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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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|isbnauthor=1776574338Samantha Harvey|title=Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnOrbital|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Every morning LeilongIn 2024, Samantha Harvey won the brontosaurus school busBooker Prize for ''Orbital'', makes his way through a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top lives of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out a group of astronauts aboard the window and slide down his neckInternational Space Station. ItThrough a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts's perfectorbital perspective, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going Harvey invites readers to school? There is a problem, though. Leilong isn't happy see our planet in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymorewholly new light.|isbn=1529922933
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|isbn=303091657X295967572X|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandPale Pieces|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonG M Stevens
|rating=5
|genre=Business and FinanceLiterary Fiction|summary=Boards must act in the best interests of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and financially secure. This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or the collapse of Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingtrain journey with his companion Django. Where were they? Occasionally 're going and what the boards were unaware purpose of what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eyethis journey is, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalityis uncertain. The 21st century Django found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere'' and has delivered some major company scandals persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles we are probably in the past as railway mania, the South Sea Bubble pair travel to the station by coach and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very littlethe train is a steam locomotive.
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|isbn=15293379680008551324|title=In Place of FearThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Catriona McPhersonNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's July 1948 unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and Helen Crowther is due he's prepared to start work as a qualified medical almoner tell the following morning - on police where the day that the NHS body of a missing person is bornburied and who was responsible for her death. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar This person, he promises, is someone big and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job it will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healthworth the police doing what he wants. The hardest part of the job will And what he wants is to be transferred to persuade people that an open prison to serve the services she offers really are free remainder of his sentence and that they donto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't have think so and she's even prepared to do anything to qualify for them. Some of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummatedother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|author=Mark LinganeJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=GalaxyVaim
|rating=4
|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Spark, who is an elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it through a battle alive. His co-pilot ''All was not so fortunatestrange''. Waking from a coma that lasted years, he remembers little and is in no physical shape to resume his duties. But Earth is under threat and he must. Returned by his superiors to This haunting phrase encapsulates the space stationpervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity - fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and not just from Eline, two of the alien threats against it, but also from protagonists caught in its own sins against itselfmelancholic current. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W1804271829
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|authorisbn=Lissa Evans1035043092|title=WishedThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=When things contrive to force Ed and his sister Roo I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (aka LucyShetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old woman, Miss Filey, for start a week of half-term, they're not looking forward to itnew life on Orkney. For one thingIt's been seven years since we heard from him, she thinks Wi-Fi is a special brand of biscuit. They donbut he't particularly take to Willard either, the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything s now living with Willow Reeves and everywhere. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candlestheir young son, and manage to work out that these candlesJames, for as long well as their flames lastCassie, make birthday wishes come truethe daughter of his former partner. How will things change for Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a second time when they realise thatpopular islander, Archie Stout, is found, having used up three in the aftermath of thema storm, these should really be used for she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the wishes head with a Neolithic stone - one of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202Xa pair - which had been stolen from a museum.
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|author=Justyn EdwardsThea Lenarduzzi|title=The Great Fox IllusionTower|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is a contest with a difference''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. No singing In this compelling novel, no dancingThea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this show tale. Just as T's story is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks workbeing told, and who can attempt to win The Great Fox's magical legacy - the secrets to all story of his tricks! Flick a second protagonist is determined to winunveiled: Annie, but not because she wants to own the tricks. She is interested daughter of a wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in just a tower, captures T's imagination. Annie'one'' tricks fate is, above all, the trick that The Great Fox stole from her fatheran enticing story to T. And It is a story which she's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able to bring her missing father homeconsumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and fantasy. |isbn=15295019461804271799
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|author=Jason RohanClaire-Louise Bennett|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access DeniedBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Arun Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and Sam have had little to do with Donnadistortion. Even a kiss, usually a girl at their school. But things immediately change at the start symbol of this extended sprint of a novelintimacy and closeness, when she insists Arun's house has become the attention becomes evidence of plain-clothes coppers and that they should bunk off school to find out whylove lost. And thus an unlikely trio of misfit young heroes is formed – Sam is really not Donna's idea of company, but he is When the computer buff, Donna seems to know all the criminal ins and outs and survival skillsnarrator cries out internally, ''come over here and Arun? Wellkiss me, it's his lot to find out that all he based his family life on isn't true, and that his father – kidnapped that very morning – it is involved in something quite unexpectedless an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. But how can The imagined recipient of this disparate trio hope to best MI6plea is Xavier, kidnappersher ex-partner, people able a ghost she conjures to keep the truth about themselves secret for decades, and so much more?test her detachment.|isbn=18399433861804271934
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|isbn=16384852160008405026|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey Stranger in Life and Law Enforcementthe Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Frederick ReynoldsJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut 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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|author=Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)
|title=The Other Girl
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specificWe were born from the same body. It has everything I've never really wanted to do with character. Periodthink 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'One more body just wouldnve read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, this letter will never reach her. Why? Because Annie Ernaux't matter''. The murder s sister died of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-diphtheria at 6 years old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police officerfew months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, in and 2 years before the US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around author was even born. The large and instant void created by the world. We rarely see pictures jarring concept of a murder taking place but Floydwriting to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's death was process of reckoning with this giant absence in her life, an exceptionabsence that she has always felt but often denied. The image |isbn=1804271845}}{{Frontpage|author=Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Reminiscences of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I'll ever forget Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=Biographies are often seen as the protests form of life-writing which followed cannot have been unexpectedoffers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and less personal. There was I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a backlash against vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the police - and not just in Minneapolisfirst section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: whatever their colour or creed they were ''allyou 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?'' tarred by the Chauvin brush.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
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|isbn=B09DD1QJKJ1529077745|title=The ClubDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ellery LloydAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=''The party of A man walking his dog in the year turned into early morning discovered the murder mystery body of a man in the decade.'' Just off Littleseapark near Rosebank, in Essex and a mile or so into the Blackwater Estuary, The Manor stood on an islandcare home for troubled teens. It The dead man was now known as Island Home, Josh - one of The Home Group's exclusive clubs and the opening weekend care workers who was going due to be something special, even by Home's standardswork a shift the night before but who had never turned up. Speedboats, helicopters and blackedD I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder -out SUVs were converging on but her only clue is the islanddisappearance of one of the residents, which fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was linked to responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the mainland by a causeway that was inaccessible at high tide. Homegirl's CEO, Ned Groom, is determined diary makes it clear that everything, ''everything'' will be perfectshe adored Josh. Home She knows that she has 5761 members: just 150 of them have received invites for the weekend. Those who have not been invited have not stopped ringing..to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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|authorisbn=Melissa Fu B0FK5LHKD9|title=Peach Blossom Spring The Colour of Memory|author=Christopher Bowden|rating=3.54|genre=Historical General Fiction |summary= I loved the prelude It's been three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, so we were very glad to Peach Blossom Springsee a new novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. Like all Bowden's stories, there's a short chapter entitled mystery at the heart of ''OriginsThe Colour of Money''. Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of a book that I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one familyWe like this running theme in an author's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the war with Japan, work - take a young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey across China, mystery but give it different flavour and in Renshu's case eventually to Americaatmosphere each time. |isbn=1472277538
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|author=Vanda SymonOlga Tokarczuk|title=FacelessHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of 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 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=ThrillersCrime|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpoints, several troubled people are thrown into the same story thanks to just one misEx-step. Set in New Zealand, the first of our characters is Bradley, DCI Andy Flood has been a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing boss, a weighty mortgagePrivate Investigator for some time now, and what he feels is an unappreciative wifeshould be doing quite well financially. Then there’s BillyUnfortunately, his daughter's defence against a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes in order to pay for the materials she needsmurder charge drained his savings. And then we have MaxHis wife, who is also living Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on the streets and who keeps an eye on Billycruises. That's what 'ordinary people do','' He is a shell 's not been entirely up front about the state of a man, barely able their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take any care his case, it's the thought of himself, and yet we can sense the money he could make that convinces him that he was once something more than he this is now. One night, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress and anxiety, driving down the street looking for a prostitute. He picks up Billy, and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and a spiral away from the person he thought miscarriage of justice that he was into someone very differentreally should put right.|isbn=1914585046
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|isbn=07603735311836284683|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the WorldThe Big Happy|author=Sue FlandersDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsDystopian Fiction|summary=Just occasionally you encounter Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book of knitting patterns which seems to meet your every need. Right now, it's bitterly cold and we're in the sandwich filling between two storms: nothing like I need socks, scarves, hats and mittens. They have expected it to look stylishbe, keep me warm and be so cheerful that they make it takes me feel betteron a wild ride. If And that sounds like a lot to ask, have a look at is just what happened with ''Cozy KnitsThe Big Happy'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and . I don't think that there was one want to ruin a similar experience for any of them which you reading but I couldn't see myself wearing. We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of ll have to at least set the history of knittingscene. ItOnce that's not essential but done, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sally Rooney|title=Intermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting itinto words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a nice extralong battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469
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|isbn=17765740281036916375|title=Bumblebee GrumblebeeJust a Liverpool Lad|author=David ElliottPeter McArdle
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|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee GrumblebeeJust a Liverpool Lad '' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for collection of memories and reflections from the years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the child who still enjoys board books (erfamily history of a sea-going family, 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 onethe docks dominating lives. We Other stories blend seamlessly into the what-might-have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''been. The buffalo who has had It's a bath (complete with yellow duck) book to settle into and then dries off with a hair drier becomes allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, to think of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, despite the blitz that was a constant factor in McArdle''fluffalo''s early years. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a I''sm..d never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and could appear after the all-clear was sounded.....'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX1836285493|title=Death at Friar's InnThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User
|author=Rob Keeley
|rating=45|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were in the finals Will is a keen player of the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society of Friar's Inn. For aspiring barristersvideo games, a conscientious student, moots test the participants' knowledge of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: it's a great way of getting invaluable practice slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of getting yourself noticedall, he is an aspiring writer. Tom English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and Nat are from 'a provincial university' and they're ''almost'' looked down on because of thisone at which he excels. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia This hasn'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage t gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and Becca she has an abundance suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a couple of confidence. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be betterextended.
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|isbn=15291259441009473085|title=City of the DeadThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Jonathan KellermanAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=45|genre=CrimePolitics and Society|summary=When 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 drive large vehicles 're looking for a livingan easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. If that's what you're careful and itlooking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's not just about the way that you drivebook, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. You restrict your alcohol intake and if itIt's a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleepcompelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. When youIt're taking a removals truck through s the seventh book in a residential neighbourhood you head off series which looks at 5 the impact agovernment has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important.m. when This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the roads are quieter, even if you have to wait up nation when you get to where you're going. And it was going well until the men hit something coalition took over in Westwood Village2010, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeles. The man was stark naked the changes that occurred and couldn't be identifiedthe situation in 2024.
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|author=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)Jenny Valentine|title=I May Be WrongUs in the Before and After
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|genre= AutobiographyTeens|summary= When the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispieceElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, Itheir friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don'm inclined to think it doesnt get each other't really matter how the rest of s contact details at the world responds to your booktime. I knowBut then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, having read the book in questionsomething terrible and tragic, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. He knows (and at core so do I) that it matters very much how the rest of the world responds to this booknow they must work through their grief, because it tells the truth as it isand their friendship, in the early 21st centurytogether.|isbn=15266448271471196585
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC11787333175|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Tim SullivanBenji Waterhouse
|rating=5
|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably AspergerI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's Syndrome. He can be rudefirst book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, difficult humour and awkward with people, although it's never intentionalautobiography. It's just that he thinks differently and social niceties simply don'You Don't occur Have to himbe Mad... There's a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and it's that he has the best conviction rate with cases, everwork of a psychiatrist. His partner I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) empathy and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviourunderstanding.
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|isbnauthor=1529151600Mariana Enriquez|title=Give Unto Others|author=Donna LeonA Sunny Place for Shady People
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses Mariana Enriquez writes horror that Venice has changed. The ''pandemia'' stripped the city is disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of its tourists for nearly two years and a lot of businesses have closed, most never disused refrigerators due to reopen. There's now a cascade of money as life begins again but even 125an urban planning mishap,000 deaths have not put an end to greedovercrowded homeless shelter and a crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth circumstances of her characters are they going to launder all so plausible that the money supernatural or otherworldly horror which is coming their way? Whilst he's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was seeps into these spaces adopts a child. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and she'd like Brunetti's advicesimilarly tangible texture.|isbn=1803511230
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|authorisbn=Marcus Sedgwick1529934753|title=WrathThe Protest|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Meet FitzFor a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, a young Scottish lad full the country's most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the opening of frustration his retrospective at himselfthe Royal Academy. Lockdown is only just overStill, and he should be free to do what he wantsarrived in the nick of time, to go where he wants complete with his two wives and with six children, one of whom he wantsfilmed what happened. Being an influencer, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks you tend to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school banddo things like that, but Cassie it was fortunate that there was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from record of the earthprotest. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying Lexi Williams, an intern at the end RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music sheface, whilst shouting ''s dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out Stop the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he canWar''t. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.|isbn=1800900899
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|isbnauthor=1635864070Ariel Saramandi|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah TalleyPortrait of an Island on Fire|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsPolitics and Society|summary=If you've ever started knitting a pair In this powerful collection of socksessays, finished Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the first one and either got bored by the idea sociopolitical fabric of doing the same thing all over againMauritius, or started on tunneling deep into the second sock wounds left by colonialism and lost slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the first before you finished itcountry at one stage as ''rotting'', this is a blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the book for youmalignant forces of racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Where is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you to knit two socks Each essay in one, divide them up and have this collection serves as a perfectly finished pair kind of socks. Sounds good? It's clever and well-thought-outdiagnostic, charting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|isbn=1804271616
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|author=Olivie BlakePekka Harju-Autti|title=The Atlas SixLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary= DarkIt's the eighteenth century, a time of discovery and Britain is expanding its foreign trade. Captain Julius Hawthorne, sharpan experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to the Andaman Islands in his endeavour. Along with his son, Peter, and highly inquisitivetheir cat, ''Michi, they set off on a perilous voyage to these faraway lands. The Atlas Sixislands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and the islanders'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensationleader, Aarav, is keen to establish good relations.|isbn=1529095239B0DS1VGHH3
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|isbnauthor=0008384983Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=The Paris Apartment|author=Lucy FoleyLili is Crying
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|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=''Things are not what they seem''. It was First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a Friday timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and Jess Hadley was keen to get to her half-brother's flat in Paris. She'd come across sentences from London their proper position on Eurostar, courtesy of the money she'd stolen from The Pervert's till in the Copacabana Bar in Brighton. It wasn't likely that the police would be on to her yet but she'd like to be somewhere safe page and with food and drink inside herpositions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. She'd phoned Ben and got Like the address - 12 Rue des Amants - and he told lives of her that the apartment was on the third floor. She's outside what's obviously a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get in touch with Bencharacters, they are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675
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|isbnauthor=0760373558Tom Percival|title=Nordic Knits|author=Sue FlandersThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=I was so delighted by Sue FlandersWill' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hats life is difficult, Mittenin a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', Scarf he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and Sock Projects from Around doesn't have enough money for even the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didnmost basic of things like food, and his dad can't need any persuading work because he lost his job at all to pick up her ''Nordic Knits''the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and local traditions from Norwaydad are separated, Sweden and IcelandWill's life seems bleak in every direction. There are And yet, he still has a few sweaters or jackets but tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the majority moments of patterns are for smaller items such as mittensjoy when he is drawing, glovesthat feel like a light at the end of a long, hats and bags. All are bright and cheerful and very cosydark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=1916072038Sylvie Cathrall|title=The House in A Letter to the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie CresswellLuminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Science 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, There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to the house in the hollowa compelling premise. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She And this is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade one of respectability, the deplorable truth''them. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''. Then we are told of the birth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn=Matthieu Aikins1786482126|title=The Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=It's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But it's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people described.|isbn= B09N9157T6}}{{FrontpageJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)Elly Griffiths
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|summary=This is Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the third book in a series bones of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Ramm, child beneath a crime journalistdoorway. In There was no skull. Was this book we find that when one of Blix's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo casesritual killing or murder? Inevitably, she tries to contact her superior, BlixDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Before she can reach himIt's difficult as Ruth knows, howeverbut Nelson doesn't, that she is murdered, and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares pregnant with his child as a result of the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered tooone night they spent together some three months ago. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and RammHer condition will be obvious before long, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service not least because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenRuth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|author=Daniel AbrahamGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=Age of AshThe Accidentals
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|genre=FantasyShort Stories|summary= We meet Alys under This collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridgesword: spellbinding with its fantastical, she has a knife in her hand magical elements and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile, the City of Kithamar is at a point charming in the turning its gentle portrayal of years when the worlds are at their thinnest nature and all things are possiblehuman relationships. It is the night between the funeral of a Prince Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and the coronation of his successor. For precisely, her stories structured by a night wisdom that appears to want to teach us something about the Kithamar is un-ruledworld.|isbn=03565154271804271470
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|isbn=15290955220008551375|title=The Interview|author=C M Ewan|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Kate Harding is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge Communications. It's the last interview of the day at one of London's newest office buildings and Edge have fitted out their part of the building to be something special. Maggie, Kate's recruitment agent, is keen to see that Kate approaches the interview in a good state of mind: Kate assumes that this 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 recently.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B097XNMCRK|title=The Blood Tide When Shadows Fall (DS D S Max Craigie)
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon ''is'Leanne Wilson' s body was found at the back bottom of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which is why it was a Scottish mountain, seemingly the perfect place to land illegal deliveries result of drugsa tragic accident. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto a nice little earnerShe'd looked so happy, only to find that Maccatoo, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. the man he thought he Her friends were relieved as she was working withjust out of an unpleasant relationship, is deadbut it looked like she was living her best life now. His remains would never be foundThen it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year. The delivery is hijacked by Davie All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and Callumsensible people. As None of the story progresses we'll get what a stupid thing to know them quite welldo' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the loose.
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