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|isbn=15294181000241636604|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Martin WalkerGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesAutobiography|summary=IIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you'm not usually a fan re unlikely to think of short stories someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin- I find it all too easy to put stripe suit and his background is the book down between stories East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and forget injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to pick it up again the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - but I am and he has a fan facility with numbers which most of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' be stupid. It was his ability at what was hard to resist and I'm rather glad that I didn't even try, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. For those new to the seriesEventually, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who's who and the background to why Bruno is in St Denisthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF1035021803|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Jenny O'BrienC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her sonbeloved aunt, Carole. Hunter had diabetes Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and this the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was controlled by a pump attached the reason why Freya had not been back to his stomachthe village: Arthur, so her over-protectiveness was understandableshe feels, but let her fiancedown badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, Ian, was pestering her she has not felt able to get married and be near the man or pursue the profession she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likeloved. Her friendAfter the split, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for a night she worked in a posh hotel but then he dumped her cafe, met and she couldn't get married James (on the rebound from the money backlove of her life, so Hannah who was offered the opportunity to go in his place. She would return home to find Ian dead murdered) and Freya and five-year-old Hunter missingJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=B09GV3WS1QAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Without a TraceAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Jane BettanyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come through a divorce and right now .'' I've heard it was raining hardsaid that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. All she wanted was to get back to her new home and settle down for Well, I must confess that there have been more than a quiet eveningfew decades of technology in my lifetime. It wasnI've kept up reasonably well with what't going s advantageous to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed me but I'm left with a knife in his chestthe feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. SheOf course, 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'd no idea re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who he wascould deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=1838774823Sunny Singh|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog Problem|author=S J BennettHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=It's 2016 and the Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting suddenly been violently taken over by a strain on his waistbandterrorist 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 go and he can use try to 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
|rating=4.5
|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: tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and Poppy have moved look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the family chance to come home and Jason is now married to EmilyEdinburgh. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apartAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. They coKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-parent three-year-old Poppy who making, but Ness has full confidence in her bedroom in what was the family home abilities, and another in the flat she shares with there's always her mother. It very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''seemedInstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be working well until quick knits - others are of the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing of a woman falling from a tall building and she started swearing'long, using words she was unlikely to have heard cosy afternoons in either homefront of the fire' variety. Her behaviour deteriorated 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 there were problems at nursery schoolmore than twenty hours. Tess turns to a therapist for helpAll the projects are attractive, then her doctor modern and finally the police useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but no one will take what she has to say seriouslythat's me being picky.
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|isbnauthor=1471196615Dean Koontz|title=Iced|author=Felix FrancisThe 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 the surface and forensic testing proved the body to Laurabe Lee Geary, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratorywho had disappeared nine years earlier. FloodHe's daughters, Gemma d been a known drug user and Pippahad learning disabilities, so it could have flown the nestbeen a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, Pippa so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to Australia, from where she has very little contact with the family, suicide of Holly Gilbert and Gemma to married lifetwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy Lockyer and Laura hope DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that married life will provide the support she needs. Flood's business is going well cold cases to you and that was why he felt able to turn down the case of Lisa Blackme) investigate.
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|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou0571379559|title=The StoningHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|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, and she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were The House of Broken Bricks'' is the worldstory of four people. Tess Hembry's tallest cricket stumps. When roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she's discovered by the town gossip everyonemight be happier there, including the local copsbut instead, are quite confident she lives in the culprit has come from house on the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home toriverbank, built of broken bricks. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and Insubstantial as it might look, it's only fair, is stood the general opinionpassage of time, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditionsstorms and floods. Cue the arrival of George Manolis Her husband, a higher rank from the cityRichard, struggles to sort everything out. Because such an aggrievedgrow his vegetables, insular community is really going to welcome a Greekcomplete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys -heritaged city boy laying down Sonny and Max, the lawrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring 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.|isbn=1529416973
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|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H1529425867|title=The Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery of Healing)|author=A P McGrathSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century 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 the common era Ryan and hefather of Ryan, is not. He's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement not any of the populacethose things. The remuneration isnHe't high but the work gives the doctor s white, originated from a feeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''wantsreally'' the warriors to livehis thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. ItYou might wonder if you's quite re being introduced to a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see thempolice procedural written for laughs. Well, theyyou're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to make them look more impressivenot. The sagitarii two men are just different sides of the archers and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with same policing coin. Sometimes the wild animalscombination works brilliantly well. Today, Sometimes it's the crocodilesproblematic.
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|author=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie BlackallMosby Woods|title=The Beatryce ProphecyA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=The West isn''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 t the agelessness dominant force 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 Brothersonce was. 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 Nobody in his castle, desperate to find the girl, for it West 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 quite sure 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!" mend this or even if mending it is a cry (the big-girl kind!) best course of toilet triumph and persevering panty prideaction.'' 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 cannotGovernments are flailing. Neither can the flowers, nor the fishA war here, 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 Lily|rating=4push for climate action there.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lily A feeling that nobody isin actual charge. Imagine then, or there was, or has been, very ill, and to give her parents relief she's been told to stay a man with her grandma for a few daysprecognition. The parents need Imagine the relief as Lily's baby sibling is just about to be born – strategic advantage in this asset; a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do with. But on tracking back home for word of her parents (and her plush toy so she man who can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra tell you what will happen given any set of her parentscircumstances. That man would be valuable, and right? Perhaps the babe-most valuable asset in-armshistory. Imagine then, already installedthat this man loses this ability. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted What would governments do to get the family it back intact, even if it's not the family Lily wants – and all she has to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snake.?|isbn=1471194833B0C9SNG8R1
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