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|author=Sarah Ann JuckesMaria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleDisappearing Act|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Jasper is a little boy who has some strugglesDespite her anonymisation of place names and people, and whilst weStepanova're never told why exactly, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotionss message in this short work of autofiction is unmistakable. His big sister, Rosie, has been A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to the town of F for a huge support literary festival she is to himbe a guest speaker at. Detoured by erratic train schedules and nudged by forces beyond her control, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, and writing her journey slowly bends toward a book with him, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm downtraveling circus. His parents seem completely caught Swept up in their businessthis series of events, and so it is Rosie he always turns M eventually offers to. Even though she step in for a circus performer who has gone away to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs herunexpectedly left the show. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, The train functions as a motif of transience and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be rightimpermanence, and while the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find circus embodies the nightingale reshaping of identity and listen to its songa retreat into fantasy, as they do together every Springan impulse that lies at the very heart of the novel form itself.|isbn=13985108901804272329
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|authorisbn=B0GFQ81YQK|title=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur How the Sky and Jane Aitken (translator)the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|titleauthor=Red is My HeartStephanie Zabriskie|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Children's Non-Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black Before people came and white joined the animals, there was only the sky and read in my housethe earth. And so Everything was this onequiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one wasthe earth created bodies. And then, the 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 is, black soil and they planted and white learned and redremembered, especially how they came to be. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceWhen 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
|genre=Confident Readers
|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 SmithLetter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|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 There are few greater joys than 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 book which was how he came lives up to be in a race with Turtlecompelling premise. 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 aboutAnd this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn=Giovanna Fletcher1786482126|title=Walking on SunshineThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=MikeBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's wife, Pia, who he apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was with for seventeen yearsno skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, has died. And whilst he is dealing Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and ZazaDCI Harry Nelson. But Pia left them all some It'ruless difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn' to followt, knowing that she was dying and that is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they would need help to carry on livingspent together some three months ago. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe Her condition will be obvious before long, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him not least because Ruth is prone to take one sudden bouts 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 himsickness.|isbn=140593560X
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|isbn=15293939300008551375|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your BusinessWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Sophie RochesterNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=Leanne Wilson''Starting s body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a creative business has never been easiertragic accident. She'' ''If not nowd looked so happy, too, when?'' I know she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that I'm not alone five other women had died in similar circumstances in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a businessthe last year. There's a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and there are a lot of sensible people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. Selling would offset None of the costs, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun 'what a stupid thing to do, couldn't it? explanations applied. But where to start? What do I need to think about? Well, the first thing anyone who They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read certain there''Making s a Living''killer on the loose.
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|author=Freya MarskePaul B Preciado|title=A Marvellous LightDysphoria Mundi|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionPolitics and Society|summary=Robin Blyth ''It is nudged into a job in never too late to embrace the Civil Servicerevolutionary optimism of childhood'' Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, much to letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey own hybrid self, and learns that brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the streets new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of London are threaded with magicpolitical apathy. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow himRather, it is the proportional, Robin follows Edwin valid response to ''the countrysideepistemological and political crack we are living through, where and the hedgegrows bristle with incantations tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. The whole text is framed against the people shimmer with powerbackdrop 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''. There they uncover Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sinister plot that threatens the lives sign of all magicians in the British Islesweakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''. |isbn=15290808861804271454
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|isbnauthor=0241480442Samantha Harvey|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienOrbital
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|genre=CookeryGeneral Fiction|summary=EmotionallyIn 2024, I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by Samantha Harvey won the way in which we treat animals in our search Booker Prize for (preferably cheap) food. Practically''Orbital'', I am not a vegan. It worked for compact yet profound work that unfolds over a while apart from single day in the odd blip with regard to cheese but then lives of a perfect storm group of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based proteinastronauts aboard the International Space Station. It wasn't the taste - I know Through a narrative lens that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from mirrors the animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched see our planet in a few spare momentswholly new light.|isbn=1529922933
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|isbn=suppl_stafl295967572X|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversPale Pieces|author=Kim StaflundG M Stevens|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceLiterary Fiction|summary=So, you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now Our unnamed narrator is get it published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted about to - and you had begin a talent for delivering the written word. You knew your subject back to fronttrain journey with his companion Django. Now youWhere they're going to have to get to grips with and what the book supply chainpurpose of this journey is, which even parts of is uncertain. Django found the tickets ''on the publishing industry believe to be wrong but itfloor somewhere''s too difficult to change and no one wants has persuaded our narrator to be accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the first past as the pair travel to try. Then, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''station by coach and the train is'' going to be down to youa steam locomotive.
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|isbn=13987069060008551324|title=The LostDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Simon BeckettNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyIt's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself unusual for what had happenedanyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. He'd fallen asleep Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in the park whilst Theo was playing prison and when he woke, Theo had gone. It cost him his marriage 's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and his homewho was responsible for her death. Ten years later This person, he's largely come through promises, is someone big and it and will be worth the police doing what he's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneywants. Gavin used And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his best friend but sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's a long time since they've spoken. Het think so and she's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and he asks Jonah to meet anyone who works with him at Slaughter Quay. ''Thereis kept well away from what's no one else I can trust'', he sayshappening.
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|authorisbn=Amanda Mason1035043092|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}} {{FrontpageKilling Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Paul Cleave|title=The Quiet PeopleAnn Cleeves
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|summary= I am not a fan of "can't have been the Prologue". Most books are the worse for them. In this case I might make an exception. We only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start with Luca Pittman who is in a hurrynew life on Orkney. He has to hurry because It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he has children that he should not have's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Willow's also his boss, and when he hurriesshe ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when he bundles things into the back body of his car and tries to run and then hears sirens behind hima popular islander, Archie Stout, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things therefound, he takes in the aftermath of a riskstorm, she can't resist getting involved. It ends badly He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.|isbn=1913193942
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|author=Will CarverThea Lenarduzzi|title=Psychopaths AnonymousThe Tower|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, drinking continuously and alsohow dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, curiouslyThea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, addicted to attending numerous AA groupsthe protagonist of this tale. She Just as T's story is also being told, the story of a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the AA steps she is mainly using daughter of a wealthy family in the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters19th century, targets to feed her desire to hear who died of peopletuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's miseryimagination. Annie's fate is, and targets for her violent behaviourabove all, an enticing story to T. Yet It is a story which she also seems to be searching consumes avariciously, both in a quest for others who think as she doestruth and knowledge, and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any service of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessionsmyth, fable and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornfantasy. |isbn=19131937561804271799
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|isbnauthor=1529418100Claire-Louise Bennett|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin WalkerBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=I'm not Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a fan symbol of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories intimacy and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan closeness, becomes evidence of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so love lost. When the temptation to read narrator cries out internally, ''Brunocome over here and kiss me,'s Challenge'' was hard it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to resist and I'm rather glad that I didn't even tryconfirm her emotional numbness. For those new to the seriesThe imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need a ghost she conjures to know about who's who and the background to why Bruno is in St Denistest her detachment.|isbn=1804271934
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF0008405026|title=Buried Lies A Stranger in the Family (Gaby Darin Book 5Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jenny O'BrienJane Casey|rating=45
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|summary=Hannah Thomas was having It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her first bed one summer night away from her son. Hunter had diabetes She was never found and this was controlled by the investigation ground to a pump attached to his stomachhalt. Now, so her over-protectiveness was understandablemother, but her fianceHelena, Ian, was pestering and her to get married and she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likefather are dead in their bed. Her friendInitially, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for a night in it looks like a posh hotel straightforward murder/suicide but then he dumped her and she couldnthere't get s something about the money back, so Hannah was offered positioning of the opportunity to go in his placebodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. She would return home What looked as though it was going to find Ian dead be an open-and five-year-old Hunter missingshut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbnauthor=B09GV3WS1QAnnie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=Without a Trace|author=Jane BettanyThe Other Girl
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|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through 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 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 divorce few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, and right now it 2 years before the author was raining hardeven born. All she wanted was to get back The large and instant void created by the jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with this giant absence in her new home life, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845}}{{Frontpage|author=Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and settle down for Andreyev|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=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 quiet eveningvibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. It wasnIn the first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: 't going 'you write not of real life as it is, but of what you yourself imagine it to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed with a knife in his chest. SheWhom 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?''d no idea who . Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, giving us access to how he wassaw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=1804271977
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|isbn=18387748231529077745|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=S J BennettAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's 2016 and the Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on A man walking his waistband. Swimming, he decides, is the way to go and he can use dog in the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to be there early one morning and discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at a man in the side of the poolpark near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. There The dead man was broken glass Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a crystal tumbler, by shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the look at it murder - probably but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the young royals being careless residents, fourteen-year- and 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 looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly clear that she had bled outadored Josh. Still, it was a shock for Sir SimonShe knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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|isbnauthor=057136358XOlga Tokarczuk|title=April in Spain|author=John BanvilleHouse of Day, House of Night
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think 'What's the good of himself a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in those terms. He saw what he did as it?''a matter The title of making things tidythis spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'. I couldn't resist , somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his jobsmall, something subtle changes which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got govern our lives, like the chance shift from day to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''night, however quotidian, causing chaos. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know But, the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles constant in that image is the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw house, stoic against the benefits of taking up a job in Spainancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918
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|authorisbn=Dave Letterfly Knoderer1836284683|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocThe Big Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyDystopian Fiction|summary=How to summarise the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off Well! This is a review of his memoir? Do you know, I really don't think I can.murder mystery unlike any other!
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|author=Tade ThompsonSally Rooney|title=Far From the Light of HeavenIntermezzo
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|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is fulfilling gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her lifelong dream of going to spacecharacters never quite say exactly what they feel. As first officer aboard Among the sleeper ship Ragtimemany relationships woven into this story, bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter central one for readers to unravel is the ship's AI captainfraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. HoweverIvan, when she wakes up at the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsivea socially awkward chess prodigy, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodrootcontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtimea successful lawyer living in Dublin. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of ShellFollowing their father's father Lawrence Biz takes passing after a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quietlong battle with cancer, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=03565143230571365469
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|isbn=178607981X1009473085|title=Bad ApplesThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Will DeanAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=CrimePolitics and Society|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up Sometimes it's simpler to explain a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of the roadbook by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the car - and heard the screams from deep inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the forestbook for you. Determining the direction of a sound isnIf that's what you're looking for, I don't easy when you need hearing aids think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to where a woman was holding her coat over the body of a manpolitics. He'd been decapitated'The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. He was Arne Gustav Persson, 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 well-established format: a resident series of Visbergexperts 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.
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|author=Lilja SigurdadottirJenny Valentine|title=Cold As HellUs in the Before and After|rating=45|genre=CrimeTeens|summary= In Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a red suitcase lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the bottom of a fissure in a lava fieldtime. But then chance brings them back together, there is a bodyand they are inseparable. And the man who Something has put her there has just discovered that he is capable of killinghappened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=19131938881471196585
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|authorisbn=Lucy Hope1787333175|title=FledglingYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decades, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. ItI was tempted to read ''s an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as weYou Don'd know it, the roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so on. At the moment 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 t Have to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has be Mad to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but itWork Here''s also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassieafter enjoying Adam Kay's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again...|isbn=183994188X}}first book {{Frontpageamazonurl|isbn=18462767721509858636|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Anyone who This is not an ableGoing to Hurt}}, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part glorious mixture of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are insight into the preserve workings of the white manNHS, humour and autobiography. Even when those who wouldn''You Don't pass Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the medical become work of a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledgedpsychiatrist. It's personally appalling and degrading I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedis always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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