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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''
Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. Rather, it is the proportional, valid response to ''the epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. The whole text is framed against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''Read [[Forthcoming Publications|reviews . Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of books about weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to be published]]''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|isbn=1804271454}}
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|isbnauthor=1838773428Samantha Harvey|title=The Art of Death|author=David FennellOrbital
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquid. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy PerrinIn 2024, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tipping. The installation is Samantha Harvey won the work of @nonymous, underground artist and extreme version of Banksy. HeBooker Prize for 's made a macabre promise: more will follow. In fact, we've already met the artist although not by name: heOrbital's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air and iPhone. Elaine Kelly is there with her son, Jordan, and she's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris about a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the state lives of her marriage. Actually, it doesn't take a lot group of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite astronauts aboard the foundation she's appliedInternational Space Station. Chau Ho is behind Through a narrative lens that mirrors the counter. Thereastronauts's someone onlineorbital perspective, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, tooHarvey invites readers to see our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933
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|isbn=1471191303295967572X|title=The InvisiblePale Pieces|author=Tom PercivalG M Stevens
|rating=5
|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=This Our unnamed narrator is the story of Isobel, about to begin a little girl who made a big differencetrain journey with his companion Django. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldnWhere they't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window re going and crept up what the corner purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the bedpost.'tickets ' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldnfloor somewhere''t afford the rent for the house and they had to move has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the far side of past as the city. This part of pair travel to the city was cold, sad station by coach and lonely and Isobel felt invisiblethe train is a steam locomotive.
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|isbn=178089905X0008551324|title=SerpentineThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jonathan KellermanNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death s unusual for anyone from thirty-six years ago and the daughter of Hardie family to approach the woman who died wanted some answerspolice. She had money and money translated into clout and so Neither side likes or has any respect for the problem was dropped onto Milo's toesother. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died But Davie Hardie is struggling in a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive prison and burst into flames. It turned out that she wasnhe't actually married s prepared to tell the police where the man with whom she'd left body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barkerdeath. This person, optometristhe promises, was a good man is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he took out adoption papers for Ellie - wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and she took his nameto get an early parole date. Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she has nothing of her but one photograph of her mother 's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and father and a necklace made of serpentineanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbnauthor=0008379300Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The Shadow Man|author=Helen FieldsVaim
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that he's dying'All was strange''. His body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child and a brother. He's been on the lookout for the perfect people and he's made certain preparations. The flat where This haunting phrase encapsulates the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husbandVaim, Cal, had taken the children - a boy of seven fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and a girl Eline, two of five, away for the weekend. Unfortunately, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela diesprotagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829
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|isbn=B08NZ4LV2R1035043092|title=Dark Memories The Killing Stones (DS Nikki Parekh 3Jimmy Perez)|author=Liz MistryAnn Cleeves|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peggy Dyson was in her sixties and hadnI can't worn well. She was a drug addict and was living under have been the arches in Forster Square Station in Bradford. Her killer thought that he only person who was probably doing her sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a favour by putting her out of her misery. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are new life on the caseOrkney. Nikki canIt't quite understand why shes been seven years since we heard from him, but he's been sent an anonymous letter now living with a press report Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of the deathhis former partner. It had been impossible to make any progress in the case Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the note seemed to taunt body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the police. Then another note arrived with a report aftermath of a seemingly unconnected death in Cambridgestorm, she can't resist getting involved. The third death - in He'd been battered about the street where Nikki lived as head with a child Neolithic stone - brought another communication, with one of a further clue under the victim pair - and Nikki was sure that there was something personal in the casewhich had been stolen from a museum.
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|author=Anna CareyThea Lenarduzzi|title=This is Not the Jess ShowThe Tower|rating=45|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Jess is a normal 90''How unctuous are the fats of another's teenage girllife, just trying to navigate how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the usual stresses identity of schoolT, and boys, and parent troublesthe protagonist of this tale. But strange things seem to be happening in her small townJust as T's story is being told, with the story of a mystery flu keeping lots second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of people indoorsa wealthy family in the 19th century, and who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a strange metal devicetower, with an apple on it, that slips out of her friendcaptures T's imagination. Annie's bagfate is, above all, but that her friends just won't talk an enticing story to her aboutT. Jess feels like It is a story which she might be hearing voicesconsumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and her sister (who is very ill) seems to be responding to her in strange ways sometimesservice of myth, fable and fantasy. Is there something going on beneath the surface of Jess' life? |isbn=16836919701804271799
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|isbnauthor=B08LKT7HSRClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena DixonBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=34.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=In December 1933 the remains Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the cellar intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of the Glass Bottle Public Houselove lost. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with When the murder of Elowed narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and his half-brotherkiss me, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's long search for ' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her motheremotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now her ex-partner, a ghost she's determined that the man responsible for conjures to test her murder will be brought to justicedetachment.|isbn=1804271934
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|isbn=17822277410008405026|title=Little Gold TedA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha SathaJane Casey|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the water is swirlinginvestigation ground to a halt. Poor Ted starts to spin around Now, her mother, Helena, and around and is sucked down her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a drain on straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the side positioning of the streetbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts What looked as though it was going to panicbe 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'OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his canes boss, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of brothUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|author=Rob KeeleyAnnie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Treasure in the TowerOther Girl
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! ''We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read a new adventure were born from Rob - his stories combine fast pace and lots of action, an easy the same body. I've never really wanted to read style, an unerring eye for childrenthink about this.'' Ernaux's friendships work is always very candid and rivalriesher tone transparent, and always a good dollop but this raw epistolary text must be one of naughty humourthe most intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, this letter will never reach her. TheyWhy? Because Annie Ernaux're all present heres sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in ''The Treasure in France, and 2 years before the Tower''author was even born. The chance purchase of a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventure. Who can follow the clues best large and find instant void created by the treasure? Jess, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with this giant absence in her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?life, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=18004613211804271845
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|isbnauthor=1529124417Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa GardnerReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersBiography|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car at Biographies are often seen as the bottom form of the lakelife-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and less personal. She knew I think that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left her Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three-year-old daughter and run awayof his literary contemporaries. Lani was In the fourteenth missing person first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to be located by Frankie and now shehis friend Gorky that: ''s moving on againyou write not of real life as it is, this time but of what you yourself imagine it to Boston where there's a strong Haitian community which was home be. Whom would it help to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. Frankieknow how I see this tower, that sea, middleor that Tartar -aged and whitewhy should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. Well, gets Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a job subjective account, giving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and accommodation at Stoney's bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively blackAndreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=1804271977
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|isbn=B08QDL5HDL1529077745|title=The Jeeves Collection, Vol 1Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=P G WodehouseAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=HumourCrime|summary=In my youthA man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, I wasn't fond of PG Wodehouse: I've never been keen on upper-class twits and I was greedya care home for troubled teens. I wanted everything: I required brilliant plots, exceptional characters and laughThe dead man was Josh -out-loud humour. Age brought one of the realisation that you have to compromise and I came back care workers who was due to Wodehouse with work a different mindsetshift the night before but who had never turned up. The humour D I Vera Stanhope is gentle and subtle: there's never any malice called in it. The characterisation to investigate the murder - but her only clue is twothe disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-dimensional where women are concerned: there's little in between old gorgons (Aunt Agatha, we're looking at you...) and young schemers such as Honoria GlossopChloe Spencer. The plots are superficial Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but gently engagingVera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. They're fun - and the writing is exquisiteShe knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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|authorisbn=H M LongB0FK5LHKD9|title=Hall The Colour of SmokeMemory|author=Christopher Bowden
|rating=4
|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= Hessa is an Eangi: It's been three years since we last reviewed a powerful priestess of the Goddess of War. That is until she is banished book by her high priestess for not following her one order: to kill the traveller that visits her temple. Her whole town is burnt to the ground while she is praying for forgivenessfavourite regular Christopher Bowden, and Hessa – now left alone – must find this traveller so we were very glad to atone for her weakness and win back her goddess' favour. On her journey, she encounters zealot soldiers, deceitful gods, and newly awakened demons see a new novel arrive here at every turnBookbag Towers. It is a gruelling questLike all Bowden's stories, and along the way, she discovers there's a harrowing truth: mystery at the gods are dying, and the High Halls heart of ''The Colour of the afterlife are fadingMoney''. Soon HessaWe like this running theme in an author's trust in her goddess weakens, and she is thrust into work - take a battle between the gods of the Old World mystery but give it different flavour and the Newatmosphere each time.|isbn=1789094984
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|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Olga Tokarczuk|title=Kokoschka's DollHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=2.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Well''What's the good of a 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 looked very much notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like a book I could love the shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the get-goconstant in that image is the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is why I picked my review copy up perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of ithe should be doing quite well financially. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paperUnfortunately, his daughter's defence against a chapter whose number was in the 20murder charge drained his savings. His wife,000sLaura, letters used as narrative form, and so has been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go oncruises. It intrigued with That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it mentioned, too. But you've seen s the star rating thought of the money he could make that convinces him that comes with this review, and can tell is a miscarriage of justice that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by themhe really should put right. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697
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|authorisbn=David F Ross1836284683|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyThe Big Happy|author=David Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Dystopian Fiction|summary= Years ago, Danny Garvey was Well! This is a footballing prodigy playing for his local club. Everyone predicted murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a bright future – but his career in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years onbook, convinced it's nothing like I expected it to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying motherbe, Danny and it takes over the shambolic and once-great team he used me on a wild ride. And that is just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. I don't want to play ruin a similar experience for and tries any of you reading but I'll have to reform themat least set the scene. Once that's done, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.|isbn= 1913193500
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|isbnauthor=1529337925Sally Rooney|title=The Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPhersonIntermezzo
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|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction |summary=It was Sally Rooney has studied the August Bank Holiday weekend chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping andso brilliantly frustrating, as so often happenedher characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, it was cold enough the central one for readers to have unravel is the fire lit fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofaPeter Koubek. The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. She was the publisher of Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch and Judy show in the local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest successful lawyer living in his showDublin. Sandy BissettFollowing their father's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing passing after a solicitor to do long battle with cancer, the same jobbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469
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|isbn=00995510631036916375|title=The Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial KillersJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Dr Kevin DuttonPeter McArdle
|rating=4
|genre=Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary='' Just a Liverpool Lad 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcheris 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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|authorisbn=Alex Wheatle1009473085|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=2.5|genre=Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|summary=We meet Welton Blake at 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 worst of times – only they should be inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the best of timesbook for you. He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema dateIf that's what you're looking for, but his phone has packed up, heI don't think Anthony Seldon's chundered last nightbook, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's meal a compelling read and his breakfast over another girl in class, should be compulsory for anyone whothinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's duffed him up the seventh book in response, a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the wannawell-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. On established format: a bigger scale he's living with his mother series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and not much income now that the dad has left situation in 2024.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the picture – yesBefore and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinner. I knowor more than that even, right? But surely this their friendship is just a blip, once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day at school to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come on a trip out in the wash? This canbut unfortunately they don't be get each other's contact details at the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=17811294951471196585
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|authorisbn=Karen M McManus1787333175|title=The CousinsYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
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|genre=General FictionPopular Science|summary= The rich and famous Story family led I 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 life glorious mixture of luxury on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago when each insight into the workings of the Story children - Anders, ArcherNHS, Adam humour and Allison - received a mysterious letter autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from their mother physical problems to mental illness and were cut off completely. But now, a quarter the work of a century later, their children have been called psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to return to the island be looking for humour in this setting but 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 of twisted lies, secrets and tragedy that has held the Story family up - and held them apart - for laughter is directed at a quarter of situation rather than a century person and it is about to come crashing downalways delivered with empathy and understanding.|isbn=0241376947
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|isbnauthor=1786495902Mariana Enriquez|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel HardmanA Sunny Place for Shady People
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|genre=LifestyleShort Stories|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to an urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and a trauma crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the supernatural or otherworldly horror which she chooses seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture. |isbn=1803511230}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529934753|title=The Protest|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, was not going to shareshow up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. She says that a friend who does knowStill, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged he arrived in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the nick of time by 'keeping going': the next day she went , complete with his two wives and six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, you tend to work to cover the budgetdo things like that, next but it was fortunate that there was a record of the EU referendumprotest. Lexi Williams, an intern at the political party leadership contests RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and then it was party conference seasonproceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. One night she had It seemed to be sedated and returned home to begin longpart of an ongoing series of 'blue-term sick leaveface' attacks, but this was different. That The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I diddead.
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|author=Emma Carroll and Kaja KajfezAriel Saramandi|title=The Ghost GardenPortrait of an Island on Fire
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|summary=FranIn this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the gardener's daughter at a posh country housesociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, is worriedtunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. SheSaramandi describes the country at one stage as ''rotting''s just cracked her garden fork through quite , a grim discovery - a large bone, buried under blunt yet apt metaphor for the potatoes. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, systemic decay brought about by the older child malignant forces of the houseracism, patriarchy, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawnenvironmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. She is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell Each essay in this collection serves as a surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, she might have reason to be out kind of her mind with feardiagnostic, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chambercharting the various diseases afflicting the island state. But surely that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?|isbn=17811290021804271616
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|isbnauthor=reed3Pekka Harju-Autti|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions YouLoveVortex and the Drakor'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=James Reeds Curse|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceFantasy|summary=Six years on from It's the original editioneighteenth century, the book is being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled ''The Future time of Work'' which includes discovery and Britain is expanding its foreign trade. Captain Julius Hawthorne, an additional 10 questions. I've come experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to this some 6 years after reviewing the original book and my life has changed significantly Andaman Islands in the meantimehis endeavour. I'm no longer working in middle-management having opted for Along with his son, Peter, and their cat, Michi, they set off on a down-shift into reduced hours freelancing perilous voyage to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) workthese faraway lands. I can therefore relate to the first point made The islands are beautiful and stunning in this chapter namely that independence their scenery and flexibility are core skills that employees need the islanders' leader, Aarav, is keen to haveestablish good relations.|isbn=B0DS1VGHH3
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|author= Deborah O'ConnorHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title= The CaptiveLili is Crying|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Hannah knows First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the cagehearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the page and positions them elsewhere, intimatelydisjointed, truncated. It lurks in Like the corner lives of her eye. Sooncharacters, it will be occupiedthey are often left tragically incomplete. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=18387726501804271675
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|isbnauthor=B08CR3WNFTTom Percival|title=The Therapist|author=B A ParisWrong Shoes
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=When Leo Curtis found Will's life is difficult, in 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 doesn't have enough money for even the house in The Circlemost basic of things like food, a gated communityand his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, Alice Dawson was working a cash-in Venice-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on Throw into that mix the market at such a reasonable price fact that Alice wouldnhis mum and dad are separated, and Will't have to sell her cottage s life seems bleak in Harlestone for them to be able to afford itevery direction. Alice agreed - she was tired And yet, he still has a tiny amount of their long-distance relationshiphope. Now they would be able He is good at art, and clings to spend most of the week together instead moments of just the weekends. Leo had some work done on the house: joy when he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew is drawing, that feel like a light at the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable thereend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=1406395404Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola MorganA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=2020 has been There are few greater joys than a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statementbook which lives up to a compelling premise. Lots And this is one of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problemsthem. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant |isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'who needs sleep? luxury' apartments - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarilywhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Most peopleWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worseDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. And thereIt's also difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the fact that for far too one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, lack not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sleep has been lauded as a virtue sickness.}}{{Frontpage|author=Guadalupe Nettel and sleep made to seem like lazinessRosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Accidentals|rating=4. Being up early5|genre=Short Stories|summary=This collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the word: spellbinding with its fantastical, working late has been praised magical elements and charming in its gentle portrayal of nature and human relationships. Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and the ability precisely, her stories structured by a wisdom that appears to want to survive on little sleep has almost become teach us something to put on your CVabout the world.|isbn=1804271470
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|isbn=000820831X0008551375|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Stuart MacBrideNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=At Leanne Wilson's body was found at the coastal village bottom of Clachmaraa Scottish mountain, seemingly the headland is slowly eroding into the searesult of a tragic accident. Storm Trevor speeds up the processShe'd looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. A ship - the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking 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 house to see last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what's happeningthey were doing and sensible people. Margaret runs after her son and as she grabs him None of the 'what a stupid thing to pull him back to safety she glances across at the newly-exposed cliff front and sees human bonesdo' explanations applied. Gordon Smith's home They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is falling into the North Sea and the evidence of what hecertain there's been doing for decades is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes a killer on the tumbling ruinloose.
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