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|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Antti Tuomainen Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a 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 David Hackston (translator)his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Rabbit FactorAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
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|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, heIt's perfect for his job in twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the insurance company – until they decide heEnglish country village where she grew up. She's not back now because of a team-memberrequest for help from her beloved aunt, that theyCarole. Freya'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic s former mentor and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his VolvoCarole's radio channelclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and has left Henri everythingthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, and nothing elselet her down badly. ''YouMeFun'' is so Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not what Henri wants felt able to occupy his mindbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes she worked in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideascafe, but loans have been made out met and the amount vanished. Fortunately married James (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and rebound from the activities love of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap her life insurance plan.., who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbn=1471179311AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The UnheardAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Nicci FrenchBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Tess, a teacher and Jason, a headmaster, have split ''Opening up: she and Poppy have moved out new ways of thinking about the family home and Jason is now married shape of things to Emilycome. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was the family home and another Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in the flat she shares with her mothermy lifetime. It I've kept up reasonably well with what'seemeds advantageous to me but I'' to be working well until m left with the day feeling that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing of a woman falling it's all getting away from a tall building and she started swearing, using words she was unlikely to have heard in either homeme. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems at nursery schoolSome of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Tess turns to a therapist for helpOf course, then her doctor I could research the possibilities and finally the police but no one will take probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what she has to say seriouslythey're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=1471196615Sunny Singh|title=Iced|author=Felix FrancisHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Miles Pussett used to be The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a Steeplechase jockey but those days terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are past rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down Abhi, the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourhotel manager. He was As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - that's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake and against his better judgement hotel, he gets talked into helping forms a bond with the saddling Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of the horses. Ither room to try to capture what's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore that he'd never go back to ithappened through her photography. But when he sees that something suspicious is going onAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, Miles can't their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help but look for answers, even when it puts him in dangerher keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=147228612X1529153298|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillList of Suspicious Things|author=Alan JohnsonJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably havenIt't taken much notice of thems 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. They live quiet(A woman? I mean, uneventful lives and stay mostly under the radarhonestly... ) In a city like London, thatShe's not what's quite easy - and even Garyworrying Miv's three flatmates largely ignore himfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes Well, they've been murdered, but to work on the train each morning: hehave 'disappeared'd love to ask her for a date but he doesn't have sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the couragefamily 'Down South'. Then When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, on his homeward commuteforeign place, Arina speaks to him and asks for his helpbest avoided. Before long he finds himself on For Miv, the run from mobstersmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, Russian secret agents and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the Metropolitan policedangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rapes fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, malpractice Paul and povertyOllie and her daughter, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from itEtty.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of mind. You're are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not going to read a book of essays or a self-help book. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela CoelShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within father, Duncan Ackerley, in the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festivalriver. You might be ''reading'' It was an easy assumption for the book but you need police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn''listen'' to t stand the words as though you're in the lecture theatreguilt. The disjointedness will fade away and youSalter children are not convinced but there'll be carried s little else they can do but get on a cloud of exquisite writingwith their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=00084336311035906708|title=Next of KinDiva|author=Kia AbdullahDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=It was the sort We tend to think of thing that happened every dayMaria Callas as Greek, although not but she was born to Leila Syed. She'd never driven her nephewGreek parents in Manhattan, MaxNew York, in December 1923 and only moved to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her in a panicAthens when she was thirteen. He Her original surname was supposed Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to be taking Max 'Callas' to school but he'd been called into work and make it more manageable in the delay in getting there could lead to financial lossesStates. As the school When she was only five minutes out of Leila's way, back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she drop him off? Of course, she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into raised under the back Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her car. On the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at 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
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|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
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|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 ProphecyPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=''Stories have joy The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and surprises operating as an alternative to all the online apps in them''providing a more personal, we are told heretailored service. And none more so than in this wondrous story, which feels an instant classic with the freshness Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the agelessness it has in equal proportionbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. We start Katie is coming out of a break up with a group of monksbad boyfriend, and so jumps at the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowingchance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upendingbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, trampling on thanks to 44 Scotland Street and biting the poor Brothers. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girlIsabel Dalhousie novels, one but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits no experience in running a King business, or in his castlematch-making, desperate to find the girlbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, 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 simplethere's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, amnesiac lass ever prove to lend a threat to anyone?hand…|isbn=15295008931846976596
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|isbn=B09FFJF8YS0811771741|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Justine Avery and Kate ZhoidikMelissa Leapman|rating=3.54|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is gives us a cry (the bigcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits -girl kind!) others are of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girlvariety. The projects are divided by the time they's final goodbye ll take to nappies and pullcomplete -ups and graduation less than five hours, five to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains ten hours, ten to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit twenty hours and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannotmore than twenty hours. Neither can All the flowersprojects are attractive, nor the fish, nor the birdsmodern and useable. Boy I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 's certainly cansocial-media-worthy projects't. Shebut that's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!me being picky.}}
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|author=Nick Lake and Emily GravettDean Koontz|title=Locked Out LilyThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Lily Benny ishaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, or wasand his house gets trashed. Oh, or and someone has beendelivered a really weird, very illdisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and to give her parents relief sheit's been told possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to stay with her grandma for deserve all this bad luck. He is a few daysnice person. A really nice person. The parents need So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the relief as Lily's baby sibling delivery to his house is just about a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to be born – help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing good person. Spike is going to do with. But on tracking back home for word take care of her parents (Benny, and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra will certainly take care of her parentsBenny's enemies, and the babe-in-armsif he, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the family back intactBenny, even if itand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's not the family Lily wants – and all she has to help her in the task wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snake.|isbn=14711948331662500491
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|author=Greg James and Chris SmithAdam Stower|title=The Great Dream RobberyMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Maya's father Murray is supposed to be a professor humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who invented an amazing dream machineis able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But something went wrong, and now he can't wake up. Or at least, thats a bad magician's what Maya cat, so his favourite bun has been toldturned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. In This time round it drops them into a rather strange dream Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one night Maya makes a new friendmuch bigger than Murray was, and discovers that the only way to save her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams and reality collide...really...and therehonest, but he's everything from llamas turned up and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, he'll have to a talking cat called Bin Bag!do…|isbn=024147051X0008561249
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|isbn=1800464495B0C47LV1PC|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of MathsFragility|author=Emma SmithMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Literary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Yo birthing person''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the wombquestion if you did, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months oldwould it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.''
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|isbn=15293793851529431735|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)Winter Visitor|author=Louise PennyJames Henry|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the Canadian village of Three PinesIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, wewhich made Bruce Hopkins're post-pandemic: return all the scars are still there but life is starting to get back to normalmore surprising. The villagers are beginning to return to He'd been exiled on the Bistro and the AubergeCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. TheyThe return has come about because he're visiting each others had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's homes ill and having friends and relatives hasn't long to staylive. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is one such visitor abducted, stripped to his underwear and she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people sent to be around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known watery grave in the village as the Asshole Saintboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor= B09F4CTKJRAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven BurgauerThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=It's Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the later stages of World War I wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the United States has just entered evening a helper at the conflictdessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Petrol Petronus Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a young American who has signed up and joined generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the 17 Aero Squadroncompany of a magical beast. This company was has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the first US Aero Squadron eatery leads to be trained in Canadaa confession from gran, the first Eli knows his only hope is to be attached dare to enter what he most hates, with the RAF and sole aim the first to be sent into prize of magic at the skies to fight end – the Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has only thing to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camelpossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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|isbn=183885410X178763681X|title=The Dark RemainsKnife Skills for Beginners|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinOrlando Murrin|rating=3.54
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|summary=Bobby Carter was Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a lawyer and consigliere to one of the major crime families residential cookery school in nineteen seventies GlasgowBelgravia. DC Jack Laidlaw is on the CID team charged with the investigationHe didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. I say Paul ''on somehow'' got the teamimpression that he'' but Laidlaw never really seems d be at the school to be assist Paul, who had a part of broken arm, but itdidn't turn out that way. He does The teaching - and the problems - are all his own . The one thinghe hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, goes his own way he was the person who discovered the body and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubsprime suspect.
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|isbnauthor=1942410255Sarah Marsh|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael PronkoA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=''Zangyo: overtime workAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, often unpaid'' It's the culture, isn't it? Ellen Lark loses her hearing. The hours for which you're paid are really just Suddenly plunged into a statement world of 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 Onizukasilence, everything about her life changes. When he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing Living in a time when the way use of regret or grief, even from his family, but there sign language was a mild curiosity seen as to whether he'd jumped from the roof of the building or been assisted in his descent. Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employeesomething only savages do, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlier. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her Ellen is sent to work an unreasonable amount of overtime.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241425425|title=The Man Who Died Twice|author=Richard Osman|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when school where she received the letter. It came from a man whose body she had helped is taught to pull lip read, but physically restrained from the Thames and who had never existed but then this is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basissigning. When From here, she visits ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the sender of the letter (he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she has deaf and using a long professional history - and who used to be her husbandsystem called Visible Speech. He's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within At the range of a CCTV camera same time, Bell is working on a raidother inventions and ideas, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and a few death threats. He's now Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitresscomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614
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|authorisbn=Andrew Sharp1803816759|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingUnravelling|author=Will Gibson
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|genre=General Science Fiction|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - It's 2038 and Joe is, in his mind, a bored cop policing the head chef wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of a safari business catering adventure and to VIP guests in an unnamed African countryget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. Mozzy is earnest But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and dedicated riots start to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is spread. Finally, Joe gets to become do some real policing. In the head chef aftermath of a restaurant in London or a big American city. Even to win a Michelin the rioting global pop star. He Suki is kidnapped and Joe is thwarted in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben assigned to you and me) who incurs Mozzybring her home. Joe isn's disapproval for his scruffy wayst the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, his uninterest in his guests a British superfan and - shocktech nerd, horror - his allowing of bush animals into is also on the housecase.|isbn=B09926MK8HWhat went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?
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|authorisbn=Alex Foulkes1529421284|title=Rules for VampiresLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) is It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a Vampireheatwave. She drinks blood In a gully, she sleeps during a human skeleton came to the day, surface and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats forensic testing proved the body to travel aroundbe Lee Geary, although not all of them remember to come back)who had disappeared nine years earlier. Pretty cool stuff. Now He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, on the night so it could have been a simple case of her hundredth birthnightmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, she has to go so what was he doing out and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to make things worse, the ghosts of one suicide of the orphans Holly Gilbert and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt her. So, two other deaths which were not only does Leo have to team up with considered suspicious at the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to do it all while hiding it from her familyyou and me) investigate. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X
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|authorisbn=Tori Bovalino0571379559|title=The Devil Makes ThreeHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library 'The House of Broken Bricks'' is the last thing story of four people. Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she gets a request for over a hundred books that might be happier there, but instead, she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is lives in the man who requested house on the books: Mr Birchriverbank, built of broken bricks. The boarding school Insubstantial as it might look, it's headmasterstood the passage of time, storms and a man Tess hatesfloods. As a petty act of revenge for making her find Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks postto bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys -it notes on each of the booksSonny and Max, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think ofrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. They People don't believe that they're never meant to reach himrelated, of course. Her plan much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadnwith his mother that she't delivered them for hers his nanny.|isbn=1789098130
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|isbn= B09BG8V3Q61529425867|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! Lost and Never Found (Everybody Potties!A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadSimon Mason
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!s white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading'' is the latest release in the s not ''Everybody Potties!really'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of potty training children shell suits and replace it with some funtrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. It You might wonder if you's re being introduced to a worthy aimpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, as any frustrated parent will tell you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|isbnauthor=B098FFFBH9Mosby Woods|title=Snowcub|author=Graham FulbrightA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her schoolThe West isn's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight t the way dominant force it once was. Nobody in which human beings exploit the animal worldWest is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. She gets Governments are flailing. A war here, a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrisonpush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, Nickman with precognition. Kate runs Imagine the family businessstrategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, a toy shop called Cornucopia right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in Putneyhistory. Imagine then, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toysthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1
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