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|isbnauthor=0008384983Tom Percival|title=The Paris Apartment|author=Lucy FoleyWrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=''Things are not what they seem''. It was a Friday and Jess Hadley was keen to get to her half-brotherWill's flat life is difficult, in Parisa multitude of ways. SheHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'd come across from London on Eurostar, courtesy of he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money shefor even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can'd stolen from The Pervert's till in t work because he lost his job at the Copacabana Bar college, was working a cash-in Brighton-hand job on a building site and had an accident. It wasn't likely Throw into that mix the police would be on to her yet but she'd like to be somewhere safe fact that his mum and with food dad are separated, and drink inside herWill's life seems bleak in every direction. She'd phoned Ben And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and got clings to the address - 12 Rue des Amants - and moments of joy when he told her is drawing, that feel like a light at the apartment was on the third floor. She's outside what's obviously end of a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get in touch with Benlong, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=0760373558Sylvie Cathrall|title=Nordic Knits|author=Sue FlandersA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=CraftsScience Fiction|summary=I was so delighted by Sue Flanders' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didn't need any persuading at all to pick up her ''Nordic Knits''. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norway, Sweden and Iceland. There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a few sweaters or jackets but the majority compelling premise. And this is one of patterns are for smaller items such as mittens, gloves, hats and bags. All are bright and cheerful and very cosythem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=19160720380008517061|title=The House Death in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)a Lonely Place|author=Allie CresswellStig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her mother have travelled daughter Diana, as moving in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to the house move in the hollow. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her mother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She reservations about whether or not this is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, the deplorable truth''. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as future she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent wants for herself and unexpected removal''. Then we are told of her daughter? For the birth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn moment they’re enjoying life in shame the present and isolation in Yorkshireputting the future on the back burner.
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|authorisbn=Matthieu Aikins1786482126|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=ItBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's easy to forget at times that The Naked Donluxury't Fear apartments - when they discovered the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like bones of a child beneath a well-paced thriller at timesdoorway. There was no skull. This is not by any means Was this a criticismritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his friend child as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts result of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way throughone night they spent together some three months ago. But it's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to perfectly envisage the environments and people describedsudden bouts of sickness.|isbn= B09N9157T6
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger0008551324|title=Unhinged The Devil You Know (Volume 3) (Blix and RammD S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|summary=This is It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Ramm, a crime journalist. In this book we find that when one of BlixNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers prepared to tell the police where the body of a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries to contact missing person is buried and who was responsible for her superior, Blixdeath. Before she can reach himThis person, howeverhe promises, she is murdered, someone big and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares it will be worth the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered toopolice doing what he wants. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and Ramm, who are being interviewed by And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot remainder of his sentence and killed someoneto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, and Ramm saw is it all happen. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and Ramm uncover she's even prepared to do the other thing that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003Hardie 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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|authorisbn=Daniel Abraham0008405026|title=Age of AshA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= We meet Alys under the most northerly of OldgateIt's four bridges, sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. she has She was never found and the investigation ground to a knife in halt. Now, her hand mother, Helena, and a meeting that she dreadsher father are dead in their bed. Meanwhile Initially, the City of Kithamar is at it looks like a point in straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the turning positioning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and all things are possibleher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is the night between the funeral of now a Prince and the coronation of his successorcomplex double murder. For a night Kerrigan is convinced that the Kithamar is un-ruledexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=0356515427
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|isbn=15290955220571379877|title=The InterviewKellerby Code|author=C M EwanJonny Sweet|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Kate Harding is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge Communications3. It's the last interview of the day at one of London's newest office buildings and Edge have fitted out their part of the building to be something special. Maggie, Kate's recruitment agent, is keen to see that Kate approaches the interview in a good state of mind: Kate assumes that this is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets the job - and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recently.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B097XNMCRK|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=45
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|summary=Loch Torridon ''Edward Jevons is'' the back of beyond: therea working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugsa theatre director. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto a nice little earnerHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, only handsome and entitled and uses Edward to find that Macca, run errands for him. the man Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he thought 's drunkenly confided how he was working with, is deadfeels to Robert. His remains Most men in Robert's position would never be found. The delivery stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is hijacked by Davie and Callum. As left to stumble upon the story progresses we'll get to know two of them quite wellkissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor= B09NDJ77LMJo Callaghan|title=Me and My Shadow|author=Deborah StoneLeave No Trace
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|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongings. She was intrigued by When a man is found crucified on the discovery top of a picture of hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her own house: it was an old photographsidekick, taken in misty conditions and on the back it said 'dawn 1963AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, some years before Ruth was bornhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. It was before her parents were marriedBut when there is a second body found 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. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined Will they be able to find out what was behind solve the photograph but Covid intervened and the country was case in lockdown. Ruth and Kate are restricted to time, or will Kat find herself taken off the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate case and continue with her university teaching duties. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carers.potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=18479418341399613073|title=Atomic HabitsMoral Injuries|author=James ClearChristie Watson
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|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary=I've said this before but there are some books that you seek outOlivia, some books that you stumble across Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read their friendship would keep theminseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, like, right now! which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it'Atomic Habits's going to end in tragedy. We don' t know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. is in Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the last categorythree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=B09MSC981W0241636604|title=The Woke IliadTrading Game: A Confession|author=George BoreasGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=Helen is a popular activist. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps If you were to bring up an image of a popular franchise owner? Anywaycity banker in your mind, Helen is so popular that the United States government has made her its Ambassador you're unlikely to think of Wokesomeone like Gary Stevenson. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the governmentEast End, where he was familiar with violence, including the Shaming Conference poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the Permissible Entertainment Committee London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - ''for indoctrinating and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to have it''be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader. Ouch!
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|isbn=B09D95TRKZ1035021803|title=The Wedding MurdersAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Sarah LinleyC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Libby Steele was hoping It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to get a permanent job with the newspaper and the case English country village where she was covering was grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her big chancebeloved aunt, Carole. It was even more important Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to her than say the celebrity wedding she least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to attend the following day with village: Arthur, she feels, let her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthewdown badly. She was leaving her seven-year-old sonEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, Patrick with her sister, Emma, and heading off she has not felt able to a grand manor house hotel in be near the man or pursue the North Yorkshire countrysideprofession she loved. Daniel AcroydAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, television presenter met and former member married James (on the rebound from the love of the rock band her life, who was marrying Vicky murdered) and Freya and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phonesJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=1838226834AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Carried Away With the CarnivalAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Ed BoxallBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=It was one ''Opening up new ways of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparentsthinking about the shape of things to come. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:'
I've heard it said that 'Ittechnology'll be brilliantis what happens after you're eighteen. Well, just remember, donI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it't let go s all getting away from me. Some of my handit is - frankly - quite 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're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=1529135362Sunny Singh|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It was The Hotel Arcadia is a long drive to the weekend retreat luxury hotel in Northumbria, right up near the Scottish borders and to make it worse the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morning. Jane and Ruth had known each other for an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a long time but Emily was a bit of an outsider. She and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than the other two women. The friendship of the terrorist group went back to school days. Paul had coached rugby at Hiding from the school where Markterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, Toby a wartime photographer and Rob were pupils. Mark had married JaneAbhi, and Toby is Ruth's husbandthe hotel manager. And Rob? WellAs Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, Rob's dead.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=gareth_steel|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with he forms a warning but bond with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems Sam who refuses to be appropriate. Stories cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of a vether room to try to capture what's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking forhappened through her photography. As a TV show Although they only ever talk over the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realismphone, their friendship grows as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers Abhi tries to help her keep safe and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that he's written it they both wait to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there see if they will be rescued before they are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eatingdiscovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=17876348841529153298|title=The HerdList of Suspicious Things|author=Emily EdwardsJennie Godfrey
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|summary=Our story opens in December 2019It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, before most of us had even heard of Covid or realised they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come her father wants to be a major issuemove the family 'Down South'. WeWhen you're in Farley County Courtfrom Yorkshire, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash KohliDown South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. As they were For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened is major friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that, regardless of . She's not worried about the outcome, this is not going dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to work out well for anyone.
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|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs1398524085|title=The Language of FoodHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never had the slightest inclination to boil an eggturned up. When tasked with writing a cookery book Her children, sons Niall, she recruits Ann KirbyPaul and Ollie and her daughter, a local woman with a troubled home lifeEtty. Togetherare all worried but - strangely - her husband, they testAlec, craftis not. Shortly afterwards, refine Etty and reshape Greg, find the world body of domestic cookeryGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, reinventing in the river. It was an easy assumption for the recipe book police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and changing then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the face of cookery writing foreverguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1398502227
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|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1035906708|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to '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 voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|author=Christopher Edge
|title=Black Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile Lucas and his friends are all booked in the physical form of for a middle-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by movie marathon at their local cinema, a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor place that has come along as well, to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother nickname of the two'The Black Hole'. Loki has a month All big movie fans, they're looking forward to redeem his reputationlots of exciting films, and get his moral compass pointing the right way againmany, or elsemany snacks! However, and to prove it he has to write as the text we read in a sentient notebookmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is able to cry foul of his liesvery different, and judge his progressthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But Loki is as they lurch from one film genre to the kind of god who insists he next, can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to be a walk in the park...rightcinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=14063997521839942738
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|isbnauthor=0008454442Rachel Greenlaw|title=A Flicker in the Dark|author=Stacy WillinghamCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a medical psychologistremote and partially forgotten island, is completing a session with a new patientsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Lacey Mira, like her mother before her, is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes one of getting her through the traumaseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. You seeBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, Chloe knows what itthey capture the island's leader and Mira's like father. Desperate to have save him from death, Mira makes a traumatic childhood. Her father bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is Richard Davissecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the man who murdered six girls some twenty years agosea. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed it watched streets of foreign islands to the police. Dick Davis is in heart of the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to do with him for save the last twenty years. Her mother is in a care future of her homeand the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|author=Christopher EdgeJames Sherwood Metts|title=Escape RoomPlanet Storyland|rating=34.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=I've seen junior variants of Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific location, re paid to do and have other tasks that took time to solve problems in order accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get their way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, Ami used to all this technological change and four starting to think of other tweenagers, all new ways to each other spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and booked into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at along with it, all the game's main offices, where many daily social interactions on which they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerdepend so heavily. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=17880079641736128426
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|isbnauthor=1732898731Matthew Tree|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A ChildrenWe's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese ll Never Know
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|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=There was Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything drunk and he was meticulous about storage: chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys artistic passions all failed miserably and the like: all the things which most children have in abundancewho had endless crises of self confidence. The Boy's delight was in the sense of order in So Tim applied himself to his room: it made him feel happy. As he grew up and became a Manstudies, cultivated his abilities rather than his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger daydreams and better boxes. Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that one of them has a padlock..set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' 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 world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, 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 cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's 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 heart of a maelstrom 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09MN1526W1529900360|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)The Ghost Orchid|author=Liz MistryJonathan Kellerman
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|summary=Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's the third murder in the space of a few weeks fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and they've all been because of machetes used even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on teenagersdifficult cases. DS Nikki Parekh His assertions that there were only open-and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on -shut cases which didn't need the outskirts help of Bradforda psychologist only worked for a while. OnlyFinally, this timeit was Robin, itDelaware's going to be differentpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The body appears to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephewnext case did look simple, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdownthough. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but Two lovers were murdered in the body is clad swimming pool of a remote property in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied backgroundBel Air. What it does mean though He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is that Nikki is going married to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety an extremely rich man and depressionit's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Ally WilkesSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=All the White SpacesA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
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|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=In post-WWI EnglandDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For JonathanDanny Maik, this adventure represents a chance for has taken a fresh start, and the opportunity short holiday in Singapore to live life as his authentic self and true gendermeet up with an old ally, without the disapproval and constraints of his parentsGuy Trueman. However, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and the shadow of the war hangs like he killed a funeral shroud over the expeditionGhurka. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land Initially, he faced a menacing presence waits charge of manslaughter but evidence came to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is light that suggested that he might have planned to make it out of murder the Arctic winter alive, man. Now he will have could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to face his demons once help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and for wouldn't help Danny at all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.|isbn=1789097835
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|author=Dean KoontzAlexander McCall Smith|title=QuicksilverThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be The Perfect Passion Company is a mercurial character yetdating agency in Edinburgh, for he's lived run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundlingmore personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and now look after the business, as Ness is starting planning to take a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject trip to Canada to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', get away for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded while. Katie is coming out of him that he go to a derelict diner, find break up with a gold coin worth a fortunebad boyfriend, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on so jumps at the lamchance to come home to Edinburgh. And all so begins this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to turn up 44 Scotland Street and suggest he's of interest the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to themcharm. Helped to escape Katie has no experience in running a business, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being or in controlmatch-making, the discovery that he is not unique but Ness has full confidence in having some kind of burgeoning power – her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a whole lot more besides.hand…|isbn=15420198851846976596
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|isbn=00084416180811771741|title=Other ParentsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Sarah StovellMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Women's FictionCrafts|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up knits from toys to her retired predecessor there could well blankets. Some will be a house price slump quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in that part front of the townfire' variety. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and projects are divided by the funds which time they raised were a considerable benefit 'll take to the school. There was one difficulty, though complete - they were ''devastatingly shockable''less than five hours, with two membersfive to ten hours, in particularten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, causing problems for the headmodern and useable. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to JoI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education's me being picky.
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|author=Sarah Ann JuckesDean Koontz|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleBad Weather Friend
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|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Jasper Benny is having a little boy who has some struggles, and whilst we're never told why exactlyterrifically bad day. He loses his job, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacksloses his fiancee, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotionshis house gets trashed. His big sister, Rosie Oh, and someone has been delivered a huge support really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging himhis home, and writing a book with himit's 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 deserve all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm downthis bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. His parents seem completely caught up in their business, and so So fortunately for Benny it is Rosie he always turns out that the delivery to. Even though she his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has gone away been sent to University now, she has promised help him that she will still be there when he needs hersince Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would Spike is going to take care of Benny, and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or will certainly take in what theycare of Benny're saying. Nothing seems to be rights enemies, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, Benny, and if they Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can find the nightingale and listen to its song, as figure out who exactly they do together every Springare.|isbn=13985108901662500491
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Adam Stower|title=Red is My HeartMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Fiction Confident Readers |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and read in my house. And so was this onefriendly cat, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, who is able to sleep and eat and is, black eat and white sleep and red, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. Yes But he's a bad magician's cat, he so his favourite bun has an artistic collaborator on this piecebeen turned 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 I think whiffs. This time round itdrops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's possible turned up and he'll have to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas.do…|isbn=19135471830008561249
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|isbn=1529135567B0C47LV1PC|title=One Step Too FarFragility|author=Lisa GardnerMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=ItCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's five years since ' joke? And if you could, is the stag weekend. Five of them had set out: Tim (question should you make it? Or is the groom) and his four groomsmenquestion if you did, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Josh. would it land? The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in catch is that the night Scot managed to wander offanswer for both could well be.. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced 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 ''Fragility''s fatheris set as the city of Portland, MartinOregon, and cautiously begins to emerge from the four friends have been back to continue restrictions imposed during the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tim.covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1529431735|title=Bitter FlowersThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54
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|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab It's February 1991 and Essex is now returning to work. Howeverbitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the quiet job hemore surprising. He's supposedly taken d been exiled on caretaking someonethe Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's house quickly turns into had a murder investigationletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and a mystery around a missing womanhasn't long to live. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear It's hard to be linked, but what feel any sympathy when Hopkins is the linkabducted, stripped to his underwear and how can Varg possibly unravel sent to a watery grave in the truthboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?|isbn=191319308X}}