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|author=Annabel AbbsTom Percival|title=The Language of FoodWrong Shoes
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|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=Eliza Acton Will's life is difficult, in a poet who multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has never had 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery bookmost basic of things like food, she recruits Ann Kirbyand his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a local woman with cash-in-hand job on a troubled home building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's lifeseems bleak in every direction. Together And yet, they testhe still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, craft, refine and reshape clings to the world moments of domestic cookeryjoy when he is drawing, reinventing that feel like a light at the recipe book and changing the face end of cookery writing forevera long, dark tunnel.|isbn=13985022271398527122
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|author=Louie StowellSylvie Cathrall|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide Letter to Being Goodthe Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile and in the physical form of a middle-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother of the two. Loki has There are few greater joys than a month book which lives up to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and to prove it he has to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progresscompelling premise. But Loki And this is the kind one of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to be a walk in the park..them.right?|isbn=14063997520356522776
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|isbn=00084544420008517061|title=A Flicker Death in the Darka Lonely Place|author=Stacy WillinghamStig Abell
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe DavisFormer Metropolitan Police detective, a medical psychologistJake Johnson, is completing a session with a new patienthas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of getting his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her through the trauma. You seedaughter Diana, Chloe knows what it's like as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to have a traumatic childhood. Her father Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is Richard Davis, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and future she wants for herself and her mother handed it to daughter? For the police. Dick Davis is moment they’re enjoying life in the Louisiana State Penitentiary present and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for putting the future on the last twenty years. Her mother is in a care homeback burner.
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|authorisbn=Christopher Edge1786482126|title=Escape RoomThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=I've seen junior variants of Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'Choose Your Own Adventureluxury' format cover escape rooms – apartments - when they discovered the process by which bones of a character or characters start by being trapped in child beneath a specific location, and have to solve problems in order to get their way outdoorway. There was no skull. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen Was this a prose book describing people in such an adventureritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with the regular second person narrative replaced by the firstDCI Harry Nelson. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to each other and booked into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at the game It's main officesdifficult as Ruth knows, where theybut Nelson doesn're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage t, that she is pregnant with such his child as a pastime, despite result of the ramped-up threat levelsone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, change much in the world not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of literature?|isbn=1788007964sickness.
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|isbn=17328987310008551324|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for AdultsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Michael Albanese Neil Lancaster
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|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxesIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. He had a box Neither side likes or has any respect for everything the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he 's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! responsible for her death. It began with art suppliesThis person, he promises, stuffed toys is someone big and it will be worth the like: all the things which most children have in abundancepolice doing what he wants. The Boy's delight was in And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the sense remainder of order in his room: it made him feel happysentence and to get an early parole date. As he grew up and became a ManNot much to ask, his life became more complicated is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. Look carefully at she's even prepared to do the pictures other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and youanyone who works with him is kept well away from what'll see that one of them has a padlock..s happening.
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|isbn=B09MN1526W0008405026|title=Blood Games A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Nikki Parekh 4Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Liz MistryJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
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|summary=ItEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's the third murder in the space of a few weeks and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagerstheatre director. DS Nikki Parekh He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first uses Edward to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of Bradfordrun errands for him. Only, this time, itEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's going drunkenly confided how he feels to be differentRobert. The body appears to Nikki to be Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that of her beloved nephew, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdown. It isnrelationship had begun between them but he't Haqibs not like most men: there are similarities but Edward is left to stumble upon the body is clad two of them kissing in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depressiona dark passageway.
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|author=Ally WilkesJo Callaghan|title=All the White SpacesLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away When a man is found crucified on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for top of a fresh starthill in Nuneaton, and DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gendercase alongside her sidekick, without the disapproval and constraints of his parentsAI detective Lock. However It's their first live case together, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a funeral shroud over the expedition. Guiltfew days later, mistrust Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to prey on their darknessAI Future Policing project. If Jonathan is Will they be able to make it out of solve the Arctic winter alivecase in time, he or will have to face his demons once Kat find herself taken off the case and for all, or risk making the barrenpotentially, icy landscape his tomb.out of a career?|isbn=1789097835139851120X
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1399613073|title=QuicksilverMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=24.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was quarter of a three-day old foundlingcentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, and now which is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But bonus when this book starts he IS now ''subject you aim to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it be a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a derelict diner, find perfectionist and a gold coin worth a fortune, cash trauma doctor. Anjali is the value free spirit of it out of his bank the group and prepare for going on the lamshe becomes a GP. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and suggest heit's of interest going to themend in tragedy. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the discovery consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besideswill impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1542019885
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|isbn=00084416180241636604|title=Other ParentsThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Sarah StovellGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionAutobiography|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head If you were to bring up an image of West Burntridge First School: if she didna city banker in your mind, you't live up re unlikely to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the townEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. The There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had an active Parent Teacher Association been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and the funds he has a facility with numbers which they raised were a considerable benefit most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to the schoolbe stupid. There It was his ability at what was one difficulty, though - they were essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'devastatingly shockables back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, with two membersis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in particularbusiness together as antique hunters, causing problems for she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the headprofession she loved. Laura Spence After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions married James (on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that rebound from the love of her life, who was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Sarah Ann JuckesAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Jasper ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is a little boy who has some struggles, and whilst wewhat happens after you're never told why exactlyeighteen. Well, we can see I must confess that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotions. His big sister, Rosie, has there have been more than a huge support few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, and writing a book me but I'm left with him, the feeling that it's all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm downgetting away from me. His parents seem completely caught up in their business, and so Some of it is Rosie he always turns to- frankly - quite frightening. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and she isnend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in m reading someone who knows what they're sayingtalking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Nothing seems to be right, I needed people I knew I could trust and the only who could deliver information in a way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its song, as they do together every SpringI could understand.|isbn=1398510890
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Sunny Singh|title=Red is My HeartHotel Arcadia
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction Thrillers |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been black and white and read in my houseviolently taken over by a terrorist group. And so was this one Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one waskilling everyone on site, and there isSam, black a wartime photographer and white and redAbhi, the hotel manager. Yes As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceforms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and I think itkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's possible 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 say not one page lacks see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the influence of some striking visual ideasterrorists.|isbn=1913547183086154742X
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|isbn=15291355671529153298|title=One Step Too FarThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Lisa GardnerJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's five years since the stag weekend1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmenA woman? I mean, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggyhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, Neil and Joshthough. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander offWomen have been disappearing. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that TimWell, who was experienced in survival techniquesthey've been murdered, would go for helpbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. When help didnMiv's upset because she't come s overheard that her father wants to move the remaining three finally made their way back to townfamily 'Down South'. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of TimWhen you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Every yearFor Miv, Tim's fatherthe move would mean leaving her best friend, MartinSharon, and the four friends have been back she'll do anything to continue prevent that. She's not worried about the search although they do now acknowledge dangers or that theyher Mum're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tims stopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1398524085|title=Bitter FlowersHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5
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|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is now returning to worknot. However Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the quiet job hebody of Greg's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigationfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and a mystery around a missing womanthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Varg finds himself The Salter children are not only investigating these, convinced but there's little else they can do but also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night get on with their lives and was never foundwonder about what really happened. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308X
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|authorisbn=Kia Ahankoob1035906708|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsGeneral Fiction|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, each with its own strength and weakenessNew York, in the hope they would complement each other December 1923 and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous societyonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. But it didnCallas't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding make it more manageable in the cost of war too high, a solution is proposedStates. Each of When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to Nazi occupation by a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings mother who mercilessly exploited her and become the supreme ruler made no secret of Dunivaher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV
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|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsChristopher Edge|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Tomas. Happy to work with Lucas and his father friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the blacksmithnickname of 's forgeThe Black Hole'. All big movie fans, hethey's almost re looking forward to lots of the age to become a full apprenticeexciting films, and help with many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new batch of dragonswords film format is certainly needed. Not that there very different, and they are any dragons, of course – swept up into an adventure they vanished centuries ago. Except..couldn't even imagine. Strange signals But as they lurch from within one film genre to the forge furnacenext, and a peculiar invite can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the wash, that yes dragons do still exist in this worldcinema, and that Tom is rare in the ability to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with them...their real lives?|isbn=18399400261839942738
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|isbnauthor=1529346541Rachel Greenlaw|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth GeorgeCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James is at a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school system, a representative from the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmaker. It follows on from I can hear the success song of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting is an exploration sea. The call of the possibility of deep, the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern answering beat in some communitiesmy heart. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as ' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the problem seems to occur in Nigerian rocks and Somali communities as she relies on getting plundering the trust wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the people she speaks seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and photographsany treasure that lies within.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09Q3P283Y|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the US Army during wrecking, they capture the Vietnam War. Heisland's leader and Mira's not really that invested in the fight against Communismfather. Desperate to save him from death, nor Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he particularly interested is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a career family secret that lies buried deep in the militarysea. If heWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's honest - which Clyde usually isterritory, with himself Mira must be determined to stop at least - he hasn't got many choices nothing to save the future of her home and this one, at least, gets him out of the rut he's in. He's good in training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himselfones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmyJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondPlanet Storyland
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be Things have been a friend bit sticky for her in amongst all the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold tasks that took time to the mill-owners by the London workhouse accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to call home. Bess knows there is no all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind of existencealong came an awful pandemic. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little DotLife was pretty much shut down and, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harmalong with it, there might be a glimmer of companionship in all the tired-out mill workersmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X1736128426
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|isbnauthor=1785633074Matthew Tree|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh BerryWe'll Never Know
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|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=Members of Parliament like us Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to believe that the country is run by politiciansbe different from his father, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of you who are Eton being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmenthad endless crises of self confidence. We are in the privileged position of having access So Tim applied himself to the memoirs of Rafe Hubrishis studies, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but he will certainly be the man to watchachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=B09MYXSRV4A G Slatter|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya SmithBriar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary=When '' 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 was made, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the animals were given giftswider world from the Darklands. Bear 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 given strength so that he could become young, her training as a protectorsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the present 'town's leader, and'' the futureEllie takes her place beside her. Rabbit developed intelligence - butAs challenges come her way left, unfortunatelyright and centre, not Ellie uncovers the rare ability to use it wellcommunicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. He liked Reeling from one family secret to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came another, Ellie must decide who to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait trust and see. Things are not always determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they seem. I'll tell you how it came abouthave sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|authorisbn=Giovanna Fletcher1529900360|title=Walking on SunshineThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
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|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=MikeIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's wifefault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Pia, who he Sturgis was with reluctant to ask for seventeen years, has diedhis help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. And whilst he is dealing with his grief Finally, so are their best friendsit was Robin, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some Delaware'rules' to follows partner, knowing who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that she the involvement was dying and something that they would need help to carry on livingthe man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Whilst some Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him heir to take one of their trips away, an Italian shoe empire and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide she is married to drop everything in their own lives, an extremely rich man and go along with himit's not the Italian.|isbn=140593560X But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=15293939301529395224|title=Making Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Living: How to Craft Your BusinessVet|author=Sophie RochesterSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=CraftsAnimals and Wildlife|summary=''Starting Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a creative business has never been easier.GP and Rowlands didn'' ''If not nowt want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when?'' I know he considered the strain that Ibeing on-call put on his father'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a businesss life. There's a lot When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are doing work experience with a lot of people family friend who have been delighted to accept what I make as giftswas a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Selling would offset the costsBefore long, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun to do, couldnhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't it? - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. But where to start? What do I need to think about? WellIf anything, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is he'd wanted to read ''Making be a Living''professional footballer.
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|authorisbn=Freya Marske0861541774|title=A Marvellous LightNye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a job short holiday in the Civil ServiceSingapore to meet up with an old ally, much to his chagrinGuy Trueman. There Maik was involved in a street brawl - he meets Edwin Courcey and learns would later maintain that the streets of London are threaded he was facing a man armed with magica knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Desperate Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to remove a curse light that suggested that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin he might have planned to murder the countryside, where man. Now he could be facing the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with powerdeath penalty. There they uncover Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a sinister plot that threatens the lives of diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all magicians in the British Isles. |isbn=1529080886
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|isbnauthor=0241480442Alexander McCall Smith|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienPerfect Passion Company
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|genre=CookeryGeneral Fiction|summary=EmotionallyThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, I am run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a veganmore personal, tailored service. MentallyNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, I am as Ness is planning to take a vegantrip to Canada to get away for a while. I read [[How to Love Animals in Katie is coming out of a break up with a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] bad boyfriend, and was appalled by so jumps at the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) foodchance to come home to Edinburgh. PracticallyAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, I am not a vegan. It worked for a while apart from bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the odd blip Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with regard some new characters who quickly begin to cheese but then charm. Katie has no experience in running a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often business, or in your lifetime tempted me back to animalmatch-based protein. It wasnmaking, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there't the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in lend a few spare moments.hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=suppl_stafl0811771741|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect InstaKnits for Book LoversBaby|author=Kim StaflundMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceCrafts|summary=So, youMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby've finished writing your book and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need gives us a collection of knits from toys to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong againblankets. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to Some will be quick knits - and you had a talent for delivering others are of the written word. You knew your subject back to 'long, cosy afternoons in frontof the fire' variety. Now youThe projects are divided by the time they're going ll take to have complete - less than five hours, five to get ten hours, ten to grips with twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the book supply chainprojects are attractive, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change modern and no one wants to be the first to tryuseable. Then, I perhaps show my age when you I wonder about ''finally'' have a copy of the book in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to sell it social-media- because it worthy projects'but that'is'' going to be down to yous me being picky.
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|isbnauthor=1398706906Dean Koontz|title=The Lost|author=Simon BeckettBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah Colley's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and when loses his job, he wokeloses his fiancee, Theo had goneand his house gets trashed. It cost him his marriage Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home. Ten years later he's largely come through , and it and he's out with possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his team when he gets house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneynice person. A really nice person. Gavin used So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to be his best house is a new friend but it's , a long time bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since they've spokenBenny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. HeSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - enemies, if he, Benny, and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quay. ''ThereHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's no one else I wild adventure) can trust'', he saysfigure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|author=Amanda MasonAdam Stower|title=The Hiding PlaceMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorConfident Readers |summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent lifeMurray is supposed to be a humble, Nell Galilee takes her husband tidy and stepdaughter friendly cat, one who is able to Whitbysleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name whatever takes his fancy next of Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place to sort things outtwo. But therehe's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect that she and her family arena bad magician't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{Frontpage|author=Paul Cleave|title=The Quiet People|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= I am not s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a fan of "hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the Prologue". Most books are the worse for catflap they both use can chuck them. In this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who is in a hurry. He has to hurry because he has children that he should out, not have, and when he hurries, when he bundles things into the regular back garden, but into a world of his car frightening adventure and tries 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 run and then hears sirens behind himbe honest, which but he should not hear because this is New Zealand 's turned up and that is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badly.'ll have to do…|isbn=19131939420008561249
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|authorisbn=Will CarverB0C47LV1PC|title=Psychopaths AnonymousFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Maeve is Can you make a high functioning alcoholic''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is mainly using that the groups to find targetsanswer for both could well be....no.targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear  ''Fragility'' is set as the city of people's miseryPortland, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she doesOregon, and when she's unable cautiously begins to find like-minded people in any of emerge from the restrictions imposed during the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756covid pandemic
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|isbn=15294181001529431735|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesThe Winter Visitor|author=Martin WalkerJames Henry
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|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=IIt'm not usually a fan of short stories - I find it s February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all too easy to put the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a fan of Martin Walkerdecade. The return has come about because he's [[Martin Walkerhad a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard to resist ill and I'm rather glad that I didnhasn't even trylong to live. For those new It's hard to the seriesfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need stripped to know about who's who his underwear and the background sent to why Bruno is a watery grave in St Denisthe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.}} Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

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