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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=Daniel AbrahamSamantha Harvey|title=Age of AshOrbital
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= We meet Alys under In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the most northerly of OldgateBooker Prize for ''Orbital''s four bridges, she has a knife compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile, the City lives of Kithamar is at a point in the turning group of years when astronauts aboard the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possibleInternational Space Station. It is the night between the funeral of Through a Prince and narrative lens that mirrors the coronation of his successor. For astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to see our planet in a night the Kithamar is un-ruledwholly new light.|isbn=03565154271529922933
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|isbn=1529095522295967572X|title=The InterviewPale Pieces|author=C G M EwanStevens|rating=45|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Kate Harding Our unnamed narrator is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge Communicationsabout to begin a train journey with his companion Django. ItWhere they's re going and what the last interview purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the day at one of Londontickets ''on the floor somewhere''s newest office buildings and Edge have fitted out their part of the building has persuaded our narrator to be something specialaccompany him. Maggie, Kate's recruitment agent, Why not? Not much else is keen clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to see that Kate approaches the interview in a good state of mind: Kate assumes that this station by coach and the train is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets the job - and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlysteam locomotive.
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK0008551324|title=The Blood Tide Devil You Know (DS D S Max Craigie)
|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon '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 isstruggling in prison and he'' s prepared to tell the police where the back body of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which a missing person is why it buried and who was the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugsresponsible for her death. Jimmy McLeish thought that This person, he was onto a nice little earnerpromises, only to find that Macca, is someone big and it will be worth the man police doing what he thought wants. And what he was working with, wants is deadto be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. His remains would never be found. Not much to ask, is it? The delivery is hijacked by Davie new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and Callum. As the story progresses weshe'll get s even prepared to know them quite do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept wellaway from what's happening.
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|isbnauthor= B09NDJ77LMJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Me and My Shadow|author=Deborah StoneVaim
|rating=4
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= ''What happens when someone is pushed too far and they begin to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off the shadows of her past and attempts to repair decades worth of pain.All was strange'' Rachel is in a current conversation with her psychiatrist, who pushes her to recall her life from very young childhood onwards. But Rachel is combative with Doctor Blake, sometimes even contemptuous of her. You can see that it's not an easy therapeutic relationship. Rachel's recall This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of her life is otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and each major betrayal Eline, two of the protagonists caught in perfect detail with absolute and unforgiving clarityits melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829
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|isbn=15294096591035043092|title=The Locked Room Killing Stones (Dr Ruth GallowayJimmy Perez)|author=Elly GriffithsAnn Cleeves
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It was some time 's been seven years since her father had remarried we heard from him, but his wife was he's now keen to do some decorating living with Willow Reeves and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mothertheir young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Willow's belongings. She was intrigued by also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the discovery body of a picture of her own house: it was an old photographpopular islander, Archie Stout, is found, taken in misty conditions and on the back it said 'dawn 1963'aftermath of a storm, some years before Ruth was born. It was before her parents were married. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and the country was in lockdowncan't resist getting involved. Ruth and Kate are restricted to He'd been battered about the cottage head with Ruth attempting to home school Kate and continue with her university teaching duties. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carersa museum.
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|isbnauthor=1847941834Thea Lenarduzzi|title=Atomic Habits|author=James ClearThe Tower|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=I've said this before but there 'How unctuous are some books that you seek outthe fats of another's life, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themhow dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, likeThea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, right now! the protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, the story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T'Atomic Habitss imagination. Annie'' s fate is, above all, an enticing story to T. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in the last categorya quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and fantasy. |isbn=1804271799
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|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WClaire-Louise Bennett|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Helen Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is a popular activiststeeped in anguish and distortion. Or should we call her Even a popular influencer? Or perhaps kiss, usually a popular franchise owner? Anywaysymbol of intimacy and closeness, Helen is so popular that the United States government has made her its Ambassador becomes evidence of Wokelove lost. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of When the governmentnarrator cries out internally, including the Shaming Conference and the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''for indoctrinating come over here and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how to have itkiss me,''it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. Ouch!The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=1804271934
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|isbn=B09D95TRKZ0008405026|title=The Wedding MurdersA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Sarah LinleyJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get a permanent job with the newspaper and the case she was covering was It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her big chancebed one summer night. It She was even more important to her than never found and the celebrity wedding she was investigation ground to attend the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthewa halt. She was leaving her seven-year-old sonNow, Patrick with her sistermother, EmmaHelena, and heading off to a grand manor house hotel her father are dead in the North Yorkshire countrysidetheir bed. Daniel AcroydInitially, television presenter and former member it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the rock band bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was marrying Vicky going to be an open-and Libby suspected -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the wedding wasnexplanation lies in Rosalie't s disappearance: others (such as Derwent''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phoness boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbnauthor=1838226834Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed BoxallThe Other Girl
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure ''We were born from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparentsthe same body. TheyI're there ve never really wanted to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much funthink about this. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:''
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'Itve read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, this letter will never reach her. Why? Because Annie Ernaux'll be brilliants sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, just remembera few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, donand 2 years before the author was even born. The large and instant void created by the jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux't let go s process of my handreckoning with this giant absence in her life, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.''|isbn=1804271845
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|author=Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and 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 vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: ''you write not of real life as it is, but of what you yourself imagine it to be. Whom would it help to know how I see this tower, that sea, or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, giving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=1804271977}}{{Frontpage|isbn=15291353621529077745|title=The Long WeekendDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Gilly MacmillanAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It was A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a long drive to man in the weekend retreat in Northumbriapark near Rosebank, right up near a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the Scottish borders and care workers who was due to make it worse work a shift the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to delay making investigate the trip until the Saturday morning. Jane and Ruth had known each other for a long time murder - but Emily was a bit of an outsider. She and Paul had married her only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than clue is the other two women. The friendship disappearance of one of the group went back to school daysresidents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Paul had coached rugby at Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the school where Mark, Toby and Rob were pupils. Mark had married Jane, and Toby death but Vera thinks this is Ruthunlikely as the girl's husbanddiary makes it clear that she adored Josh. And Rob? Well, Rob's deadShe knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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|isbn=gareth_steelB0FK5LHKD9|title=Never Work With AnimalsThe Colour of Memory|author=Gareth SteelChristopher Bowden
|rating=4
|genre=Animals and WildlifeGeneral Fiction|summary=I donIt't often begin my reviews with s been three years since we last reviewed a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, so we were very glad to be appropriatesee a new novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. Stories of a vetLike all Bowden's life have proved popular since stories, there''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As s a TV show mystery at the author would argue that heart of ''All CreaturesThe Colour of Money'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that heWe like this running theme in an author's written it to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues work - take a mystery but give it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading different flavour and eatingatmosphere each time.
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|isbnauthor=1787634884Olga Tokarczuk|title=The Herd|author=Emily EdwardsHouse of Day, House of Night
|rating=5
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Our story opens ''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in December 2019it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, before most House of us had even heard Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of Covid or realised shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the constant in that whether or not we image is the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be vaccinated would come doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to be a major issueretire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. WeThat's what 'ordinary people do're in Farley County Court, where Elizabeth and '' He's not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash Kohli. As they were best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened is major and thatDurban tries to persuade him to take his case, regardless it's the thought of the outcome, money he could make that convinces him that this is not going to work out well for anyonea miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.
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|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs1836284683|title=The Language of FoodBig Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Dystopian Fiction|summary=Eliza Acton Well! This is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirbyit's nothing like I expected it to be, and it takes me on a local woman wild ride. And that is just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. I don't want to ruin a troubled home lifesimilar experience for any of you reading but I'll have to at least set the scene. Together, they test, craftOnce that's done, refine and reshape the world of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book and changing the face of cookery writing foreverI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.|isbn=1398502227
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|author=Louie StowellSally Rooney|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction |summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god Sally Rooney has got into trouble again, so studied the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki chessboard of life and is spending a month both in exile and in the physical form something of a middle-school kid here on Earthgrandmaster at putting it into words. He's guarded by a giant Her dialogue is gripping and a god in disguise as his parentsso brilliantly frustrating, and Thor has come along as wellher characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to be unravel is the more suave, more popular fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and more successful brother of the twoPeter Koubek. Loki has Ivan, a month to redeem his reputationsocially awkward chess prodigy, and get contrasts sharply with his moral compass pointing the right way againolder brother Peter, or else, and to prove it he has to write the text we read a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul of his lieslong battle with cancer, and judge his progress. But Loki is the kind of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to be a walk in the park..brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.right?|isbn=14063997520571365469
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|isbn=00084544421036916375|title=A Flicker in the DarkJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Stacy WillinghamPeter McArdle
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=It's May 2019 'Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of memories and reflections from the years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and Dr Chloe Davisaround Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the family history of a medical psychologistsea-going family, is completing a session with a new patientthe docks dominating lives. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes of getting her through Other stories blend seamlessly into the traumawhat-might-have-been. You see, Chloe knows what itIt's like a book to have a traumatic settle into and allow your mind to roam across your childhood. Her father is Richard Davismemories, to think of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, despite the man who murdered six girls some twenty blitz that was a constant factor in McArdle's early years ago. Their bodies have I'd never been found heard of parachute mines before - but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to they were almost soundless and could appear after the girls all- trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed it to the police. Dick Davis is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for the last twenty years. Her mother is in a care homeclear was sounded.
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|authorisbn=Christopher Edge1836285493|title=Escape RoomThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=35
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=I've seen junior variants Will is a keen player of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which video games, a character or characters start by being trapped in conscientious student, a specific location, slightly annoying brother and have to solve problems in order to get their way outa supportive friend. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) But most of all, he is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventureaspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, with the regular second person narrative replaced and one at which he excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by the first. Herehis headteacher, Mrs Howarth, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new she has suggested to each other Will and booked into the game without any his mum that he spends a couple of their friends, are afternoons a team – starting out week at the game's main officesa different school, Station Road, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerhis ability might be better extended. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964
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|isbn=17328987311009473085|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for AdultsConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Michael Albanese Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=There was Sometimes it's simpler to explain a Boy who loved boxesbook by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. He had a box If you're looking for everything and he was meticulous an easy read which will deliver the inside story about storage: his parents probably couldnwhat ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't believe their luck! the book for you. If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It began with art supplies, stuffed toys 's a compelling read and the like: all the things which most children have in abundanceshould be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The BoyConservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's delight was the seventh book in a series which looks at the sense of order in his room: it impact a government has made him feel happyand co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. As he grew up and became This book follows the well-established format: a Manseries of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, his life became more complicated the changes that occurred and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that one of them has a padlock..situation in 2024.
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|isbnauthor=B09MN1526WJenny Valentine|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)|author=Liz MistryUs in the Before and After|rating=45|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It's the third murder Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in the space of a few weeks and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagerslifetime connection. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive They meet as children one day on the scene a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of Bradford. Only, this time, it's going to be different. The body appears to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephew, HaqibBut then chance brings them back together, and she has a very public meltdown. It isn't Haqib: there they are similarities but the body is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied backgroundinseparable. What it does mean Something has happened though is that Nikki is going to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety , something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and depressiontheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|authorisbn=Ally Wilkes1787333175|title=All the White SpacesYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=HorrorPopular Science|summary=In post-WWI EnglandI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by a glorious mixture of insight into the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, and workings of the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true genderNHS, without the disapproval humour and constraints of his parentsautobiography. However, Jonathan isn ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the only one fleeing the confines of his past same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the shadow work of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expeditionpsychiatrist. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the party laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan it is to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once always delivered with empathy and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tombunderstanding.|isbn=1789097835
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|author=Dean KoontzMariana Enriquez|title=Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', A Sunny Place for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|isbn=1542019885}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008441618|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah StovellShady People
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|genre=Women's FictionShort Stories|summary=Jo Fairburn knew Mariana Enriquez writes horror that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First Schoolis disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part settings include an abandoned field full of the town. The school had disused refrigerators due to an urban planning mishap, an active Parent Teacher Association overcrowded homeless shelter and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. There was one difficulty, though crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the headall within Argentina. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationsimilarly tangible texture.|isbn=1803511230
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|authorisbn=Sarah Ann Juckes1529934753|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleProtest|author=Rob Rinder
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Jasper is For a little boy who has some struggleswhile, and whilst weit looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country're never told why exactlys most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacksarrived in the nick of time, and has difficulty dealing complete with change his two wives and big emotionssix children, one of whom filmed what happened. His big sister Being an influencer, Rosie, has been a huge support you tend to him, talking him down when do things were difficultlike that, encouraging him, and writing but it was fortunate that there was a book with himrecord of the protest. Lexi Williams, all about birdsan intern at the RA, that he grabbed a spray can read when he gets scared of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to help him calm down. His parents seem completely caught up spray Bruce in their businessthe face, and so it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he canwhilst shouting ''t find Rosie. She hasnStop the War't come home when she said she would, and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak It seemed to him or when they do, he doesnbe part of an ongoing series of 't understand or take in what theyblue-face're saying. Nothing seems to be right, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosieattacks, and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its song, as they do together every Spring.|isbn=1398510890}}{{Frontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Red is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – but this one was, and is, black and white and reddifferent. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece The can had been laced with cyanide, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideasSir Max Bruce was dead.|isbn=1913547183
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|isbnauthor=1529135567Ariel Saramandi|title=One Step Too Far|author=Lisa GardnerPortrait of an Island on Fire
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|genre=CrimePolitics and Society|summary=It's five years since In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the stag weekend. Five sociopolitical fabric of them had set out: Tim (Mauritius, tunneling deep into the groom) wounds left by colonialism and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Joshslavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in Saramandi describes the night Scot managed to wander off. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that Timcountry at one stage as ''rotting'', who was experienced in survival techniques, would go a blunt yet apt metaphor for help. When help didn't come the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign systemic decay brought about by the malignant forces of Tim. Every yearracism, Tim's fatherpatriarchy, Martinenvironmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Each essay in this collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, and charting the four friends have been back to continue various diseases afflicting the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timisland state.|isbn=1804271616
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|author=Gunnar StaalesenPekka Harju-Autti|title=Bitter FlowersLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=Varg Veum is It's the eighteenth century, a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab time of discovery and Britain is now returning expanding its foreign trade. Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to workthe Andaman Islands in his endeavour. HoweverAlong with his son, the quiet job he's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigationPeter, and their cat, Michi, they set off on a mystery around a missing womanperilous voyage to these faraway lands. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night The islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and was never found. Somehowthe islanders' leader, these disparate cases appear to be linkedAarav, but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?keen to establish good relations.|isbn=191319308XB0DS1VGHH3
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|author=Kia AhankoobHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsLili is Crying|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsLiterary Fiction|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, First published in 1953 in the hope they would complement each other and collaborateFrench, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power this novel is contained within a magical ring belonging to one timeless text which wrenches the hearts of eight countries led by Myriad's children its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their descendants. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and proper position on the eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless page and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high, a solution is proposed. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriorspositions them elsewhere, known as sentinelsdisjointed, to a single combat tournamenttruncated. The winner will take possession of all Like the rings and become the supreme ruler lives of Dunivaher characters, they are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV1804271675
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|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsTom Percival|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet TomasWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. Happy to work with his father in He is bullied because he has 'the blacksmithwrong shoes's forge, hehas the wrong shoes because his dad can's almost t work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the age to become college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a full apprentice, building site and help with had an accident. Throw into that mix the new batch of dragonswords is certainly needed. Not fact that there his mum and dad are any dragonsseparated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except..hope. Strange signals from within the forge furnaceHe is good at art, and a peculiar invite clings to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the washmoments of joy when he is drawing, that yes dragons do still exist in this world, and that Tom is rare in feel like a light at the ability to summon themend of a long, share magical attributes, and ride with them..dark tunnel.|isbn=18399400261398527122
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|isbnauthor=1529346541Sylvie Cathrall|title=Something A Letter to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth Georgethe Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.
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|isbn=1786482126
|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)
|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's late July and Deborah St James is at apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school system, doorway. There was no skull. Was this a representative from the NHSritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakerDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn''London Voices'': the meeting t, that she is an exploration of the possibility pregnant with his child as a result of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in one night they spent together some communitiesthree months ago. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could Her condition will be as the problem seems obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust sudden bouts of the people she speaks to and photographssickness.
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|isbnauthor=B09Q3P283YGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W HooperThe Accidentals|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyShort Stories|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested This collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the fight against Communismword: spellbinding with its fantastical, nor is he particularly interested magical elements and charming in a career in the militaryits gentle portrayal of nature and human relationships. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and this oneprecisely, at least, gets him out of her stories structured by a wisdom that appears to want to teach us something about the rut he's in. He's good in training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himselfworld.|isbn=1804271470
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|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy0008551375|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=There is no mermaid in Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the millpondresult of a tragic accident. That at least is what Bess is telling herself She'd looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Neither will there be a friend for Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her in amongst all the best life now. Then it emerged that five other kids, who have women had their entire childhoods sold to died in similar circumstances in the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homelast year. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth All were experienced climbers, every man properly equipped for himself kind of existencewhat they were doing and sensible people. But despite herself Bess does find a bit None of the 'what a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads stupid thing to harm, do' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there might be 's a glimmer of companionship in killer on the tired-out mill workersloose. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X
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