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|isbn=15291353620241636604|title=The Long WeekendTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gilly MacmillanGary Stevenson
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|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=It was If you were to bring up an image of a long drive to the weekend retreat city banker in Northumbriayour mind, right up near you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the Scottish borders pin-stripe suit and to make it worse his background is the three husbands had all - for one reason or another 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 delay making the trip until the Saturday morningLondon School of Economics. Jane Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and Ruth had known each other for he has a long time but Emily was a bit facility with numbers which most of an outsider. She and Paul had married us can only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than the other two womenenvy. The friendship of the group went back He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to school daysbe stupid. Paul had coached rugby It was his ability at the school where Markwhat was, Toby and Rob were pupils. Mark had married Janeessentially, and Toby is Ruth's husbanda card game which got him an internship with Citibank. And Rob? WellEventually, Rob's deadthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=gareth_steel1035021803|title=Never Work With AnimalsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Gareth SteelC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary=I donIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She't often begin my reviews with s back now because of a warning but with request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole'Never Work With Animals'' it seems s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the 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 be appropriatenear the man or pursue the profession she loved. Stories After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of a vet's her life , who was murdered) and Freya and James have proved popular since now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary='All Creatures Great and Small'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.' but I'Never Work With Animalsve heard it said that 'technology' is definitely not the companion volume what happens after you've re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been looking formore than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. As a TV show the author would argue that I've kept up reasonably well with what'All Creaturess advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it' lacked realisms all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that I could research the possibilities and the book is not suitable for younger readers probabilities and - after end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading - someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I agree with himcould understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3. He says 5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that he's written it to inform has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and provoke thoughtAbhi, particularly amongst aspiring vetsthe hotel manager. It deals As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with some uncomfortable Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and distressing issues but it doesnkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what't lack sensitivitys happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, although there 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 occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eatingdiscovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=17876348841529153298|title=The HerdList of Suspicious Things|author=Emily EdwardsJennie Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Our story opens in December 2019It'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, before most of us had even heard of Covid or realised they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come her father wants to be a major issuemove the family 'Down South'. WeWhen you're in Farley County Courtfrom Yorkshire, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash KohliDown South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. As they were For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened is major friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that, regardless of . She's not worried about the outcome, this is not going dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to work out well for anyone.
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|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs1398524085|title=The Language of FoodHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never had the slightest inclination to boil an eggturned up. When tasked with writing a cookery book Her children, sons Niall, she recruits Ann KirbyPaul and Ollie and her daughter, a local woman with a troubled home lifeEtty. Togetherare all worried but - strangely - her husband, they testAlec, craftis not. Shortly afterwards, refine Etty and reshape Greg, find the world body of domestic cookeryGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, reinventing in the river. It was an easy assumption for the recipe book police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and changing then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the face of cookery writing foreverguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1398502227
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|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1035906708|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to '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 voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|author=Christopher Edge
|title=Black Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile Lucas and his friends are all booked in the physical form of for a middle-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by movie marathon at their local cinema, a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor place that has come along as well, to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother nickname of the two'The Black Hole'. Loki has a month All big movie fans, they're looking forward to redeem his reputationlots of exciting films, and get his moral compass pointing the right way againmany, or elsemany snacks! However, and to prove it he has to write as the text we read in a sentient notebookmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is able to cry foul of his liesvery different, and judge his progressthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But Loki is as they lurch from one film genre to the kind of god who insists he next, can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to be a walk in the park...rightcinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=14063997521839942738
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|isbnauthor=0008454442Rachel Greenlaw|title=A Flicker in the Dark|author=Stacy WillinghamCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a medical psychologistremote and partially forgotten island, is completing a session with a new patientsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Lacey Mira, like her mother before her, is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes one of getting her through the traumaseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. You seeBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, Chloe knows what itthey capture the island's leader and Mira's like father. Desperate to have save him from death, Mira makes a traumatic childhood. Her father bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is Richard Davissecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the man who murdered six girls some twenty years agosea. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed it watched streets of foreign islands to the police. Dick Davis is in heart of the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to do with him for save the last twenty years. Her mother is in a care future of her homeand the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|author=Christopher EdgeJames Sherwood Metts|title=Escape RoomPlanet Storyland|rating=34.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=I've seen junior variants of Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific location, re paid to do and have other tasks that took time to solve problems in order accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get their way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, Ami used to all this technological change and four starting to think of other tweenagers, all new ways to each other spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and booked into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at along with it, all the game's main offices, where many daily social interactions on which they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerdepend so heavily. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=17880079641736128426
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|isbnauthor=1732898731Matthew Tree|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A ChildrenWe's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese ll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=There was Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything drunk and he was meticulous about storage: chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys artistic passions all failed miserably and the like: all the things which most children have in abundancewho had endless crises of self confidence. The Boy's delight was in the sense of order in So Tim applied himself to his room: it made him feel happy. As he grew up and became a Manstudies, cultivated his abilities rather than his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger daydreams and better boxes. Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that one of them has a padlock..set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=B09MN1526WA G Slatter|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)|author=Liz MistryThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=It'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the third murder in world, lies Silverton; a town under the space protection of the Briar's, a few weeks and they've all been because family of machetes used on teenagers. DS Nikki Parekh witches who protect the town and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on wider world from the outskirts of BradfordDarklands. OnlyThough she has always wished for magic, this time, it's going to be different. The body appears to Nikki Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be that of born into her beloved nephew, Haqib, family for generations and as such since she has was young, her training as a very public meltdownsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. It isnWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't Haqib: there are similarities but s cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the body is clad in designer clothes town's leader, and comes from an obviously monied backgroundEllie takes her place beside her. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to be on sick leave for some time communicate with anxiety the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and depressiondetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|authorisbn=Ally Wilkes1529900360|title=All the White SpacesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=In post-WWI EnglandIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Jonathan Morgan stows away Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on an Arctic expedition led by difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents help of a chance psychologist only worked for a fresh startwhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, and who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, without involvement was something that the disapproval and constraints of his parentsman she loved needed. However The next case did look simple, Jonathan isn't though. Two lovers were murdered in the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow swimming pool of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expeditionremote property in Bel Air. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk He was the party heir to an Italian shoe empire and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan she is married to make an extremely rich man and it out 's not the Italian. But which of them was the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.|isbn=1789097835primary target?
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1529395224|title=QuicksilverLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=23.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Meet Quinn QuicksilverSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. He His father was a GP and Rowlands didn's not had the chance t want to get to be a mercurial character yetfollow in his footsteps, for particularly when he's lived in a nunconsidered the strain that being on-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career call put on a needless magazinehis father's stafflife. But when this book starts When he was seventeen he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded took the opportunity of him that he go to doing work experience with a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth family friend who was a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank vet and prepare for going on was convinced this was the lam. And all this is just in time job for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to themhim. Helped to escape Before long, he finds was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in controldream since he was a child. If anything, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and 'd wanted to be a whole lot more besidesprofessional footballer.|isbn=1542019885
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|isbn=00084416180861541774|title=Other ParentsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Sarah StovellSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didnDCI Domenic Jejeune't live s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up to her retired predecessor there could well be with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a house price slump in street brawl - he would later maintain that part of the townhe was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were Initially, he faced a considerable benefit charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the schoolman. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for Now he could be facing the headdeath penalty. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to Jo's restrictions on the toys children help as any interference from another police force could bring in on Toy Day but that was just provoke a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationdiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|author=Sarah Ann JuckesAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Hunt for the NightingalePerfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Jasper The Perfect Passion Company is a little boy who has some strugglesdating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and whilst we're never told why exactlyoperating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, we can see that he tailored service. Ness has anxiety asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and panic attackslook after the business, and has difficulty dealing 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 change a bad boyfriend, and big emotionsso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. His big sister And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, Rosiebringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, has been a huge support thanks to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, and writing a book but with him, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared some new characters who quickly begin to help him calm downcharm. His parents seem completely caught up Katie has no experience in their running a business, and so it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away to University nowor in match-making, she but Ness has promised him that she will still be there when he needs full confidence in her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she wouldabilities, and she isnthere't answering s always her phone. His parents won't speak to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be rightvery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find RosieWilliam, and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its song, as they do together every Spring.lend a hand…|isbn=13985108901846976596
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|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)0811771741|title=Red is My HeartInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Fiction Crafts|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in my housefront of the fire' variety. And so was this one The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one wasfive to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and ismore than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, black modern and white and reduseable. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I perhaps show my age when I think itwonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideasme being picky.|isbn=1913547183
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|isbnauthor=1529135567Dean Koontz|title=One Step Too Far|author=Lisa GardnerThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=It's five years since the stag weekendBenny is having a terrifically bad day. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and He loses his four groomsmenjob, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy)he loses his fiancee, Neil and Joshhis house gets trashed. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin- sized object to his home, and in it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the night Scot managed thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to wander offdeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. The remaining four searched A really nice person. So fortunately for him in vain and Benny it was decided turns out that Timthe delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for helpbeing a good person. When help didn't come the remaining three finally made their way back Spike is going to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign take care of Tim. Every yearBenny, Timand will certainly take care of Benny's fatherenemies, Martinif he, Benny, and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timare.|isbn=1662500491
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|author=Gunnar StaalesenAdam Stower|title=Bitter FlowersMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=Varg Veum Murray is supposed to be a Norwegian Private Investigator humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning able to work. Howeversleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the quiet job two. But he's supposedly taken on caretaking someonea bad magician's house quickly turns cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a murder investigationhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and a mystery around a missing woman. Varg finds himself the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not only investigating theseinto the regular back garden, but also looking into an olda world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and much bigger than Murray was never found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linkedhonest, but what is the link, he's turned up and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?he'll have to do…|isbn=191319308X0008561249
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|authorisbn=Kia AhankoobB0C47LV1PC|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsFragility|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic NovelsLiterary Fiction|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, each with its own strength and weakenessis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, in would it land? The catch is that the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous societyanswer for both could well be. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went to warno. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding  ''Fragility'' is set as the cost of war too high, a solution is proposed. Each city of the eight countries will send their greatest warriorsPortland, known as sentinelsOregon, cautiously begins to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all emerge from the rings and become restrictions imposed during the supreme ruler of Duniva.|isbn=B09MMQJFPVcovid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps1529431735|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Tomas. Happy to work with his father in the blacksmith's forge, he's almost of the age to become a full apprentice, and help with the new batch of dragonswords is certainly needed. Not that there are any dragons, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except... Strange signals from within the forge furnace, and a peculiar invite to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the wash, that yes dragons do still exist in this world, and that Tom is rare in the ability to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with them...
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|isbn=1529346541
|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel
|author=Elizabeth George
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's late July February 1991 and Deborah St James Essex is at bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary wanted drug smuggler for the school system, a representative decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from the NHShis ex-wife, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name saying that she didn's ill and hasn't catch but would later turn out long to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakerlive. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is an exploration of abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the possibility boot of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesa stolen Ford Sierra. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem seems to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks closer to and photographs.home?
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|isbnauthor=B09Q3P283YAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W HooperThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the rut he's in. He's good in training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.
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|author=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy
|title=The Mermaid in the Millpond
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=There Eli is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her busy lad – by day an apprentice in amongst all the other kidswondrous library we start by visiting with him, who have had their entire childhoods sold to and in the mill-owners by evening a helper at the London workhouse they used to call homedessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Bess knows Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit generation missing in the slight little Dotfamily. A few short years ago, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads Eli's parents were both lost to harmthe titular race, there might be a glimmer of companionship in globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth world in the existence company of a magical beast. This has made the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633074|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Members of Parliament like us race anathema to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) pair – but when a bad incident at the reality eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubrisdare to enter what he most hates, with the man who was behind sole aim the skilful control prize of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by magic at the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man only thing to watchpossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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|isbn=B09MYXSRV4178763681X|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Cordellya SmithOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a protectorresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Water Spider received He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a strong web that even fire could not burnway of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present Paul ''somehow'and'got the impression that he' d be at the futureschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. Rabbit developed intelligence The teaching - but, unfortunately, not and the ability to use it wellproblems - are all his own. He liked The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to trick other animalsturn up dead. He Unfortunately, he was also jealous which was how he came the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came aboutthe prime suspect.
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|author=Giovanna FletcherSarah Marsh|title=Walking on SunshineA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|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 living. Whilst some After a bout of the rules are around practicalities such scarlet fever as clearing out a child, Ellen Lark loses her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of their trips awaysilence, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own everything about her life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with himchanges.|isbn=140593560X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529393930|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=''Starting in a creative business has never been easier.'' ''If not now, time when?'' I know that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. There's a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly the use and there are a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make sign language was seen as gifts. Selling would offset the costssomething only savages do, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun Ellen is sent to do, couldn't it? But a school where she is taught to start? lip read, but physically restrained from signing. What do I need to think about? WellFrom here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the first thing anyone who is considering turning deaf and using a crafting hobby into a business should do system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is to read ''Making working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a Living''complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614
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|authorisbn=Freya Marske1803816759|title=A Marvellous LightThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson
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|genre=Historical Science Fiction|summary=Robin Blyth It's 2038 and Joe is nudged into a job in bored cop policing the Civil Service, much wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to his chagringet stuck into some really gritty crime detection. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that But then something goes horribly wrong with the streets of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a curse AI system that threatens now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to swallow himspread. Finally, Robin follows Edwin Joe gets to do some real policing. In the countryside, where aftermath of the hedgegrows bristle with incantations rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the people shimmer with power. There they uncover only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a sinister plot that threatens British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the lives of all magicians in case. What went wrong? Did the British Isles. |isbn=1529080886system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?
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|isbn=02414804421529421284|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition ScienceLaying Out the Bones|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienKate Webb
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|genre=CookeryCrime|summary=Emotionally, I am It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a veganheatwave. MentallyIn a gully, I am a vegan. I read [[How human skeleton came to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] the surface and was appalled by forensic testing proved the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) foodbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. PracticallyHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, I am not so it could have been a vegansimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. It worked for Geary was a while apart from townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the odd blip with regard suicide of Holly Gilbert and to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events two other deaths which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based proteinwere not considered suspicious at the time. It wasn't Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the taste - I know Major Crimes Review Unit (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 's cold cases to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare momentsyou and me) investigate.
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|isbn=suppl_stafl0571379559|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Kim StaflundFiona Williams|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceLiterary Fiction|summary=So, you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now The House of Broken Bricks'' is get it published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong againstory of four people. You presumably wrote Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the book because you wanted to - and you had a talent for delivering house on the written wordriverbank, built of broken bricks. You knew your subject back to front. Now you're going to have to get to grips with the book supply chainInsubstantial as it might look, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to change and no one wants grow his vegetables, to be complete the first delivery rounds - and to trybring in sufficient money. ThenThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, when you the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother'finallys Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they' have a copy of the book in your handsre related, youmuch less twins and there're going to have to work s an assumption when Max is out how to sell it - because it with his mother that she''is'' going to be down to yous his nanny.
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|isbn=13987069061529425867|title=The Lostand Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon BeckettMason|rating=4.5
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|summary=The disappearance In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Metropolitan police firearms officerRyan, Jonah Colleyis not. He's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenednot any of those things. He'd fallen asleep in the s white, originated from a trailer park whilst Theo was playing and when he woke, Theo had gone. It cost him barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his marriage thing) and his homewardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. Ten years later heThey's largely come through it and here usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you's out with his team when he gets re being introduced to a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneypolice procedural written for laughs. Gavin used to be his best friend but itWell, you's a long time since they've spokenre not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter QuaySometimes the combination works brilliantly well. ''ThereSometimes it's no one else I can trust'', he saysproblematic.
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|author=Amanda MasonMosby Woods|title=The Hiding PlaceA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=3.54|genre=HorrorLiterary Fiction|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent lifeThe West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter to Whitbya push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, where they rent there was a cliffside holiday cottage by man with precognition. Imagine the name strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of Elder Housecircumstances. She hopes that it will That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the perfect place to sort things outmost valuable asset in history. But there's something not quite right about Elder HouseImagine then, that this man loses this ability. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts What would governments do to suspect that she and her family aren't alone there…get it back?|isbn=1838771964B0C9SNG8R1
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