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|isbn=00084050261786482126|title=A Stranger in the Family The Janus Stone (Maeve Kerrigan 11Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Jane CaseyElly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=ItBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's sixteen years since nineapartments -year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer nightwhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. She There was never found and the investigation ground to no skull. Was this a halt. ritual killing or murder? NowInevitably, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bedDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. InitiallyIt's difficult as Ruth knows, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but thereNelson doesn's something about the positioning t, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspiciousone night they spent together some three months ago. What looked as though it was going to Her condition will be an open-and-shut case obvious before long, not least because Ruth 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 convincedprone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=15290777450008551375|title=The Dark Wives When Shadows Fall (D I Vera StanhopeS Max Craigie)|author=Ann CleevesNeil Lancaster

|summary=A man walking his dog in Leanne Wilson's body was found at the early morning discovered bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the body result of a man in the park near Rosebanktragic accident. She'd looked so happy, too, a care home for troubled teenswhen she posted her intentions on Facebook. The dead man Her friends were relieved as she was Josh - one just out of the care workers who an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was due to work a shift the night before but who living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called died in similar circumstances in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-last year-old Chloe Spencer. Some All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people believe that Chloe was responsible for . None of the death but Vera thinks this 'what a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is unlikely as the girlcertain there's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josha killer on the loose.

|isbnauthor=1399613073Paul B Preciado|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie WatsonDysphoria Mundi

|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=Olivia''It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood''  Through this hybrid text, Laura and Anjali met on the first day consisting of medical school arias, letters, essays and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitiousautofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, which is and brings forth a bonus when you aim new sensorium as an offering to be the new generation, a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a perfectionist and a trauma doctorsign of political apathy. Anjali Rather, it is the free spirit of proportional, valid response to ''the group epistemological and she becomes a GP. When political crack we first meet them they're at a drug are living through, and alcohol-fuelled party the tension between emancipatory forces and itconservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''s going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered The whole text is framed against the tragedy or backdrop of the consequences. TwentyCovid-five years later there will be an eerily similar event 19 pandemic as that will impact the three friendswhich has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''. This timeRather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of weakness, itor mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''s their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1804271454

|isbnauthor=0241636604Samantha Harvey|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary StevensonOrbital

|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=If you were to bring up an image 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 a group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Through a city banker narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to see our planet in your mind, youa wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933}}{{Frontpage|isbn=295967572X|title=Pale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie going and jeans replaces what the pin-stripe suit and his background purpose of this journey is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injusticeis uncertain. There was no posh public school Django found the tickets ''on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - floor somewhere'' and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people persuaded our narrator to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got accompany him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a tradersteam locomotive.

|authorisbn=Leanne Egan0008551324|title=Lover BirdsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When new girl, Isabel, moves to LouIt's hometown of Liverpool unusual for anyone from London Lou immediately feels Isabelthe Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's disdain prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for everything around herdeath. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each otherThis person, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with herhe promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing thatHardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's definitely because Isabel makes her happening.}}{{Frontpage|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 so crossmore real for Jatgeir and Eline, isntwo of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035043092|title=The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=I can't it? 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. Because Lou is straightIt's been seven years since we heard from him, isnbut he't she? Even though none of her relationships s now living with boys have gone very Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well so faras Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Willow's also his boss, and she's never had 'should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a good kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabelpopular islander, Archie Stout, and wanting to hang out with her because fighting with her is funfound, in the aftermath of a storm, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesncan't she?|isbn=000862657Xresist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.

|isbnauthor=1009473085Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)Tower

|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it 'How unctuous are the fats of another'isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?s life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver  In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasionsidentity of T, then the protagonist of this isn't the book for youtale. If thatJust as T's what you're looking forstory is being told, the story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, I don't think Anthony Seldon's bookthe daughter of a wealthy family in the 19th century, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. Itcaptures T's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politicsimagination. ''The Conservative Effect'Annie' s fate is , above all, an entirely different beastenticing story to T. It's the seventh book in is a series story which looks at the impact she consumes avariciously, both in a government has made quest for truth 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 knowledge, and in service of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010myth, the changes that occurred fable and the situation in 2024fantasy. |isbn=1804271799

|author=Max BoucheratClaire-Louise Bennett|title=The Last Life of Lori MillsBig Kiss, Bye-Bye

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop Everything inthis book, babysitter poorlyhowever sweet or seemingly innocent, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesomeis steeped in anguish and distortion. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in Even a blanket fort, she has one main intentionkiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and that is to log on to Voxminercloseness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the world-buildingnarrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me, critter-collecting game that '' it is less an invitation than a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on desperate attempt to confirm her own, and then she finds something even more spookyemotional numbness. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs The imagined recipient of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screenthis plea is Xavier, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – wellex-partner, where is a girl ghost she conjures to turn?test her detachment.|isbn=00086664821804271934

|authorisbn=Fyodor Dostoyevsky0008405026|title=White NightsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=As always 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 DostoyevskyRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|author=Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Other Girl|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=''We were born from the character same body. I've never really wanted to think about this.'' Ernaux's work is sublimealways very candid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the most intimate accounts I've read. One is Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, this letter will never left wondering what reach her. Why? Because Annie Ernaux's sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, and 2 years before the author was even born. The large and temperaments instant void created by the jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with remarkable claritythis giant absence in her life, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=02416197851804271845

|isbnauthor=0008385068Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy FoleyReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersBiography|summary=It's midsummer on Biographies are often seen as the Dorset coast form of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and guests gather at The Manorless personal. It's their opening weekend I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and splendid celebrations are promisedoffers a vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. ItIn the first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: 's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted you write not of real life as it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famousis, but of what you yourself imagine it to be. Her husbandWhom would it help to know how I see this tower, Owenthat sea, was the architect and work or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is still ongoing on parts of the siteit?''. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, giving us access to be settled how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it won't be long before a body is found.|isbn=1804271977

|authorisbn=James Baldwin1529077745|title=Giovanni's RoomThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves

|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=''Giovanni's Room'' follows A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the narrator David, an American body of a man living in Paristhe park near Rosebank, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay barcare home for troubled teens. While David is engaged The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to Hella, work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is travelling called in Spain, to investigate the real tension in murder - but her only clue is the novel arises not from his infidelity but from disappearance of one of the deeper conflict within himselfresidents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. It Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is Davidunlikely as the girl's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovannishe has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.|isbn=0141186356

|isbn=B0DGDJRHYDB0FK5LHKD9|title=Nowhere ManThe Colour of Memory|author=Deborah StoneChristopher Bowden

|summary=In It's been three years since we last reviewed a quiet suburban house, Patrick is making his final plans. A meticulous manbook by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, he makes sure of every preparation, down so we were very glad to the last detailsee a new novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. Some last reflections, and then he says goodbye to his wifeLike all Bowden's stories, there's a mystery at the world, and his lifeheart of ''The Colour of Money''. ItWe like this running theme in an author's horribly sad. At work in her shop, his wife Diana is fending off yet another phone call about her ageing - take a mystery but give it different flavour and ailing mother, who needs extricating from yet another accident. It will be a while before Diana realises what Patrick has doneatmosphere each time.

|author=Virginie DespentesOlga Tokarczuk|title=King Kong TheoryHouse 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

|genre=Autobiography Crime|summary=''King Kong Theory'' is Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a hard-hitting memoir Private Investigator for some time now, and feminist manifestohe should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, which can be seen as his daughter's defence against a call murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been trying to arms for women in a phallocentric society broken at its corepersuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. Originally written in French That's what 'ordinary people do', '' He's not been entirely up front about the book is a collection state of essays in which Virginie Despentes explores her experiences as a woman through their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it's the complex prism thought of her varied life: from rape to sex work and pornography. Though these discussions are intertwined, their placement within the book can feel somewhat disjointed, money he could make that convinces him that this is a reflection miscarriage of their original form as independent essaysjustice that he really should put right.|isbn=191309734X

|authorisbn=James Baldwin1836284683|title=Giovanni's RoomThe Big Happy|author=David Chadwick

|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction |summary=Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, it's nothing like I expected it to be, and it takes me on a wild ride. And that is just what happened with 'Giovanni's RoomThe Big Happy'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. While David is engaged I don't want to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but from I'll have to at least set the deeper conflict within himselfscene. It is DavidOnce that's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovannidone, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.|isbn=0141186356

|author=Ashley Hickson-LovenceSally Rooney|title=Wild EastIntermezzo

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction |summary=Written in verseSally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into 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 is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has the central one for readers to move to Norwich unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and start at Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a mostly white schoolsuccessful lawyer living in Dublin. The move is initiated by RonnyFollowing their father's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety passing after a tragic eventlong battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1036916375|title=Just a Liverpool Lad|author=Peter McArdle|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of memories and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle reflections from the years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the family history of a new townsea-going family, with the docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the what-might-have-been. It's a new schoolbook to settle into and allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, and keep himself out to think of troublesimpler times when life seemed less constrained, despite the blitz that was a constant factor in McArdle's early years. He listens to music constantlyI'd never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and could appear after the all-clear was sounded.}} {{Frontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and has always dreamed of being a rappersupportive friend. But nowmost of all, in this new 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 teacher encourages him headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to be part Will and his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a poetry writing workshop group andweek at a different school, slowlyStation Road, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your wordswhere his ability might be better extended.|isbn=0241645441

|isbn=16358668471009473085|title=The Lavender CompanionConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Jessica Dunham Anthony Seldon and Terry Barlin VesciTom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=ItSometimes it's strange, the things simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that make applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you 're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''immediatelyreally'' feel that happened on certain occasions, then this is isn't the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender CompanionIf that's what you're looking for, I visited the authordon't think Anthony Seldon's [https://wwwbook, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there It's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepagecompelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally'The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. (ThereIt's a recipe in the seventh book, in a series which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book and I was told to make follows the well-established format: a mess series of it. Notes experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down changes that occurred and the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book alreadysituation in 2024.

|author=Onyi NwabineliMariana Enriquez|title=Allow Me A Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to Introduce Myselfan urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and a crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture. |isbn=1803511230}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529934753|title=The Protest|author=Rob Rinder

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the worldcountry's most famous living artist, thanks was not going to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social mediashow up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, where she posted every step he arrived in the nick of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships time, complete with his two wives and six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer deals , you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of the protest. Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair andproceeded to spray Bruce in the face, basicallywhilst shouting ''Stop the War''. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, monetary gainbut this was different. Now Anuri is in her twenties The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ariel Saramandi|title=Portrait of an Island on Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and she is slowly trying Society|summary=In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to regain her confidence intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and slavery to get her expose how these legacies still shape modern life back. Saramandi describes the country at one stage as ''rotting'', suing her step-mother to take down a blunt yet apt metaphor for the content systemic decay brought about herby the malignant forces of racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Anuri is battling alcoholismEach essay in this collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, failing to start her PhDcharting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|isbn=1804271616}}{{Frontpage|author=Pekka Harju-Autti|title=LoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=It's the eighteenth century, undergoing therapy a time of discovery and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing soBritain is expanding its foreign trade. Most importantlyCaptain Julius Hawthorne, she is desperately worried about her little sisteran experienced Scottish sea captain, who is sent to the new focus of Ophelia's online empireAndaman Islands in his endeavour. Can she save her sisterAlong with his son, Peter, and their cat, Michi, they set off on a perilous voyage to these faraway lands. The islands are beautiful and perhaps herself stunning in their scenery and her relationship with her father at the same time?islanders' leader, Aarav, is keen to establish good relations.|isbn=0861546873B0DS1VGHH3

|author=David ChadwickHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Headload of NapalmLili is Crying

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= It's September 1973 First published in Hicks1953 in French, California. Hicks this novel is a Mojave desert town timeless text which wrenches the hearts of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the page and Las Vegas both a significant drive awaypositions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are Like the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much lives of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiether characters, until...they are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn= B0D321VJ761804271675

|isbnauthor=1786482126Guadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsAccidentals

|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house This collection was truly enchanting in Norwich - all senses of the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working word: spellbinding with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knowsits fantastical, but Nelson doesn't, 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 obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|author=Joan Didion|title=The Year of Magical Thinking|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=This book is Joan Didion's heartbreaking autobiographical account of the grief she endured following her husband's sudden death. Books that shed light on taboo topics like death are such a beautiful magical elements and necessary resource to help people feel less alone. Didion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self-pity, denial and delusion and makes them utterly normal, lends them a human face to wear.|isbn=0007216858}}{{Frontpage|author=Alba de Cespedes |title=Forbidden Notebook|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the moment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her forbidden notebook, and learns about herself charming in the most intimate and revealing ways.|isbn=1782278222}}{{Frontpage|author=Ottessa Moshfegh|title=My Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=3|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=At best, this novel is a scathing critique its gentle portrayal of modern society nature and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the cynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, a slim, attractive Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the world, but resolves not to lose sleep over it: in factprecisely, her solution lies in her hibernation.|isbn=1784707422}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of stories structured by a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is wisdom that appears to be transferred want to an open prison to serve teach us something about the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1739526910|title=Where I've Not Been Lost|author=Glen Sibley|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''One year after a suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's life, he arrives in an unfamiliar Devon town to recover. Living with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home, he dreams of reconnecting with everything he has lost. But as those tentative plans falter, he becomes swept up in a local world of unlikely friendships, mobile discos and surprising romantic possibilities.''}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0DB64PYV5|title=The White Rose|author=Dave Baines|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=In 2033, a superstorm known as the White Rose devastates the Northern Hemisphere. And it's not a storm that gathers, wreaks havoc, then dissipates. 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