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|isbnauthor=1529109116Sylvie Cathrall|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah JacksonLetter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary=''I want the image of There are few greater joys than a British farmer book which lives up to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nationcompelling premise. I don't think that And this is too much to askone of them.''|isbn= 0356522776}}{{FrontpageThe stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his'' family have farmed for generationsrustic life at Little Sky. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be There’s perhaps a farmer. It's not always little uncertainty about the case though. Hannah Jackson was born future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love lot of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and she was well on relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her way to achieving reservations about whether or not this when is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life changed on a family holiday to in the Lake District. She saw a lamb being born present and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked putting the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a shepherd. With future on the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambitionback burner.
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|isbn=08575272311786482126|title=Dog DaysThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Ericka WallerElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angry. ItBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's eight days since his wife, Ellen, died and itluxury's apartments - when they discovered the first time that she's let him downbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. He's lost, bereft without her ( he ''needs his wife, like Was this a snail needs its shell''). ritual killing or murder? He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the doorstepInevitably, he'd much rather have a good row Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with someoneDCI Harry Nelson. HeIt's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared to contradict him when he told her that the dog wasndifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't staying. Now he's lumbered , that she is pregnant with his child as a dog he doesn't want and a load result of busybodies who are trying to interfere in his lifethe one night they spent together some three months ago. Worst of all Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is Betty, who won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot prone to sudden bouts of time trying to escape from and destroy themsickness.
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|isbn=B003UH99X40008551324|title=The Eustace DiamondsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Anthony TrollopeNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he didn't live long enough s unusual for this anyone from the Hardie family to become a problemapproach the police. After his death, his wife, Lizzie - still only Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in her late teens - was in possession prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a very valuable diamond necklace missing person is buried and who was determined that she would not hand it over to responsible for her husband's executorsdeath. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given 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 her absolutely, although serve the precise circumstances remainder of the giving varied from telling his sentence and to tellingget an early parole date. Lady Eustace was not a woman Not much to whom truth meant a great deal. ask, is it? All 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 was important to her now, she maintained, was her son. And, of course, her diamondsDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=15290473150008405026|title=The LamplightersA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Emma StonexJane Casey
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two facess sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. You have She was never found and the investigation ground to take a halt. them bothNow, he saidher mother, the good and the badHelena, and never turn your back on either one of them.'' In 1972, fifteen miles off the coast of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse her father are dead in ''the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''their bed. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeperInitially, the weather such that ''the boat [was] rocking and bobbing it looks like a bath toy over the waveletsstraightforward murder/suicide but there'' but they were unable to get any response from s something about the Maiden Rock. It was broken into the next day, but there was no sign positioning of the menbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The table What looked as though it was set for a meal for two going to be an open- and the clocks were stopped at 8.45-shut case is now a complex double murder. Contact with Kerrigan is convinced that the light had not been possible explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened to the menDerwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Mary H K Choi0571379877|title=YolkThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Jayne Baek Edward Jevons is a fashion student that's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps working-class young man, obsessed with. She's an allhis upper-round messy character; class friends, Robert and thatStanza. Robert's her charm. June, on the other hand, is a complete contrast to Jaynetheatre director. She He's a typical older sister: she's smartalso self-obsessed, thinks she knows it alldemanding, handsome and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices, entitled and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city uses Edward to run errands for the past two yearshim. This is until June finds out she Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's sick, and Jayne is the only person she can turn drunkenly confided how he feels toRobert. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they Most men in Robert'll go to save each others position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's lives – even if it means swapping identitiesnot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn= 0349003696
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|author=Saima MirJo Callaghan|title=The KhanLeave No Trace|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by When a man is found crucified on the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her rise through sidekick, the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sisterAI detective Lock. It's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exiletheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, she Kat is at the top suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of her gameunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Returning Will they be able to solve the city of her birthcase in time, to old scars or will Kat find herself taken off the case and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense potentially, out of honour and duty.a career?|isbn=1786079097139851120X
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|isbn=00083368301399613073|title=Two WrongsMoral Injuries|author=Mel McGrathChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Sondra was Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on her way home after work when she saw the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from the Clifton suspension bridgecentury. She talks to herOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam which is a bonus when you aim to call her best friend be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and flatmate, Nevis Smitha trauma doctor. Nevis Anjali is unworldly the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and rather reserved alcohol- fuelled party and she canit't understand why Satnam hasns going to end in tragedy. We don't shared her problems with herknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. She thought they shared everythingTwenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Satnam is taken to hospital and Nevis calls her motherThis time, Honor. Theyit've not been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her mothers their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)0241636604|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=This was If you were to bring up an incredibly readable novellaimage of a city banker in your mind, but one that left me a little conflictedyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and before we even know injustice. There was no posh public school on his gender or CV - but he had been to the nature London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the person heEnglish country village where she grew up. She's addressing in his second person monologue back now because of a narrationrequest for help from her beloved aunt, we see him picked up by his motherCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's chauffeurclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and carted off the circumstances seem suspicious, to do all say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the necessary introductions before said mother is buried man or pursue the following dayprofession she loved. The mother was After the split, she worked in a businesswomancafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who clearly left northern Italy was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and settled Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in Romania my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with her (nightwhat's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly -time quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and business) partnerthe 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and feelings of abandonment Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still strong. And so we flit from current (well, this came out alive in the original Italian in 2007hotel, so moderately current) Bucharesthe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to the ladcapture what's childhoodhappened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell addressif they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1939810965086154742X
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|authorisbn=Jane Lightbourne1529153298|title= My Cat Called RedThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 45|genre=Emerging ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= Robin has red hairIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. He hates it (A woman? I mean, and the freckles that go along with ithonestly... He) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been bullied and mocked at school because of itdisappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'Ginger Minger! Carrots!disappeared'doesn' Kids are meant sound quite so frightening. But red hair is not RobinMiv's only misery in life. Heupset because she's already lost his dad overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and is taken into hospitalshe'll do anything to prevent that. She doesn't come home agains not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn= 1838216812
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|isbn=B003L7TDMU1398524085|title=Phineas FinnHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Anthony TrollopeNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Phineas Finn is the son of Dr Malachi FinnCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County ClareAlec, who sent his son to London to train as a lawyeris not. PhineasShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's interest is more in making influential friends than in becoming a lawyer and one of themfather, Barrington ErleDuncan Ackerley, suggests in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he runs for Parliament in couldn't stand the forthcoming electionguilt. His father is not entirely in favour of this as members The Salter children are not remunerated and it would be up to him to provide financial support for his son as well as funding his election. One of the doctorconvinced but there's patients is Lord Tulla who controls the borough of Loughshane little else they can do but get on with their lives and by this stroke of luck Finn is, eventually, elected by a small marginwonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=18385950311035906708|title=Crooked: Honest CriminalityDiva|author=Bronwen JohnDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=The con had seemed like a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by the new Banksy - and they should have made a decent profit from it. The problem We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was they were too successful: one of the marks had bought a few and then discovered that they were valueless. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for a simple con and his fatherborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, celebrity criminal Harry HolmesNew York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was determined that he and his family could not lose face like thatthirteen. The grifters were going Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to pay. Ashia 'AshCallas' Cox and Max 'Colorado' Ying needed to be got out of make it more manageable in the countryStates. In When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the course Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of bringing this about, Luke Gaines, Ash's foster fatherher preference for her elder sister, lost his lifeJackie.
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|author=Hayley WebsterChristopher Edge|title=Luna Rae is Not AloneBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Luna Rae Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has just moved housethe nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Moving house is always trickyAll big movie fans, but especially when youthey're ten years oldlooking forward to lots of exciting films, and you miss your old homemany, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and you and your little sister have they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to start a new school but your mum seems the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to be out working all the timecinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3. Then there5|genre=Teens|summary=''s your dadI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, who doesnthe answering beat in my heart.'t seem like he's coping so well Rosevear, a remote and so there's no partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to take care of things but yousurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Everything feels different and strangeBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and mysteriousMira's father. Desperate to save him from death, and so Luna finds Mira makes a bargain with a way of coping wreck survivor who is as charming as he is by watching. She turns detective secretive and starts keeping an eye on with only coordinates to guide her new neighbourhood, but it turns out shesets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's not territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the only one keeping watch!future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=17880060460008664730
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|isbnauthor=B003A6W0FOJames Sherwood Metts|title=Can You Forgive Her?|author=Anthony TrollopePlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=On Things have been a bit sticky for the surface Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: it's the story of one woman re paid to do and two men who are vying with each other for her lovetasks that took time to accomplish. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged Just as they were beginning to her cousin, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and later became engaged get used to John Grey. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour of the continent with George Vavasor all this technological change and his sister Kate. It's obvious that there's still a great deal of chemistry between John and Alice - and Kate is all for encouraging the relationship as it would tie Alice starting to her. George wants Alice but it's a matter think of ''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and the original engagement had fallen through because of his infidelity and deceitfulness, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. This thread is the story of a very complicated love affair Life was pretty much shut down and a woman who lacks confidence in her own judgement. You might not like Alice to start , along with but you will warm to herit, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|author=Hannah GoldMatthew Tree|title=The Last BearWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=April's Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a scientist, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, drunk and he accepts the job deciding to take chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his daughter April with him. They live alone anyway, since April's mother died some time before, and he feels it will be educational for her to experience the island and artistic passions all its natural beauty. April already has an affinity with nature, failed miserably and she's excited to travel with her father, thinking who had endless crises of all the fun things they will be able self confidence. So Tim applied himself to experience together on the island. But when they get therehis studies, her father finds that cultivated his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of abilities rather than his time, daydreams and so April is left to explore by herself. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, set himself high but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find the Bear, and then when she sees he is injured, to befriend and help himachievable ambitions.|isbn=000841128XB0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1472276140A G Slatter|title=What Will Burn (Inspector McLean)|author=James OswaldThe Briar Book of the Dead
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|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=When Cecily Slater'' There's body was founda part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, she'd already been dead at last. I just want to enjoy it for a week - in while.'' Within a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburgh. Heavy rain had washed remote mountain pass, far away most from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the evidenceBriar's, but DI Tony McLean, demoted a family of witches who protect the town and just returned the wider world from suspensionthe Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is reluctant the first non-witch to accept that this is nothing more 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 a careless accidentspells and potions. There were indications that Slater had been savagelyWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, almost ritualistically beaten before the firetown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. But who would hate a ninety-year-old woman As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the extent dead, putting her at the heart of doing something like that? She was a virtual recluse: maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who could she to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have upset sacrificed to that extent?survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=000845552X1529900360|title=Where Ravens RoostThe Ghost Orchid|author=Karin NordinJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been estranged from badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his fatherhelp on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, Stenarit was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for more than a decade but when he got help again. She knew that the rather muddled phone call from him saying involvement was something that he'd seen the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a murder remote property in Bel Air. He was the barn on his land he didn't hesitate heir to drop everything an Italian shoe empire and go she is married to Varsund. Actually, an extremely rich man and it'drop everything' rather overstates s not the situationItalian. Nygaard But which of them was on suspension following the shooting primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a suspect in the Aubuchon murder enquiryVet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. There had been His father was a complication: the Kattegat Killer turned out GP and Rowlands didn't want to be Nils Hedinfollow in his footsteps, Nygaardparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's best life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friendwho was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. StillBefore long, the tenhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students -hour drive from Gothenburg in the south of Sweden been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to Varsund in the far north shouldn't be underestimateda professional footballer.
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|isbn=14711871790861541774|title=A Beautiful SpyNye of Pheasants|author=Rachel HoreSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Minnie is an DCI Domenic Jejeune'ordinary' girl living s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburbold ally, Guy Trueman. The book is set Maik was involved in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man to marry, produce children armed with a knife - and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their homehe killed a Ghurka. UnfortunatelyInitially, this isn't what she wants he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to do at all and neither does she want light that suggested that he might have planned to continue working as a secretarymurder the man. As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate Now he could be facing the Communist Party of Great Britaindeath penalty. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as her duty any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Partywouldn't help Danny at all.
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|author= T L HuchuAlexander McCall Smith|title= The Library of the DeadPerfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Ropa Moyo The Perfect Passion Company is a ghostalkerdating agency in Edinburgh, using Zimbabwean magic (run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a bit of Scottish pragmatism) more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh a trip to Canada to get away for their living relativesa while. Ever since she dropped Katie is coming out of schoola break up with a bad boyfriend, she's been using it and so jumps at the chance to come home to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmotherEdinburgh. However And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, there's bringing us to an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburghwe already love, targeting thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the city's childrenIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Soon Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever couldthere've imagined. Will she find the missing children s always her very helpful (and bring an end rather handsome) neighbour, William, to this evil, or will it claim her too?lend a hand…|isbn= 15290394521846976596
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|authorisbn=Everina Maxwell0811771741|title=Winter's OrbitInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Science FictionCrafts|summary= Prince Kiem is Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a famous political disappointmentcollection of knits from toys to blankets. He Some will be quick knits - others are of the 's outgoinglong, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over cosy afternoons in front of the past few yearsfire' variety. So when an important political alliance is The projects are divided by the time they'll take to be arranged – one that is supposed complete - less than five hours, five to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him ten hours, ten to be chosen for twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the roleprojects are attractive, modern and useable. Least of all him I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=0356515885
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|isbnauthor=1838952012Dean Koontz|title=The Favour|author=Laura VaughanBad Weather Friend
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|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=The rejection by Oxford came as Benny is having a bit of terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a shock really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to Ada Howell: she his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever wasinside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, after Benny is the very last person to deserve all, this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the daughter of the renowned authordelivery to his house is a new friend, Anthony Howella bad weather friend called Spike, who'd has been sent to this collegehelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. WellSpike is going to take care of Benny, she wasn't ''actually'' Howelland will certainly take care of Benny's daughter: enemies, if he'd married her mother after her birth and had then adopted her, so she was 'chosen' rather than just 'made'Benny, which was better really. And whilst we're being honest, we might as well admit that 'renowned author' might be stretching the truth and Harper (a little: his books degenerated waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into self-published poetry which Ada couldn't understand. Still, Ada had felt entitled and this was why her godmotherBenny's offer had come at such a brilliant timewild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|author=C A SachaAdam Stower|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has Murray is supposed to be a plan humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to increase his already startling wealth sleep and eat and eat and sleep and ensure , well, whatever takes his legacy: to bring fancy next of the worldtwo. But he's a bad magician's first emission-free car to market cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and dominate production. The secret development project to enable thisthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, Bucephalusnot into the regular back garden, is already underway but into a world of frightening adventure and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery whiffs. This time round it drops them into a second term to help him carry it out. Montgomery Viking land, where a troll hunter is also looking for a legacy and expected – well, one that does not involve his controlling mother and her foundationmuch bigger than Murray was, to be honest, so grabs onto Finneganbut he's Feed Africa programme with both hands...turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=18004619760008561249
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|authorisbn=Martin VenningB0C47LV1PC|title=The Primary ObjectiveFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=24|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Sometimes Can you make a book starts off slowly''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, but eventually draws is the question should you in to caring about make it? Or is the characters or simply wanting to know what happens next. Sometimes question if you did, would it doesn't. land? The basic premise catch is a good one – a clandestine organisation, operating as a charity, but funded by various governments around that the world and partially (maybe, Ianswer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility''m not sure) under the auspices of the UN, with the primary objective of keeping the peace, by any means possible. Diplomacy is always set as the first option and sometimes one that needs to be carried out by third parties, but for situations when that looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains a call-on list city of field operatives, ex-militaryPortland, medicsOregon, scientists or anyone else with a taste for adventure and willing cautiously begins to risk their life for emerge from the restrictions imposed during the sake of it.|isbn=1800461100covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Francesca Simon and Steve May1529431735|title=Two Terrible VikingsThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
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|genre=Emerging ReadersCrime|summary=In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack It's February 1991 and WhackEssex is bitingly cold, who are eager to be which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the very worst Vikings ever! more surprising. Nothing can stop their mad marauding, He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as they cause havoc at a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a trollletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and undertake a grand journey hasn't long to raid Bad Island with their friends! live. They get up It's hard to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Biteyfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and their crazy cast sent to a watery grave in the boot of friendsa stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=0571349498 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|author=Helen FisherAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Space HopperThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=3.54|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised Eli is a busy lad – by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worse, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormously. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via day an old space hopper box apprentice in her attic) that takes her back to the 70's wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and her mum, she revels in the chance to create some memories evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and get to know the woman who meant so much to herruns. The time travelling, howeverEli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies to him insteada generation missing in the family. The lies grow more tangledA few short years ago, and Faye begins to wonder if itEli's safe for her parents were both lost to return one last time the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the pastworld in the company of a magical beast. Should she try This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to see her mum one last time before her mum's deatha confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, or will it change her own future forever with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to attempt it?possibly save his gran.|isbn=14711886630571382231
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