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|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author= Rob KeeleyRinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, 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 EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title= The Boy Who Disappeared 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, Owen, was the architect and work is 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 be settled and Other Storiesit won't be long before a body is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley Written in verse, this is back with Ronny's story, a return young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to the short story format! move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The Boy Who Disappeared treats us move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to eleven settle in a new town, a new talesschool, each as fun and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to read as music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his previous offeringsteacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn= B0BVW69N1G0241645441}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|author= Michael GrothausRob Keeley|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre= Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= Around here, we're big fans of children'But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different thingss author Rob Keeley. And IHe'm willing to bet most s a ball of what we fear will never happenhappy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or we can take steps to change ithector.''
The ''Beautiful Shining PeopleChildish Spirits'' revolves around the question series is one of identity and acceptancehis greatest achievements. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and what is artificialEdward, a spoiled lordling and whether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=191458564X1783064617
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|isbnauthor=B09BLBP3P8Jenny Valentine|title=Neville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic SeagerUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryTeens|summary=Received wisdom Elk and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about historyMab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of the early days of World War II from 1939-40, known They meet as the ''Phoney Warchildren one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler But then chance brings them back together, war breaking outand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and Churchill coming in to save the day. Very little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections tragic, and yetnow they must work through their grief, as Frederic Seager argues in this bookand their friendship, it was of vital significance in how the war played outtogether.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbnauthor=0760378134Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The First-Time GardenerDungeon Runners: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela FarleyHero Trial|rating=54|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=If you've ever thought how good Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it would be to be able to pop out into seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the garden sport where a team of warrior, mage and pick some fruit healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where race to startthe exit, this is perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the book points they grant you needalong the way. ItUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own foodseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, what you're going to groweaten, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil)a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish he has taken to the goading from the main part token bully of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. Therehis world and stumbled into declaring he's also ll enter as a good glossaryteam. SoWhat chance does this friendless, is it any goodmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002Frontpage|author= Eric LaRoccaSaima Mir|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled ThereVengeance|rating= 3.5|genre= HorrorThrillers|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process themMuslim woman. Most horror fiction feature The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn'Big Badt stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn', whether that is a home invader, a monster or t be a ghost, hindrance if it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's good enough. And that wasn''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like thatt a problem here. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illnessVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|author=Amelia Estelle DellosStuart Douglas|title=Delilah RecoveredLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= We meet Dee at During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a point when her life isn't going reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as planned an accidental death, but things mightsomething about the whole thing bothers Lowe, just mightand he enlists the help of a fellow actor, be about John Le Breton to look uphelp him investigate matters further. Out of work They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, about a link to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's jobdeath during the Second World War. But it's not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives there really a link between the attack but not unscathed. Witch huntersdeaths? What on earth has that And will they manage to do with Deeuncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the same....|isbn=B0BKYFDLLV1803368209
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|isbn=0008404976B0CYV674G2|title=The Close Swanton Morley (DS Maeve KerriganJohn Tanner)|author=Jane CaseyDavid Blake|rating=3.5
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|summary=It was because of Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan seemed like an open-and DI Josh Derwent were living together -shut case. A man, covered in Jellicoe Close. If you're mud and blood - and carrying a regular reader of knife, comes into the [[Jane Caseypolice station shouting that he hasn's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read that sentence twice and wondered if itt killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's a massive spoiler because there been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is a delicious sexual chemistry between just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the two which seems very, very realbirth of his daughter Samantha. But (there's always a You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer butthe words ', isnperverse't there?) Josh has a partner and he dotes on her son, even if the relationship with Melissa can be a little rocky'John Tanner' were made for each other. As for Maeve, sheHe's just come out sleep-deprived to the point of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertainfalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|authorisbn=Merryn Glover1787333175|title=The Hidden FiresYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
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|genre=TravelPopular Science|summary= It is always about the book, not the writer, but there are times when the authorI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's hinterland is also the background to the first book and so it {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is necessary Going to understand that contextHurt}}, in order to appreciate a glorious mixture of insight into the book. Merryn Glover is workings of Australian parentage, was born in Kathmanduthe NHS, grew up in the Annapurna and Himalayan humour and now lives in Badenoch in Scotlandautobiography. I can think of no-one better a combination ''You Don't Have to give us a re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than be Mad...'' promised the first Writer in Residence in same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the Cairngorms National Park. Merryn walks, not so much in the shadow work of Shepherd, but in her spirita psychiatrist. I think did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the two would have gotten along famouslylaughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.|isbn=1846975751
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|author=Alice M RossOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Nowhere ThiefAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=At last there is new stock in Anuri spent her childhood on display to the impoverished yet overworld, thanks to her step-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she has stolen itposted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. She also knows Now Anuri is in her twenties and she should be free from worries about being found outis slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, because she has suing her step-mother to take down the ability to leave this worldcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours failing to enter other worldsstart her PhD, where the sea levels are rising dramatically undergoing therapy and the buildings are generally empty of humans secretly abusing people online and ripe receiving money from them for plunderdoing so. With eviction imminentMost importantly, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yesshe is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the answernew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, but and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…same time?|isbn=18399437690861546873
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|isbnauthor=1529504775David Chadwick|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyHeadload of Napalm
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|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive pastIt's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Elsie would race the buses along the side Hicks is a Mojave desert town of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born a few thousand people with cerebral palsy its nearest neighbours of LA and even just standing up was very difficultLas Vegas both a significant drive away. One day Elsie spotted a bus Not much happens in the toy shop window which would help David - Hicks. A silver mine and was happy to use a defence contractor are the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for supportmain local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and walk behind itJoshua trees. Many decades laterLife is quiet, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with ituntil....|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=1847941834Tom Percival|title=Atomic Habits|author=James ClearThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=IWill've said this before but there are some books that you seek outs life is difficult, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because you really MUST read themhe has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things likefood, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, right now! was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will''Atomic Habits'' s life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is in drawing, that feel like a light at the last categoryend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|author=Natasha FarrantSylvie Cathrall|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, in the North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They There are part of few greater joys than a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as book which lives up to a familycompelling premise. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at And this is one with all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn downthem.|isbn=05713487850356522776
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|authorisbn=Nick Brooks0008517061|title=Promise BoysDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murderedFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, three boys find themselves called has settled into the police station as suspectshis rustic life at Little Sky. Each, seemingly, has There’s perhaps a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at little uncertainty about the time future of his murder. But who killed himlife with his vet girlfriend, Livia and whyher daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and if any of relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their namesfuture she wants for herself and her daughter?|isbn=1035003155 For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.
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|authorisbn=G K Holloway1786482126|title=In the Shadows of CastlesThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= We begin after the momentous battle Builders were demolishing an old house in 1066 and on Norwich - the day of William of Normandysite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's coronation as King apartments - when they discovered the bones of Englanda child beneath a doorway. William's position is not secure and the new king has many challenges There was no skull. Imposing authority through Was this a coronation is importantritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. And William is right to worry. While the previous king It's difficult as Ruth knows, Haroldbut Nelson doesn't, that she is dead and pregnant with his child as a result of the likelihood of more pitched battles is overone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish least because Ruth is prone to recognise a new overlordsudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1800422466
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|isbn=00085063370008551324|title=The Garnett GirlsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Georgina MooreNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard OIt'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sidess unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Margo was just sixteen when they fell Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in love. Richard was twenty-one prison and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richardhe's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going prepared to Oxford tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and having a glittering careerwho was responsible for her death. In the eventThis person, he promises, they eloped is someone big and Richard took her away from it will be worth the Isle of Wightpolice doing what he wants. Margo did go And what he wants is to Oxford be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and went on to become a well-respected journalistget an early parole date. The couple had three children: RachelNot much to ask, Imogen and Sasha. is it? Life was lived in London The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richardshe's drinking were never far even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from Margowhat's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''. Then Richard left themhappening.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon0008405026|title=Expectant A Stranger in the Family (Detective Sam ShephardMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5
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|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedinbed one summer night. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in She was never found and the hunt for investigation ground to a killer targeting pregnant womenhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfand her father are dead in their bed. Finding herself put on desk dutiesInitially, which she rails against, she just canit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there't let s something about the case go positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and she starts her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to follow every thread to uncover whatbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's actually happeningboss, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen nextUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbn=15291259600571379877|title=Unnatural HistoryThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonathan KellermanJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement was Edward Jevons is a photographer. Wellworking-class young man, it was Adonisobsessed with his upper-class friends, actually, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - itRobert and Stanza. Robert's past tense as his PA found him dead in his beda theatre director. Three shots were placed neatly through his heart. The PAHe's also self-obsessed, Mel Gornickdemanding, is distraught handsome and entitled and it falls uses Edward to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he tries to establish what's happeneddrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Donny Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had just finished a series of photographs called ''The Wishers''. He'd taken eight homeless people off the streets and asked begun between them what theybut he'd really s not like most men: Edward is left to be. They were then dressed up as their fantasy, photographed and sent on their way with stumble upon the two of them kissing in a generous gift in dollarsdark passageway.
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|author=Robin Birch and Jobe AndersonJo Callaghan|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver StreetLeave No Trace
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Jayden's nose When a man is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – found crucified on the phoenixes and unicorns top of the worlda hill in Nuneaton, for example. Aisha is addicted DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her new tabletsidekick, where she can see videos of anything that might be out therethe AI detective Lock. The problem, as It's their mothers see itfirst live case together, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, Londonhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a narrowboat turns up carrying second body found crucified a science-mindedfew days later, educational purpose, and Kat is suddenly struggling with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find potential serial killer and a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on very high profile case that draws a bit lot of local footageunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The crew of Will they be able to solve the boatcase in time, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving or will Kat find herself taken off the rare critters – case and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a paintingpotentially, and become saviours out of the unseena career?|isbn=0241573483139851120X
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|isbn=19138396561399613073|title=Let's Celebrate Being DifferentMoral Injuries|author=Lainey DeeChristie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787301036|title=What July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=5
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|summary=When we Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years oldday of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. She's Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a careful, meticulous childcardiothoracic surgeon. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who Laura is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July's mother, a perfectionist and any hint that the conversation a trauma doctor. Anjali is heading that way will lead to the necessity free spirit of the group and she becomes a LessonGP. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and heit's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visiblegoing to end in tragedy. JulyWe don's teacher is concerned and brings up t know who suffered the possibility of abuse with tragedy or the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the schoolthree friends. This time, has he not? The playground wouldnit't have been resurfaced but for hims their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Lucy Ashe0241636604|title=Clara and OliviaThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=The year is 1933. The place? SadlerIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's Wellsre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Ballerinas Clara A hoodie and Olivia are sistersjeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, twins where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no less. Identical posh public school on the outside his CV - but not, we learn, on he had been to the insideLondon School of Economics. And not on stage, either. Because there's Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a lot that builds a dancerfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Some things He also realised that can most rich people expect poor people to be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the classroomstupid. A stage presence It was his ability at what was, a charmessentially, a ''joie de vivre''card game which got him an internship with Citibank. The difference between a hard-worker Eventually, and this turned into permanent employment as a startrader.|isbn=0861544080
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|isbn=00084544931035021803|title=All the Dangerous ThingsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Stacy WillinghamC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnIt't really slept for a year - well, apart from s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the odd occasion when English country village where she lost track of time or drifted off for a momentgrew up. ItShe's back now because of a year since request for help from her sonbeloved aunt, MasonCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing dead and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping incircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. In that year she's done everything she could Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to raise awareness about the casevillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. She does interviews and when we meet herEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, she's just been has not felt able to TrueCrimeCon where be near the man or pursue the profession she gave a keynote presentationloved. On After the plane backsplit, she's approached by worked in a podcastercafe, Waylon Spencermet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who points out that she could do a podcast was murdered) and Freya and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferencesJames have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy GreeneAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Fritz All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and KurtStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=We start with ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the pair shape of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when come.'' I've heard it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbourssaid that 'technology' is what happens after you' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switchre eighteen. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's willWell, and instead I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them technology in with open armsmy lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what'Kristallnachts advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did s all the roundgetting away from me. Some of it is - frankly -ups of Jewsquite frightening. These in their turn leave Of course, I could research the younger Kurt at home with his mother possibilities and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the stone quarry therelatest conspiracy theorist. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could come about…|isbn=024156574Xunderstand.
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|isbnauthor=1529421241Sunny Singh|title=Stay Buried|author=Kate WebbHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=DI Matt Lockyer The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that it's actually site, there is Sam, a cold case unit wartime photographer and there are just two of them doing Abhi, the jobhotel manager. Lockyer's not unduly worriedAs Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, though although heforms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable of something betterhappened through her photography. It was a bit of a shock when he got Although they only ever talk over the phone call from Hedy Lambert: she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years ago. She's keen their friendship grows as Abhi tries to see him help her keep safe and they both wait to tell him that see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF1529153298|title=Just LookingThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Matthew TreeJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian General Fiction|summary=It was the summer of 2035 's 1979 and on a cruise ship in MarseillesMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and the end of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a man! honestly...) HeShe's watching the tornado - theynot what're more common in Europe these days - thats worrying Miv's keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierrefamily, a French journalist in his thirtiesthough. Women have been disappearing. He writes for a relatively new paperWell, they've been murdered, the right-wing but to have 'disappeared'La Tribune Gauloisedoesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv' and hes upset because she's interesting if a little wordy on subjects such as overheard that her father wants to move the difference between family 'FranceDown South' and . When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the Frenchmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. His partner, Helen, whoShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's English and Jewish, keeps him in check stopped talking - to some extentanyone.
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|isbn=057137493X1398524085|title=The Other HalfHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Charlotte VassellNicci French
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|summary=''The room Charlotte Salter was full of the sort of people expected at her husband''Tatler'' thinks you should know.'' ''The Other Half'' is the story of two men, both with what looks like the same surname. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir to a baronetcy and his thirtieth s fiftieth birthday party is a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Townbut never turned up. Think Bollinger Her children, sons Niall, Paul and cocaineOllie and her daughter, Etty. His surname is pronounced 'Beecham'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police and is biare all worried but - strangely -racial. His surname her husband, Alec, is pronounced as you see itnot. The two encounter each other when CaiusShortly afterwards, out for a runEtty and Greg, stumbles across find the body of Clemmie OGreg'Haras father, Duncan Ackerley, Rupert's girlfriendin the river. Rupert thought that she It was being deliberately late an easy assumption for his partythe police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. She was dead under a bushThe 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.
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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1035906708|title=White RiotDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics there's always the danger We tend to think of making it too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture the spirit of the momentonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. It takes a truly talented writer Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to be able 'Callas' to capture make it more manageable in the zeitgeist of a particular event or era of political historyStates. Austerity Britain, the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – When she was back in Athens - supposedly so much of what is, and has been, written in that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven Nazi occupation by time to be frothy a mother who mercilessly exploited her and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisive. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly made no secret of her preference for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature)her elder sister, the best writing about current political events is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective viewJackie.|isbn= 1529423376
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|author=Heather FawcettChristopher Edge|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of FaeriesBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie loreLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, and she a place that has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia nickname of faeries'The Black Hole'. Whilst she is brilliant at research All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and speaking to faeriesmany, she is not so good with people. many snacks! So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of HrafvsnikHowever, having somehow offended as the village matriarchmovie starts, she they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is not sure what she has donevery different, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emilythey are swept up into an adventure they couldn's frustrationt even imagine. But why is he here? What does he want? And as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what exactly on earth is going on with ? Will they ever get back to the faerie folk around Hravsnikcinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=03565191201839942738
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