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|isbn=02414804420241636604|title=Healthy Vegan The CookbookTrading Game: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition ScienceA Confession|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienGary Stevenson
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|genre=CookeryAutobiography|summary=EmotionallyIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, I am a veganyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. MentallyA hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, I am a veganpoverty and injustice. I read [[How There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to Love Animals in a Humanthe London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright -Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the way in he has a facility with numbers which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) foodmost of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. PracticallyIt was his ability at what was, essentially, I am not a vegancard game which got him an internship with Citibank. It worked for Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a while apart from the odd blip with regard trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope donMurder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to animal-based proteinthe English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. It wasnFreya's former mentor and Carole't s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from circumstances seem suspicious, to say the animal kingdom - it least. Arthur was the ease of being reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a few spare momentscafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=suppl_staflAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Supply Chain 20/20All Tomorrow's Futures: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversFictions that Disrupt|author=Kim StaflundBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceScience Fiction|summary=So, you've finished writing your book and you think 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the hard work is all done? Youshape of things to come.''re convinced that all you need to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in?
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|isbnauthor=1398706906Sunny Singh|title=The Lost|author=Simon BeckettHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officerHotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, Jonah Colley's young sonkilling everyone on site, Theothere is Sam, just about finished hima wartime photographer and Abhi, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedthe hotel manager. He'd fallen asleep As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the park whilst Theo was playing and when hotel, he wokeforms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, Theo had gone. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later hekeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's largely come happened through it and he's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneyher photography. Gavin used Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be his best friend but it's a long time since rescued before they've spoken. He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quay. ''There's no one else I can trust'', he saysare discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Amanda Mason1529153298|title=The Hiding PlaceList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=3.5|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent lifeIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, Nell Galilee takes but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her husband and stepdaughter father wants to Whitbymove the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, where they rent Down South is a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder Housefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. She hopes that it will be For Miv, the perfect place move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to sort things outprevent that. But there She's something not quite right worried about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect the dangers or that she and her family arenMum't alone there…|isbn=1838771964s stopped talking - to anyone.}}
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|authorisbn=Paul Cleave1398524085|title=The Quiet PeopleHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|summary= I am not a fan of "the Prologue"Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. Most books are the worse for them. In this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is in a hurrynot. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have Shortly afterwards, Etty and when he hurriesGreg, when he bundles things into find the back body of his car and tries Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to run make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then hears sirens behind him, which committed suicide when he should couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how convinced but there's little else they can do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badlybut get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1913193942
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|authorisbn=Will Carver1035906708|title=Psychopaths AnonymousDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholicWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, drinking continuously and alsobut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, curiouslyNew York, addicted in December 1923 and only moved to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps Athens when she is mainly using the groups to find targetswas thirteen...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her desire father changed it to hear of people's misery, and targets Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her violent behaviour. Yet voice - she also seems to be searching for others was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who think as she does, mercilessly exploited her and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any made no secret of the groups she decides to set up her ownpreference for her elder sister, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornJackie.|isbn=1913193756
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|isbnauthor=1529418100Christopher Edge|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin WalkerBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=I'm not usually Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put place that has the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan nickname of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to read ''Bruno's ChallengeThe Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they' was hard re looking forward to resist lots of exciting films, and I'm rather glad many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that I didnsomething about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even tryimagine. For those new But as they lurch from one film genre to the seriesnext, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to know about who's who the cinema, and the background to why Bruno is in St Denis.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|isbnauthor=B09GJW49GFRachel Greenlaw|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)|author=Jenny O'BrienCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her son''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart. Hunter had diabetes '' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and this was controlled by a pump attached to his stomachplundering the wrecks. Mira, so like her over-protectiveness was understandable, but mother before her fiance, Ian, was pestering her is one of the seven who swim out to get married survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and she thought it would be any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a good idea for him trap to find out what parenting was ''reallyend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira' likes father. Her friend, Milly, had arranged Desperate to take her boyfriendsave him from death, Liam, for Mira makes a night in bargain with a posh hotel but then wreck survivor who is as charming as he dumped is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her and , she couldn't get sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the money backsea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, so Hannah was offered as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the opportunity smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to go in his place. She would return save the future of her home to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missingthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|isbnauthor=B09GV3WS1QJames Sherwood Metts|title=Without a Trace|author=Jane BettanyPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Life hadn't Things have been easy a bit sticky for Ruth Prendergast: shethe Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they'd just come through a divorce re paid to do and right now it was raining hardother tasks that took time to accomplish. All she wanted was Just as they were beginning to get back used to her all this technological change and starting to think of other, new home and settle down for a quiet evening. It wasn't going ways to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed with a knife in his chestspend time, along came an awful pandemic. She'd no idea who he Life waspretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=1838774823Matthew Tree|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog Problem|author=S J BennettWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It's 2016 and the Queen's Private SecretaryTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistband. Swimming, he decides, is the way to go and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to be there early one morning drunk and discovered the body chronic underachiever whose dreams of Cynthia Harris being exceptional at the side any of the pool. There was broken glass - a crystal tumbler, by the look at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - his artistic passions all failed miserably and it looked as though Mrs Harris who had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled outendless crises of self confidence. StillSo Tim applied himself to his studies, it was a shock for Sir Simoncultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=057136358XA G Slatter|title=April in Spain|author=John BanvilleThe Briar Book of the Dead
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Fantasy|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think of himself in those terms. He saw what he did as 'There's a matter part of making things tidy''me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. I couldn't resist the thought that he was an extreme version This secret magic of Marie Kondomy own, all mine, at last. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred I just want to him when he was in Burma with the army enjoy it for a while.''where he got Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the chance to kill world, lies Silverton; a lot town under the protection of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old timeBriar''. He was spending s, a lot family of time with Percy Antrobus - witches who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the purpose of first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a swizzle stick - surely he wouldnsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't drink champagne with bubbles in s cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the ''morning''? It was after Percytown's death that he saw leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the benefits heart of taking up a job in Spainmaelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|authorisbn=Dave Letterfly Knoderer1529900360|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
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|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 donIt hadn't think I can. Dave is an author been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and an artisteven after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. An inspirational speaker His assertions that there were only open-and -shut cases which didn't need the help of a professional horseman. And psychologist only worked for a recovering alcoholicwhile. The son of a Lutheran minister Finally, it was Robin, heDelaware's struggled with a controlling fatherpartner, 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, run away to join though. Two lovers were murdered in the circus (not swimming pool of a metaphor), trained horses, painted caravans, designed remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and painted theatre sets, she is married to an extremely rich man and hit rock bottom when it's not the bottle took overItalian.|isbn=B0965V3LLN But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Tade Thompson1529395224|title=Far From Letting the Cat Out of the Light Bag: The Secret Life of Heavena Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Michelle Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going t want to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtimefollow in his footsteps, bound for particularly when he considered the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the shipstrain that being on-call put on his father's AI captainlife. However, when she wakes up at When he was seventeen he took the end opportunity of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsivejob for him. Before long, she begins to realise that her first mission wonhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't be going - as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and with so many students - been his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtimedream since he was a child. Meanwhile If anything, former astronaut and friend of Shellhe's father Lawrence Biz takes d wanted to be a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosprofessional footballer. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323
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|authorisbn=Rob Keeley0861541774|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Lily loves eating fruit DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and vegetables. She likes carrotsformer colleague, broccoliDanny Maik, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up their noseswith an old ally, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and how nice to eathe killed a Ghurka. One day Initially, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that carrots grow on treeshe might have planned to murder the man. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in Now he could be facing the grounddeath penalty. Jordan says, "I did try Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to tell her, Miss!" help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and everyone laughs wouldn't help Danny at poor Lilyall.|isbn= B09HHN541V
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|isbnauthor=178607981XAlexander McCall Smith|title=Bad Apples|author=Will DeanThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up The Perfect Passion Company is a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an Audi 4x4 parked at alternative to all the side of the roadonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Wondering Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if someone needed help she got could come and 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 the car - a break up with a bad boyfriend, and heard so jumps at the screams chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from deep inside Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the forestIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Determining the direction of Katie has no experience in running a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference business, or in match-making, but Tuva made Ness has full confidence in her way to where a woman was holding abilities, and there's always her coat over the body of a man. He'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Perssonvery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a resident of Visberg.hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir0811771741|title=Cold As HellInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary= In Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a red suitcase as collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the bottom 'long, cosy afternoons in front of a fissure in a lava fieldthe fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, there is a bodyten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. And All the man who has put her there has just discovered projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that he is capable of killing's me being picky.|isbn=1913193888
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|author=Lucy HopeDean Koontz|title=FledglingThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene Benny is having a most peculiar hilltop houseterrifically bad day. He loses his job, built bit by bit over the decadeshe loses his fiancee, and now looking imperiously down on the village his house gets trashed. Oh, and woods below. It's an eccentric housesomeone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to host eccentricshis home, so and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the library shelving system thing that has trashed his house! The thing is not as we'd know it, Benny is the roof is retractable, there very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it, and so on. At turns out that the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and delivery to his house is a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermynew friend, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroinebad weather friend called Spike, Cassie, a young lass who has been sent to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abodehelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Oh but it's also Spike is going to house someone or something elsetake care of Benny, when crashing through Cassieand will certainly take care of Benny's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And enemies, if you think such he, Benny, and Harper (a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again..waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=183994188X1662500491
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|isbnauthor=1846276772Adam Stower|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica NordellMurray and Bun
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|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers |summary=Anyone Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobssleep and eat and eat and sleep and, promotionswell, higher salaries are the preserve whatever takes his fancy next of the white mantwo. Even when those who wouldnBut he't pass the medical become s a part of an organisation itbad magician's rare that their views are heardcat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the receiving end regular back garden, but into a world of the bias frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but ithe's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his fatherCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountantis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, Mr Patrick, to ensure would it land? The catch is that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowanceanswer for both could well be.... Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrickno. It wasn ''Fragility't that Lowry senior didn't care for his sonis set as the city of Portland, Oregon, it was that he didn't care cautiously begins to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get emerge from the restrictions imposed during the young man on his way.covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)1529431735|title=The Rabbit FactorWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54
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|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths It's February 1991 and calculations than it Essex is other human beingsbitingly cold, hewhich made Bruce Hopkins's perfect for his job in return all the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, that theymore surprising. He'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic and keen been exiled on stupid-the Costa del Sol as workshoppinga wanted drug smuggler for a decade. This is when The return has come about because he finds 's had a letter from his brother has diedex-wife, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvosaying that she's radio channel, ill and has left Henri everythinghasn't long to live. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything It' s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is just an adventure parkabducted, stripped to his underwear and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants sent to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes watery grave in the finances – boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (warning from a Spanish gang 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 the activities of these guys are not conducive problem closer to getting a cheap life insurance plan...|isbn=191319387Xhome?
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|isbnauthor=1471179311Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Unheard|author=Nicci FrenchGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=TessEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a teacher helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and Jasonruns. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a headmaster, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of generation missing in the family home and Jason is now married to Emily. The separation was amicable A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe- they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the family home and another world in the flat she shares with her mothercompany of a magical beast. It ''seemed'' This has made the race anathema to be working well until the day that Poppy came home with pair – but when a menacing drawing of bad incident at the eatery leads to a woman falling confession from a tall building and she started swearinggran, using words she was unlikely Eli knows his only hope is to have heard in either home. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems at nursery school. Tess turns dare to a therapist for helpenter what he most hates, then her doctor and finally with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the police but no one will take what she has only thing to say seriouslypossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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|isbn=1471196615178763681X|title=IcedKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Felix FrancisOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Miles Pussett used to be Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourresidential cookery school in Belgravia. He was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - thatdidn's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and against his better judgement women to do what he gets talked into helping with the saddling of the horseswanted. ItPaul 's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore 'somehow'' got the impression that he'd never go back be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but itdidn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. But when The one thing he sees that something suspicious is going on, Miles canhadn't help but look expected was for answerssomeone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, even when it puts him in dangerhe was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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|isbnauthor=147228612XSarah Marsh|title=The Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Alan JohnsonA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven't taken much notice After a bout of them. They live quietscarlet fever as a child, uneventful lives and stay mostly under the radarEllen Lark loses her hearing. In Suddenly plunged into a city like Londonworld of silence, that's quite easy - and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himeverything about her life changes. The highlight Living in a time when the use of his day sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is watching sent to a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as school where she goes is taught to work on the train each morning: he'd love to ask her for a date lip read, but he doesn't have the couragephysically restrained from signing. Then From here, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and asks for his helpusing a system called Visible Speech. Before long he finds himself At the same time, Bell is working on the run from mobstersother inventions and ideas, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan policeEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614
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|authorisbn=Claire McGowan1803816759|title=I Know YouThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson
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|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=It''Then:'' Casey returns from s 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a walk bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the babyAI system that now runs everything, Carsonmaking life easier for many, and comes across three bodiesriots start to spread. Finally, almost a whole family taken downJoe gets to do some real policing. ''Now:'' Rachel In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is out for a walk with assigned to bring her doghome. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, Brandya British superfan and tech nerd, when she comes across a body in is also on the woodscase.|isbn=1542019974What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?
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|isbn=15291482511529421284|title=Misfits: A Personal ManifestoLaying Out the Bones|author=Michaela CoelKate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=''How am I able It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be so transparent on paper about rapeLee Geary, malpractice who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and povertyhad learning disabilities, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from so it.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in could have been a certain frame simple case of mind. Youmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn're not going to read a book of essays or a self-help bookt convinced. You're going to read writing which Geary was a townie, so what was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to professionals within the television industry suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Edinburgh TV Festivaltime. You might be ''reading'' Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the book but you need to ''listen'Major Crimes Review Unit (that' s cold cases to the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writingme) investigate.
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|isbn=00084336310571379559|title=Next The House of KinBroken Bricks|author=Kia AbdullahFiona Williams
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|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=It was ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the sort story of thing that happened every dayfour people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, although not to Leila Syedbuilt of broken bricks. SheInsubstantial as it might look, it'd never driven her nephews stood the passage of time, Maxstorms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to school before but grow his fathervegetables, Andrew Hanson, had rung her to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in a panicsufficient money. He was supposed to be taking They have twin boys - Sonny and Max to school but he'd been called into work and , the delay in getting there could lead to financial lossesrainbow twins. As the school was only five minutes out of LeilaSonny's colouring reflects his mother's way, could she drop him off? Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Of coursePeople don't believe that they're related, she could much less twins and a sleeping there's an assumption when Max was duly strapped into the back of her car. On the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, is out with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskhis mother that she's his nanny.
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|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1529425867|title=Everybody Toots! Lost and Never Found (Everybody Potties!A D I Wilkins Mystery)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, 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''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1784165263|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma CurtisSimon Mason
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|summary=Martin Curran's wifeIn Oxford, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letthere are two D I Wilkins. If she didn't get homeRaymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, there would be troubleBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and confined to a wheelchairfather of Ryan, but donis not. He't be too quick to be understandings not any of those things. He was also 's white, originated from a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really''his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're good at being introduced to a disappointment'police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. All this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at The two men are just different sides of the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted same policing coin. Sometimes the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it was advertised as being available's problematic.
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|isbnauthor=1784742775Mosby Woods|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan HillWhirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Drugs hadnThe West isn't really 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 time. They still were, to a great extent, but Serrailler knew that something had to be done. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport the drugs and the operation running the county lines dominant force it once was tight. A mule might know Nobody in the name (although West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it probably wouldn't be is the correct one) best course of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisationaction. Governments are flailing. The police might catch A war here, a few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher uppush for climate action there.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09FS89KX9|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=3A feeling that nobody is in actual charge.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She Imagine then, there was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's dinera man with precognition. Bob - Imagine the owner - regarded her fondly: he was strategic advantage in this asset; a good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most man who can tell you what will happen given any set of all he wanted her to leave her job at the dinercircumstances. Then there was the fact that he That man would be violentvaluable, both to her and to other people.}}{{Frontpage|author=John Gwynne|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is right? Perhaps the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings most valuable asset in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to seehistory. This story is the ultimate in High FantasyImagine then, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galorethat this man loses this ability. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together What would governments do to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.get it back?|isbn=0356514218B0C9SNG8R1
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