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|isbn=B09GJW49GF0241636604|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Jenny O'BrienGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her sonIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Hunter had diabetes A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and this was controlled by a pump attached to his stomachbackground is the East End, so her over-protectiveness where he was understandablefamiliar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her he had been to get married the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and she thought it would be he has a good idea for him facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to find out be stupid. It was his ability at what parenting was ''really'' like. Her friend, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriendessentially, Liam, for a night in a posh hotel but then he dumped her and she couldn't get the money back, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go in his placecard game which got him an internship with Citibank. She would return home to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missingEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q1035021803|title=Without a TraceThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Jane BettanyC L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=Life hadnIt't s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been easy for Ruth Prendergast: back to the English country village where shegrew up. She'd just come through s back now because of a divorce request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and right now it was raining hardthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. All she wanted Arthur was to get the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her new home and settle down for a quiet eveningbadly. It wasn't going Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be though: when near the man or pursue the profession she went into her bedroom loved. After the split, she found worked in a dead man cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her bed with a knife in his chest. She'd no idea life, who he wasmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1838774823AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Her Majesty the Queen InvestigatesAll Tomorrow's Futures: A Three Dog ProblemFictions that Disrupt|author=S J BennettBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's 2016 and advantageous to me but I'm left with the Queenfeeling that it's Private Secretaryall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret 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 too little exercise who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is putting a strain on his waistbandluxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. SwimmingHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, he decideskilling everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the way hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to go and he can use care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the Buckingham Palace pool which is how hotel, he came forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be there early one morning cowed by events, and discovered the body keeps on venturing out of Cynthia Harris at the side of the poolher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. There was broken glass - a crystal tumblerAlthough 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 look at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled out. Still, it was a shock for Sir Simonterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=057136358X1529153298|title=April in SpainThe List of Suspicious Things|author=John BanvilleJennie Godfrey
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|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Terry Tice was a hitmanIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, although he didn't think of himself in those termshonestly... ) He saw She's not what he did as 's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they'a matter of making things tidyve been murdered, but to have 'disappeared'. I couldndoesn't resist the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondosound quite so frightening. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army Miv's upset because she'where he got the chance s overheard that her father wants to kill a lot of move the little yellow fellows and had a fine old timefamily 'Down South'. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldnWhen you't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of re from Yorkshire, Down South is a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she''morning''? ll do anything to prevent that. It was after PercyShe's death not worried about the dangers or that he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spainher Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=Dave Letterfly Knoderer1398524085|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=How to summarise the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you know, I really donCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband't think I cans fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Dave is an author Her children, sons Niall, Paul and an artist. An inspirational speaker Ollie and a professional horsemanher daughter, Etty. And a recovering alcoholicare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. The son Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of a Lutheran minister, heGreg's struggled with a controlling father, run away Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to join make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the circus (guilt. The Salter children are not a metaphor), trained horses, painted caravans, designed convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when the bottle took overwonder about what really happened.|isbn=B0965V3LLN
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|authorisbn=Tade Thompson1035906708|title=Far From the Light of HeavenDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going We tend to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the world think of BloodrootMaria Callas as Greek, but she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's AI captain. Howeverwas born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she wakes up at the end of was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her trip father changed it to find dozens of her passengers butchered and 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the Ragtime's AI almost nonStates. When she was back in Athens -responsive, supposedly so that she begins to realise that could get appropriate training for her first mission won't be going as smoothly as voice - she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on was raised under the Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes Nazi occupation by a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking mother who mercilessly exploited her and bureaucracy made no secret of Space Station Lagos. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just her preference for Bloodroother elder sister, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323Jackie.
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|author=Rob KeeleyChristopher Edge|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!Black Hole Cinema Club|rating= 4|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage Lucas and aubergines. When her his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at school turn up their noseslocal cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice 're looking forward to eat. One daylots of exciting films, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordanand many, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriatedmany snacks! However, Lily checks with as the teachermovie starts, who explains they very quickly realise that fruits grow on trees something about this new film format is very different, and vegetables, like carrots, grow in they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the ground. Jordan saysnext, "I did try can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to tell herthe cinema, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.to their real lives?|isbn= B09HHN541V1839942738
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|isbnauthor=178607981XRachel Greenlaw|title=Bad Apples|author=Will DeanCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at ''I can hear the side song of the roadsea. Wondering if someone needed help she got out The call of the car - and heard the screams from deep inside , the forestanswering beat in my heart. Determining the direction of a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where a woman was holding her coat over the body of a man. He'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Persson, a resident of Visberg.}}
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|author=Lucy HopeJames Sherwood Metts|title=FledglingPlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is Things have been a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over sticky for the decadesEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. Itoften replacing jobs they's an eccentric house, re paid to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as we'd know it, the roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, do and so onother tasks that took time to accomplish. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and a passion for the long-standing family hobby starting to think of taxidermyother, a woman who does nothing but quibblenew ways to spend time, kvetch along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassiealong with it, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again..many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=183994188X1736128426
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|isbnauthor=1846276772Matthew Tree|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell'll Never Know
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to which they suffer be different from it: it's simply his father, a part drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve being exceptional at any of the white man. Even when those his artistic passions all failed miserably and who wouldn't pass the medical become a part had endless crises of an organisation it's rare that their views are heardself confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias set himself high but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=Teresa DriscollA G Slatter|title=Her Perfect FamilyThe Briar Book of the Dead
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=The novel begins by introducing you '' There's a part of me that wants to Gemmakeep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, who at first instance appears last. I just want to be your average studentenjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, faced with far away from the familiar horrifying realisationworld, at lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the eleventh hourBriar's, that her graduation outfit is all wronga family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. SuddenlyThough she has always wished for magic, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He Ellie Briar is not who he says he is…'', paving the way first 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 potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the sinister tone that remains throughout Briar Witch, the noveltown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. In a twist of eventsAs challenges come her way left, right and after a change of outfitcentre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, Gemma is shot in putting her at the midst heart of her graduation ceremonya maelstrom of chaos. With Gemma then in a comaReeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow do as the further you readBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=15420287521803364548
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|isbn=84092901031529900360|title=If OnlyThe Ghost Orchid|author=Matthew TreeJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: badly injured but he asked his accountant, Mr Patrickfelt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ensure that the young man got ask for his help on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowancedifficult cases. Patrick sent the money regularly His assertions that there were only open-and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior shut cases which didn't care need the help of a psychologist only worked for his sona while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that he didn't care to have him the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in this country where he might be the swimming pool of a danger remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to his wife an extremely rich man and other childrenit's not the Italian. The alcohol problem But which of them was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.primary target?
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|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Rabbit FactorSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands
|rating=3.5
|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.
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|isbn=0861541774
|title=A Nye of Pheasants
|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Henri. With DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beingsshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, he's perfect for his job Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a teamstreet brawl -member, he would later maintain that they'd prefer everyone to be all openhe was facing a man armed with a knife -plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having killed a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, and nothing elseGhurka. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind Initially, but he perks up faced a little when charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans might have been made out and planned to murder the amount vanishedman. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on Now he could be facing the scene death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to explain that missing money – it's been turned into help as any interference from another police force could provoke a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, diplomatic incident and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan..wouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbnauthor=1471179311Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Unheard|author=Nicci FrenchPerfect Passion Company
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=TessThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, a teacher run by Ness and Jason, operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a headmastermore personal, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of the family home and Jason is now married to Emilytailored service. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who Ness has asked her bedroom in what was the family home younger cousin Katie if she could come and another in look after the flat she shares with her motherbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. It ''seemed'' to be working well until the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing Katie is coming out of a woman falling from break up with a tall building bad boyfriend, and she started swearing, using words she was unlikely so jumps at the chance to have heard in either come hometo Edinburgh. Her behaviour deteriorated And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and there were problems at nursery schoolthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Tess turns to Katie has no experience in running a therapist for helpbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, then and there's always her doctor very helpful (and finally the police but no one will take what she has rather handsome) neighbour, William, to say seriously.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=14711966150811771741|title=IcedInstaKnits for Baby|author=Felix FrancisMelissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=Miles Pussett used to be Benny is having a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he now gets loses his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Runfiancee, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourand his house gets trashed. He was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin- thatsized object to his home, and it's high-class horseracing on possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the frozen lake and against thing that has trashed his better judgement he gets talked into helping with house! The thing is, Benny is the saddling of the horsesvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore So fortunately for Benny it turns out that he'd never go back the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to ithelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. But when he sees that something suspicious Spike is going onto take care of Benny, Miles canand will certainly take care of Benny't help but look for answerss enemies, if he, Benny, even when it puts him in dangerand Harper (a waitress 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=147228612XAdam Stower|title=The Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Alan JohnsonMurray and Bun
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=We all know people like Gary NelsonMurray is supposed to be a humble, although we probably haven't taken much notice of them. They live quiettidy and friendly cat, uneventful lives one who is able to sleep and stay mostly under eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the radartwo. In But he's a city like London, thatbad magician's quite easy - cat, so his favourite bun has been turned 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 even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himwhiffs. The highlight of his day This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to work on the train each morning: be honest, but he'd love to ask her for a date but s turned up and he doesn't ll have the courage. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and asks for his help. Before long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan police.do…|isbn=0008561249
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|authorisbn=Claire McGowanB0C47LV1PC|title=I Know YouFragility|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Then:Yo birthing person'' Casey returns from a walk with joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the babyquestion if you did, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken downwould it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.
''Now:Fragility'' Rachel is out for a walk with her dogset as the city of Portland, BrandyOregon, when she comes across a body in cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the woods.|isbn=1542019974covid pandemic
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|isbn=15291482511529431735|title=Misfits: A Personal ManifestoThe Winter Visitor|author=Michaela CoelJames Henry|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=It''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice s February 1991 and povertyEssex is bitingly cold, yet still compartmentalise? Itwhich made Bruce Hopkins's as though I were telling return all the truth whilst simultaneously running away from itmore surprising. He'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a certain frame of minddecade. You The return has come about because he're not going to read s had a book of essays or a selfletter from his ex-help book. Youwife, saying that she're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coels ill and hasn's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture t long to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festivallive. You might be It''reading'' the book but you need s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to ''listen'' his underwear and sent to the words as though you're a watery grave in the lecture theatreboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a cloud of exquisite writing.problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=0008433631Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Next The Glorious Race of Kin|author=Kia AbdullahMagical Beasts|rating=54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It was Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the sort of thing that happened every daywondrous library we start by visiting with him, although not to Leila Syedand in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. She'd never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but Eli lives with his fatherlovely gran, Andrew Hanson, had rung her too – for there is a generation missing in a panicthe family. He was supposed A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to be taking Max the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to school but he'd been called into work and navigate the delay world in getting there could lead to financial losses. As the school was only five minutes out company of Leila's way, could she drop him off? Of course, she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her carmagical beast. On This has made the race anathema to the way Leila took pair – but when a phone call - there was panic bad incident at her work toothe eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract the sole aim the prize of magic at riskthe end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova178763681X|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Drugs hadnChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really been that much of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had thought of drugs ops as a bit way of a waste of timegetting both men and women to do what he wanted. They still were Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, to who had a great extentbroken arm, but Serrailler knew it didn't turn out that something had to be doneway. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport the drugs The teaching - and the operation running the county lines was tightproblems - are all his own. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn The one thing he hadn't be the correct one) of expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in discovered the body and everyone knows that the organisation. The police might catch a few of consider that person to be the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upprime suspect.
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|isbnauthor=B09FS89KX9Sarah Marsh|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope PottsA Sign of Her Own
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. She was just going Suddenly plunged into the final year a world of silence, everything about her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's dinerlife changes. Bob - Living in a time when the owner - regarded her fondly: he use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a good bossschool where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriendFrom here, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well she ends up in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the dinerusing a system called Visible Speech. Then there was At the fact that he would be violentsame time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, both to her and to other peopleEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614
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|authorisbn=John Gwynne1803816759|title=The Shadow Of The GodsUnravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=54|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the first installment wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the Bloodsworn SagaAI system that now runs everything, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarokmaking life easier for many, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all riots start to seespread. This story is the ultimate in High FantasyFinally, and John Gwynne certainly does justice Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and battles galoreJoe is assigned to bring her home. This is a thick bookJoe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic British superfan and gritty world in which our heroes must do battletech nerd, is also on the case.|isbn=0356514218What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?
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|isbn=B09HTWX47X1529421284|title=Endless ObsessionLaying Out the Bones|author=Dai HenleyKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly a DCI was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in the Met but now a well-respected private investigatorheatwave. He's married In a gully, a human skeleton came to Laura, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratory. Flood's daughters, Gemma surface and Pippa, have flown forensic testing proved the nest, Pippa body to Australiabe Lee Geary, from where she has very little contact with the family, and Gemma to married lifewho had disappeared nine years earlier. SheHe's d been a known drug user and had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide the support she needsDI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Flood's business is going well and that Geary was a townie, so what was why he felt able doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to turn down the case suicide of Lisa Black.}}{{Frontpage|author=Peter Papathanasiou|title=The Stoning|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, Holly Gilbert and she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumpstime. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on Major Crimes Review Unit (that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, cold cases to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law..you and me) investigate.|isbn=1529416973
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|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H0571379559|title=The Mystery House of HealingBroken Bricks|author=A P McGrath|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and he's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populace. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor a feeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to live. It's quite a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with the wild animals. Today, it's the crocodiles.}}{{Frontpage|author=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie Blackall|title=The Beatryce ProphecyFiona Williams
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|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=''Stories have joy and surprises in themThe House of Broken Bricks''is the story of four people. Tess Hembry', we s roots are told here. And none more so than in this wondrous storyJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, which feels an instant classic with she lives in the freshness and house on the agelessness riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it has in equal proportion. We start with a group of monksmight look, it's stood the Order of the Chronicles passage of Sorrowingtime, storms and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upendingfloods. Her husband, Richard, trampling on and biting the poor Brothers. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach struggles to a homeless girl, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King in grow his castlevegetables, desperate to find complete the girldelivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, for it is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne and cause great changerainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Who foretold People don't believe that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simplethey're related, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=1529500893much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.
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|isbn=B09FFJF8YS1529425867|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery Lost 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 Never Found (the big-girl kind!A D I Wilkins Mystery) 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 LilySimon Mason
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Lily In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins isof Nigerian descent, or wasBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, or has beenson of Ryan and father of Ryan, very ill, and to give her parents relief sheis not. He's been told to stay with her grandma for a few daysnot any of those things. The parents need the relief as Lily He's baby sibling is just about to be born – white, originated from a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do with. But on tracking back home for word of her parents trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra his wardrobe consists mainly of her parents, shell suits and the babe-trackies. They're usually in-arms, already installedlime green or acid yellow. These devilish interlopers need You might wonder if you're being introduced to be ousted to get the family back intacta police procedural written for laughs. Well, even if ityou's re not . The two men are just different sides of the family Lily wants – and all she has to help her in same policing coin. Sometimes the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snakecombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|isbn=1471194833
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|author=Greg James and Chris SmithMosby Woods|title=The Great Dream RobberyA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Maya's father is a professor who invented an amazing dream machine. But something went wrong, and now he canThe West isn't wake upthe dominant force it once was. Or at least, that's what Maya has been told. In a rather strange dream one night Maya makes a new friend, and discovers that Nobody in the only way West is quite sure how to save her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action adventure story where dreams and reality collide.Governments are flailing.A war here, a push for climate action there.reallyA feeling that nobody is in 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 circumstances.and there's everything from llamas and bananasThat man would be valuable, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offsright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to a talking cat called Bin Bag!get it back?|isbn=024147051XB0C9SNG8R1
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