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|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gunnar StaalesenGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=Bitter FlowersThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
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|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning been back to workthe English country village where she grew up. However She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, the quiet job heCarole. Freya's supposedly taken on caretaking someoneformer mentor and Carole's house quickly turns into a murder investigationclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and a mystery around a missing womanthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Varg finds himself Arthur was the reason why Freya had not only investigating thesebeen back to the village: Arthur, but also looking into an oldshe feels, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never foundlet her down badly. Somehow Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, these disparate cases appear she has not felt able to be linkednear the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, but what is she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the linklove of her life, who was murdered) and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308XFreya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Kia AhankoobAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Gold Lion All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and the Tournament of SentinelsStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Graphic NovelsScience Fiction|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the hope they would complement each other and collaborateshape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, creating I must confess that there have been more than a dynamic and prosperous societyfew decades of technology in my lifetime. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to one of eight countries led by Myriadme but I'm left with the feeling that it's children and their descendantsall getting away from me. But Some of it didn't is - frankly - quite work out like thatfrightening. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them Of course, I could research the possibilities and the eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless probabilities and ruinous stalemate and finding end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the cost of war too high, a solution is proposedlatest conspiracy theorist. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a single combat tournamentway I could understand. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV
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|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsSunny Singh|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Meet TomasThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Happy to work with his father in Hiding from the blacksmith's forgeterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, he's almost of the age to become a full apprenticewartime photographer and Abhi, and help with the new batch of dragonswords is certainly neededhotel manager. Not that there As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are any dragons, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except... Strange signals from within still alive in the forge furnacehotel, and he forms a peculiar invite bond with Sam who refuses to become an apprentice clerk insteadbe cowed by events, are things for Tom and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to puzzle capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over – until it all comes out in the wash, that yes dragons do still exist in this worldphone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and that Tom is rare in they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the ability to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with them..terrorists.|isbn=1839940026086154742X
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|isbn=15293465411529153298|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Elizabeth GeorgeJennie Godfrey
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's late July 1979 and Deborah St James Margaret Thatcher is at a meeting with Dominique ShawPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Undersecretary for the school systemhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, a representative from the NHSthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, Mr Oh from Barnardosthey've been murdered, someone from Orchid House whose name she didnbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakersound quite so frightening. It follows on from the success of DeborahMiv's book upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'London VoicesDown South'. When you': the meeting re from Yorkshire, Down South is an exploration of a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the possibility of the idea behind the book being used move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesprevent that. DeborahShe's uncertain not worried about quite how successful she could be as the problem seems dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks to and photographsanyone.
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|isbn=B09Q3P283Y1398524085|title=ShadebringerHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Grayson W HooperNicci French|rating=45|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Clyde Robbins signs Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the militaryEtty. If he's honest are all worried but - strangely - which Clyde usually her husband, Alec, isnot. Shortly afterwards, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices Etty and this oneGreg, at least, gets him out find the body of the rut heGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, inthe river. He It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's good in training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training courset stand the guilt. He The Salter children are not convinced but there's chuffed little else they can do but get on with himselftheir lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy1035906708|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=There is no mermaid We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in the millpondDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homeStates. Bess knows there is no time for friendship When she was back in a handAthens -tosupposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice -mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a bit mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harmpreference for her elder sister, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workersJackie. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=When the world was madeLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so place that he could see has the present ''andnickname of 'The Black Hole' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - butAll big movie fans, unfortunatelythey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! not However, as the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think movie starts, they very quickly realise thatsomething about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn's not a fair contest but wait and seet even imagine. Things are not always But as they seem. lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? I'll tell you how it came about.Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|author=Giovanna FletcherRachel Greenlaw|title=Walking on SunshineCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary=Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on livingI can hear the song of the sea. Whilst some The call of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobedeep, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything the answering beat in their own lives, and go along with him.|isbn=140593560X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529393930|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=''Starting a creative business has never been easiermy heart.''
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|author=Freya MarskeJames Sherwood Metts|title=A Marvellous LightPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into Things have been a job in bit sticky for the Civil ServiceEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, much often replacing jobs they're paid to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey do and learns other tasks that the streets of London are threaded with magictook time to accomplish. Desperate Just as they were beginning to get used to remove a curse that threatens all this technological change and starting to swallow himthink of other, Robin follows Edwin new ways to the countrysidespend time, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and the people shimmer , along with power. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the lives of it, all magicians in the British Islesmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |isbn=15290808861736128426
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|isbnauthor=0241480442Matthew Tree|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienWe'll Never Know
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|genre=CookeryLiterary Fiction|summary=EmotionallyTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, I am a vegandrunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. MentallySo Tim applied himself to his studies, I am a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, I am not a vegan. It worked for a while apart from the odd blip with regard to cheese set himself high but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. It wasn't the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare momentsachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=suppl_staflA G Slatter|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on The Briar Book of the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim StaflundDead|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceFantasy|summary=So, you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all you need mine, at last. I just want to do now is get enjoy it published and the money will start rolling in?for a while.''
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|isbn=13987069061529900360|title=The LostGhost Orchid|author=Simon BeckettJonathan Kellerman
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|genre=Crime
|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's young sonfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself Sturgis was reluctant to ask for what had happenedhis help on difficult cases. HeHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'd fallen asleep in t need the park whilst Theo help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was playing and when he wokeRobin, Delaware's partner, Theo had gonewho nudged Milo into asking for help again. It cost him his marriage and his homeShe knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. Ten years later he's largely come through it and he's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneyThe next case did look simple, though. Gavin used to be his best friend but it's Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a long time since they've spokenremote property in Bel Air. He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and he asks Jonah she is married to meet him at Slaughter Quay. ''Therean extremely rich man and it's no one else I can trust'', he saysnot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Amanda Mason1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Hiding PlaceSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands
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|genre=HorrorAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and stepdaughter Rowlands didn't want to Whitbyfollow in his footsteps, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by particularly when he considered the name of Elder House. She hopes strain that it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But therebeing on-call put on his father's something not quite right about Elder Houselife. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect that she and her When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{Frontpage|author=Paul Cleave|title=The Quiet People|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= I am not friend who was a fan of "the Prologue". Most books are vet and was convinced this was the worse job for themhim. In this case I might make an exception Before long, he was at Liverpool University. We start It hadn't - as with Luca Pittman who is in so many students - been his dream since he was a hurrychild. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have If anything, and when he hurries, when he bundles things into the back of his car and tries 'd wanted to run and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes be a risk. It ends badlyprofessional footballer.|isbn=1913193942
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|authorisbn=Will Carver0861541774|title=Psychopaths Anonymous|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear A Nye of people's misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529418100|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesPheasants|author=Martin WalkerSteve Burrows
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|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=IDCI Domenic Jejeune'm not usually s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories and forget holiday in Singapore to pick it meet up again with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - but I am he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a fan charge of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation manslaughter but evidence came to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard light that suggested that he might have planned to resist and I'm rather glad that I didn't even trymurder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. For those new Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to the series, therehelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's an excellent introduction that will tell you t help Danny at all you need to know about who's who and the background to why Bruno is in St Denis.
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|isbnauthor=B09GJW49GFAlexander McCall Smith|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)|author=Jenny O'BrienThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Hannah Thomas was having The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her first night younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away from her sonfor a while. Hunter had diabetes and this was controlled by Katie is coming out of a break up with a pump attached to his stomachbad boyfriend, and so her over-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her jumps at the chance to get married and she thought it would be a good idea for him come home to find out what parenting was ''really'' likeEdinburgh. Her friendAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, Millybringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, had arranged thanks to take her boyfriend44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, Liambut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, for a night or in a posh hotel match-making, but then he dumped Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and she couldnthere't get the money backs always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go in his place. She would return home to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missing.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q0811771741|title=Without a TraceInstaKnits for Baby|author=Jane BettanyMelissa Leapman
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|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Life hadnMelissa Leapman't been easy s ''InstaKnits for Ruth Prendergast: sheBaby''d just come through gives us a divorce and right now it was raining hardcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. All she wanted was The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to get back ten hours, ten to her new home twenty hours and settle down for a quiet eveningmore than twenty hours. It wasn't going to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed with a knife in his chestAll the projects are attractive, modern and useable. SheI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that'd no idea who he wass me being picky.
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|isbnauthor=1838774823Dean Koontz|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog Problem|author=S J BennettThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=It's 2016 and the Queen's Private SecretaryBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistbandhouse gets trashed. SwimmingOh, he decidesand someone has delivered a really weird, is the way disturbing coffin-sized object to go his home, and he can use it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the Buckingham Palace pool which thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is how he came the very last person to be there early one morning and discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at the side of the pooldeserve all this bad luck. There was broken glass - He is a crystal tumbler, by the look at nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it - probably one of turns out that the young royals delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being careless - a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and cut Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself so badly that she had bled roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure outwho exactly they are. Still, it was a shock for Sir Simon.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=057136358XAdam Stower|title=April in Spain|author=John BanvilleMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers |summary=Terry Tice was Murray is supposed to be a hitmanhumble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, although he didn't think whatever takes his fancy next of himself in those termsthe two. He saw what But he did as ''s a matter of making things tidybad magician''. I couldn't resist the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed s cat, so his jobfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with and the army ''where he got catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the chance to kill regular back garden, but into a lot world of the little yellow fellows frightening adventure and had a fine old time''whiffs. He was spending This time round it drops them into a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of Viking land, where a swizzle stick - surely troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that turned up and he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spain.'ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|authorisbn=Dave Letterfly KnodererB0C47LV1PC|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocFragility|author=Mosby Woods
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|genre=AutobiographyLiterary Fiction|summary=How to summarise Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoirquestion should you make it? Do Or is the question if you knowdid, I really don't think I canwould it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.
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|authorisbn=Tade Thompson1529431735|title=Far From the Light of HeavenThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Michelle It'Shells February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to spacereturn all the more surprising. As first officer aboard He'd been exiled on the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the shipdecade. The return has come about because he's AI captain. Howeverhad a letter from his ex-wife, when saying that she wakes up at the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission wonill and hasn't be going as smoothly as she hoped it wouldlong to live. Down on Bloodroot It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin stripped to his underwear and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter watery grave in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy boot of Space Station Lagosa stolen Ford Sierra. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|author=Rob KeeleyAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating= 4|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrotsEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends in the evening a helper at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you the dessert cafe his gran owns and how nice to eatruns. One day Eli lives with his lovely gran, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on treestoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. Infuriated A few short years ago, Lily checks with Eli's parents were both lost to the teachertitular race, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the groundcompany of a magical beast. Jordan says This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, "I did try Eli knows his only hope is to tell herdare to enter what he most hates, Miss!" and everyone laughs with the sole aim the prize of magic at poor Lilythe end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn= B09HHN541V0571382231
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|isbn=178607981X178763681X|title=Bad ApplesKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Will DeanOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5
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|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up Chef Paul Delamare took a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked teaching job at the side of the roada residential cookery school in Belgravia. Wondering if someone needed help she got out He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of the car - getting both men and heard the screams from deep inside the forestwomen to do what he wanted. Determining Paul ''somehow'' got the direction of impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a sound isnbroken arm, but it didn't easy when you need hearing aids turn out that way. The teaching - and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where a woman was holding her coat over the body of a manproblems - are all his own. HeThe one thing he hadn'd been decapitatedt expected was for someone to turn up dead. He Unfortunately, he was Arne Gustav Persson, a resident of Visbergthe person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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|author=Lilja SigurdadottirSarah Marsh|title=Cold As HellA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary= In After a red suitcase bout of scarlet fever as the bottom a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of a fissure silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a lava fieldtime when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, there Ellen is sent to a bodyschool where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. And the man From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has put her there has just discovered that he been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is capable working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of killingespionage.|isbn=19131938881035401614
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|authorisbn=Lucy Hope1803816759|title=FledglingThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene It's 2038 and Joe is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decades, and now looking imperiously down on bored cop policing the village wealthy and woods belowpeaceful New York City. It's an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as we'd know it, the roof is retractable, there is Joe longs for a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, bit of adventure and so onto get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier But then something goes horribly wrong with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermyAI system that now runs everything, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudlymaking life easier for many, and the dying grandma riots start to our heroinespread. Finally, Cassie, a young lass who has Joe gets to do all some real policing. In the maintenance aftermath of this bizarre machine-like abodethe rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Oh but itJoe isn's also going t the only one trying to house someone or something elsesave Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherubalso on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And if you think such a heavenly arrival how is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again...|isbn=183994188XSuki's kidnapping connected?
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|isbn=18462767721529421284|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our MindsLaying Out the Bones|author=Jessica NordellKate Webb
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|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in It was one of those flash downpours that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply British weather often delivers in a part of everyday lifeheatwave. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. JobsIn a gully, promotions, higher salaries are a human skeleton came to the preserve of surface and forensic testing proved the white manbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Even when those who wouldnHe't pass the medical become d been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a part simple case of an organisation itmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's rare that their views are heardt convinced. Geary was a townie, that their concerns so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are acknowledgedconnections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. It's personally appalling Lockyer and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end DC Gemma Broad of the bias but itMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedcold cases to you and me) investigate.
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|authorisbn=Teresa Driscoll0571379559|title=Her Perfect FamilyThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
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|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=''The novel begins by introducing you to GemmaHouse of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, who at first instance appears to be your average studentbut instead, faced with she lives in the familiar horrifying realisation, at house on the eleventh hourriverbank, that her graduation outfit is all wrongbuilt of broken bricks. Suddenly Insubstantial as it might look, Gemma receives an eerie message stating it''He is not who he says he is…'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout s stood the novel. In a twist passage of eventstime, storms and after a change of outfitfloods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, Gemma is shot to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the midst of her graduation ceremonyrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. With Gemma then in a coma People don't believe that they're related, what follows much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is a complex whodunit out with a list of suspects his mother that continues to grow the further you readshe's his nanny.|isbn=1542028752
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|isbn=84092901031529425867|title=If OnlyLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Matthew TreeSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his fatherIn Oxford, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountantthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Mr PatrickBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat son of Ryan and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowancefather of Ryan, is not. Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - He's not any of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrickthose things. It wasn He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''t that Lowry senior didnreally't care for ' his thing) and his son, it was that he didnwardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They't care to have him re usually in this country where he lime green or acid yellow. You might be wonder if you're being introduced to a danger to his wife and other childrenpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the young man on his waycombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)Mosby Woods|title=The Rabbit FactorA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet HenriThe West isn't the dominant force it once was. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshoppingbest course of action. Governments are flailing. This is when he finds his brother has diedA war here, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everythingpush for climate action there. Unfortunately (or otherwise) A feeling that 'everything' nobody is just an adventure park, and nothing elsein actual charge. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mindImagine then, but he perks up there was a little when he sees huge holes man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in the finances – it runs at this asset; a steady money-moving paceman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, despite some desultory staff ideasright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, but loans have been made out and the amount vanishedthat this man loses this ability. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene What would governments do to explain that missing money – get 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 to getting a cheap life insurance plan...back?|isbn=191319387XB0C9SNG8R1
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