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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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|author=Will CarverSamantha Harvey|title=Psychopaths AnonymousOrbital|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholicIn 2024, drinking continuously and alsoSamantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''Orbital'', curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the AA steps she is mainly using lives of a group of astronauts aboard the groups to find targetsInternational Space Station...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of peopleThrough a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts's miseryorbital perspective, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems Harvey invites readers to be searching for others who think as she does, and when she's unable to find like-minded people see our planet in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is borna wholly new light.|isbn=19131937561529922933
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|isbn=1529418100295967572X|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesPale Pieces|author=Martin WalkerG M Stevens|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=IOur unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they'm not usually a fan re going and what the purpose of short stories - I find it all too easy to put this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walkertickets 's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so on the temptation to read floor somewhere''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard and has persuaded our narrator to resist and I'm rather glad that I didn't even tryaccompany him. For those new Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the series, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who's who station by coach and the background to why Bruno train is in St Denisa steam locomotive.
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF0008551324|title=Buried Lies The Devil You Know (Gaby Darin Book 5D S Max Craigie)|author=Jenny O'BrienNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away It's unusual for anyone from her sonthe Hardie family to approach the police. Hunter had diabetes Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and this was controlled by he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a pump attached to his stomach, so her over-protectiveness missing person is buried and who was understandable, but responsible for her fiancedeath. This person, Ianhe promises, was pestering her to get married is someone big and she thought it would will be a good idea for him to find out worth the police doing what parenting was ''really'' likehe wants. Her friend, Milly, had arranged And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to take her boyfriend, Liam, for a night in a posh hotel but then he dumped her serve the remainder of his sentence and she couldn't to get the money back, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go in his placean early parole date. She would return home Not much to find Ian dead ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and fiveshe's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -year-old Hunter missingmake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbnauthor=B09GV3WS1QJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Without a Trace|author=Jane BettanyVaim
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through a divorce and right now it All was raining hardstrange''.. All she wanted was to get back to her new home and settle down for a quiet evening. It wasn't going to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a dead man on her bed with a knife fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, two of the protagonists caught in his chest. She'd no idea who he wasits melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829
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|isbn=18387748231035043092|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=S J BennettAnn Cleeves
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItI can's 2016 and t have been the Queen's Private Secretaryonly person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a strain new life on his waistbandOrkney. SwimmingIt's been seven years since we heard from him, but he decides's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, is the way to go daughter of his former partner. Willow's also his boss, and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to she ''should'' be there early one morning and discovered on maternity leave, but when the body of Cynthia Harris at a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the side aftermath of the pool. There was broken glass - a crystal tumblerstorm, by she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the look at it head with a Neolithic stone - probably one of the young royals being careless a pair - and it looked as though Mrs Harris which had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled out. Still, it was been stolen from a shock for Sir Simonmuseum.
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|isbnauthor=057136358XThea Lenarduzzi|title=April in Spain|author=John BanvilleThe Tower
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think of himself in those terms. He saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to kill a lot of How unctuous are the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. He was spending a lot fats of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percyanother's death that he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spain.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dave Letterfly Knoderer|title=Speedy: Hurled Through Havoc|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=How to summarise the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv , how dizzying their sugars in a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you know, I really donour bloodstream''t think I can.
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|author=Tade ThompsonClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Far From the Light of HeavenBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to spacesteeped in anguish and distortion. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship RagtimeEven a kiss, bound for the world usually a symbol of Bloodrootintimacy and closeness, she will essentially be a babysitter for becomes evidence of love lost. When the shipnarrator cries out internally, 's AI captain. However'come over here and kiss me, when she wakes up at the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtimeconfirm her emotional numbness. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend The imagined recipient of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodrootthis plea is Xavier, halfher ex-alien daughter in towpartner, a ghost she conjures to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagostest her detachment. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=03565143231804271934
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|authorisbn=Rob Keeley0008405026|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating= 4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow A Stranger in the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|isbn= B09HHN541V}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178607981X|title=Bad ApplesFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Will DeanJane Casey|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was driving up never found and the investigation ground to a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of the roadhalt. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of the car - Now, her mother, Helena, and heard the screams from deep inside the foresther father are dead in their bed. Determining Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the direction positioning of a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to where be an open-and-shut case is now a woman was holding her coat over the body of a mancomplex double murder. HeKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Perssons disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, a resident of VisbergUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|author=Lilja SigurdadottirAnnie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=Cold As HellThe Other Girl
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary= In a red suitcase as ''We were born from the 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 bottom most intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, this letter will never reach her. Why? Because Annie Ernaux's sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a fissure few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in a lava fieldFrance, there is a bodyand 2 years before the author was even born. And The large and instant void created by the man who has put jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with this giant absence in her there life, an absence that she has just discovered that he is capable of killingalways felt but often denied.|isbn=19131938881804271845
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|author=Lucy HopeMaxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=FledglingReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersBiography|summary=BavariaBiographies 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, 1900. Our scene is and offers a most peculiar hilltop housevibrant, built bit by bit over subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the decadesfirst section of this book, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. ItTolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: ''s an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is you write not of real life as we'd know it, the roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through but of what you yourself imagine it, and so onto be. At the moment Whom would it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma help to our heroineknow how I see this tower, Cassiethat sea, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machineor that Tartar -like abode. Oh but why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?'s also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a heavenly arrival is going subjective account, giving us access to be a completely great how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and wonderful thing, think again..Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=183994188X1804271977
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|isbn=18462767721529077745|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our MindsDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Jessica NordellAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply park near Rosebank, a part of everyday life. White men will always come firstcare home for troubled teens. The able will come dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the night before the disabledbut who had never turned up. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the preserve disappearance of one of the white manresidents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare Some people believe that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading Chloe was responsible for the individuals on death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the receiving end of the bias but itgirl's not just the individuals who are negatively impacteddiary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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|authorisbn=Teresa DriscollB0FK5LHKD9|title=Her Perfect FamilyThe Colour of Memory|author=Christopher Bowden|rating=54|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=The novel begins It's been three years since we last reviewed a book by introducing you favourite regular Christopher Bowden, so we were very glad to Gemma, who see a new novel arrive here at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisationBookbag Towers. Like all Bowden's stories, there's a mystery at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating heart of ''He is not who he says he is…The Colour of Money'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In We like this running theme in an author's work - take a twist of events, mystery but give it different flavour and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremonyatmosphere each time. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752
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|isbnauthor=8409290103Olga Tokarczuk|title=If Only|author=Matthew TreeHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Twenty-''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his fathergo on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', cottonsomewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities -broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountantthe small, Mr Patricksubtle changes which govern our lives, to ensure that the young man got on board like the boat and thereafter Patrick was shift from day to send him a monthly allowancenight, however quotidian, causing chaos. Patrick sent But, the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between constant in that image is 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 sonhouse, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his wayis perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)henleyA|title=The Rabbit FactorUltimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Henri. With Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a mind so much more focused on maths Private Investigator for some time now, and calculations than it is other human beingshe should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide hedaughter's not defence against a team-membermurder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, that they'd prefer everyone has been trying to persuade him to be all openretire -plan, holistic and keen ''maybe go travelling or go on stupid-as workshoppingcruises. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo That's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that what 'everythingordinary people do' is just an adventure park, and nothing else. ''YouMeFun He'' is so s not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks been entirely up a little when he sees huge holes in front about the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanishedstate of their savings. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to explain that missing money – take his case, it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities thought of these guys are not conducive to getting the money he could make that convinces him that this is a cheap life insurance plan..miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbn=14711793111836284683|title=The UnheardBig Happy|author=Nicci FrenchDavid Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction|summary=Tess, Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a teacher and Jasonbook, a headmasterit's nothing like I expected it to be, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of the family home and Jason it takes me on a wild ride. And that is now married to Emily. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was the family home and another in the flat she shares happened with her mother. It ''seemedThe Big Happy''. I don' t want to be working well until the day that Poppy came home with ruin a menacing drawing similar experience for any of a woman falling from a tall building and she started swearing, using words she was unlikely you reading but I'll have to have heard in either home. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems at nursery schoolleast set the scene. Tess turns to a therapist Once that's done, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for help, then her doctor and finally the police but no one will take what she has to say seriouslyyourself.
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|isbnauthor=1471196615Sally Rooney|title=Iced|author=Felix FrancisIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction |summary=Miles Pussett used to be Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the three-quarter-mile Cresta Runmany relationships woven into this story, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. He was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - that's high-class horseracing on central one for readers to unravel is the frozen lake fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and against Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the saddling of the horsesolder brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. ItFollowing their father's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore that he'd never go back to it. But when he sees that something suspicious is going onpassing after a long battle with cancer, Miles canthe brothers't help but look for answers, even when it puts him in dangeralready strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469
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|isbn=147228612X1036916375|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Alan JohnsonPeter McArdle|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven't taken much notice 'Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of themmemories and reflections from the years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. They live quiet Some are factual, such as the family history of a sea-going family, uneventful with the docks dominating lives and stay mostly under . Other stories blend seamlessly into the radarwhat-might-have-been. In It's a city like Londonbook 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 thatwas a constant factor in McArdle's quite easy - and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himearly years. The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work on the train each morning: heI'd love to ask her for a date never heard of parachute mines before - but he doesn't have the courage. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him they were almost soundless and asks for his help. Before long he finds himself on could appear after the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan policeall-clear was sounded.
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|authorisbn=Claire McGowan1836285493|title=I Know YouThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=45|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns from Will is a walk with the babykeen player of video games, Carsona conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and comes across three bodiesa supportive friend. But most of all, he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, almost a whole family taken downand one at which he excels. 'This hasn'Now:'' Rachel is out for a walk with her dogt gone unnoticed by his headteacher, BrandyMrs Howarth, when and she comes across has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a body in the woodscouple of afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.|isbn=1542019974
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|isbn=15291482511009473085|title=Misfits: A Personal ManifestoThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Michaela CoelAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Sometimes it''How am I able s simpler to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from explain a book by describing what it.'' Before you start reading isn't'Misfits'and that applies to ' you need to be in a certain frame of mind. You're not going to read a book of essays or a selfThe Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 -help book14 Wasted Years?''. YouIf you're going to looking for an easy read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coelwill deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within t the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festivalbook for you. You might be If that's what you'readingre looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon' the s book but you need , {{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'listen'is an entirely different beast. It' to s the seventh book in a series which looks at the words impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as though you're the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the lecture theatreBefore and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried They meet as children one day on a cloud of exquisite writingtrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. 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=1471196585
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|isbn=00084336311787333175|title=Next of KinYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Kia AbdullahBenji Waterhouse
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersPopular Science|summary=It I was the sort of thing that happened every day, although not tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Leila Syed. SheWork Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay'd never driven her nephew, Max, s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to school before but his fatherHurt}}, Andrew Hansona glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, had rung her in a panichumour and autobiography. He was supposed ''You Don't Have to be taking Max to school but heMad...''d been called into work and promised the delay in getting there could lead same elements but moved from physical problems to financial losses. As mental illness and the school was only five minutes out work of Leila's way, could she drop him off? Of course, she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her carpsychiatrist. On I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic laughter is directed at her work too, with a problem which could put situation rather than a multi-million-pound contract at riskperson and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaMariana Enriquez|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)A Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=45|genre=For SharingShort Stories|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, Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In classdisturbingly real, sayachieving 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, when everyone will hear it an overcrowded homeless shelter and everyone will laugh. At youa crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. Justine Avery's latest entry in The circumstances of her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with characters are so plausible that the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normalsupernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W1803511230}}
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|isbn=17841652631529934753|title=Invite Me InThe Protest|author=Emma CurtisRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Martin CurranFor a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's wifemost famous living artist, Eliza knew that she had was not going to be home to make show up for the opening of his lunch for one o'clock on retrospective at the dotRoyal Academy. Still, despite he arrived in the fact that she was actually painting nick of time, complete with his two wives and six children, one of their properties prior to it being letwhom filmed what happened. If she didn't get homeBeing an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there would be troublewas a record of the protest. There was some excuse: Martin was Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a paraplegic chair and confined proceeded to a wheelchairspray Bruce in the face, but donwhilst shouting 't be too quick to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointmentStop the War''. All this was in ElizaIt seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrivedattacks, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza but this was about to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2different. The can had been laced with cyanide, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it Sir Max Bruce was advertised as being availabledead.
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|isbnauthor=1784742775Ariel Saramandi|title=A Change Portrait of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan Hillan Island on Fire|rating=4.5|genre=CrimePolitics and Society|summary=Drugs hadn't really been that much In this powerful collection of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of time. They still wereessays, Saramandi seeks to a great extentintradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, but Serrailler knew that something had to be done. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport tunneling deep into the drugs wounds left by colonialism and the operation running the county lines was tightslavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. A mule might know Saramandi describes the name (although it probably wouldncountry at one stage as ''rotting''t be , a blunt yet apt metaphor for the correct one) of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything systemic decay brought about those higher up in by the organisationmalignant forces of racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. The police might catch Each essay in this collection serves as a few kind of diagnostic, charting the various diseases afflicting the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upisland state.|isbn=1804271616
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|isbnauthor=B09FS89KX9Pekka Harju-Autti|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope PottsLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse|rating=3.54|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BBIt's diner. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was eighteenth century, a good bosstime of discovery and Britain is expanding its foreign trade. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriendCaptain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well is sent to the Andaman Islands in his careerendeavour. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her Along with his son, Peter, and most of all he wanted her their cat, Michi, they set off on a perilous voyage to leave her job at the dinerthese faraway lands. Then there was The islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and the fact that he would be violentislanders' leader, Aarav, both is keen to her and to other peopleestablish good relations.|isbn=B0DS1VGHH3
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|author=John GwynneHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=The Shadow Of The GodsLili is Crying|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set First published in the era of the Vikings 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the shadow hearts of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is proper position on the ultimate in High Fantasy, page and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genrepositions them elsewhere, with mythical creaturesdisjointed, archaic language and battles galoretruncated. This is a thick bookLike the lives of her characters, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that they are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battleoften left tragically incomplete.|isbn=03565142181804271675
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|isbnauthor=B09HTWX47XTom Percival|title=Endless Obsession|author=Dai HenleyThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=ItWill's some years since we last caught up with Andy Floodlife is difficult, formerly a DCI in the Met but now a well-respected private investigatormultitude of ways. Heis bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can's married to Laurat work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, formerly and his dad can't work because he lost his DS in job at the Murder Squad but now college, was working a cash-in -hand job on a forensics laboratorybuilding site and had an accident. Flood's daughters, Gemma Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and Pippa, have flown the nest, Pippa to Australia, from where she has very little contact with the familydad are separated, and Gemma to married Will's lifeseems bleak in every direction. She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope that married life will provide the support she needs. Flood's business He is going well good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that was why he felt able to turn down feel like a light at the case end of Lisa Blacka long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|author=Peter PapathanasiouSylvie Cathrall|title=The StoningA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=In There are few greater joys than a town sleazy enough book which lives up to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumpscompelling premise. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place And this is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival one of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law..them.|isbn=15294169730356522776
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|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H1786482126|title=The Mystery of HealingJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=A P McGrathElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the second century of the common era and hesite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's the physician on duty at the munus apartments - when they discovered the games put on for the amusement bones of the populacea child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor Was this a feeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to liveritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's quite a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see themdifficult as Ruth knows, theybut Nelson doesn're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes 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 t, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the wild animalsone night they spent together some three months ago. TodayHer condition will be obvious before long, it's the crocodilesnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|author=Kate DiCamillo Guadalupe Nettel and Sophie BlackallRosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Beatryce ProphecyAccidentals|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersShort Stories|summary=''Stories have joy and surprises This collection was truly enchanting in them'', we are told here. And none more so than in this wondrous storyall senses of the word: spellbinding with its fantastical, which feels an instant classic with the freshness magical elements and the agelessness it has charming in equal proportion. We start with a group its gentle portrayal of monks, the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, nature and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on human relationships. Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and biting the poor Brothers. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girlprecisely, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits stories structured by a King in his castle, desperate wisdom that appears to want to find the girl, for it is prophesied that a young child can unseat teach us something about the throne and cause great changeworld. 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=15295008931804271470
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|isbn=B09FFJF8YS0008551375|title=You Can't Wear Panties! When Shadows Fall (No More Nappies!D S Max Craigie)|author=Justine Avery and Kate ZhoidikNeil Lancaster|rating=34.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Leanne Wilson''For s body was found at the big, grownup girls out therebottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is result of a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pridetragic accident. She'' And d looked 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 happy, too, when she posted her around intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she proudly explains to her dogwas just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling best life now. Then it emerged that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pantsfive other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year. All were experienced climbers, while properly equipped for what they cannotwere doing and sensible people. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor None of the birds. Boy's certainly canwhat a stupid thing to do'texplanations applied. She They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!killer on the loose.
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