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|authorisbn=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker1806344777|title=A Tattoo on my BrainArthur and the Land of Nimbostratus: Arthur's Able Adventures|author=Rob Keeley|rating=34.5|genre=AutobiographyFor Sharing|summary=AlzheimerArthur dreams of adventures. He looks out of his window each day and thinks of all the escapades he could have, the places he could go and the things he could see. His favourite day is Saturday because that's the day his friend Maxine - she of the booming laugh and silver bangles - comes to visit. Maxine is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense great believer in the power of selfimagination. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035043092|title=The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=I can't have been directly affected the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by this cruel disease, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a statue over time affected the elementsnew life on Orkney. It seems 's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as if nature wants that final victory over you and your dignitywell as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs Willow' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers s also his boss, and has documented his journey in she ''should''A Tattoo be on my Brainmaternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.|isbn=1108838936
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|isbnauthor=1635862353Polly Barton|title=The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel CorryWhat Am I, A Deer?|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsLiterary Fiction|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldnPolly Barton't really believe its debut novel is an intellectually playful yet emotionally exposed work that uses translation as both subject and governing metaphor. The narrator, newly relocated from London to Berlin, mainly because I'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than works translating video games into Japanese through the average home was likely process of localisation, rewriting language until it feels comfortably familiar to be able to contain but I was intrigueda new audience. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - Barton treats this as a small fire destroyed some paradoxical act: arguably, in striving for universality, language is endlessly repackaged, its originality at risk of her shoesdisappearing altogether. One pair had come apart and she could see how From this, the sandal was constructed. Then she realised that she couldn't afford to replace all her shoes. Could she combine these two facts to create novel opens out into a new and worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few people her first pair and they all either wanted wider, resonant question: to know how what extent do we translate ourselves in order to do it - be understood, accepted, or if she'd make them a pair. A new career was born.loved?|isbn=1804272175
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|isbn=1787332098Zabriskie1|title=How to Love Animals A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in a Human-Shaped WorldIndigenous Wisdom|author=Henry ManceStephanie Zabriskie
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|genre=Politics and SocietyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species Across many African and groups: cowsIndigenous systems, dogsdifferences in how children learn, foxessense , elephants and so onor process the world were not treated as disorders to be corrected. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, They were understood as natural variations of human intelligence and millions of wild animals stay out thereawareness, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on each holding value within the next David Attenborough seriescommunity.''
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|author=Ananda DeviMaria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsThe Disappearing Act
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=At not even 200 pagesDespite her anonymisation of place names and people, Eve Out Stepanova's message in this short work of Her Ruins autofiction is one unmistakable. A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to the town of the shortest books I've read in F for a literary festival she is to be a long whileguest speaker at. Detoured by erratic train schedules and nudged by forces beyond her control, but it's one her journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. Swept up in this series of events, M eventually offers to step in for a circus performer who has unexpectedly left the most dramaticshow. It's also told in The train functions as a way that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing motif of transience and pulls very few punchesimpermanence, while the descriptions stark circus embodies the reshaping of identity and unromantica retreat into fantasy, an impulse that lies at the very heart of the novel form itself.|isbn=09930093441804272329}}
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|isbn=0241985137B0GFQ81YQK|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Cara HunterStephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstBefore people came and joined the animals, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor on a student. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was only the alleged perpetrator doing in sky and the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''earth. Everything was'' quiet until the 'victim' earth and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fishersky began to tal to each other. Just to complicate matters furtherFirst, Caleb's mother is Petra Newsonthe earth created bodies. And then, the local MPsky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligenceespecially how they came to be. She has an eight-year-When they grew old sonand died, buys her wine by their bodies returned to the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes earth and has more than ten thousand Twitter followerstheir life returned to the sky. When And that is why the excrement encounters earth and the ventilation equipment, this sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is going why people must pay attention to be ''very'' public, and care for, both.
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|isbn=0753558378B0GHPMNF6P|title=EffortlessThe Zookeeper's Dragon: Make It Easier to Do What MattersA Magical Modern Fantasy Tale for Grown-Ups|author=Greg McKeownCarolyn Mathews
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|genre=LifestyleFantasy|summary=When Phil's father unexpectedly dies, he quits his Canary Wharf finance job to take over the running of the family's farm zoo. He's not expecting much excitement, until he receives an unidentified egg that his new-age stoner uncle Edgar found in a cave in New Zealand, and suddenly life is no longer quite what it seems. Then the egg hatches into neither a reptile nor a bird, but a dragon! Now he, Edgar, his mother Abi, and the zoo'The marginal return s part-time café waitress Pearl have to raise this little bundle of working harder wasscales and joy, despite having no idea how to actually raise dragons and not being able to tell anyone about it. But this tiny little dragon may show them love and connection in ways they had never before imagined…}}{{Frontpage|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|title=How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the oral traditions of Maasai elders in factNgorongoro, negativeTanzania.''
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|isbnauthor=1471181405Makenna Goodman|title=Nighthawking|author=Russ ThomasHelen of Nowhere
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|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Sheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like to visit) are an oasis It could be argued that the pervading theme of calm in what's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the body of book is malaise - a young woman was discovered. It had obviously been buried in one of the beds but who would have started hard-to dig her up? It had been -place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the earth for months brink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and could have been undiscovered for yearsunnerving: Helen. The police need to establish who stabbed her - connection between Helen and who left the twoprotagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the countryside house he's considering, very rareHelen represents a volta in his life, gold aurei on her eyespast tied to his potential fresh start. DCI Diane Jordan is The realtor who shows the protagonist around the Investigating Officer house shares stories about Helen, and describes her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbani. Theyas 're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks hean entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's . Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are not fully recovered from his injuriesaltogether innocuous.|isbn=1804272205
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|authorisbn= Jennifer Saint B0GCB1MQ7D|title= Ariadne Why My Mother Went Away|author=Alan Kennedy|rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction Autobiography|summary= This re-telling of I have often wondered how prominent people came to hold their positions. With 'celebrities', there's frequently a book they might or might not have written, which might or might not tell the true story. It's not often that you find a book that gives the myth of Ariadne full backstory, and rarely do you discover a memoir where the Minotaur telling is interesting so perfect that you'll go back and reread paragraphs and unusualsentences, just for the pleasure the words give. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that ''Why My Mother Went Away'' is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audienceone of those rare exceptions. Saint It's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint story of Ariadne, spanning how a boy from her childhood to her deaththe Midlands, allowing born at the reader to really connect with Ariadne as beginning of the Second World War, would become a character in her own right rather than just a prop in Professor of Psychology at Dundee University. In fact, he was one of the heroics founders of Theseusthe department. |isbn=1472273869}}
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|author=Gianna Pollero Jeremy Cooper|title=Discord|rating= 3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Discord: a lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) The principal example of discord within the novel, as with most instances of discord, is easily located. The two protagonists of the novel, Rebekah Rosen and Sarah HorneEvie Bennet, are as different as they come. Rebekah is an uptight, traditional and no-nonsense composer close to retirement, while Evie is a force of nature, bounding onto the musical scene as a precocious saxophonist, oozing with talent and charm. The two, predictably, don't always see eye to eye, their approaches different and Evie's progressive views at odds with Rebekah's conservative leaning. However, something connects them beyond just their musical project: a sort of fragile alliance formed within the clamour.|isbn=1804272264}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=Monster DoughnutsThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5
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|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappearedWill's life is difficult, Grace and Danni have been left to run the family bakeryin a multitude of ways. But Grace needs He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the doughnuts wrong shoes because his dad can't work and sweet treats that Danni bakes doesn't have enough money for a rather unusual reason...even though shethe most basic of things like food, and his dad can's only ten years oldt work because he lost his job at the college, she is was working a monster hunter! Monsters have cash-in-hand job on a very sweet tooth, building site and Grace uses a number of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, or tricking them had an accident. Throw into eating a sweet treat that willmix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, ultimatelyand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, be their demisehe still has a tiny amount of hope. One dayHe is good at art, thoughand clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, Grace finds herself facing that feel like a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, who has light at the end of a weakness for doughnuts but doesn't seem to explode as the other monsters dolong, and so things start to get very strange…dark tunnel.|isbn=18481294321398527122
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|isbnauthor=0995647895Edward W Said|title=Sadie and Representations of the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceIntellectual |rating=34.5|genre=For SharingPolitics and Society|summary=SadieEdward Said's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>''To Representations of the Maritime MuseumIntellectual''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under is less a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches strict theory of what intellectuals are on show) and missed more a passionate argument for what they should be. Said clearly rejects the closing bell and comfortable image of the attendant's warning shoutintellectual as a detached expert speaking only to other specialists. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in Instead, he insists on the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in intellectual as a world of dolphinspublic figure, often awkward, piratesabrasive, mermaids and treasureunpopular, who speaks truth to power even when it is inconvenient or risky.|isbn=1804272248
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|author=Kristen O'NealSylvie Cathrall|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to come a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the rest bones of her lifea child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, an online support group where that she talks to is pregnant with his child as a bunch result of other teens living with chronic illnessesthe one night they spent together some three months ago. They talk about their troubles and help each other out Her condition will be obvious before long, while also providing an escape not least because Ruth is prone to just joke and mess aroundsudden bouts of sickness. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551375|title=When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesnShadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Leanne Wilson't respond to s body was found at the chat for bottom of a whileScottish mountain, Priya becomes concernedseemingly the result of a tragic accident. She decides to steal 'd looked so happy, too, when she posted her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living herbest life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year. But All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what she doesnthey were doing and sensible people. None of the 't expect what a stupid thing to find do' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there is 's a werewolf in killer on the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few monthsloose.|isbn=1683692349
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|author=Mercedes HelnweinPaul B Preciado|title=SlingshotDysphoria Mundi|rating=34.5|genre=TeensPolitics and Society|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself ''It is never too late to being lonely. As embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood'' Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and brings forth a secret illegitimate daughter of new sensorium as an offering to the new generation, a man with new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a "real" familysign of political apathy. Rather, she it is used the proportional, valid response to not being a priority in people's lives'the epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. But The whole text is framed against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when she defends dysphoria began to emerge on a random boy in her class with her slingshotglobal scale, her simple existence is changed for goodor as ''pangea covidica''. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitudeRather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfieldpolitical paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.|isbn=152905818X1804271454
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|isbnauthor=B005FM76AASamantha Harvey|title=The Duke's Children|author=Anthony TrollopeOrbital
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|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=The story opens to probably the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is dead. Her husband, Plantagenet PalliserIn 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Duke of Omnium, is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling - at the same time - to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even in office. He seeks to protect and guide his three adult children, which is easier said than done when none of them wishes to Booker Prize for ''beOrbital'' guided. Silverbridge (his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, but always known by his title) and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run up gambling debts, occasionally in eye-watering sums. Lady Helen has fallen a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in love with - and wishes to marry - Frank Tregear, the penniless son lives of a poor squire, which group of astronauts aboard the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady GlencoraInternational Space Station. HeThrough a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts's about orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to learn that parents do not always get their waysee our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933
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|authorisbn=Goldy Moldavsky295967572X|title=The Last GirlPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens
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|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= Rachel Chavez Our unnamed narrator is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled about to the brim begin a train journey with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesn't belonghis companion Django. SheWhere they's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, re going and most what the purpose of allthis journey is, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as a source of comfortis uncertain. She struggles to find anyone to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon Django found the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off tickets ''on the best prank in true horror movie style, floor somewhere'' and unless someone screams, you have failedhas persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the competition. But past as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up pair travel to the pranks, station by coach and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes train is a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too latesteam locomotive.|isbn=0755501527
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|authorisbn=Polly Barton0008551324|title=Fifty SoundsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan police. Neither side likes or has been on my radar any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a while missing person is buried and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by nowwho was responsible for her death. I may get there later this year This person, he promises, but I am not hopefulis someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And like Barton, I don't know the answer what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect remainder of the question in the first essayhis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, which is on the sound it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn''giro' '' – which t think so and she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have s even prepared to introduce yourself'do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1913097501
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|author=Lucy HollandThea Lenarduzzi|title=SistersongThe Tower
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sistersong is part ''How unctuous are the fats of a genre I particularly enjoyanother's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the modern retelling identity of folk and fairy tales. These storiesT, for most the protagonist of usthis tale. Just as T's story is being told, are a cornerstone the story of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdatedsecond protagonist is unveiled: Annie, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role daughter of women. Sistersong is a perfect example wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a modern retelling done welltower, the plot captures T's imagination. Annie's fate is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to lifeabove all, an enticing story to feel real and humanT. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, most importantly they feel relatable both in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate quest for the pre-Saxon age they live truth and knowledge, and in. This is a masterpiece service of storytelling myth, fable and I was captivated from beginning to endfantasy. |isbn=15290390371804271799
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|isbnauthor=1529124255Claire-Louise Bennett|title=The Whispers|author=Heidi PerksBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
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|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=We know straight away that there's going to be Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a body. It's on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near the town symbol of Clearwater intimacy and it's new year's daycloseness, becomes evidence of love lost. To understand what happened weWhen the narrator cries out internally, 're going to have to go back to the previous September. Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - she's lived there since her teens come over here and nowkiss me, in her mid-thirties, she's returned ' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her home town to liveemotional numbness. Her husbandThe imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eightex-year-old daughterpartner, Matilda, might as well be in the lovely apartment a ghost she's foundconjures to test her detachment. Grace's best friend, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child too. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joining. It's perfect!|isbn=1804271934
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|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon0008405026|title=The SourceA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=2.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=1996. Essex. ThirteenIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a disenfranchised town dominated by a military basehalt. Now, struggling to care for her baby sister while mother, Helena, and her mum sleeps off another bingefather are dead in their bed. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and offers her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an exclusive invitation to army partiesopen-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, things start to look a little Una Burt) are less bleak..convinced.|isbn=1913193594
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|isbnauthor=B004O37B6AAnnie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Prime Minister|author=Anthony TrollopeOther Girl
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|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=Plantagenet Palliser, ''We were born from the Duke of Omnium, is the prime minister of a coalition government but hesame body. I've never really wanted to think about this.'' Ernaux's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand Lopez. Lopex work is exotic - some describe him as Jewishalways very candid and her tone transparent, others as Portuguese but this raw epistolary text must be one of the truth is that no one knows and Lopez is not going most intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in direct address to explainher sister, however, this letter will never reach her. The ladies of society, even PalliserWhy? Because Annie Ernaux's own wifesister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, Lady Glencoraa few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in and 2 years before the author was even born. The large and instant void created by the position jarring concept of having writing to support his wifean imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's actions when Lopez loses a by-election. The Duke's payment process of Lopez' election expenses reckoning with this giant absence in her life, an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt himabsence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845
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|author=Jessie GreengrassMaxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=The High HouseReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionBiography|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass on its genetic material with Biographies are often seen as the implied belief form of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and less personal. I think that your progeny will then pass on theirsGorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. HoweverIn the first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that train : ''you write not of thought real life as it is slowly seems , but of what you yourself imagine it to have fallen out of favourbe. Today's young generation are discovering that their parents and their parents' parents did not seem Whom would it help to think know how I see this tower, that far ahead. Or they did think sea, or that far ahead and thought "Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?'s not my problem" or "there's nothing I . Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can do". Raising be gained from a child subjective account, giving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and living Andreyev in a world on the precipice such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of catastrophe is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrass. This is not a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This is the life our children and their children will have to liveit.|isbn=18007500721804271977
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|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan1529077745|title=Madame BurovaThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=This book lets us discover several people A man walking his dog in different stages the early morning discovered the body of life a man in the early 1970spark near Rosebank, all vaguely connecteda care home for troubled teens. So we have The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, investigate the murder - but her only clue is the third generation disappearance of Madame Burovaone of the residents, ''Tarotfourteen-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's seayear-front boothold Chloe Spencer. The singer, Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the scryer and death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the sufferergirl's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stalldiary makes it clear that she adored Josh. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters She knows that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her has to find Chloe to Imelda, and why did it have discover what happened to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331XJosh.
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|author= Jonathan StroudOlga Tokarczuk|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneHouse of Day, House of Night|rating= 45|genre= TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting ''What's the draconian conformity good of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The title of Britainthis spellbinding work, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne''House of Day, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them downHouse of Night'', they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the London Lagoon. Togethersmall, they must brave man-eating wildlifesubtle changes which govern our lives, like the cannibalistic Tainted and all shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach constant in that image is the Free Isleshouse, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in stoic against the rest of Britain?ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=14063948151804271918
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|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S1836284683|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourselfThe Big Happy|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingDystopian Fiction|summary=Remy Well! This is feeling miserable. Hea murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, it's let himself down nothing like I expected it to be, and it takes me on a wild ride. And that is just what happened with ''againThe Big Happy''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, I don't want to ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but I'll have been laughing to at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupidleast set the scene. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just Once that little bit further when the other kids are around. So's done, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happenedI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.
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|isbnauthor=B00474HVX4Sally Rooney|title=Phineas Redux|author=Anthony TrollopeIntermezzo
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|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Having succeeded in parliament Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and achieved Peter Koubek. Ivan, a paying position he fell out socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with those who provided his income and returned to Ireland where he married Maryolder brother Peter, his childhood sweetheart. He was fortunate to get a job successful lawyer living in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into a life of domesticity. To bring Finn back, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges in London as Following their father's passing after a childless widower long battle with a legacy from an aunt who died at just cancer, the right time to allow the move to be possiblebrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1836285493|title=The Other EmilyDouble Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=45|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Our hero David Thorne Will is an authora keen player of video games, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's the western coast we're concerned witha conscientious student, a place he has to return to, slightly annoying brother and a place supportive friend. But most of all, he has to be able to leaveis an aspiring writer. David lost contact with English is his partner there ten years agofavourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, when she vanished from a remote road late and one at nightwhich he excels. HeThis hasn's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspectt gone unnoticed by his headteacher, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal LecterMrs Howarth, and she has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is trying suggested to pry the connection between the murderer Will and his girl from the man's mind, but to no avail. He's also having mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodimentdifferent school, the virtual resurrectionStation Road, of where his loveability might be better extended. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958
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|authorisbn=Charlie Carroll1009473085|title=The LipConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)
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|genre=Literary FictionPolitics and Society|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''Melody Janie RoweThe Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?'' . even If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the name is evocative of…probably of whatever we want it to beinside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, and maybe thatthen this isn's t the pointbook for you. To me the name sings of English folk music, but even in my use of If that word English's what you're looking for, I know Idon't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect''m putting is an emmet take on thingsentirely different beast. And Melody Janie Rowe is antiIt's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-emmeteditor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024. |isbn=1529334179
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|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellJenny Valentine|title=The Day Us in the Screens Went BlankBefore and After
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|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Meet Stella Elk and her familyMab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They're just innocently trying to have meet as children one day on a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when trip out but unfortunately they don''poof'' everything goes blank. And itt get each other's not just their home, but contact details at the entire south-western village of Mousehole, and not just that, either, but the whole country, if not worldtime. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen But then chance brings them backtogether, and not what they were constantly doing on them beforeare inseparable. Toasters can toast Something has happened though, but TVs cannot do the V part of their jobsomething terrible and tragic, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against now they must work through their will, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandmagrief, and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just thattheir friendship, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too – for it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will lovetogether.|isbn=14711968871471196585
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