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|author=Ruth HoganSylvie Cathrall|title=Madame BurovaA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=This There are few greater joys than a book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', which lives up to use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stallcompelling premise. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all And this time?|isbn=152937331X}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms one of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|isbn=14063948150356522776
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|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S0008517061|title=Remy: A book about believing Death in yourselfa Lonely Place|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalStig Abell
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The school bully Jayden, together There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his sidekicks Ryan vet girlfriend, Livia and Brandonher daughter Diana, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and has small eyes. They are mean but they are relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see this is the future she wants for herself and then push him just that little bit further when her daughter? For the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was moment they’re enjoying life in the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school present and putting the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happenedfuture on the back burner.
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|isbn=B00474HVX41786482126|title=Phineas ReduxThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Anthony TrollopeElly Griffiths
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|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=ItBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. Having succeeded in parliament and achieved a paying position he fell out with those who provided his income and returned to Ireland where he married Mary, his childhood sweetheartThere was no skull. He was fortunate to get Was this a job in Cork (ritual killing or Dublin - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into a life of domesticitymurder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. To bring Finn backIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges in London that she is pregnant with his child as a childless widower with a legacy from an aunt who died at just result of the right time one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to allow the move to be possiblesudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0008551324|title=The Other EmilyDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's unusual for anyone from the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has Hardie family to return to, and a place he has to be able to leaveapproach the police. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at nightNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. HeBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's paying for contact with prepared to tell the man he thinks police where the only suspect, body of a lifer nowmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, who went a bit Hannibal Lecterhe promises, is someone big and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recordit will be worth the police doing what he wants. David And what he wants is trying to pry be transferred to an open prison to serve the connection between the murderer remainder of his sentence and his girl from the man's mind, but to no availget an early parole date. HeNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into even prepared to do the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his loveother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958
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|authorisbn=Charlie Carroll0008405026|title=The LipA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
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|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=It''Melody Janie Rowe'' s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. even She was never found and the name is evocative of…probably of whatever we want it investigation ground to bea halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and maybe that's the pointher father are dead in their bed. To me the name sings of English folk musicInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but even in my use there's something about the positioning of the bodies that word English, I know I'm putting makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an emmet take on thingsopen-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. And Melody Janie Rowe Kerrigan is anti-emmetconvinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. |isbn=1529334179
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|authorisbn=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll0571379877|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Stella Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and her familyStanza. TheyRobert're just innocently trying to have s a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blanktheatre director. And itHe's not just their home, but the entire southalso self-western village of Mousehole, and not just thatobsessed, either, but the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen backdemanding, handsome and not what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, entitled and no computer can show its computationsuses Edward to run errands for him. You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck Edward has been in such a Luddite experience against love with Stanza since their will, but no. For the family finally remember Stellauniversity days - and he's grandma, and see if they can get across country drunkenly confided how he feels to herRobert. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too – for itrelationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will lovedark passageway.|isbn=1471196887
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|isbnauthor=1913193527Jo Callaghan|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)|author=Vanda SymonLeave No Trace|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard of When a man is found crucified on the murder top of a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliff. His wife had been bound and gagged and placed so that she was forced hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to watch the murdercase alongside her sidekick, with the scene being discovered by AI detective Lock. It's their sonfirst live case together, Declan, when he returned home from an evening outhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. The subsequent investigation would prove But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that John Henderson had been involved in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegaldraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. His companyWill they be able to solve the case in time, Eros Global, manufactured and marketed ''vitamin-type supplements or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, wellpotentially, sexual enhancers, that kind out of thing'', as Henderson's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explained.a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=15291091161399613073|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's JourneyMoral Injuries|author=Hannah JacksonChristie Watson
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|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary=''I want Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the image first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a British farmer to simply be that quarter of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nationcentury. I don't think that Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is too much a bonus when you aim to ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generationsbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be Laura is a perfectionist and a farmertrauma doctor. It's not always Anjali is the free spirit of the case though. Hannah Jackson was born group and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on becomes a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love of animalsGP. Her original intention was that she would become When we first meet them they'Dr Jackson, whale scientistre at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it' and she was well on her way s going to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to the Lake Districtend in tragedy. She saw a lamb being born and, although We don'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked t know who suffered the tragedy or the kudos of her original intention, she knew consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that she wanted to be a shepherdwill impact the three friends. With the determination that youThis time, it'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambitions their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=08575272310241636604|title=Dog DaysThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Ericka WallerGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angryIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. It's eight days since A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his wifebackground is the East End, Ellenwhere he was familiar with violence, died poverty and it's the first time that she's let him downinjustice. He's lost, bereft without her ( There was no posh public school on his CV - but he ''needs his wife, like a snail needs its shell'')had been to the London School of Economics. He misses their ordered life Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the doorstep, he'd much rather have has a good row facility with someonenumbers which most of us can only envy. He's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared also realised that most rich people expect poor people to contradict him when he told her that the dog wasn't stayingbe stupid. Now he's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want and a load of busybodies who are trying to interfere in It was his life. Worst of all is Bettyability at what was, essentially, who won't take no for a card game which got him an answerinternship with Citibank. Betty knits jumpers for LuckyEventually, her greyhound. Lucky spends this turned into permanent employment as a lot of time trying to escape from and destroy themtrader.
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|isbn=B003UH99X41035021803|title=The Eustace DiamondsAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Anthony TrollopeC L Miller|rating=3.5|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 for this s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to become a problemthe English country village where she grew up. After his death, his wife, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession She's back now because of a very valuable diamond necklace request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and was determined that she would not hand it over to her husbandCarole's executors. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutelyclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, although is dead and the precise circumstances of seem suspicious, to say the giving varied from telling to tellingleast. Lady Eustace Arthur was the reason why Freya had not a woman been back to whom truth meant a great dealthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. All that was important Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to her now, be near the man or pursue the profession she maintained, was her sonloved. AndAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of courseher life, her diamondswho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1529047315AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The LamplightersAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Emma StonexBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=''A fisherman told him once Opening up new ways of thinking about the sea having two faces. You have shape of things to take them both, he said, the good and the bad, and never turn your back on either one of themcome.''
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|author=Mary H K ChoiSunny Singh|title=YolkHotel 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=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
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|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student thatIt's barely getting by1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. She drinks (A woman? I mean, honestly. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. ) She's an all-round messy character; and thatnot what's worrying Miv's her charmfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. June Well, on the other handthey've been murdered, is a complete contrast but to Jaynehave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. She Miv's a typical older sister: upset because she's smartoverheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, thinks she knows it allDown South is a frightening, foreign place, and has a successful jobbest avoided. She constantly criticises Jayne for For Miv, the move would mean leaving her life choicesbest friend, Sharon, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. This is until June finds out she's sick, and Jayne is the only person she can turn ll do anything toprevent that. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they She'll go to save each others not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's lives – even if it means swapping identitiesstopped talking - to anyone.|isbn= 0349003696
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|authorisbn=Saima Mir1398524085|title=The KhanHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and four times as good as white menher daughter, Etty. This has served are all worried but - strangely - her well in her rise through the criminal justice system husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and by Greg, find the time she is called home for her sisterbody of Greg's wedding after fifteen years father, Duncan Ackerley, in self-imposed exile, she is at the top of her gameriver. Returning to It was an easy assumption for the city of her birth, police to old scars make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the future guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with her sense of honour their lives and dutywonder about what really happened.|isbn=1786079097
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|isbn=00083368301035906708|title=Two WrongsDiva|author=Mel McGrathDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Sondra We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was on her way home after work born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she saw a young woman looking as though she was going thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to jump from make it more manageable in the Clifton suspension bridgeStates. She talks to When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for herelder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and Sondra finally persuades Satnam his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to call her best friend lots of exciting films, and flatmatemany, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, Nevis Smithand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Nevis But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is unworldly going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and rather reserved - to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and she Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I canhear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'t understand why Satnam hasn't shared Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her problems with mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. She thought But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they shared everythingcapture the island's leader and Mira's father. Satnam Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is taken secretive and with only coordinates to hospital and Nevis calls guide her mother, Honorshe sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. TheyWith 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've not s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made bit sticky for the previous summer but right nowEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, Nevis needs her motherall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Matthew Tree|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsWe'll Never Know
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This was an incredibly readable novellaTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, but one that left me a little conflicteddrunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airportSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and before we even know his gender or the nature set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the person heDead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' There's addressing in his second person monologue 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 narrationremote mountain pass, far away from the world, we see him picked up by his motherlies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's chauffeur, a family of witches who protect the town and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is buried the following day. The mother first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a businesswomansteward 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, who clearly and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left northern Italy , right and settled in Romania centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her (night-time and business) partner, and feelings at the heart of a maelstrom of abandonment are still strongchaos. And so we flit Reeling from current (wellone family secret to another, this came out in Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the original Italian in 2007Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, so moderately current) Bucharestis under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he 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 need the ladhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's childhoodpartner, 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, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and see just what he has she is married to tell her as a private farewell addressan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.|isbn=1939810965 But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Jane Lightbourne1529395224|title= My Letting the Cat Called RedOut of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating= 43.5|genre=Emerging ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Robin has red hairSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. He hates it His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, and particularly when he considered the freckles strain that go along with it. Hebeing on-call put on his father's been bullied life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and mocked was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at school because of itLiverpool University. It hadn''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are meant - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. But red hair is not Robin's only misery in life. HeIf anything, he's already lost his dad d wanted to be a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and is taken into hospital. She doesn't come home againprofessional footballer.|isbn= 1838216812
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|isbn=B003L7TDMU0861541774|title=Phineas FinnA Nye of Pheasants|author=Anthony TrollopeSteve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Phineas Finn is the son of Dr Malachi FinnDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a successful doctor short holiday in Killaloe in County ClareSingapore to meet up with an old ally, who sent his son to London to train as a lawyerGuy Trueman. Phineas's interest is more Maik was involved in making influential friends than in becoming a lawyer street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and one he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of them, Barrington Erle, suggests manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he runs for Parliament in might have planned to murder the forthcoming electionman. His father is not entirely in favour of this as members are not remunerated and it would Now he could be up facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to him to provide financial support for his son help as well as funding his election. One of the doctorany interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's patients is Lord Tulla who controls the borough of Loughshane and by this stroke of luck Finn is, eventually, elected by a small margint help Danny at all.
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|isbnauthor=1838595031Alexander McCall Smith|title=Crooked: Honest Criminality|author=Bronwen JohnThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=The con had seemed like Perfect Passion Company is a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the new Banksy - and they should have made online apps in providing a decent profit from itmore personal, tailored service. The problem was they were too successful: one of Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the marks had bought business, as Ness is planning to take a few and then discovered that they were valuelesstrip to Canada to get away for a while. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for Katie is coming out of a break up with a simple con and his father, celebrity criminal Harry Holmesbad boyfriend, was determined that he and his family could not lose face like thatso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. The grifters were going And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to pay. Ashia 'Ash' Cox 44 Scotland Street and Max 'Colorado' Ying needed the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to be got out of the countrycharm. In the course of bringing this aboutKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, Luke Gainesbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, Ashand there's foster fatheralways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, lost his life.to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn=Hayley Webster0811771741|title=Luna Rae is Not AloneInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=Luna Rae has just moved houseMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Moving house is always tricky, but especially when youSome will be quick knits - others are of the 're ten years oldlong, and you miss your old home, and you and your little sister have to start a new school but your mum seems to be out working all cosy afternoons in front of the timefire' variety. Then thereThe projects are divided by the time they's your dadll take to complete - less than five hours, who doesn't seem like he's coping so wellfive to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and so there's no one to take care of things but youmore than twenty hours. Everything feels different and strangeAll the projects are attractive, modern and mysterious, and so Luna finds a way of coping is by watchinguseable. She turns detective and starts keeping an eye on her new neighbourhood, I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but it turns out shethat's not the only one keeping watch!|isbn=1788006046me being picky.
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|isbnauthor=B003A6W0FODean Koontz|title=Can You Forgive Her?|author=Anthony TrollopeThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=Literary FictionParanormal|summary=On the surface ''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: it's the story of one woman Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and two men who are vying with each other for her lovehis house gets trashed. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to her cousinhis home, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and later became engaged to John Grey. When we first meet Alice sheit's on an extended tour of possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the continent with George Vavasor and thing that has trashed his sister Kate. house! It's obvious that there's still a great deal of chemistry between John and Alice - and Kate The thing is, Benny is all for encouraging the relationship as it would tie Alice very last person to herdeserve all this bad luck. George wants Alice but it's He is a matter of ''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for anyone other than himself and Benny it turns out that the original engagement had fallen through because of delivery to his infidelity and deceitfulness. This thread house is the story of a very complicated love affair and new friend, a woman bad weather friend called Spike, who lacks confidence in her own judgementhas been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. You might not like Alice Spike is going to start with but you take care of Benny, and will warm to hercertainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|author=Hannah GoldAdam Stower|title=The Last BearMurray and Bun
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers|summary=April's father, Murray is supposed to be a scientisthumble, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Islandtidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and he accepts , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the job deciding to take his daughter April with himtwo. They live alone anyway, since AprilBut he's a bad magician's mother died some time beforecat, and he feels it will be educational for her to experience the island and all its natural beauty. April already so his favourite bun has an affinity with naturebeen turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and she's excited to travel with her father, thinking of all the fun things catflap they will be able to experience together on both use can chuck them out, not into the island. But when they get thereregular back garden, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much but into a world of his time, frightening adventure and so April is left to explore by herselfwhiffs. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear IslandThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, but one day April thinks she catches where a glimpse of troll hunter is expected – well, onemuch bigger than Murray was, and so she sets out to find the Bearbe honest, but he's turned up and then when she sees he is injured, 'll have to befriend and help him.do…|isbn=000841128X0008561249
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|isbn=1472276140B0C47LV1PC|title=What Will Burn (Inspector McLean)Fragility|author=James OswaldMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=When Cecily SlaterCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's body was found' joke? And if you could, she'd already been dead for a week - in a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburgh. Heavy rain had washed away most of is the question should you make it? Or is the evidence, but DI Tony McLean, demoted and just returned from suspensionquestion if you did, would it land? The catch is reluctant to accept that this is nothing more than a careless accidentthe answer for both could well be.... There were indications that Slater had been savagely, almost ritualistically beaten before the fireno. But who would hate a ninety-year-old woman to ''Fragility'' is set as the extent city of doing something like that? She was a virtual recluse: who could she have upset Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to that extent?emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|isbn=000845552X1529431735|title=Where Ravens RoostThe Winter Visitor|author=Karin NordinJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from his father, Stenar, for more than a decade but when he got the rather muddled phone call from him saying that heIt'd seen a murder in the barn on his land he didn't hesitate to drop everything s February 1991 and go to Varsund. ActuallyEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'drop everything' rather overstates return all the situationmore surprising. Nygaard was He'd been exiled on suspension following the shooting of Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a suspect in the Aubuchon murder enquirydecade. There The return has come about because he's had been a complication: the Kattegat Killer turned out to be Nils Hedinletter from his ex-wife, Nygaardsaying that she's best friendill and hasn't long to live. StillIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the south boot of Sweden a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to Varsund in the far north shouldn't be underestimated.home?
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|isbnauthor=1471187179Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel HoreThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
|rating=4
|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=Minnie Eli is a busy lad – by day an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a leafy provincial suburbhelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. The book Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is set a generation missing in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her motherfamily. A few short years ago, Eli's expectations and find parents were both lost to the titular race, a nice young man globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to marry, produce children and spend navigate the world in the rest company of her days looking after her husband and their homea magical beast. Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants This has made the race anathema to do the pair – but when a bad incident at all and neither does she want the eatery leads to continue working as a secretary. As a result of a chance meetingconfession from gran, she finds herself drawn into espionageEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, working for with the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate sole aim the Communist Party prize of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and magic at the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for end – the Communist Partyonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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