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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur Maria Stepanova and Jane Aitken Sasha Dugdale (translatorTranslator)|title=Red is My HeartThe Disappearing Act|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black Despite her anonymisation of place names and white people, Stepanova's message in 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. Detoured by erratic train schedules and read nudged by forces beyond her control, her journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. Swept up in my housethis series of events, M eventually offers to step in for a circus performer who has unexpectedly left the show. And so was this oneThe train functions as a motif of transience and impermanence, while the circus embodies the reshaping of identity and a retreat into fantasy, although I could have spelled an impulse that more accurately – this one lies at the very heart of the novel form itself.|isbn=1804272329}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0GFQ81YQK|title=How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything wasquiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, and isthe earth created bodies. And then, black the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and white they belonged to both earth and redsky. YesAnd so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceespecially how they came to be. When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the earth and I think it's possible their life returned to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideassky. And that is why the earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and care for, both.|isbn=1913547183
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|isbn=1529135567B0GHPMNF6P|title=One Step Too FarThe Zookeeper's Dragon: A Magical Modern Fantasy Tale for Grown-Ups|author=Lisa GardnerCarolyn Mathews
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|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=ItWhen Phil's five years since father unexpectedly dies, he quits his Canary Wharf finance job to take over the stag weekend. Five running of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Joshfamily's farm zoo. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too He's not expecting much really excitement, until he receives an unidentified egg that his new- and age stoner uncle Edgar found in the night Scot managed to wander off. The remaining four searched for him a cave in vain New Zealand, and suddenly life is no longer quite what it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for helpseems. When help didn't come Then the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after egg hatches into neither a reptile nor a bird, but there was no sign of Tim. Every yeara dragon! Now he, Tim's fatherEdgar, Martinhis mother Abi, and the four friends zoo's part-time café waitress Pearl have been back to continue the search although raise this little bundle of scales and joy, despite having no idea how to actually raise dragons and not being able to tell anyone about it. But this tiny little dragon may show them love and connection in ways they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tim.had never before imagined…
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|author=Gunnar StaalesenStephanie Zabriskie|title=Bitter FlowersHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Varg Veum ''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint children’s nonfiction book drawn from the oral traditions of Maasai elders in rehab and is now returning to workNgorongoro, Tanzania. However, the quiet job he's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into The Maasai are a murder investigation, cattle-herding people and a mystery around a missing womanthis story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be so. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but also looking into an old, cold case this doesn't tell the whole story of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night the intimate and was never found. Somehowsymbiotic connection its people, these disparate cases appear to be linkedand especially its women, but what is have with their cows and for the natural world. The oral tradition retelling the linkmany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?does.|isbn=191319308XB0G9WTGY6J
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|author=Kia AhankoobLivi Michael|title=The Gold Lion Elizabeth and the Tournament of SentinelsRuth|rating=43.5|genre=Graphic NovelsHistorical Fiction|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength ''Elizabeth and weakeness, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power Ruth'' is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and historical fiction wrought from the eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding life of the cost of war too highVictorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, best known for her first novel Mary Barton (1848), a solution is proposed. Each radical critique of the treatment of the eight countries will send their greatest warriorsworking class published under a pseudonym. The ''Ruth'' from Livi Michael's title appears in her novel as Pasley, known a young Irish prostitute who was abandoned as sentinels, to a single combat tournamentchild and finds herself in Manchester's New Bailey Prison after a difficult and unjust hand at life. The winner will take possession of all Set in Manchester between 1839 and 1842, the novel examines the harsh conditions endured by the rings Victorian working poor and become interrogates the extent to which the supreme ruler of Dunivawealthy (including Gaskell herself) were responsible for addressing these injustices.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV1784633682
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|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsMakenna Goodman|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinHelen of Nowhere|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet Tomas. Happy It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to work with his father -place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the blacksmith's forgebrink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, he's almost of the age to become Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a full apprenticeforce which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and help with the new batch of dragonswords protagonist is certainly neededindirect yet intimate. Not that there are any dragons, As the former owner of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except... Strange signals from within the forge furnacecountryside house he's considering, and Helen represents a peculiar invite to become an apprentice clerk insteadvolta in his life, are things for Tom her past tied to puzzle over – until it all comes out in his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the wash, that yes dragons do still exist in this worldhouse shares stories about Helen, and describes her as ''an entity that Tom is rare pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the ability to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with them..reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=18399400261804272205
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|isbn=1529346541B0GCB1MQ7D|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelWhy My Mother Went Away|author=Elizabeth GeorgeAlan Kennedy
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|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=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 late July and Deborah St James is at not often that you find a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for book that gives the school systemfull backstory, and rarely do you discover a representative from memoir where the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didntelling is so perfect that you't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi ll go back and reread paragraphs and Narissa Cameronsentences, a filmmakerjust for the pleasure the words give. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book ''London VoicesWhy My Mother Went Away'': the meeting is an exploration one of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesthose rare exceptions. DeborahIt's uncertain about quite the story of how successful she could be as a boy from the problem seems to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting Midlands, born at the beginning of the Second World War, would become a Professor of Psychology at Dundee University. In fact, he was one of the trust founders of the people she speaks to and photographsdepartment.
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|isbnauthor=B09Q3P283YJeremy Cooper|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W HooperDiscord|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for Discord: a lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) The principal example of discord within the US Army during novel, as with most instances of discord, is easily located. The two protagonists of the Vietnam Warnovel, Rebekah Rosen and Evie Bennet, are as different as they come. He's not really that invested in the fight against CommunismRebekah is an uptight, traditional and no-nonsense composer close to retirement, nor while Evie is he particularly interested in a career in force of nature, bounding onto the militarymusical scene as a precocious saxophonist, oozing with talent and charm. If he's honest - which Clyde usually isThe two, predictably, with himself at least - he hasndon't got many choices always see eye to eye, their approaches different and this one, Evie's progressive views at least, gets him out of the rut heodds with Rebekah's inconservative leaning. He's good in training and is quickly put onto However, something connects them beyond just their musical project: a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himselfsort of fragile alliance formed within the clamour.|isbn=1804272264
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|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmyTom Percival|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondWrong Shoes|rating=4.5
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|summary=There Will's life is no mermaid difficult, in the millponda multitude of ways. That at least He is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all bullied because he has 'the other kidswrong shoes', who he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have had their entire childhoods sold to enough money for even the mill-owners by most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in college, was working a handcash-toin-mouth, every man for himself kind of existencehand job on a building site and had an accident. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in Throw into that mix the slight little Dotfact that his mum and dad are separated, and despite everything that Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer tiny amount of companionship in the tired-out mill workershope. But surely that doesn't mean there He is any truth in good at art, and clings to the existence moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the mermaid?end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=180090049X1398527122
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|isbnauthor=1785633074Edward W Said|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh BerryRepresentations of the Intellectual
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|genre=HumourPolitics and Society|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the Edward Said's 'primus inter pares'Representations of the Intellectual' (that's for those is less a strict theory of you who what intellectuals are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmentmore a passionate argument for what they should be. We are in Said clearly rejects the privileged position comfortable image of having access the intellectual as a detached expert speaking only to other specialists. Instead, he insists on the memoirs of Rafe Hubrisintellectual as a public figure, often awkward, abrasive, and unpopular, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man speaks truth to watchpower even when it is inconvenient or risky.|isbn=1804272248
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|isbnauthor=B09MYXSRV4Sylvie Cathrall|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came Letter to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.}}{{Frontpage|author=Giovanna Fletcher|title=Walking on Sunshine|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with him.|isbn=140593560X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529393930|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie RochesterLuminous Deep
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|genre=CraftsScience Fiction|summary=''Starting a creative business has never been easier.'' ''If not now, when?'' I know that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. There's a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items are few greater joys than we can sensibly use and there are a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. Selling would offset the costs, book which can be quite considerable and it could be fun to do, couldn't it? But where lives up to start? What do I need to think about? Well, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do compelling premise. And this is to read ''Making a Living''one of them.|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn=Freya Marske1786482126|title=A Marvellous LightThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into a job Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the Civil Service, much site was going to his chagrinhold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with magicDCI Harry Nelson. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him It's difficult as Ruth knows, Robin follows Edwin to the countrysidebut Nelson doesn't, where the hedgegrows bristle that she is pregnant with incantations and his child as a result of the people shimmer with powerone night they spent together some three months ago. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the lives Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of all magicians in the British Islessickness. |isbn=1529080886
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|isbn=02414804420008551375|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition ScienceWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienNeil Lancaster
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|genre=CookeryCrime|summary=EmotionallyLeanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, I am seemingly the result of a vegantragic accident. MentallyShe'd looked so happy, too, I am a veganwhen she posted her intentions on Facebook. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was appalled by the way living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in which we treat animals similar circumstances in our search for (preferably cheap) foodthe last year. PracticallyAll were experienced climbers, I am not a veganproperly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. It worked for None of the 'what a while apart from the odd blip with regard stupid thing to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope dondo't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based proteinexplanations applied. It wasnThey were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there't the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was s a killer on the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare momentsloose.
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|isbnauthor=suppl_staflPaul B Preciado|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim StaflundDysphoria Mundi
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|genre=ReferencePolitics and Society|summary=So, you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work 'It is all done? You're convinced that all you need never too late to do now is get it published and embrace the money will start rolling in?revolutionary optimism of childhood''
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|isbnauthor=1398706906Samantha Harvey|title=The Lost|author=Simon BeckettOrbital|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officerIn 2024, Jonah ColleySamantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for 's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happened. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and when he woke, Theo had gone. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later heOrbital's largely come through it and he's out with his team when he gets , a phone call from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used to be his best friend but it's compact yet profound work that unfolds over a long time since they've spoken. He's obviously single day in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quaythe lives of a group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. ''There's no one else I can trust'Through a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts'orbital perspective, he saysHarvey invites readers to see our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933
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|authorisbn=Amanda Mason295967572X|title=The Hiding Place|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But there's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect that she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{FrontpagePale Pieces|author=Paul Cleave|title=The Quiet PeopleG M Stevens
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|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary= I am not Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a fan of "the Prologue"train journey with his companion Django. Most books are Where they're going and what the worse for them. In purpose of this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who journey is, is in a hurryuncertain. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have, and when he hurries, when he bundles things into Django found the tickets ''on the back of his car floor somewhere'' and tries has persuaded our narrator to run and then hears sirens behind accompany him, which he should . Why not hear because this ? Not much else is New Zealand clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and that the train is not how they do things there, he takes a risksteam locomotive. It ends badly.|isbn=1913193942
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|authorisbn=Will Carver0008551324|title=Psychopaths AnonymousThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Maeve 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 high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously missing person is buried and alsowho was responsible for her death. This person, curiouslyhe promises, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing someone big and critiquing it will be worth the AA steps she police doing what he wants. And what he wants is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets be transferred to feed her desire an open prison to hear serve the remainder of people's misery, his sentence and targets for her violent behaviourto get an early parole date. Yet she also seems Not much to be searching for others who ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think as she does, so and when she's unable even prepared to find likedo the other thing that Hardie demanded -minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous works with him is bornkept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1913193756
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|isbn=15294181001035043092|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Martin WalkerAnn Cleeves|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=Ican'm not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put t have been the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walker's only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological OrderWild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|Bruno Courreges Mysteriesleft Shetland]] so the temptation to read start a new life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he'Brunos now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Willow's Challengealso his boss, and she ''should' was hard to resist and I'm rather glad that I didnbe on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a storm, she can't even tryresist getting involved. For those new to the series, there He's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know d been battered about who's who and the background to why Bruno is in St Denishead with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.
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|isbnauthor=B09GJW49GFThea Lenarduzzi|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)|author=Jenny O'BrienThe Tower|rating=45|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her son''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. Hunter had diabetes and In this was controlled by a pump attached to his stomachcompelling novel, so her over-protectiveness was understandableThea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, but her fiancethe protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, the story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, Ianthe daughter of a wealthy family in the 19th century, was pestering her to get married and she thought it would be who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a good idea for him to find out what parenting was tower, captures T's imagination. Annie'really'' like. Her friends fate is, Millyabove all, had arranged an enticing story to take her boyfriend, LiamT. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, for a night both in a posh hotel but then he dumped her quest for truth and she couldn't get the money backknowledge, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go and in his placeservice of myth, fable and fantasy. She would return home to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missing.|isbn=1804271799
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|isbnauthor=B09GV3WS1QClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Without a Trace|author=Jane BettanyBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Life hadnEverything 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, 't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through a divorce over here and right now kiss me,'' it was raining hard. All she wanted was to get back is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her new home and settle down for a quiet eveningemotional numbness. It wasn't going to be though: when she went into The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her bedroom ex-partner, a ghost she found a dead man on conjures to test her bed with a knife in his chest. She'd no idea who he wasdetachment.|isbn=1804271934
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|isbn=18387748230008405026|title=Her Majesty A Stranger in the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=S J BennettJane Casey
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|summary=It's 2016 sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting investigation ground to a strain on his waistbandhalt. SwimmingNow, her mother, he decidesHelena, is the way to go and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to be there early one morning and discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at the side of the poolher father are dead in their bed. There was broken glass - Initially, it looks like a crystal tumbler, by straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the look at it - probably one positioning of the young royals being careless - bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and it her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped it was going to be an open-and cut herself so badly that she had bled out-shut case is now a complex double murder. StillKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, it was a shock for Sir SimonUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|rating=4
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|summary=How to summarise ''We were born from the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you know, same body. I 've never really don't wanted to think I canabout this.''
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|authorisbn=Tade Thompson1529077745|title=Far From the Light of HeavenThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves
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|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of going to space. As first officer aboard a man in the sleeper ship Ragtimepark near Rosebank, bound a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be care workers who was due to work a babysitter for shift the ship's AI captainnight before but who had never turned up. However, when she wakes up at D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the end disappearance of her trip to find dozens one of her passengers butchered and the Ragtimeresidents, 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 AI almost non-responsive, diary makes it clear that she begins to realise adored Josh. She knows 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 has to find Chloe to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, happened to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station LagosJosh. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323
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|author=Rob KeeleyOlga Tokarczuk|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!House of Day, House of Night|rating= 45|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, broccoliHouse of Night'', cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their nosessomewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice like the shift from day to eat. One daynight, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordanhowever quotidian, who tells her that carrots grow on treescausing chaos. InfuriatedBut, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains constant in that fruits grow on trees and vegetablesimage is the house, like carrots, grow in stoic against the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lilyancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn= B09HHN541V1804271918
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|isbn=178607981X1836284683|title=Bad ApplesThe Big Happy|author=Will DeanDavid Chadwick
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|genre=CrimeDystopian Fiction|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up Well! This is a foggy hillside towards Visberg murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of the roadI open a book, it's nothing like I expected it to be, and it takes me on a wild ride. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of the car - and heard the screams from deep inside the forestAnd that is just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. Determining the direction of a sound isnI don't easy when want to ruin a similar experience for any of you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference reading but Tuva made her way I'll have to where a woman was holding her coat over at least set the body of a manscene. HeOnce that'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Perssons done, a resident of VisbergI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.
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|author=Lilja SigurdadottirSally Rooney|title=Cold As HellIntermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction |summary= In Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a red suitcase grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the bottom of fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a fissure successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a lava fieldlong battle with cancer, there is a body. And the man who has put her there has just discovered that he is capable of killingbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=19131938880571365469
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|authorisbn=Lucy Hope1836285493|title=FledglingThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5
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|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene Will is a most peculiar hilltop housekeen player of video games, built bit by bit over the decadesa conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods belowa supportive friend. It's an eccentric houseBut most of all, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system he is not as we'd know it, the roof is retractable, there an aspiring writer. English is a steam-poweredhis favourite lesson at his school, hand-operated lift system cut through itMarlowe Park, and so onone at which he excels. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermyThis hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, a woman who does nothing but quibbleMrs Howarth, kvetch and sing opera loudly, she has suggested to Will and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, his mum that he spends a young lass who has to do all the maintenance couple of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is afternoons a cherub. And if you think such week at a heavenly arrival is going to different school, Station Road, where his ability might be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again..better extended.|isbn=183994188X
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|isbn=18462767721009473085|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our MindsConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Jessica NordellAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5
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|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that they may no longer even recognise the extent applies to which they suffer from it''The Conservative Effect: it2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''s simply a part of everyday life. White men If you're looking for an easy read which will always come first. The able will come before deliver the disabled. Jobsinside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, promotions, higher salaries are then this isn't the preserve of the white manbook for you. Even when those who wouldnIf that's what you're looking for, I don't pass the medical become a part of an organisation itthink Anthony Seldon's rare that their views are heardbook, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, that their concerns are acknowledgedcan be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's personally appalling a compelling read and degrading 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 series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the individuals on well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the receiving end state of the bias 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 Before 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. They meet as children one day on a trip out but itunfortunately they don't get each other's not just contact details at the individuals who time. But then chance brings them back together, and they are negatively impactedinseparable. 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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|authorisbn=Teresa Driscoll1787333175|title=Her Perfect FamilyYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersPopular Science|summary=The novel begins by introducing you I was tempted to Gemma, who at read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first instance appears book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to be your average studentHurt}}, faced with a glorious mixture of insight into the familiar horrifying realisation, at workings of the eleventh hourNHS, that her graduation outfit is all wronghumour and autobiography. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''You Don'He is not who he says he is…t Have to be Mad...'', paving promised the way for same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a twist work of events, and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the midst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in laughter is directed at a situation rather than a coma, what follows person and it is a complex whodunit always delivered with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you readempathy and understanding.|isbn=1542028752
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