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|isbn=1635866847Zabriskie1|title=The Lavender CompanionA Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin VesciStephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=It's strange'Across many African and Indigenous systems, differences in how children learn, sense , or process the world were not treated as disorders to be corrected. They were understood as natural variations of human intelligence and awareness, each holding value within the things that make you community.''immediately'' feel This lovely story is a synthesis of that tradition, which was carried down through generations by oral retellings. It shows that this a community or society is not made up from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but by a range of people with different skills and different personalities, all contributing to a whole that combines them all and to the book for youbenefit of them all. Before }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I started reading was tempted to read ''The Lavender CompanionYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and thereafter enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a picture glorious mixture of a slice insight into the workings of chocolate cake on the homepageNHS, humour and autobiography. I don''You Don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerallyHave to be Mad... (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading promised the book same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears work of butter would not be a problempsychiatrist. I ''loved'' did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this book alreadysetting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|author=Jacqueline FeldmanMaria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=Precarious LeaseThe Disappearing Act|rating=3.54|genre=BiographyLiterary Fiction|summary=The title Despite her anonymisation of place names and people, Stepanova's message in this novel refers short work of autofiction is unmistakable. A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to the town of F for a literary festival she is to be a French legal term (''bail précaire'') associated with squatters in France, affording them temporary suspension from eviction charges guest speaker at. Detoured by erratic train schedules and processesnudged by forces beyond her control, but few scant property rightsher journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. Among mentions Swept up in this series of other squats dotted around Paris like Le Carrosse and La Miroiterieevents, Feldman takes particular interest M eventually offers to step in one squat of massive proportions which adopted an almost mythical status for its inhabitants, admirers and detractors alike: Le Bloca circus performer who has unexpectedly left the show. Something like The train functions as a haven for artists motif of transience and marginal members of society (as one characterimpermanence, Le Général, repeats throughout, ''I live on while the margins of circus embodies the margins reshaping of the margins'')identity and a retreat into fantasy, Le Bloc was subject to an impulse that lies at the continual threat very heart of eviction and the pressures from above which oppressed its inhabitants' lives. We follow Le Bloc from its opening in 2012 until its eventual dissolution, framed as a tragedy in this booknovel form itself. |isbn=18042714031804272329
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|authorisbn=Jenny ValentineB0GFQ81YQK|title=Us in How the Before Sky and Afterthe Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5|genre=TeensChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Elk Before people came and Mab are best friendsjoined the animals, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connectionthere was only the sky and the earth. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other's contact details at . First, the timeearth created bodies. But And then chance brings , the sky breathed life into them back together, . These were the first humans and they are inseparablebelonged to both earth and sky. Something has happened thoughAnd so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, something terrible especially how they came to be. When they grew old and tragicdied, their bodies returned to the earth and now their life returned to the sky. And that is why the earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must work through their griefpay attention to, and their friendshipcare for, togetherboth.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbn=1529425905B0GHPMNF6P|title=The Zookeeper's Dragon: A Voice in the Night (A D I Wilkins Mystery)Magical Modern Fantasy Tale for Grown-Ups|author=Simon MasonCarolyn Mathews
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|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=ThereWhen Phil's a new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and shefather unexpectedly dies, he quits his Canary Wharf finance job to take over the running of the family's farm zoo. He's youngnot expecting much excitement, ambitiousuntil he receives an unidentified egg that his new-age stoner uncle Edgar found in a cave in New Zealand, and ruthlesssuddenly life is no longer quite what it seems. She talks Then the egg hatches into neither a good talk about work/life balance and family valuesreptile nor a bird, but as far as she's concerneda dragon! Now he, she has two main problemsEdgar, and they're both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of Nigerian descenthis mother Abi, Baliol educated and always immaculately dressed. Hethe zoo's married part-time café waitress Pearl have to Diane and has twin sons. Management's opinion of him is that he thinks too highly raise this little bundle of himself scales and his last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'the wet end'. Ryan Wilkins comes from a trailer park - in factjoy, it could be said that he's never really left despite having no idea how to actually raise dragons and not being able to tell anyone about it. He lives in shell suits But this tiny little dragon may show them love and tracksuits, always connection in vivid colours. Previous management was adamant that he should ''ways they had never'' be given responsibility. Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of them.before imagined…
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|isbnauthor=1787333175Stephanie Zabriskie|title=You Don't Have How Maasai Women Spoke to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji WaterhouseCows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders
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|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have How Maasai Women Spoke to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This Cows is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into children’s nonfiction book drawn from the workings oral traditions of the NHSMaasai elders in Ngorongoro, humour and autobiographyTanzania. ''You Don't Have The Maasai are a cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be Mad..so.Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn'' promised t tell the whole story of the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness intimate and symbiotic connection its people, and especially its women, have with their cows and for the work of a psychiatristnatural world. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but The oral tradition retelling the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered many conversations Maasai women have had with empathy and understandingtheir cows, does. |isbn=B0G9WTGY6J
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|author=Mariana EnriquezLivi Michael|title=A Sunny Place for Shady PeopleElizabeth and Ruth|rating=3.5|genre=Short StoriesHistorical Fiction|summary=Mariana Enriquez writes horror that ''Elizabeth and Ruth'' is disturbingly reala work of historical fiction wrought from the life of the Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing best known for her paranormal plots on gritty realities: first novel Mary Barton (1848), a radical critique of the treatment of the working class published under a pseudonym. The ''Ruth'' from Livi Michael's title appears in her settings include an novel as Pasley, a young Irish prostitute who was abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to an urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter as a child and finds herself in Manchester's New Bailey Prison after a crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentinadifficult and unjust hand at life. The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that Set in Manchester between 1839 and 1842, the novel examines the harsh conditions endured by the Victorian working poor and interrogates the supernatural or otherworldly horror extent to which seeps into the wealthy (including Gaskell herself) were responsible for addressing these spaces adopts a similarly tangible textureinjustices. |isbn=18035112301784633682
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|author=Onyi NwabineliMakenna Goodman|title=Allow Me to Introduce MyselfHelen of Nowhere
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to It could be argued that the world, thanks pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on social media, where she posted every step the brink of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals losing both his career andhis relationship, basicallyembodies this feeling. However, monetary gainGoodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. Now Anuri The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the countryside house he's considering, Helen represents a volta in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her his life back, suing her step-mother past tied to take down his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the content protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and describes heras ''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=1804272205}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0GCB1MQ7D|title=Why My Mother Went Away|author=Alan Kennedy|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=I have often wondered how prominent people came to hold their positions. Anuri is battling alcoholismWith 'celebrities', there's frequently a book they might or might not have written, failing to start her PhDwhich might or might not tell the true story. It's not often that you find a book that gives the full backstory, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online rarely do you discover a memoir where the telling is so perfect that you'll go back and reread paragraphs and receiving money from them sentences, just for doing sothe pleasure the words give. Most importantly, she ''Why My Mother Went Away'' is desperately worried about her little sisterone of those rare exceptions. It's the story of how a boy from the Midlands, who is born at the beginning of the new focus Second World War, would become a Professor of Ophelia's online empirePsychology at Dundee University. Can she save her sisterIn fact, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at he was one of the founders of the same time?|isbn=0861546873department.
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|author=David ChadwickJeremy Cooper|title=Headload of NapalmDiscord|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= It's September 1973 in HicksDiscord: a lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) The principal example of discord within the novel, as with most instances of discord, is easily located. The two protagonists of the novel, Rebekah Rosen and Evie Bennet, Californiaare as different as they come. Hicks Rebekah is an uptight, traditional and no-nonsense composer close to retirement, while Evie is a Mojave desert town force of nature, bounding onto the musical scene as a few thousand people precocious saxophonist, oozing with its nearest neighbours of LA talent and Las Vegas both a significant drive awaycharm. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine The two, predictably, don't always see eye to eye, their approaches different and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, thereEvie's progressive views at odds with Rebekah's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua treesconservative leaning. Life is quietHowever, until...something connects them beyond just their musical project: a sort of fragile alliance formed within the clamour.|isbn= B0D321VJ761804272264
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{{Frontpage|author=Edward W Said|title=Representations of the Intellectual |rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Edward Said's ''Representations of the Intellectual'' is less a strict theory of what intellectuals are and more a passionate argument for what they should be. Said clearly rejects the comfortable image of the intellectual as a detached expert speaking only to other specialists. Instead, he insists on the intellectual as a public figure, often awkward, abrasive, and unpopular, who speaks truth to power even when it is inconvenient or risky.|isbn=1804272248}}
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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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|summary=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 narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to see our planet in a wholly new light.
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|isbn=295967572X
|title=Pale Pieces
|author=G M Stevens
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. 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 steam locomotive.
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|isbn=02416784121035043092|title=The Proof of My InnocenceKilling Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Jonathan CoeAnn Cleeves|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Life after university hasnI can't worked out quite have been the way that Phyl anticipatedonly 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. SheIt's back homebeen seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with her parents Willow Reeves and on a zero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at terminal 5 their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of Heathrow Airporthis former partner. All those ideas of becoming a writer seem to have come to nothing. The situation improves when Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'Uncle' Chris comes to stay and introduces Phyl to his adopted daughterbe on maternity leave, Rashida. Christopher Swann (described by some as but when the body of a lefty blogger) popular islander, Archie Stout, is investigating a think tank which originated at Cambridge University found, in the 1980saftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. It plans to push He'd been battered about the government in head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a more extreme direction and is ready to actmuseum.
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|isbnauthor= 1836282028Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Fighting Spirit|author=Rob KeeleyTower|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=''Would you like to adopt a ghost?'How unctuous are the fats of another' ''Young spirits life, born 1887, seeks kind home to haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on well with other children. Jokes and shocks a speciality.'' how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''If interested, place outside your home three twigs, in the shape of an arrow, pointing to your front door...''
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|isbnauthor=1739526910Claire-Louise Bennett|title=Where I've Not Been Lost|author=Glen SibleyBig 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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|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=''We were born from the same body. I've never really wanted to think 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've read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, this letter will never reach her. Why? Because Annie Ernaux's sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, 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 this giant absence in her life, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.
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|author=Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)
|title=Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev
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|genre=Biography
|summary=Biographies are often seen as the form of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and less personal. I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: ''you write not of real life as it is, but of what you yourself imagine it to be. Whom would it help to know how I see this tower, that sea, or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, giving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.
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|isbnauthor=1399613073Olga Tokarczuk|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie WatsonHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on ''What's the first day good of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitiousDay, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit House of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them theyNight''re at a drug and alcohol, somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities -fuelled party and it's going the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to end in tragedynight, however quotidian, causing chaos. We don't know who suffered But, the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event constant in that will impact image is the three friends. This timehouse, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it's their teenage children who are involvedis perceived.|isbn=1804271918
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|isbn=02416366041836284683|title=The Trading Game: A ConfessionBig Happy|author=Gary StevensonDavid Chadwick
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|genre=AutobiographyDystopian Fiction|summary=If you were to bring up an image of Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a city banker in your mindbook, youit're unlikely s nothing like I expected it to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East Endbe, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school it takes me on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envywild ride. He also realised And that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at is just what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship happened with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|author=Leanne Egan|title=Lover Birds|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When new girl, Isabel, moves to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, and thatThe Big Happy's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, isn. I don't she? Even though none want to ruin a similar experience for any of her relationships with boys you reading but I'll have gone very well so far, and sheto at least set the scene. Once that's never had a good kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabeldone, and wanting to hang out with her because fighting with her is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?|isbn=000862657XI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.
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|summary=Sally 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 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 long battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.
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|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 a supportive friend. But most of all, he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.
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|author=Mark LinganeJenny Valentine|title=Chimera|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''The survivor stumbles forward, her steps echoing in the oppressive silence. Her heart pounds like a jackhammer. She doesn’t know where she’s heading. All she remembers is running. Terror chasing. Everything lost.'' ''Broken and fragmented recollections tumble around her head. Fear courses through her body. Her breaths come in shallow, ragged gasps as desperation claws at her throat. Dehydration consumes her, and a raging thirst feels unquenchable.'' ''There must be a way out. As she moves through the foreign area, memories begin to gel. Disaster had ploughed through her life—not just hers, everyone’s.'' As our survivor struggles to orient herself, she's guided by a robot, which looks human-made, but she can't be sure. It says it is. It says she must try not to injure herself. Guided to an interview with an eerie, terrifying group of aliens, she desperately tries to make sense of flashes of memory - environmental degradation, deals done and then betrayed, horrifying rituals covering desperate attempts to survive - and to attempt to explain how she came to be here, apparently the last human being alive.|isbn=B0DNVWMYP2}}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit Us in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she Before and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst 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 found.}}{{Frontpage|author=James Baldwin|title=Giovanni's Room|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=''Giovanni's Room'' 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 to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=0141186356}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild EastAfter|rating=4.5
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|summary=Written in verseElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, this their friendship is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at once in a mostly white schoollifetime connection. The move is initiated by RonnyThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don's mum who is worried for Ronnyt get each other's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of troublecontact details at the time. He listens to music constantlyBut then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has always dreamed of being a rapper. But nowhappened though, in this new schoolsomething terrible and tragic, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group andnow they must work through their grief, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetrytheir friendship, and the power of creativity and crafting your wordstogether.|isbn=02416454411471196585
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