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|isbnauthor= williamabbeyChris Hauty|title=The Pursuit of William Abbey|author=Claire NorthDeep State|rating=3.5|genre=ParanormalThrillers|summary=When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching Hayley Chill is a fighter. She is every kind of a young boy fighter, and well-trained in 1880most of them. She's South Africa, he finds himself cursed by the grieving motherarmy infantry and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always. She wins because she is focussed. A naïve English DoctorShe works hard, he slowly learns the weight of the curse upon himmentally and physically, as the shadow of the dead boy begins and she knows how to follow him across deal with the worldpain. Never stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of WilliamShe is not so much cold as controlled. As he finds himself unable This fight is against someone she is not expected to resist speaking the truths that he hears in others, he also learns that the dark shadow beat. And she is deadly – and seeks to kill the one he loves the most…being watched.|isbn=1471185605
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|isbnauthor=1643785036H G Parry |title=The Wondrous Apothecary|author=Mary E MartinUnlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
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|summary=Those Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who have known Alexander Wainwright, exists in the landscape artist famous for his Turner prize winning ''The Hay Wagon'', "normal" world - and Rinaldo, renowned conceptual artist would say that theyCharley a man who is blessed with an ability he can're chalk and cheese, if not sworn enemiest fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real world. If you've watched the relationshipAfter years of protecting Charley, as has our narrator, art dealer Jamie Helmsworth, you'd have said that they were magnets, drawing Rob wants to discharge his duties and repulsing each other in equal measureleave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. Wainwright was at the socially acceptable end of the artistic continuumAs literary characters begin to appear everywhere, but with Rinaldo it was all too obvious soon becomes clear that someone out there was but a fine dividing line between conceptual art shares Charley's powers and public nuisanceintends to use them for nefarious gains. As time has worn on, he's frequently been brought Rob and Charley must team up to stop the attention of madness - in a battle to win before they, the police. On this latest occasion we see him charged with arson characters and theft of ''the world reach The Hay Wagon''.End…|isbn=0356513777
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|authorisbn=Mary H.K. Choi1444776185|title=Permanent RecordHaven't they Grown|author=Sophie Hannah|rating=4.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=PabloIt was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her son, a college drop-outBen, is working at to a New York bodegafootball match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbots. HeActually, It's massively in debt, hea little disingenuous to say 's avoiding his mother, and he finds his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! Whilst working one evening, hefound herself's surprised to discover as Beth had made a deliberate detour on the grounds that she didn't find herself in this neck of the girl he is chatting with as he serves is woods very often and she was curious to see where a super-famous pop star and, as unlikely as it may seem, family who'd come into money had lived before they start a relationship'd all lost contact twelve years ago. With one character who is trying very hard And it might have gone no further than that had Beth not to be seen or noticed by anyone, a car draw up and her friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas and Emily. Beth remembered the other who is seen names well - but these children were about three and followed five and hounded by everyone all over the world, itFlora's an interesting clash as they come together. This isn't just a love story though, children - Thomas and actually it's really just Pab's story, about the journey he takes in his life via his meetEmily -up with Leanna Smartwould now be fifteen and seventeen.|isbn=0349003459
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|isbn=16098093191529123763|title=Long-Haired Cat-Boy CubMiss Austen|author=Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)Gill Hornby
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|genre=Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary=One day a boy is in It's long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most of the letters which she and other members of the zoo extensive Austen family had exchanged with his father, when the man gets called away on urgent businessor about her sister Jane. The boy isnWhat is not known is ''why''t hustled into a cab she did this and taken home first, though, no – heat this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane's given hot dog money, and taxi money, and told death - a definitive answer is unlikely to just stick around on his own and enjoy himselfforthcoming. Well, it's no surprise Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in a book that the orphan-for-an-afternoon sensation the lad feels doesn't make him happy, and so he thinks of a species name for himself, and curls himself up into an empty cage, as if he were a new exhibitproved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expecting. And it's then the drama begins…
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|isbnauthor=1785785516Rory Clements|title=Fucking Good Manners|author=Simon GriffinHitler's Secret|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary=Manners maketh manSo, Hitler had a secret? Two, they sayif you include the reproductive detail mentioned in a certain sing-song aspersion. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by But this is a set of conventionssecret that is counter to that, some of which are ages old and other which have evolved over timein fact is a secret that Hitler himself doesn't even know about. Manners are not about how much His neice, Geli Raubal, the attractive young woman he seemed to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation be very close to Buckingham Palacein the early 1930s, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: had had his daughter behind his back. they're about getting Protected under a false identity ever since, the girl is completely ignorant of her past, and the basics right before we try to deal with more difficult matterstruth is a very rare thing. Of course we all have more relaxed manners when weMartin Bormann, the 'gatekeeper're with family to Hitler and friendshis right hand man, but it's best if we learn to distinguish between our public knows – and private lives is desperately intent on wiping the slate clean and to act appropriatelyremoving all connected with her existence from the Reich. So it''Fucking Good Manners'' aims s down to Tom Wilde, an American history professor at Oxbridge, to help us on the waygo in and extract her, in this most shadowy race against time.|isbn=1838770275
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|isbn=00083248590241985110|title=Fowl Twins|author=Eoin Colfer|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Relax, everyone – our old friend Artemis may be off planet, but the baddies aren't getting away with skulduggery any time soon because they now have not one but two members of All the Fowl family to contend with. Those cute little twins are now eleven (and, frankly, cute no longer) and in this, their first independent adventure, they meet a troll and without even trying manage to make two deadly enemies: a nobleman obsessed with immortality whatever the cost (to other people), and an unusual interrogator-nun. The boys are chased, kidnapped, arrested and even killed (though not for long), all with the help of one trainee fairy.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1472255798|title=The Bad Fire Rage (Bob SkinnerD I Fawley)|author=Quintin JardineCara Hunter
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|summary=Nine years ago local councillor Marcia Brown took her own life after being accused A very beautiful, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by a minicab driver on the outskirts of shoplifting from a local supermarketOxford. It She didn's always been assumed that t want to go to the police station or the hospital: she couldnjust wanted to be taken home. The driver wasn't live with so certain though - and after dropping the shame. People were surprised that she committed suicide just before girl at home he went to the court case when she had been adamant that she would fight police, which is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to clear Faith Appleford and her namemother. She said Both were adamant that shethis was nothing more than an April Fool'd s joke which had gone wrong. No crime had been set up because she was hot on committed and Faith didn't want to take the trail of corruption in the councilmatter any further. Her ex-husband has contacted Alex Skinner, Solicitor Advocate as well as retired Police Constable Bob Skinner Fawley and his team weren's daughter, t prepared to leave it at that and asked they began investigating. What they found strange was that she look into clearing BrownFaith Appleford didn's name: it's something which he feels that he has t seem to do in memory have much of his son who was murdered recentlya history.
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|isbn=B07X6GLQ3Q1529400279|title=See Them RunSix Wicked Reasons|author=Marion ToddJo Spain|rating=4.5
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|summary=D I Clare Mackay is still relatively new It was early summer 2018 and Adam Latimer returned home to St Andrew's: she was previously at Maryhill Rd station in GlasgowSpanish Cove after an absence of ten years. SheThe family had thought him dead - in fact, that's left quite a lot behind including a relationship that wasn't going anywhere after Tom failed to support her when what the chips were downprivate detective his mother had insisted upon had told them. She also left a nasty situation He was cagey about exactly where he'd been but he seemed content, of her own making but if not her faulthappy, to be home. What brought him? Well, nine years ago his mother died and St Andrewhe's is a fresh start. Not long into d seen the job she's faced with a hit and run death and there's little doubt that it wasnin memoriam''t accidental - in the card with paper: this was the number five suggests murderfirst he'd heard about what had happened. Andy Robb was married His three sisters and two brothers had mixed feelings about his return, but his father is delighted. In fact, he's determined to have a party. Only, with Frazer Latimer, what happens has to Sandrabe about him. You could say that they had He has an open marriage but there seemed announcement to be a lot of the 'openmake - it' s nine years since Kathleen died and very little of the he'marriages been lonely. He' left - on both sidess met Ana, a Polish immigrant, but would she want him dead?and they're getting married.
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|isbnauthor=1786540991Penny Chrimes|title=The Impossible Boy|author=Ben BrooksTiger Heart
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''Oleg and Emma entered their den Fly never meant to find end up in the cage with a cardboard spaceship standing where they usually satman-eating tiger. She just saw her chance to skedaddle, and she took it. SlowlyAnd even when the cloud of soot cleared and she saw the golden eyes of a killer staring into hers, she still didn't turn round and climb back up the front door openedchimney straightaway. Smoke billowed out'Cos there was worse waiting for her back on the roof. ''What an opener! And out stepped there's plenty more to come!|isbn=1510107045}}{{Frontpage|author=Tanya Landman|title=Jane Eyre: a boyRetelling|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, dressed and years in a long coat dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – and with an even longer scarfonly one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, wound around his neckwhose father is almost always absent.''  ''"My name When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but that's Sebastian Colenothing compared to the darker," more broody and even more troubled secret in the boy saidhouse. Yes, "But if you know Jane Eyre then you already know thatthe rest – but if you don't, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn to."''|isbn=1781129126}}{{Frontpage|author= T R Hendrick|title= What if They Knew|rating= 4|genre= General FictionAnd indeed they do|summary= It's 2025. Underneath a lodge in the Blue Mountain resort in Pennsylvania, is a secret facility. Ever since Here, Dr Benton and his team are making some critical scientific advances on behalf of the summerBenefactor, when their friend Sarah's mother had moved her awayanonymous funder. Already, Oleg and Emma the team have been unable succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place to another. But, unbeknownst to find a new friend the Benefactor, Dr Benton has also coded for another type of teleportation altogether - travel through time. And he's ready to take her placetest.If successful, Benton has a very specific use for his technology in mind|isbn=1734277211
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|isbnauthor=1447281357Catherine Steadman|title=Salvation Lost|author=Peter F HamiltonMr Nobody|rating=4|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=In the twentyDon't you just hate it when people are multi-third century, humanity talented? Author Catherine Steadman is enjoying both a comparative utopiasuccessful actress and writer, with this her second novel. Yet life on Earth is about I think in a way her acting background shows in her writing as to change, forever. Feriton Kanemy mind the 'fight scene's investigative team has discovered at the worst threat ever to face mankind end was somewhat unrealistic and weyou know the kind where the hero has been hurt so many times that it's virtually impossible they've almost no time d still be alive let alone able to fight backoff an attacker. The supposedly benign Olyix plan story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until the ending which felt overstuffed in a frenetic bid to harvest humanity, wrap everything up in order the last few chapters. It was almost as if the author wanted to carry us to their god at keep the end of suspense until the universe. And as their agents conclude schemes down on earth, vast warships converge above last possible moment (which I liked) but then was somewhat left with too much to gather this cargodo in the closing stages. Some factions push for humanity to flee|isbn=1984890646}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473681847|title=In Her Eyes|author=Sarah Alderson|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Ava lives a charmed life, to live in hiding amongst but those things sometimes rub other people up the stars – although only wrong way. One evening she returns from a chosen few would make it night out in time. But others refuse to break with a friend, and before the storm. As disaster loomsshe can finish her bedtime routine, her home, and her life, animosities must be set aside to focus on just one goalare under attack: wiping this enemy masked men have broken in and are demanding money from her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside him. In the face of creationscuffle than ensues, Ava is hurt, badly. Even if When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happened, but she knows it means preparing was life-changing. With her daughter still fighting for her life in a room down the corridor, Ava has a future this generation will never seelot to contend with as she tries to recover, wills her daughter to recover, and attempts to piece together what happened and why.
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|isbnauthor=1471186393Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=Photographer of the Lost|author=Caroline ScottWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=4.53|genre=Historical FictionTeens|summary=May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There Diana, being unique on her island, is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the back victim of a lot of the photographtaunts, and claims of nepotism. It is a picture of 's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has her husbandwith any standing at all, Francisher naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young woman. Francis Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has been missing her quickly leaving home for four yearsthe World of Men, and this Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. Technically, he has been "missingA shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, believed killed" but that the survivor she drags from the waters is not something that only going to disturb a young widow can believelot more.. She hangs on the word 'missing', disbelieving the word killed. |isbn=1401282555
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|isbn=17837843501786075695|title=This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted HistoryWhen the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)|author=Esther RutterHelen Sedgwick
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|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=It began with the discovery of a body under the swings in the children's playground. It was December Dr Alexis Crosse and Esther Rutter he was stuck in her office jobfound by PC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeply, writing but who had reason to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheetsmistrust him. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January Crosse was going to be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of the British Isles psychotherapist who grew up in Greece, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with occasional forays abroadforeigners), discovering a community which regards anyone not born and telling the story of wool's history and how it had made and changed the landscapebrought up there as an outsider. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk DI Georgie Strachan is an outsider - you'' a free range child on the farm'' - and learned ve only got to look at her skin to spinrealise that, knit and weave from her mother and her motherhusband, Fergus, well, he's friend. This was in her blooda little strange too, not entirely ''here''.
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|isbnauthor=1401286208Alastair Chisholm|title=Black Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGeeOrion Lost|rating=34.5
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|summary=Meet Dinah LanceThirteen-year-old Beth and her parents board the transport ship Orion ready for a new life on Eos Five. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her Their new home is still being terra-formed and life there isn't going to try and follow in his footstepsbe easy, and seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, she but it ''is desperate '' going to find her voicebe a fresh start. But As Beth's mum puts it, ''There's actually more a case of her voice finding herfuture waiting for us. A chance to make our own decisions, create our own lives.''|isbn=1788005929}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0753553236|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Go on, as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singeradmit it - you're not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky, even loveable (to you) habits that seem to annoy other people. Other people, of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could almost call it so easily correct, if only they would make just a weaponlittle bit of effort. Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or a power. But in order for her do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try to call herself a superhero, there has make what seem to be a whole path quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the concepts. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack of steps for her willpower is another burden to add to take – one of which will be into her past…the list.
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|isbnauthor=1789017977B T Keaton|title=Ronnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy WilliamsTransference|rating=4|genre=HistoryScience Fiction|summary=Ronnie Williams was Barrabus Madzimure is about to die, stranded on a mining planet millions of light-years from home, executed for high crimes against the Church, the son ruling body of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel WallEarth. ThereExcept he's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even HarryBarrabus Madzimure, he's birthdate: he claimed to have been born Thaniel Kilraven in 1863Barrabus Madzimure's body. Such is the magic of Transference, but he was already many years older than Ethel the ability to transplant a person's soul or consciousness into a different body - and he might well a power that the Church has exclusive control over. As if Thaniel doesn't have shaved enough things to worry about, a few years off Church employee named Corvus has arrived from Earth to interrogate him. All Thaniel wants is to see his age. For a while the family was quite well-again, and he'll stop at nothing to-do accomplish this, but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust Church isn't going to give in without a hell of a very different lifestylefight. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.|isbn=B082WPHTHH
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|isbnauthor=1542015421Christine Brown|title=The Royal Baths Murder|author=J R EllisBucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West Africa|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeTravel|summary=When Damian Penrose was murdered there was no shortage of suspects: he was a deeply unpleasant man. In fact the only surprising thing summer of 2008, this book's author was that there wasn't more of a queue waiting to do spending her days working in an office job in the dirty deedUSA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else. What was a bit of a headline maker was that Penrose was a crime writer and that he was strangled Long story short, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africa. Now coincidentally, in the midst summer of Harrogate2010, this review's crime writing festival. He went for a swim at author was spending ''her'' days working in an office job (albeit in the Royal Baths UK) while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else, and never returned''she'' ended up just 3 countries away, his body being found by the receptionistvolunteering in Sierra Leone, West Africa. DCI Jim Oldroyd So you can see why, when this book came up, said reviewer was delighted to have the man tasked with investigating the crime. It would not be the only death, opportunity to read and critique it was only because of the quick actions of his sergeant, Andy Carter, that Oldroyd's was not one of them.|isbn=171024299X
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|author=Daniel KrausMark Lingane|title=Blood SugarDegrade (Tesla Expansion)
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|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=This ''Degrade'' opens as it means to go on - with inyerface, banging action. Poor Arid, alone in the desert since his parents were killed, has a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight it out and his is a difficult readpretty much destroyed. And not because of He finds himself rescued by the dark subject matter – that'll come later – mysterious-but because of -fascinating Ella and onboard the way in which it's told. This might put a lot 'Moonlight'' under the suspicious eyes of readers offits leader, and to be honest itQueen Bea. Bea'd be hard to blame them. Kraus s eyes flash with recognition when he tells the story in a distinctive voice unlike any other Iher his name - Arid Geiger - but before he can find out why that is, there've read; s an erratic dialect with heavy assassination attempt and frequent slang. The immediate effect Arid is disorientating and distracting, under suspicion and it takes some time to feel naturalimprisoned. ItAn escape facilitated by Ella - Queen Bea's a struggle to acclimatise to Jody's voicedaughter - sees Arid and her other daughter, to get acquainted with his mannerismsFrey, but stranded in the story wouldn't be the same without it, and somehow it worksdesert.. It shouldn't, but it does.|isbn=1789091934099461649X
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|author=Don Behrend|title=Copernicus! What Have You Done?: ...and Other Interesting Questions|rating=4.5|genre=Trivia|summary= Hello! Would this review be okay if I simply said ''I LOVED THIS GLORIOUS LITTLE BOOK AND SO WILL YOU. FIN''?! Because I did. And you will. |isbn=1789016770}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1925820025B07XLM3SM6|title=Once, I was LovedMurder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Belinda LandsberryHelena Dixon
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|genre=For SharingCrime (Historical)|summary=TockElowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, the toy rabbitleaving her daughter, Kitty, is in a box the care of toys going her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the charity shopconclusion was that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. He realises that heKitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. She's not wanted any morealways coped with the mix of holidaymakers, but muses that it wasnboating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and she't always this ways done every job in the hotel. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother''Onces friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things '', he says, and''I was loved''. And he tells us why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of all the children who have loved him over security at the yearshotel.
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|author= Karina Sainz Borgo Seishi Yokomizo and Elizabeth Bryer Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasThe Honjin Murders|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction Crime|summary= To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever'or 'It Would Be Night in Caracasgood'. For those who need more, here is the extra background – we' illuminates re in rural Japan in the everyday horrors 1930s. The oldest son of modern day Venezuelaan esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. It begins with She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of Adelaida Falcon's mother and chronicles Adelaida's coming to terms with her new solitude his fingers being in this world the neighbourhood, and her attempts to escape it. Danger stalks some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the shadows andcrime, in this case has a society where lot of the establishment is crumbling, who can you turn to? peculiar about it.|isbn=00629368671782275002
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|isbnauthor=0349423067Cixin Liu|title=The Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances BrodyDeath's End|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Science Fiction|summary=From Christmas If I'd been paying more attention when I picked this book up, I would have put it back on the shelf. Not because I didn't want to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King’s Crossread it, arriving before dawn so but because I'd have figured out that the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929 one of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body final part of a man, stripped naked and with no means of identificationtrilogy. Scotland Yard hit Coming in partway through a dead end and called on saga is never the services of Kate Shackleton in the hope that her knowledge easiest thing to do and connections it's particularly true in Yorkshire would give them science fiction because without knowing the lead back-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing to you (when it's assumed they neededwill) but there are whole concepts that you won't understand. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her This latter is particularly true of Cixin Liu's work – his range is phenomenal. George R R Martin, who knows a thing or two about world-creation, described it as ''a child unique blend of scientific and could not come to terms with the fact that she was now a woman experienced in dealing with murderphilosophical speculation, conspiracy theory and cosmology''. He was reluctant to give her all the information which the police heldAll of that and more.|isbn=1784971650
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|authorisbn= Stephen Baxter1780894511|title= World Engines: DestroyerDie Alone|author=Simon Kernick|rating= 4|genre= Science FictionThrillers|summary= Hundreds of years Ray Mason is in prison awaiting trial for murder and he's in the futurevulnerable prisoner unit: as a cop, on he's something of a stagnating and almost empty Earthtarget, a space shuttle pilot from but the early days of unit is not as secure as the 21st century inmates would have hoped and Mason is awoken from the cryogenic sleep he entered after injured in a devastating accidentriot. As he comes to terms with this new world, he begins On his way to realise that their history does not match what hospital he remembers - 's broken free by armed men and that only he may be able an offer is made to stop the coming catastrophe destined him. He's to destroy assassinate the planet. Until he meets a young woman man who seems is likely to have a drive of her own, become the country's next prime minister and he'll then be given a plannew identity so that he can start afresh abroad. His captors say that they're MI6, but Mason has his doubts. His choices are limited though and he has personal reasons to believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was dead.|isbn=1473223172
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