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===[[Friends Like These by Sarah Alderson]]===
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[[image:4starLife in London isn’t always glam, especially if you’re young and underpaid. For Lizzie it’s all a bit of a balancing act. She has a nice home but it technically belongs to her room-mate’s parents. She works in the entertainment industry, but her job itself is probably not one you’d covet. She doesn’t have much spare time, but that’s because she’s been working through some self-improvement. If they could only see her now. And, well, actually, they can, although there’s a lot less of her to see than there once was. But yes, she doesn’t really have much time for the past and the people from it.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LifestyleFriends Like These by Sarah Alderson|LifestyleFull Review]]
Have you ever felt trapped by your own thoughts? That your mind is so busy processing what's going on in the world around you that you just can't catch a moment and simply ''be''? Or that the outside world just won't stop pressing in upon an inner life that you'd like to be more peaceful? [[Beyond Thought by Chris Dhladhla|Full Review]] <!-- M J Lee Torquil MacLeod -->
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===[[Where the Truth Lies Malice in Malmo: (DI RidpathInspector Anita Sundstrom) by M J LeeTorquil MacLeod]]===
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DI Thomas Ridpath - call him Ridpath It was embarrassing when a leading Malmo business man was kidnapped, particularly as he doesnthe police didn't think Tom or Thomas suits him - looked know anything about it until the man was discovered afterwards, tied to have a promising future park bench in CID until he was forced to take extended sick leave nine months agoa cemetery. Hewas coy about how much ransom was paid, but it was sufficient that he's backd felt the pain of the digital transfers. That would have been bad enough, but a second businessman was snatched soon afterwards and the pressure on Inspector Anita Sundström and her colleagues was to find the word businessman ''cancerand'' leaves people doubting how well you really are, or are going to staycapture the kidnappers before they took anyone else. Perhaps it would be better if he quietly retired? His wife, Polly, would like Worse was to see him come though when an investigative journalist was found murdered in a desk jobhis flat. Ridpath would like to be back in front-line policingWas one of his victims the murderer, but all that's available to him is a secondment for three months as Coroner's Officer. If that's how or was it's got someone he was about to be, then he'll do the best job he can. expose? [[Where the Truth Lies Malice in Malmo: (DI RidpathInspector Anita Sundstrom) by M J LeeTorquil MacLeod|Full Review]]
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===[[Tales of Love and Disability Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] I've always believed that less-able writers produce longer books: it takes a great deal of skill and talent to write a short story which holds the reader and keeps them coming back for more. There are far too many collections of short stories which are all too easy to put down and forget after you've read a couple of pieces. I've recently read a couple of novellas by Laura Solomon - [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and [[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hell's Unveiling]] and enjoyed them, so I was intrigued to see what she could do with an even shorter form. [[Tales of Love and Disability by Laura Solomon|Full Review]] <!-- Frances Brody -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0349414327.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349414327/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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[[image:4As an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera's telling us the truth. The first two husbands, Gary and Harry were abusive, but Larry was a treasure, a keeper, and it's difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and now she's in prison with a mandatory life sentence. Her only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, but Vera's not one to let herself be a victim.5star She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the security of her life in prison for the sake of a fling), but she is keen on getting an education and she's studying for a degree in English Literature.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon|Crime (Historical)Full Review]]
Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. When the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, Kate was keen to take the opportunity to visit Haworth and Stanbury, not least because the deeds of the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a museum and her parents will be there for the event. What could be better than seeing her family, witnessing a momentous event and having the opportunity to take photographs of the setting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong. Or could it? [[A Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Frances Brody|Full Review]]<!-- Harrold Karin Fossum -->
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===[[The Whisperer by Karin Fossum]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Afterwards by A F Harrold and Emily Gravett:Category:Crime|Crime]]===
[[imageWhen we first meet Ragna we can't understand what's going on. She's talking to Inspector Konrad Sejer and it's obvious that she's being held in custody because of a crime which she admits she's committed. Only, as we hear about Greta's life it seems that she's more sinned against than sinning. After a botched operation on her vocal chords she can't speak above a whisper and to add insult to injury she's been left with a horrible scar across her throat. She's done her best to make a go of her life though:5starshe enjoys her work in a shop and has learned ways of coping with the difficulties of communicating with people.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersThe Whisperer by Karin Fossum|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
''Tell them what The Afterwards is about, they said.''<br>''Hopefully you know this, but...''<br>''It's a book with friendship in it.''<br>''It's a book with death in it.''<br>''It's a book with betrayal in it.''<br>''It's a book with love in it.''<br>''It's a book with a cat in it.''<br>''That's what I know.''<br>''That's what I can tell you.''<br>''That'll do me.'' To be honest, I'd be surprised if that wouldn't do you, too.[[The Afterwards by A F Harrold and Emily Gravett|Full Review]]<!-- Vanston Rachel Abbott -->
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===[[And So It Begins by Rachel Abbott]]===
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[[imageWe know there's something very strange going on as soon as we join the story: we begin by hearing how it's going to end and that someone must die. But that's just a hint:4starfor the time being we're with two police persons.jpg|link=Category Stephanie's the sergeant and she has Jason, the probationer with her in the squad car, but Stephanie doesn't like where they're heading. The house is stunning, but the last time she was here it was because there was a dead body at the bottom of the stairs to the pool. This time there's been a 999 call with a woman screaming for help:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] the omens are not good and when they enter the house they find two tangled, blood-soaked bodies in the bed. They both look dead, but one of them moves - it's Evie Clark and she confesses to killing her partner. [[:Category:For SharingAnd So It Begins by Rachel Abbott|For SharingFull Review]]
 Something's gone horribly wrong. It's Christmas Eve and everything is very busy in Santa's grotto. The presents are all ready and waiting to be loaded onto the sleigh and the reindeer are itching to get going. But Santa? Santa is just not in the mood. He is tired of delivering the latest toys to children who only play with them for five minutes. He wishes people would remember what Christmas is really about - a time for families to come together for love and friendship and goodwill to one another. [[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston|Full Review]]<!-- Keeley Mick Herron -->
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===[[The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Mick Herron]]===
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When you've done a job for any length of time, the memory, the instincts of it stay with you and they're impossible to forget. It was the same with Solomon Dortmund, a retired spy: when he watches a woman making a drop he knows exactly what he's seeing and he passes this on John Batchelor, the man charged with looking after the retired spooks. Bachelor has problems of his own: the closest he comes to a home is the back seat of his car and he's run out of people whose sofas he can commandeer for the night. The best he can do with Solomon's problem is to pass it on the someone else and hope that they'll deal with it/solve the problem/quietly forget about it. [[The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Mick Herron|Full Review]]
In Victorian England, young Edward Fitzberranger is about to be infected with scarlet fever and die. Further back still in time, Sir Francis Fitzberranger is about to marry Tina, the love of his life. In the modern day, Henry and Luke are getting on with life. And in an alternate timeline, Ellie is working for a resistance movement and struggling under a Britain ruled by the Nazis... [[The Coming of the Spirits by Rob Keeley|Full Review]]<!-- Wilson Louise Penny -->
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===[[Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Louise Penny]]===
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[[imageIt came as something of a surprise when Armand Gamache was named as liquidator in the estate of a woman he'd never met. Another villager from Three Pines is also a liquidator, but the third is a stranger to them both. The mystery deepens when the will is read:4stargiven that the deceased was a cleaner it seems unlikely that she would have had the millions which she bequests at her disposal.jpg|link=Category Then a body is found. That's not Gamache's only problem though:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]one of his protégées, Amelia Choquet, has been expelled from the police academy for drug dealing, and the enquiry into the incident which led to his suspension as the head of the Sûreté in Quebec is dragging on and the outcome is looking increasingly ominous. [[:Category:TeensKingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Louise Penny|TeensFull Review]]
Jago doesn't like Clementine. He knows there is something different about her and he doesn't like it. And he never lets her forget it. Clementine knows she's different too, and that the difference is magic. And as much as she tries to ignore it, Clementine's magic is getting stronger. So when Jago's bullying gets too much, it's not really surprising that Clem loses control of it and gets herself suspended from school. [[Snowglobe by Amy Wilson|Full Review]]<!-- Haig Kate Atherley -->
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===[[The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Kate Atherley]]===
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[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]I've been knitting for well over sixty years, [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixiefollowing patterns of varying complexity with success. She I's cursed! She canve knit Aran sweaters, socks by the dozen and I't speak unless it's m currently knitting blankets for a charity to tell the truthsell. You might think this is a good thing because telling lies is bad, right? But sometimes the truth isn There hasn't nice been an occasion when I've been stuck and sometimes people have often come to ''me'' for help when ''they've'' been stuck. Would a white lie is okay and sometimes itknitter's better dictionary really be of any help to say nothing at all. You might not want to attract the attention me? I was surprised by just how much I got out of the school bully by calling him mean and nasty, for example, or you might not want to tell someone that you think their brand new haircut looks awfulit. [[The Truth Pixie Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Matt Haig and Chris MouldKate Atherley|Full Review]]
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===[[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death Be Your Higher Self by M B VincentSamesh Ramjattan]]===
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Dr Jess Castle, the There are a lot of self proclaimed failure -help books about: it's one of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to most thriving sections of the sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her fatheraverage bookshop, but it's not always easy to find the judgebook you need. Luckily for Jess, she doesn Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self't have to try too hard to dodge her family's suspicions as , a series book which allows us all to make sense of gruesome local murders are taking our place and that's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in the thick world, as most of the investigationus only glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve it. Even with hard work and dedication, obstacles present themselves and it's difficult to her delight finds that she understand why or how they can actually be usefulovercome. But with Ramjattan offers us a guide to the spirit world, the small population dwindling chakras, karma and reincarnation as well as information about the sense age of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made Aquarius and the ego. It's a grave mistake getting involvedslim book - just 128 pages - so can it provide us with the answers we seek? [[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death Be Your Higher Self by M B VincentSamesh Ramjattan|Full Review]]
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===[[Nothing Lasting Black Light by Laura Solomon]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:HorrorGeneral Fiction|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|FantasyGeneral Fiction]]
We never know Jim is a university student and, as the man's name but let's call him ''Boyo'saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek. ItHis father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's what never really managed to connect with his mother used to call him, not least because he found it annoyingstep-father. When we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if not you were being honest you''living'' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television d just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and drinkingfor him. Housework is a foreign country. When she dies sheJim's not missedin love with a woman, firstly because but she'd spent a couple finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the looks, the attitude, the (lack of years in ) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a mental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues lot to haunt Boyobe desired. She wants him Despite all that's he's not about to achieve something in sit back and allow his lifeto drift: what she has he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in mind is that he could be a famous arsonistthe pub. [[Nothing Lasting Black Light by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
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''This is the problem with words and even stories[[image: there is never one truth''4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
SummerA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, Mia and Brynn are obsessed with a novel called ''The Way into Lovelorn''sent far from his family in the Far East. They begin As the boy travels to believe it is realthe school, that a family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the world school a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. Plunged into a school full of Lovelorn is really materialising around them, danger and start writing their own fan-fiction sequel. One daybetrayal, Summer the boy is violently murdered in the woods where they all played seen as a trophy by friends and everyone thinks Mia enemies alike. With them locked into their scheming and Brynn did plotting, itcomes to the boy to attempt to clean up the pit of filth that the school has become. [[Broken Things Redemptor Domus by Lauren OliverGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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''On my travels around the world, I believe have a tendency to end up in love at first sight. Fateany bookshop that is selling English-language books, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the universenext person, all of it. But not how you're thinking. what I don't mean it in m really looking for is the our souls were split and you're my other half forever and local' – the cookbook maybe, the maps definitely, but above all: the folk tales. If I ever sort of way. get to Burma, I just think youwon're meant t need to meet some people. hunt, I can read before I think the universe nudges them into your pathgo.''[[The Long Path To Wisdom by Jan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
''What If It's Us'' is one of those books that just gives you a boost when you need it. A feel good, fun and easy read. I was surprised at the collaboration of Silvera and Albertalli – one known for happy endings, the other for tragedy – but they really work together well. Each takes a character and their voices are so distinct, so real, that you are immediately sucked in. [[What if It's Us by Becky Albertelli and Adam Silvera|Full Review]] <!-- Quentin Bates Julia Jones -->
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===[[Cold Breath Pebble (Gunnhildur MysteryStrong Winds series) by Quentin BatesJulia Jones]]===
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Gunna wasnLiam isn't too keen when she was taken off police duties to become ''quite'' the youngest in a bodyguard. It wasnlarge family: he doesn't just have the sheer inconvenience distinction of it - away from home for however long being the job took baby anymore and with no contact with the family - she wasnhe doesn't the only one to have doubts about the man she was guarding''heft'' of his older brothers and sisters. Invited to Iceland by prominent politician Steinunn Strand, Ali Osman was either a saint who devoted himself to helping refugees escape He's rather like one of the carnage in their Middle Eastern homeland, or a money-laundering gunrunner. The truth was probably pebbles on a combination large shingle beach: part of the two, mass but whichever or whatever was correct, thereeasily overlooked as an individual. So when he starts having problems with his sight no one really takes any notice. He doesn's money on Osmant want to bother his mother as she's head heavily involved in the Luminal Festival and this is the reason why when he and Gunna are holed up in asked his elder step-sister, Anna, if she'll take him for an isolated house outside Reykjavikeye test, with Gunna toting a gun under her fleece she puts him off. In fairness she's got important exams and with Liam's convinced that it's just a group case of armed police getting spectacles, but Liam's eyes are changing in a nearby houserather strange way. [[Cold Breath Pebble (Gunnhildur MysteryStrong Winds series) by Quentin BatesJulia Jones|Full Review]]
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===[[So Many Doors by Oakley Hall]]===
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[[image:4Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all as V, is dead.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Evan Hansen spends a lot of time indoors by himself. This worries Jack sits in his mother, who has engaged a therapist cell refusing to try talk to help Evan the lawyer tasked with his extreme anxiety issuesdefence. Evan's therapist assigns him Starting at the task murderous finale, Hall skillfully weaves together the stories of writing a daily letter to himself as his key players, in a way tale of getting Evan to think more constructively about himself love spanning decades and the world around him. But Connor Murphy, a rather scary boy at schoolstates, finds one of Evan's letters marriages and gets tragedies. By the wrong end of time the stick because Evan has mentioned Zoetruth is revealed, the girl he has a crush on and V will be dead but who is Connor's sister. else will lose their life? [[Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel So Many Doors by Val EmmichOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Agatha Raisin and The Fraternity of the Dead Ringer Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by M C BeatonBrian Anderson]]===
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St Ethelred's Church Originally passed in 1885, the idyllic Cotswold village of Thirk Magna has law that had made homosexual relations a team of dedicated bell ringerscrime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, with the keenest being twins Mavis restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and Millicent Dupin and when we first meet them they're preparing for 1908, three books on the bishop's visitnature of homosexuality appeared. Now you might be expecting an olderThey were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, perhaps rather grey man, but this bishop is a little differentas well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. One description is 'sex Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on legs' and even Agatha Raisin is a little smitten - at first - the European Continent, but there's the merest whiff of a scandal barely talked about in the bishop. It's UK, so the mystery publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the bishop's ex-fianceescientific understanding of homosexuality, local heiress Jennifer Toynbyand beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, who disappeared very suddenly and neither she nor her body have ever been foundleading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967. [[Agatha Raisin and The Fraternity of the Dead Ringer Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by M C BeatonBrian Anderson|Full Review]]
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===[[LouisianaCookin's Way Home The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Kate DiCamilloAmy Patricia Meade]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] It is the middle of the night when twelve year old Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they must leave home immediately. Granny is prone to middle of the night ideas so initially Louisiana is not too worried by this but then gradually she realises that this time it is different. This time Granny intends that they will never return. Separated from her friends, Raymie and Beverly and her cat, Archie, Louisiana is devastated and desperate. She is determined that she will find her way home somehow. But as her life becomes entwined with the people living in a small Georgia town Louisiana starts to worry about the ''curse'' Granny told her was upon her head and fears that she is destined only for goodbyes. [[Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo|Full Review]] <!-- Chadwick --> |-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:0349700249.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349700249/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[XX by Angela Chadwick]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LGBT Fiction|LGBT Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Angela Chadwick's debut novel explores the possibility of two women being able to produce a baby girl through a process called Ovum-to-Ovum fertilisation. It centres around Rosie and Jules who take part in the first ever clinical trial that would allow them to have a child of their own without the need for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. What follows is a story that shows the harshness and at times disgraceful behaviour of the media, and the general public, when faced with a controversial technique that could lead to the demise of men. [[XX by Angela Chadwick|Full Review]] <!-- Gardner --> |-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786697173.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786697173/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]  Betsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father, Alonso, makes the most wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Her mother, Myrtle, is a mermaid and comes to visit regularly, although she still lives in the sea. Betsy dreams of two things: firstly, about the circus owned by a tiger and whether it would ever come to her island and secondly, about a magical ice cream made from the berries of the Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true.
And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive[[image:4star. And a journey is planned...jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner:Category:Crime|Full ReviewCrime]]
Tweet scheduled Tish Tarragon is working towards opening her literary cafe, Cookin' The Books, when the opportunity to cater for 9the Library fundraiser comes her way.15clare@headofzeus It's a bit of a poisoned chalice, in more ways than one, as the head of the library committee, Binnie Broderick is difficult.com In fact, when she's poisoned at the meal Tish has catered, there's no shortage of suspects. It's not just that she feels herself to be superior (she's a Darlington, you see), but that she actively goes out of her way to make life difficult for anyone she encounters. The town might be heaving a collective sigh of relief (except not in front of the sheriff, obviously) but Tish is worried that the fact that Binnie died face down in a meal she'd prepared might mean that people will not be all that keen to come to her cafe once it's opened. [[Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Amy Patricia Meade|Full Review]]
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===[[Tirzah and the Prince of Crows A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Deborah Kay DaviesCatriona McPherson]]===
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This is a quiet Dandy Gilver and family had made the arduous journey to Wester Ross, but remarkable storyDandy had mixed feelings even when they arrived. They were there to meet the family of Mallory, written in a style reminiscent of Eher son Donald's fiancee. M. Forster, It wasn't that Dandy thought Donald to be rather ''[Tirzah and the Prince of Crowsyoung'' has no great and stirring action at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, but that Mallory was rather small ripples that make a huge impact''old'' for him at thirty. Tirzah is There was also a young girl of sixteen raised in a small Welsh town niggling worry because Donald wasn't the sharpest pin in the 1970s by highly religious parents as part of a strict religious communitycushion. The book follows Tirzah All the doubts had faded into insignificance though a tumultuous year as she tries when they arrived at Applecross: they might have come to decide who she wants to becelebrate the fiftieth birthday of Lady Lavinia, Mallory's mother, but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the mother rather than the daughter. Dandy and what she wants Hugh were considering whether or not they should try to do with her lifeput an end to the engagement when the news arrived that Lady Lavinia had been found dead. [[Tirzah and the Prince of Crows A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Deborah Kay DaviesCatriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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===[[Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room Empire of Sand by Vivika DeNegre (Editor)Tasha Suri]]===
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The problem with Mehr is a craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results girl trapped between two cultures. Her father comes from your labours is also traditional, or - depending upon what light you shine on it - old-fashioned. Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection the ruling classes of patterns from todaythe empire but her mother's top designers. As a word people were outcasts, Amrithi nomads who worshipped the spirits of warning, if you read ''Modern Patchwork Magazine'' you may well find that there's nothing new in the booksands. Caught one night performing these forbidden rites, but if you're new Mehr is brought to the magazine this could well prove to be a delightful collection from attention of the back catalogueEmperor's most feared mystics, who force her into their service by way of an arranged marriage. [[Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room Empire of Sand by Vivika DeNegre (Editor)Tasha Suri|Full Review]]
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