to wander off. The remaining four searched future she wants for him in vain herself and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in survival techniques, would go for help. When help didn't come the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Tim. Every year, Tim's father, Martin, present and putting the future on the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timburner.
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|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1786482126|title=Bitter FlowersThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint Builders were demolishing an old house in rehab and is now returning Norwich - the site was going to work. However, the quiet job hehold seventy-five 's supposedly taken on caretaking someoneluxury's house quickly turns into apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder investigation? Inevitably, and a mystery around a missing womanDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Varg finds himself not only investigating these It's difficult as Ruth knows, but also looking into an oldNelson doesn't, cold case that she is pregnant with his child as a result of an eight year old girl who disappeared the one night and was never foundthey spent together some three months ago. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to Her condition will be linkedobvious before long, but what not least because Ruth is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308Xprone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=Kia Ahankoob0008551324|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the hope they would complement each other . But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and collaborate, creating he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a dynamic missing person is buried and prosperous societywho was responsible for her death. Each power This person, he promises, is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children someone big and their descendants. But it didn't quite work out like thatwill be worth the police doing what he wants. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of them his sentence and the eight countries went to warget an early parole date. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high Not much to ask, a solution is proposed. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all do the rings other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and become the supreme ruler of Dunivaanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV
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|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps0008405026|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet TomasIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Happy She was never found and the investigation ground to work with his a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in the blacksmith's forgetheir bed. Initially, heit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's almost something about the positioning of the age to become a full apprentice, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and help with the new batch of dragonswords is certainly needed. Not that there are any dragons, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except..her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Strange signals from within the forge furnace, and a peculiar invite What looked as though it was going to become be an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the wash, that yes dragons do still exist in this world, open-and -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that Tom is rare the explanation lies in the ability to summon themRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, share magical attributes, and ride with themUna Burt) are less convinced...|isbn=1839940026
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|isbn=15293465410571379877|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelThe Kellerby Code|author=Elizabeth GeorgeJonny Sweet|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James Edward Jevons is at a meeting working-class young man, obsessed with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school systemhis upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a representative from the NHStheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, Mr Oh from Barnardosdemanding, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out handsome and entitled and uses Edward to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakerrun errands for him. It follows on from the success of DeborahEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's book ''London Voices'': the meeting is an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used drunkenly confided how he feels to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesRobert. DeborahMost men in Robert's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the problem seems 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 occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting stumble upon the trust two of the people she speaks to and photographsthem kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=B09Q3P283YJo Callaghan|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W HooperLeave No Trace
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for When a man is found crucified on the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the fight against Communismcase alongside her sidekick, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the militaryAI detective Lock. If he It's honest - which Clyde usually their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there isa second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and this one, at leastpotentially, gets him out of the rut he's in. He's good in training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy1399613073|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=There is no mermaid in Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the millpondfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. That at least Olivia is what Bess ruthlessly ambitious, which is telling herself. Neither will there a bonus when you aim to be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homecardiothoracic surgeon. Bess knows there Laura is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of existencethe group and she becomes a GP. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of When we first meet them they're at a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, drug and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal alcohol-fuelled party and how befriending people only leads it's going to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship end in the tired-out mill workerstragedy. But surely that doesn We don't mean know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there is any truth in will be an eerily similar event that will impact the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049Xthree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=17856330740241636604|title=Staggering HubrisThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Josh BerryGary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary=Members If you were to bring up an image of Parliament a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like us to believe that Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the country pin-stripe suit and his background is run by politiciansthe East End, headed by the Prime minister where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those London School of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality Economics. Stevenson is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers bright - the SPADS extremely bright - who are the driving force behind the governmentand he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. We are in the privileged position of having access He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to the memoirs of Rafe Hubrisbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis a card game which was completely contained by the end of 2020got him an internship with Citibank. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watchEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=B09MYXSRV41035021803|title=OtterThe Antique Hunter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareGuide to Murder|author=Cordellya SmithC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the world was made, the animals were given giftsEnglish country village where she grew up. Bear was given strength so that he could become She's back now because of a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burnrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present 'Freya's former mentor andCarole'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - buts close friend, unfortunatelyArthur Crockleford, not is dead and the ability circumstances seem suspicious, to use it wellsay the least. He liked Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to trick other animalsthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. He was also jealous which was how he came Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be in a race with Turtlenear the man or pursue the profession she loved. You might think that's not After the split, she worked in a fair contest but wait cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came aboutFreya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Giovanna FletcherAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Walking on SunshineAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Women's Science Fiction|summary=Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. And whilst he '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is dealing with his griefwhat happens after you're eighteen. Well, so are their best friends, Vicky and ZazaI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. But Pia left them all some I'rulesve kept up reasonably well with what' s advantageous to follow, knowing me but I'm left with the feeling that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on livingit's all getting away from me. Whilst some Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research 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, possibilities and Vicky the probabilities and Zaza, struggling with their grief end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything who could deliver information in their own lives, and go along with hima way I could understand.|isbn=140593560X
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|isbnauthor=1529393930Sunny Singh|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie RochesterHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=CraftsThrillers |summary=''Starting The Hotel Arcadia is a creative business luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has never suddenly been easierviolently taken over by a terrorist group.'' ''If not now Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, when?'' I know that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a businesswartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. There's As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a lot of motivation bond with Sam who refuses to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use be cowed by events, and there are a lot keeps on venturing out of people who have been delighted her room to try to accept capture what I make as gifts's happened through her photography. Selling would offset Although they only ever talk over the costsphone, which can be quite considerable their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and it could they both wait to see if they will be fun to do, couldn't it? But where to start? What do I need to think about? Well, rescued before they are discovered by the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making a Living''terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Freya Marske1529153298|title=A Marvellous LightThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Robin Blyth It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is nudged into a job in the Civil ServicePrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, much but to his chagrinhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the streets of London are threaded with magicfamily 'Down South'. Desperate to remove When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a curse that threatens to swallow himfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, Robin follows Edwin to the countrysidemove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a sinister plot dangers or that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Islesher Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. |isbn=1529080886
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|isbn=02414804421398524085|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition ScienceHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryCrime|summary=EmotionallyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, I am a vegansons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. Mentallyare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, I am a veganis not. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] Shortly afterwards, Etty and was appalled by Greg, find the way body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, I am not a veganthe river. It worked was an easy assumption for a while apart from the odd blip with regard police to cheese but make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then a perfect storm of those events which you hope doncommitted suicide when he couldn't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based proteinstand the guilt. It wasnThe Salter children are not convinced but there't the taste - I know that I s little else they can do but get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare momentson with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=suppl_stafl1035906708|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversDiva|author=Kim StaflundDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=ReferenceGeneral Fiction|summary=SoWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, you've finished writing your book but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and you think the hard work is all done? only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. YouHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas're convinced that all you need to do now is get make it published and the money will start rolling more manageable in? Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - and you had a talent for delivering the written wordStates. You knew your subject When she was back to front. Now you're going to have to in Athens - supposedly so that she could get to grips with appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the book supply chain, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no one wants to be the first to try. Then, when you ''finally'' have a copy secret of the book in your handsher preference for her elder sister, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to youJackie.
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|isbnauthor=1398706906Christopher Edge|title=The Lost|author=Simon BeckettBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeConfident 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 disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officerBlack Hole'. All big movie fans, Jonah Colleythey's young sonre looking forward to lots of exciting films, Theoand many, just about finished himmany snacks! However, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happened. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and when he wokemovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, Theo had gone. It cost him his marriage and his homethey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Ten years later he's largely come through it and he's out with his team when he gets a phone call But as they lurch from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used one film genre to be his best friend but it's a long time since the next, can they've spoken. figure out what on earth is going on? He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - Will they ever get back to the cinema, and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quay. ''There's no one else I can trust'', he says.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|author=Amanda MasonRachel Greenlaw|title=The Hiding PlaceCompass and Blade
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|genre=HorrorTeens|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, Nell Galilee takes her husband a remote and stepdaughter to Whitbypartially forgotten island, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the name wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place seven who swim out to sort things outsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But therewhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's something not quite right about Elder Housefather. The atmosphere Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is unsettling secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off – and before long Nell starts in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to suspect that she and unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her family arenfrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler't alone there…s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=18387719640008664730}}
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|author=Paul CleaveJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Quiet PeoplePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary= I am not Things have been a fan of "bit sticky for the Prologue"Earthlings. Most books are the worse for themAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. In Just as they were beginning to get used to all this case I might make technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an exceptionawful pandemic. We start Life was pretty much shut down and, along with Luca Pittman who is in a hurry. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not haveit, and when he hurries, when he bundles things into all the back of his car and tries to run and then hears sirens behind him, many daily social interactions on which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badlydepend so heavily.|isbn=19131939421736128426
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|author=Will CarverMatthew Tree|title=Psychopaths AnonymousWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and alsoTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing drunk and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of people's misery, his artistic passions all failed miserably and targets for her violent behaviourwho had endless crises of self confidence. Yet she also seems So Tim applied himself to be searching for others who think as she doeshis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornhimself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1913193756B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1529418100A G Slatter|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin WalkerThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesFantasy|summary=I'm not usually ' There's a fan part of short stories - me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I find it can. This secret magic of my own, all too easy mine, at last. I just want to put enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am world, lies Silverton; a fan town under the protection of Martin Walkerthe Briar's [[Martin Walker, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first 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 potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the temptation to read ''Brunotown's Challenge'' was hard to resist leader, and I'm rather glad that I didn't even tryEllie takes her place beside her. For those new As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the seriesdead, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to know about who's another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the background Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to why Bruno survive, is in St Denisunder threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF1529900360|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jenny O'BrienJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her son. Hunter It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had diabetes been badly injured but he felt responsible and this even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was controlled by a pump attached reluctant to ask for his stomach, so her overhelp on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her to get married and she thought it would be -shut cases which didn't need the help of a good idea psychologist only worked for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likea while. Her friendFinally, Millyit was Robin, had arranged to take her boyfriend, LiamDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for a night in a posh hotel but then he dumped her and help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she couldn't get the money backloved needed. The next case did look simple, so Hannah was offered though. Two lovers were murdered in the opportunity to go swimming pool of a remote property in his placeBel Air. She would return home He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to find Ian dead an extremely rich man and five-year-old Hunter missingit's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q1529395224|title=Without Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a TraceVet|author=Jane BettanySion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Life hadnSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: shewant to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father'd just come through s life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a divorce vet and right now it was raining hardconvinced this was the job for him. All she wanted Before long, he was to get back to her new home and settle down for a quiet eveningat Liverpool University. It wasnhadn't going to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a knife in his chestchild. SheIf anything, he'd no idea who he waswanted to be a professional footballer.
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|isbn=18387748230861541774|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemNye of Pheasants|author=S J BennettSteve Burrows|rating=54
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|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's 2016 close friend and the Queen's Private Secretaryformer colleague, Danny Maik, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that too much good claret he was facing a man armed with a knife - and too little exercise is putting he killed a strain on his waistbandGhurka. SwimmingInitially, he decides, is the way faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to go and light that suggested that he can use might have planned to murder the Buckingham Palace pool which is how man. Now he came to could be there early one morning and discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at the side of facing the pooldeath penalty. There was broken glass - Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a crystal tumbler, by the look diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at it - probably 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 Simonall.
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|isbnauthor=057136358XAlexander McCall Smith|title=April in Spain|author=John BanvilleThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Terry Tice was The Perfect Passion Company is a hitmandating agency in Edinburgh, although he didn't think of himself run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in those termsproviding a more personal, tailored service. He saw what he did Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as ''Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a matter of making things tidy''while. I couldn't resist Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondochance to come home to Edinburgh. He enjoyed his jobAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, something which occurred bringing us to him when he was in Burma an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with the army ''where he got the chance some new characters who quickly begin to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''charm. He was spending Katie has no experience in running a lot of time with Percy Antrobus business, or in match- who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles making, but Ness has full confidence in the ''morning''? It was after Percyher abilities, and there's death that he saw the benefits of taking up always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a job in Spain.hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn=Dave Letterfly Knoderer0811771741|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=AutobiographyCrafts|summary=How Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to summarise blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv 'long, cosy afternoons in a pithy sentence to kick off a review front of his memoir? Do you know, I really donthe fire't think I can. Dave is an author and an artist. An inspirational speaker and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholicvariety. The son of a Lutheran minister, heprojects are divided by the time they's struggled with a controlling fatherll take to complete - less than five hours, run away five to join the circus (not a metaphor)ten hours, trained horses, painted caravans, designed ten to twenty hours and painted theatre setsmore than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and hit rock bottom useable. I perhaps show my age when the bottle took overI wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=B0965V3LLN
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|author=Tade ThompsonDean Koontz|title=Far From the Light of HeavenThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=Science FictionParanormal|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion Benny is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to spacehaving a terrifically bad day. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, bound for the world of Bloodrootand his house gets trashed. Oh, she will essentially be and someone has delivered a babysitter for the ship's AI captain. Howeverreally weird, when she wakes up at the end of her trip disturbing coffin-sized object to find dozens of her passengers butchered his home, and the Ragtimeit's AI almost non-responsivepossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, she begins Benny is the very last person to realise deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodrootthe delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are who has been sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtimehelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Meanwhile Spike is going to take care of Benny, former astronaut and friend will certainly take care of ShellBenny's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodrootenemies, half-alien daughter in towif he, to see why the Ragtime has gone quietBenny, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station LagosHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=03565143231662500491
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|author=Rob KeeleyAdam Stower|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!Murray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoliMurray is supposed to be a humble, cabbage tidy and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their nosesfriendly cat, Lily one who is keen able to explain how good they are for you sleep and eat and how nice to eatand sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. One day But he's a bad magician's cat, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordanso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriatedand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, Lily checks with not into the teacherregular back garden, who explains that fruits grow on trees but into a world of frightening adventure and vegetableswhiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, like carrotswhere a troll hunter is expected – well, grow in the ground. Jordan saysone much bigger than Murray was, "I did try to tell herbe honest, Miss!" but he's turned up and everyone laughs at poor Lily.he'll have to do…|isbn= B09HHN541V0008561249
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|isbn=178607981XB0C47LV1PC|title=Bad ApplesFragility|author=Will DeanMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up Can you make a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the side of question should you make it? Or is the road. Wondering question if someone needed help she got out of you did, would it land? The catch is that the car - and heard the screams from deep inside the forestanswer for both could well be.... no. Determining the direction of a sound isn ''Fragility''t easy when you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where a woman was holding her coat over set as the body city of a man. He'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav PerssonPortland, Oregon, a resident of Visberg.cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir1529431735|title=Cold As HellThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
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|summary= In a red suitcase as the bottom of a fissure in a lava field, there is a body. And the man who has put her there has just discovered that he is capable of killing.|isbn=1913193888}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Hope|title=Fledgling|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decades, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. It's an eccentric houseFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, to host eccentrics, so which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the library shelving system is not as wemore surprising. He'd know it, been exiled on the roof is retractable, there is Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so ondecade. At the moment it houses an The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-soldier with PTSD wife, saying that she's ill and a passion for the hasn't long-standing family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abodelive. Oh but it It's also going hard to house someone or something else, feel any sympathy when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day Hopkins is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going abducted, stripped to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again...|isbn=183994188X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=Politics his underwear and Society|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent sent 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 watery grave in the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve boot of the white man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledgedstolen Ford Sierra. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but Is it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.}}a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?