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|author=Paul B Preciado
|title=Dysphoria Mundi
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood''
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|isbnauthor=1782227741Samantha Harvey|title=Little Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha SathaOrbital|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=One dayIn 2024, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on Samantha Harvey won the side of the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. Booker Prize for ''OH HELP ME PLEASEOrbital'' he cries and alerts , a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the attention lives of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out a group of astronauts aboard the dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket batInternational Space Station. Reg is Through a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to see our planet in a nice bowl of brothwholly new light.|isbn=1529922933
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|authorisbn=Rob Keeley295967572X|title=The Treasure in the TowerPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= Rob Keeley Our unnamed narrator is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy about to read begin a new adventure from Rob - train journey with his stories combine fast pace companion Django. Where they're going and lots what the purpose of actionthis journey is, an easy to read style, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalries, and always a good dollop of naughty humouris uncertain. They're all present here, in Django found the tickets ''The Treasure in on the Towerfloor somewhere''and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. The chance purchase of a book during a school trip sparks Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the whole adventure. Who can follow pair travel to the clues best station by coach and find the treasure? Jess, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?|isbn=1800461321train is a steam locomotive.
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|isbn=15291244170008551324|title=Before She DisappearedThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Lisa GardnerNeil Lancaster
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani WhitehorseIt's body in her car at unusual for anyone from the bottom of Hardie family to approach the lakepolice. She knew that Neither side likes or has any respect for the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left her three-year-old daughter and run awayother. Lani was the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and now shehe's moving on again, this time prepared to Boston tell the police where there's the body of a strong Haitian community which missing person is buried and who was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until responsible for her disappearance eleven months agodeath. FrankieThis person, middle-aged he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and whiteto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, gets a job is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and accommodation at Stoneyshe's bar and sets out even prepared to investigate do the community which other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is just about exclusively blackkept well away from what's happening.
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|isbnauthor=B08QDL5HDLJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The Jeeves Collection, Vol 1|author=P G WodehouseVaim
|rating=4
|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=In my youth, I wasn't fond of PG Wodehouse: I've never been keen on upper-class twits and I All was greedystrange''.. I wanted everything: I required brilliant plots, exceptional characters and laugh-out-loud humour. Age brought This haunting phrase encapsulates the realisation that you have to compromise and I came back to Wodehouse with pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a different mindset. The humour is gentle fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and subtle: there's never any malice in it. The characterisation is Eline, two-dimensional where women are concerned: there's little of the protagonists caught in between old gorgons (Aunt Agatha, we're looking at you...) and young schemers such as Honoria Glossop. The plots are superficial but gently engaging. They're fun - and the writing is exquisiteits melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829
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|authorisbn=H M Long1035043092|title=Hall of SmokeThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=45|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= Hessa is an Eangi: a powerful priestess of I can't have been the Goddess of War. That is until she is banished only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by her high priestess for not following her one order: Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to kill the traveller that visits her templestart a new life on Orkney. Her whole town is burnt to the ground while she is praying for forgiveness It's been seven years since we heard from him, and Hessa – but he's now left alone – must find this traveller to atone for her weakness living with Willow Reeves and win back her goddess' favour. On her journeytheir young son, she encounters zealot soldiersJames, deceitful godsas well as Cassie, and newly awakened demons at every turnthe daughter of his former partner. It is a gruelling quest Willow's also his boss, and along she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the waybody of a popular islander, she discovers a harrowing truth: the gods are dyingArchie Stout, is found, and in the High Halls aftermath of the afterlife are fadinga storm, she can't resist getting involved. Soon Hessa He's trust in her goddess weakens, and she is thrust into d been battered about the head with a battle between the gods Neolithic stone - one of the Old World and the Newa pair - which had been stolen from a museum.|isbn=1789094984
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|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Thea Lenarduzzi|title=Kokoschka's DollThe Tower|rating=2.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Well''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this looked very much like a book I could love from compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the get-goprotagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, which the story of a second protagonist is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any unveiled: Annie, the daughter of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section wealthy family in the middle on darker stock paper19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a chapter whose number was in the 20tower,000scaptures T's imagination. Annie's fate is, letters used as narrative formabove all, and so onan enticing story to T. It intrigued with the subterranean voice is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a man hears quest for truth and knowledge, and in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew service of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this reviewmyth, fable and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by themfantasy. So what happened?|isbn=15294026971804271799
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|author=David F RossClaire-Louise Bennett|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Years agoEverything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, Danny Garvey was is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a footballing prodigy playing for his local clubkiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. Everyone predicted a bright future – but his career in professional football never quite worked When the narrator cries out. Thirteen years oninternally, ''come over here and kiss me, convinced '' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying motherconfirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, Danny takes over the shambolic and onceher ex-great team he used to play for and tries partner, a ghost she conjures to reform themtest her detachment.|isbn= 19131935001804271934
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|isbn=15293379250008405026|title=The Mirror Dance A Stranger in the Family (Dandy GilverMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Catriona McPhersonJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It 's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was the August Bank Holiday weekend never found and, as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit and Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined investigation ground to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofaa halt. The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in Dundeetheir bed. She was Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the publisher positioning of a magazine and had been told the bodies that the man running the Punch makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and Judy show in the local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open- Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in his show. Sandy BissettRosalie's request was simpledisappearance: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the same jobothers (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbnauthor=0099551063Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin DuttonOther Girl
|rating=4
|genre=Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary='' We were born from the same body. I'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcherve never really wanted to think about this.''
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|author=Alex WheatleMaxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=The Humiliations Reminiscences of Welton BlakeTolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=23.5|genre=Confident ReadersBiography|summary=We meet Welton Blake at Biographies are often seen as the worst form of times – only they should life-writing which offers less colour; it can be the best seen as more objective and less personal. I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of timeshis literary contemporaries. He should be getting a text from In the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, hefriend Gorky that: 's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in classyou write not of real life as it is, who's duffed him up in response, and the wanna-bae seems but of what you yourself imagine it to actually be with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now Whom would it help to know how I see this tower, that the dad has left the picture – yessea, things are so bad theyor that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''re resorting to having cabbage for dinner. I knowWell, right? But surely this is just Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a blipsubjective account, a day at school giving us access to forgethow he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and everything Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=1804271977}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077745|title=The Dark Wives (like D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=A man walking his vomit) will all come out dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the wash? park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. This can't be D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the start disappearance of a most nightmarish time one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for young Welton?|isbn=1781129495the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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|authorisbn=Karen M McManusB0FK5LHKD9|title=The CousinsColour of Memory|author=Christopher Bowden|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= The rich and famous Story family led It's been three years since we last reviewed a life of luxury on Gull Cove Islandbook by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, until 25 years ago when each of the Story children - Anders, Archer, Adam and Allison - received so we were very glad to see a mysterious letter from their mother and were cut off completelynew novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. But nowLike all Bowden's stories, there's a quarter mystery at the heart of a century later, their children have been called to return to the island for the summer by their grandmother. What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? ''The dark web Colour of twisted lies, secrets and tragedy that has held the Story family up Money''. We like this running theme in an author's work - take a mystery but give it different flavour and held them apart - for a quarter of a century is about to come crashing downatmosphere each time.|isbn=0241376947
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|isbnauthor=1786495902Olga Tokarczuk|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel HardmanHouse of Day, House of Night
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|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered ''What's the good of a trauma world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which she chooses not govern our lives, like the shift from day to sharenight, however quotidian, causing chaos. She says But, the constant in that image is the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a friend who does knowPrivate Investigator for some time now, burst into tears and healthhe should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire -care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief'maybe go travelling or go on cruises. Hardman dealt with this at the time by That's what 'ordinary people do',''keeping going He': s not been entirely up front about the next day she went state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to work persuade him to cover take his case, it's the budget, next there was thought of the EU referendummoney he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1836284683|title=The Big Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. One night she had 's nothing like I expected it to be sedated , and returned home to begin long-term sick leaveit takes me on a wild ride. That was And that is just what brought me happened with ''The Big Happy''. I don't want to ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but I'll have to this book: 2020 was at least set the year when the bins went out more often than scene. Once that's done, I didthink you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.
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|author=Emma Carroll and Kaja KajfezSally Rooney|title=The Ghost GardenIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.
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|isbn=1036916375
|title=Just a Liverpool Lad
|author=Peter McArdle
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of memories and reflections from the years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the family history of a sea-going family, with the docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the what-might-have-been. It's a book to settle into and allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, to think of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, despite the blitz that was a constant factor in McArdle's early years. I'd never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and could appear after the all-clear was sounded.
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|isbn= 1836285493
|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User
|author=Rob Keeley
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=FranWill is a keen player of video games, the gardener's daughter at a posh country houseconscientious student, is worried. She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - slightly annoying brother and a large bone, buried under the potatoessupportive friend. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, the older child most of the houseall, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawnhe is an aspiring writer. She English is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surprisehis favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in This hasn't gone unnoticed by his bathchairheadteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she might have reason has suggested to be out Will and his mum that he spends a couple of her mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking - afternoons a long-forgotten burial chamber. But surely that won't act as week at a premonition to anything - not here in the sultrydifferent school, Station Road, summery days of 1914?|isbn=1781129002where his ability might be better extended.
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|isbn=reed31009473085|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=James ReedAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)
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|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary=Six years 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?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on from the original editioncertain occasions, then this isn't the book is being for you. If that's what you're-issued with looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a bonus chapter entitled compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Future of WorkConservative Effect'' which includes is an additional 10 questionsentirely different beast. I It've come to this some 6 years after reviewing s the original seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and my life has changed significantly in co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the meantimemost important. I'm no longer working in middleThis book follows the well-management having opted for established format: a down-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. I can therefore relate to series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the first point made coalition took over in this chapter namely 2010, the changes that independence occurred and flexibility are core skills that employees need to havethe situation in 2024.
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|author= Deborah O'ConnorJenny Valentine|title= The CaptiveUs in the Before and After|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersTeens|summary=Hannah knows the cageElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, intimatelytheir friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. It lurks in They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the corner of her eyetime. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Soon Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, it will be occupiedtogether. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=18387726501471196585
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|isbn=B08CR3WNFT1787333175|title=The TherapistYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=B A ParisBenji Waterhouse
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|genre=ThrillersPopular Science|summary=When Leo Curtis found the house in The CircleI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a gated communityglorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, Alice Dawson was in Venicehumour and autobiography. Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the market at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldn''You Don't have to sell her cottage in Harlestone for them Have to be able to afford itMad.. Alice agreed - she was tired of their long-distance relationship. Now they would be able '' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to spend most of mental illness and the week together instead work of just the weekendsa psychiatrist. Leo had some work done on I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the house: he made two bedrooms into one laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable thereunderstanding.
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|isbnauthor=1406395404Mariana Enriquez|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola MorganA Sunny Place for Shady People
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|genre=TeensShort Stories|summary=2020 has been a strange yearMariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots her settings include an abandoned field full of our routines have been completely dismantled disused refrigerators due to an urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? a crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarilyall within Argentina. Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack The circumstances of sleep is only likely to make it worse. And there's also her characters are so plausible that the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CVsimilarly tangible texture.|isbn=1803511230
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|isbn=000820831X1529934753|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenProtest|author=Stuart MacBrideRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=At For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the coastal village of Clachmaracountry's most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the headland is slowly eroding into opening of his retrospective at the seaRoyal Academy. Storm Trevor speeds up Still, he arrived in the process. A ship - the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks nick of time, complete with his two wives and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out six children, one of the house to see whom filmed what's happeninghappened. Margaret runs after her son and as she grabs him Being an influencer, you tend to pull him back to safety she glances across at do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of the newly-exposed cliff front and sees human bonesprotest. Gordon Smith's home is falling into Lexi Williams, an intern at the North Sea RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the evidence War''. It seemed to be part of what hean ongoing series of 'blue-face's attacks, but this was different. The can had been doing for decades is going laced with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes the tumbling ruincyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.
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|isbnauthor=B08BC4D58SAriel Saramandi|title=Winterkill (Dark Iceland)Portrait of an Island on Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the country at one stage as ''rotting'', a blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the malignant forces of racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Each essay in this collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, charting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|isbn=1804271616}}{{Frontpage|author=Ragnar JonassonPekka Harju-Autti|title=LoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse
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|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=Ari Thor Arason It's the eighteenth century, a time of discovery and Britain is expanding its foreign trade. Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to the police inspector Andaman Islands in Siglufjordur and he's still living in the house on Eyrargata which he shared his endeavour. Along with his wife Kristin son, Peter, and son Stefnir before Kristin left their cat, Michi, they set off on a perilous voyage to go to Sweden to do a Masters degreethese faraway lands. The islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and the islanders' leader, Aarav, taking three-year-old Stefnir with her. They were supposed is keen to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledestablish good relations. It's now the Thursday of Holy Week |isbn=B0DS1VGHH3}}{{Frontpage|author=Helene Bessette and his family Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Lili is due to arrive Crying|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=First published in 1953 in Siglufjordur that afternoon. Ari Thor French, this novel is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed to get to sleep the phone rings: a timeless text which wrenches the body hearts of a young woman has been found its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on Adalgatathe page and positions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. Like the main street lives of the townher characters, they are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675
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|author=Rob WintersTom Percival|title=His Name Was WrenThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In September 1944 something came down Will's life is difficult, in Oban Woods, near the village a multitude of Hurstwickways. It came down hardHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', taking he has the spire wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of the village church with it, destroying a stone shackthings like food, and leaving a wide trail through his dad can't work because he lost his job at the woodcollege, but no trace of what it actually wasworking a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. German secret weapon was Throw into that mix the local gossipfact that his mum and dad are separated, but there should have been an explosion and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a cratertiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and there were neither clings to the moments of those thingsjoy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB1398527122
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|author=Stephen ClarkeSylvie Cathrall|title=The Spy Who Inspired MeA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=This is There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bondcompelling premise. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the ladies' and who works for the secret service, but in the planning side And this is one of things more than the active servicethem. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in the resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|isbn=29521638550356522776
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|isbn=31107060751786482126|title=Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director WayThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Gerry BrownElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=''You're not there to run Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the organisation. You are there site was going to make sure that it is run properly.hold seventy-five 'luxury' Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board apartments - not just a corporate board, but when they discovered the board bones of an NHS Trust, a university, child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a sports organisation ritual killing or a charitymurder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. HeIt's particularly keen that theredifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn's increased diversity on these boards and feels t, that this would help to avoid some she is pregnant with his child as a result of the scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company - we're thinking about you) which have occurred in recent yearsone night they spent together some three months ago. For this to happenHer condition will be obvious before long, boards need not least because Ruth is prone to have a wider field sudden bouts of people to choose from when they're looking for an IDsickness.
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|isbnauthor=1786495902Guadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel HardmanAccidentals|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleShort Stories|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend, who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged This collection was truly enchanting in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at all senses of the time by 'keeping going'word: the next day she went to work to cover the budgetspellbinding with its fantastical, next there was the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests magical elements and charming in its gentle portrayal of nature and then it was party conference seasonhuman relationships. One night she had to be sedated Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and returned home precisely, her stories structured by a wisdom that appears to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me want to this book: 2020 was teach us something about the year when the bins went out more often than I didworld.|isbn=1804271470
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|isbn=30305130250008551375|title=The Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to doWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe MoraisNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Independent Director: Leanne Wilson''a job for which no one is qualified'' (''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member of s body was found at the board bottom of directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with Scottish mountain, seemingly the company, (2) is not part result of the companya tragic accident. She's executive teamd looked so happy, too, and (3) is not involved with the day-to-day operations when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the companylast year. (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry BrownAll were experienced climbers, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel that the relationship between the executive members of boards properly equipped for what they were doing and the independent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors), trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalancedsensible people. The function None of the independent director is 'what a stupid thing to have general oversight of the executive side of the board - to spot do' explanations applied. They were all alone when and where things are going wrong - but all too often the relationship they died: DS Max Craigie is too cosy, too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the knowledge and/or experience to understand whatcertain there's happening or to know how to intervene. Covid-19 has highlighted the failings and weaknesses of leadership and governance and you might be tempted to think that these are extraordinary times and that all will be well once we get back to 'normal' but a pandemic was predicted and modelled in killer on the past and there has been a general failure to prepare for what has happened - and is still happeningloose.
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