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|authorisbn=Joan Didion0008551375|title=The Year of Magical ThinkingWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=This book is Joan DidionLeanne Wilson's heartbreaking autobiographical account body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the grief result of a tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she endured following was living her husband's sudden deathbest life now. Books Then it emerged that shed light on taboo topics like death are such five other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. None of the 'what a beautiful and necessary resource stupid thing to help people feel less do' explanations applied. They were all alonewhen they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the loose. Didion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like }}{{Frontpage|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-pity, denial and delusion 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 makes them utterly normalconservative 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, lends them when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''. Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a human face sign of weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to wear''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.|isbn=00072168581804271454
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|author=Alba de Cespedes Samantha Harvey|title=Forbidden NotebookOrbital|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=This Italian In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''Orbital'', a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the lives of feminist fiction holds an air a group of suspense and tension from astronauts aboard the moment International Space Station. Through a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to see our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her forbidden notebook, and learns about herself planet in the most intimate and revealing waysa wholly new light.|isbn=17822782221529922933
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|authorisbn=Ottessa Moshfegh295967572X|title=My Year of Rest and RelaxationPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=35
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|summary=At best, this novel Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a scathing critique of modern society train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and reveals what the fragility purpose of human relationships; at worstthis journey is, it is uncertain. Django found the cynical, predictable tickets ''on the floor somewhere'' and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonisthas persuaded our narrator to accompany him. This unlikely heroine, a slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in her twenties is disillusioned with the world, but resolves not past as the pair travel to lose sleep over it: in fact, her solution lies in her hibernationthe station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.|isbn=1784707422
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|author=Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Vaim|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, two of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=17395269101804271829}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035043092|title=Where The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Ican've Not Been Lostt 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's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.}}{{Frontpage|author=Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Tower|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, 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's imagination. Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to T. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and fantasy. |isbn=1804271799}}{{Frontpage|author=Glen SibleyClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=''One year after a suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's lifeEverything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, he arrives is steeped in an unfamiliar Devon town to recoveranguish and distortion. Living with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday homeEven a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, he dreams becomes evidence of reconnecting with everything he has love lost. But as those tentative plans falterWhen the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me, he becomes swept up in '' it is less an invitation than a local world desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of unlikely friendshipsthis plea is Xavier, mobile discos and surprising romantic possibilitiesher ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.''|isbn=1804271934
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|author=Jo CallaghanAnnie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=Leave No TraceThe Other Girl
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|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=When a man ''We were born from the same body. I've never really wanted to think about this.'' Ernaux's work is found crucified on always very candid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the top of a hill most intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned direct address to the case alongside her sidekicksister, however, the AI detective Lockthis letter will never reach her. ItWhy? Because Annie Ernaux's their first live case togethersister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days latermonths before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, Kat is suddenly struggling and 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's process of reckoning with a potential serial killer this giant absence in her life, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845}}{{Frontpage|author=Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and 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 very high profile case 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 draws a lot : ''you write not of real life as it is, but of unwanted attention what you yourself imagine it to their AI Future Policing projectbe. Will they be able Whom would it help to solve the case in timeknow how I see this tower, that sea, or will Kat find herself taken off the case andthat Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, potentiallygiving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, out Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of a career?it.|isbn=139851120X1804271977
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|isbn=1399613073B0FK5LHKD9|title=Moral InjuriesThe Colour of Memory|author=Christie WatsonChristopher Bowden|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's been three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, so 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 Colour of Money''. We like this running theme in an author's work - take a mystery but give it different flavour and atmosphere each time.}}{{Frontpage|author=Olga Tokarczuk|title=House 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=Crime|summary=Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be 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 retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it'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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1836284683|title=The Big Happy|author=David Chadwick
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|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for Well! This is a quarter of murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitiousbook, which is a bonus when you aim it's nothing like I expected it to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist , and it takes me on a trauma doctorwild ride. Anjali And that is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them theyjust what happened with ''The Big Happy're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We I don't know who suffered the tragedy or want to ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but I'll have to at least set the consequencesscene. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event Once that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involveddone, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.
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|isbnauthor=0241636604Sally Rooney|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary StevensonIntermezzo
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|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction |summary=If you were to bring up an image Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a city banker in your mindgrandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevensonas her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. A hoodie and jeans replaces Among the many relationships woven into this story, the pin-stripe suit and his background central one for readers to unravel is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and injusticePeter Koubek. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has Ivan, a facility socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentiallyolder brother Peter, a card game which got him an internship successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with Citibank. Eventuallycancer, this turned into permanent employment as a traderthe brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469
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|isbn=B0DB64PYV51036916375|title=The White RoseJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Dave BainesPeter McArdle
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|genre=Dystopian FictionAutobiography|summary=In 2033''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of memories and reflections from the years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the family history of a superstorm known as sea-going family, with the White Rose devastates docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the Northern Hemispherewhat-might-have-been. And it It's not a storm that gathersbook to settle into and allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, wreaks havocto think of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, then dissipatesdespite the blitz that was a constant factor in McArdle's early years. Instead, it hovers across half I'd never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and could appear after the Earth with its octopusall-like tentacles, not giving up and never going awayclear was sounded.
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|authorisbn=Leanne Egan1836285493|title=Lover BirdsThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=When new girlWill is a keen player of video games, Isabela conscientious student, moves to Lou's hometown a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around herall, he is an aspiring writer. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each otherEnglish is his favourite lesson at his school, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with herMarlowe Park, and that's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isnone at which he excels. This hasn't it? Because Lou is straightgone unnoticed by his headteacher, isn't she? Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well so farMrs Howarth, and she's never had has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a good kiss with any couple of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and wanting to hang out with her because fighting with her is funafternoons a week at a different school, and she definitely just hates IsabelStation Road, doesn't she?|isbn=000862657Xwhere his ability might be better extended.
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|author=Max BoucheratJenny Valentine|title=The Last Life of Lori MillsUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop inElk and Mab are best friends, babysitter poorlyor more than that even, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesometheir friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has They meet as children one main intention, and that is to log day on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Loritrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's worldcontact details at the time. But first Lori then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her ownhappened though, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she terrible and her bestie tragic, and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screennow they must work through their grief, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – welltheir friendship, where is a girl to turn?together.|isbn=00086664821471196585
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|authorisbn=Jenny Lecoat1787333175|title=Beyond SummerlandYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=General FictionPopular Science|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating I 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}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the end workings of the occupationNHS, humour and autobiography. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening 'You Don't Have to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of himbe Mad... As '' promised the British finally free the Channel islands same elements but moved from the Nazis, physical problems to mental illness and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became work of hima psychiatrist. But will I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the truth come as laughter is directed at a situation rather than a relief, or will person and it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|isbnauthor=1529428289Mariana Enriquez|title=A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerSunny Place for Shady People|rating=45|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=Because of various property transactionsMariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell disused refrigerators due to Brunoan urban planning mishap, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies an overcrowded homeless shelter and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - is flowing at record levelsall within Argentina. It's not just the local autumn rains The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a devastating floodsimilarly tangible texture.|isbn=1803511230
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|isbn=152919640X1529934753|title=The SuspectProtest
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|summary=The nationFor a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's favourite daytime TV presentermost famous living artist, Jessica Holbywas not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, was murdered live on television he arrived in the nick of time, complete with his two wives and it seems that there's only six children, one suspectof whom filmed what happened. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holbythere was a record of the protest. She's seriously allergic and carries Lexi Williams, an EpiPen in case intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in blue paint from under a busy, live television studio - chair and Brooks served a ragout proceeded to Holbyspray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. Her EpiPen was nowhere It seemed to be found and she part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was dead within minutesdifferent. It The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was soon clear that this was no accidentdead.
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|isbnauthor=0008385068Ariel Saramandi|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy FoleyPortrait of an Island on Fire
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|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=It's midsummer on In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the Dorset coast wounds left by colonialism and guests gather slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the country at The Manor. Itone stage as ''s their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. Itrotting's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat , a blunt yet apt metaphor for the wealthy and famous. Her husbandsystemic decay brought about by the malignant forces of racism, Owenpatriarchy, was the architect environmental degradation and work is still ongoing on parts governmental dysfunction. Each essay in this collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, charting the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst various diseases afflicting the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is foundisland state.|isbn=1804271616
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|author=Ashley HicksonPekka Harju-LovenceAutti|title=Wild EastLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse|rating=4.5|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=Written in verse, this is RonnyIt's storythe eighteenth century, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich time of discovery and start at a mostly white schoolBritain is expanding its foreign trade. The move Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying sent to settle the Andaman Islands in a new townhis endeavour. Along with his son, a new schoolPeter, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantlytheir cat, Michi, and has always dreamed of being they set off on a rapperperilous voyage to these faraway lands. But now, The islands are beautiful and stunning in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group their scenery andthe islanders' leader, slowlyAarav, Ronny begins is keen to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your wordsestablish good relations.|isbn=0241645441B0DS1VGHH3
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|isbnauthor=1635866847Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin VesciLili is Crying
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|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=It's strangeFirst published in 1953 in French, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake sentences from their proper position on the homepage. I don't eat cakes page and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerallypositions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. (There's a recipe in Like the booklives of her characters, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins they are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book alreadyoften left tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675
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|author=Rob KeeleyTom Percival|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector. The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the Before and AfterWrong Shoes
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|summary=Meet KitWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. Like most of He is bullied because he has 'the people in his world, it seemswrong shoes', he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the sport where a team most basic of warriorthings like food, mage and healer enter specially preparedhis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, centurywas working a cash-old, magical mazes, in-hand job on a building site and race to had an accident. Throw into that mix the exitfact that his mum and dad are separated, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the wayWill's life seems bleak in every direction. Unfortunately for KitAnd yet, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team still has been retired, eaten, and a new trio tiny amount of questors is neededhope. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for KitHe is good at art, he has taken and clings to the goading from the token bully moments of his world and stumbled into declaring joy when he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendlessis drawing, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing thatfeel like a light at the end of a long, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?dark tunnel.|isbn=18399451841398527122
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|isbnauthor=1787333175Sylvie Cathrall|title=You Don't Have A Letter to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhousethe Luminous Deep
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|genre=Popular ScienceFiction|summary=I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first There are few greater joys than a book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going which lives up to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Madcompelling premise...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in And this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understandingone of them. |isbn= 0356522776
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|author=Onyi NwabineliGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=Allow Me to Introduce MyselfThe Accidentals
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|genre=General FictionShort Stories|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to This collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the worldword: spellbinding with its fantastical, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step magical elements and charming in its gentle portrayal of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals nature and, basically, monetary gainhuman relationships. Now Anuri is in her twenties Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life backprecisely, suing her step-mother stories structured by a wisdom that appears to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing want to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried teach us something about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empireworld. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.1804271470
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