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|isbn=15291516000241636604|title=Give Unto OthersThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Donna LeonGary 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=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole'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 near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changed''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. The ''pandemia I've heard it said that ' stripped the city of its tourists for nearly two years and technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a lot few decades of businesses have closed, most never to reopentechnology in my lifetime. ThereI've kept up reasonably well with what's now a cascade advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of money as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end to greedit is - frankly - quite frightening. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all Of course, I could research the possibilities and the money which is coming their way? Whilst heprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters m reading someone hewho knows what they's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was a childre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Elisabetta Foscarini has I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a problem and she'd like Brunetti's adviceway I could understand.
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|author=Marcus SedgwickSunny Singh|title=WrathHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=TeensThrillers |summary=Meet Fitz, The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himselfterrorist group. Lockdown Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is only just overSam, a wartime photographer and he should be free Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to do what he wantscare remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, to go where he wants and forms a bond with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks Sam who refuses to his best friendbe cowed by events, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one and keeps on venturing out of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music sheroom to try to capture what's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the truth? Wellphone, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't..their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1800900899086154742X
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|isbn=16358640701529153298|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1The List of Suspicious Things|author=Safiyyah TalleyJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=CraftsGeneral Fiction|summary=If youIt'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 ever started knitting a pair of socksbeen murdered, finished but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the first one and either got bored by the idea of doing the same thing all over again, or started on the second sock and lost the first before family 'Down South'. When you finished it're from Yorkshire, this Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the book for you. Where is it that single socks go move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system prevent that allows you to knit two socks in one, divide them up and have a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds good? It She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's clever and wellstopped talking -thought-outto anyone.
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|authorisbn=Olivie Blake1398524085|title=The Atlas SixHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= DarkCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sharpsons Niall, Paul and Ollie and highly inquisitiveher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Atlas SixSalter children are not convinced but there'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensations little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1529095239
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|isbn=00083849831035906708|title=The Paris ApartmentDiva|author=Lucy FoleyDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=''Things are not what they seem''. It We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was a Friday born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and Jess Hadley only moved to Athens when she was keen to get to her half-brother's flat in Paristhirteen. She'd come across from London on Eurostar, courtesy of the money sheHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'd stolen from The PervertCallas's till to make it more manageable in the Copacabana Bar in BrightonStates. It wasn't likely When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that the police would be on to her yet but she'd like to be somewhere safe and with food and drink inside could get appropriate training for her. She'd phoned Ben and got the address voice - 12 Rue des Amants - and he told her that the apartment she was on raised under the third floor. She's outside what's obviously Nazi occupation by a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get in touch with Benmother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=0760373558Christopher Edge|title=Nordic Knits|author=Sue FlandersBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=I was so delighted by Sue FlandersLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hat. All big movie fans, Mittenthey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around many, many snacks! However, as the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] 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 need any persuading at all to pick up her ''Nordic Knits''even imagine. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions But as they lurch from Norwayone film genre to the next, Sweden and Iceland. can they figure out what on earth is going on? There are a few sweaters or jackets but Will they ever get back to the majority of patterns are for smaller items such as mittens, glovescinema, hats and bags. All are bright and cheerful and very cosy.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|isbnauthor=1916072038Rachel Greenlaw|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie CresswellCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionTeens|summary=We meet part ''I can hear the song of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811sea. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at EcklingtonThe call of the deep, to the house answering beat in the hollowmy heart. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses:'
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|author=Matthieu AikinsJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterPlanet Storyland
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|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary=ItThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's easy re paid to forget at times do and other tasks that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at timestook time to accomplish. This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament Just as they were beginning to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided get used to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast all this technological change and at times painful journeystarting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. There are tense moments Life was pretty much shut down and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But , along with it's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows , all the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people describedmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn= B09N9157T61736128426
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|author=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas EngerMatthew Tree|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)We'll Never Know
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|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=This is the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander BlixTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a police officer, drunk and Emma Ramm, a crime journalist. In this book we find that when one chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of Blix's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries to contact her superior, Blix. Before she can reach him, however, she is murdered, his artistic passions all failed miserably and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered toohad endless crises of self confidence. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and Ramm, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someoneSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and Ramm saw it all happenset himself high but achievable ambitions. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=Daniel AbrahamA G Slatter|title=Age The Briar Book of Ashthe Dead|rating=4.5
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|summary= We meet Alys '' 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 world, lies Silverton; a town under the most northerly protection of Oldgatethe Briar's four bridges, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has a knife in always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her hand family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a meeting that she dreadssteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. MeanwhileWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the City of Kithamar is at a point in Briar Witch, the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest town's leader, and all things are possibleEllie takes her place beside her. It is As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the night between dead, putting her at the funeral heart of a Prince and the coronation maelstrom of his successorchaos. For a night Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Kithamar Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is un-ruledunder threat.|isbn=03565154271803364548
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|isbn=15290955221529900360|title=The InterviewGhost Orchid|author=C M EwanJonathan Kellerman
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Kate Harding is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge Communications. Ithadn's the last interview of the day at one of Londont been Lt Milo Sturgis's newest office buildings fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and Edge have fitted out their part even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of the building to be something speciala psychologist only worked for a while. Maggie Finally, Kateit was Robin, Delaware's recruitment agentpartner, is keen to see who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that Kate approaches the interview man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in a good state the swimming pool of mind: Kate assumes that this is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets remote property in Bel Air. He was the job - heir to an Italian shoe empire and she has is married to admit that life has an extremely rich man and it's not been easy for her recentlythe Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Secret Life of a Vet|author=Neil LancasterSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Loch Torridon ''is'Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn' t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the back of beyond: therestrain that being on-call put on his father's not even any light pollution which is why it life. When he was seventeen he took the perfect place to land illegal deliveries opportunity of drugsdoing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Jimmy McLeish thought that Before long, he was onto a nice little earner, only to find that Macca, at Liverpool University. the man he thought It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was working with, is deada child. His remains would never be found. The delivery is hijacked by Davie and Callum. As the story progresses weIf anything, he'll get d wanted to know them quite wellbe a professional footballer.
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|isbn= B09NDJ77LM0861541774|title=Me and My ShadowA Nye of Pheasants|author=Deborah StoneSteve Burrows
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|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her motherDCI Domenic Jejeune's belongings. She was intrigued by the discovery of close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a picture of her own house: it was short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old photograph, taken in misty conditions and on the back it said 'dawn 1963'ally, some years before Ruth was bornGuy Trueman. It Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was before her parents were marriedfacing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. When she returned Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to Norfolk she was determined light that suggested that he might have planned to find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and murder the country was in lockdownman. Ruth and Kate are restricted to Now he could be facing the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate and continue with her university teaching dutiesdeath penalty. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carersanother police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbnauthor=1847941834Alexander McCall Smith|title=Atomic Habits|author=James ClearThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=I've said this before but there are some books that you seek outThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, some books that you stumble across run by Ness and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themoperating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, liketailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, right now! as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. ''Atomic Habits'' Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. is in And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the last categoryIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=B09MSC981W0811771741|title=The Woke IliadInstaKnits for Baby|author=George BoreasMelissa Leapman
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|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary=Helen is Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a popular activistcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anyway Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, Helen is so popular that cosy afternoons in front of the United States government has made her its Ambassador of Wokefire' variety. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of The projects are divided by the governmenttime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, including ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the Shaming Conference projects are attractive, modern and the Permissible Entertainment Committee useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media- worthy projects'but that'for indoctrinating and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how to have it''s me being picky. Ouch!
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|isbnauthor=B09D95TRKZDean Koontz|title=The Wedding Murders|author=Sarah LinleyBad Weather Friend
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|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get Benny is having a permanent terrifically bad day. He loses his job with the newspaper , he loses his fiancee, and the case she was covering was her big chancehis house gets trashed. It was even more important Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to her than the celebrity wedding she his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was to attend inside is the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriendthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, MatthewBenny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. She was leaving her seven-year-old sonHe is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, Patrick with her sistera bad weather friend called Spike, Emma, and heading off who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a grand manor house hotel in the North Yorkshire countrysidegood person. Daniel AcroydSpike is going to take care of Benny, television presenter and former member will certainly take care of the rock band was marrying Vicky Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't ''quiteHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phoness wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=It was Murray is supposed to be a long drive to the weekend retreat in Northumbriahumble, right up near the Scottish borders tidy and to make it worse the three husbands had all - for friendly cat, one reason or another - had who is able to delay making sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the trip until the Saturday morningtwo. Jane and Ruth had known each other for But he's a long time but Emily was bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a bit of an outsider. She hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than the other two women. The friendship of catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the group went regular back to school days. Paul had coached rugby at the school where Markgarden, Toby but into a world of frightening adventure and Rob were pupilswhiffs. Mark had married JaneThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, and Toby where a troll hunter is Ruthexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's husband. And Rob? Well, Robturned up and he's dead.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=gareth_steelB0C47LV1PC|title=Never Work With AnimalsFragility|author=Gareth SteelMosby Woods
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|genre=Animals and WildlifeLiterary Fiction|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with Can you make a warning but with ''Never Work With AnimalsYo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it seems to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' ? Or is definitely not the companion volume question if you've been looking did, would it land? The catch is that the answer forboth could well be. As a TV show the author would argue that ... no. ''All CreaturesFragility'' lacked realism, is set as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that he's written it to inform and provoke thoughtcity of Portland, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivityOregon, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|isbn=17876348841529431735|title=The HerdWinter Visitor|author=Emily EdwardsJames Henry|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Our story opens in December 2019It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, before most of us which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had even heard of Covid or realised a letter from his ex-wife, saying that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come she's ill and hasn't long to be a major issuelive. WeIt're in Farley County Courts hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, where Elizabeth stripped to his underwear and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash Kohlisent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. As they were best friends until just Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a few months ago we know that whatever has happened is major and that, regardless of the outcome, this is not going problem closer to work out well for anyone.home?
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|author=Annabel AbbsAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Language of Food|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home life. Together, they test, craft, refine and reshape the world Glorious Race of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book and changing the face of cookery writing forever.|isbn=1398502227}}{{Frontpage|author=Louie Stowell|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodMagical Beasts|rating=4.5
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|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble againEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, so and in the evening a helper at the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banisheddessert cafe his gran owns and runs. And transformed Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for Loki there is spending a month both in exile and generation missing in the physical form of a middle-school kid here on Earthfamily. He A few short years ago, Eli's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parentswere both lost to the titular race, and Thor has come along as well, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to be navigate the world in the more suave, more popular and more successful brother company of the twoa magical beast. Loki This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a month to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing bad incident at the right way again, or else, and eatery leads to prove it he has to write the text we read in a sentient notebookconfession from gran, that Eli knows his only hope is able to cry foul of his liesdare to enter what he most hates, and judge his progress. But Loki is with the sole aim the kind prize of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going magic at the end – the only thing to be a walk in the park..possibly save his gran.right?|isbn=14063997520571382231
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|isbn=0008454442178763681X|title=A Flicker in the DarkKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Stacy WillinghamOrlando Murrin
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis, Chef Paul Delamare took a medical psychologist, is completing teaching job at a session with a new patientresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Lacey is suffering mentally He didn't really want to but Chloe has hopes celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting her through the traumaboth men and women to do what he wanted. You seePaul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, Chloe knows what who had a broken arm, but itdidn's like t turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to have a traumatic childhoodturn up dead. Her father is Richard DavisUnfortunately, he was the man person who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to discovered the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home body and she and her mother handed it to everyone knows that the police. Dick Davis is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had nothing consider that person to do with him for be the last twenty years. Her mother is in a care homeprime suspect.
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|author=Christopher EdgeSarah Marsh|title=Escape RoomA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=I've seen junior variants After a bout of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a character or characters start by being trapped world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a specific locationtime when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, and have Ellen is sent to solve problems in order a school where she is taught to get their way outlip read, but physically restrained from signing. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people From here, she ends up in such an adventure, with another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the regular second person narrative replaced by deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the first. Heresame time, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to each Bell is working on other inventions and booked into the game without any of their friendsideas, are a team – starting out at the game's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up threat levels, change much in the world a complicated tangle of literature?espionage.|isbn=17880079641035401614
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|isbn=17328987311803816759|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for AdultsUnravelling|author=Michael Albanese Will Gibson|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary=There was It's 2038 and Joe is a Boy who loved boxesbored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. He had Joe longs for a box for everything bit of adventure and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with art suppliesthe AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, stuffed toys and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the like: all aftermath of the things which most children have in abundancerioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. The BoyJoe isn's delight was in t the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happy. As he grew up only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and became a Mantech nerd, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxesis also on the case. Look carefully at What went wrong? Did the pictures and yousystem fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki'll see that one of them has a padlock...s kidnapping connected?
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|isbn=B09MN1526W1529421284|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)Laying Out the Bones|author=Liz MistryKate Webb|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's was one of those flash downpours that the third murder British weather often delivers in the space of a few weeks and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagersheatwave. DS Nikki Parekh In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and DC Sajid Malik are amongst forensic testing proved the first body to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of Bradfordbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Only, this timeHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so itcould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's going to be differentt convinced. The body appears to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephewGeary was a townie, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdown. so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? It isn't Haqib: there There are similarities but connections to the body is clad in designer clothes suicide of Holly Gilbert and comes from an obviously monied backgroundto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. What it does mean though is Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that Nikki is going 's cold cases to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety you and depressionme) investigate.
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|authorisbn=Ally Wilkes0571379559|title=All the White SpacesThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45|genre=HorrorLiterary Fiction|summary=In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the famous Australis Randallstory of four people. For Jonathan Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh startbut instead, and she lives in the house on the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true genderriverbank, without the disapproval and constraints built of his parentsbroken bricks. However Insubstantial as it might look, Jonathan isnit't s stood the only one fleeing the confines passage of his past time, storms and the shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expeditionfloods. Guilt Her husband, mistrust and grief stalk the party andRichard, when disaster strikes and they are forced struggles to overwinter on landgrow his vegetables, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darknesscomplete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. If Jonathan is to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, he will They have to face his demons once twin boys - Sonny and for allMax, or risk making the barrenrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, icy landscape much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his tombmother that she's his nanny.|isbn=1789097835
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1529425867|title=QuicksilverLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Meet Quinn QuicksilverIn 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 Ryan, is not. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for heany of those things. He's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was white, originated from a three-day old foundlingtrailer park, and now is starting a career on a needless magazinebarely educated (reading's staff. But when this book starts he IS now not ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mindreally'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank shell suits and prepare for going on the lamtrackies. And all this is just They're usually in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest helime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you's of interest re being introduced to thema police procedural written for laughs. Helped to escape Well, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances you're not. The two men are just different sides of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besidessame policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|isbn=1542019885
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|isbnauthor=0008441618Mosby Woods|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah StovellA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of The West Burntridge First School: if she didnisn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the towndominant force it once was. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and Nobody in the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the schoolbest course of action. Governments are flailing. There was one difficultyA war here, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable''a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with two members, precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in particularthis asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, causing problems for right? Perhaps the headmost valuable asset in history. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but Imagine then, that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationthis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1
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