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|isbn=84092901031787333175|title=If OnlyYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Matthew TreeBenji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=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 glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=The Disappearing Act|rating=4.5
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|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr PatrickDespite her anonymisation of place names and people, Stepanova's message in this short work of autofiction is unmistakable. A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was town of F for a literary festival she is to send him be a monthly allowanceguest speaker at. Patrick sent the money regularly Detoured by erratic train schedules and nudged by forces beyond her control, her journey slowly bends toward a correspondence - traveling circus. Swept up in this series of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his sonevents, it was that he didn't care M eventually offers to have him step in this country where he might be for a danger to his wife and other childrencircus performer who has unexpectedly left the show. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get train functions as a motif of transience and impermanence, while the circus embodies the reshaping of identity and a retreat into fantasy, an impulse that lies at the very heart of the young man on his waynovel form itself.|isbn=1804272329
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|authorisbn=B0GFQ81YQK|title=Antti Tuomainen How the Sky and David Hackston (translator)the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|titleauthor=The Rabbit FactorStephanie Zabriskie|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Meet HenriBefore people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. With a mind so much more focused on maths Everything was quiet until the earth and calculations than it is the sky began to tal to each other human beings. First, the earth created bodies. And then, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they decide he's not a team-memberplanted and learned and remembered, that especially how they'd prefer everyone came to be all open-plan, holistic . When they grew old and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, their bodies returned to the earth and has left Henri everythingtheir life returned to the sky. Unfortunately (or otherwise) And that 'everything' is just an adventure park, and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in why the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out earth and the amount vanishedsky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. Fortunately (or otherwise) some And that is why people are quickly on the scene must pay attention to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan..care for, both.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbn=1471179311B0GHPMNF6P|title=The UnheardZookeeper's Dragon: A Magical Modern Fantasy Tale for Grown-Ups|author=Nicci FrenchCarolyn Mathews
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|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=TessWhen Phil's father unexpectedly dies, a teacher and Jason, a headmaster, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out he quits his Canary Wharf finance job to take over the running of the family home and Jason is now married to Emily's farm zoo. The separation was amicable He's not expecting much excitement, until he receives an unidentified egg that his new- they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom age stoner uncle Edgar found in a cave in New Zealand, and suddenly life is no longer quite what was it seems. Then the family home egg hatches into neither a reptile nor a bird, but a dragon! Now he, Edgar, his mother Abi, and another in the flat she shares with her mother. It ''seemed'zoo' s part-time café waitress Pearl have to be working well until the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing raise this little bundle of a woman falling from a tall building scales and she started swearingjoy, using words she was unlikely despite having no idea how to have heard in either home. Her behaviour deteriorated actually raise dragons and there were problems at nursery schoolnot being able to tell anyone about it. Tess turns to a therapist for help, then her doctor But this tiny little dragon may show them love and finally the police but no one will take what she has to say seriously.connection in ways they had never before imagined…
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|isbnauthor=1471196615Stephanie Zabriskie|title=Iced|author=Felix FrancisHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Miles Pussett used ''How Maasai Women Spoke to be Cows is a Steeplechase jockey but those days children’s nonfiction book drawn from the oral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania.'' The Maasai are past a cattle-herding people and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be so. Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the whole story of the three-quarter-mile Cresta Runintimate and symbiotic connection its people, and especially its women, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourhave with their cows and for the natural world. He was in St Moritz The oral tradition retelling the same weekend as White Turf - thatmany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, does.|isbn=B0G9WTGY6J}}{{Frontpage|author=Livi Michael|title=Elizabeth and Ruth|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''Elizabeth and Ruth''s high-class horseracing on is a work of historical fiction wrought from the life of the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, best known for her first novel Mary Barton (1848), a radical critique of the saddling treatment of the horsesworking class published under a pseudonym. ItThe ''Ruth'' from Livi Michael's seven years since he put horseracing behind him title appears in her novel as Pasley, a young Irish prostitute who was abandoned as a child and he swore that hefinds herself in Manchester'd never go back to its New Bailey Prison after a difficult and unjust hand at life. But when he sees that something suspicious is going onSet in Manchester between 1839 and 1842, Miles can't help but look 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 answers, even when it puts him in dangeraddressing these injustices.|isbn=1784633682
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|isbnauthor=147228612XMakenna Goodman|title=The Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Alan JohnsonHelen of Nowhere
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|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven't taken much notice It could be argued that the pervading theme of themthis book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. They live quietThe protagonist, uneventful lives a disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his career and stay mostly under the radarhis relationship, embodies this feeling. In However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a city like Londonforce which is seductive, that's quite easy - radical and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himunnerving: Helen. The highlight connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work on the train each morning: countryside house he'd love to ask her for s considering, Helen represents a date but he doesn't have the courage. Then, on volta in his homeward commutelife, Arina speaks her past tied to him and asks for his helppotential fresh start. Before long he finds himself on The realtor who shows the protagonist around the run from mobstershouse shares stories about Helen, Russian secret agents and describes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the Metropolitan policereader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=1804272205
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|authorisbn=Claire McGowanB0GCB1MQ7D|title=I Know YouWhy My Mother Went Away|author=Alan Kennedy|rating=45|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=I have often wondered how prominent people came to hold their positions. With 'celebrities'Then:, there's frequently a book they might or might not have written, which might or might not tell the true story. It' Casey returns from s not often that you find a walk with book that gives the baby, Carsonfull backstory, and comes across three bodiesrarely do you discover a memoir where the telling is so perfect that you'll go back and reread paragraphs and sentences, almost a whole family taken downjust for the pleasure the words give. ''Now:Why My Mother Went Away'' Rachel is out for one of those rare exceptions. It's the story of how a walk with her dogboy from the Midlands, Brandyborn at the beginning of the Second World War, when she comes across would become a body in Professor of Psychology at Dundee University. In fact, he was one of the founders of the woodsdepartment.|isbn=1542019974
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|isbnauthor=1529148251Jeremy Cooper|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela CoelDiscord|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rapeDiscord: a lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, malpractice and povertythings, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.''or ideas)
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|isbnauthor=0008433631Tom Percival|title=Next of Kin|author=Kia AbdullahThe Wrong Shoes
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It was the sort of thing that happened every day, although not to Leila Syed. SheWill'd never driven her nephews life is difficult, Max, to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her in a panicmultitude of ways. He was supposed to be taking Max to school but is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', hehas the wrong shoes because his dad can'd been called into t work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the delay college, was working a cash-in getting there could lead to financial losses-hand job on a building site and had an accident. As Throw into that mix the school was only five minutes out of Leilafact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's way, could she drop him off? life seems bleak in every direction. Of courseAnd yet, she could and he still has a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back tiny amount of her carhope. On He is good at art, and clings to the way Leila took moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a phone call - there was panic light at her work toothe end of a long, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskdark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaEdward W Said|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with Representations of the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1784165263|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma CurtisIntellectual
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|genre=CrimePolitics and Society|summary=Martin CurranEdward Said's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on 'Representations of the dot, despite the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. If she didnIntellectual''t get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was is less a paraplegic strict theory of what intellectuals are and confined to more a wheelchair, but don't passionate argument for what they should be too quick . Said clearly rejects the comfortable image of the intellectual as a detached expert speaking only to be understandingother specialists. He was also a very unpleasant person: Instead, he once told Eliza ''you're good at being insists on the intellectual as a disappointment''. All this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrivedpublic figure, unannouncedoften awkward, at the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2abrasive, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate unpopular, who speaks truth to get in before power even when it was advertised as being availableis inconvenient or risky.|isbn=1804272248
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|isbnauthor=1784742775Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan HillLetter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Drugs hadn't really been that much of There are few greater joys than a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of time. They still were, book which lives up to a great extent, but Serrailler knew that something had to be donecompelling premise. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport the drugs and the operation running the county lines was tight. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn't be the correct And this is one) of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch a few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=B09FS89KX91786482126|title=Fall On MeThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Penelope PottsElly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was just going into to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the final year bones of her veterinary degree and - three years later - a child beneath a doorway. There was still working at BB's dinerno skull. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was Was this a good boss. ritual killing or murder? Hollie had moved in Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his careerDCI Harry Nelson. Hollie wasnIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of all he wanted her to leave her job at the dinerone night they spent together some three months ago. Then there was the fact that he would Her condition will be violentobvious before long, both not least because Ruth is prone to her and to other peoplesudden bouts of sickness.
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|genre=Crime
|summary=ItLeanne Wilson's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly a DCI in body was found at the Met but now bottom of a well-respected private investigator. He's married to LauraScottish mountain, formerly his DS in seemingly the Murder Squad but now working in result of a forensics laboratorytragic accident. FloodShe's daughtersd looked so happy, Gemma and Pippatoo, have flown the nestwhen she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, Pippa to Australia, from where but it looked like she has very little contact with was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the familylast year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and Gemma to married lifesensible people. SheNone of the 'what a stupid thing to do's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide the support she needsexplanations applied. FloodThey were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's business is going well and that was why he felt able to turn down a killer on the case of Lisa Blackloose.
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|author=Peter PapathanasiouPaul B Preciado|title=The StoningDysphoria Mundi|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=In a town sleazy enough ''It is never too late to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparisonembrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood'' Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolleyPreciado expresses his own hybrid self, and she's been taped to brings forth a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her new sensorium as if she were an offering to the world's tallest cricket stumpsnew generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyoneRather, including it is the local copsproportional, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home valid response to. An arson attack on that shows ''the feeling – epistemological and it's only fairpolitical crack we are living through, is and the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditionstension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. Cue The whole text is framed against the arrival backdrop of George Manolisthe Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a higher rank from the cityglobal scale, to sort everything outor as ''pangea covidica''. Because such an aggrievedRather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, insular community is really going Preciado urges his readers to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law..''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.|isbn=15294169731804271454
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|isbnauthor=B08Z8BMZ7HSamantha Harvey|title=The Mystery of Healing|author=A P McGrathOrbital|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the second century of the common era and heBooker Prize for ''Orbital's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populace. The remuneration isn't high but the , a compact yet profound work gives that unfolds over a single day in the doctor lives of a feeling group of virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' astronauts aboard the warriors to liveInternational Space Station. It's quite Through a spectacle: narrative lens that mirrors the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see themastronauts' orbital perspective, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes Harvey invites readers to make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with the wild animals. Today, it's the crocodilessee our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933
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|authorisbn=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie Blackall295967572X|title=The Beatryce ProphecyPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens
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|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they''Stories have joy re going and surprises in themwhat the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the tickets '', we are told here. And none more so than in this wondrous story, which feels an instant classic with on the freshness floor somewhere'' and the agelessness it has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in equal proportion. We start with a group of monks, the Order of past as the Chronicles of Sorrowing, and pair travel to the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on station by coach and biting the poor Brothers. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girl, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King in his castle, desperate to find the girl, for it train is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne and cause great changesteam locomotive. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simple, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=1529500893
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|isbn=B09FFJF8YS0008551324|title=The Devil You Can't Wear Panties! Know (No More Nappies!D S Max Craigie)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.'' And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{Frontpage|author=Nick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=Locked Out LilyNeil Lancaster
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Lily is, or was, or has been, very ill, and to give her parents relief sheIt's been told unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to stay with her grandma approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for a few daysthe other. The parents need the relief as LilyBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's baby sibling is just about prepared to be born – tell the police where the body of a child Lily swears she hates already missing person is buried and wants nothing to do with. But on tracking back home who was responsible for word of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parentsdeath. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the babe-in-arms, already installedpolice doing what he wants. These devilish interlopers need And what he wants is to be ousted transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get the family back intactan early parole date. Not much to ask, even if is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's not the family Lily wants – t think so and all she has 's even prepared to help her in do the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and Snakeanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1471194833
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|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith1035043092|title=The Great Dream RobberyKilling Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=MayaI can's father is a professor t have been the only person who invented an amazing dream machine. But something went wrongwas sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, and now he can't wake upBook 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. Or at least, that It's what Maya has been told. In a rather strange dream one night Maya makes a new friendseven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and discovers that their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the only way to save her dad may be by being asleepdaughter of his former partner. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams and reality collide...really...and there Willow's everything from llamas also his boss, and bananasshe ''should'' be on maternity leave, dream machines made but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from hairdresser cast-offs, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051Xmuseum.
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|isbnauthor=1800464495Thea Lenarduzzi|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma SmithThe Tower|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Literary Fiction|summary=''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in How unctuous are the womb, being aware fats of quantities at seven hours oldanother's life, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''.
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|isbnauthor=1529379385Claire-Louise Bennett|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise PennyBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.
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|isbn=0008405026
|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)
|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the Canadian village of Three Pines, weIt're posts sixteen years since nine-pandemic: year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the scars are still there but life is starting investigation ground to get back to normala halt. The villagers Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are beginning to return to the Bistro and the Aubergedead in their bed. They're visiting each otherInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's homes something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and having friends and relatives to stayher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people What looked as though it was going to be around an open-and- shut case is now a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in the village Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as the Asshole SaintDerwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbnauthor= B09F4CTKJRAnnie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven BurgauerThe Other Girl|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionAutobiography|summary=It's 'We were born from the later stages of World War same body. I 've never really wanted to think about this.'' Ernaux's work is always very candid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the United States has just entered the conflictmost intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, this letter will never reach her. Petrol Petronus is Why? Because Annie Ernaux's sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a young American who has signed up and joined few months before the 17 Aero Squadron. This company vaccine was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained made compulsory in CanadaFrance, and 2 years before the first to be attached to the RAF author was even born. The large and instant void created by the first jarring concept of writing to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with this giant absence in active combat. But before her life, an absence that can happen, Petrol she has to master flying the notoriously difficult always felt but majestic Sopwith Cameloften denied.|isbn=1804271845
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|isbnauthor=183885410XMaxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=The Dark Remains|author=William McIlvanney Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Ian RankinAndreyev
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|genre=CrimeBiography|summary=Bobby Carter was Biographies are often seen as the form of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and less personal. I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a lawyer and consigliere to one vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowhis literary contemporaries. DC Jack Laidlaw is on In the CID team charged with the investigation. I say ''on the teamfirst section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: '' you write not of real life as it is, but Laidlaw never really seems of what you yourself imagine it to be a part of . Whom would it help to know how I see this tower, that sea, or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. He does his own thingWell, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, giving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, goes his own way Chekhov and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of Glasgow's seedier pubsit.|isbn=1804271977
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|isbn=19424102551529077745|title=Tokyo Zangyo The Dark Wives (Detective HiroshiD I Vera Stanhope)|author=Michael PronkoAnn 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 before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe 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, House of Night|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''What'Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaids the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?''
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|isbn=02414254251836284683|title=The Man Who Died TwiceBig Happy|author=Richard OsmanDavid Chadwick
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|genre=CrimeDystopian Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Best was Well! This is a little surprised murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when she received the letter. It came from I open a man whose body she had helped book, it's nothing like I expected it to pull from the Thames be, and who had never existed but then this is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with it takes me on a regular basiswild ride. When she visits the sender of the letter (heAnd that is just what happened with ''s moved into the CooperThe Big Happy's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she has a long professional history - and who used to be her husband. HeI don's made t want to ruin a bad mistake - something similar experience for any of you reading but I'll have to do with a mask being removed within at least set the range of a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and a few death threatsscene. HeOnce that's now in hiding with a young woman called Pollydone, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.
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|author=Andrew SharpSally Rooney|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingIntermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is, in his mind, the head chef something of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African countrygrandmaster at putting it into words. Mozzy Her dialogue is earnest gripping and dedicated to his task and he puts all of himself so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into creating fine cuisine dishes this story, the central one for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream readers to unravel is to become the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American cityfraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Even to win Ivan, a Michelin star. He is thwarted in this ambition by socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his bossolder brother Peter, Mr Bin (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzya successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's disapproval for his scruffy wayspassing after a long battle with cancer, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the housebrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=B09926MK8H0571365469
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|authorisbn=Alex Foulkes1836285493|title=Rules for VampiresThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) Will is a Vampire. She drinks bloodkeen player of video games, she sleeps during the daya conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock supportive friend. But most of bats to travel aroundall, although not all of them remember to come back)he is an aspiring writer. Pretty cool stuff. NowEnglish is his favourite lesson at his school, on the night of her hundredth birthnightMarlowe Park, she has to go out and hunt her first humanone at which he excels. HoweverThis hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, instead and she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And has suggested to make things worse, the ghosts of one of the orphans Will and the evil master his mum that he spends a couple of the orphanage come back to haunt her. Soafternoons a week at a different school, not only does Leo have to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulStation Road, she has to do it all while hiding it from her familywhere his ability might be better extended. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X
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|authorisbn=Tori Bovalino1009473085|title=The Devil Makes ThreeConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=TeensPolitics and Society|summary= Working all summer in her boarding schoolSometimes it's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants simpler to do — especially when she gets explain a request for over a hundred books book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that she has applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the books: Mr Birchbook for you. The boarding school If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's headmasterbook, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a man Tess hates. As series which looks at the impact a petty act of revenge for making her find government has made and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks postco-it notes on each of editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the books, scribbled with most important. This book follows the ugliest insults she can think well-established format: a series of. They're never meant to reach him, experts from various fields review the state of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like thisthe nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for herthe situation in 2024.|isbn=1789098130
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|isbnauthor= B09BG8V3Q6Jenny Valentine|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery Us in the Before and Seema AmjadAfter|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingTeens|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is the latest release a once in the a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other'Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Averys contact details at the time. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children But then chance brings them back together, and replace it with some funthey are inseparable. It's a worthy aim Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, as any frustrated parent will tell you. together.|isbn=1471196585
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