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|author=Tade ThompsonSylvie Cathrall|title=Far From A Letter to the Light of HeavenLuminous Deep|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be There are few greater joys than a babysitter for the ship's AI captain. However, when she wakes book which lives up at the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagoscompelling premise. What the five And this is one of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating= 4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|isbn= B09HHN541V0356522776
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|isbn=178607981X0008517061|title=Bad Apples|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of the road. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of the car - and heard the screams from deep inside the forest. Determining the direction of a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where a woman was holding her coat over the body of Death in a man. He'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Persson, a resident of Visberg.}} {{FrontpageLonely Place|author=Lilja Sigurdadottir|title=Cold As HellStig Abell
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|genre=Crime
|summary= In Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a red suitcase as little uncertainty about the bottom future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a fissure lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in a lava field, there with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is a body. And the man who has put future she wants for herself and her there has just discovered that he is capable of killingdaughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.|isbn=1913193888
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|authorisbn=Lucy Hope1786482126|title=FledglingThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop Builders were demolishing an old house, built bit by bit over in Norwich - the decades, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. Itsite was going to hold seventy-five 's an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as weluxury'd know it, the roof is retractable, there is a steamapartments -powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so on. At when they discovered the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby bones of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, child beneath a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of doorway. There was no skull. Was this bizarre machine-like abodea ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Oh but it It's also going to house someone or something elsedifficult as Ruth knows, when crashing through Cassiebut Nelson doesn's bedroom window one stormy day t, that she is pregnant with his child as a cherubresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. And if you think such a heavenly arrival Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is going prone to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think againsudden bouts of sickness...|isbn=183994188X
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|isbn=18462767720008551324|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our MindsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jessica NordellNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Anyone who 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 not an able, white man understands bias struggling in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: itprison and he's simply prepared to tell the police where the body of a part of everyday lifemissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. White men This person, he promises, is someone big and it will always come firstbe worth the police doing what he wants. The able will come before And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the disabledremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. JobsNot much to ask, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. is it? Even when those who wouldnThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation itthink so and she's rare even prepared to do the other thing that their views are heard, Hardie demanded - make certain that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling DS Max Craigie and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but itanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedhappening.
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|authorisbn=Teresa Driscoll0008405026|title=Her Perfect A Stranger in the Family(Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The novel begins by introducing you It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to Gemmaa halt. Now, who at first instance appears to be your average studenther mother, faced with the familiar horrifying realisationHelena, at the eleventh hour, that and her graduation outfit is all wrongfather are dead in their bed. Suddenly Initially, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there', paving s something about the way for positioning of the sinister tone bodies that remains throughout the novel. In a twist of events, makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremonyboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex whodunit with a list of suspects double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that continues to grow the further you readexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1542028752
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|isbn=84092901030571379877|title=If OnlyThe Kellerby Code|author=Matthew TreeJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=TwentyEdward Jevons is a working-oneclass young man, obsessed with his upper-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his fatherclass friends, cottonRobert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountantobsessed, Mr Patrickdemanding, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat handsome and entitled and thereafter Patrick was uses Edward to send run errands for him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has he's drunkenly confided how he feels to say than PatrickRobert. It wasn Most men in Robert't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he didn't care s not like most men: Edward is left to have him stumble upon the two of them kissing in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his waydark passageway.
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|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)Jo Callaghan|title=The Rabbit FactorLeave No Trace|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Henri. With When a mind so much more focused man is found crucified on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not top of a team-memberhill in Nuneaton, that they'd prefer everyone DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to be all open-planthe case alongside her sidekick, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshoppingthe AI detective Lock. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo It's radio channeltheir first live case together, and has left Henri everythinghaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' But when there is just an adventure parka second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and nothing elsea very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants Will they be able to occupy his mindsolve the case in time, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in or will Kat find herself taken off the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pacecase and, despite some desultory staff ideaspotentially, but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan...career?|isbn=191319387X139851120X
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|isbn=14711793111399613073|title=The UnheardMoral Injuries|author=Nicci FrenchChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=TessOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a teacher and Jason, quarter of a headmastercentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of the family home and Jason which is now married a bonus when you aim to Emilybe a cardiothoracic surgeon. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apartLaura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was Anjali is the free spirit of the family home group and another in the flat she shares with her motherbecomes a GP. It When we first meet them they''seemed'' to be working well until the day that Poppy came home with re at a menacing drawing of a woman falling from a tall building drug and alcohol-fuelled party and she started swearing, using words she was unlikely it's going to have heard end in either hometragedy. Her behaviour deteriorated and We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there were problems at nursery schoolwill be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Tess turns to a therapist for helpThis time, then her doctor and finally the police but no one will take what she has to say seriouslyit's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=14711966150241636604|title=IcedThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Felix FrancisGary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Miles Pussett used If you were to be bring up an image of a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down background is the three-quarter-mile Cresta RunEast End, where he was familiar with violence, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourpoverty and injustice. He There was in St Moritz no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the same weekend as White Turf London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - that's highextremely bright -class horseracing on the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping has a facility with the saddling numbers which most of the horsesus can only envy. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore He also realised that he'd never go back most rich people expect poor people to itbe stupid. But when he sees that something suspicious is going onIt was his ability at what was, Miles can't help but look for answersessentially, even when it puts a card game which got him in dangeran internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=147228612X1035021803|title=The Late Train Antique Hunter's Guide to Gipsy HillMurder|author=Alan JohnsonC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably havenIt't taken much notice of thems twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. They live quietShe's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, uneventful lives and stay mostly under the radarCarole. In a city like London, thatFreya's quite easy - former mentor and even GaryCarole's three flatmates largely ignore himclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her makeup down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she goes has not felt able to work on be near the train each morning: he'd love to ask her for a date but he doesn't have man or pursue the courageprofession she loved. Then After the split, on his homeward commuteshe worked in a cafe, Arina speaks to him met and asks for his help. Before long he finds himself married James (on the run rebound from mobstersthe love of her life, Russian secret agents who was murdered) and Freya and the Metropolitan policeJames have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Claire McGowanAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=I Know YouAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=''Then:Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' Casey returns from a walk with the baby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down.
I've heard it said that 'Now:technology'is what happens after you' Rachel is out for re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a walk few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with her dogwhat's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, Brandy, when she comes across 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 body in the woodsway I could understand.|isbn=1542019974
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|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 Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened 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 if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=15291482511529153298|title=Misfits: A Personal ManifestoThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Michaela CoelJennie Godfrey
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|genre=Politics and SocietyGeneral Fiction|summary=It''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice s 1979 and poverty, yet still compartmentaliseMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from itmean, honestly..'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of mind. You) She're s not going to read a book of essays or a self-help book. Youwhat're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coels worrying Miv's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festivalfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. You might be Well, they''reading'' the book ve been murdered, but you need to have 'disappeared'doesn'listent sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she' s overheard that her father wants to move the words as though family 'Down South'. When you're in the lecture theatrefrom Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. The disjointedness will fade away For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and youshe'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writingdo anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=00084336311398524085|title=Next of KinHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Kia AbdullahNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It Charlotte Salter was the sort of thing that happened every dayexpected 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, Alec, although is not to Leila Syed. She'd never driven her nephewShortly afterwards, MaxEtty and Greg, to school before but his find the body of Greg's father, Andrew HansonDuncan Ackerley, had rung her in a panicthe river. He It was supposed an easy assumption for the police to be taking Max to school but make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn'd been called into work and t stand the delay in getting there could lead to financial lossesguilt. As the school was only five minutes out of LeilaThe Salter children are not convinced but there's waylittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, could but she drop him off? Of coursewas born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into 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 of in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her car. On voice - she was raised under the way Leila took Nazi occupation by a phone call - there was panic at mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her work tooelder sister, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskJackie.
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|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaChristopher Edge|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)Black Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word Lucas and his friends are all booked in for thema movie marathon at their local cinema, find us a child place that doesnhas the nickname of 'The Black Hole't find them irresistibly funny. Funny All big movie fans, they're looking forward to talk about lots of exciting films, and joke aboutmany, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format isvery different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But horribly embarrassing if you let as they lurch from one go at film genre to the wrong time. In classnext, saycan they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!to their real lives?|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W1839942738}}
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|isbnauthor=1784165263Rachel Greenlaw|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma CurtisCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Martin Curran's wife'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one othe answering beat in my heart.''clock Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the dotwrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, despite the fact that she was actually painting is one of their properties prior the seven who swim out to it being letsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. If she didn't get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was But when the Council Watch lays a paraplegic and confined trap to a wheelchairend the wrecking, but donthey capture the island't be too quick s leader and Mira's father. Desperate to be understanding. He was also save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a very unpleasant person: wreck survivor who is as charming as he once told Eliza ''you're good at being is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a disappointment''family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. All this was in ElizaWith 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 mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannouncedterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at the flat just as Eliza was about nothing to leave: he wanted save the lease future of flat 2, 42 Linden Road her home and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availablethe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|isbnauthor=1784742775James Sherwood Metts|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan HillPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Drugs hadn't really Things have been that much of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of timesticky for the Earthlings. They still wereAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to a great extent, but Serrailler knew do and other tasks that something had took time to be doneaccomplish. Children Just as young as nine they were being recruited beginning to get used to transport the drugs all this technological change and the operation running the county lines starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was tight. A mule might know the name (although pretty much shut down and, along with it probably wouldn't be the correct one) of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch a few of , all the runners but many daily social interactions on which they'd never get anywhere near those higher updepend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=B09FS89KX9Matthew Tree|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope PottsWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working being exceptional at BB's diner. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in any of his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her artistic passions all failed miserably and most who had endless crises of all he wanted her self confidence. So Tim applied himself to leave her job at the diner. Then there was the fact that he would be violenthis studies, both to her cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and to other peopleset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=John GwynneA G Slatter|title=The Shadow Of The GodsBriar Book of the Dead
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment '' There's a 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 a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the Bloodsworn Sagaworld, set in lies Silverton; a town under the era protection of the Vikings in the shadow Briar's, a family of Ragnarok, when witches who protect the Gods have battled town and their bones lie scattered the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for all to see. This story magic, Ellie Briar is the ultimate in High Fantasyfirst 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 John Gwynne certainly does justice to potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the genreBriar Witch, with mythical creaturesthe town's leader, archaic language and battles galoreEllie takes her place beside her. This is a thick bookAs challenges come her way left, with an intricate plot right and fascinating characters that are woven together centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to create communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a wonderfully realistic maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and gritty world in which our heroes must determine what to do battleas the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=03565142181803364548
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|isbn=B09HTWX47X1529900360|title=Endless ObsessionThe Ghost Orchid|author=Dai HenleyJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's some years since we last caught up with Andy Floodfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, formerly Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a DCI in the Met but now psychologist only worked for a well-respected private investigatorwhile. HeFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's married to Laurapartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, formerly his DS though. Two lovers were murdered in the Murder Squad but now working swimming pool of a remote property in a forensics laboratoryBel Air. Flood's daughters, Gemma and Pippa, have flown He was the nest, Pippa heir to Australia, from where an Italian shoe empire and she has very little contact with the family, is married to an extremely rich man and Gemma to married life. Sheit's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide not the support she needsItalian. Flood's business is going well and that But which of them was why he felt able to turn down the case of Lisa Black.primary target?
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|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The StoningSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands
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|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=In Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a town sleazy enough GP and Rowlands didn't want to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous follow in comparisonhis footsteps, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were particularly when he considered the worldstrain that being on-call put on his father's tallest cricket stumpslife. When she's discovered by he was seventeen he took the town gossip everyone, including opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home tojob for him. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, is the general opinion Before long, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest he was at their conditionsLiverpool University. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a higher rank from the city, to sort everything outchild. Because such an aggrieved If anything, insular community is really going he'd wanted to welcome be a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law..professional footballer.|isbn=1529416973
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|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H0861541774|title=The Mystery A Nye of HealingPheasants|author=A P McGrathSteve Burrows
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|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and heDCI Domenic Jejeune's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populaceclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a feeling of virtue knife - and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to livehe killed a Ghurka. It's quite Initially, he faced a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the lions' manes to make them look more impressiveman. The sagitarii are the archers and Now he could be facing the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with the wild animalsdeath penalty. Today, itDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's the crocodilest help Danny at all.
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|author=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie BlackallAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Beatryce ProphecyPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=''Stories have joy The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and surprises operating as an alternative to all the online apps in them''providing a more personal, we are told heretailored service. And none more so than in this wondrous story, which feels an instant classic with the freshness Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the agelessness it has in equal proportionbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. We start Katie is coming out of a break up with a group of monksbad boyfriend, and so jumps at the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowingchance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upendingbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, trampling on thanks to 44 Scotland Street and biting the poor Brothers. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girlIsabel Dalhousie novels, one but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits no experience in running a King business, or in his castlematch-making, desperate to find the girlbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, for it is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne and cause great change. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simplethere's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, amnesiac lass ever prove to lend a threat to anyone?hand…|isbn=15295008931846976596
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|isbn=B09FFJF8YS0811771741|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Justine Avery and Kate ZhoidikMelissa Leapman|rating=3.54|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is gives us a cry (the bigcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits -girl kind!) others are of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girlvariety. The projects are divided by the time they's final goodbye ll take to nappies and pullcomplete -ups and graduation less than five hours, five to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains ten hours, ten to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit twenty hours and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannotmore than twenty hours. Neither can All the flowersprojects are attractive, nor the fish, nor the birdsmodern and useable. Boy I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 's certainly cansocial-media-worthy projects't. Shebut that's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!me being picky.}}
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|author=Nick Lake and Emily GravettDean Koontz|title=Locked Out LilyThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Lily Benny ishaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, or wasand his house gets trashed. Oh, or and someone has beendelivered a really weird, very illdisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and to give her parents relief sheit's been told possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to stay with her grandma for deserve all this bad luck. He is a few daysnice person. A really nice person. The parents need So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the relief as Lily's baby sibling delivery to his house is just about a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to be born – help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing good person. Spike is going to do with. But on tracking back home for word take care of her parents (Benny, and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra will certainly take care of her parentsBenny's enemies, and the babe-in-armsif he, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the family back intactBenny, even if itand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's not the family Lily wants – and all she has to help her in the task wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snake.|isbn=14711948331662500491
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|author=Greg James and Chris SmithAdam Stower|title=The Great Dream RobberyMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Maya's father Murray is supposed to be a professor humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who invented an amazing dream machineis able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But something went wrong, and now he can't wake up. Or at least, thats a bad magician's what Maya cat, so his favourite bun has been toldturned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. In This time round it drops them into a rather strange dream Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one night Maya makes a new friendmuch bigger than Murray was, and discovers that the only way to save her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams and reality collide...really...and therehonest, but he's everything from llamas turned up and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, he'll have to a talking cat called Bin Bag!do…|isbn=024147051X0008561249
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|isbn=1800464495B0C47LV1PC|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of MathsFragility|author=Emma SmithMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Literary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Yo birthing person''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the wombquestion if you did, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months oldwould it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.''
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|isbn=15293793851529431735|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)Winter Visitor|author=Louise PennyJames Henry|rating=4.5
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|summary=In the Canadian village of Three PinesIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, wewhich made Bruce Hopkins're post-pandemic: return all the scars are still there but life is starting to get back to normalmore surprising. The villagers are beginning to return to He'd been exiled on the Bistro and the AubergeCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. TheyThe return has come about because he're visiting each others had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's homes ill and having friends and relatives hasn't long to staylive. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is one such visitor abducted, stripped to his underwear and she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people sent to be around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known watery grave in the village as the Asshole Saintboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor= B09F4CTKJRAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven BurgauerThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=It's Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the later stages of World War I wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the United States has just entered evening a helper at the conflictdessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Petrol Petronus Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a young American who has signed up and joined generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the 17 Aero Squadroncompany of a magical beast. This company was has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the first US Aero Squadron eatery leads to be trained in Canadaa confession from gran, the first Eli knows his only hope is to be attached dare to enter what he most hates, with the RAF and sole aim the first to be sent into prize of magic at the skies to fight end – the Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has only thing to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camelpossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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