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|isbnauthor=1529393930Paul B Preciado|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie RochesterDysphoria Mundi|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsPolitics and Society|summary=''Starting a creative business has It is never been easier.too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood''
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|author=Freya MarskeSamantha Harvey|title=A Marvellous LightOrbital|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Civil ServiceBooker Prize for ''Orbital'', much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the streets lives of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to group of astronauts aboard the countryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with powerInternational Space Station. There they uncover Through a sinister plot narrative lens that threatens mirrors the lives of all magicians astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to see our planet in the British Islesa wholly new light. |isbn=15290808861529922933
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|isbn=0241480442295967572X|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition SciencePale Pieces|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienG M Stevens|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryLiterary Fiction|summary=Emotionally, I am Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a vegantrain journey with his companion Django. MentallyWhere they're going and what the purpose of this journey is, I am a veganis uncertain. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] Django found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere'' and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in has persuaded our search for (preferably cheap) foodnarrator to accompany him. Practically, I am Why not a vegan. It worked for a while apart from the odd blip with regard to cheese ? Not much else is clear either - but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often we are probably in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. It wasn't the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just past as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was pair travel to the station by coach and the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in train is a few spare momentssteam locomotive.
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|isbn=suppl_stafl0008551324|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Kim StaflundNeil Lancaster
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|genre=ReferenceCrime|summary=So, youIt've finished writing your book and you think s unusual for anyone from the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need Hardie family to do now is get it published and approach the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong againpolice. You presumably wrote Neither side likes or has any respect for the book because you wanted other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to - tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and you had a talent who was responsible for delivering the written wordher death. You knew your subject back to frontThis person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. Now you're going And what he wants is to have be transferred to get an open prison to grips with serve the book supply chain, which even parts remainder of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change his sentence and no one wants to be the first to tryget an early parole date. ThenNot much to ask, when you is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'finally'' have a copy of s even prepared to do the book in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to sell it other thing that Hardie demanded - because it ''make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him iskept well away from what'' going to be down to yous happening.
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|isbnauthor=1398706906Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The Lost|author=Simon BeckettVaim
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|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah Colley's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happened. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo All was playing and when he woke, Theo had gone. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later hestrange's largely come through it and he's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used to be his best friend but it's a long time since they've spoken. He's obviously . This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it Vaim, a fictional fishing village in his voice - Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quay. ''There's no one else I can trust''Eline, he saystwo of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829
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|authorisbn=Amanda Mason1035043092|title=The Hiding Place|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But there's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect that she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{FrontpageKilling Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Paul Cleave|title=The Quiet PeopleAnn Cleeves
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|summary= I am not a fan of "can't have been the Prologue". Most books are the worse for them. In this case I might make an exception. We only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start with Luca Pittman who is in a hurrynew life on Orkney. He has to hurry because It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he has children that he should not have's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Willow's also his boss, and when he hurriesshe ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when he bundles things into the back body of his car and tries to run and then hears sirens behind hima popular islander, Archie Stout, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things therefound, he takes in the aftermath of a riskstorm, she can't resist getting involved. It ends badly He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.|isbn=1913193942
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|author=Will CarverThea Lenarduzzi|title=Psychopaths AnonymousThe Tower|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, drinking continuously and alsohow dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, curiouslyThea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, addicted to attending numerous AA groupsthe protagonist of this tale. She Just as T's story is also being told, the story of a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the AA steps she is mainly using daughter of a wealthy family in the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters19th century, targets to feed her desire to hear who died of peopletuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's miseryimagination. Annie's fate is, and targets for her violent behaviourabove all, an enticing story to T. Yet It is a story which she also seems to be searching consumes avariciously, both in a quest for others who think as she doestruth and knowledge, and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any service of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessionsmyth, fable and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornfantasy. |isbn=19131937561804271799
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|isbnauthor=1529418100Claire-Louise Bennett|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin WalkerBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=I'm not Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a fan symbol of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories intimacy and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan closeness, becomes evidence of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so love lost. When the temptation to read narrator cries out internally, ''Brunocome over here and kiss me,'s Challenge'' was hard it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to resist and I'm rather glad that I didn't even tryconfirm her emotional numbness. For those new to the seriesThe imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need a ghost she conjures to know about who's who and the background to why Bruno is in St Denistest her detachment.|isbn=1804271934
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF0008405026|title=Buried Lies A Stranger in the Family (Gaby Darin Book 5Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jenny O'BrienJane Casey|rating=45
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|summary=Hannah Thomas was having It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her first bed one summer night away from her son. Hunter had diabetes She was never found and this was controlled by the investigation ground to a pump attached to his stomachhalt. Now, so her over-protectiveness was understandablemother, but her fianceHelena, Ian, was pestering and her to get married and she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likefather are dead in their bed. Her friendInitially, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for a night in it looks like a posh hotel straightforward murder/suicide but then he dumped her and she couldnthere't get s something about the money back, so Hannah was offered positioning of the opportunity to go in his placebodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. She would return home What looked as though it was going to find Ian dead be an open-and five-year-old Hunter missingshut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbnauthor=B09GV3WS1QAnnie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=Without a Trace|author=Jane BettanyThe Other Girl
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|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through We were born from the same body. I've never really wanted to think about this.'' Ernaux's work is always very candid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the most intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, this letter will never reach her. Why? Because Annie Ernaux's sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a divorce few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, and right now it 2 years before the author was raining hardeven born. All she wanted was to get back The large and instant void created by the jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with this giant absence in her new home life, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845}}{{Frontpage|author=Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and settle down for Andreyev|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=Biographies are often seen as the form of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and less personal. I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a quiet eveningvibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. It wasnIn the first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: 't going 'you write not of real life as it is, but of what you yourself imagine it to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed with a knife in his chest. SheWhom would it help to know how I see this tower, that sea, or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''d no idea who . Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, giving us access to how he wassaw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=1804271977
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|isbn=18387748231529077745|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=S J BennettAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's 2016 and the Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on A man walking his waistband. Swimming, he decides, is the way to go and he can use dog in the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to be there early one morning and discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at a man in the side of the poolpark near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. There The dead man was broken glass Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a crystal tumbler, by shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the look at it murder - probably but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the young royals being careless residents, fourteen-year- and old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's diary makes it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly clear that she had bled outadored Josh. Still, it was a shock for Sir SimonShe knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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|isbn=057136358XB0FK5LHKD9|title=April in SpainThe Colour of Memory|author=John BanvilleChristopher Bowden|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Terry Tice was It's been three years since we last reviewed a hitmanbook by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, although he didn't think of himself in those termsso we were very glad to see a new novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. He saw what he did as Like all Bowden's stories, there's a matter of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist mystery at the thought that he was an extreme version heart of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to kill a lot The Colour of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old timeMoney''. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles We like this running theme in the ''morning''? It was after Percyan author's death that he saw the benefits of taking up work - take a job in Spainmystery but give it different flavour and atmosphere each time.
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|author=Dave Letterfly KnodererOlga Tokarczuk|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the constant in that image is the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley
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|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=How to summarise the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you knowPrivate Investigator for some time now, I really don't think I can. Dave is an author and an artisthe should be doing quite well financially. An inspirational speaker and Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a professional horsemanmurder charge drained his savings. And a recovering alcoholic His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. The son That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the state of a Lutheran ministertheir savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, heit's struggled with a controlling father, run away to join the circus (not thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a metaphor), trained horses, painted caravans, designed and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when the bottle took overmiscarriage of justice that he really should put right.|isbn=B0965V3LLN
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|authorisbn=Tade Thompson1836284683|title=Far From the Light of HeavenThe Big Happy|author=David Chadwick
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|genre=Science Dystopian Fiction|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion Well! This is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's AI captain. Howevermurder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, when she wakes up at the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtimeit's AI almost non-responsive, she begins nothing like I expected it to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong it takes me on the Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagoswild ride. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not And that is just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating= 4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetableswhat happened with ''The Big Happy''. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen I don't want to explain how good they are ruin a similar experience for any of you and how nice reading but I'll have to eatat least set the scene. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her Once that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots's done, grow in the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lilythink you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.|isbn= B09HHN541V
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|isbnauthor=178607981XSally Rooney|title=Bad Apples|author=Will DeanIntermezzo
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction |summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked grandmaster at the side of the roadputting it into words. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of the car - Her dialogue is gripping and heard so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the screams from deep inside many relationships woven into this story, the forest. Determining central one for readers to unravel is the direction of a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where Peter Koubek. Ivan, a woman was holding her coat over the body of socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a mansuccessful lawyer living in Dublin. HeFollowing their father'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Perssons passing after a long battle with cancer, a resident of Visbergthe brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir1036916375|title=Cold As HellJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Peter McArdle
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|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary= In ''Just a red suitcase Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of memories and reflections from the years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the bottom family history of a fissure in sea-going family, with the docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the what-might-have-been. It's a lava fieldbook to settle into and allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, to think of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, there is despite the blitz that was a bodyconstant factor in McArdle's early years. And I'd never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and could appear after the man who has put her there has just discovered that he is capable of killingall-clear was sounded.|isbn=1913193888
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|authorisbn=Lucy Hope1836285493|title=FledglingThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5
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|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene Will is a most peculiar hilltop housekeen player of video games, built bit by bit over the decadesa conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods belowa supportive friend. It's an eccentric houseBut most of all, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system he is not as we'd know it, the roof is retractable, there an aspiring writer. English is a steam-poweredhis favourite lesson at his school, hand-operated lift system cut through itMarlowe Park, and so onone at which he excels. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermyThis hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, a woman who does nothing but quibbleMrs Howarth, kvetch and sing opera loudly, she has suggested to Will and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, his mum that he spends a young lass who has to do all the maintenance couple of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is afternoons a cherub. And if you think such week at a heavenly arrival is going to different school, Station Road, where his ability might be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again..better extended.|isbn=183994188X
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|isbn=18462767721009473085|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our MindsConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Jessica NordellAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that they may no longer even recognise the extent applies to which they suffer from it''The Conservative Effect: it2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''s simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able If you're looking for an easy read which will come before deliver the disabled. Jobsinside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, promotions, higher salaries are then this isn't the preserve of the white manbook for you. Even when those who wouldnIf that's what you're looking for, I don't pass the medical become a part of an organisation itthink Anthony Seldon's rare that their views are heardbook, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, that their concerns are acknowledgedcan be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's personally appalling a compelling read and degrading should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the individuals on well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the receiving end state of the bias but it's not just nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the individuals who are negatively impactedsituation in 2024.
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|author=Teresa DriscollJenny Valentine|title=Her Perfect FamilyUs in the Before and After
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|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to GemmaElk and Mab are best friends, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisationor more than that even, at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit their friendship is all wronga once in a lifetime connection. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is… They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the noveland they are inseparable. In a twist of events Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and after a change of outfitnow they must work through their grief, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a comaand their friendship, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you readtogether.|isbn=15420287521471196585
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|isbn=84092901031787333175|title=If OnlyYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Matthew TreeBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionPopular Science|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to send him Hurt}}, a monthly allowance. Patrick sent glorious mixture of insight into the money regularly and a correspondence - workings of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than PatrickNHS, humour and autobiography. It wasn 't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that he didnYou Don't care Have to have him in this country where he might be a danger Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to his wife mental illness and other childrenthe work of a psychiatrist. The alcohol problem I did wonder whether it was obvious even before Patrick managed acceptable to get be looking for humour in this setting but the young man on his waylaughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)Mariana Enriquez|title=The Rabbit FactorA Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is other human beingsdisturbingly real, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has diedan urban planning mishap, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, overcrowded homeless shelter and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady moneycrime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine -moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanishedall within Argentina. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people The circumstances of her characters are quickly on so plausible that the scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting spaces adopts a cheap life insurance plan..similarly tangible texture.|isbn=191319387X1803511230
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|isbn=14711793111529934753|title=The UnheardProtest|author=Nicci FrenchRob Rinder
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=TessFor a little while, a teacher and Jasonit looked as though Sir Max Bruce, a headmasterthe country's most famous living artist, have split was not going to show up: she and Poppy have moved out for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in the family home nick of time, complete with his two wives and Jason is now married to Emilysix children, one of whom filmed what happened. The separation Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was amicable - they had just drifted aparta record of the protest. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was Lexi Williams, an intern at the family home RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and another proceeded to spray Bruce in the flat she shares with her motherface, whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. It ''seemed'' to be working well until the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing part of an ongoing series of a woman falling from a tall building and she started swearing'blue-face' attacks, using words she but this was unlikely to have heard in either homedifferent. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems at nursery school. Tess turns to a therapist for helpThe can had been laced with cyanide, then her doctor and finally the police but no one will take what she has to say seriouslySir Max Bruce was dead.
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|isbnauthor=1471196615Ariel Saramandi|title=Iced|author=Felix FrancisPortrait of an Island on Fire
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|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=Miles Pussett used In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to be a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down intradermally dissect the three-quarter-mile Cresta Runsociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourtunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. He was in St Moritz Saramandi describes the same weekend country at one stage as White Turf - that's high-class horseracing on 'rotting'', a blunt yet apt metaphor for the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with systemic decay brought about by the saddling malignant forces of the horses. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and he swore that he'd never go back to itgovernmental dysfunction. But when he sees that something suspicious is going onEach essay in this collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, Miles can't help but look for answers, even when it puts him in dangercharting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|isbn=1804271616
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|isbnauthor=147228612XPekka Harju-Autti|title=The Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Alan JohnsonLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=We all know people like Gary NelsonIt's the eighteenth century, although we probably haven't taken much notice a time of themdiscovery and Britain is expanding its foreign trade. They live quietCaptain Julius Hawthorne, uneventful lives and stay mostly under an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to the radarAndaman Islands in his endeavour. In a city like LondonAlong with his son, Peter, that's quite easy - and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himtheir cat, Michi, they set off on a perilous voyage to these faraway lands. The highlight of his day is watching a islands are beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work on and stunning in their scenery and the train each morning: he'd love to ask her for a date but he doesnislanders't have the courage. Thenleader, on his homeward commuteAarav, Arina speaks is keen to him and asks for his help. Before long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan policeestablish good relations.|isbn=B0DS1VGHH3
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|author=Claire McGowanHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=I Know YouLili is Crying|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from a walk with their proper position on the baby, Carsonpage and positions them elsewhere, and comes across three bodiesdisjointed, almost a whole family taken downtruncated. ''Now:'' Rachel is out for a walk with Like the lives of her dog, Brandycharacters, when she comes across a body in the woodsthey are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=15420199741804271675
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|isbnauthor=1529148251Tom Percival|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela CoelThe Wrong Shoes
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|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary=Will''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rapes life is difficult, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? in a multitude of ways. ItHe is bullied because he has 's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can' Before you start reading t work and doesn''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame t have enough money for even the most basic of mind. Youthings like food, and his dad can're not going to read t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a book of essays or cash-in-hand job on a self-help bookbuilding site and had an accident. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela CoelThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festivallife seems bleak in every direction. You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the words as though you're in the lecture theatreAnd yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. The disjointedness will fade away He is good at art, and you'll be carried on clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a cloud light at the end of exquisite writinga long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=0008433631Sylvie Cathrall|title=Next of Kin|author=Kia AbdullahA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=It was the sort of thing that happened every day, although not to Leila Syed. She'd never driven her nephew, Max, There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her in a paniccompelling premise. He was supposed to be taking Max to school but he'd been called into work and the delay in getting there could lead to financial losses. As the school was only five minutes out And this is one of Leila's way, could she drop him off? Of course, she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her car. On the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1786482126|title=Everybody Toots! The Janus Stone (Everybody Potties!Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= TootsBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, trumps, fartsDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Whatever your word for them It's difficult as Ruth knows, find us a child that but Nelson doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that she is. But horribly embarrassing if you let pregnant with his child as a result of the one go at the wrong timenight they spent together some three months ago. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone Her condition will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attachedbe obvious before long, explains that tooting not least because Ruth is perfectly normalprone to sudden bouts of sickness. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}}
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|isbnauthor=1784165263Guadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma CurtisThe Accidentals
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|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on This collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the dotword: spellbinding with its fantastical, despite the fact that she was actually painting one magical elements and charming in its gentle portrayal of their properties prior to it being letnature and human relationships. If she didn't get homeGuadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and precisely, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was her stories structured by a paraplegic and confined wisdom that appears to a wheelchair, but don't be too quick want to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was teach us something about to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableworld.|isbn=1804271470
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|isbn=17847427750008551375|title=A Change of Circumstance When Shadows Fall (Simon SerraillerD S Max Craigie)|author=Susan HillNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=Drugs hadnLeanne Wilson't really been that much s body was found at the bottom of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of timetragic accident. She'd looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. They still Her friends were, to a great extentrelieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but Serrailler knew it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that something five other women had to be donedied in similar circumstances in the last year. Children as young as nine All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were being recruited to transport the drugs doing and the operation running the county lines was tightsensible people. A mule might know None of the name (although it probably wouldn't be the correct one) of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldnwhat a stupid thing to do't know anything about those higher up in the organisationexplanations applied. The police might catch They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a few of killer on the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher uploose.
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