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|isbnauthor=3791388398Sylvie Cathrall|title=New European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and Pastries|author=Laurel KratochvilaA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryScience Fiction|summary=This is probably one of the most unusual baking books I've encountered. It's built around 99 recipes for breads, brioches and pastries but the recipes There are interwoven with some thought-provoking writing on how bread - and baking - have changed in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuriesfew greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. We start with the basics - the equipment you'll need (there's nothing extravagant or indulgent) and the ingredients, where the author And this is particular. You might not have realised that different salts can change the flavour and sensation on the tongue one of the finished product but, apparently, they dothem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn=Andrew Givler0008517061|title=Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=''Matt Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has a terrible settled into his rustic lifeat Little Sky. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that Dan There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down future of his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for with his soul.'' Poor Dan! I knowvet girlfriend, I knowLivia and her daughter Diana, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is as moving in together would mean a terrible salesman. He never hits lot of compromise: does Jake give up his targets off-grid and, when he fails relaxing life to get even Matt move in with Livia or does Livia move to sign Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the dotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signatureback burner.|isbn=1958204021
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|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith1786482126|title=Super GhostThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Paragon City has been lucky Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to have hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the great Doctor Extraordinarybones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, their very own superhero taking care of themDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Whenever the evil Captain Chaos has come up It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with another cunning plan (usually involving his child as a giant robot result of the one night they spent together some description) Doctor Extraordinary has been there to thwart her mischief and save the daythree months ago. But one day the Doctor and the Captain are trapped together inside a giant robot that then explodesHer condition will be obvious before long, and the hero and the villain are no morenot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness. Or are they…?|isbn=0241470536
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|isbn=B0B7289HKQ0008551324|title=Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of AmericaThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Kari LoyaNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=TravelCrime|summary=Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by It's unusual for anyone from the way) wanted Hardie family to spend some time with his father approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the period between two jobs seemed like body of a good time to do missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and itwill be worth the police doing what he wants. The decision was made And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to ride serve the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to Astoriaask, Oregon - all 4250 miles of is it - in 2015. ? They had 73 days The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do it - slightly less than the recommended time other thing that Hardie demanded - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge make certain that it would be for most people DS Max Craigie and anyone who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering works with him is kept well away from early-stage Alzheimerwhat'shappening.
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|authorisbn=Christopher Bowden0008405026|title=Mr MagentaA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Christopher BowdenIt's latest novel is sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's lifehalt. Now, her mother, Helena, carried out by and her nephew after she has diedfather are dead in their bed. The aunt who always provided Initially, it looks like a safe harbour and a little bit straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than the bodies that nephew Stephen had ever realised makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it seems was going to him be an obligation to find it all outopen-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW
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|isbn=17395939010571379877|title=22 Ideas About The FutureKellerby Code|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying carsEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, we got nightobsessed with his upper-vision killer drones class friends, Robert and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandmaStanza. Robert'' I've got s a couple of confessions to maketheatre director. IHe'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and then forget uses Edward to return to the bookrun errands for him. ThereEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's got to be a very compelling hook drunkenly confided how he feels to keep me engagedRobert. Then thereMost men in Robert's science fiction: far too often itposition would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate menot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think two of them kissing in a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved itdark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1405951184Jo Callaghan|title=The Girls Who Disappeared|author=Claire DouglasLeave No Trace
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after When a night out. As she passed through man is found crucified on the darkly-wooded Devil's Corridor, top of a figure appeared hill in the road. Olivia swerved Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to avoid him and the car smashed into a treecase alongside her sidekick, leaving her trappedthe AI detective Lock. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappeared. Ralph MiddletonIt's their first live case together, who lived in the woods helped her before the police and ambulance arrivedhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But what had happened to Sally Thornewhen there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Tamsin Cole Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Hetty Riding? a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Their disappearance would Will they be yet another mysterious happening able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the Stafferbury area case and, potentially, out of Wiltshire. It was thought of as Avebury's poor relation.a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=39496660791399613073|title=NoemaMoral Injuries|author=Dael AkkermanChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=''This Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a story about some things that happened bonus when you aim to me about twelve thousand years agobe a cardiothoracic surgeon.'' Maya Laura is a young girl living in perfectionist and a hunter-gatherer village during the Mesolithic eratrauma doctor. Climate change Anjali is occurring, the Sea free spirit of Grass encroaches further the group and further into Mayashe becomes a GP. When we first meet them they's forest home, re at a drug and food is becoming more alcohol-fuelled party and more scarceit's going to end in tragedy. What to do? Can We don't know who suffered the law givers in tragedy or the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the Travellerthree friends. This time, a spiritual figure it's their teenage children who interprets the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions? are involved.
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|isbn=194241028X0241636604|title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Michael PronkoGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=''You can't put 'good at golf' on If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your tombstonemind, can you?'' When we meet Patrick Walsh he's outside his family's home in the Azabu district re unlikely to think of Tokyo, hoping that his key will still work but prepared to break in if it doesn'tsomeone like Gary Stevenson. He's there to remove A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his daughtersbackground is the East End, Jenna and Kiriwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and take them back injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to Honoluluthe London School of Economics. It's Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a quick day trip, facility with just one purpose in mindnumbers which most of us can only envy. Patrick's employed by Nine Dragons Wealth Management and for the past year, he's been working in Wyoming because the privacy laws there are conducive He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to the business he's inbe stupid. His wifeIt was his ability at what was, Miyukiessentially, hasn't been in Wyoming a card game which got him an internship with him and is in the process of divorcing him after photographs sent to her anonymously suggested that Patrick had not been faithful to herCitibank. Patrick's plan didn't work out and he finds himself on the run in Tokyo with the two girlsEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81035021803|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Neil LancasterC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for a runhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. The lawyer Arthur was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed the reason why Freya had not been back to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Headvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Was it suicide Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or did he - for some reason - climb over pursue the profession she loved. After the stone wall split, she worked in a cafe, met and fall to his death? Or was he pushed? On balance, it looked like an accident but then his 'accident' was linked to married James (on the rebound from the deaths love of others associated with him. Scott Paterson was released after a 'not-proven' verdict meant that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing her life imprisonment. Paterson , who was Grigor's last clientmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=0989715337AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Papa on the MoonAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Marco NorthBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=''Some frogs had gotten into Opening up new ways of thinking about the wellshape of things to come.''
I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you'Walter stood waist-deep re eighteen. Well, I 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 fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hatfeeling that it's all getting away from me. Long strands Some of their eggs wove around himit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of I could research the dogs leaned over possibilities and the opening probabilities and barked end up down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they' How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in re talking about or the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on who could deliver information in a sixpence. And author Marco North, who has the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to go onway I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=140639131XSunny Singh|title=A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May SmithHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross 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 Old Oak Roadhotel manager. She wrote As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the mayor about residents who are still alive in the problem but didn't even get hotel, he forms a reply. Philippa wasn't a bird bond with Sam who refuses to sit back be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herselfphotography. Her uniform Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and lollipop stick were they both a little amateur wait to start with but see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnightterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=000837936X1529153298|title=The Last Girl to DieList of Suspicious Things|author=Helen FieldsJennie Godfrey
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana ClarkeIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family moved to Tobermory, on the Isle of Mull, in search of a new lifethough. Women have been disappearing. It was a bit of a change from Las VegasWell, they've been murdered, but the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing a social life - until she to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been Miv's upset because Adrianashe's mother overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banffa frightening, foreign place, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagersbest avoided. BrandonFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Adriana's twinSharon, was upset and surlyshe'll do anything to prevent that. Four-year-old Luna just knew She's not worried about the dangers or that she missed her big sister. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana in MackinnonMum's Cave. She'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killingstopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=15098896121398524085|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Ann CleevesNicci French
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|genre=Crime
|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Islandfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative Her children, sons Niall, Paul and they've been coming back for a reunion every five years since then. There was a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide Ollie and her car was swept awaydaughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her younger sisterhusband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, LouisaEtty and Greg, has returned with find the group each year as her husbandbody of Greg's father, KenDuncan Ackerley, in the river. It was one of an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the original teenagersguilt. Ken now has AlzheimerThe Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and he's a shadow 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 the man he used Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to beAthens when she was thirteen. Philip Robson now a priest, always gets there early as he likes Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to have some quiet time alone make it more manageable in the chapelStates. Annie Laidler lives locally 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 she provides much made no secret of the food: her deli is famous in the areapreference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=1473680883Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Skeleton KeyBlack Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Erin KellyRachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The Golden Bones is going to follow me around for call of the deep, the rest of answering beat in my lifeheart. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to you!''
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|author=Holly WebbJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Story of GreenriverPlanet Storyland
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Silken and Sedge, for all their differences, Things have been a lot in common. Silken is a girl whose father is the Master Builder of what might be bit sticky for the finest beaver lodge on the GreenriverEarthlings. Unfortunately she is also a kind of runt figure, AI and as a result is patronisedautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and given the most tokenistic other tasks when it comes that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to fetching wood all this technological change and shoring the dam up. She also stands out for the unique artistic ability starting to sing. Otters like Sedge sing, but he too, as the son think of the lady of the holtother, has pressure on him new ways to be a bit less feckless spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and more attentive to class. He, after along with it, all, will eventually inherit the job of keeping the otters safe from the wolf that both animal species fear the most, and from dreaded events like a Dark Springmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=15101096251736128426
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|author=Anna Kemp and David WyattMatthew Tree|title=Into Goblyn WoodWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet Hazel. For the last nine of her eleven years, she has been stuck as a foundling in a horrid, Victorian institution, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servant. She'd arrived at the place at the same time as Pete, and they're inseparably good friends now, until a chance for them both Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to escape, and enter the outside worldbe different from his father, does not go to plan. There had always been the idea of a life idyllic in the nearby forests, Goblyn Wood, drunk and a tribe chronic underachiever whose dreams of Wild Children, but none being exceptional at any of that comes to pass, as Hazel finds herself in the care his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of a professor at the Natural History Museumself confidence. But life with him is not anything like what she might have expected it So Tim applied himself to be – and Hazel is determined to return to the Woodshis studies, restore her friendship with Pete – cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and to work out just what is going on in the forest, both the light and the shade, and the deathly dark..set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1398503835B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=0241990165A G Slatter|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterThe Briar Book of the Dead
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary='' 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 world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first 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. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a 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.
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|isbn=1529900360
|title=The Ghost Orchid
|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that a shot Alex Delaware had been fired in an isolated house badly injured but the call hadnhe felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't come from need the householder. A couple help of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright and it took quite a psychologist only worked for a while for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they Finally, it was Robin, Delaware'd better come ins partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. In She knew that the kitchen there involvement was a body on something that the floor: man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the head had been blown off with a shotgun and the corpse was holding swimming pool of a knife remote property in its right handBel Air. Richard Swann told He was the police that he'd heard sounds of heir to an intruder Italian shoe empire and had come downstairs she is married to investigate. The ignorant young lout had called him an extremely rich man and it''Grandad'' and come at him with a knifes not the Italian. Swann had shot him in self-defence.But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn= Kit De Waal1529395224|title= Without Warning and Only SometimesLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating= 43.5|genre= AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, your mum Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and dad/ They may not mean Rowlands didn't want tofollow in his footsteps, but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood and particularly when he considered the bonds strain that bind family. This book is a memoir focussing being on-call put on the author’s formative years as a teenager living in a lower class area of Birmingham. Her his father is from St's life. Kitts in When he was seventeen he took the Caribbean and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her opportunity of doing work experience with a family for becoming pregnant by friend who was a vet and marrying a black man. This intersectionality plays a large role in was convinced this was the autobiographyjob for him. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to her race Before long, her class and her genderhe was at Liverpool University. Her parents loom large and are written It hadn't - as with care, love, and the kind of anger only so many students - been his dream since he was a child can express . If anything, he'd wanted to their parentsbe a professional footballer.|isbn=1472284836
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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz0861541774|title=Dark MusicA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart of what little investigating is going onDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelength. For oneDanny Maik, the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MD. She's has taken a Chilean short holiday in the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of Singapore to meet up with an oldally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a case where street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a referee of man armed with a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, knife - and just outside the stadiumhe killed a Ghurka. BeppeInitially, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogationman. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk when Now he says Beppe is innocent and could be facing the investigation is a shamblesdeath penalty. But taken off the case, she Domenic Jejeune can no longer do nothing to help solve the crime, as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she canwouldn't get his full verdict on it help Danny at all. Until, that may be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt...|isbn=1529413192
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|isbnauthor=B0B2N7MVYMAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel GodfreyPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in contextEdinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh online apps in people's mindsproviding a more personal, tailored service. The world Ness has barely had asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a chance trip to Canada to breathe outget away for a while. But for Joe MarrKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, it's not the missile crisis that's and so jumps at the front of his mindchance to come home to Edinburgh. He's been convicted of murderAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. With the current state of medical knowledgeKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr Ness has spent his first few days full confidence in HMP Queen's Benchher abilities, a relatively new prison. Heand there's just getting used to his roommatealways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, MervynWilliam, and learning to be wary of the McArthur brothers.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=18469761460811771741|title=The Bone RoadInstaKnits for Baby|author=N E SolomonsMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=Heather Bishop, the former Olympic cyclist, flew to Bosnia Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnonblankets. She even took their bikes so they could have a few daysSome will be quick knits - others are of the ' break long, cosy afternoons in front of the regionfire' variety. It was a little worrying that he didnThe projects are divided by the time they't seem exactly pleased ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to see her: she even wondered if he had a woman in the hotel roomtwenty hours and more than twenty hours. Heather had to give up competitive cycling after a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but her reactions All the projects are attractive, modern and her memory were not up to the standard she would need to race againuseable. Sometimes she couldn't be certain I perhaps show my age when I wonder about what she had or hadn't done and she simply couldnsocial-media-worthy projects't cope in difficult situations. She didnbut that't entirely trust herselfs me being picky.
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|author=Judith EagleDean Koontz|title=The Accidental StowawayBad Weather Friend
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|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Patch Benny is having a little girl who terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has been passed from one relation delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to anotherhis home, until and it seems 's possible that there whoever or whatever was inside is nobody left for her to go the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person todeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. Her father died when she was very young, and her mother ran awayA really nice person. The family lawyer, after consultation with ‘someone’, arranges So fortunately for her to go Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a school in Liverpoolnew friend, but on her arrival there, she gets caught up in an adventure with a little boy bad weather friend called Turo Spike, who works on has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a steamshipgood person. During a chase with him (when she Spike is both trying going to get her rollerskate back take care of Benny, and running away from the police!) she winds up on the steamship hiding in a lifeboatwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, and before she knows itBenny, the ship has left the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=05713631211662500491
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|isbnauthor=0760379874Adam Stower|title=Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri HammettMurray and Bun
|rating=4.5
|genre=CraftsConfident Readers |summary=I learned Murray is supposed to knit in the nineteen-fifties: it wasn't be a choicehumble, tidy and friendly cat, it was a requirement. Girls learned one who is able to knit sleep and to embroider eat and eat and boys did wood sleep and metal work, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. My knitting wa accompanied by But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned 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 lot world of criticism frightening adventure and quite whiffs. This time round it drops them into a few tears: it was Viking land, where a long time before I realised that there troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was pleasure , to be had in the skill. Nearly seventy years later ithonest, but he's the only thing that keeps my hands at all supple. The turning point was a booklet published by Patons which gave all the basics turned up and some patterns. Ihe've been looking for something simple ll have to recommend to people who'd like to master the skill. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?do…|isbn=0008561249
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|authorisbn=Sarah Todd TaylorB0C47LV1PC|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleFragility|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet Alice Eclair. A perfect eye and very careful hands have made her one of ParisCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's best young cake makers and decorators, making sure her mother's establishment is a classy affair. Not bad for a thirteen year old. Ohjoke? And if you could, and a perfect eye and a very careful handler and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spy. Her first real mission will be to chase a traitor across the country – working behind the scenes on a posh sleeper train to question should you make it? Or is the south of Francequestion if you did, and hoping against hope would it land? The catch is that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents to creep into the country from getting into nefarious handsanswer for both could well be.... no. But while nobody would have her down ''Fragility'' is set as a spythe city of Portland, Oregon, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the baddy?|isbn=1839940956covid pandemic
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|isbn=07603799121529431735|title=Super Easy Quilting for BeginnersThe Winter Visitor|author=Editors of Quarry BooksJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new It's February 1991 and usable when I was in my twenties. It would be a while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but IEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins've never felt completely at home with quilting. I needed something a little return all the more stylish than my usual buttons or knotssurprising. He''Super Easy Quilting d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for Beginners'' seemed like a good place to startdecade. So, how did it stack up?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360737|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=2|genre= Politics and Society|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political return has come about because art is not made in he's had a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in letter from his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of soex-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1408712172|title=The Cliff House|author=Chris Brookmyre|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''Many of them didn't know each otherwife, one of them didnsaying that she't know anybody, including Jen, one of them quite possibly hated her, s ill and two of them definitely hated each other. What could possibly go wrong?hasn'' That's the round-up for Jen's hen party which is t long to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barralive. They're all staying in The Cliff House, hosted by Lauren, and itIt's the utmost in luxury living but then Jen can afford it. She's just sold her muffin business for millions but hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is staying on abducted, stripped to run it. She's got her doubts about the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting a little strangely of late his underwear and wouldn't explain sent to her what a watery grave in the email he was hurriedly deleting was aboutboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Added to that, he's just about forced her Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to bring his sister, Samira, whom Jen's never met, on the trip, on the grounds that she's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months and desperately needs the break.?
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|isbnauthor=1788360702Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard ErnstGlorious Race of Magical Beasts
|rating=4
|genre=BiographyConfident Readers|summary=For over forty yearsEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapiesin the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. ''CharlesEli lives with his lovely gran, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses too – for there is a generation missing in the Princefamily. A few short years ago, Eli's opinionsparents were both lost to the titular race, beliefs and aims against a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the background company of the scientific evidencea magical beast. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support This has done considerable damage made the race anathema to the reputation of pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a man who confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-baseddare to enter what he most hates, logical reasoning with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his ambitionsgran.|isbn=0571382231
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