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|isbn=14711966150241636604|title=IcedThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Felix FrancisGary Stevenson
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|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Miles Pussett used If you were to be bring up an image of a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down background is the three-quarter-mile Cresta RunEast End, where he was familiar with violence, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourpoverty and injustice. He There was in St Moritz no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the same weekend as White Turf London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - that's highextremely bright -class horseracing on the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping has a facility with the saddling numbers which most of the horsesus can only envy. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore He also realised that he'd never go back most rich people expect poor people to itbe stupid. But when he sees that something suspicious is going onIt was his ability at what was, Miles can't help but look for answersessentially, even when it puts a card game which got him in dangeran internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=147228612X1035021803|title=The Late Train Antique Hunter's Guide to Gipsy HillMurder|author=Alan JohnsonC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably havenIt't taken much notice of thems twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. They live quietShe's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, uneventful lives and stay mostly under the radarCarole. In a city like London, thatFreya's quite easy - former mentor and even GaryCarole's three flatmates largely ignore himclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her makeup down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she goes has not felt able to work on be near the train each morning: he'd love to ask her for a date but he doesn't have man or pursue the courageprofession she loved. Then After the split, on his homeward commuteshe worked in a cafe, Arina speaks to him met and asks for his help. Before long he finds himself married James (on the run rebound from mobstersthe love of her life, Russian secret agents who was murdered) and Freya and the Metropolitan policeJames have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Claire McGowanAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=I Know YouAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=''Then:Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' Casey returns from a walk with the baby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down.
I've heard it said that 'Now:technology'is what happens after you' Rachel is out for re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a walk few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with her dogwhat's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, Brandy, when she comes across I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a body in the woodsway I could understand.|isbn=1542019974
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|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=15291482511529153298|title=Misfits: A Personal ManifestoThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Michaela CoelJennie Godfrey
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|genre=Politics and SocietyGeneral Fiction|summary=It''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice s 1979 and poverty, yet still compartmentaliseMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from itmean, honestly..'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of mind. You) She're s not going to read a book of essays or a self-help book. Youwhat're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coels worrying Miv's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festivalfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. You might be Well, they''reading'' the book ve been murdered, but you need to have 'disappeared'doesn'listent sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she' s overheard that her father wants to move the words as though family 'Down South'. When you're in the lecture theatrefrom Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. The disjointedness will fade away For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and youshe'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writingdo anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=00084336311398524085|title=Next of KinHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Kia AbdullahNicci French
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It Charlotte Salter was the sort of thing that happened every dayexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, although is not to Leila Syed. She'd never driven her nephewShortly afterwards, MaxEtty and Greg, to school before but his find the body of Greg's father, Andrew HansonDuncan Ackerley, had rung her in a panicthe river. He It was supposed an easy assumption for the police to be taking Max to school but make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn'd been called into work and t stand the delay in getting there could lead to financial lossesguilt. As the school was only five minutes out of LeilaThe Salter children are not convinced but there's waylittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, could but she drop him off? Of coursewas born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back of in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her car. On voice - she was raised under the way Leila took Nazi occupation by a phone call - there was panic at mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her work tooelder sister, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskJackie.
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|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaChristopher Edge|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)Black Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word Lucas and his friends are all booked in for thema movie marathon at their local cinema, find us a child place that doesnhas the nickname of 'The Black Hole't find them irresistibly funny. Funny All big movie fans, they're looking forward to talk about lots of exciting films, and joke aboutmany, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format isvery different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But horribly embarrassing if you let as they lurch from one go at film genre to the wrong time. In classnext, saycan they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!to their real lives?|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W1839942738}}
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|isbnauthor=1784165263Rachel Greenlaw|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma CurtisCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Martin Curran's wife'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one othe answering beat in my heart.''clock Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the dotwrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, despite the fact that she was actually painting is one of their properties prior the seven who swim out to it being letsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. If she didn't get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was But when the Council Watch lays a paraplegic and confined trap to a wheelchairend the wrecking, but donthey capture the island't be too quick s leader and Mira's father. Desperate to be understanding. He was also save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a very unpleasant person: wreck survivor who is as charming as he once told Eliza ''you're good at being is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a disappointment''family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. All this was in ElizaWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannouncedterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at the flat just as Eliza was about nothing to leave: he wanted save the lease future of flat 2, 42 Linden Road her home and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availablethe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|isbnauthor=1784742775James Sherwood Metts|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan HillPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Drugs hadn't really Things have been that much of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of timesticky for the Earthlings. They still wereAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to a great extent, but Serrailler knew do and other tasks that something had took time to be doneaccomplish. Children Just as young as nine they were being recruited beginning to get used to transport the drugs all this technological change and the operation running the county lines starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was tight. A mule might know the name (although pretty much shut down and, along with it probably wouldn't be the correct one) of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch a few of , all the runners but many daily social interactions on which they'd never get anywhere near those higher updepend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=B09FS89KX9Matthew Tree|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope PottsWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working being exceptional at BB's diner. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in any of his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her artistic passions all failed miserably and most who had endless crises of all he wanted her self confidence. So Tim applied himself to leave her job at the diner. Then there was the fact that he would be violenthis studies, both to her cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and to other peopleset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=John GwynneA G Slatter|title=The Shadow Of The GodsBriar Book of the Dead
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the Bloodsworn Sagaworld, set in lies Silverton; a town under the era protection of the Vikings in the shadow Briar's, a family of Ragnarok, when witches who protect the Gods have battled town and their bones lie scattered the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for all to see. This story magic, Ellie Briar is the ultimate in High Fantasyfirst non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and John Gwynne certainly does justice to potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the genreBriar Witch, with mythical creaturesthe town's leader, archaic language and battles galoreEllie takes her place beside her. This is a thick bookAs challenges come her way left, with an intricate plot right and fascinating characters that are woven together centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to create communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a wonderfully realistic maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and gritty world in which our heroes must determine what to do battleas the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=03565142181803364548
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|isbn=B09HTWX47X1529900360|title=Endless ObsessionThe Ghost Orchid|author=Dai HenleyJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's some years since we last caught up with Andy Floodfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, formerly Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a DCI in the Met but now psychologist only worked for a well-respected private investigatorwhile. HeFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's married to Laurapartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, formerly his DS though. Two lovers were murdered in the Murder Squad but now working swimming pool of a remote property in a forensics laboratoryBel Air. Flood's daughters, Gemma and Pippa, have flown He was the nest, Pippa heir to Australia, from where an Italian shoe empire and she has very little contact with the family, is married to an extremely rich man and Gemma to married life. Sheit's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide not the support she needsItalian. Flood's business is going well and that But which of them was why he felt able to turn down the case of Lisa Black.primary target?
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|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The StoningSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands
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|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=In Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a town sleazy enough GP and Rowlands didn't want to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous follow in comparisonhis footsteps, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were particularly when he considered the worldstrain that being on-call put on his father's tallest cricket stumpslife. When she's discovered by he was seventeen he took the town gossip everyone, including opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home tojob for him. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, is the general opinion Before long, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest he was at their conditionsLiverpool University. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a higher rank from the city, to sort everything outchild. Because such an aggrieved If anything, insular community is really going he'd wanted to welcome be a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law..professional footballer.|isbn=1529416973
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|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H0861541774|title=The Mystery A Nye of HealingPheasants|author=A P McGrathSteve Burrows
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|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and heDCI Domenic Jejeune's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populaceclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a feeling of virtue knife - and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to livehe killed a Ghurka. It's quite Initially, he faced a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the lions' manes to make them look more impressiveman. The sagitarii are the archers and Now he could be facing the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with the wild animalsdeath penalty. Today, itDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's the crocodilest help Danny at all.
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|author=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie BlackallAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Beatryce Prophecy|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Stories have joy and surprises in them'', we are told here. And none more so than in this wondrous story, which feels an instant classic with the freshness and the agelessness it has in equal proportion. We start with a group of monks, the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on and biting the poor Brothers. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girl, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King in his castle, desperate to find the girl, for it is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne and cause great change. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simple, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=1529500893}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.'' And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{Frontpage|author=Nick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=Locked Out LilyPerfect Passion Company
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Lily The Perfect Passion Company isa dating agency in Edinburgh, or wasrun by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, or tailored service. Ness has beenasked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, very ill, and as Ness is planning to take a trip to give her parents relief she's been told Canada to stay with her grandma get away for a few dayswhile. The parents need the relief as Lily's baby sibling Katie is just about to be born – coming out of a break up with a child Lily swears she hates already bad boyfriend, and wants nothing so jumps at the chance to do withcome home to Edinburgh. But on tracking back home for word of her parents (and her plush toy And so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parentsbegins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the babe-Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or inmatch-armsmaking, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the family back intactbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, even if itand there's not the family Lily wants – always her very helpful (and all she has to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crowrather handsome) neighbour, MoleWilliam, Mouse and Snake.to lend a hand…|isbn=14711948331846976596
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|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith0811771741|title=The Great Dream RobberyInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=MayaMelissa Leapman's father is ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a professor who invented an amazing dream machinecollection of knits from toys to blankets. But something went wrong, and now he can Some will be quick knits - others are of the 't wake up. Or at leastlong, thatcosy afternoons in front of the fire's what Maya has been toldvariety. In a rather strange dream one night Maya makes a new friendThe projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and discovers that more than twenty hours. All the only way to save her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams projects are attractive, modern and reality collideuseable...really...and there I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051Xme being picky.
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|isbnauthor=1800464495Dean Koontz|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma SmithThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionParanormal|summary=''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the wombBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, being aware of quantities at seven hours oldhe loses his fiancee, assessing probability at six months oldand his house gets trashed. Oh, and comprehending addition someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and subtraction at nine months old.it'' Did you know this? I didn'ts possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! How about: ''Maths ability on entry The thing is, Benny is the very last person to school deserve all this bad luck. He is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skillsnice person. A really nice person.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware So fortunately for Benny it turns out that giving your children the delivery to his house is a good start in literacy - reading storiesnew friend, teaching pen gripsa bad weather friend called Spike, singing rhymes - gives children who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a solid foundation when they start schoolgood person. But do we think the same way about maths Spike is going to take care of Benny, beyond counting? I donand will certainly take care of Benny't think we dos enemies, if he, Benny, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children Harper (a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=1529379385Adam Stower|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise PennyMurray and Bun
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=In the Canadian village of Three PinesMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, we're post-pandemic: the scars are still there but life one who is starting able to get back to normal. The villagers are beginning to return to the Bistro sleep and eat and eat and sleep and , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the Aubergetwo. TheyBut he're visiting each others a bad magician's homes cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and having friends the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and relatives to staywhiffs. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one such visitor and she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people much bigger than Murray was, to be around - a bit like Vincent Gilberthonest, known in the village as the Asshole Saint.but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn= B09F4CTKJRB0C47LV1PC|title= Flights for FreedomFragility|author= Steven BurgauerMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=ItCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s joke? And if you could, is the later stages of World War I and question should you make it? Or is the United States has just entered question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the conflictanswer for both could well be.. Petrol Petronus .. no. ''Fragility'' is a young American who has signed up and joined set as the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canadacity of Portland, Oregon, the first to be attached cautiously begins to emerge from the RAF and restrictions imposed during the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.covid pandemic
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|isbn=183885410X1529431735|title=The Dark RemainsWinter Visitor|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinJames Henry|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Bobby Carter was a lawyer It's February 1991 and consigliere to one of Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowmore surprising. DC Jack Laidlaw is He'd been exiled on the CID team charged with the investigationCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. I say The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she'on the teams ill and hasn'' but Laidlaw never really seems t long to be a part of itlive. He does his own thingIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, goes stripped to his own way underwear and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers sent to a watery grave in the truth boot of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubsa stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=1942410255Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael PronkoThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=''Zangyo: overtime workEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, often unpaid'' It's and in the evening a helper at the culturedessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, isn't it? The hours too – for which you're paid are really just there is a statement of generation missing in the minimum you'll be required to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizukafamily. When he was found dead in front of Senden CentralA few short years ago, Eli's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in parents were both lost to the way of regret or grieftitular race, even from his family, but there was a mild curiosity as globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to whether he'd jumped from navigate the world in the roof company of the building or been assisted in his descenta magical beast. Gossip revolves around This has made the fact that he left race anathema to the roof pair – but when a bad incident at the exact same spot that an employeeeatery leads to a confession from gran, Mayu YamaseEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, had committed suicide some three years earlier. She'd accused Onizuka with the sole aim the prize of bullying her and forcing her magic at the end – the only thing to work an unreasonable amount of overtimepossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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|isbn=0241425425178763681X|title=The Man Who Died TwiceKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Richard OsmanOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Elizabeth Best was Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a little surprised when she received the letterresidential cookery school in Belgravia. It came from a man whose body she had helped He didn't really want to pull from the Thames and who but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had never existed but then this is the sort a way of conundrum which retired spies have getting both men and women to deal with on a regular basisdo what he wanted. When she visits Paul ''somehow'' got the sender of the letter (impression that he's moved into d be at the Cooperschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise t turn out that it's someone with whom she has a long professional history way. The teaching - and who used to be her husbandthe problems - are all his own. HeThe one thing he hadn's made a bad mistake - something t expected was for someone to do with a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and a few death threatsturn up dead. He's now in hiding with a young woman called PollyUnfortunately, he was the person who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressdiscovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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|author=Andrew SharpSarah Marsh|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - isAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in his mind, a time when the head chef use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. Mozzy school where she is earnest and dedicated taught to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris lip read, but his dream is to become physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the head chef of a restaurant in London or deaf and using a big American citysystem called Visible Speech. Even to win a Michelin star. He At the same time, Bell is thwarted in this ambition by his bossworking on other inventions and ideas, Mr Bin (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing a complicated tangle of bush animals into the houseespionage.|isbn=B09926MK8H1035401614
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|authorisbn=Alex Foulkes1803816759|title=Rules for VampiresThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or It'Leo' for short) s 2038 and Joe is a Vampire. She drinks blood, she sleeps during bored cop policing the day, wealthy and she can Grimwalk (turning into peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a flock bit of bats adventure and to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back)get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. Pretty cool stuff. NowBut then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, on the night of her hundredth birthnightmaking life easier for many, she has and riots start to go out and hunt her first humanspread. HoweverFinally, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanageJoe gets to do some real policing. Oops! And to make things worse, In the ghosts of one aftermath of the orphans rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and the evil master of the orphanage come back Joe is assigned to haunt bring herhome. So, not Joe isn't the only does Leo have one trying to team up with save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the friendly ghost Minna to stop case. What went wrong? Did the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do system fail or was it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each otherhacked? Yeah, thereAnd how is Suki's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955Xkidnapping connected?
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|authorisbn=Tori Bovalino1529421284|title=The Devil Makes ThreeLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Working all summer It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over heatwave. In a gully, a hundred books that she has human skeleton came to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who requested the books: Mr Birchhad disappeared nine years earlier. The boarding school He's headmasterd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, and so it could have been a man Tess hatessimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. As Geary was a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large requesttownie, Tess sticks post-it notes so what was he doing out on each Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the books, scribbled with time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the ugliest insults she can think of. TheyMajor Crimes Review Unit (that're never meant s cold cases to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, you and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for herme) investigate.|isbn=1789098130
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|isbn= B09BG8V3Q60571379559|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)The House of Broken Bricks|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadFiona Williams|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!The House of Broken Bricks'' is the latest release story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Averys stood the passage of time, storms and floods. This series of fun picture books aims Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to take complete the pain out of potty training children delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and replace it with some funMax, the rainbow twins. It Sonny's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell youcolouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.
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|isbn=B098FFFBH91529425867|title=SnowcubLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Graham FulbrightSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is her school's animal rights project leader of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and she always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal worldfather of Ryan, is not. She gets a great deal He's not any of support those things. He's white, originated from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial Collegetrailer park, London, mother Kate barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and her twin, Nicktrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Kate runs the family business, You might wonder if you're being introduced to a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putneypolice procedural written for laughs. Well, which is where weyou'll meet Rachelre not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toysproblematic.
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|author= Angharad WalkerMosby Woods|title= The Ash House|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his name, or why he is there but he is used to the system, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same again.|isbn=1912626977}}{{Frontpage|author=Yancey Williams|title=Crosshairs of the DevilWhirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks quite sure how to his daughter, finds himself living - mend this or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of even if mending it is the Garden best course of Eden nursing homeaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, push for palatable companyclimate action there. Nothing A feeling that nobody is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of writing thoughcircumstances. That man would be valuable, so here, for his readersright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, are his wanderings through his life's workthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=0986031658B0C9SNG8R1
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