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|isbnauthor=1788360702Tom Percival|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard ErnstWrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=BiographyConfident Readers|summary=For over forty yearsWill's life is difficult, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter in a multitude of alternative medicine and complementary therapiesways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'Charles, The Alternative Princehe has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn' critically assesses t have enough money for even the Princemost basic of things like food, and his dad can's opinionst work because he lost his job at the college, beliefs was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and aims against had an accident. Throw into that mix the background fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of the scientific evidencehope. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated He is good at art, and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage clings to the reputation moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a man who is proud light at the end of his refusal to apply evidence-baseda long, logical reasoning to his ambitionsdark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|author=Will CarverSylvie Cathrall|title=The Daves Next DoorA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as There are few greater joys than a suicide bomber prepares book which lives up to detonate his vest on a London tube linecompelling premise. As their fates overlap, the story And this is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful momentone of them.|isbn= 19145851860356522776}}
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|isbn=15291257900008517061|title=The Family RemainsDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Lisa JewellStig Abell
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In July 2019Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jason Mott was mud larking on Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the banks future of the River Thames when he came across his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a bag lot of what appeared to be human bones. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and Saffron Brown from forensics were there relaxing life to investigate. The bones were indeed human: a young woman had been killed by a blow move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the head many years ago - probably as long as twenty-five - but future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the bones had not been moment they’re enjoying life in the river longer than a year. There was no identification but present and putting the future on the bag contained vegetation, some of which was quite unusualback burner.
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|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason1786482126|title=Partitions of UnityThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective Builders were demolishing an old house in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when she investigated and unravelled they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a series of disappearancesritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. In ''Partitions of Unity It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she sets her mind to solving is pregnant with his child as a murder..result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF
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|authorisbn=Fiona Parashar 0008551324|title=A Beautiful Way to Coach The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary= So what am I doing reading this book, using this book, and being audacious enough It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to review it? approach the police. Truth Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is I bought it out struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of curiosity. I a missing person is buried and who was at an on-line launch responsible for the her death. book This person, he promises, is someone big and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed to meit will be worth the police doing what he wants. I wanted And what he wants is to see if there were things in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying be transferred to an open prison to mentor – without committing them serve the remainder of his sentence and to a full day, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrowget an early parole date. I also wanted Not much to see if I could give myself a Vision Dayask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to bring me do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from their vision and back to my ownwhat's happening.|isbn=103211603X
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|isbn=19137503530008405026|title=Britannica's Word of A Stranger in the DayFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue MacyJane Casey
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=''BritannicaIt's Word of the Day'' has a subsixteen years since nine-year-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant bookold Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition She was never found and then includes the word in investigation ground to a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration toohalt. I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!}}{{Frontpage|author=A C Wise|title=Hooked|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It’s been twenty-two years since Captain HookNow, her mother, now going by just ‘James’Helena, has been and her father are dead in Neverlandtheir bed. Living Initially, it looks like a new life in London, he has never completely escaped his past. But now he senses straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the edges positioning of the beast circling around his life in London, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and when suddenly he finds himself face her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to face in the street with Wendy, he knows that the line between this world be an open-and Neverland -shut case is growing thinnow a complex double murder. The beast Kerrigan is finally coming to get himconvinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and in the process will pull Wendy and her daughter Jane back into their past once againUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1789096839
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|isbn=17873017450571379877|title=ConfidenceThe Kellerby Code|author=Denise MinaJonny Sweet
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We're back in the world of podcasters Anna and Fin, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]. It was Anna who'd organised the 'family' holiday: her exEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, Hamish, is now obsessed with her best friendhis upper-class friends, Estelle Robert and her children are living with themStanza. Fin (who was married to Estelle) is there too and it was Anna who invited his girlfriend, Sofia. ItRobert's not long before everyone realises that was a bad mistaketheatre director. SofiaHe's difficult and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation also self- a lighthouseobsessed, in a storm - she begins talking about Anna's pastdemanding, including her real name handsome and the rapeentitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. This was something which Anna had intended to tell the girls Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - twelve-tear-old Jess and ten-year-old Lizzie - when the time was righthe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. And this wasnMost men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he't s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the right timetwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=178763566XJo Callaghan|title=Listen to Me|author=Tess GerritsenLeave No Trace|rating=4.5
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|summary=We're in Boston with Amy. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day and she wore her newman is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows that they're going DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to be ruined - and unsafe - in the snow that's now falling. As she crosses case alongside her sidekick, the road, a car comes out of nowhere and hits herAI detective Lock. It doesn't stops their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Two months But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, we're Kat is suddenly struggling with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli, a potential serial killer and a keen defender very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the suburb of Reverecase in time, north of Boston, where she lives. Nothing gets past her or will Kat find herself taken off the case and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsakpotentially, is in California, looking after his sister, she has the time to watch what's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicions.out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=00083956321399613073|title=One Last SecretMoral Injuries|author=Adele ParksChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Natalya is an escortOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. WellOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, her name's not ''actually'' Natalya: that's her professional name but it which is a nod bonus when you aim to her Serbian heritagebe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora Dziewulski, usually known as Dora WulskiAnjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. If youWhen we first meet them they're thinking of 'escort' as being at a polite description of a prostitute, run by a pimp, whodrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's turning tricks going to fund a drug habit, forget itend in tragedy. Dora is a professional in all senses of We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the wordconsequences. She has Twenty-five years later there will be an agent, Elspeth, who takes 30% of her income and deals with the payments but checks out eerily similar event that will impact the clients to see that Dora is going to be safethree friends. Dora describes herself as a self-employed clairvoyant to Her MajestyThis time, it's Revenue and Customstheir teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=David Solomons0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyConfession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Gavin 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 being followedthe East End, seemingly constantlywhere he was familiar with violence, by the new (very annoying) girl at schoolpoverty and injustice. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl storyThere was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Because in this instance, the girl in question Stevenson is Niki, bright - extremely bright - and she is he has a galactic princess (no, really, she is!) facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. So It was his ability at what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled in a situation wherewas, potentiallyessentially, Earth and everyone on it will be blown to smithereensa card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, all because of Niki?|isbn=0857639935this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|authorisbn=Alex Cotter1035021803|title=The Mermaid CallAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids donIt't exist. But she also knows they have s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to exist – at least in the public eyeEnglish country village where she grew up. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – She's back now because of a far northern English resort – without themrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. A hundred years Freya's former mentor and change agoCarole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaidsis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, but were forced to return to help out with say the Great War effortleast. They also showed female emancipationArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, which helped create the town's tourism industryshe feels, now faded and falling apart but once a feminist success storylet her down badly. Alice, a girl who stumbles into Vivien's gran's tourist shop one dayEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, knows she certainly wants mermaids has not felt able to exist – be near the man or pursue the profession she thinks her family's black sheep died searching for them, or else was just too successful in her huntloved. When After the shysplit, she worked in a cafe, doubting Thomasina that is Vivien collides with met and married James (on the rebound from the exuberantlove of her life, gung-ho Alice, what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they find?|isbn=1839941901who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1739805100AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Loving the EnemyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Building bridges in a time of warFictions that Disrupt|author=Andrew MarchBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyScience Fiction|summary= ''Loving Opening up new ways of thinking about the Enemyshape of things to come.'' I' tells the quite extraordinary story ve heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of author Andrew Marchtechnology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's grandparents, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went advantageous to Dresden to teach in me but I'm left with the early days feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of the Nazi regime in the 1930sit is - frankly - quite frightening. Fred Of course, a sensitive I could research the possibilities and thoughtful man, had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the timelatest conspiracy theorist. Fred's attempts to separate individual I needed people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships I knew I could trust and connections that lasted for who could deliver information in a lifetimeway I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=B0B575J99NSunny Singh|title=Beneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke AdamsHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionThrillers |summary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and The Hotel Arcadia is a teacher at luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a prestigious girl's school in Yorkterrorist group. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found Hiding from the right vocation nor met the right man'' terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and now was Abhi, the time to make a changehotel manager. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the professoressa job residents who are still alive in Bologna. After the hotel, he forms a telephone interviewbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, she was offered the position and it wasnkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what't long before she was exploring the beautiful citys happened through her photography. There were some natural doubts Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before her first class but it went surprisingly wellthey are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=15291258981529153298|title=Godmersham ParkThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Gill HornbyJennie Godfrey
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|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'If it were s not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentlemanwhat's worrying Miv's dutyfamily, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at allthough.'' 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 Women have been disappearing. She had no experience of teaching Well, they've been murdered, but this was a case of necessityto have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Until the death of her mother, Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father was frequently absent from wants to move the householdfamily 'Down South'. When her mother died, her father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a year. Her maidyou're from Yorkshire, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.}}{{Frontpage|author=Lev Parikian |title=Light Rains Sometimes Fall|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary= If you’re Down South is a writer yourselffrightening, or an aspiring writerforeign place, or someone who pretends to write, then you know that there are unnumbered types of booksbest avoided. Some you read for fun For Miv, some for distractionthe move would mean leaving her best friend, some for vicarious emotion, some to learn from in a random way, some for focussed researchSharon, and some because they are, broadly speaking, the kind of thing you think you might like she'll do anything to writeprevent that. Or, indeed, are actually trying She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to writeanyone.|isbn=1783966386
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|isbn=07515815771398524085|title=Lying Beside YouHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Michael RobothamNicci French
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthdayparty but never turned up. Voices told him to do it. Only two people survived the carnage - EliasHer children, who was sent to Ramptonsons Niall, Paul and his thirteenOllie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but -yearstrangely -old brotherher husband, CyrusAlec, who hid in a shed until the police found himis not. Twenty years laterShortly afterwards, Cyrus is a forensic psychologist Etty and heGreg, find the body of Greg's been told that his brother is being releasedfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Can Cyrus forgive It was an easy assumption for the sinner whilst having police to live on a daily basis with the results of the crime? Can make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he bear to have Elias living in couldn't stand the same house? guilt. How will his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=140595115X1035906708|title=A Stranger on BoardDiva|author=Cameron WardDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Right from the beginningWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, we know this will not turn out wellin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Eight days into the trip Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to deliver the superyacht ''Escape'Callas' to Antigua, all 300 tonnes and six decks will be floundering without power make it more manageable in the AtlanticStates. Those of When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the crew Nazi occupation by a mother who are left will be cowering in fear a fellow crew member tries to pick them off, one by one. Some are already dead. They are three days from shore mercilessly exploited her and there is made no way secret of making contact. But let's go back to when all this startedher preference for her elder sister, in SouthamptonJackie.
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|isbnauthor=1398508632Christopher Edge|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo WildeBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=It had been on the cards Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a while but it was movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year nickname of eating only wild food'The Black Hole'. The end All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of Novemberexciting films, and many, many snacks! However, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not as the best time to startmovie starts, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate changethey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, Brexit and a pandemicthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Wilde had a few advantages: But as they lurch from one film genre to the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? She had electricity which allowed her Will they ever get back to run a fridgethe cinema, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|isbnauthor=1635864674Rachel Greenlaw|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, Compass and More|author=Joy HowardBlade|rating=43.5|genre=CookeryTeens|summary=''Think I can hear the song of it as no-whining diningthe sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
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|isbnauthor=0241989027James Sherwood Metts|title=We All Have Our Secrets|author=Jane CorryPlanet Storyland
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Harold Gentle advertised Things have been a bit sticky for live-in help the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as he was failing they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to cope at Willowmead House on his own. His advert was fairly specific: he was a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke think of the ability other, new ways to cook a good steakspend time, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fadsalong came an awful pandemic. The first person who came to the house Life was Francoisepretty much shut down and, a French woman in her early twentiesalong with it, who fit all the bill perfectly. She got the job but Francoise didn't know about the advert: she was there for a completely different reason. Emily Gentle is Harold's daughter and she came to Willowmead House because she was running away from a problem in London. Emily's a midwife and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had been mademany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|author=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)Matthew Tree|title=Tasting SunlightWe'll Never Know
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Sally is a teenager who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinic. She just Timothy Wyndham wants space, and for people nothing more than to stop questioning her, tiptoeing around herbe different from his father, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding her. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss who is in her forties drunk and seems to live alone. Liss is unlike chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any other adult Sally has ever metof his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. She just accepts Sally as she is, giving her a room So Tim applied himself to sleep inhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and the space to just be. As they work together on the farm, a closeness develops between them, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendshipset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1914585143B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=Jennifer MasonA G Slatter|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a womenThere's track coach with a yen part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-however long I can. This secret magic of-the-art S&M dungeonmy own, a man serving a life sentence in Alabamaall mine, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on at last. I just want to enjoy it for a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia..while.''
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|authorisbn=Will Brooker1529900360|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the most successful British authors IIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brookers fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have readSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, His assertions that there were only open-and shows how 2021 drew -shut cases which didn't need the two closer and closer togetherhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. The meeting was some unspecified combinationFinally, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the words of her latest book she was recitingRobin, and her being in a Delaware''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brookers partner, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the rabbit-hole involvement was something that is Jewell's diverse outputthe man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a year remote property in Bel Air. He was the published authorheir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's life, working to make a success of the latest title, and struggling with not the next in lineItalian. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is But which of them was the result.|isbn=1529136024primary target?
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|isbn=18011092651529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The CompanionSecret Life of a Vet|author=Lesley ThomsonSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a punctual man who was inexplicably never on time'GP and Rowlands didn' and he was - as usual - late t want to pick up follow in his sonfootsteps, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for particularly when he considered the boystrain that being on-call put on his father's attention, his mother, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when life. When he was seventeen he returned. The dinner would never be served, as James and Wilbur are took the victims opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a double stabbing on vet and was convinced this was the beachjob for him. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policeBefore long, he was at Liverpool University. SheIt hadn's feeling the pressuret - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughIf anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.
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|isbn=152941363X0861541774|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief Nye of Police Novel)Pheasants|author=Martin WalkerSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''Nobody knows what the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis s close friend and much of the Vézère valley and works closely former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')an old ally, the head of detectives for the départment of the DordogneGuy Trueman. They're not just policemen Maik was involved in a street brawl - they're both deeply committed to the wellhe would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Francehe killed a Ghurka. The discovery of an oldInitially, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in he faced a ditch wouldn't normally charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have worried them so much had it not been for planned to murder the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the carman. Oh, and there was a golf ball too, which didn't belong to the owner of Now he could be facing the cardeath penalty. A golf bag would be a good place Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to hide help as any interference from another police force could provoke a sniperdiplomatic incident and wouldn's weapont help Danny at all. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?
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|isbnauthor=0241542405Alexander McCall Smith|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire AlexanderThe Perfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'' operating as an alternative to: all the online apps in factproviding a more personal, she so nearly doestailored service. Her outdoor clothes are on Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and she's even considered which shoes look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to wear if she's going Canada to catch her trainget away for a while. ThenKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, she can'tand so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. She simply can't force herself And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to leave 44 Scotland Street and the safety of her homeIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. She's fortunate that she Katie has no experience in running a good friendbusiness, Sadieor in match-making, who visits regularly with but Ness has full confidence in her two childrenabilities, James and Matilda. Sadiethere's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith always her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries very helpful (and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRLrather handsome) neighbour, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding HandsWilliam, to lend a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=B09Y451X9K0811771741|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in InstaKnits for tea)Baby|author=Richard F WalkerMelissa Leapman
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary= Melissa Leapman's 'Anything can happen at 'InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a birthday partycollection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, particularly when the birthday boy is the young Lord cosy afternoons in front of the Manorfire' variety. But when an eerie signal is picked up in The projects are divided by the early time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, George and his new girlfriend, the vivacious Lady Antoniafive to ten hours, embark on a quest ten to uncover its incredible messagetwenty hours and more than twenty hours. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets All the cat out of the bag projects are attractive, modern and the world goes into a state of panicuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean KoontzCould |title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=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 be? Could 's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing 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. So fortunately for Benny it? Have aliens reached out and contacted Earth? George and Antonia find themselves lifted turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of their privileged lives of parties Benny, and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into the world will certainly take care of advanced scienceBenny's enemies, if he, Benny, secret agents.and politicians hungry for powerHarper (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=Darren ShanAdam Stower|title= Archibald Lox Murray and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 Bun
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers|summary= So. We're back Murray is supposed to the Merge with the first chapter in the third volume of Darren Shan's saga of Archibald Loxbe a humble, tidy and friendly cat, a young man one who can pick the locks of portals from our world is able to anothersleep and eat and eat and sleep and, called well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician'Merge''. Since s cat, so his last adventure, Archie favourite bun has persuaded his foster parents been turned into a slightly uneasy truce on hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the topic catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of his regular disappearancesfrightening adventure and whiffs. They don 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't ask too many questions s turned up and Archie has settled into he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winston, his lock-picking mentor in the ''MergeYo birthing person'' and showing Kojojoke? And if you could, is the young guardianquestion should you make it? Or is the question if you did, around our world of would it land? The catch is that the Bornanswer for both could well be.. .. no. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|isbn=1529431735
|title=The Winter Visitor
|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?