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|isbnauthor=1638485216Paul B Preciado|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick ReynoldsDysphoria Mundi|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=''Corruption It is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything never too late to do with character. Period.embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''.

The murder Through this hybrid text, consisting of George Floydarias, a forty-six-year-old black manletters, essays and autofiction, on 25 May 2020 by Derek ChauvinPreciado expresses his own hybrid self, and brings forth a forty-four-year-old police officernew 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 US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the world. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floydtension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''s death was an exception. The image whole text is framed against the backdrop of Chauvin kneeling the Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on Georgea global scale, or as ''pangea covidica's neck is not one which I'll ever forget and the protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There was Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a backlash against the police - and not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour sign of weakness, or mistaking detachment or creed they were withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''alluse dysphoria as your revolutionary platform'' tarred by the Chauvin brush.|isbn=1804271454

|isbnauthor=B09DD1QJKJSamantha Harvey|title=The Club|author=Ellery LloydOrbital

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''The party of the year turned into the murder mystery of the decade.Orbital'' Just off Littlesea, a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in Essex and the lives of a mile or so into the Blackwater Estuary, The Manor stood on an island. It was now known as Island Home, one group of The Home Group's exclusive clubs and astronauts aboard the opening weekend was going to be something special, even by Home's standardsInternational Space Station. Speedboats, helicopters and blacked-out SUVs were converging on the island, which was linked to the mainland by Through a causeway narrative lens that was inaccessible at high tide. Homemirrors the astronauts's CEOorbital perspective, Ned Groom, is determined that everything, ''everything'' will be perfect. Home has 5761 members: just 150 of them have received Harvey invites for the weekend. Those who have not been invited have not stopped ringing..readers to see our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933

|authorisbn=Melissa Fu 295967572X|title=Peach Blossom Spring Pale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction |summary= I loved Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the prelude to Peach Blossom Springpurpose of this journey is, a short chapter entitled is uncertain. Django found the tickets ''Originson the floor somewhere''. Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of a book that I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 and has persuaded our narrator to 2005 as viewed through one family's perspectiveaccompany him. When their home city Why not? Not much else is set ablaze during the war with Japan, a young mother (Meilin) and her four-yearclear either -old son (Renshu) but we are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey across China, and probably in Renshu's case eventually the past as the pair travel to Americathe station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive. |isbn=1472277538

|authorisbn=Vanda Symon0008551324|title=FacelessThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In this book told It's unusual for anyone from multiple viewpoints, several troubled people are thrown into the same story thanks Hardie family to just one mis-stepapproach the police. Set in New Zealand, Neither side likes or has any respect for the first of our characters other. But Davie Hardie is Bradley, a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing boss, a weighty mortgage, in prison and what he feels is an unappreciative wife. Then there’s Billy, a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes in order 's prepared to pay for tell the police where the materials she needs. And then we have Max, who body of a missing person is also living on the streets buried and who keeps an eye on Billywas responsible for her death. He is a shell of a manThis person, barely able to take any care of himselfhe promises, and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he is now. One night, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress someone big and anxiety, driving down it will be worth the street looking for a prostitutepolice doing what he wants. He picks up Billy, and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and a spiral away from the person And what he thought he was into someone very different.|isbn=1914585046}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760373531|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the World|author=Sue Flanders|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=Just occasionally you encounter a book remainder of knitting patterns which seems his sentence and to meet your every needget an early parole date. Right nowNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's bitterly cold t think so and weshe're in s even prepared to do the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, hats and mittens. They have to look stylish, keep me warm and be so cheerful other thing that they Hardie demanded - make me feel better. If certain that sounds like a lot to ask, have a look at ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items DS Max Craigie and I don't think that there was one of them which I couldn't see myself wearing. We start anyone who works with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the history of knitting. It's not essential but ithim is kept well away from what's a nice extrahappening.

|isbnauthor=1776574028Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David ElliottVaim

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee GrumblebeeAll was strange'' is aimed at quite ... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a niche market: it's fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for the child who still enjoys board books (erJatgeir and Eline, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have two of the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''protagonists caught in its melancholic current. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!|isbn=1804271829

|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX1035043092|title=Death at Friar's InnThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Rob KeeleyAnn Cleeves|rating=45

|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were in I can't have been the finals of the Moots only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to take place at The Honourable Society of Friarstart a new life on Orkney. It's Inn. For aspiring barristersbeen seven years since we heard from him, moots test the participantsbut he' knowledge of several areas of law s now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as their advocacy skills: it's a great way Cassie, the daughter of getting invaluable practice and of getting yourself noticedhis former partner. Tom and Nat are from 'a provincial universityWillow' s also his boss, and theyshe 're 'should'almost'' looked down be on because maternity leave, but when the body of thisa popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. The other contestants He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - Becca Deckerone of a pair -Hamilton and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance of confidence. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any betterwhich had been stolen from a museum.

|isbnauthor=1529125944Thea Lenarduzzi|title=City of the Dead|author=Jonathan KellermanThe Tower|rating=45|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=When you drive large vehicles for a living''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, youhow dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream're careful and it's not just about . In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the way that you driveprotagonist of this tale. You restrict your alcohol intake and if itJust as T's story is being told, the story of a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleep. When you're taking second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in atower, captures T's imagination.m. when the roads are quieterAnnie's fate is, above all, even if you have an enticing story to wait up when you get to where you're goingT. And it was going well until the men hit something It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in Westwood Villagea quest for truth and knowledge, an upmarket neighbourhood and in service of Los Angelesmyth, fable and fantasy. The man was stark naked and couldn't be identified.|isbn=1804271799

|author=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)Claire-Louise Bennett|title=I May Be WrongBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre= AutobiographyLiterary Fiction|summary= Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiecenarrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me, I'm inclined to think ' it doesn't really matter how the rest of the world responds is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to your bookconfirm her emotional numbness. I know, having read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. He knows (and at core so do I) that it matters very much how the rest The imagined recipient of the world responds to this bookplea is Xavier, because it tells the truth as it isher ex-partner, in the early 21st centurya ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=15266448271804271934

|isbn=B0949Q1DC10008405026|title=The Patient A Stranger in the Family (A DS Cross thrillerMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Tim SullivanJane Casey

|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably AspergerIt's Syndromesixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. He can be rudeShe was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, difficult and awkward with peopleher father are dead in their bed. Initially, although itlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's never intentionalsomething about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It's just that he thinks differently What looked as though it was going to be an open-and social niceties simply don't occur to him-shut case is now a complex double murder. There's a reason why he's Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in BristolRosalie's Major Crime Unit and itdisappearance: others (such as Derwent's that he has the best conviction rate with cases, ever. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recogniseboss, or welcome being attached to himselfUna Burt) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviourare less convinced.

|isbnauthor=1529151600Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=Give Unto Others|author=Donna LeonThe Other Girl|rating=54|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changed''We were born from the same body. The I've never really wanted to think about this.'pandemia' Ernaux' stripped the city of its tourists for nearly two years s work is always very candid and a lot her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of businesses have closedthe most intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, most this letter will never to reopenreach her. ThereWhy? Because Annie Ernaux's now sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a cascade of money as life begins again but few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, and 2 years before the author was even 125,000 deaths have not put an end to greedborn. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going large and instant void created by the jarring concept of writing to launder all the money which is coming their way? Whilst hean imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's thinking about process of reckoning with thisgiant absence in her life, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was a child. Elisabetta Foscarini an absence that she has a problem and she'd like Brunetti's advicealways felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845

|author=Marcus SedgwickMaxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=WrathReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=43.5|genre=TeensBiography|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full Biographies are often seen as the form of frustration at himselflife-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and less personal. Lockdown is only just overI think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and he should be free to do what he wantsoffers a vibrant, to go where he wants and with whom he wantssubjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the first section of this book, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks Tolstoy complains to his best friend, Cassie. They were half Gorky that: ''you write not of a desultory school bandreal life as it is, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earthof what you yourself imagine it to be. Is Whom would it help to know how I see this connected with one of her ecotower, that sea, or that Tartar -warrior parents saying the end of the world why should it interest anyone? Of what use is already a done dealit? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And '. Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can Fitz find out the truth? Wellbe gained from a subjective account, not when Cassie has gone missing giving us access to how he can't..saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=18009008991804271977

|isbn=16358640701529077745|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1The Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Safiyyah TalleyAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=If you've ever started knitting a pair of socks, finished A man walking his dog in the first one and either got bored by early morning discovered the idea body of doing a man in the same thing all over againpark near Rosebank, or started on a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the second sock and lost care workers who was due to work a shift the first night before you finished itbut who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the book for yougirl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. Where is it She knows that single socks go she has to find Chloe to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you discover what happened to knit two socks in one, divide them up and have a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds good? It's clever and well-thought-outJosh.

|authorisbn=Olivie BlakeB0FK5LHKD9|title=The Atlas SixColour of Memory|author=Christopher Bowden

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= DarkIt's been three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, sharp, and highly inquisitiveso we were very glad to see a new novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. Like all Bowden's stories, there's a mystery at the heart of ''The Atlas SixColour of Money'' makes its publishing debut after becoming . We like this running theme in an author's work - take a Tik-Tok sensationmystery but give it different flavour and atmosphere each time.|isbn=1529095239

|isbnauthor=0008384983Olga Tokarczuk|title=The Paris Apartment|author=Lucy FoleyHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=''Things are not what they seemWhat's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?''.

It was a Friday and Jess Hadley was keen to get to her half-brotherThe title of this spellbinding work, 's flat in Paris. She'd come across from London on EurostarHouse of Day, courtesy House of the money sheNight'd stolen from The Pervert's till in , somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the Copacabana Bar in Brighton. It wasn't likely that small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the police would be on shift from day to her yet but she'd like to be somewhere safe and with food and drink inside hernight, however quotidian, causing chaos. She'd phoned Ben and got But, the address - 12 Rue des Amants - and he told her constant in that image is the apartment was on house, stoic against the third floor. She's outside what's obviously a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get in touch with Benancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760373558henleyA|title=Nordic KnitsUltimate Obsession|author=Sue FlandersDai Henley

|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I was so delighted by Sue FlandersEx-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hats defence against a murder charge drained his savings. His wife, MittenLaura, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didnhas been trying to persuade him to retire - 't need any persuading at all to pick up her 'maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That'Nordic Knitss what 'ordinary people do'. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norway, Sweden and Iceland. '' There are a few sweaters or jackets but He's not been entirely up front about the majority state of patterns are for smaller items such as mittenstheir savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, gloves, hats and bags. All are bright and cheerful and very cosyit's the thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.

|isbn=19160720381836284683|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)Big Happy|author=Allie CresswellDavid Chadwick

|genre=Historical Dystopian Fiction|summary=We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to the house in the hollow. The two women are angry with each Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses:!

''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath I do love it when I open a facade of respectabilitybook, the deplorable truth''. Hester is furious about Jocelynit's refusal nothing like I expected it to do as she was askedbe, which has precipitated and it takes me on a wild ride. And that is just what happened with ''this violent and unexpected removalThe Big Happy''. Then we are told I don't want to ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but I'll have to at least set the birth of a child andscene. Once that's done, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in YorkshireI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.

|author=Matthieu AikinsSally Rooney|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterIntermezzo

|genre=Politics and SocietyGeneral Fiction |summary=It's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear Sally Rooney has studied the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like chessboard of life and is something of a well-paced thriller grandmaster at timesputting it into words. This Her dialogue is not by any means a criticismgripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, but rather a testament the central one for readers to how well Matthieu Aikins – unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his friend as older brother Peter, a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journeysuccessful lawyer living in Dublin. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But itFollowing their father's written passing after a long battle with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows cancer, the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people describedbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn= B09N9157T60571365469

|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1036916375|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)Just a Liverpool Lad|author=Peter McArdle|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=This ''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of memories and reflections from the third book years Peter McArdle spent growing up in a series and around Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the family history of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officersea-going family, and Emma Ramm, a crime journalistwith the docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the what-might-have-been. In this book we find that when one of BlixIt's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo casesbook to settle into and allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, she tries to contact her superiorthink of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, Blix. Before she can reach him, however, she is murdered, and Blixdespite the blitz that was a constant factor in McArdle's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered tooearly years. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix I'd never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and Ramm, who are being interviewed by could appear after the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happen-clear was sounded. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003

|authorisbn=Daniel Abraham1836285493|title=Age The Double Life of Asha Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary= We meet Alys under the most northerly Will is a keen player of Oldgate's four bridgesvideo games, a conscientious student, she has a knife in her hand slightly annoying brother and a meeting that she dreadssupportive friend. MeanwhileBut most of all, the City of Kithamar he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a point in the turning couple of years when the worlds are afternoons a week at their thinnest and all things are possible. It is the night between the funeral of a Prince and the coronation of different school, Station Road, where his successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruledability might be better extended.|isbn=0356515427

|isbn=15290955221009473085|title=The InterviewConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=C M EwanAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=45|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=Kate Harding is going Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an interview easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for her dream job at Edge Communicationsyou. It If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's the last interview of the day book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at one of London10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's newest office buildings a compelling read and Edge have fitted out their part of the building should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to be something specialpolitics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. Maggie, Kate It's recruitment agent, is keen to see that Kate approaches the interview seventh book in a good 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 series of experts from various fields review the state of mind: Kate assumes the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that this is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets occurred and the job - and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlysituation in 2024.

|isbnauthor=B097XNMCRKJenny Valentine|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterUs in the Before and After|rating=45|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Loch Torridon ''Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship isa once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don'' the back of beyond: theret get each other's not even any light pollution which is why it was contact details at the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugstime. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto a nice little earnerBut then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, only to find that Maccasomething terrible and tragic, the man he thought he was working withand now they must work through their grief, is dead. His remains would never be found. The delivery is hijacked by Davie and Callum. As the story progresses we'll get to know them quite welltheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|isbn= B09NDJ77LM1787333175|title=Me and My ShadowYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Deborah StoneBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=General FictionPopular Science|summary= I was tempted to read ''You Don'What happens when someone is pushed too far and they begin t Have to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go be Mad to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to shake off Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the shadows workings of her past the NHS, humour and attempts to repair decades worth of painautobiography. '' Rachel is in a current conversation with her psychiatrist, who pushes her You Don't Have to recall her life from very young childhood onwardsbe Mad.. 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 promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of her life a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight directed at a situation rather than a person and each major betrayal in perfect detail it is always delivered with absolute empathy and unforgiving clarityunderstanding.

|isbnauthor=1529409659Mariana Enriquez|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsA Sunny Place for Shady People

|summary=It For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, was some not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in the nick of time since her father had remarried but , complete with his wife was now keen to do some decorating two wives and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongingssix children, one of whom filmed what happened. She Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was intrigued by the discovery of a picture record of her own house: it was the protest. Lexi Williams, an old photographintern at the RA, taken grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in misty conditions and on the back it said face, whilst shouting ''Stop the War'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was born. It was before her parents were married. When she returned seemed to Norfolk she was determined to find out what was behind the photograph be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but Covid intervened and the country this was in lockdowndifferent. Ruth and Kate are restricted to the cottage The can had been laced with Ruth attempting to home school Kate cyanide, and continue with her university teaching duties. The good thing Sir Max Bruce was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carersdead.

|isbnauthor=1847941834Ariel Saramandi|title=Atomic Habits|author=James ClearPortrait of an Island on Fire

|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=I've said In this before but there are some books that you seek outpowerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, some books that you stumble across tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and some books that drop into your slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! . Saramandi describes the country at one stage as ''Atomic Habitsrotting'' is , a blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the malignant forces of racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Each essay in this collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, charting the various diseases afflicting the last categoryisland state.|isbn=1804271616

|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WPekka Harju-Autti|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=Helen It's the eighteenth century, a time of discovery and Britain is a popular activistexpanding its foreign trade. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? AnywayCaptain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, Helen is so popular that sent to the United States government has made her its Ambassador of WokeAndaman Islands in his endeavour. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives Along with his son, Peter, and their cat, Michi, they set off on behalf of the government, including the Shaming Conference a perilous voyage to these faraway lands. The islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and the Permissible Entertainment Committee - islanders''for indoctrinating and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how leader, Aarav, is keen to have it''establish good relations. Ouch!|isbn=B0DS1VGHH3

|isbnauthor=B09D95TRKZHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=The Wedding Murders|author=Sarah LinleyLili is Crying

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a permanent job with timeless text which wrenches the newspaper hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the case she was covering was her big chancepage and positions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. It was even more important to her than Like the celebrity wedding she was to attend the following day with lives of her ex-rock star boyfriendcharacters, Matthew. She was leaving her seven-year-old son, Patrick with her sister, Emma, and heading off to a grand manor house hotel in the North Yorkshire countryside. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter and former member of the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phonesthey are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675

|isbnauthor=1838226834Tom Percival|title=Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed BoxallThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=It was one Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparentsways. They He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn're there to undo all t have enough money for even the good that parents domost basic of things like food, so and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the trips out were always so much funcollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. A young boy was going to Throw into that mix the carnival with fact that his Grandadmum and dad are separated, who told him: and Will''It'll be brilliants life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, just rememberhe still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, don't let go and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of my handa long, dark tunnel.''|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=1529135362Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=It was There are few greater joys than a long drive to the weekend retreat in Northumbria, right book which lives up near the Scottish borders and to make it worse the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morning. Jane and Ruth had known each other for a long time but Emily was a bit of an outsidercompelling premise. She and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than the other two women. The friendship And this is one of the group went back to school days. Paul had coached rugby at the school where Mark, Toby and Rob were pupils. Mark had married Jane, and Toby is Ruth's husband. And Rob? Well, Rob's deadthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=gareth_steel1786482126|title=Never Work With AnimalsThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Gareth SteelElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary=I donBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 't often begin my reviews with a warning but with luxury''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories apartments - when they discovered the bones of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking forchild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. As Was this a TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realismritual killing or murder? Inevitably, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with himDCI Harry Nelson. He says that he It's written it to inform and provoke thoughtdifficult as Ruth knows, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it Nelson doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be best choosing between reading and eatingobvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbnauthor=1787634884Guadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Herd|author=Emily EdwardsAccidentals|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionShort Stories|summary=Our story opens This collection was truly enchanting in December 2019, before most all senses of us had even heard of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come to be a major issue. We're in Farley County Courtthe word: spellbinding with its fantastical, where Elizabeth magical elements and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony charming in its gentle portrayal of nature and Ash Kohlihuman relationships. As they were best friends until just Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and precisely, her stories structured by a few months ago we know wisdom that whatever has happened is major and that, regardless of appears to want to teach us something about the outcome, this is not going to work out well for anyoneworld.|isbn=1804271470

|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs0008551375|title=The Language of FoodWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton is Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a poet who has never had Scottish mountain, seemingly the slightest inclination to boil an eggresult of a tragic accident. When tasked with writing a cookery book She'd looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she recruits Ann Kirbywas just out of an unpleasant relationship, a local woman with a troubled home but it looked like she was living her best lifenow. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year. Together All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they test, craft, refine were doing and reshape the world sensible people. None of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book and changing 'what a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the face of cookery writing foreverloose.|isbn=1398502227