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|author=Judith EagleTom Percival|title=The Accidental StowawayWrong Shoes|rating=4.5
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|summary=Patch Will's life is difficult, in a little girl who multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has been passed from one relation to another'the wrong shoes', until it seems that there is nobody left he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for her to go to. Her father died when she was very youngeven the most basic of things like food, and her mother ran away. The family lawyerhis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, after consultation with ‘someone’, arranges for her to go to was working a school cash-in Liverpool, but -hand job on her arrival therea building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, she gets caught up and Will's life seems bleak in an adventure with a little boy called Turo who works on every direction. And yet, he still has a steamshiptiny amount of hope. During a chase with him (when she He is both trying good at art, and clings to get her rollerskate back and running away from the police!) she winds up on moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the steamship hiding in end of a lifeboatlong, and before she knows it, the ship has left the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!dark tunnel.|isbn=05713631211398527122
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|isbnauthor=0760379874Sylvie Cathrall|title=Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri HammettA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsScience Fiction|summary=I learned to knit in the nineteen-fifties: it wasn't a choice, it was a requirement. Girls learned to knit and to embroider and boys did wood and metal work. My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of criticism and quite a There are few tears: it was greater joys than a long time before I realised that there was pleasure book which lives up to be had in the skill. Nearly seventy years later it's the only thing that keeps my hands at all supple. The turning point was a booklet published by Patons which gave all the basics and some patternscompelling premise. I've been looking for something simple to recommend to people who'd like to master the skillAnd this is one of them. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn=Sarah Todd Taylor0008517061|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Alice EclairFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. A perfect eye There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and very careful hands have made her one daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of Paris's best young cake makers compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and decorators, making sure relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her mother's establishment reservations about whether or not this is a classy affair. Not bad the future she wants for a thirteen year old. Oh, herself and a perfect eye and a very careful handler and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spy. her daughter? Her first real mission will be to chase a traitor across For the moment they’re enjoying life in the country – working behind present and putting the scenes future on a posh sleeper train to the south of France, and hoping against hope that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents to creep into the country from getting into nefarious handsback burner. But while nobody would have her down as a spy, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find the baddy?|isbn=1839940956
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|isbn=07603799121786482126|title=Super Easy Quilting for BeginnersThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Editors of Quarry BooksElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: Builders were demolishing an old or outgrown clothes needed house in Norwich - the site was going to be turned into something new and usable hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when I was in my twentiesthey discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. It would be a while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but I've never felt completely at home with quiltingThere was no skull. I needed something Was this a little more stylish than my usual buttons ritual killing or knotsmurder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn'Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like t, that she is pregnant with his child as a good place to startresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. SoHer condition will be obvious before long, how did it stack up?not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=17883607370008551324|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of PostmodernismDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Alexander AdamsNeil Lancaster|rating=24.5|genre= Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is political because art is not made struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a vacuummissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. It This person, he promises, is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying someone big and it will be worth the social environment in which police doing what he develops’’wants. Therefore, all art must And what he wants is to be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in transferred to an open prison to serve the Era remainder of Postmodernism’ his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. ? The recent trend of new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so-called artivism has caused artists and she's even prepared to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “leftdo the other thing that Hardie demanded -wing” donors make certain that DS Max Craigie and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s anyone who works with him is kept well away from what Alexander Adams believes's happening.
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|isbn=14087121720008405026|title=The Cliff HouseA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Chris BrookmyreJane Casey
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It''Many of them didn't know each other, one of them didn't know anybody, including Jen, s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one of them quite possibly hated her, and two of them definitely hated each othersummer night. What could possibly go wrong?'' That's She was never found and the round-up for Jen's hen party which is investigation ground to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barraa halt. They're all staying in The Cliff HouseNow, her mother, hosted by LaurenHelena, and it's the utmost her father are dead in luxury living but then Jen can afford ittheir bed. She's just sold her muffin business for millions Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but is staying on to run it. Shethere's got her doubts something about the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting a little strangely positioning of late the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and wouldn't explain to her what the email he boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was hurriedly deleting was aboutgoing to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Added to Kerrigan is convinced that, hethe explanation lies in Rosalie's just about forced her to bring his sister, Samira, whom Jendisappearance: others (such as Derwent's never met, on the tripboss, on the grounds that she's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months and desperately needs the breakUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=17883607020571379877|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised BiographyKellerby Code|author=Edzard ErnstJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=For over forty yearsEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and complementary therapiesStanza. Robert's a theatre director. He'Charless also self-obsessed, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's opinionsdemanding, beliefs handsome and entitled and aims against the background of the scientific evidenceuses Edward to run errands for him. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage 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 stumble upon the reputation two of them kissing in a man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitionsdark passageway.
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|author=Will CarverJo Callaghan|title=The Daves Next DoorLeave No Trace
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as When a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest man is found crucified on the top of a London tube linehill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. As It's their fates overlapfirst live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a 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 story is told case in backwards ordertime, leading up to or will Kat find herself taken off the fateful moment.case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn= 1914585186139851120X}}
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|isbn=15291257901399613073|title=The Family RemainsMoral Injuries|author=Lisa JewellChristie Watson|rating=4.5
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|summary=In July 2019Olivia, Jason Mott was mud larking Laura and Anjali met on the banks first day of the River Thames when he came across medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a bag quarter of what appeared a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be human bonesa cardiothoracic surgeon. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu Laura is a perfectionist and Saffron Brown from forensics were there to investigatea trauma doctor. The bones were indeed human: Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a young woman had been killed by GP. When we first meet them they're at a blow drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the head many years ago - probably as long as twentytragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five - but years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the bones had not been in the river longer than a yearthree friends. There was no identification but the bag contained vegetationThis time, some of which was quite unusualit's their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason0241636604|title=Partitions of UnityThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary= Here at Bookbag TowersIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, we first met Elizabeth Cromwellwhere he was familiar with violence, dominatrix poverty and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and unravelled he has a series facility with numbers which most of disappearancesus can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. In ''Partitions of Unity'' It was his ability at what was, essentially, she sets her mind to solving a murder.card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader..|isbn=B09LQR9FRF
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|authorisbn=Fiona Parashar 1035021803|title=A Beautiful Way The Antique Hunter's Guide to Coach Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary= So what am I doing reading this bookIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, using this bookCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and being audacious enough the circumstances seem suspicious, to review it? Truth is I bought it out of curiositysay the least. I Arthur was at an on-line launch for the book and Fiona’s description of reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her Vision Days appealed to medown badly. I wanted to see if there Even though they were things in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to mentor – without committing them to a full daybe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted to see if I could give myself she worked in a Vision Daycafe, to bring me away met and married James (on the rebound from their vision the love of her life, who was murdered) and back to my ownFreya and James have now divorced.|isbn=103211603X
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|isbn=1913750353AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=BritannicaAll Tomorrow's Word of the DayFutures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly Benjamin Greenaway and Sue MacyStephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=''Britannica's Word Opening up new ways of thinking about the Dayshape of things to come.'' has a sub-title: I've heard it said that '366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerustechnology'is what happens after you' which probably tells you all re eighteen. Well, I must confess that you need to know about this brilliant bookthere have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. It starts on January 1st I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'Razzmatazzm left with the feeling that it'', tells you how to pronounce s all getting away from me. Some of it (''razis -muhfrankly -TAZ'')quite frightening. Of course, gives you a definition I could research the possibilities and then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging probabilities and frequently amusing illustration tooend 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 don't think needed people I knew I've ever encountered could trust and who could deliver information in a word which uses the letter Z four times before!way I could understand.
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|author=A C WiseSunny Singh|title=HookedHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionThrillers |summary=It’s The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been twenty-two years since Captain Hook, now going violently taken over by just ‘James’, has been in Neverlanda terrorist group. Living Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a new life in Londonwartime photographer and Abhi, he has never completely escaped his pastthe hotel manager. But now he senses As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the edges of residents who are still alive in the beast circling around his life in Londonhotel, and when suddenly he finds himself face forms a bond with Sam who refuses to face in the street with Wendybe cowed by events, he knows that the line between this world and Neverland is growing thinkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. The beast is finally coming Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to get him, help her keep safe and in they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the process will pull Wendy and her daughter Jane back into their past once againterrorists.|isbn=1789096839086154742X
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|isbn=17873017451529153298|title=ConfidenceThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Denise MinaJennie Godfrey|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=WeIt're back in the world of podcasters Anna s 1979 and FinMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]honestly... ) It was Anna whoShe's not what'd organised the s worrying Miv's family' holiday: her ex, Hamishthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, is now with her best friendthey've been murdered, Estelle and her children are living with thembut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Fin (who was married to Estelle) is there too and it was Anna who invited his girlfriend, Sofia. ItMiv's upset because she's not long before everyone realises overheard that was a bad mistakeher father wants to move the family 'Down South'. SofiaWhen you's difficult and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - re from Yorkshire, Down South is a lighthousefrightening, in a storm - she begins talking about Anna's pastforeign place, including her real name and the rapebest avoided. This was something which Anna had intended to tell For Miv, the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and ten-year-old Lizzie - when the time was rightshe'll do anything to prevent that. And this wasnShe't s not worried about the right timedangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=178763566X1398524085|title=Listen to MeHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Tess GerritsenNicci French|rating=4.5
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|summary=WeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband're in Boston with Amys fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and she wore her newdaughter, buttery-leather pumps Etty. are all worried but as she comes out of the library she knows that they're going to be ruined - and unsafe strangely - in the snow that's now falling. As she crosses the road, a car comes out of nowhere and hits her. It doesn't stop. Two months laterhusband, we're with Angela RizzoliAlec, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoliis not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and a keen defender of Greg, find the suburb body of RevereGreg's father, north of BostonDuncan Ackerley, where she livesin the river. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has It was an easy assumption for the time police to watch whatmake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's happening in t stand the neighbourhoodguilt. The people who Salter children are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsnot convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=00083956321035906708|title=One Last SecretDiva|author=Adele ParksDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Natalya is an escort. WellWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, her name's not ''actually'' Natalya: that's her professional name but it is a nod she was born to her Serbian heritage. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora DziewulskiGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, usually known as Dora Wulskiin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. If you're thinking of Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'escort' as being a polite description of a prostitute, run by a pimp, whoCallas's turning tricks to fund a drug habit, forget make it. Dora is a professional more manageable in all senses of the wordStates. She has an agent, Elspeth, who takes 30% of When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her income and deals with voice - she was raised under the payments but checks out the clients to see that Dora is going to be safe. Dora describes herself as Nazi occupation by a self-employed clairvoyant to Her Majesty's Revenue mother who mercilessly exploited her and Customsmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|author=David SolomonsChristopher Edge|title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|summary=Gavin is being followedLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, seemingly constantly, by a place that has the new (very annoying) girl at schoolnickname of 'The Black Hole'. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl story. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! Because in this instanceHowever, as the girl in question movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is Nikivery different, and she is a galactic princess (nothey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, really, she can they figure out what on earth is!) going on? So what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled in a situation whereWill they ever get back to the cinema, potentially, Earth and everyone on it will be blown to smithereens, all because of Nikitheir real lives?|isbn=08576399351839942738
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|author=Alex CotterRachel Greenlaw|title=The Mermaid CallCompass and Blade
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|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids don't exist'I can hear the song of the sea. But she also knows they have to exist – at least The call of the deep, the answering beat in the public eyemy heart. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – '' Rosevear, a far northern English resort – without themremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. A hundred years and change agoMira, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaidslike her mother before her, but were forced is one of the seven who swim out to return survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to help out with end the Great War effort. They also showed female emancipationwrecking, which helped create they capture the townisland's tourism industry, now faded leader and falling apart but once a feminist success storyMira's father. AliceDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a girl bargain with a wreck survivor who stumbles into Vivien's gran's tourist shop one dayis as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, knows she certainly wants mermaids sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to exist – she thinks unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her familyfrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's black sheep died searching for themterritory, or else was just too successful in Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her hunthome and the ones she holds most dear. When the shy, doubting Thomasina that is Vivien collides with the exuberant, gung-ho Alice, what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they find?|isbn=18399419010008664730
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|isbnauthor=1739805100James Sherwood Metts|title=Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of war|author=Andrew MarchPlanet Storyland
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|genre=BiographyConfident Readers|summary= ''Loving Things have been a bit sticky for the Enemy'' tells the quite extraordinary story of author Andrew MarchEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's grandparents, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went re paid to Dresden do and other tasks that took time to teach in the early days of the Nazi regime in the 1930saccomplish. Fred, a sensitive Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and thoughtful manstarting to think of other, had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Fred's attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships Life was pretty much shut down and connections that lasted for a lifetime, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=B0B575J99NMatthew Tree|title=Beneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke AdamsWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and a teacher chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and now was the time to make a changewho had endless crises of self confidence. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she So Tim applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interviewhimself to his studies, she was offered the position cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and it wasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class set himself high but it went surprisingly wellachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1529125898A G Slatter|title=Godmersham Park|author=Gill HornbyThe Briar Book of the Dead
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|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary=''If it were not There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for the casual dereliction however long I can. This secret magic of the odd gentleman's dutymy own, all mine, there would no women at last. I just want to teach well-bred daughters at allenjoy it for a while.''
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|authorisbn=Lev Parikian 1529900360|title=Light Rains Sometimes FallThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary= If you’re a writer yourself, or an aspiring writerIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, or someone who pretends Sturgis was reluctant to write, then you know ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there are unnumbered types were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of booksa psychologist only worked for a while. Some you read for fun Finally, it was Robin, some for distractionDelaware's partner, some who nudged Milo into asking for vicarious emotionhelp again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, some to learn from though. Two lovers were murdered in a random way, some for focussed research, and some because they are, broadly speaking, the kind swimming pool of thing you think you might like to writea remote property in Bel Air. Or, indeed, are actually trying He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to writean extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.|isbn=1783966386 But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=07515815771529395224|title=Lying Beside YouLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Michael RobothamSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthday. Voices told him to do itSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Only two people survived the carnage - Elias, who His father was sent a GP and Rowlands didn't want to Rampton, and follow in his thirteen-year-old brotherfootsteps, Cyrus, who hid in a shed until particularly when he considered the police found him. Twenty years later, Cyrus is a forensic psychologist and he's been told strain that his brother is being released. Can Cyrus forgive the sinner whilst having to live on a daily basis with the results of the crime? Can he bear to have Elias living in the same house? How will his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=140595115X|title=A Stranger call put on Board|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4his father's life.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Right from When he was seventeen he took the beginning, we know opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this will not turn out wellwas the job for him. Eight days into the trip to deliver the superyacht ''Escape'' to AntiguaBefore long, all 300 tonnes and six decks will be floundering without power in the Atlantiche was at Liverpool University. Those of the crew who are left will be cowering in fear It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a fellow crew member tries to pick them off, one by onechild. Some are already dead. They are three days from shore and there is no way of making contact. But letIf anything, he's go back d wanted to when all this started, in Southamptonbe a professional footballer.
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|isbn=13985086320861541774|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety A Nye of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635864674|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and MorePheasants|author=Joy HowardSteve Burrows
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|genre=CookeryCrime|summary=''Think of it as no-whining dining.'' We know itDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a fruit rather than a vegetable but the fact that so many people get confused just goes short holiday in Singapore to show how versatile the tomato ismeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Then there are all the different types, not to mention the cultivars Maik was involved in a street brawl - and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says he would later maintain that she hasn't met one she didn't love. I'd argue he was facing a man armed with her there - I have no affection for the ones you find in the supermarket ''next'' to the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from the ones that have obviously just been grown for profit. Personally, I'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those knife - and Howard makes good use of these. She's not at all precious if you get the taste.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241989027|title=We All Have Our Secrets|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for live-in help as he was failing to cope at Willowmead House on his ownkilled a Ghurka. His advert was fairly specific: Initially, he was faced a retired lawyer needing help charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he also spoke of the ability might have planned to cook a good steak, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fads. The first person who came to the house was Francoise, a French woman in her early twenties, who fit murder the bill perfectlyman. She got the job but Francoise didn't know about Now he could be facing the advert: she was there for a completely different reasondeath penalty. Emily Gentle is Harold's daughter and she came Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to Willowmead House because she was running away help as any interference from another police force could provoke a problem in London. Emilydiplomatic incident and wouldn's a midwife and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had been madet help Danny at all.
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|author=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)Alexander McCall Smith|title=Tasting SunlightThe Perfect Passion Company
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|summary=Sally The Perfect Passion Company is a teenager who has dating agency in Edinburgh, run away from by Ness and operating as an anorexia treatment clinic. She just wants space, and for people alternative to stop questioning herall the online apps in providing a more personal, tiptoeing around tailored service. Ness has asked heryounger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, and trying as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to fix her without ever truly understanding herget away for a while. She finds herself on some farmland Katie is coming out of a break up with a woman called Liss who is in her forties bad boyfriend, and seems so jumps at the chance to live alonecome home to Edinburgh. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally as she isAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, giving her a room bringing us to sleep inan Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the space Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to just becharm. As they work together on the farm Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, a closeness develops between themWilliam, becoming to lend a beautiful, powerful friendship.hand…|isbn=19145851431846976596
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|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason0811771741|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's 'A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen InstaKnits for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...Baby'' This is just gives us a sample collection of the cast of characters and settings in Preposterousknits from toys to blankets. As you can see, some keeping up Some will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=B09STS96HS}}{{Frontpage|author=Will Brooker|title=The Truth About Lisa Jewell|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one quick knits - others are of the most successful British authors I've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brookerlong, one cosy afternoons in front of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer togetherfire' variety. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, projects are divided by the words of her latest book she was reciting, and her being in a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'time they' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get ll take to attend), but pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbitcomplete -hole that is Jewell's diverse output. Brooker decides he'd like nothing more less than five hours, five to follow her through a year in the published author's lifeten hours, working ten to make a success of the latest title, twenty hours and struggling with the next in linemore than twenty hours. JewellAll the projects are attractive, due diligence appropriately done, agreesmodern and useable. And this is the result.|isbn=1529136024}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1801109265|title=The Companion|author=Lesley Thomson|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''a punctual man who was inexplicably never on timeI perhaps show my age when I wonder about '' and he was social- as usual media- late to pick up his son, Wilbur, for their worthy projects'boys' day out'. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for the boybut that's attention, his mother, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when he returned. The dinner would never be served, as James and Wilbur are the victims of a double stabbing on the beach. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. She's feeling the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughme being picky.
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|isbnauthor=152941363XDean Koontz|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=''Nobody knows what the truth Benny is any morehaving a terrifically bad day.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and much of the Vézère valley his house gets trashed. Oh, and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')someone has delivered a really weird, the head of detectives for the départment of the Dordogne. They're not just policemen disturbing coffin- they're both deeply committed sized object to the well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of France. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeothis home, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldnit't normally have worried them so much had it not been for s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the strange bulletthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, with Russian letters stamped on Benny is the base, which they found in the carvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. Oh, and there was He is a golf ball too, which didn't belong to the owner of the carnice person. A golf bag would be really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a good place bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to hide help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a sniper's weapongood person. Was there Spike is going to be an attempt to kill someonetake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, or were the detectives being pushed in and Harper (a certain direction?waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=0241542405Adam Stower|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire AlexanderMurray and Bun
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and she's not left her home for 1friendly cat,214 days. She'd ''like'' one who is able to: in factsleep and eat and eat and sleep and, she so nearly doeswell, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. Her outdoor clothes are on and sheBut he's even considered which shoes to wear if shea bad magician's going to catch her train. Thencat, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she so his favourite bun has been turned into a good friendhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, Sadieand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, who visits regularly with her two childrennot into the regular back garden, James and Matilda. Sadie's but into a cardiac nurse world of frightening adventure and full of sound common sensewhiffs. In fact This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and thereto be honest, but he's also an internet-based support group where youturned up and he'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=B09Y451X9KB0C47LV1PC|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)Fragility|author=Richard F WalkerMosby Woods
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Anything can happen at a birthday partyYo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, particularly when the birthday boy is the young Lord of the Manor. But when an eerie signal question should you make it? Or is picked up in the early hours, George and his new girlfriendquestion if you did, would it land? The catch is that the vivacious Lady Antonia, embark on a quest to uncover its incredible messageanswer for both could well be.... Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets the cat out of the bag and the world goes into a state of panicno.''
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|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529431735|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= SoIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. We He're back to d been exiled on the Merge with the first chapter in the third volume of Darren ShanCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's saga of Archibald Lox, had a young man who can pick the locks of portals letter from our world to anotherhis ex-wife, called the saying that she's ill and hasn'Merget long to live. It''. Since his last adventures hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce on the topic of stripped to his regular disappearances. They don't ask too many questions underwear and Archie has settled into sent to a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winston, his lock-picking mentor watery grave in the ''Merge'' and showing Kojo, the young guardian, around our world boot of the Borna stolen Ford Sierra. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD}} Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?