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|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary 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)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they'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 could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Caryl Lewis Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and George Ermosshe'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=SeedHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. 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 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.
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|isbn=1035906708
|title=Diva
|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=Marty has two parental figures Lucas and his friends are all booked in his lifefor a movie marathon at their local cinema, and they both might be thought a place that has the nickname of as complete embarrassments'The Black Hole'. His grandfather runs an allotment All big movie fans, and manages to stink the entire town out from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring they're looking forward to fertilise his vegetables. His mother somehow combines the dual roles lots of housebound failure exciting films, and hoarder – while she seems to do nothing many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and hasnthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't left the building in years she has still managed to fill it even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the brim with junk. What Marty's classmates don't know about this next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they can draw lines ever get back to from how poor Marty always looks, with his one school uniform built from lost property. We see him as once again the council threaten her and him with evictioncinema, and as he celebrates his birthday with the gift from his grandfather of a solitary plant seed.to their real lives?|isbn=15290776641839942738
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|author=Sophie CameronRachel Greenlaw|title=Our SisterCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, AgainMira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora dies, her family struggle to find Things have been a way forwardbit sticky for the Earthlings. In particularAI and automation have been proceeding apace, Islaoften replacing jobs they's mum who can’t seem re paid to be able do and other tasks that took time to let her daughter goaccomplish. When Isla passes her mum's details onto a support group she finds online, she thinks Just as they might be able were beginning to get used to help. But actuallyall this technological change and starting to think of other, it turns out they are part of an experimental company who offer the family the chance new ways to have Flora back againspend time, in robot formalong came an awful pandemic. But this won't just be a look-a-like. They use all of Flora's online historyLife was pretty much shut down and, and interviews along with family and friendsit, and through this data all the many daily social interactions on which they will recreate Flora as closely as possibledepend so heavily. But what will it really mean for the family, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=17889539161736128426
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|isbnauthor=1398507504Matthew Tree|title=Cold Reckoning|author=Russ ThomasWe'll Never Know
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|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father committed suicide , a drunk 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. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and for set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the last sixteen years heDead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' There's been searching a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for evidence however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to prove that heenjoy it for a while.''s right. When  Within a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoirremote mountain pass, far away from the world, there was lies Silverton; a link back to town under the protection of the Briar's, a cold case family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from 2002the Darklands. There didn't immediately seem Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be any connection with DI Richard Tylerborn into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the case his father was investigating before he died. Above all theretown's a growing sense that leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going rare ability to be brought out into communicate with the dead, putting her at the openheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Perhaps Tyler is going Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to get do as the answers he needs?Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=07278505471529900360|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)The Ghost Orchid|author=David MarkJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even had time after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for breakfast when the call came throughhis help on difficult cases. A body had been found in His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the roots help of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullpsychologist only worked for a while. When he gets to the sceneFinally, it was Robin, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imagined. A young manDelaware's corpse is entangled with the roots of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyespartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. It would seem She knew that this the involvement was done whilst something that the man was still aliveshe loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. McAvoy makes Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a promise to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justiceremote property in Bel Air. But justice always comes at a cost He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and this time the cost might be she is married to McAvoyan extremely rich man and it's own familynot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire1529395224|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delightSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but ' His father was a delightGP and Rowlands didn' is perhaps using t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the expression in a way Istrain that being on-call put on his father'm not familiar s life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience witha family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. I have to confess my ignorance of the SpanishIt hadn't -language literary tradition as with so forgive my generalisation heremany students - been his dream since he was a child. From the little I have read (in translationIf anything, I donhe't read Spanish) there does seem d wanted to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismprofessional footballer. |isbn=0861541901
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|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin0861541774|title= Rebel SkiesA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 54|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, taken a massive dining hall floating short holiday in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come Singapore to drink and make merry between their conquestsmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. However, when Maik was involved in a man named Himura arrives to tell her street brawl - he would later maintain that she is he was facing a Crafter like him, someone man armed with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empireknife - and he killed a Ghurka. He asks her to come with him Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to leave the life of dreary servitude light that suggested that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't he might have any say in planned to murder the matter, because man. Now he could be facing the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a shikigami, diplomatic incident and she is forced to flee out into the worldwouldn't help Danny at all. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590
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|author=Patrice LawrenceAlexander McCall Smith|title=NeedleThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=BraveThe 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. Charlene Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, the 'heroine' of this piece as Ness is extremely hard planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for some people to like, characters and readers botha while. Kicked Katie is coming out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering a break up with a pleasant yoga tutor, Anniebad boyfriend, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's so jumps at unithe chance to come home to Edinburgh. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, you might perhaps thinkbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the creation of one such item is part of the plot hereIsabel Dalhousie novels, as Charlene is but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a wonder knitterbusiness, and is or in match-making something , but Ness has full of love for confidence in her younger sister – a younger sister sheabilities, and there's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove always her belligerence with a store detective, very helpful (and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... wellrather handsome) neighbour, what exactly happens is not for me to sayWilliam, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...lend a hand…|isbn=18009010111846976596
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|isbn=14059409800811771741|title=The BirdcageInstaKnits for Baby|author=Eve ChaseMelissa Leapman
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=ItMelissa Leapman's the 7th of January 2019 and we know that ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a body has been pulled out collection of the sea at Zennor in Cornwallknits from toys to blankets. We donSome will be quick knits - others are of the 't know whose body it is. Four days earlierlong, Flora, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at cosy afternoons in front of the request of their father, Charlie Finch, a famous artistfire' variety. The girls projects are actually ''half'divided by the time they'll take to complete -sisters less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closemore than twenty hours. Finch was known for his fecundityAll the projects are attractive, if not for his fidelitymodern and useable. ItI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years ago, at the time of the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and itthat's left her very wary of her sistersme being picky.
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|isbnauthor=1787634906Dean Koontz|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBrideThe Bad Weather Friend
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=We're in Oldcastle and Malcolm Benny is in troublehaving a terrifically bad day. He's in an abandoned loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and heit's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He 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, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being threatened by two young peoplea good person. One Spike is Allegra going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (we'll soon learn that shea waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's Allegra Dean-Edwardswild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and HugoBun|rating=4. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm 5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a new coat humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peoplesleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, apparently) but shewhatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he'd put s a tracking device in it bad magician's cat, so that she his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and Hugo could find the catflap they both use can chuck them out where he was sleeping, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was one of their own: not many other people are going , to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backs.to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|authorisbn=Jennifer SaintB0C47LV1PC|title=ElektraFragility|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Can you make a 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the story of three women who live in question should you make it? Or is the heavily male-dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandraquestion if you did, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in would it land? The catch is that the story of the Trojan Waranswer for both could well be.... no. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often  ''Fragility'' is set as the silent women have city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the most compelling stories and restrictions imposed during the most extreme furies.|isbn=1472273915covid pandemic
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|isbn=15291498001529431735|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce WasteThe Winter Visitor|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=We begin with a telling story. All the birds It's February 1991 and animals fled when Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could domore surprising. The tiny hummingbird flew to He'd been exiled on the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the fireCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The animals laughed: what good was return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that doingshe's ill and hasn't long to live. It''I'm doing the best I can''s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, said stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the hummingbirdboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. And that, really, is the only way that we will solve the Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=1776574338Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Every morning LeilongEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the brontosaurus school bus, makes evening a helper at the dessert cafe his way through the city, picking up children as he goesgran owns and runs. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs Eli lives with his lovely gran, too they simply climb out of for there is a generation missing in the window and slide down his neckfamily. ItA few short years ago, Eli's perfectparents were both lost to the titular race, isn't it? What could be a more fun way globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of going to school? There is a problem, thoughmagical beast. Leilong isn't happy in This has made the city: he's always having race anathema to be careful about where he puts his feet and the pair because he's longer than but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that enter what he can't be most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the bus anymoreonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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|isbn=303091657X178763681X|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonOrlando Murrin|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Boards must act Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in the best interests of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and financially secureBelgravia. This might seem obvious He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a series way of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the collapse of school to assist Paul, who had a major company broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - have left interested parties asking what and the board was doingproblems - are all his own. Where were they? Occasionally the boards were unaware of what The one thing he hadn't expected was happening or they preferred for someone to turn a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalityup dead. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway maniaUnfortunately, he was the South Sea Bubble person who discovered the body and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem everyone knows that the police consider that person to have learned very littlebe the prime suspect.
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|isbnauthor=1529337968Sarah Marsh|title=In Place A Sign of Fear|author=Catriona McPhersonHer Own|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work After a bout of scarlet fever as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS is bornchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healthlife changes. The hardest part Living in a time when the use of the job will be sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to persuade people that the services a school where she offers really are free and that they don't have is taught to do anything to qualify for themlip read, but physically restrained from signing. Some of From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has deaf and using a problem of her own which might give her some insightsystem called Visible Speech. Her marriage has never been consummatedAt the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614
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|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1803816759|title=GalaxyThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Spark, who It's 2038 and Joe is an elite pilot with a bored cop policing the Space Academy, barely makes it through wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a battle alivebit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that lasted yearsnow runs everything, making life easier for many, he remembers little and is in no physical shape riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to resume his dutiesdo some real policing. But Earth In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is under threat kidnapped and he mustJoe is assigned to bring her home. Returned by his superiors to Joe isn't the space station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt only one trying to save humanity Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and not just from the alien threats against ittech nerd, but is also from its own sins against itselfon the case. |isbn=B09X3NZ76WWhat went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?
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|authorisbn=Lissa Evans1529421284|title=WishedLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=When things contrive It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to force Ed the surface and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) forensic testing proved the body to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanbe Lee Geary, Miss Fileywho had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, for so it could have been a week simple case of half-termmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, theyso what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that're not looking forward s cold cases to ityou and me) investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379559|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. For one thingTess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she thinks Wi-Fi is a special brand lives in the house on the riverbank, built of biscuitbroken bricks. They donInsubstantial as it might look, it't particularly take s stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to Willard eithergrow his vegetables, to complete the new kid next door, who seems delivery rounds - and to ebulliently take over everything bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and everywhereMax, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. But things soon change when People don't believe that they find some tiny old birthday candles're related, much less twins and manage to work there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that these candlesshe's his nanny.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In Oxford, for as long as their flames lastthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, make birthday wishes come trueBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. How will D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things change . He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|author=Mosby Woods|title=A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= The 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, a second time when they realise push for climate action there. A feeling thatnobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, having used up three there was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of themcircumstances. That man would be valuable, these should really be used for right? Perhaps the wishes of someone two generations older than themmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=178845202XB0C9SNG8R1
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