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|isbn= 18362854931806344777|title=The Double Life Arthur and the Land of a Wheelchair UserNimbostratus: Arthur's Able Adventures
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|summary= Arthur dreams of adventures. He looks out of his window each day and thinks of all the escapades he could have, the places he could go and the things he could see. His favourite day is Saturday because that's the day his friend Maxine - she of the booming laugh and silver bangles - comes to visit. Maxine is a great believer in the power of imagination.
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|title=The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)
|author=Ann Cleeves
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Will is a keen player of video gamesI can't 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 conscientious studentnew life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, a slightly annoying brother but he's now living with Willow Reeves and a supportive friend. But most their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of all, he is an aspiring writerhis former partner. English is Willow's also his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Parkboss, and one at which he excels. This hasnshe ''should''t gone unnoticed by his headteacherbe on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, Mrs Howarthin the aftermath of a storm, and she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a couple Neolithic stone - one of afternoons a week at pair - which had been stolen from a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extendedmuseum.
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|isbnauthor=1009473085Polly Barton|title=The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)What Am I, A Deer?|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=Sometimes itPolly Barton's simpler debut novel is an intellectually playful yet emotionally exposed work that uses translation as both subject and governing metaphor. The narrator, newly relocated from London to explain a book by describing what Berlin, works translating video games into Japanese through the process of localisation, rewriting language until it ''isn't'' and that applies feels comfortably familiar to ''The Conservative Effecta new audience. Barton treats this as a paradoxical act: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasionsarguably, then this isn't the book for you. If that's what you're looking in striving foruniversality, I don't think Anthony Seldon's booklanguage is endlessly repackaged, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson its originality at 10}}risk of disappearing altogether. From this, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in novel opens out into a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established formatwider, resonant question: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over to what extent do we translate ourselves in 2010order to be understood, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.accepted, or loved?|isbn=1804272175
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|authorisbn=Jenny ValentineZabriskie1|title=Us A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in the Before and AfterIndigenous Wisdom|author=Stephanie Zabriskie
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|genre=TeensChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Elk ''Across many African and Mab are best friendsIndigenous systems, differences in how children learn, sense , or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connectionprocess the world were not treated as disorders to be corrected. They meet were understood as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get natural variations of human intelligence and awareness, each other's contact details at holding value within the timecommunity. But then chance brings them back together'' This lovely story is a synthesis of that tradition, and they are inseparablewhich was carried down through generations by oral retellings. Something has happened though, something terrible It shows that 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 tragicdifferent personalities, all contributing to a whole that combines them all and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, togetherto the benefit of them all.|isbn=1471196585
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|author=Mariana EnriquezMaria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=A Sunny Place for Shady PeopleThe Disappearing Act|rating=54|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly realDespite her anonymisation of place names and people, achieving Stepanova's message in this uncanny familiarity 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 guest speaker at. Detoured by erratic train schedules and nudged by basing forces beyond her paranormal plots on gritty realities: control, her settings include an abandoned field full journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. Swept up in this series of disused refrigerators due events, M eventually offers to an urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and step in for a crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentinacircus performer who has unexpectedly left the show. The circumstances train functions as a motif of transience and impermanence, while the circus embodies the reshaping of her characters are so plausible identity and a retreat into fantasy, an impulse that lies at the very heart of the supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texturenovel form itself. |isbn=18035112301804272329
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|isbn=1529934753B0GFQ81YQK|title=The ProtestHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Rob RinderStephanie Zabriskie
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|genre=CrimeChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, Before people came and joined the country's most famous living artistanimals, there was not going to show up for only the opening of his retrospective at sky and the Royal Academyearth. StillEverything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, he arrived in the nick of timeearth created bodies. And then, complete with his two wives the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and six children, one of whom filmed what happenedsky. Being an influencerAnd so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, you tend especially how they came to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of the protestbe. Lexi WilliamsWhen they grew old and died, an intern at their bodies returned to the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair earth and proceeded their life returned to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop sky. And that is why the earth and the War''sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. It seemed And that is why people must pay attention to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. The can had been laced with cyanideand care for, and Sir Max Bruce was deadboth.
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|authorisbn=Ariel SaramandiB0GHPMNF6P|title=Portrait of an Island on FireThe Zookeeper's Dragon: A Magical Modern Fantasy Tale for Grown-Ups|author=Carolyn Mathews
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|genre=Politics and SocietyFantasy|summary=In this powerful collection of essaysWhen Phil's father unexpectedly dies, Saramandi seeks he quits his Canary Wharf finance job to intradermally dissect take over the sociopolitical fabric running of Mauritiusthe family's farm zoo. He's not expecting much excitement, until he receives an unidentified egg that his new-age stoner uncle Edgar found in a cave in New Zealand, tunneling deep and suddenly life is no longer quite what it seems. Then the egg hatches into neither a reptile nor a bird, but a dragon! Now he, Edgar, his mother Abi, and the wounds left by colonialism zoo's part-time café waitress Pearl have to raise this little bundle of scales and slavery joy, despite having no idea how to expose how these legacies still shape modern lifeactually raise dragons and not being able to tell anyone about it. Saramandi describes But this tiny little dragon may show them love and connection in ways they had never before imagined…}}{{Frontpage|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|title=How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the country at one stage as Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary='rotting'', How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a blunt yet apt metaphor for children’s nonfiction book drawn from the systemic decay brought about by the malignant forces oral traditions of racismMaasai elders in Ngorongoro, patriarchy, environmental degradation Tanzania.'' The Maasai are a cattle-herding people and governmental dysfunctionthis story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be so. Each essay Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this collection serves as a kind doesn't tell the whole story of diagnosticthe intimate and symbiotic connection its people, and especially its women, charting have with their cows and for the various diseases afflicting natural world. The oral tradition retelling the island statemany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, does.|isbn=1804271616B0G9WTGY6J
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|author=Pekka Harju-AuttiLivi Michael|title=LoveVortex Elizabeth and the Drakor's CurseRuth|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=It's 'Elizabeth and Ruth'' is a work of historical fiction wrought from the life of the eighteenth centuryVictorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, best known for her first novel Mary Barton (1848), a time radical critique of the treatment of discovery and Britain is expanding its foreign tradethe working class published under a pseudonym. Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to the Andaman Islands The ''Ruth'' from Livi Michael's title appears in his endeavour. Along with his son, Peterher novel as Pasley, a young Irish prostitute who was abandoned as a child and their cat, Michi, they set off on finds herself in Manchester's New Bailey Prison after a perilous voyage to these faraway landsdifficult and unjust hand at life. The islands are beautiful Set in Manchester between 1839 and stunning in their scenery 1842, the novel examines the harsh conditions endured by the Victorian working poor and interrogates the islanders' leader, Aarav, is keen extent to establish good relationswhich the wealthy (including Gaskell herself) were responsible for addressing these injustices.|isbn=B0DS1VGHH31784633682
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|author=Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)Makenna Goodman|title=Lili is CryingHelen of Nowhere
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=First published It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in 1953 in Frenchyour life is not quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this novel is feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a timeless text force which wrenches is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the hearts former owner of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the page and positions them elsewherecountryside house he's considering, disjointedHelen represents a volta in his life, truncatedher past tied to his potential fresh start. Like The realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and describes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives of her charactersin an assisted living facility now, they Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are often left tragically incompletenot altogether innocuous.|isbn=18042716751804272205
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|authorisbn=Gregor Hens and Jen Calleja (translator)B0GCB1MQ7D|title=The City and the WorldWhy My Mother Went Away|author=Alan Kennedy|rating=45|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=In I have often wondered how prominent people came to hold their positions. With 'celebrities', there's frequently a book they might or might not have written, which might or might not tell the true story. It's not often that you find a book that gives the full backstory, and rarely do you discover a memoir where the telling is so perfect that you'The City ll go back and reread paragraphs and sentences, just for the Worldpleasure the words give. ''Why My Mother Went Away'', Gregor Hens reveals is one of those rare exceptions. It's the story of how cities are as much imagined spaces as they are physical ones. With a deep affection for boy from the urban landscapes that have shaped his lifeMidlands, Hens reflects on places like Cologneborn at the beginning of the Second World War, Berlinwould become a Professor of Psychology at Dundee University. In fact, and Goch on he was one of the founders of the department.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jeremy Cooper|title=Discord|rating= 3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Discord: a lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) The principal example of discord within the Lower Rhine novel, as with a blend most instances of discord, is easily located. The two protagonists of personal memory the novel, Rebekah Rosen and thoughtful observationEvie Bennet, are as different as they come. His writingRebekah is an uptight, at times abstract, captures not just architectural features but the emotional traditional and mental geographies tied no-nonsense composer close to each locationretirement, for examplewhile Evie is a force of nature, his perspectives bounding onto the musical scene as a child as opposed to as an adultprecocious saxophonist, oozing with talent and charm. From Belgium and Germany The two, predictably, don't always see eye to Berkeley eye, their approaches different and ColumbusEvie's progressive views at odds with Rebekah's conservative leaning. However, Hens traces something connects them beyond just their musical project: a map sort of experiences, turning cities into reflections of identity and belongingfragile alliance formed within the clamour.|isbn=18042716911804272264
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|author=Saou Ichikawa and Polly Barton (translator)Edward W Said|title=HunchbackRepresentations of the Intellectual |rating=4.5|genre=General FictionPolitics and Society|summary=I was in the middle of a self-imposed book-buying ban when I made an exception for this one. What first drew me in was the bookEdward Said's bold fuchsia cover, followed by its striking title: ''HunchbackRepresentations of the Intellectual''. This is less a strict theory of what intellectuals are and more a word I recognised to passionate argument for what they should be loaded with historical and cultural baggage, often used to dehumanise or reduce. Curious, I leaned over Said clearly rejects the comfortable image of the display table and turned intellectual as a detached expert speaking only to the back inside coverother specialists. ThereInstead, I discovered he insists on the author: Saou Ichikawaintellectual as a public figure, often awkward, a woman diagnosed in childhood with congenital myopathyabrasive, a condition that causes severe muscular weakness and touches every aspect of her life. The title took on new complexity in light of her biography. I had unpopular, who speaks truth to read power even when itis inconvenient or risky.|isbn=02417007871804272248
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|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - 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 with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, 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.
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the 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 was living her best life now. Then it emerged that 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 stupid thing to do' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the loose.
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|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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|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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|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 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 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 that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|author=Thea Lenarduzzi
|title=The Tower
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|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.
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|author=Claire-Louise Bennett
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.
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|author=Mary McCarthyAnnie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=Memories of a Catholic GirlhoodThe Other Girl
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|summary=Mary McCarthy describes herself as an ''amateur architectWe were born from the same body. I'', obsessively digging into the past ve never really wanted to piece together the broken mosaic of her lifethink about this. She attributes her ''burning interest in Ernaux's work is always very candid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the past'most intimate accounts I' ve read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her orphanhoodsister, however, as she lacked any second-hand memories from this letter will never reach her parents, who . Why? Because Annie Ernaux's sister died in the 1918 flu epidemic. This memoir chronicles her early of diphtheria at 6 yearsold, beginning with her orphanhood a few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in MinneapolisFrance, Minnesota, where she lived under and 2 years before the author was even born. The large and instant void created by the harsh guardianship jarring concept of her late fatherwriting to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's Irish Catholic parents and process of reckoning with this giant absence in her abusive Uncle Myers and Aunt Margaret. Laterlife, an absence that she moved to Seattle to live with her maternal grandparents—her grandmother being Jewish and her grandfather Presbyterian—who provided her with a different kind of upbringinghas always felt but often denied.|isbn=18042716591804271845
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|author=Jonathan BuckleyMaxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=One BoatReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionBiography|summary= ''One Boat'' is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, drawing Biographies are often seen as the reader into a contemplative realm form of philosophical musings and fragmented memories flowing from our narrator life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and protagonist, Teresaless personal. Set against the evocative backdrop of a small coastal Greek town, I think that Gorky completely rejects this work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and its power to provoke profound introspection. Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she has visited it after the death of both her parents. Prompted by her mourningperspective, her narrative voice is meditative and deeply self-awareoffers a vibrant, inviting the reader into her labyrinthine cogitations. It is a book that not only requires but inspires depth subjective yet informed portrait of three of thought, since its narrative structure is fragmentary and ironically relies on analepsis for its propulsion.|isbn=1804271764}}{{Frontpage|author=Jen Beagin|title=Big Swiss|rating=4his literary contemporaries.5|genre=Humour |summary=I found In the premise first section of this book totally original and addictive. Greta possesses the power to know the population of Hudson, New York's darkest secrets, their intimate lives, their fetishes and fears. How? Her job is Tolstoy complains to transcribe their sex therapy sessions. Sure, therehis friend Gorky that: 's a confidentiality agreement, as the sex coach who calls himself Om keeps reminding her, but that just makes it more exciting. Like we've all probably wished for at some point in you write not of real life, Greta can exist passively, placidly, as a fly on the wall. That it is, until Greta decides to unglue her fly-feet from the safety but of the wall and buzz far too close what you yourself imagine it to the sunbe. The sun in Whom would it help to know how I see this analogy tower, that sea, or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is the sex coachit?'s newest patient, who Greta dubs 'Big Swiss', and who, like the sun, is bright, blonde and beautiful - and irresistible to Greta. SuddenlyWell, the confidentiality agreementMaxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, the ethics of her professional position, her loyalties giving us access to Omhow he saw Tolstoy, fly out Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of the window. She's in too deepit.|isbn=05713785791804271977
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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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|authorisbn=Max Boucherat1836285493|title=The Last Double Life of Lori Millsa Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5
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|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop inWill is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, babysitter poorlya slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of all, mother he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at workhis school, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year oldMarlowe Park, on her lonesomeand one at which he excels. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fortThis hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has one main intentionsuggested 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1009473085|title=The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that is applies to log ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on to Voxminercertain occasions, then this isn't the world-buildingbook for you. If that's what you're looking for, critter-collecting game that is a hit in LoriI don't think Anthony Seldon's worldbook, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. But first Lori has It's a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesncompelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect''t find herself is an entirely on her owndifferent beast. It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and then she finds something even more spookythe situation in 2024. For }}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the server she Before and her bestie After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tamperingMab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. When malevolent eyes spark up They meet as children one day on her phone screena trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and her safe place in the game they are inseparable. Something has been doctored – wellhappened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, where is a girl to turn?together.|isbn=00086664821471196585
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