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|author=Judith EagleJames Baldwin|title=The Accidental StowawayGiovanni's Room
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|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction |summary=Patch is a little girl who has been passed from one relation to another''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, until it seems that there is nobody left for her to go to. Her father died when she was very young, and her mother ran away. The family lawyeran American man living in Paris, after consultation as he navigates his torturous affair with ‘someone’Giovanni, arranges for her to go to a school an Italian bartender he meets in Liverpool, but on her arrival there, she gets caught up in an adventure with a little boy called Turo who works on a steamshipgay bar. During a chase with him (when she While David is both trying engaged to get her rollerskate back and running away from Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the police!) she winds up on the steamship hiding real tension in a lifeboat, and before she knows it, the ship has left novel arises not from his infidelity but from the docks deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and she is an accidental stowaway!denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=05713631210141186356
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|isbnauthor=0760379874Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri HammettWild East
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|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=I learned to knit Written in the nineteen-fifties: it wasnverse, this is Ronny't a choices story, it was a requirement. Girls learned young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to knit and move to embroider Norwich and boys did wood and metal workstart at a mostly white school. My knitting wa accompanied The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a lot of criticism tragic event, and quite so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a few tears: it was new town, a long time before I realised that there was pleasure to be had in the skillnew school, and keep himself out of trouble. Nearly seventy years later it's the only thing that keeps my hands at all suppleHe listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. The turning point was But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a booklet published by Patons which gave all poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the basics connections between rap and poetry, and some patterns. I've been looking for something simple to recommend to people who'd like to master the skillpower of creativity and crafting your words. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?|isbn=0241645441
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|authorisbn=Sarah Todd Taylor1635866847|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Meet Alice Eclair. A perfect eye and very careful hands have made her one of ParisIt's best young cake makers and decoratorsstrange, making sure her motherthe things that make you ''immediately''s establishment feel that this is a classy affair. Not bad the book for a thirteen year oldyou. OhBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a perfect eye and picture of a very careful handler slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spydesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Her first real mission will be to chase (There's a traitor across recipe in the country – working behind book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the scenes on book and I was told to make a posh sleeper train mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the south corners of France, and hoping against hope that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents to creep into the country from getting into nefarious handspages. But while nobody You suspect that smears of butter would have her down as not be a spy, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find the baddy?|isbn=1839940956problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|isbnauthor=0760379912Jenny Valentine|title=Super Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Quarry BooksUs in the Before and After|rating=45|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: old Elk and Mab are best friends, or outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new and usable when I was more than that even, their friendship is a once in my twentiesa lifetime connection. It would be They meet as children one day on a while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore trip out but Iunfortunately they don't get each other've never felt completely s contact details at home with quiltingthe time. I needed something a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knotsBut then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. ''Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like a good place to start. So Something has happened though, how did it stack up?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360737|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=2|genre= Politics something terrible and Society|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Thereforetragic, all art and now they must be politicalwork through their grief, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believestheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbn=14087121721787333175|title=The Cliff HouseYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Chris BrookmyreBenji Waterhouse
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|genre=ThrillersPopular Science|summary=I was tempted to read ''Many of them didnYou Don't know each otherHave to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, one a glorious mixture of them didn't know anybody, including Jen, one insight into the workings of them quite possibly hated herthe NHS, humour and two of them definitely hated each otherautobiography. What could possibly go wrong?'' ThatYou Don's the round-up for Jen's hen party which is t Have to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barrabe Mad... They're all staying in The Cliff House, hosted by Lauren, and it's promised the utmost in luxury living same elements but then Jen can afford it. She's just sold her muffin business for millions but is staying on moved from physical problems to run it. She's got her doubts about mental illness and the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting work of a little strangely of late and wouldn't explain to her what the email he was hurriedly deleting was aboutpsychiatrist. Added I did wonder whether it was acceptable to that, he's just about forced her to bring his sister, Samira, whom Jen's never met, on be looking for humour in this setting but the trip, on the grounds that she's been stuck laughter is directed at home a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with newborn twins for the last six months empathy and desperately needs the breakunderstanding.
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|isbnauthor=1788360702Onyi Nwabineli|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard ErnstAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=For over forty yearsAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of alternative medicine Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and complementary therapiesinfluencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. ''CharlesNow Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses suing her step-mother to take down the Prince's opinionscontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, beliefs undergoing therapy and aims against secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the background new focus of the scientific evidenceOphelia's online empire. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to her relationship with her father at the reputation of a man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitions.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|author=Will CarverDavid Chadwick|title=The Daves Next DoorHeadload of Napalm|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1529125790|title=The Family Remains|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=45
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|summary=In July 2019It's September 1973 in Hicks, Jason Mott was mud larking on the banks California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of the River Thames when he came across a bag few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of what appeared to be human bonesLA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and Saffron Brown from forensics were there to investigate. The bones were indeed human: a young woman had been killed by a blow to defence contractor are the head many years ago - probably as long as twenty-five - main local employers but the bones had otherwise, there's not been in the river longer much of note other than a yeardive bars and Joshua trees. There was no identification but the bag contained vegetationLife is quiet, some of which was quite unusualuntil....|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|author=Jennifer MasonTom Percival|title=Partitions of Unity|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearances. In ''Partitions of Unity'', she sets her mind to solving a murder....|isbn=B09LQR9FRF}}{{Frontpage|author=Fiona Parashar |title=A Beautiful Way to Coach The Wrong Shoes
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|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary= So what am I doing reading this bookWill's life is difficult, using this bookin a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and being audacious doesn't have enough to review it? Truth is I bought it out money for even the most basic of curiositythings like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. I was at an on-line launch for Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. book and Fiona’s description And yet, he still has a tiny amount of her Vision Days appealed to mehope. I wanted He is good at art, and clings to see if there were things in there the moments of joy when he is drawing, that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing them to feel like a full day, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted to see if I could give myself light at the end of a Vision Daylong, to bring me away from their vision and back to my owndark tunnel.|isbn=103211603X1398527122
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|isbnauthor=1913750353Sylvie Cathrall|title=Britannica's Word of A Letter to the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue MacyLuminous Deep
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|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has There are few greater joys than a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' book which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how lives up to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it should be usedcompelling premise. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration tooAnd this is one of them. I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn=A C Wise1786482126|title=Hooked|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It’s been twenty-two years since Captain Hook, now going by just ‘James’, has been in Neverland. Living a new life in London, he has never completely escaped his past. But now he senses the edges of the beast circling around his life in London, and when suddenly he finds himself face to face in the street with Wendy, he knows that the line between this world and Neverland is growing thin. The beast is finally coming to get him, and in the process will pull Wendy and her daughter Jane back into their past once again.|isbn=1789096839}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787301745|title=Confidence|author=Denise Mina|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=We're back in the world of podcasters Anna and Fin, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]. It was Anna who'd organised the 'family' holiday: her ex, Hamish, is now with her best friend, Estelle and her children are living with them. Fin Janus Stone (who was married to EstelleDr Ruth Galloway) is there too and it was Anna who invited his girlfriend, Sofia. It's not long before everyone realises that was a bad mistake. Sofia's difficult and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - a lighthouse, in a storm - she begins talking about Anna's past, including her real name and the rape. This was something which Anna had intended to tell the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess and ten-year-old Lizzie - when the time was right. And this wasn't the right time.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763566X|title=Listen to Me|author=Tess GerritsenElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're Builders were demolishing an old house in Boston with Amy. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day and she wore her new, butteryNorwich -leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows that they're site was going to be ruined hold seventy- and unsafe five 'luxury' apartments - in when they discovered the snow that's now fallingbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. As she crosses the road Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, a car comes out of nowhere and hits herDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It 's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't stop. Two months later, we're that she is pregnant with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli, and his child as a keen defender result of the suburb of Revere, north of Boston, where she livesone night they spent together some three months ago. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is in California, looking after his sister, she has the time prone to watch what's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionssudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbnauthor=0008395632Joan Didion|title=One Last Secret|author=Adele ParksThe Year of Magical Thinking
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|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Natalya This book is an escort. Well, her nameJoan Didion's not ''actually'' Natalya: that's her professional name but it is a nod to heartbreaking autobiographical account of the grief she endured following her Serbian heritage. Shehusband's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora Dziewulski, usually known as Dora Wulskisudden death. If you're thinking of 'escort' as being Books that shed light on taboo topics like death are such a polite description of a prostitute, run by a pimp, who's turning tricks beautiful and necessary resource to fund a drug habit, forget ithelp people feel less alone. Dora is a professional in all senses of the word. She has an agentDidion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self-pity, Elspethdenial and delusion and makes them utterly normal, who takes 30% of her income and deals with the payments but checks out the clients to see that Dora is going to be safe. Dora describes herself as lends them a self-employed clairvoyant human face to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customswear. |isbn=0007216858
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|author=David SolomonsAlba de Cespedes |title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyForbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Gavin is being followedThis Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the moment our protagonist, seemingly constantlyValeria Cossati, by the new (very annoying) girl at school. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl story. Because in this instance, the girl in question is Nikipurchases her forbidden notebook, and she is a galactic princess (no, really, she is!) So what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled learns about herself in a situation where, potentially, Earth the most intimate and everyone on it will be blown to smithereens, all because of Niki?revealing ways.|isbn=08576399351782278222
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|author=Alex CotterOttessa Moshfegh|title=The Mermaid CallMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids don't exist. But she also knows they have to exist – at least in the public eye. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – At best, this novel is a far northern English resort – without them. A hundred years scathing critique of modern society and change ago, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaids, but were forced to return to help out with reveals the Great War effort. They also showed female emancipationfragility of human relationships; at worst, which helped create it is the town's tourism industrycynical, now faded predictable and falling apart but once a feminist success storyslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. AliceThis unlikely heroine, a slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl who stumbles into Vivien's gran's tourist shop one day, knows she certainly wants mermaids to exist – she thinks her family's black sheep died searching for them, or else was just too successful in her hunt. When the shy, doubting Thomasina that twenties is Vivien collides disillusioned with the exuberantworld, gung-ho Alicebut resolves not to lose sleep over it: in fact, what on earth – or perhaps her solution lies in water – will they find?her hibernation.|isbn=18399419011784707422
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|isbn=17398051000008551324|title=Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of warThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Andrew MarchNeil Lancaster
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|genre=BiographyCrime|summary= It''Loving s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the Enemy'' tells police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the quite extraordinary story of author Andrew Marchother. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's grandparents, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went prepared to Dresden to teach in tell the police where the early days body of the Nazi regime in the 1930sa missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Fred This person, he promises, a sensitive is someone big and thoughtful man, had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against it will be worth the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the timeremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Fred Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's attempts even prepared to separate individual people do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from ideology werenwhat't universally successful but he did make friendships and connections that lasted for a lifetimes happening.
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|isbn=B0B575J99N1739526910|title=Beneath the PorticoesWhere I've Not Been Lost|author=Brooke AdamsGlen Sibley|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at ''One year after a prestigious girlsuicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's school life, he arrives 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'' and now was the time an unfamiliar Devon town to make a changerecover. She needed challengesLiving with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home, he dreams of reconnecting with everything he has lost. There was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job But as those tentative plans falter, he becomes swept up in Bologna. After a telephone interviewlocal world of unlikely friendships, she was offered the position mobile discos and it wasnsurprising romantic possibilities.''t long before she was exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.
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|isbn=15291258980008405026|title=Godmersham ParkA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Gill HornbyJane Casey
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentlemanIt's duty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one sixteen years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelvesince nine-year-old Fanny AustenRosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She had no experience of teaching but this was never found and the investigation ground to a case of necessityhalt. Until the death of Now, her mother, Anne had a comfortable life Helena, and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the householdare dead in their bed. When her mother diedInitially, her father cast her off it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and would have nothing more to do with herboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. No explanation What looked as though it was offered but she would receive going to be an annuity of £35 open-and-shut case is now a yearcomplex double murder. Her maidKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighboursUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|author=Lev Parikian Jo Callaghan|title=Light Rains Sometimes FallLeave No Trace|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary= If you’re When a man is found crucified on the top of a writer yourselfhill in Nuneaton, or an aspiring writer, or someone who pretends DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to writethe case alongside her sidekick, then you know that there are unnumbered types of booksthe AI detective Lock. Some you read for fun It's their first live case together, some for distractionhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, some for vicarious emotion, some to learn from in Kat is suddenly struggling with a random way, some for focussed research, potential serial killer and some because they are, broadly speaking, the kind a very high profile case that draws a lot of thing you think you might like unwanted attention to writetheir AI Future Policing project. OrWill they be able to solve the case in time, indeedor will Kat find herself taken off the case and, are actually trying to write.potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1783966386139851120X
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|isbn=07515815771529077745|title=Lying Beside YouThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Michael RobothamAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Elias Haven murdered A man walking his parents and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthdaydog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. Voices told him The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to do itwork a shift the night before but who had never turned up. Only two people survived D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the carnage murder - Eliasbut her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, who was sent to Rampton, and his thirteenfourteen-year-old brother, Cyrus, who hid in a shed until the police found himChloe Spencer. Twenty years later, Cyrus Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is a forensic psychologist and heunlikely as the girl's been told diary makes it clear that his brother is being releasedshe adored Josh. Can Cyrus forgive the sinner whilst having She knows that she has to find Chloe to live on a daily basis with the results of the crime? Can he bear discover what happened to have Elias living in the same house? How will his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?Josh.
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|isbn=140595115X1399613073|title=A Stranger on BoardMoral Injuries|author=Cameron WardChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Right from Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the beginningfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, we know this will not turn out wellwhich is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Eight days into Anjali is the trip to deliver free spirit of the superyacht ''Escapegroup and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it' s going to Antigua, all 300 tonnes and six decks will be floundering without power end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the Atlanticconsequences. Those of the crew who are left Twenty-five years later there will be cowering in fear a fellow crew member tries to pick them off, one by one. Some are already dead. They are an eerily similar event that will impact the three days from shore and there is no way of making contactfriends. But letThis time, it's go back to when all this started, in Southamptontheir teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=13985086320241636604|title=The Wilderness CureTrading Game: A Confession|author=Mo WildeGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=It had been on the cards for If you were to bring up an image of a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of eating only wild foodsomeone like Gary Stevenson. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the best time to startEast End, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate changehe was familiar with violence, Brexit poverty and a pandemicinjustice. Wilde There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had a few advantages: been to the area around her was London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a known habitat facility with a variety numbers which most of terrainsus can only envy. She had electricity which allowed her He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to run a fridge, freezer and dehydratorbe stupid. She had It was his ability at what was, essentially, a car - and fuelcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Most importantlyEventually, she had shelter: this was not turned into permanent employment as a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its producetrader.
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|isbn=1635864674B0DB64PYV5|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and MoreThe White Rose|author=Joy HowardDave Baines
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|genre=CookeryDystopian Fiction|summary=''Think of it In 2033, a superstorm known as no-whining diningthe White Rose devastates the Northern Hemisphere.'' We know And it's not a fruit rather than a vegetable but the fact storm that so many people get confused just goes to show how versatile the tomato isgathers, wreaks havoc, then dissipates. Then there are all the different typesInstead, not to mention it hovers across half the cultivars - and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't love. I'd argue Earth with her there its octopus- 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. Personallylike tentacles, I'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those - not giving up and Howard makes good use of these. She's not at all precious if you get the tastenever going away.
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|isbnauthor=0241989027Leanne Egan|title=We All Have Our Secrets|author=Jane CorryLover Birds
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|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Harold Gentle advertised When new girl, Isabel, moves to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for live-in help as he was failing to cope at Willowmead House on his owneverything around her. His advert was fairly specific: he was a retired lawyer needing help A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but he also spoke Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, and that's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, isn't she? Even though none of the ability to cook her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's never had a good steakkiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fadswanting to hang out with her because fighting with her is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?|isbn=000862657X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1009473085|title=The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. The first person who came to If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the house was Francoiseinside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, a French woman in her early twenties, who fit then this isn't the bill perfectlybook for you. She got the job but Francoise didnIf that's what you're looking for, I don't know about the advert: she was there think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for a completely different reasonthose tumultuous years. Emily Gentle is HaroldIt's daughter a compelling read and she came should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to Willowmead House because she was running away from a problem in Londonpolitics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. EmilyIt's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a midwife government has made and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and a complaint had been madethe situation in 2024.
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|author=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)Max Boucherat|title=Tasting SunlightThe Last Life of Lori Mills
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Sally is We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a teenager who blanket fort, she has run away from an anorexia treatment clinic. She just wants spaceone main intention, and for people that is to stop questioning herlog on to Voxminer, tiptoeing around herthe world-building, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding hercritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. She finds But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on some farmland with a woman called Liss who is in her forties own, and seems to live alonethen she finds something even more spooky. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally as For the server she is, giving and her a room to sleep in, bestie and the space nobody else should be able to just beenter shows signs of tampering. As they work together When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the farmgame has been doctored – well, where is a closeness develops between them, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendship.girl to turn?|isbn=19145851430008666482
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|author=Jennifer MasonJenny Lecoat|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed occupation. During the 2004 Olympicswar, a womenJean's track coach with father was arrested for listening to a yen banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-years for news of-him. As the-art S&M dungeonBritish finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, a man serving a life sentence in Alabamaand the war is finally over, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgiatheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him...'' This is just But will the truth come as a sample of the cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can seerelief, some keeping up or will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=B09STS96HS1846976537
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|authorisbn=Will Brooker1529428289|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=54|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]]Because of various property transactions, one of people were searching for the most successful British authors I've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brookergrave but when they found it, one of the thousands it came with three sets of less successful authors I quite confidently never have readbones. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, They dated back to World War II and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seemsfell to Bruno, the Chief of her anecdote about cup cakesPolice for St Denis, to discover the words identities of her latest book she was reciting, the bodies and her being in establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get t enough to attend)worry about, but pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbitDordogne River - normally tranquil -hole that is Jewell's diverse outputflowing at record levels. Brooker decides heIt'd like nothing more than to follow her through a year in s not just the local autumn rains that have caused the published author's life, working problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to make a success of the latest title, release water and struggling with St Denis faces the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agreespossibility of a devastating flood. And this is the result.|isbn=1529136024
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|isbn=1801109265152919640X|title=The CompanionSuspect|author=Lesley ThomsonRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as The nation''a punctual man who s favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was inexplicably never murdered live on timetelevision and it seems that there's only one suspect. He' s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he was - as usual - late must not serve anything containing miso to pick up his son, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'Jessica Holby. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for the boyShe's attention, his mother, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when he returnedseriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. The dinner would never Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be servedin a busy, as James live television studio - and Wilbur are the victims of Brooks served a double stabbing on the beachragout to Holby. The case falls Her EpiPen was nowhere to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policebe found and she was dead within minutes. She's feeling the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughIt was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|isbn=152941363X0008385068|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Midnight Feast|author=Martin WalkerLucy Foley
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It'Nobody knows what 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 truth site. The heat is any moreoppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.
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