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|authorisbn=Mark Lingane152919640X|title=GalaxyThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=SparkThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, who is Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an elite pilot with the Space AcademyEpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, barely makes it through live television studio - and Brooks served a battle aliveragout to Holby. His co-pilot Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was not so fortunatedead within minutes. Waking from a coma It was soon clear that lasted yearsthis was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, he remembers little Owen, was the architect and work is in no physical shape still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to resume his dutiesbe settled and it won't be long before a body is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4. But Earth 5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in verse, this is under threat Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and he muststart at a mostly white school. Returned The move is initiated by his superiors to the space stationRonny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, he and so Ronny finds himself amid trying to settle in a last ditch attempt new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to save humanity - music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and not just from , slowly, Ronny begins to see the alien threats against itconnections between rap and poetry, but also from its own sins against itselfand the power of creativity and crafting your words. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W0241645441
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|authorisbn=Lissa Evans1635866847|title=WishedThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=When It's strange, the things contrive to force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the neighbourhood spinsterish old woman, Miss Filey, book for a week of half-termyou. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', theyI visited the author're not looking forward to its [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. For one thing, she thinks Wi-Fi is com/ website] and there's a picture of a special brand slice of biscuitchocolate cake on the homepage. They I don't particularly take to Willard either, the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything eat cakes and everywheredesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. But things soon change when they find (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some tiny old birthday candles, difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and manage I was told to work out that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come truea mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. How will things change for a second time when they realise You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that, having used up three smears of them, these should really butter would not be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202Xa problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|author=Justyn EdwardsRob Keeley|title=The Great Fox IllusionChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a contest with a difference. No singingball of happy positivity, no dancinghe understands children, this show is looking and he writes for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks work, their pleasure and who can attempt to win The Great Fox's magical legacy - the secrets to all of his tricks! Flick is determined to winenjoyment, but not because she wants to own the trickslecture or hector. She is interested in just The ''oneChildish Spirits'' trick, the trick that The Great Fox stole from her fatherseries is one of his greatest achievements. And sheIt's hoping if she a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can find that trick then she will be able to bring cope with anything the spirit world throws at her missing father home., and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=15295019461783064617
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|author=Jason RohanJenny Valentine|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access DeniedUs in the Before and After|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Arun Elk and Sam have had little to do with DonnaMab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a girl at their schoolonce in a lifetime connection. But things immediately change at the start of this extended sprint of They meet as children one day on a novel, when she insists Aruntrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's house has become contact details at the attention of plain-clothes coppers time. But then chance brings them back together, and that they should bunk off school to find out whyare inseparable. And thus an unlikely trio of misfit young heroes is formed – Sam is really not Donna's idea of company Something has happened though, but he is the computer buffsomething terrible and tragic, Donna seems to know all the criminal ins and outs and survival skillsnow they must work through their grief, and Arun? Welltheir friendship, it's his lot to find out that all he based his family life on isn't true, and that his father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved in something quite unexpectedtogether. But how can this disparate trio hope to best MI6, kidnappers, people able to keep the truth about themselves secret for decades, and so much more?|isbn=18399433861471196585
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|isbnauthor=1638485216Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Black, White, and Gray All OverDungeon Runners: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick ReynoldsHero Trial|rating=54|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specificMeet Kit. It has everything to do with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''. The murder Like most of George Floydthe people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a forty-six-yearteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvinmagical mazes, a forty-four-year-old police officerand race to the exit, in perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around points they grant you along the worldway. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but FloydUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's death was an exception. The image seen of Chauvin kneeling the latest race on George's neck the inn TV equivalent is not that one which I'll ever forget team has been retired, eaten, and the protests which followed cannot have been unexpecteda new trio of questors is needed. There was a backlash against Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the police - token bully of his world and not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were stumbled into declaring he''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brushll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|isbnauthor=B09DD1QJKJSaima Mir|title=The Club|author=Ellery LloydVengeance|rating=43.5
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|summary=''The party I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the year turned into the murder mystery north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the decadesecond in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough.And that wasn''t a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}}
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|author=Melissa Fu Stuart Douglas|title=Peach Blossom Spring Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
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|genre=Historical Fiction Crime|summary= I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'OriginsFloggit and Leggit''. Unfortunately it is , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the only truly poetic part edge of a book that I expected more fromreservoir. Covering Chinese history from 1938 The police seem happy to 2005 assign it as viewed through one family's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during an accidental death, but something about the war with Japanwhole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who fleefellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. The story follows them on They travel across the country during their journey across Chinadays off filming, uncovering more possible murders and in Renshu's case eventually , seemingly, a link to Americadeath during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=14722775381803368209
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|authorisbn=Vanda SymonB0CYV674G2|title=FacelessSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpoints, several troubled people are thrown into the same story thanks to just one misIt seemed like an open-and-stepshut case. Set in New Zealand, the first of our characters is Bradley, a middle aged A man struggling with an overbearing boss, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a weighty mortgageknife, and what comes into the police station shouting that he feels is an unappreciative wife. Then there’s Billy, a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes in order to pay for hasn't killed the materials she needsman. And then we have Max, who is also living on A body at the streets and who keeps an eye on Billy. He is a shell bottom of a man, barely able freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to take any care of himself, and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he death. DCI John Tanner is now. One nightjust back from his honeymoon, Bradley finds himself half-crazed which coincided with stress the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and anxiety, driving down the street looking 'John Tanner' were made for a prostituteeach other. He picks up Billy, and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and a spiral away from 's sleep-deprived to the person point of falling asleep at work but he thought 's determined to keep going - probably because he was into someone very differentcan't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1914585046
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|isbn=07603735311787333175|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the WorldYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Sue FlandersBenji Waterhouse
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|genre=CraftsPopular Science|summary=Just occasionally you encounter a I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book of knitting patterns which seems {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to meet your every need. Right nowHurt}}, it's bitterly cold and we're in a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarvesNHS, hats humour and mittensautobiography. They have ''You Don't Have to look stylish, keep me warm and be so cheerful that they make me feel betterMad... If that sounds like a lot to ask, have a look at ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and I don't think that there was one of them which I couldn't see myself wearing. We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the history work of knittinga psychiatrist. It's not essential I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it's a nice extrais always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|isbnauthor=1776574028Onyi Nwabineli|title=Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David ElliottAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for Anuri spent her childhood on display to the child who still enjoys board books (erworld, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills thanks to have realise that you can her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri'play'' with words s childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and make something quite different from each one, basically, monetary gain. We have Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''content about her. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''receiving money from them for doing so. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone Most importantly, she is a ''crynoceros'' (think desperately worried about it!) The pelican her little sister, who sits on his potty changes into a is the new focus of Ophelia''sms online empire.......'' OKCan she save her sister, let's not go there Some people are eating!and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|isbnauthor=B09V1NQ5SXDavid Chadwick|title=Death at Friar's Inn|author=Rob KeeleyHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were in the finals of the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society of FriarIt's InnSeptember 1973 in Hicks, California. For aspiring barristers, moots test the participants' knowledge of several areas Hicks is a Mojave desert town of law as well as their advocacy skills: it's a great way few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of getting invaluable practice LA and of getting yourself noticedLas Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. Tom A silver mine and Nat a defence contractor are from the main local employers but otherwise, there'a provincial university' and they're ''almost'' looked down on because s not much of this. The note other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton than dive bars and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance of confidenceJoshua trees. Life is quiet, until... Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any better.|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=1529125944Tom Percival|title=City of the Dead|author=Jonathan KellermanThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=When you drive large vehicles for Will's life is difficult, in a livingmultitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', youhe has the wrong shoes because his dad can're careful t work and itdoesn's not just about t have enough money for even the way that you drive. You restrict your alcohol intake most basic of things like food, and if ithis dad can's t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleepbuilding site and had an accident. When you're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 a.m. when Throw into that mix the roads fact that his mum and dad are quieterseparated, even if you have to wait up when you get to where youand Will're goings life seems bleak in every direction. And it was going well until the men hit something in Westwood Villageyet, an upmarket neighbourhood he still has a tiny amount of Los Angeleshope. The man was stark naked He is good at art, and couldn't be identifiedclings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|author=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)Sylvie Cathrall|title=I May Be WrongA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre= AutobiographyScience Fiction|summary= When the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think it doesn't really matter how the rest of the world responds There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to your booka compelling premise. I know, having read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. He knows (and at core so do I) that it matters very much how the rest of the world responds to And this book, because it tells the truth as it is, in the early 21st centuryone of them.|isbn=15266448270356522776
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC10008517061|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Tim SullivanStig Abell|rating=54
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|summary=DS George Cross Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Asperger's Syndromesettled into his rustic life at Little Sky. He can be rudeThere’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, difficult Livia and awkward with peopleher daughter Diana, although it's never intentional. It's just that he thinks differently as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and social niceties simply don't occur relaxing life to him. There's a reason why he's move in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and it's that he has the best conviction rate with cases, ever. His partner Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is DS Josie Ottey: the future she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviourputting the future on the back burner.
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|isbn=15291516001786482126|title=Give Unto OthersThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Donna LeonElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
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|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changed. The Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'pandemia'' stripped apartments - when they discovered the city bones of its tourists for nearly two years and a lot of businesses have closed, most never to reopenchild beneath a doorway. There's now was no skull. Was this a cascade of money as life begins again but even 125ritual killing or murder? Inevitably,000 deaths have not put an end to greedDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all the money which is coming their way? Whilst heIt's thinking about thisdifficult as Ruth knows, Brunetti encounters someone hebut Nelson doesn's seen only occasionally since t, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they were neighbours when he was a childspent together some three months ago. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and she'd like Brunetti's adviceHer condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=Marcus Sedgwick0008551324|title=WrathThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himselfIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. Lockdown But Davie Hardie is only just over, struggling in prison and he should be free 's prepared to do what tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he wantspromises, to go where is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants and with whom . And what he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his foot in it when he talks sentence and to his best friend, Cassieget an early parole date. They were half of a desultory school band Not much to ask, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done dealit? Is it some spooky The new kind of music Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out even prepared to do the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he canother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what't..s happening.|isbn=1800900899
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|isbn=16358640700008405026|title=Knit 2 Socks A Stranger in 1the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Safiyyah TalleyJane Casey|rating=45|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=If youIt've ever started knitting s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a pair of sockshalt. Now, her mother, Helena, finished the first one and either got bored by her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the idea positioning of doing the same thing all over again, or started on the second sock bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and lost the first before you finished her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it, this was going to be an open-and-shut case is the book for younow a complex double murder. Where Kerrigan is it convinced that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you to knit two socks the explanation lies in one, divide them up and have a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds good? ItRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's clever and well-thought-outboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Olivie Blake0571379877|title=The Atlas SixKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= DarkEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, sharpobsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and highly inquisitiveStanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert'The Atlas Six's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he' makes its publishing debut after becoming s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a Tik-Tok sensationdark passageway.|isbn=1529095239
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|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I was so delighted by Sue Flanders' [[Cozy Knits: 30 HatWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, MittenDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, 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''AI detective Lock. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from NorwayIt's their first live case together, Sweden and Icelandhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. There are But when there is a second body found crucified a few sweaters or jackets but the majority of patterns are for smaller items such as mittensdays later, gloves, hats Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and bagsa very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. All are bright Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and cheerful and very cosy., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=19160720381399613073|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)Moral Injuries|author=Allie CresswellChristie Watson
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|genre=Historical FictionThrillers|summary=We meet part Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811a century. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at EcklingtonOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to the house in the hollowbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. The two women are angry with each other Laura is a perfectionist and Jocelyn a trauma doctor. Anjali is well aware the free spirit of her mother's strengths the group and weaknesses: 'she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they'She is practiced re at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, the deplorable truth''. Hester is furious about Jocelyndrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's refusal going to do as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal'end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Then we are told of Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the birth of a child andthree friends. This time, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshireit's their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Matthieu Aikins0241636604|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=ItIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's easy re unlikely to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a wellpin-paced thriller at times. This stripe suit and his background is not by any means a criticismthe East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but rather a testament he had been to how well Matthieu Aikins – the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a Canadian citizen who decided facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to accompany be stupid. It was his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts ability at what was, essentially, a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings card game which had me on edge the whole way throughgot him an internship with Citibank. But it's written with Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people describedtrader.|isbn= B09N9157T6
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1035021803|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the third book in a series English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Rammrequest for help from her beloved aunt, a crime journalistCarole. In this book we find that when one of BlixFreya's former mentor and Carole's colleaguesclose friend, KovicArthur Crockleford, uncovers a connection between several Oslo casesis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, she tries to contact her superior, Blixsay the least. Before Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she can reach himfeels, howeverlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she is murdered, and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered tooprofession she loved. We then find ourselves After the split, she worked in a few days later with Blix cafe, met and Rammmarried James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot was murdered) and killed someone, Freya and Ramm saw it all happenJames have now divorced. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|authorisbn=Daniel AbrahamAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Age of AshAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary= We meet Alys under ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the most northerly shape of Oldgatethings to come.''s four bridges I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, she has I must confess that there have been more than a knife few decades of technology in her hand and a meeting my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that she dreadsit's all getting away from me. Meanwhile, the City Some of Kithamar it is at a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible- frankly - quite frightening. It is Of course, I could research the night between possibilities and the funeral of a Prince probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the coronation of his successorlatest conspiracy theorist. For I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a night the Kithamar is un-ruledway I could understand.|isbn=0356515427
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|isbnauthor=1529095522Sunny Singh|title=The Interview|author=C M EwanHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Kate Harding The Hotel Arcadia is going for a luxury hotel in an interview unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for her dream job at Edge Communications. It's the last interview of residents who are still alive in the day at one of London's newest office buildings hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and Edge have fitted keeps on venturing out their part of the building her room to try to be something special. Maggie, Katecapture what's recruitment agenthappened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, is keen their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see that Kate approaches the interview in a good state of mind: Kate assumes that this is because Maggie if they will get a decent bonus if Kate gets be rescued before they are discovered by the job - and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlyterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK1529153298|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Loch Torridon ''is'' the back List of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugs. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto a nice little earner, only to find that Macca, the man he thought he was working with, is dead. His remains would never be found. The delivery is hijacked by Davie and Callum. As the story progresses we'll get to know them quite well.}}{{Frontpage|isbn= B09NDJ77LM|title=Me and My ShadowSuspicious Things|author=Deborah StoneJennie Godfrey|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'What happens when someone is pushed too far and s not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they begin 've been murdered, but to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that no one loved you? And how far would you go her father wants to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off move the shadows of her past and attempts to repair decades worth of painfamily 'Down South'. When you'' Rachel re from Yorkshire, Down South is in a current conversation with her psychiatristfrightening, foreign place, who pushes her to recall her life from very young childhood onwardsbest avoided. But Rachel is combative with Doctor Blake For Miv, sometimes even contemptuous of the move would mean leaving herbest friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. You can see that it She's not an easy therapeutic relationship. Rachelworried about the dangers or that her Mum's recall of her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute and unforgiving claritystopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=15294096591398524085|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Elly GriffithsNicci French
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|genre=Crime
|summary=It Charlotte Salter was some time since expected at her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her motherhusband's belongingsfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She was intrigued by the discovery of a picture of her own house: it was an old photographHer children, sons Niall, taken in misty conditions Paul and Ollie and on the back it said 'dawn 1963'her daughter, some years before Ruth was bornEtty. It was before are all worried but - strangely - her parents were marriedhusband, Alec, is not. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the country was in lockdownriver. Ruth and Kate are restricted to It was an easy assumption for the cottage with Ruth attempting police to home school Kate make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and continue with her university teaching dutiesthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they got to know whilst clapping for carerscan do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=18479418341035906708|title=Atomic HabitsDiva|author=James ClearDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=I've said this before We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but there are some books that you seek outshe was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, some books that you stumble across in December 1923 and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'Atomic Habits'' to make it more manageable in the States. is When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the last categoryNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WChristopher Edge|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Helen is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a popular activist. Or should we call her movie marathon at their local cinema, a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anyway, Helen is so popular place that has the United States government has made her its Ambassador nickname of Woke'The Black Hole'. Helen runs all sorts All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of initiatives on behalf of the governmentexciting films, including the Shaming Conference and many, many snacks! However, as the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''for indoctrinating movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how to have it'they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Ouch!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09D95TRKZ|title=The Wedding Murders|author=Sarah Linley|rating=4.5| But as they lurch from one film genre=Thrillers|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get a permanent job with the newspaper and the case she was covering was her big chance. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? It was even more important to her than the celebrity wedding she was Will they ever get back to attend the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthew. She was leaving her seven-year-old son, Patrick with her sister, Emmacinema, and heading off to a grand manor house hotel in the North Yorkshire countryside. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter and former member of the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phones.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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