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|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1787333175|title=Bitter FlowersYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=3.5|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=Varg Veum I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and is now returning autobiography. ''You Don't Have to workbe Mad... However, the quiet job he's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a mystery around a missing womanpsychiatrist. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and I did wonder whether it was never found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear acceptable to be linked, looking for humour in this setting but what the laughter is the link, directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308Xunderstanding.
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|author=Kia AhankoobMaria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsDisappearing Act
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|genre=Graphic NovelsLiterary Fiction|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength Despite her anonymisation of place names and weakenesspeople, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by MyriadStepanova's children and their descendants. But it didn't quite message in this short work out like thatof autofiction is unmistakable. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to the town of them and the eight countries went F for a literary festival she is to warbe a guest speaker at. Having fought themselves into an endless Detoured by erratic train schedules and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too highnudged by forces beyond her control, her journey slowly bends toward a solution is proposedtraveling circus. Each Swept up in this series of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinelsevents, M eventually offers to step in for a single combat tournamentcircus performer who has unexpectedly left the show. The winner will take possession train functions as a motif of all transience and impermanence, while the rings circus embodies the reshaping of identity and become a retreat into fantasy, an impulse that lies at the supreme ruler very heart of Dunivathe novel form itself.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV1804272329
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|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsB0GFQ81YQK|title=Dragon StormHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: Tomas and IronskinFrom the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Meet TomasBefore people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Happy Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to work with his father in tal to each other. First, the blacksmith's forgeearth created bodies. And then, he's almost of the age sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to become a full apprentice, both earth and help with the new batch of dragonswords is certainly neededsky. Not that there are any dragonsAnd so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, of course – especially how they vanished centuries agocame to be. Except... Strange signals from within When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the forge furnace, earth and a peculiar invite their life returned to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the wash, sky. And that yes dragons do still exist in this world, is why the earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that Tom is rare in the ability why people must pay attention to summon them, share magical attributesand care for, and ride with themboth...|isbn=1839940026
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|isbn=1529346541B0GHPMNF6P|title=Something to HideThe Zookeeper's Dragon: An Inspector Lynley NovelA Magical Modern Fantasy Tale for Grown-Ups|author=Elizabeth GeorgeCarolyn Mathews|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=ItWhen Phil's late July 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 Deborah St James suddenly life is at no longer quite what it seems. Then the egg hatches into neither a meeting with Dominique Shawreptile nor a bird, Undersecretary for the school systembut a dragon! Now he, a representative from the NHSEdgar, Mr Oh from Barnardoshis mother Abi, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmaker. It follows on from the success of Deborahzoo's book ''London Voices'': the meeting is an exploration part-time café waitress Pearl have to raise this little bundle of the possibility of the scales and joy, despite having no idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communities. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the problem seems to occur in Nigerian actually raise dragons and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks not being able to tell anyone about it. But this tiny little dragon may show them love and photographs.connection in ways they had never before imagined…
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|isbnauthor=B09Q3P283YStephanie Zabriskie|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W HooperHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=45|genre=FantasyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor 'How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is he particularly interested in a career children’s nonfiction book drawn from the oral traditions of Maasai elders in the militaryNgorongoro, Tanzania. If he's honest ' The Maasai are a cattle- which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasnherding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be so. Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't got many choices tell the whole story of the intimate and this onesymbiotic connection its people, at leastand especially its women, gets him out of have with their cows and for the rut he's innatural world. He's good in training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed The oral tradition retelling the many conversations Maasai women have had with himselftheir cows, does.|isbn=B0G9WTGY6J
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|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmyLivi Michael|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondElizabeth and Ruth|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary=There ''Elizabeth and Ruth'' is no mermaid in a work of historical fiction wrought from the life of the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, best known for her in amongst all the other kidsfirst novel Mary Barton (1848), who have had their entire childhoods sold to a radical critique of the mill-owners by treatment of the London workhouse they used to call homeworking class published under a pseudonym. Bess knows there is no time for friendship The ''Ruth'' from Livi Michael's title appears in a hand-to-mouthher novel as Pasley, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of young Irish prostitute who was abandoned as a kindred spirit child and finds herself in the slight little Dot, Manchester's New Bailey Prison after a difficult and despite everything that unjust hand at life has taught her about betrayal . Set in Manchester between 1839 and how befriending people only leads to harm1842, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in novel examines the harsh conditions endured by the Victorian working poor and interrogates the existence of extent to which the mermaid?wealthy (including Gaskell herself) were responsible for addressing these injustices.|isbn=180090049X1784633682
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|isbnauthor=1785633074Makenna Goodman|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh BerryHelen of Nowhere
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|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=Members It could be argued that the pervading theme of Parliament like us this book is malaise - a hard-to believe -place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the country brink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is run by politiciansseductive, headed by radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the Prime minister - former owner of the ''primus inter pares'' (thatcountryside house he's for those of you considering, Helen represents a volta in his life, her past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but shows the reality is that protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and describes her as ''primean entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. We are Although she lives in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubrisan assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the man who was behind reader gets the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might sense are not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watchaltogether innocuous.|isbn=1804272205
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|isbn=B09MYXSRV4B0GCB1MQ7D|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareWhy My Mother Went Away|author=Cordellya SmithAlan Kennedy|rating=45|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=When the world was madeI 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 animals were given giftstrue story. Bear was given strength so It's not often that he could become you find a protector. Water Spider received book that gives the full backstory, and rarely do you discover a strong web memoir where the telling is so perfect that even fire could not burnyou'll go back and reread paragraphs and sentences, just for the pleasure the words give. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''andWhy My Mother Went Away'' the futureis one of those rare exceptions. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not It's the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was story of how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not boy from the Midlands, born at the beginning of the Second World War, would become a fair contest but wait and seeProfessor of Psychology at Dundee University. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came aboutIn fact, he was one of the founders of the department.
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|author=Giovanna FletcherJeremy Cooper|title=Walking on SunshineDiscord|rating=43.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Mike's wifeDiscord: a lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, Piaor ideas) The principal example of discord within the novel, who he was as with for seventeen yearsmost instances of discord, has diedis easily located. And whilst he is dealing with his griefThe two protagonists of the novel, Rebekah Rosen and Evie Bennet, so are their best friendsas different as they come. Rebekah is an uptight, Vicky traditional and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' no-nonsense composer close to followretirement, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some while Evie is a force of nature, bounding onto the rules are around practicalities such musical scene as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips awaya precocious saxophonist, oozing with talent and Vicky and Zazacharm. The two, struggling with their grief and their own life troublespredictably, decide don't always see eye to drop everything in eye, their own lives, approaches different and go along Evie's progressive views at odds with himRebekah's conservative leaning. However, something connects them beyond just their musical project: a sort of fragile alliance formed within the clamour.|isbn=140593560X1804272264
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|isbnauthor=1529393930Tom Percival|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie RochesterThe Wrong Shoes
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|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=Will''Starting s life is difficult, in a creative business multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has never been easier.'the wrong shoes' , he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn'If not nowt have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, when?and his dad can'' I know that I'm not alone t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into -hand job on a businessbuilding site and had an accident. ThereThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are a lot tiny amount of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as giftshope. Selling would offset the costsHe is good at art, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun to do, couldn't it? But where to start? What do I need clings to think about? Well, the first thing anyone who moments of joy when he is considering turning drawing, that feel like a crafting hobby into light at the end of a business should do is to read ''Making a Living''long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|author=Freya MarskeEdward W Said|title=A Marvellous LightRepresentations of the Intellectual |rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionPolitics and Society|summary=Robin Blyth Edward Said's ''Representations of the Intellectual'' is nudged into less a job in strict theory of what intellectuals are and more a passionate argument for what they should be. Said clearly rejects the Civil Service, much comfortable image of the intellectual as a detached expert speaking only to his chagrinother specialists. There Instead, he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that insists on the streets of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove intellectual as a curse that threatens to swallow himpublic figure, often awkward, Robin follows Edwin to the countrysideabrasive, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with unpopular, who speaks truth to powereven when it is inconvenient or risky. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles. |isbn=15290808861804272248
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|isbnauthor=0241480442Sylvie Cathrall|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryScience Fiction|summary=Emotionally, I am There are few greater joys than a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the way in book which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, I am not a vegan. It worked for a while apart from the odd blip with regard lives up to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based proteincompelling premise. It wasn't the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the ease And this is one of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare momentsthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=suppl_stafl1786482126|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Kim StaflundElly Griffiths
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|genre=ReferenceCrime|summary=So, you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling Builders were demolishing an old house in? Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote Norwich - the book because you wanted site was going to hold seventy- and you had five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a talent for delivering the written wordchild beneath a doorway. You knew your subject back to frontThere was no skull. Now you're going to have to get to grips Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with the book supply chain, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but itDCI Harry Nelson. It's too difficult to change and no one wants to be the first to try. Thenas Ruth knows, when you but Nelson doesn''finally'' have t, that she is pregnant with his child as a copy result of the book in your handsone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - not least because it ''Ruth is'' going prone to be down to yousudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=13987069060008551375|title=The LostWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Simon BeckettNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The disappearance Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of Metropolitan police firearms officera Scottish mountain, Jonah Colleyseemingly the result of a tragic accident. She's young sond looked so happy, Theotoo, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just about finished himout of an unpleasant relationship, particularly as he blamed himself for what but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had happened. He'd fallen asleep died in similar circumstances in the park whilst Theo was playing and when he woke, Theo had gonelast year. It cost him his marriage All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and his homesensible people. Ten years later heNone of the 's largely come through it and he's out with his team when he gets what a phone call from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used stupid thing to be his best friend but it's a long time since theydo've spokenexplanations applied. HeThey were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quay. ''There's no one else I can trust'', he saysa killer on the loose.
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|author=Amanda MasonPaul B Preciado|title=The Hiding PlaceDysphoria Mundi|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorPolitics and Society|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life''It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood'' Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to Whitbythe new generation, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of Elder Housepolitical apathy. She hopes that Rather, it will be is the perfect place proportional, valid response to sort things out. But there's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling 'the epistemological and political crack we are living through, and off – the tension between emancipatory forces and before long Nell starts to suspect conservative resistances that she and her family arencharacterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''t alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{Frontpage|author=Paul Cleave|title=. The Quiet People|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= I am not a fan whole text is framed against the backdrop of "the Prologue". Most books are the worse for themCovid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''. In Rather than taking this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who is in extreme dysphoria as a hurry. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not havesign of weakness, and when he hurriesor mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, when he bundles things into the back of Preciado urges his car and tries readers to run and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badly''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.|isbn=19131939421804271454
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|author=Will CarverSamantha Harvey|title=Psychopaths AnonymousOrbital|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholicIn 2024, drinking continuously and alsoSamantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''Orbital'', curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the AA steps she is mainly using lives of a group of astronauts aboard the groups to find targetsInternational Space Station...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of peopleThrough a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts's miseryorbital perspective, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems Harvey invites readers to be searching for others who think as she does, and when she's unable to find like-minded people see our planet in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is borna wholly new light.|isbn=19131937561529922933
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|isbn=1529418100295967572X|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesPale Pieces|author=Martin WalkerG M Stevens|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=IOur unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they'm not usually a fan re going and what the purpose of short stories - I find it all too easy to put this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walkertickets 's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so on the temptation to read floor somewhere''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard and has persuaded our narrator to resist and I'm rather glad that I didn't even tryaccompany him. For those new Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the series, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who's who station by coach and the background to why Bruno train is in St Denisa steam locomotive.
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF0008551324|title=Buried Lies The Devil You Know (Gaby Darin Book 5D S Max Craigie)|author=Jenny O'BrienNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away It's unusual for anyone from her sonthe Hardie family to approach the police. Hunter had diabetes Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and this was controlled by he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a pump attached to his stomach, so her over-protectiveness missing person is buried and who was understandable, but responsible for her fiancedeath. This person, Ianhe promises, was pestering her to get married is someone big and she thought it would will be a good idea for him to find out worth the police doing what parenting was ''really'' likehe wants. Her friend, Milly, had arranged And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to take her boyfriend, Liam, for a night in a posh hotel but then he dumped her serve the remainder of his sentence and she couldn't to get the money back, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go in his placean early parole date. She would return home Not much to find Ian dead ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and fiveshe's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -year-old Hunter missingmake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q1035043092|title=Without a TraceThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Jane BettanyAnn Cleeves|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Life hadnI can't have been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a divorce and right now it was raining hardnew life on Orkney. All she wanted was to get back to her new home It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and settle down for a quiet eveningtheir young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. It wasnWillow's also his boss, and she ''should''t going to be though: on maternity leave, but when she went into her bedroom she the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found , in the aftermath of a dead man on her bed with a knife in his cheststorm, she can't resist getting involved. She He'd no idea who he wasbeen battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.
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|isbnauthor=1838774823Thea Lenarduzzi|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog Problem|author=S J BennettThe Tower
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|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It''How unctuous are the fats of another's 2016 and life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the Queenprotagonist of this tale. Just as T's Private Secretarystory is being told, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise the story of a second protagonist is putting unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a strain on his waistbandwealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. SwimmingAnnie's fate is, he decidesabove all, an enticing story to T. It is the way to go a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to be there early one morning knowledge, and discovered the body in service of Cynthia Harris at the side of the poolmyth, fable and fantasy. There was broken glass |isbn=1804271799}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire-Louise Bennett|title=Big Kiss, Bye- Bye |rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a crystal tumblersymbol of intimacy and closeness, by the look at it - probably one becomes evidence of love lost. When the young royals being careless - narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me,'' it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled outis less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. StillThe imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, it was a shock for Sir Simonghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=1804271934
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|isbn=057136358X0008405026|title=April A Stranger in Spainthe Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=John BanvilleJane Casey
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|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Terry Tice It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a hitmanhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, although he didn't think of himself and her father are dead in those termstheir bed. He saw what he did as Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there''a matter s something about the positioning of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist the thought bodies that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondomakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him when he What looked as though it was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance going to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows be an open-and had -shut case is now a fine old time''complex double murder. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know Kerrigan is convinced that the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles explanation lies in the Rosalie''morning''? It was after Percys disappearance: others (such as Derwent's death that he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spainboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|author=Dave Letterfly KnodererAnnie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocThe Other Girl
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=How to summarise ''We were born from the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you know, same body. I 've never really don't wanted to think I canabout this.''
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|author=Tade ThompsonMaxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Far From the Light Reminiscences of HeavenTolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionBiography|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for Biographies are often seen as the world form of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's AI captain. However, when she wakes up at the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost nonlife-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't writing which offers less colour; it can be going as smoothly seen as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin more objective and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtimeless personal. MeanwhileI think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes offers a shuttle to Bloodrootvibrant, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy subjective yet informed portrait of three of Space Station Lagoshis literary contemporaries. What In the five first section of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: ''you write not just for Bloodrootof real life as it is, 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 you yourself imagine it to be. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen Whom would it help to explain know how good they are for you and how nice to eat. One dayI see this tower, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordanthat sea, who tells her or that carrots grow on treesTartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. InfuriatedWell, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetablesMaxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, like carrots, grow in the ground. Jordan says, "I did try giving us access to tell herhow he saw Tolstoy, Miss!" Chekhov and everyone laughs at poor LilyAndreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn= B09HHN541V1804271977
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|isbn=178607981X1529077745|title=Bad ApplesThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Will DeanAnn Cleeves
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side body of a man in the roadpark near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. Wondering if someone needed help she got out The dead man was Josh - one of the car - and heard care workers who was due to work a shift the screams from deep inside the forestnight before but who had never turned up. Determining D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the direction of a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference murder - but Tuva made her way to where a woman was holding her coat over only clue is the body disappearance of one of a manthe residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. HeSome people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl'd been decapitateds diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. He was Arne Gustav Persson, a resident of VisbergShe knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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|author=Olga Tokarczuk
|title=House 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?''
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|authorisbn=Lucy Hope1836284683|title=FledglingThe Big Happy|author=David Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersDystopian Fiction|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene Well! This is a most peculiar hilltop housemurder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, built bit by bit over the decades, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. Itit's an eccentric house, nothing like I expected it to host eccentricsbe, so the library shelving system is not as we'd know and it, the roof is retractable, there is takes me on a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so onwild ride. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier And that is just what happened with PTSD and ''The Big Happy''. I don't want to ruin a passion similar experience for the long-standing family hobby any of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing you reading but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has I'll have to do all at least set the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abodescene. Oh but it's also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through CassieOnce that's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thingdone, I think again..you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.|isbn=183994188X
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|isbnauthor=1846276772Sally Rooney|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica NordellIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and SocietyGeneral Fiction |summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise Sally Rooney has studied the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part chessboard of everyday lifeand is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. White men will always come firstHer dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. The able will come before Among the disabled. Jobsmany relationships woven into this story, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of central one for readers to unravel is the white manfraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become Ivan, a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heardsocially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, that a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their concerns are acknowledged. Itfather's personally appalling and degrading for passing after a long battle with cancer, the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but itbrothers's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedalready strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469
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|authorisbn=Teresa Driscoll1836285493|title=Her Perfect FamilyThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to GemmaWill is a keen player of video games, who at first instance appears to be your average a conscientious student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisationa slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of all, he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at the eleventh hourhis school, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. SuddenlyMarlowe Park, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who and one at which he says he is…'excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, paving the way for the sinister tone and she has suggested to Will and his mum that remains throughout the novel. In he spends a twist couple of events, and after afternoons a week at a change of outfitdifferent school, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a comaStation Road, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you readwhere his ability might be better extended.|isbn=1542028752
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|isbn=84092901031009473085|title=If OnlyThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Matthew TreeAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionPolitics and Society|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure describing what it ''isn't'' and that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was applies to send him a monthly allowance''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the two although we hear more inside story about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. If that Lowry senior didn't care s what you're looking for his son, it was that he didnI don't care to have him in this country where he might think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a danger compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to his wife and other childrenpolitics. ''The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get 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 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 young man on his waysituation in 2024.
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|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)Jenny Valentine|title=The Rabbit FactorUs in the Before and After|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much Elk and Mab are best friends, or more focused on maths and calculations than it that even, their friendship is other human beings, he's perfect for his job a once in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, that lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately theydon'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvot get each other's radio channelcontact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure parkhappened though, something terrible 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 money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideastragic, but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henrithey must work through their grief, and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan..their friendship, together.|isbn=191319387X1471196585
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