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|isbn=19160720380008517061|title=The House Death in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)a Lonely Place|author=Allie CresswellStig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her mother have travelled daughter Diana, as moving in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to the house move in the hollow. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her mother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She reservations about whether or not this is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, the deplorable truth''. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as future she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent wants for herself and unexpected removal''. Then we are told of her daughter? For the birth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn moment they’re enjoying life in shame the present and isolation in Yorkshireputting the future on the back burner.
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1786482126|title=Unhinged The Janus Stone (Volume 3) (Blix and RammDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the third book in a series bones of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Ramm, child beneath a crime journalistdoorway. In There was no skull. Was this book we find that when one of Blix's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo casesritual killing or murder? Inevitably, she tries to contact her superior, BlixDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Before she can reach himIt's difficult as Ruth knows, howeverbut Nelson doesn't, that she is murdered, and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares pregnant with his child as a result of the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered tooone night they spent together some three months ago. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and RammHer condition will be obvious before long, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service not least because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenRuth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|authorisbn=Daniel Abraham0008551324|title=Age of AshThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= We meet Alys under the most northerly of OldgateIt's four bridges, unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. she Neither side likes or has a knife any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in her hand prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a meeting that she dreadsmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Meanwhile This person, he promises, the City of Kithamar is at a point in someone big and it will be worth the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possiblepolice doing what he wants. It And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the night between the funeral remainder of a Prince his sentence and the coronation of his successorto get an early parole date. For a night Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the Kithamar other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is un-ruledkept well away from what's happening.|isbn=0356515427
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|isbn=15290955220008405026|title=The InterviewA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=C M EwanJane Casey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Kate Harding is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge Communications. It's the last interview of the day at sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one of London's newest office buildings summer night. She was never found and Edge have fitted out their part of the building investigation ground to be something speciala halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Maggie Initially, Kateit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's recruitment agent, is keen to see that Kate approaches something about the interview in a good state positioning of mind: Kate assumes the bodies that this 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 because Maggie will get now a decent bonus if Kate gets complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the job - and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlyexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK0571379877|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Kellerby Code|author=Neil LancasterJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon ''Edward Jevons is'' the back of beyond: therea working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugsa theatre director. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto a nice little earnerHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, only handsome and entitled and uses Edward to find that Macca, run errands for him. the man Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he thought 's drunkenly confided how he was working with, is deadfeels to Robert. His remains Most men in Robert's position would never be found. The delivery stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is hijacked by Davie and Callum. As left to stumble upon the story progresses we'll get to know two of them quite wellkissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor= B09NDJ77LMJo Callaghan|title=Me and My Shadow|author=Deborah StoneLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongings. She was intrigued by When a man is found crucified on the discovery top of a picture of hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her own house: it was an old photographsidekick, taken in misty conditions and on the back it said 'dawn 1963AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, some years before Ruth was bornhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. It was before her parents were marriedBut 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. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined Will they be able to find out what was behind solve the photograph but Covid intervened and the country was case in lockdown. Ruth and Kate are restricted to time, or will Kat find herself taken off the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate case and continue with her university teaching duties. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carers.potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=18479418341399613073|title=Atomic HabitsMoral Injuries|author=James ClearChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary=I've said this before but there are some books that you seek outOlivia, some books that you stumble across Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read their friendship would keep theminseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, like, right now! 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 of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it'Atomic Habits's going to end in tragedy. We don' t know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. is in Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the last categorythree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=B09MSC981W0241636604|title=The Woke IliadTrading Game: A Confession|author=George BoreasGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=Helen is a popular activist. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps If you were to bring up an image of a popular franchise owner? Anywaycity banker in your mind, Helen is so popular that the United States government has made her its Ambassador you're unlikely to think of Wokesomeone like Gary Stevenson. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the governmentEast End, where he was familiar with violence, including the Shaming Conference poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the Permissible Entertainment Committee London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - ''for indoctrinating and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to have it''be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader. Ouch!
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|isbn=B09D95TRKZ1035021803|title=The Wedding MurdersAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Sarah LinleyC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Libby Steele was hoping It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to get a permanent job with the newspaper and the case English country village where she was covering was grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her big chancebeloved aunt, Carole. It was even more important Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to her than say the celebrity wedding she least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to attend the following day with village: Arthur, she feels, let her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthewdown badly. She was leaving her seven-year-old sonEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, Patrick with her sister, Emma, and heading off she has not felt able to a grand manor house hotel in be near the man or pursue the North Yorkshire countrysideprofession she loved. Daniel AcroydAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, television presenter met and former member married James (on the rebound from the love of the rock band her life, who was marrying Vicky murdered) and Freya and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phonesJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=1838226834AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Carried Away With the CarnivalAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Ed BoxallBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=It was one ''Opening up new ways of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparentsthinking about the shape of things to come. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:'
I've heard it said that 'Ittechnology'll be brilliantis what happens after you're eighteen. Well, just remember, donI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it't let go s all getting away from me. Some of my handit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=1529135362Sunny Singh|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It was The Hotel Arcadia is a long drive to the weekend retreat luxury hotel in Northumbria, right up near the Scottish borders and to make it worse the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morning. Jane and Ruth had known each other for an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a long time but Emily was a bit of an outsider. She and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than the other two women. The friendship of the terrorist group went back to school days. Paul had coached rugby at Hiding from the school where Markterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, Toby a wartime photographer and Rob were pupils. Mark had married JaneAbhi, and Toby is Ruth's husbandthe hotel manager. And Rob? WellAs Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, Rob's dead.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=gareth_steel|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with he forms a warning but bond with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems Sam who refuses to be appropriate. Stories cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of a vether room to try to capture what's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking forhappened through her photography. As a TV show Although they only ever talk over the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realismphone, their friendship grows as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers Abhi tries to help her keep safe and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that he's written it they both wait to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there see if they will be rescued before they are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eatingdiscovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=17876348841529153298|title=The HerdList of Suspicious Things|author=Emily EdwardsJennie Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Our story opens in December 2019It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, before most of us had even heard of Covid or realised they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come her father wants to be a major issuemove the family 'Down South'. WeWhen you're in Farley County Courtfrom Yorkshire, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash KohliDown South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. As they were For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened is major friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that, regardless of . She's not worried about the outcome, this is not going dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to work out well for anyone.
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|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs1398524085|title=The Language of FoodHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never had the slightest inclination to boil an eggturned up. When tasked with writing a cookery book Her children, sons Niall, she recruits Ann KirbyPaul and Ollie and her daughter, a local woman with a troubled home lifeEtty. Togetherare all worried but - strangely - her husband, they testAlec, craftis not. Shortly afterwards, refine Etty and reshape Greg, find the world body of domestic cookeryGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, reinventing in the river. It was an easy assumption for the recipe book police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and changing then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the face of cookery writing foreverguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1398502227
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|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1035906708|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|author=Christopher Edge
|title=Black Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile Lucas and his friends are all booked in the physical form of for a middle-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by movie marathon at their local cinema, a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor place that has come along as well, to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother nickname of the two'The Black Hole'. Loki has a month All big movie fans, they're looking forward to redeem his reputationlots of exciting films, and get his moral compass pointing the right way againmany, or elsemany snacks! However, and to prove it he has to write as the text we read in a sentient notebookmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is able to cry foul of his liesvery different, and judge his progressthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But Loki is as they lurch from one film genre to the kind of god who insists he next, can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to be a walk in the park...rightcinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=14063997521839942738
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|isbnauthor=0008454442Rachel Greenlaw|title=A Flicker in the Dark|author=Stacy WillinghamCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a medical psychologistremote and partially forgotten island, is completing a session with a new patientsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Lacey Mira, like her mother before her, is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes one of getting her through the traumaseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. You seeBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, Chloe knows what itthey capture the island's leader and Mira's like father. Desperate to have save him from death, Mira makes a traumatic childhood. Her father bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is Richard Davissecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the man who murdered six girls some twenty years agosea. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed it watched streets of foreign islands to the police. Dick Davis is in heart of the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to do with him for save the last twenty years. Her mother is in a care future of her homeand the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|author=Christopher EdgeJames Sherwood Metts|title=Escape RoomPlanet Storyland|rating=34.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=I've seen junior variants of Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific location, re paid to do and have other tasks that took time to solve problems in order accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get their way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, Ami used to all this technological change and four starting to think of other tweenagers, all new ways to each other spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and booked into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at along with it, all the game's main offices, where many daily social interactions on which they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerdepend so heavily. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=17880079641736128426
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|isbnauthor=1732898731Matthew Tree|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A ChildrenWe's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese ll Never Know
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|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=There was Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a Boy drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who loved boxeshad endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. He had |isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' There's a box part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldna while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar't believe their luck! It began with art suppliess, stuffed toys a family of witches who protect the town and the like: all wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the things which most children have in abundancefirst non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. The BoyWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's delight was in cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happytown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As he grew up challenges come her way left, right and became a Mancentre, his life became more complicated and he dealt Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with this by getting bigger and better boxes. Look carefully the dead, putting her at the pictures and you'll see that one heart of them has a padlock.maelstrom of chaos.Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=B09MN1526W1529900360|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)The Ghost Orchid|author=Liz MistryJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's the third murder in the space of a few weeks fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and they've all been because of machetes used even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on teenagersdifficult cases. DS Nikki Parekh His assertions that there were only open-and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on -shut cases which didn't need the outskirts help of Bradforda psychologist only worked for a while. OnlyFinally, this timeit was Robin, itDelaware's going to be differentpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The body appears to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephewnext case did look simple, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdownthough. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but Two lovers were murdered in the body is clad swimming pool of a remote property in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied backgroundBel Air. What it does mean though He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is that Nikki is going married to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety an extremely rich man and depressionit's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Ally WilkesSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=All the White SpacesA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
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|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=In post-WWI EnglandDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For JonathanDanny Maik, this adventure represents a chance for has taken a fresh start, and the opportunity short holiday in Singapore to live life as his authentic self and true gendermeet up with an old ally, without the disapproval and constraints of his parentsGuy Trueman. However, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and the shadow of the war hangs like he killed a funeral shroud over the expeditionGhurka. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land Initially, he faced a menacing presence waits charge of manslaughter but evidence came to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is light that suggested that he might have planned to make it out of murder the Arctic winter alive, man. Now he will have could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to face his demons once help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and for wouldn't help Danny at all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.|isbn=1789097835
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|author=Dean KoontzAlexander McCall Smith|title=QuicksilverThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be The Perfect Passion Company is a mercurial character yetdating agency in Edinburgh, for he's lived run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundlingmore personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and now look after the business, as Ness is starting planning to take a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject trip to Canada to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', get away for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded while. Katie is coming out of him that he go to a derelict diner, find break up with a gold coin worth a fortunebad boyfriend, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on so jumps at the lamchance to come home to Edinburgh. And all so begins this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to turn up 44 Scotland Street and suggest he's of interest the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to themcharm. Helped to escape Katie has no experience in running a business, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being or in controlmatch-making, the discovery that he is not unique but Ness has full confidence in having some kind of burgeoning power – her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a whole lot more besides.hand…|isbn=15420198851846976596
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|isbn=00084416180811771741|title=Other ParentsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Sarah StovellMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Women's FictionCrafts|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up knits from toys to her retired predecessor there could well blankets. Some will be a house price slump quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in that part front of the townfire' variety. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and projects are divided by the funds which time they raised were a considerable benefit 'll take to the school. There was one difficulty, though complete - they were ''devastatingly shockable''less than five hours, with two membersfive to ten hours, in particularten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, causing problems for the headmodern and useable. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to JoI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education's me being picky.
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|author=Sarah Ann JuckesDean Koontz|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleBad Weather Friend
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|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Jasper Benny is having a little boy who has some struggles, and whilst we're never told why exactlyterrifically bad day. He loses his job, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacksloses his fiancee, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotionshis house gets trashed. His big sister, Rosie Oh, and someone has been a huge support to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, and writing delivered a book with him, all about birdsreally weird, that he can read when he gets scared disturbing coffin-sized object to help him calm down. His parents seem completely caught up in their businesshis home, and so it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him 's possible that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to him whoever or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be right, and whatever was inside is the only way he feels he can find any peace thing that has trashed his house! The thing is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find Benny is the nightingale and listen very last person to its song, as they do together every Springdeserve all this bad luck.|isbn=1398510890}}{{Frontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Red He is My Heart|rating=3a nice person. A really nice person.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house. And so was this oneis a new friend, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one wasa bad weather friend called Spike, and who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike isgoing to take care of Benny, black and white and red. Yeswill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, Benny, and I think itHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideaswild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=19135471831662500491
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|isbnauthor=1529135567Adam Stower|title=One Step Too Far|author=Lisa GardnerMurray and Bun
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=It's five years since Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the stag weekendtwo. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and But he's a bad magician's cat, so his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Miggy)Bun, Neil and Josh. The first night the catflap they had plenty both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of alcohol - too much really - frightening adventure and in the night Scot managed to wander offwhiffs. The remaining four searched for him in vain and This time round it was decided that Timdrops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, who one much bigger than Murray was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. When help didn't come the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after be honest, but there was no sign of Tim. Every year, Timhe's father, Martin, turned up and the four friends he'll have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tim.do…|isbn=0008561249
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|authorisbn=Gunnar StaalesenB0C47LV1PC|title=Bitter FlowersFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Varg Veum Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab and the question should you make it? Or is now returning to work. Howeverthe question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the quiet job heanswer for both could well be.... no. 's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, and a mystery around a missing woman. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an oldFragility'' is set as the city of Portland, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never found. SomehowOregon, these disparate cases appear cautiously begins to be linked, but what is emerge from the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel restrictions imposed during the truth?|isbn=191319308Xcovid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Kia Ahankoob1529431735|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsWinter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength It's February 1991 and weakenessEssex is bitingly cold, in which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a dynamic and prosperous societydecade. Each power is contained within The return has come about because he's had a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriadletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's children ill and their descendants. But it didnhasn't quite work out like thatlong to live. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went It's hard to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high, a solution feel any sympathy when Hopkins is proposed. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinelsabducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become watery grave in the supreme ruler boot of Dunivaa stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|author=Alastair Chisholm Alex Bell and Eric DeschampsTim McDonagh|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet TomasEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Happy to work Eli lives with his father lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the blacksmith's forgefamily. A few short years ago, heEli's almost of parents were both lost to the age titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to become a full apprentice, and help with navigate the world in the new batch company of dragonswords is certainly needed. Not that there are any dragons, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except..a magical beast. Strange signals from within This has made the forge furnace, and a peculiar invite race anathema to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over the pair – until it all comes out in but when a bad incident at the washeatery leads to a confession from gran, that yes dragons do still exist in this world, and that Tom Eli knows his only hope is rare in the ability to summon themdare to enter what he most hates, share magical attributes, and ride with them..the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=18399400260571382231
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|isbn=1529346541178763681X|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Elizabeth GeorgeOrlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's late July t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and Deborah St James is women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school systemto assist Paul, who had a representative from the NHSbroken arm, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she but it didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi that way. The teaching - and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakerthe problems - are all his own. It follows on from the success of DeborahThe one thing he hadn's book ''London Voices'': the meeting is an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used t expected was for someone to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesturn up dead. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the problem seems to occur in Nigerian body and Somali communities as she relies on getting everyone knows that the trust of police consider that person to be the people she speaks to and photographsprime suspect.
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