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|author=Darren ShanTom Percival|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3The Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5
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|summary=The second trilogy in ShanWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'Merge, he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in t have enough money for even the world most basic of the Born. It's not been easythings like food, explaining to and his foster parents where dad can't work because he's beenlost his job at the college, or slipping back was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into ordinary life that mix the fact that his mum and forgetting about Inez dad are separated, and his other friends in the MergeWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, but Archie he still has done his best...a tiny amount of hope. well He is good at art, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling with clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awayfeel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ1398527122
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|isbnauthor=0008444501Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Answer A Letter to Everything|author=Luke Kennardthe Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=Life should have been good for Emily. She had There are few greater joys than a lovely husband, Steven, who was book which lives up to a speech therapistcompelling premise. We'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other and don't even sleep in the same bed. It isn't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that she's sharing a bed with And this is one of her children as it's the only way to get him to sleep during the night. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and Emily has a job to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a week. They've not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: it's a trendy area that has been gentrified and it's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their ownthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=02419851370008517061|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Cara HunterStig Abell|rating=54
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|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstFormer Metropolitan Police detective, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the PrincipalJake Johnson, Professor Hilary Reynoldshas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There had been an accusation There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of sexual assault by his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a professor on a student. When Fawley arrived he was almost crosslot of compromise: what was the alleged perpetrator doing does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the room before they'd even got the details from the victimfuture she wants for herself and her daughter? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' For the 'victim' and moment they’re enjoying life in the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisher. Just to complicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, the local MP, present and Professor Fisher is a big name in Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by putting the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month future on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be ''very'' publicback burner.
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|authorisbn=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker1786482126|title=A Tattoo on my BrainThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=AlzheimerBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's is luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of selfdoorway. There was no skull. I have been directly affected by Was this cruel diseasea ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a statue over time affected the elementsDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It seems 's difficult as if nature wants Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that final victory over you and your dignity. This she is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirablepregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Daniel Gibbs Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1108838936
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|isbn=16358623530008551324|title=The Sandalmaking WorkshopDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Rachel CorryNeil Lancaster
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|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe it, mainly because IIt'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than s unusual for anyone from the average home was likely Hardie family to be able to contain but I was intriguedapproach the police. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - 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 body of a small fire destroyed some of missing person is buried and who was responsible for her shoesdeath. One pair had come apart This person, he promises, is someone big and she could see how it will be worth the sandal was constructedpolice doing what he wants. Then she realised that she couldn't afford And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to replace all her shoesget an early parole date. Could she combine these two facts Not much to create a new and worthwhile craftask, is it? She showed quite a few people her first pair The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and they all either wanted to know how she's even prepared to do it the other thing that Hardie demanded - or if shemake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what'd make them a pair. A new career was borns happening.
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|isbn=17873320980008405026|title=How to Love Animals A Stranger in a Human-Shaped Worldthe Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Henry ManceJane Casey
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|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=It''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and groups: cowsthe investigation ground to a halt. Now, dogsher mother, foxesHelena, elephants and so onher father are dead in their bed. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates Initially, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on s something about the positioning of the next David Attenborough seriesbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious.'' I What looked as though it was going to arguebe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. I meanKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, cows Una Burt) are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meatless convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza.) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it Robert's a theatre director. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals He's also self- obsessed, demanding, handsome and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the company of humans entitled and the company of animals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying uses Edward to stop me but I was initially reluctantrun errands for him. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and fish and I needed he's drunkenly confided how he feels to either do so without guilt or change my choicesRobert. I suspected Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that making a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the decision would not be comfortabletwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Ananda DeviJo Callaghan|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsLeave No Trace
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|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see When a man is found crucified on the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation top of sexual assault by a professor on a student. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the room before they'd even got case alongside her sidekick, the details from the victim? AI detective Lock. The problem was that Caleb Morgan It''was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fishers their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Just to complicate matters furtherBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Caleb's mother Kat is Petra Newson, the local MP, suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligencevery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. She has an eight-year-old sonWill they be able to solve the case in time, buys her wine by or will Kat find herself taken off the case from Berry Brothers & Ruddand, potentially, spends more than £1000 out of a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be ''very'' public.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=07535583781399613073|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What MattersMoral Injuries|author=Greg McKeownChristie Watson
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|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary=''The marginal return Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of working harder was, in fact, negative.'' That's what happened to Patrick McGinnisa century. It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the company he worked forOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, struggling through, even which is a bonus when he was ill, only you aim to find that he was working for be a bankrupt companycardiothoracic surgeon. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health Laura is a perfectionist and his job had little valuea trauma doctor. He made Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a bargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changesGP. He did survive When we first meet them they're at a drug and came through stronger alcohol- fuelled party and richerit's going to end in tragedy. There is, you see, a different way: We don''great things are not reserved for those t know who bleedsuffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, for those it's their teenage children who almost breakare involved.''
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|isbn=14711814050241636604|title=NighthawkingThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Russ ThomasGary Stevenson
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|genre=Autobiography
|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a 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 his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=1035021803
|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder
|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=SheffieldIt's [http://wwwtwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up.sbg She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you Freya'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in whats former mentor and Carole's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the body of a young woman was discoveredleast. It Arthur was the reason why Freya had obviously not been buried in one of back to the beds but who would have started to dig village: Arthur, she feels, let her up? down badly. It had been Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for yearsprofession she loved. The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left After the twosplit, very rareshe worked in a cafe, gold aurei met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer life, who was murdered) and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler Freya and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuriesJames have now divorced.
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|authorisbn= Jennifer Saint AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Ariadne All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Science Fiction |summary= This re-telling ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the myth shape of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing things to a modern audiencecome. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. '|isbn=1472273869}} {{Frontpage|author=Gianna Pollero and Sarah Horne|title=Monster Doughnuts|rating=4I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappeared Well, Grace and Danni I must confess that there have been left to run the family bakerymore than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. But Grace needs I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the doughnuts and sweet treats feeling that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reason...even though sheit's only ten years old, she all getting away from me. Some of it is a monster hunter! - frankly - quite frightening. Monsters have a very sweet toothOf course, I could research the possibilities and Grace uses a number of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or tricking them into eating a sweet treat that will, ultimately, be their demisethe latest conspiracy theorist. One day, though, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, I needed people I knew I could trust and who has could deliver information in a weakness for doughnuts but doesn't seem to explode as the other monsters do, and so things start to get very strange…|isbn=1848129432way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=0995647895Sunny Singh|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceHotel Arcadia
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|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=Sadie's mother always said The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that she was has suddenly been violently taken over by a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doingterrorist group. She lives by Hiding from the River Thames at Greenwich terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloomAbhi,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''hotel manager. Her imagination was fired. She'd love As Abhi continues to try to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's care remotely for the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches residents who are on show) and missed still alive in the closing bell hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and the attendantkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's warning shouthappened through her photography. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in Although they only ever talk over the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphinsphone, pirates, mermaids their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and treasurethey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Kristen O'Neal1529153298|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
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|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme diseaseIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her lifehonestly... ) She joins 's not what'Oof Ouch My Boness worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, an online support group where she talks but to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesseshave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to just joke and mess aroundmove the family 'Down South'. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesnyou't respond to the chat for re from Yorkshire, Down South is a whilefrightening, Priya becomes concernedforeign place, best avoided. She decides to steal For Miv, the move would mean leaving her parents' car best friend, Sharon, and drive to Brigidshe's house ll do anything to check up on herprevent that. But what she doesn She't expect to find there is a werewolf in s not worried about the basement – and for dangers or that werewolf to be the girl she has been her Mum's stopped talking - to online for the past few monthsanyone.|isbn=1683692349
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|authorisbn=Mercedes Helnwein1398524085|title=SlingshotHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=35|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonelyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. As a secret illegitimate Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter of a man with a "real" family, she Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is used to not being a priority in people. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's livesfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. But It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for goodhe couldn't stand the guilt. No longer The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfielddo but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=152905818X
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|isbn=B005FM76AA1035906708|title=The Duke's ChildrenDiva|author=Anthony TrollopeDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=The story opens We tend to probably the worst news think of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is deadMaria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Duke of Omnium, is nearly paralysed Nazi occupation by grief a mother who mercilessly exploited her and struggling - at the same time - to adjust to made no longer being prime ministersecret of her preference for her elder sister, or even in officeJackie. He seeks to protect }}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and guide his three adult childrenfriends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, which is easier said than done when none a place that has the nickname of them wishes to 'The Black Hole'be. All big movie fans, they'' guided. re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! Silverbridge (his elder sonHowever, as the movie starts, actually called Plantagenetthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, but always known by his title) and Gerald they are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run swept up gambling debts, occasionally in eye-watering sumsinto an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - and wishes But as they lurch from one film genre to marry - Frank Tregear, the penniless son of a poor squirenext, which can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the Duke cannot countenancecinema, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about and to learn that parents do not always get their way.real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|author=Goldy MoldavskyRachel Greenlaw|title=The Last GirlCompass and Blade|rating=3.5
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|summary= Rachel Chavez is ''I can hear the song of the new girl at Manchester Prepsea. A school filled to The call of the brim with deep, the richest children answering beat in the city – and Rachel doesnmy heart.'t belong. She's not rich Rosevear, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbiaa remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and most of allplundering the wrecks. Mira, she spends the majority of like her mother before her spare time watching horror movies as a source , is one of comfortthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. She struggles But when the Council Watch lays a trap to find anyone end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to connect save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and withonly coordinates to guide her, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull sets off the best prank in true horror movie style, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the competitionsea. But With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the pranks escalatewatched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start Mira must be determined to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up stop at nothing to save the pranks, future of her home and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too lateones she holds most dear.|isbn=07555015270008664730
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|author=Polly BartonJames Sherwood Metts|title=Fifty SoundsPlanet Storyland
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|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has Things have been on my radar a bit sticky for a while the Earthlings. AI and if the world hadnautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they't gone into melt-down I would have visited by nowre paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. I may Just as they were beginning to get there later used to all this yeartechnological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, but I am not hopefulalong came an awful pandemic. And like BartonLife was pretty much shut down and, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of along with it, all the question in the first essay, which is many daily social interactions on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''they depend so heavily.|isbn=19130975011736128426
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|author=Lucy HollandMatthew Tree|title=SistersongWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sistersong is part of Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk drunk and fairy tales. These stories, for most chronic underachiever whose dreams of us, are a cornerstone being exceptional at any of childhood his artistic passions all failed miserably and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspectivewho had endless crises of self confidence. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning So Tim applied himself to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out charactershis studies, examining relationships cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel set himself high but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to endachievable ambitions.|isbn=1529039037B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1529124255A G Slatter|title=The Whispers|author=Heidi PerksBriar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=We know straight away that there'' There's going a part of me that wants to keep this just to be myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a bodywhile. It's on ' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the beach world, lies Silverton; a town under Craynethe protection of the Briar's Cliff near , a family of witches who protect the town of Clearwater and it's new year's day. To understand what happened we're going to have to go back to the previous Septemberwider world from the Darklands. Grace Goodwin Though she has a soft Australian accent always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non- witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she's lived there since was young, her teens training as a steward revolved around letters and nowadministration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, in her mid-thirtiesEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, shethe town's returned to leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her home town to live. Her husbandAs challenges come her way left, Grahamright and centre, works in Singapore and she and Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her eight-year-old daughterat the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Matilda, might Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as well be in the lovely apartment she's found. GraceBriar witches's best friendlegacy, Anna Robinsoneverything they have sacrificed to survive, is still in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child toounder threat. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joining. It's perfect!|isbn=1803364548
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|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon1529900360|title=The SourceGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=2.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=1996. EssexIt 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. Thirteen His assertions that there were only open-yearand-old schoolgirl Carly lives in shut cases which didn't need the help of a disenfranchised town dominated by psychologist only worked for a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats Finally, it was Robin, and offers an exclusive invitation to army partiesDelaware's partner, things start to 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 little less bleak.remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.|isbn=1913193594 But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=B004O37B6A1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Prime MinisterSecret Life of a Vet|author=Anthony TrollopeSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Plantagenet PalliserSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the Duke of Omnium, is strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the prime minister opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a coalition government but he's privately enraged at vet and was convinced this was the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand Lopezjob for him. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as JewishBefore long, others as Portuguese but the truth is that no one knows and Lopez is not going to explainhe was at Liverpool University. The ladies of society, even PalliserIt hadn's own wife, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in the position of having to support t - as with so many students - been his wife's actions when Lopez loses dream since he was a by-electionchild. The DukeIf anything, he's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt d wanted to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt himbe a professional footballer.
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|authorisbn=Jessie Greengrass0861541774|title=The High HouseA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to pass on its genetic material meet up with the implied belief an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that your progeny will then pass on theirshe was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. However Initially, that train he faced a charge of thought is slowly seems manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have fallen out of favourplanned to murder the man. Today's young generation are discovering that their parents and their parents' parents did not seem to think that far ahead Now he could be facing the death penalty. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I Domenic Jejeune can do". Raising nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a child diplomatic incident and living in a world on the precipice of catastrophe is what drives wouldn''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrass. This is not a science-fiction novel. This is our realityt help Danny at all. This is the life our children and their children will have to live.|isbn=1800750072
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|author=Ruth HoganAlexander McCall Smith|title=Madame BurovaThe Perfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This book lets us discover several people The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in different stages of life Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in the early 1970sproviding a more personal, all vaguely connectedtailored service. So we have Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), trip to Canada to get away for a girl in while. Katie is coming out of a humdrum job wanting to become break up with a singerbad boyfriend, and chiefly, Imelda, so jumps at the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', chance to come home to use her family's sea-front boothEdinburgh. The singerAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, the scryer thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday campIsabel Dalhousie novels, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stallwith some new characters who quickly begin to charm. We also see her on her last dayKatie has no experience in running a business, fifty years lateror in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is sheher abilities, and who delivered the secrets about there's always her to Imeldavery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, and why did it have to remain lend a secret all this time?hand…|isbn=152937331X1846976596
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|authorisbn= Jonathan Stroud0811771741|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating= 4|genre= TeensCrafts|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses knits from toys to wander blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain'long, 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 cosy afternoons in front of the London Lagoonfire' variety. Together, The projects are divided by the time they must brave man'll take to complete -eating wildlifeless than five hours, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society five to reach the Free Islesten hours, but will they be any ten to twenty hours and more accepted there than they twenty hours. All the projects are in the rest of Britain?|isbn=1406394815attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.
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|isbnauthor=B08R7LXQ9SDean Koontz|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingParanormal|summary=Remy Benny is feeling miserablehaving a terrifically bad day. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jaydenloses his job, together with he loses his sidekicks Ryan fiancee, and Brandon, have been laughing at Remyhis house gets trashed. Oh, calling him names because he is short and someone has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to wind up Remy when nobody can see his home, and then push him just it's possible that little bit further when whoever or whatever was inside is the other kids are aroundthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. Sofortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, when Remy reactsa bad weather friend called Spike, it looks as though he was the instigatorwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. And then Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he gets , Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into trouble at school and the teachers donBenny't believe him when he tries to explain what happeneds wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=B00474HVX4Adam Stower|title=Phineas Redux|author=Anthony TrollopeMurray and Bun
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. 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 world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…
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|isbn=B0C47LV1PC
|title=Fragility
|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=ItCan you make a 's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... 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 sweetheartno. He was fortunate to get a job in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into a life ''Fragility'' is set as the city of domesticity. To bring Finn backPortland, Oregon, Trollope had cautiously begins to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges in London as a childless widower with a legacy emerge from an aunt who died at just the right time to allow restrictions imposed during the move to be possible.covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1529431735|title=The Other EmilyWinter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Our hero David Thorne It's February 1991 and Essex is an authorbitingly cold, who shares his life between which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the two US coastsmore surprising. ItHe's d been exiled on the western coast we're concerned with, Costa del Sol as a place he has to return to, and wanted drug smuggler for a place he has to be able to leavedecade. David lost contact with The return has come about because he's had a letter from his partner there ten years agoex-wife, when saying that she vanished from a remote road late at night. He's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen ill and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the manhasn's mind, but t long to no availlive. HeIt's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel hard to feel any sympathy when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imageHopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, boot of his lovea stolen Ford Sierra. What is Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a man problem closer to dohome?|isbn=1542019958}}
