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|author=Paul B Preciado
|title=Dysphoria Mundi
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''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, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. Rather, it is the proportional, valid response to ''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''. The whole text is framed against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''Read [[Forthcoming Publications|reviews . Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of books about weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to be published]]''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|isbn=1804271454}}
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Samantha Harvey|title=Red is My HeartOrbital|rating=34.5|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''Orbital'', a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in my housethe lives of a group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. And so was this one, although I could have spelled Through a narrative lens that more accurately – this one wasmirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to see our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933}}{{Frontpage|isbn=295967572X|title=Pale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the purpose of this journey is, black and white and redis uncertain. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator Django found the tickets ''on this piece, the floor somewhere'' and I think it's possible has persuaded our narrator to say accompany him. Why not one page lacks ? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the influence of some striking visual ideaspast as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.|isbn=1913547183
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|isbn=15291355670008551324|title=One Step Too FarThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Lisa GardnerNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's five years since unusual for anyone from the stag weekendHardie family to approach the police. Five Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of them had set out: Tim (the groom) a missing person is buried and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy)responsible for her death. This person, Neil he promises, is someone big and Joshit will be worth the police doing what he wants. The first night they had plenty And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of alcohol - too much really - his sentence and in the night Scot managed to wander offget an early parole date. The remaining four searched for him in vain and Not much to ask, is it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. ? When help didnThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't come the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Tim. Every year, Timthink so and she's father, Martin, and the four friends have been back even prepared to continue do the search although they do now acknowledge other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that theyDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tims happening.
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|author=Gunnar StaalesenJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Bitter FlowersVaim|rating=34|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, two of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035043092|title=The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator I can't have been the only person who has just finished was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a stint in rehab and is now returning to worknew life on Orkney. However It's been seven years since we heard from him, the quiet job but he's supposedly taken on caretaking someonenow living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Willow's house quickly turns into a murder investigationalso his boss, and a mystery around a missing woman. Varg finds himself not only investigating theseshe ''should'' be on maternity leave, but also looking into an old, cold case when the body of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never found. Somehowa popular islander, these disparate cases appear to be linkedArchie Stout, but what is found, in the linkaftermath of a storm, and how she can Varg possibly unravel 't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the truth?|isbn=191319308Xhead with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.
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|author=Kia AhankoobThea Lenarduzzi|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsTower|rating=45|genre=Graphic NovelsLiterary Fiction|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in ''How unctuous are 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 fats of eight countries led by Myriadanother's children and life, how dizzying their descendants. But it didnsugars in our bloodstream''t quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of them and T, the eight countries went to warprotagonist of this tale. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding Just as T's story is being told, the cost story of war too high, a solution second protagonist is proposed. Each unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a wealthy family in the eight countries will send their greatest warriors19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. Annie's fate is, known as sentinelsabove all, an enticing story to T. It is a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of all the rings myth, fable and become the supreme ruler of Dunivafantasy. |isbn=B09MMQJFPV1804271799
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|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet Tomas. Happy to work with his father Everything in the blacksmith's forgethis book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, he's almost of the age to become is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a full apprenticekiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and help with the new batch of dragonswords is certainly needed. Not that there are any dragonscloseness, becomes evidence of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except.love lost.. Strange signals from within When the forge furnacenarrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a peculiar invite desperate attempt to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the wash, that yes dragons do still exist in confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this world, and that Tom plea is rare in the ability to summon themXavier, share magical attributesher ex-partner, and ride with them..a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=18399400261804271934
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|isbn=15293465410008405026|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Elizabeth GeorgeJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's late July sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and Deborah St James is at the investigation ground to a meeting with Dominique Shawhalt. Now, Undersecretary for the school systemher mother, a representative from the NHS, Mr Oh from BarnardosHelena, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameronher father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a filmmaker. It follows on from the success of Deborahstraightforward murder/suicide but there's book ''London Voices'': something about the meeting is an exploration positioning of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to highlight be an area which open-and-shut case is causing concern in some communitiesnow a complex double murder. DeborahKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's uncertain about quite how successful she could be disappearance: others (such as the problem seems to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks to and photographsDerwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbnauthor=B09Q3P283YAnnie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W HooperThe Other Girl
|rating=4
|genre=FantasyAutobiography|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during ''We were born from the Vietnam Warsame body. HeI's not ve never really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the militarywanted to think about this. If he'' Ernaux's honest - which Clyde usually work isalways very candid and her tone transparent, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and but this raw epistolary text must be one, at least, gets him out of the rut hemost intimate accounts I's ve read. Ernaux writes indirect address to her sister, however, this letter will never reach her. HeWhy? Because Annie Ernaux's good sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in training France, and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course2 years before the author was even born. HeThe large and instant void created by the jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's chuffed process of reckoning with himselfthis giant absence in her life, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845
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|author=Lucy Strange Maxim Gorky and Pam SmyBryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersBiography|summary=There is no mermaid in Biographies are often seen as the millpondform of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and less personal. That at least is what Bess is telling herselfI think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all In the other kidsfirst section of this book, who have had their entire childhoods sold Tolstoy complains to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used his friend Gorky that: ''you write not of real life as it is, but of what you yourself imagine it to call homebe. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-Whom would it help toknow how I see this tower, that sea, or that Tartar -mouthwhy should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. Well, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dotsubjective account, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and giving us access to how befriending people only leads to harmhe saw Tolstoy, there might be a glimmer of companionship Chekhov and Andreyev in the tired-out mill workers. But surely such privileged detail that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence one almost feels unworthy of the mermaid?it.|isbn=180090049X1804271977
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|isbn=17856330741529077745|title=Staggering HubrisThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Josh BerryAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=HumourCrime|summary=Members A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of Parliament like us to believe that a man in the country is run by politicianspark near Rosebank, headed by the Prime minister a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you care workers who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) was due to work a shift the night before but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmenthad never turned up. We are D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the privileged position of having access to murder - but her only clue is the memoirs disappearance of Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control one of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. You might not know Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the name now death but he will certainly be Vera thinks this is unlikely as the man girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to watchJosh.
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|isbn=B09MYXSRV4B0FK5LHKD9|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareColour of Memory|author=Cordellya SmithChristopher Bowden
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=When the world was madeIt's been three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, the animals so we were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become very glad to see a protectornew novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. Water Spider received Like all Bowden's stories, there's a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see mystery at the present heart of ''andThe Colour of Money'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be We like this running theme in a race with Turtle. You might think thatan author's not work - take a fair contest mystery but wait give it different flavour and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came aboutatmosphere each time.
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|author=Giovanna FletcherOlga Tokarczuk|title=Walking on Sunshine|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some House of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobeDay, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one House of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with him.|isbn=140593560X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529393930|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie RochesterNight
|rating=5
|genre=CraftsLiterary Fiction|summary=''Starting What's the good of a creative business has never been easier.world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?''
The title of this spellbinding work, ''If not nowHouse of Day, when?House of Night'' I know that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. There's a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are a lot , somewhat reflects this notion of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. Selling would offset shifting realities - the costssmall, subtle changes which can be quite considerable and it could be fun govern our lives, like the shift from day to donight, however quotidian, couldn't it? causing chaos. But where to start? What do I need to think about? Well, the first thing anyone who constant in that image is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is to read ''Making a Living''perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|authorisbn=Freya MarskehenleyA|title=A Marvellous LightUltimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley
|rating=4
|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a job in the Civil Servicemurder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, much has been trying to his chagrinpersuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the streets state of London are threaded with magictheir savings. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens When Jack Durban tries to swallow persuade him, Robin follows Edwin to the countrysidetake his case, where it's the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and thought of the people shimmer with power. There they uncover money he could make that convinces him that this is a sinister plot miscarriage of justice that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isleshe really should put right. |isbn=1529080886
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|isbn=02414804421836284683|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition ScienceBig Happy|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienDavid Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=CookeryDystopian Fiction|summary=Emotionally, Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I am open a vegan. Mentallybook, it's nothing like I am a vegan. I read [[How expected it to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] be, and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, I am not it takes me on a veganwild ride. It worked for a while apart from the odd blip And that is just what happened with regard ''The Big Happy''. I don't want to cheese but then ruin a perfect storm similar experience for any of those events which you hope donreading but I't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back ll have to animal-based proteinat least set the scene. It wasnOnce that't the taste - s done, 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 of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare momentsthink you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.
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|isbnauthor=suppl_staflSally Rooney|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim StaflundIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=ReferenceGeneral Fiction |summary=So, you've finished writing your book Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now is get something of a grandmaster at putting it published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong againinto words. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - Her dialogue is gripping and you had a talent for delivering the written wordso brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. You knew your subject back to front. Now you're going to have to get to grips with Among the book supply chainmany relationships woven into this story, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and no central one wants for readers to be unravel is the first to tryfraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. ThenIvan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, when you a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father''finally'' have s passing after a copy of long battle with cancer, the book in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it 'brothers'is'' going to be down to youalready strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469
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|isbn=13987069061036916375|title=The LostJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Simon BeckettPeter McArdle
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=The disappearance ''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of Metropolitan police firearms officermemories and reflections from the years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. Some are factual, Jonah Colley's young sonsuch as the family history of a sea-going family, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedwith the docks dominating lives. He'd fallen asleep in Other stories blend seamlessly into the park whilst Theo was playing and when he woke, Theo had gonewhat-might-have-been. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later he's largely come through it a book to settle into and he's out with his team allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, to think of simpler times when he gets life seemed less constrained, despite the blitz that was a phone call from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used to be his best friend but itconstant factor in McArdle's a long time since they've spokenearly years. HeI's obviously in some difficulty now d never heard of parachute mines before - Jonah can hear it in his voice but they were almost soundless and could appear after the all- and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quay. ''There's no one else I can trust'', he saysclear was sounded.
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|authorisbn=Amanda Mason1836285493|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 Double Life of 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}} {{FrontpageWheelchair User|author=Paul Cleave|title=The Quiet PeopleRob Keeley
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary= I am not Will is a fan keen player of "the Prologue"video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. Most books are the worse for them. In this case I might make But most of all, he is an exceptionaspiring writer. We start with Luca Pittman who English is in a hurry. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not havehis favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and when one at which he hurriesexcels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, when he bundles things into the back of his car and tries she has suggested to run and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand Will and his mum that is not how they do things there, he takes spends a couple of afternoons a week at a risk. It ends badlydifferent school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.|isbn=1913193942
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|authorisbn=Will Carver1009473085|title=Psychopaths AnonymousThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=Maeve is Sometimes it's simpler to explain a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously book by describing what it ''isn't'' and also, curiously, addicted that applies to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 -acknowledged psychopath14 Wasted Years?''. Whilst analysing and critiquing If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the AA steps she is mainly using inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the groups to find targetsbook for you...targets If that's what you're looking for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of peopleI don't think Anthony Seldon's miserybook, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, and targets can be bettered for her violent behaviourthose tumultuous years. Yet she also seems to It's a compelling read and should be searching compulsory for others anyone who think as she does, and when shethinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's unable to find likethe 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-minded people in any established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessionsnation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornthe situation in 2024.|isbn=1913193756
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|isbnauthor=1529418100Jenny Valentine|title=Bruno's Challenge Us in the Before and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin WalkerAfter|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesTeens|summary=I'm not usually Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - trip out but I am a fan of Martin Walkerunfortunately they don's [[Martin Walkert get each other's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so contact details at the temptation to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard to resist time. But then chance brings them back together, and I'm rather glad that I didn't even trythey are inseparable. For those new to the series Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who's who and the background to why Bruno is in St Denistheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF1787333175|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Jenny O'BrienBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=Hannah Thomas I was having her first night away from her son. Hunter had diabetes and this was controlled by a pump attached tempted to his stomach, so her over-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her read ''You Don't Have to get married and she thought it would be a good idea for him Mad to find out what parenting was Work Here''reallyafter enjoying Adam Kay'' like. Her friend, Milly, had arranged s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to take her boyfriendHurt}}, Liama glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, for a night in a posh hotel but then he dumped her humour and she couldnautobiography. ''You Don't get Have to be Mad...'' promised the money back, so Hannah was offered same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the opportunity to go in his placework of a psychiatrist. She would return home I did wonder whether it was acceptable to find Ian dead be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and five-year-old Hunter missingunderstanding.
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|isbnauthor=B09GV3WS1QMariana Enriquez|title=Without a Trace|author=Jane BettanyA Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=45|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth PrendergastMariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: she'd just come through a divorce and right now it was raining hard. All she wanted was to get back her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to her new home an urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and settle down for a quiet eveningcrime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. It wasn't going to be though: when she went The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into her bedroom she found these spaces adopts a dead man on her bed with a knife in his chest. She'd no idea who he wassimilarly tangible texture.|isbn=1803511230
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|isbn=18387748231529934753|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemThe Protest|author=S J BennettRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's 2016 and For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the Queencountry's Private Secretarymost famous living artist, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on was not going to show up for the opening of his waistbandretrospective at the Royal Academy. SwimmingStill, he decidesarrived in the nick of time, is the way to go complete with his two wives and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, you tend to be do things like that, but it was fortunate that there early one morning and discovered was a record of the body of Cynthia Harris protest. Lexi Williams, an intern at the side RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the poolWar''. There was broken glass It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue- a crystal tumblerface' attacks, by the look at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled outbut this was different. StillThe can had been laced with cyanide, it and Sir Max Bruce was a shock for Sir Simondead.
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|isbnauthor=057136358XAriel Saramandi|title=April in Spain|author=John BanvillePortrait of an Island on Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Politics and Society|summary=Terry Tice was a hitmanIn this powerful collection of essays, although he didn't think Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of himself in those termsMauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. He saw what he did Saramandi describes the country at one stage as ''a matter of making things tidy'rotting'. I couldn't resist the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with a blunt yet apt metaphor for the army ''where he got systemic decay brought about by the chance to kill a lot malignant forces of the little yellow fellows racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and had a fine old time''governmental dysfunction. He was spending Each essay in this collection serves as a lot kind 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 in diagnostic, charting the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw various diseases afflicting the benefits of taking up a job in Spainisland state.|isbn=1804271616
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|author=Dave Letterfly KnodererPekka Harju-Autti|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse
|rating=4
|genre=AutobiographyFantasy|summary=How to summarise It's the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off eighteenth century, a review time of his memoir? Do you know, I really don't think I can. Dave discovery and Britain is an author and an artist. An inspirational speaker and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholicexpanding its foreign trade. The son of a Lutheran ministerCaptain Julius Hawthorne, he's struggled with a controlling fatheran experienced Scottish sea captain, run away is sent to join the circus (not a metaphor)Andaman Islands in his endeavour. Along with his son, Peter, trained horsesand their cat, painted caravansMichi, designed they set off on a perilous voyage to these faraway lands. The islands are beautiful and painted theatre sets, stunning in their scenery and hit rock bottom when the bottle took overislanders' leader, Aarav, is keen to establish good relations.|isbn=B0965V3LLNB0DS1VGHH3
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|author=Tade ThompsonHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Far From the Light of HeavenLili is Crying
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|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion First published in 1953 in French, this novel 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. However, when she wakes up at timeless text which wrenches the end hearts of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going its readers just as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin Bessette wrenches words and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong sentences from their proper position on the Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut page and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in towpositions them elsewhere, to see why the Ragtime has gone quietdisjointed, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagostruncated. What Like the five lives of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroother characters, but potentially the entirety of human space…they are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=03565143231804271675
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|author=Rob KeeleyTom Percival|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!The Wrong Shoes|rating= 45|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. Lily loves eating fruit He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccolidoesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends his dad can't work because he lost his job at school turn up their nosesthe college, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and how nice to eathad an accident. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her Throw into that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with mix the teacher, who explains fact that fruits grow on trees his mum and vegetablesdad are separated, like carrots, grow and Will's life seems bleak in the groundevery direction. Jordan says And yet, "I did try he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to tell herthe moments of joy when he is drawing, Miss!" and everyone laughs that feel like a light at poor Lilythe end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn= B09HHN541V1398527122
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|isbnauthor=178607981XSylvie Cathrall|title=Bad Apples|author=Will DeanA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of the road. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of the car - and heard the screams from deep inside the forestcompelling premise. Determining the direction of a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids and dampness And this is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where a woman was holding her coat over the body one of a man. He'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Persson, a resident of Visbergthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir1786482126|title=Cold As HellThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= In a red suitcase as Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bottom bones of a fissure in child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a lava fieldritual killing or murder? Inevitably, there Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a bodyresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. And the man who has put her there has just discovered that he Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is capable prone to sudden bouts of killingsickness.|isbn=1913193888
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|author=Lucy HopeGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=FledglingThe Accidentals
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|genre=Confident ReadersShort Stories|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over This collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the decadesword: spellbinding with its fantastical, magical elements and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. It's an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as we'd know it, the roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, charming in its gentle portrayal of nature and so onhuman relationships. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassieprecisely, her stories structured by a young lass who has wisdom that appears to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going want to house someone or teach us something else, when crashing through Cassie'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 thing, think again..about the world.|isbn=183994188X1804271470
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|isbn=18462767720008551375|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our MindsWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jessica NordellNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: itLeanne Wilson's simply body was found at the bottom of a part Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of everyday lifea tragic accident. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. JobsShe'd looked so happy, promotionstoo, higher salaries are the preserve of the white manwhen she posted her intentions on Facebook. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an organisation it's rare that their views are heardunpleasant relationship, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.}}{{Frontpage|author=Teresa Driscoll|title=Her Perfect Family|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that looked like she was living her graduation outfit is all wrongbest life now. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', paving the way for the sinister tone Then it emerged that remains throughout five other women had died in similar circumstances in the novellast year. In a twist of events All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and after a change sensible people. None of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremony'what a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow killer on the further you readloose.|isbn=1542028752
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