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|isbn=15291091161806344777|title=Call Me RedArthur and the Land of Nimbostratus: A ShepherdArthur's JourneyAble Adventures|author=Hannah JacksonRob Keeley
|rating=4.5
|genre=LifestyleFor Sharing|summary=''I want the image Arthur dreams of adventures. He looks out of a British farmer to simply be that his window each day and thinks of a person who is proudly employed in feeding all the nation. I don't think that is too much to ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on escapades he could have, the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what places he really wants to do: could go and the things he knows could see. His favourite day is Saturday because that he'll be a farmer. It's not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the Wirral: day his friend Maxine - she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' the booming laugh and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday silver bangles - comes to the Lake Districtvisit. She saw Maxine is a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a shepherd. With great believer in the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part power of her, she set about achieving her ambitionimagination.
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|isbn=08575272311035043092|title=Dog DaysThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ericka WallerAnn Cleeves
|rating=5
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angryI can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It's eight days been seven years since his wifewe heard from him, Ellen, died and itbut he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the first time that she's let him downdaughter of his former partner. HeWillow's lostalso his boss, bereft without her ( he and she ''needs his wife, like a snail needs its shellshould''). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to be on maternity leave on , but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the doorstepaftermath of a storm, heshe can'd much rather have a good row with someonet resist getting involved. He's particularly angry d been battered about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared to contradict him when he told her that the dog wasn't staying. Now he's lumbered head with a dog he doesn't want and a load Neolithic stone - one of busybodies who are trying to interfere in his life. Worst of all is Betty, who won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying to escape pair - which had been stolen from and destroy thema museum.
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|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Polly Barton|title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeWhat Am I, A Deer?|rating=54
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It was generally thought Polly Barton's debut novel is an intellectually playful yet emotionally exposed work that Sir Florian Eustace had come uses translation as both subject and governing metaphor. The narrator, newly relocated from London to regret his marriage but he didn't live long enough for this Berlin, works translating video games into Japanese through the process of localisation, rewriting language until it feels comfortably familiar to become a problemnew audience. After his deathBarton treats this as a paradoxical act: arguably, in striving for universality, his wifelanguage is endlessly repackaged, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession its originality at risk of a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined that she would not hand it over to her husband's executorsdisappearing altogether. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutelyFrom this, although the precise circumstances of the giving varied from telling to telling. Lady Eustace was not novel opens out into a woman wider, resonant question: to whom truth meant a great deal. All that was important what extent do we translate ourselves in order to her nowbe understood, she maintainedaccepted, was her son. And, of course, her diamonds.or loved?|isbn=1804272175
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|isbn=1529047315Zabriskie1|title=The LamplightersA Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Emma StonexStephanie Zabriskie
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|genre=ThrillersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two faces. You have to take them bothAcross many African and Indigenous systems, differences in how children learn, he saidsense , or process the good world were not treated as disorders to be corrected. They were understood as natural variations of human intelligence and awareness, each holding value within the bad, and never turn your back on either one of themcommunity.''
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|authorisbn=Mary H K Choi1787333175|title=YolkYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
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|genre=TeensPopular Science|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student thatI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. She's an all-round messy character; and thatafter enjoying Adam Kay's her charm. Junefirst book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, on a glorious mixture of insight into the other handworkings of the NHS, is a complete contrast humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to Jaynebe Mad... She's a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows it all, promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and has the work of a successful jobpsychiatrist. She constantly criticises Jayne I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for her life choices, and the two have barely kept humour in contact despite living in the same city for this setting but the past two years. This laughter is until June finds out she's sick, directed at a situation rather than a person and Jayne it is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together always delivered with empathy and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identitiesunderstanding.|isbn= 0349003696
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|author=Saima MirMaria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=The KhanDisappearing Act|rating=54|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served Despite her well in her rise through the criminal justice system anonymisation of place names and by the time she is called home for her sisterpeople, Stepanova's wedding after fifteen years message in self-imposed exile, this short work of autofiction is unmistakable. A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to the town of F for a literary festival she is to be a guest speaker at the top of . Detoured by erratic train schedules and nudged by forces beyond her control, her gamejourney slowly bends toward a traveling circus. Returning Swept up in this series of events, M eventually offers to step in for a circus performer who has unexpectedly left the city show. The train functions as a motif of her birthtransience and impermanence, to old scars while the circus embodies the reshaping of identity and fresh woundsa retreat into fantasy, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for an impulse that lies at the future with her sense very heart of honour and dutythe novel form itself.|isbn=17860790971804272329
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|isbn=0008336830B0GFQ81YQK|title=Two WrongsHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Mel McGrathStephanie Zabriskie
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Sondra Before people came and joined the animals, there was on her way home after work when she saw a young woman looking as though she only the sky and the earth. Everything was going quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to jump from each other. First, the Clifton suspension bridgeearth created bodies. She talks to herAnd then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and Sondra finally persuades Satnam they belonged to call her best friend both earth and flatmatesky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, Nevis Smithespecially how they came to be. Nevis is unworldly When they grew old and rather reserved - died, their bodies returned to the earth and she can't understand their life returned to the sky. And that is why Satnam hasn't shared her problems with herthe earth and the sky are both revered. She thought Only together can they shared everythingcreate human beings. Satnam And that is taken why people must pay attention to hospital , and Nevis calls her mother, Honor. They've not been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right nowcare for, Nevis needs her motherboth.
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|authorisbn=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)B0GHPMNF6P|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsThe Zookeeper's Dragon: A Magical Modern Fantasy Tale for Grown-Ups|author=Carolyn Mathews
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary FictionFantasy|summary=This was an incredibly readable novellaWhen Phil's father unexpectedly dies, but one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know he quits his gender or Canary Wharf finance job to take over the nature running of the person hefamily's farm zoo. He's addressing not expecting much excitement, until he receives an unidentified egg that his new-age stoner uncle Edgar found in a cave in his second person monologue of New Zealand, and suddenly life is no longer quite what it seems. Then the egg hatches into neither a reptile nor a bird, but a narrationdragon! Now he, Edgar, we see him picked up by his motherAbi, and the zoo's chauffeurpart-time café waitress Pearl have to raise this little bundle of scales and joy, despite having no idea how to actually raise dragons and carted off not being able to do all tell anyone about it. But this tiny little dragon may show them love and connection in ways they had never before imagined…}}{{Frontpage|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|title=How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the necessary introductions before said mother Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is buried a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the following dayoral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania. '' The mother was Maasai are a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (nightcattle-time and business) partner, herding people and feelings of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (well, this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came out to be so. Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the original Italian in 2007whole story of the intimate and symbiotic connection its people, so moderately current) Bucharestand especially its women, to have with their cows and for the natural world. The oral tradition retelling the lad's childhoodmany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell addressdoes.|isbn=1939810965B0G9WTGY6J
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|author=Jane LightbourneLivi Michael|title= My Cat Called RedElizabeth and Ruth|rating= 43.5|genre=Emerging ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary= Robin has red hair. He hates it''Elizabeth and Ruth'' is a work of historical fiction wrought from the life of the Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, best known for her first novel Mary Barton (1848), and a radical critique of the freckles that go along with it. He's been bullied and mocked at school because treatment of itthe working class published under a pseudonym. The ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!Ruth'' Kids are mean. But red hair is not Robinfrom Livi Michael's only misery title appears in life. Heher novel as Pasley, a young Irish prostitute who was abandoned as a child and finds herself in Manchester's already lost his dad to New Bailey Prison after a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill difficult and is taken into hospitalunjust hand at life. She doesn't come home againSet in Manchester between 1839 and 1842, the novel examines the harsh conditions endured by the Victorian working poor and interrogates the extent to which the wealthy (including Gaskell herself) were responsible for addressing these injustices.|isbn= 18382168121784633682
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|isbnauthor=B003L7TDMUMakenna Goodman|title=Phineas Finn|author=Anthony TrollopeHelen of Nowhere
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Phineas Finn is It could be argued that the son pervading theme of Dr Malachi Finn, this book is malaise - a successful doctor in Killaloe in County Clare, who sent his son hard-to London to train as a lawyer. Phineas's interest is more in making influential friends than in becoming a lawyer and one of them, Barrington Erle, suggests -place feeling that he runs for Parliament something in the forthcoming election. His father your life is not entirely in favour quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the brink of this as members are not remunerated losing both his career and it would be up to him to provide financial support for his son as well as funding relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his electiondiscomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. One The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the doctorcountryside house he's patients is Lord Tulla considering, Helen represents a volta in his life, her past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who controls shows the protagonist around the borough of Loughshane house shares stories about Helen, and by this stroke of luck Finn describes her as ''an entity that ispure consciousness, eventuallybeyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, elected by a small marginHelen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=1804272205
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|isbn=1838595031B0GCB1MQ7D|title=Crooked: Honest CriminalityWhy My Mother Went Away|author=Bronwen JohnAlan Kennedy|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=The con had seemed like I have often wondered how prominent people came to hold their positions. With 'celebrities', there's frequently a book they might or might not have written, which might or might not tell the true story. It's not often that you find a book that gives the full backstory, and rarely do you discover a good memoir where the telling is so perfect that you'll go back and reread paragraphs and sentences, just for the pleasure the words give. ''Why My Mother Went Away'' is one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by of those rare exceptions. It's the new Banksy - and they should have made story of how a decent profit boy from itthe Midlands, born at the beginning of the Second World War, would become a Professor of Psychology at Dundee University. The problem In fact, he was they were too successful: one of the marks had bought a few and then discovered that they were valuelessfounders of the department.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jeremy Cooper|title=Discord|rating= 3. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for 5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Discord: a simple con and his fatherlack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) The principal example of discord within the novel, celebrity criminal Harry Holmesas with most instances of discord, was determined that he and his family could not lose face like thatis easily located. The grifters were going to paytwo protagonists of the novel, Rebekah Rosen and Evie Bennet, are as different as they come. Ashia 'Ash' Cox Rebekah is an uptight, traditional and Max 'Colorado' Ying needed no-nonsense composer close to be got out retirement, while Evie is a force of nature, bounding onto the countrymusical scene as a precocious saxophonist, oozing with talent and charm. In the course of bringing this aboutThe two, predictably, Luke Gainesdon't always see eye to eye, Ashtheir approaches different and Evie's progressive views at odds with Rebekah's foster fatherconservative leaning. However, lost his lifesomething connects them beyond just their musical project: a sort of fragile alliance formed within the clamour.|isbn=1804272264
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|author=Hayley WebsterTom Percival|title=Luna Rae is Not AloneThe Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Luna Rae has just moved houseWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. Moving house He is always trickybullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', but especially when youhe has the wrong shoes because his dad can're ten years old, t work and you miss your old homedoesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and you and your little sister have to start a new school but your mum seems to be out working all the time. Then there's your his dad, who doesncan't seem like work because he's coping so welllost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and so there's no one to take care of things but youhad an accident. Everything feels different Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and strangedad are separated, and mysteriousWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, and so Luna finds he still has a way tiny amount of coping is by watchinghope. She turns detective He is good at art, and starts keeping an eye on her new neighbourhoodclings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, but it turns out she's not that feel like a light at the only one keeping watch!end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=17880060461398527122
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|isbnauthor=B003A6W0FOEdward W Said|title=Can You Forgive Her?|author=Anthony TrollopeRepresentations of the Intellectual
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|genre=Literary FictionPolitics and Society|summary=On the surface Edward Said's 'Can You Forgive Her?'Representations of the Intellectual' looks deceptively simple: it's the story is less a strict theory of one woman what intellectuals are and two men who are vying with each other more a passionate argument for her love. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged to her cousin, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and later became engaged to John Greywhat they should be. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour of Said clearly rejects the continent with George Vavasor and his sister Kate. It's obvious that there's still a great deal comfortable image of chemistry between John and Alice - and Kate is all for encouraging the relationship intellectual as it would tie Alice a detached expert speaking only to herother specialists. George wants Alice but it's a matter of ''amour propre'' rather than love: Instead, he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and insists on the original engagement had fallen through because of his infidelity and deceitfulness. This thread is the story of intellectual as a very complicated love affair public figure, often awkward, abrasive, and a woman unpopular, who lacks confidence in her own judgement. You might not like Alice speaks truth to start with but you will warm to herpower even when it is inconvenient or risky.|isbn=1804272248
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|author=Hannah GoldSylvie Cathrall|title=The Last BearA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=April's father, There are few greater joys than a scientist, has been given book which lives up to a job on a remote island called Bear Island, and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with him. They live alone anyway, since April's mother died some time before, and he feels it will be educational for her to experience the island and all its natural beauty. April already has an affinity with nature, and she's excited to travel with her father, thinking of all the fun things they will be able to experience together on the islandcompelling premise. But when they get there, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of his time, and so April And this is left to explore by herself. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find the Bear, and then when she sees he is injured, to befriend and help himthem.|isbn=000841128X0356522776
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|isbn=14722761401786482126|title=What Will Burn The Janus Stone (Inspector McLeanDr Ruth Galloway)|author=James OswaldElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Cecily SlaterBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's body was found, sheluxury'd already been dead for apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a week - in doorway. There was no skull. Was this a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburghritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Heavy rain had washed away most of the evidenceIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but DI Tony McLeanNelson doesn't, demoted and just returned from suspension, is reluctant to accept that this she is nothing more than pregnant with his child as a careless accidentresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. There were indications that Slater had been savagelyHer condition will be obvious before long, almost ritualistically beaten before the fire. But who would hate a ninety-year-old woman not least because Ruth is prone to the extent sudden bouts of doing something like that? She was a virtual recluse: who could she have upset to that extent?sickness.
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|isbn=000845552X0008551375|title=Where Ravens RoostWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Karin NordinNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from his father, StenarLeanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, for more than a decade but when he got seemingly the rather muddled phone call from him saying that he'd seen result of a murder in the barn on his land he didn't hesitate to drop everything and go to Varsundtragic accident. ActuallyShe'd looked so happy, too, 'drop everything' rather overstates the situationwhen she posted her intentions on Facebook. Nygaard Her friends were relieved as she was on suspension following the shooting just out of a suspect 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 Aubuchon murder enquirylast year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. There had been None of the 'what a complication: the Kattegat Killer turned out stupid thing to be Nils Hedin, Nygaarddo's best friendexplanations applied. Still, They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg in the south of Sweden to Varsund in the far north shouldn't be underestimatedloose.
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|isbnauthor=1471187179Paul B Preciado|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel HoreDysphoria Mundi|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionPolitics and Society|summary=Minnie ''It is an never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood'ordinary' girl living 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 unexciting life offering to the new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a leafy provincial suburbsign of political apathy. The book Rather, it is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected proportional, valid response to live up to her mother's expectations 'the epistemological and find a nice young man to marrypolitical crack we are living through, produce children and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband tension between emancipatory forces and their homeconservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. UnfortunatelyThe whole text is framed against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, this isn't what she wants when dysphoria began to do at all and neither does she want to continue working emerge on a global scale, or as a secretary''pangea covidica''. As Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a result sign of a chance meetingweakness, she finds herself drawn into espionageor mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting Preciado urges his readers to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives ''use dysphoria as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Partyyour revolutionary platform''.|isbn=1804271454
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|author= T L HuchuSamantha Harvey|title= The Library of the DeadOrbital|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Ropa Moyo is a ghostalkerIn 2024, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from Samantha Harvey won the dead of Edinburgh Booker Prize for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the cityOrbital''s children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the search for lives of a missing boy at group of astronauts aboard the request of his dead motherInternational Space Station. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise Through a narrative lens that mirrors the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever couldastronauts've imaginedorbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to see our planet in a wholly new light. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 15290394521529922933
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|authorisbn=Everina Maxwell295967572X|title=Winter's OrbitPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens
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|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary= Prince Kiem Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a famous political disappointmenttrain journey with his companion Django. HeWhere they's outgoing, carefree, re going and has gotten into many drunken scandals over what the past few years. So when an important political alliance purpose of this journey is to be arranged – one that , is supposed uncertain. Django found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects accompany him . Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to be chosen for the role. Least of all himstation by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.|isbn=0356515885
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|isbn=18389520120008551324|title=The FavourDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Laura VaughanNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The rejection by Oxford came as a bit It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a shock to Ada Howell: she missing person is buried and who wasresponsible for her death. This person, after allhe 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 daughter remainder of the renowned author, Anthony Howell, who'd been his sentence and to this collegeget an early parole date. WellNot much to ask, she wasnis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what'actuallys happening.}}{{Frontpage|author=Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Tower|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= '' HowellHow unctuous are the fats of another's daughter: he'd married her mother after her birth and had then adopted herlife, so she was how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream'chosen' rather than just 'made'. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, which was better reallythe protagonist of this tale. And whilst weJust as T're s story is being honesttold, we might as well admit that 'renowned author' might be stretching the truth story of a littlesecond protagonist is unveiled: his books degenerated into self-published poetry which Ada couldnAnnie, the daughter of a wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T't understands imagination. Still, Ada had felt entitled and this was why her godmotherAnnie's offer had come at such fate is, above all, an enticing story to T. It is a brilliant timestory which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and fantasy. |isbn=1804271799
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|author=C A SachaClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a plan to increase his already startling wealth kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and ensure his legacy: to bring closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the worldnarrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me,''s first emission-free car it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to market and dominate productionconfirm her emotional numbness. The secret development project to enable imagined recipient of thisplea is Xavier, Bucephalusher ex-partner, is already underway and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into a second term ghost she conjures to help him carry it out. Montgomery is also looking for a legacy and one that does not involve his controlling mother and test her foundation, so grabs onto Finnegan's Feed Africa programme with both hands..detachment.|isbn=18004619761804271934
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|authorisbn=Martin Venning0008405026|title=The Primary ObjectiveA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=25|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Sometimes a book starts off slowly, but eventually draws you in to caring about It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the characters or simply wanting investigation ground to know what happens nexta halt. Sometimes it doesn'tNow, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. The basic premise is a good one – a clandestine organisationInitially, operating as it looks like a charity, straightforward murder/suicide but funded by various governments around the world and partially (maybe, Ithere'm not sure) under s something about the auspices positioning of the UN, with the primary objective of keeping the peace, by any means possiblebodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Diplomacy is always the first option and sometimes one that needs What looked as though it was going to be carried out by third parties, but for situations when that looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains a callan open-on list of field operatives, exand-military, medics, scientists or anyone else with shut case is now a taste for adventure and willing to risk their life for complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the sake of itexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1800461100
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|author=Francesca Simon Annie Ernaux and Steve MayAlison L. Strayer (translator)|title=Two Terrible VikingsThe Other Girl
|rating=4
|genre=Emerging ReadersAutobiography|summary=In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack ''We were born from the same body. I've never really wanted to think about this.'' Ernaux's work is always very candid and Whackher tone transparent, who are eager to but this raw epistolary text must be one of the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad maraudingmost intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, as they cause havoc this letter will never reach her. Why? Because Annie Ernaux's sister died of diphtheria at a birthday party6 years old, chaos whilst tracking a trollfew months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up 2 years before the author was even born. The large and instant void created by the jarring concept of writing to all kinds an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of mischief and naughty behaviour, along reckoning with their wolf-cub Bitey-Biteythis giant absence in her life, and their crazy cast of friendsan absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=05713494981804271845
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|author=Helen FisherMaxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Space HopperReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev
|rating=3.5
|genre=General FictionBiography|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very youngBiographies are often seen as the form of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and less personal. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold I think that got worseGorky completely rejects this perspective, and although they were kind and very good to her she offers a vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of course missed her mum enormouslyhis literary contemporaries. So whenIn the first section of this book, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that takes her back to the 70: ''s and her mumyou write not of real life as it is, she revels in the chance but of what you yourself imagine it to create some memories and get be. Whom would it help to know the woman who meant so much to her. The time travellinghow I see this tower, howeverthat sea, or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is neither easy nor safeit?''. Well, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe Maxim Gorky shows exactly what's happening and so lies can be gained from a subjective account, giving us access to him instead. The lies grow more tangledhow he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Faye begins to wonder if Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it's safe for her to return one last time to the past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=14711886631804271977
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|isbn=17874778001529077745|title=The Night Hawks Dark Wives (Dr Ruth GallowayD I Vera Stanhope)|author=Elly GriffithsAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the 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 hawks are metal detectorists and they're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that there's treasure to be foundbefore but who had never turned up. Unfortunately, D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the youngest disappearance of one of the groupresidents, twenty-onefourteen-year-old Troy EvansChloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Olga Tokarczuk|title=House of Day, finds House of Night|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''What's the body good of a man floating 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 incoming tidesmall, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. After pulling it ashoreBut, the constant in that image is the house, they call stoic against the policeancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived. DCI Nelson thinks that |isbn=1804271918}}{{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, it's probably the body nothing like I expected it to be, and it takes me on a wild ride. And that is just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. I don't want to ruin a similar experience for any of an asylum seeker you reading but thereI's no evidence of any activity ll have to be had from at least set the coastguardscene. The dead man turns out to be Jem TaylorOnce that's done, a North Norfolk man recently released from prisonI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.
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|isbnauthor=1529378648Sally Rooney|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick HerronIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction |summary=Someone Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is killing secret service agentsgripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, past the central one for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and presentPeter 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, from the Slough House teambrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. Jackson Lamb can't understand itBut most of all, he is an aspiring writer. WellEnglish is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, what and one at which he actually canexcels. This hasn't understand is whygone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, having seen themStation Road, anyone would botherwhere his ability might be better extended. But the deaths are mounting up }}{{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 something needs that applies to be done''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. After all If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really''when things went awry happened on Spook Streetcertain occasions, they generally went then this isn't the full Chris Graylingbook for you. If that's what you're looking for, I don' t think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. Over at RegentIt's Park, Diana Taverner a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is quietly jubilant about an operation entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a series which saw looks at the impact a government has made and 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 perpetrator state of a Novichok poisoning the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the UK (three people seriously injured Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and one dead) dispatchedMab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. It isnThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't just the message that was sent: sheget each other's also delighted that she managed to fund contact details at the operation off the bookstime. Some private money was brought inBut then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. She won't always be so jubilant about this Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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