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|author=Anna Kemp and David WyattTom Percival|title=Into Goblyn WoodThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Hazel. For the last nine of her eleven years she has been stuck as a foundling Will's life is difficult, in a horrid, Victorian institution, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servantmultitude of ways. She He is bullied because he has 'd arrived at the place at wrong shoes', he has the same time as Pete, wrong shoes because his dad can't work and theydoesn're inseparably good friends now, until a chance t have enough money for them both to escapeeven the most basic of things like food, and enter his dad can't work because he lost his job at the outside worldcollege, does not go to planwas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. There had always been Throw into that mix the idea of a fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life idyllic seems bleak in the nearby forestsevery direction. And yet, Goblyn Wood, and he still has a tribe of Wild Children, but none of that comes to pass, as Hazel finds herself in the care tiny amount of a professor at the Natural History Museumhope. But life with him He is not anything like what she might have expected it to be – good at art, and Hazel is determined to return clings to the Woods, restore her friendship with Pete – and to work out just what moments of joy when he is going on in the forestdrawing, both the that feel like a light and at the shadeend of a long, and the deathly dark..tunnel.|isbn=13985038351398527122
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|isbnauthor=0241990165Sylvie Cathrall|title=Hope A Letter to Die (D I Fawley)|author=Cara Hunterthe Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.
|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=0008517061
|title=Death in a Lonely Place
|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddlyFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There was There’s perhaps a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadn't come from little uncertainty about the householder. A couple future of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and it took quite a while for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come her daughter Diana, as moving in. In the kitchen there was together would mean a body on the floorlot of compromise: the head had been blown does Jake give up his off -grid and relaxing life to move in with a shotgun Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the corpse was holding a knife moment they’re enjoying life in its right hand. Richard Swann told the police that he'd heard sounds of an intruder present and had come downstairs to investigate. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'' and come at him with a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defenceputting the future on the back burner.
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|authorisbn= Kit De Waal1786482126|title= Without Warning and Only SometimesThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= AutobiographyCrime|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, your mum and dad/ They may not mean Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to, but hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea discovered the bones of parenthood and the bonds that bind family. This book is a memoir focussing on the author’s formative years as child beneath a teenager living in doorway. There was no skull. Was this a lower class area of Birminghamritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Her father It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is from St. Kitts in the Caribbean and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by and marrying with his child as a black man. This intersectionality plays a large role in result of the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to her race, her class and her genderone night they spent together some three months ago. Her parents loom large and are written with carecondition will be obvious before long, love, and the kind not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of anger only a child can express to their parentssickness.|isbn=1472284836
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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz0008551324|title=Dark MusicThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far It's unusual for anyone from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before Hardie family to approach the allusion breaks? police. This does have a wonder-mind at Neither side likes or has any respect for the heart of what little investigating is going on, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthother. For one, the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, But Davie Hardie is no John Watson MD. Shestruggling in prison and he's a Chilean in prepared to tell the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows where the prime suspect body of old, in a case where a referee of a junior football match missing person is buried and who was found stoned to responsible for her death shortly after the match. This person, he promises, is someone big and just outside it will be worth the stadiumpolice doing what he wants. Beppe, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses remainder of his sentence and to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogationget an early parole date. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up withNot much to ask, the kind who is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think they can judge Micaela from her fringe so and how she might dress – that kind) are told 's even prepared to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and do the investigation is a shambles. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve the crime, other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she canhim is kept well away from what't get his full verdict on it all. Until, that may be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt..s happening.|isbn=1529413192
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|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM0008405026|title=The Calculations of Rational MenA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Daniel GodfreyJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marrinvestigation ground to a halt. Just to put what happens in contextNow, her mother, Helena, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh and her father are dead in people's minds. The world has barely had a chance to breathe outtheir bed. But for Joe MarrInitially, itlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's not something about the missile crisis positioning of the bodies that's at the front of his mindmakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. He's been convicted of What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than Kerrigan is convinced that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days explanation lies in HMP QueenRosalie's Bench, a relatively new prison. Hedisappearance: others (such as Derwent's just getting used to his roommate, Mervynboss, and learning to be wary of the McArthur brothersUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=18469761460571379877|title=The Bone RoadKellerby Code|author=N E SolomonsJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Heather BishopEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, the former Olympic cyclistobsessed with his upper-class friends, flew to Bosnia to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan MackinnonRobert and Stanza. She even took their bikes so they could have Robert's a few daystheatre director. He' break in the regions also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. It was a little worrying that Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he didn't seem exactly pleased s drunkenly confided how he feels to see her: she even wondered if he had a woman in the hotel roomRobert. Heather Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had to give up competitive cycling after a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit begun between them but her reactions and her memory were he's not up like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the standard she would need to race again. Sometimes she couldn't be certain about what she had or hadn't done and she simply couldn't cope two of them kissing in difficult situations. She didn't entirely trust herselfa dark passageway.
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|author=Judith EagleJo Callaghan|title=The Accidental StowawayLeave No Trace|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Patch When a man is found crucified on the top of a little girl who has been passed from one relation hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to anotherthe case alongside her sidekick, until it seems that there is nobody left for her to go tothe AI detective Lock. Her father died when she was It's their first live case together, having previously been very young, and her mother ran awaysuccessful with several cold cases. The family lawyerBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, after consultation Kat is suddenly struggling with ‘someone’, arranges for her to go to a school in Liverpool, but on her arrival there, she gets caught up in an adventure with potential serial killer and a little boy called Turo who works on very high profile case that draws a steamshiplot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. During a chase with him (when she is both trying Will they be able to get her rollerskate back and running away from the police!) she winds up on solve the steamship hiding case in a lifeboattime, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and before she knows it, the ship has left the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!potentially, out of a career?|isbn=0571363121139851120X
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|isbn=07603798741399613073|title=Super Easy Knitting for BeginnersMoral Injuries|author=Carri HammettChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=CraftsThrillers|summary=I learned to knit in Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the nineteen-fifties: it wasn't first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a choicecentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, it was which is a bonus when you aim to be a requirementcardiothoracic surgeon. Girls learned to knit Laura is a perfectionist and to embroider a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and boys did wood and metal workshe becomes a GP. My knitting wa accompanied by When we first meet them they're at a lot of criticism drug and alcohol-fuelled party and quite a few tears: it was a long time before I realised that there was pleasure 's going to be had end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the skillconsequences. Nearly seventy Twenty-five years later it's the only thing there will be an eerily similar event that keeps my hands at all supple. The turning point was a booklet published by Patons which gave all will impact the basics and some patternsthree friends. IThis time, it've been looking for something simple to recommend to people s their teenage children who'd like to master the skillare involved. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?
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|authorisbn=Sarah Todd Taylor0241636604|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! The Trading Game: A Recipe for TroubleConfession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Meet Alice EclairIf 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 perfect eye hoodie and very careful hands have made her one of Paris's best young cake makers jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and decoratorshis background is the East End, making sure her mother's establishment is a classy affair. Not bad for a thirteen year old. Ohwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and a perfect eye and a very careful handler and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spyinjustice. Her first real mission will be to chase a traitor across the country – working behind the scenes There was no posh public school on a posh sleeper train his CV - but he had been to the south London School of France, Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and hoping against hope he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents most rich people expect poor people to creep into the country from getting into nefarious handsbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. But while nobody would have her down Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a spy, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find the baddy?|isbn=1839940956trader.
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|isbn=07603799121035021803|title=Super Easy Quilting for BeginnersThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Editors of Quarry BooksC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to be turned into something new and usable when I was in my twentiesthe English country village where she grew up. It would be She's back now because of a while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but Irequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole've never felt completely at home with quiltings close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. I needed something a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knotsArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. ''Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like a good place Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to startbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. SoAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, how did it stack up?who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1788360737AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= ArtivismAll Tomorrow's Futures: The Battle for Museums in the Era of PostmodernismFictions that Disrupt|author=Alexander Adams|rating=2|genre= Politics Benjamin Greenaway and Society|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political Stephen Oram (read: left wingEditors). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1408712172|title=The Cliff House|author=Chris Brookmyre
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=''Many Opening up new ways of them didn't know each other, one of them didn't know anybody, including Jen, one of them quite possibly hated her, and two thinking about the shape of them definitely hated each otherthings to come. What could possibly go wrong?''
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|isbnauthor=1788360702Sunny Singh|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard ErnstHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=BiographyThrillers |summary=For over forty years, Prince Charles The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapiesviolently taken over by a terrorist group. ''CharlesHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's opinionsthere is Sam, beliefs a wartime photographer and aims against Abhi, the background of the scientific evidencehotel manager. There As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to still alive in the reputation of hotel, he forms a man bond with Sam who is proud refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of his refusal her room to try to apply evidence-basedcapture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, logical reasoning their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to his ambitionssee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix It's 1979 and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]]Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, when she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearanceshonestly... In ) She's not what'Partitions of Unitys worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she sets 's overheard that her mind father wants to solving move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a murder.frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF
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|authorisbn=Fiona Parashar 1398524085|title=A Beautiful Way to Coach Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary= So what am I doing reading this bookCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, using this booksons Niall, Paul and being audacious enough to review it? Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Truth is I bought it out Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of curiosityGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. I It was at an on-line launch easy assumption for the book police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed to methen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. I wanted to see if The Salter children are not convinced but there were things in there that I could use 's little else they can do but get on with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing them to a full day, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted to see if I could give myself a Vision Day, to bring me away from their vision lives and back to my ownwonder about what really happened.|isbn=103211603X
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|isbn=19137503531035906708|title=Britannica's Word of the DayDiva|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue MacyDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-General Fiction|summary=''Britannica's Word We tend to think of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Stretch Your Cranium Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need only moved to know about this brilliant bookAthens when she was thirteen. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas', tells you how to pronounce make it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and then includes more manageable in the word States. When she was back in a sentence Athens - supposedly so that you know how it should be used. You also she could get an engaging appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and frequently amusing illustration toomade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie. I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!
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|author=A C WiseChristopher Edge|title=HookedBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=It’s been twenty-two years since Captain Hook, now going by just ‘James’, has been Lucas and his friends are all booked in Neverland. Living for a new life in Londonmovie marathon at their local cinema, he a place that has never completely escaped his pastthe nickname of 'The Black Hole'. But now he senses the edges All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of the beast circling around his life in Londonexciting films, and when suddenly he finds himself face to face in many, many snacks! However, as the street with Wendymovie starts, he knows they very quickly realise that the line between something about this world new film format is very different, and Neverland is growing thinthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. The beast But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is finally coming going on? Will they ever get back to get himthe cinema, and in the process will pull Wendy and her daughter Jane back into to their past once again.real lives?|isbn=17890968391839942738
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|isbnauthor=1787301745Rachel Greenlaw|title=Confidence|author=Denise MinaCompass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=We're back in 'I can hear the song of the world sea. The call of podcasters Anna and Finthe deep, whom we first met the answering beat in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]my heart. It was Anna who'd organised the 'family' holiday: her ex Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, Hamishsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, is now with like her mother before her best friend, Estelle is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and her children are living with themany treasure that lies within. Fin (who was married But when the Council Watch lays a trap to Estelle) is there too and it was Anna who invited his girlfriendend the wrecking, Sofia. Itthey capture the island's not long before everyone realises that was a bad mistake. Sofialeader and Mira's difficult father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - a lighthouseonly coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a storm - she begins talking about Anna's pastfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, including as her journey takes her real name and from the rape. This was something which Anna had intended watched streets of foreign islands to tell the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess and ten-year-old Lizzie - when heart of the time was right. And this wasnsmuggler't s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the right timefuture of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|isbnauthor=178763566XJames Sherwood Metts|title=Listen to Me|author=Tess GerritsenPlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=We're in Boston with AmyThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day AI and she wore her newautomation have been proceeding apace, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows that often replacing jobs they're going paid to be ruined - do and unsafe - in the snow other tasks that's now fallingtook time to accomplish. As she crosses the road, a car comes out of nowhere Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and hits her. It doesn't stop. Two months later, we're with Angela Rizzoli, mother starting to think of Detective Jane Rizzoliother, and a keen defender of the suburb of Reverenew ways to spend time, north of Boston, where she livesalong came an awful pandemic. Nothing gets past her Life was pretty much shut down and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sisteralong with it, she has all the time to watch what's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=0008395632Matthew Tree|title=One Last Secret|author=Adele ParksWe'll Never Know
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|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Natalya is an escortTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk 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. WellSo Tim applied himself to his studies, her name's not ''actuallycultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' Natalya: thatThere's her professional name but it is a nod part of me that wants to her Serbian heritagekeep this just to myself for however long I can. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora DziewulskiThis secret magic of my own, all mine, usually known as Dora Wulskiat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. If you're thinking of 'escort' as being Within a polite description of a prostituteremote mountain pass, far away from the world, run by lies Silverton; a pimp, whotown under the protection of the Briar's turning tricks to fund a drug habit, forget it. Dora is a professional in all senses family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the wordDarklands. She Though she has an agentalways wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, Elspeththe town's leader, who and Ellie takes 30% of her income place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and deals centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the payments but checks out dead, putting her at the clients heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to see that Dora is going another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to be safe. Dora describes herself do as a self-employed clairvoyant the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customssurvive, is under threat. |isbn=1803364548
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|authorisbn=David Solomons1529900360|title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Gavin is being followedIt 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 help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, seemingly constantlyDelaware's partner, by who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the new (very annoying) girl at schoolinvolvement was something that the man she loved needed. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl storyThe next case did look simple, though. Because Two lovers were murdered in this instance, the girl swimming pool of a remote property in question is Niki, Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is a galactic princess (no, really, she is!) So what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled in a situation where, potentially, Earth married to an extremely rich man and everyone on it will be blown to smithereens, all because 's not the Italian. But which of Nikithem was the primary target?|isbn=0857639935
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|authorisbn=Alex Cotter1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Mermaid CallSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands
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|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids donSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't exist. But she also knows they have want to exist – at least follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the public eyestrain that being on-call put on his father's life. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a far northern English resort – without themvet and was convinced this was the job for him. A hundred years and change agoBefore long, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaids, but were forced to return to help out with the Great War efforthe was at Liverpool University. They also showed female emancipation, which helped create the townIt hadn's tourism industry, now faded and falling apart but once t - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a feminist success storychild. AliceIf anything, he'd wanted to be a girl who stumbles into Vivienprofessional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's gran's tourist shop one dayclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, knows she certainly wants mermaids has taken a short holiday in Singapore to exist – she thinks her family's black sheep died searching for themmeet up with an old ally, or else Guy Trueman. Maik was just too successful involved in her hunta street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. When the shyInitially, doubting Thomasina he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that is Vivien collides with he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the exuberant, gung-ho Alice, what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they find?|isbn=1839941901death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbnauthor=1739805100Alexander McCall Smith|title=Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of war|author=Andrew MarchThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=BiographyGeneral Fiction|summary= ''Loving The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the Enemy'' tells online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the quite extraordinary story of author Andrew March's grandparentsbusiness, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went as Ness is planning to take a trip to Dresden Canada to teach in the early days get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the Nazi regime in the 1930schance to come home to Edinburgh. Fred And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, a sensitive bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and thoughtful manthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, had but with some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in Europe at the time. Fredher abilities, and there's attempts always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and connections that lasted for lend a lifetime. hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=B0B575J99N0811771741|title=Beneath the PorticoesInstaKnits for Baby|author=Brooke AdamsMelissa Leapman
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|genre=Women's FictionCrafts|summary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girlMelissa Leapman's school in York. It was ''comfortableInstaKnits for Baby'' but she longed for something more in lifegives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. SheSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met long, cosy afternoons in front of the right manfire'' and now was variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to make a change. She needed challengescomplete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. There was a little trepidation when she applied for All the professoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interviewprojects are attractive, she was offered the position modern and it wasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful cityuseable. There were some natural doubts before her first class I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but it went surprisingly wellthat's me being picky.
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|isbnauthor=1529125898Dean Koontz|title=Godmersham Park|author=Gill HornbyThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionParanormal|summary=''If Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's dutypossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, there would no women Benny is the very last person to teach well-bred daughters at deserve allthis bad luck.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen He is a nice person. She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of necessityA really nice person. Until So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the death of her motherdelivery to his house is a new friend, Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from the householdnefarious forces for being a good person. When her mother diedSpike is going to take care of Benny, her father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity will certainly take care of £35 a year. Her maidBenny's enemies, if he, AgnesBenny, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighboursand 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=Lev Parikian Adam Stower|title=Light Rains Sometimes FallMurray and Bun
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|genre=Animals and WildlifeConfident Readers |summary= If you’re Murray is supposed to be a writer yourselfhumble, or an aspiring writertidy and friendly cat, or someone one who pretends is able to writesleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, then you know that there are unnumbered types whatever takes his fancy next of booksthe two. Some you read for fun But he's a bad magician's cat, some for distraction, some for vicarious emotion, some to learn from in so his favourite bun has been turned into a random way, some for focussed researchhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and some because the catflap they areboth use can chuck them out, broadly speakingnot into the regular back garden, the kind but into a world of thing you think you might like to writefrightening adventure and whiffs. OrThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, indeedone much bigger than Murray was, are actually trying to write.be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=17839663860008561249
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|isbn=0751581577B0C47LV1PC|title=Lying Beside YouFragility|author=Michael RobothamMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthday. Voices told him to do Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it. Only two people survived ? Or is the carnage - Eliasquestion if you did, who was sent to Rampton, and his thirteen-year-old brother, Cyrus, who hid in a shed until would it land? The catch is that the police found himanswer for both could well be.... no. Twenty years later, Cyrus is a forensic psychologist and he ''Fragility''s been told that his brother is being released. Can Cyrus forgive set as the sinner whilst having city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to live on a daily basis with emerge from the results of restrictions imposed during the crime? Can he bear to have Elias living in the same house? How will his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?covid pandemic
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|isbn=140595115X1529431735|title=A Stranger on BoardThe Winter Visitor|author=Cameron WardJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Right from the beginningIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, we know this will not turn out well. Eight days into the trip to deliver the superyacht ''Escape'which made Bruce Hopkins' to Antigua, return all 300 tonnes and six decks will be floundering without power in the Atlanticmore surprising. Those of He'd been exiled on the crew who are left will be cowering in fear Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a fellow crew member tries to pick them off, one by onedecade. Some are already dead. They are three days The return has come about because he's had a letter from shore his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and there is no way of making contacthasn't long to live. But letIt's go back hard to feel any sympathy when all this startedHopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in Southamptonthe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.}} Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
