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|isbn=17873017450241636604|title=ConfidenceThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Denise MinaGary 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
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=WeIt're s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back in to the world English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of podcasters Anna and Fina request for help from her beloved aunt, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]Carole. It was Anna whoFreya'd organised the s former mentor and Carole'family' holiday: her exs close friend, HamishArthur Crockleford, is now with her best frienddead and the circumstances seem suspicious, Estelle and her children are living with themto say the least. Fin (who Arthur was married the reason why Freya had not been back to Estelle) is there too and it was Anna who invited his girlfriendthe village: Arthur, she feels, Sofialet her down badly. It's Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not long before everyone realises that was a bad mistakefelt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Sofia's difficult and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - a lighthouseAfter the split, she worked in a storm - she begins talking about Anna's pastcafe, including her real name met and married James (on the rebound from the rape. This love of her life, who was something which Anna had intended to tell the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess murdered) and Freya and ten-year-old Lizzie - when the time was right. And this wasn't the right timeJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=178763566XAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Listen to MeAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Tess GerritsenBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=We're in Boston with Amy. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day and she wore her 'Opening up new, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out ways of thinking about the library she knows that they're going shape of things to be ruined - and unsafe - in the snow thatcome.'s now falling. As she crosses the road, a car comes out of nowhere and hits her. It doesn't stop.
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|isbnauthor=0008395632Sunny Singh|title=One Last Secret|author=Adele ParksHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Natalya The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an escort. Well, her name's not ''actually'' Natalya: unnamed city that's her professional name but it is has suddenly been violently taken over by a nod to her Serbian heritageterrorist group. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora DziewulskiHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, usually known as Dora Wulski. If you're thinking of 'escort' as being a polite description of a prostitutekilling everyone on site, run by a pimpthere is Sam, who's turning tricks to fund a drug habitwartime photographer and Abhi, forget itthe hotel manager. Dora is a professional As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in all senses of the word. She has an agenthotel, Elspethhe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, who takes 30% and keeps on venturing out of her income and deals with the payments but checks out the clients room to see that Dora is going try to be safecapture what's happened through her photography. Dora describes herself Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as a self-employed clairvoyant Abhi tries to Her Majesty's Revenue help her keep safe and Customsthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists. |isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=David Solomons1529153298|title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Gavin It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is being followedPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, seemingly constantlyhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, by the new (very annoying) girl at schoolthough. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl storyWomen have been disappearing. Because in this instanceWell, 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 girl in question is Nikifamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, and she Down South is a galactic princess (nofrightening, reallyforeign place, she is!) best avoided. So what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled in a situation whereFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, potentiallySharon, Earth and everyone on it will be blown she'll do anything to smithereens, all because of Niki?|isbn=0857639935prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=Alex Cotter1398524085|title=The Mermaid CallHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids donCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband't exists fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. But she also knows they have to exist – at least in the public eyeHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – a far northern English resort – without them. A hundred years and change agoare all worried but - strangely - her husband, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaidsAlec, but were forced to return to help out with the Great War effortis not. They also showed female emancipation, which helped create the town's tourism industryShortly afterwards, now faded Etty and falling apart but once a feminist success story. AliceGreg, a girl who stumbles into Vivienfind the body of Greg's gran's tourist shop one dayfather, knows she certainly wants mermaids to exist – she thinks her family's black sheep died searching for themDuncan Ackerley, or else was just too successful in her huntthe river. When It was an easy assumption for the shy, doubting Thomasina police to make that is Vivien collides 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 the exuberant, gung-ho Alice, their lives and wonder about what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they find?|isbn=1839941901really happened.
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|isbn=17398051001035906708|title=Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of warDiva|author=Andrew MarchDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=BiographyGeneral Fiction|summary= ''Loving the Enemy'' tells the quite extraordinary story We tend to think of author Andrew March's grandparentsMaria Callas as Greek, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went to Dresden but she was born to teach in the early days of the Nazi regime Greek parents in the 1930s. FredManhattan, a sensitive and thoughtful manNew York, had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the timeDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Fred Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and connections it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that lasted she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a lifetimemother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=B0B575J99NChristopher Edge|title=Beneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke AdamsBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a teacher movie marathon at their local cinema, a prestigious girl's school in York. It was 'place that has the nickname of 'comfortableThe Black Hole'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'All big movie fans, they' re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and now was the time to make a change. many, many snacks! She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for However, as the professoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interviewmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, she was offered the position and it wasnthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't long before she was exploring even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the beautiful city. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|isbnauthor=1529125898Rachel Greenlaw|title=Godmersham Park|author=Gill HornbyCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Historical FictionTeens|summary=''If it were not for I can hear the casual dereliction song of the odd gentleman's dutysea. The call of the deep, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at allthe answering beat in my heart.''
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|author=Lev Parikian James Sherwood Metts|title=Light Rains Sometimes FallPlanet Storyland
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|genre=Animals and WildlifeConfident Readers|summary= If you’re Things have been a writer yourselfbit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, or an aspiring writer, or someone who pretends often replacing jobs they're paid to write, then you know do and other tasks that there are unnumbered types of bookstook time to accomplish. Some you read for fun, some for distraction, some for vicarious emotion, some to learn from in a random way, some for focussed research, and some because Just as they are, broadly speaking, the kind of thing you think you might like were beginning to write. Or, indeed, are actually trying get used to write.|isbn=1783966386}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0751581577|title=Lying Beside You|author=Michael Robotham|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents all this technological change and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthday. Voices told him starting to do it. Only two people survived the carnage - Eliasthink of other, who was sent new ways to Ramptonspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and his thirteen-year-old brother, Cyrusalong with it, who hid in a shed until all the police found himmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. Twenty years later, Cyrus is a forensic psychologist and he's been told that his brother is being released. Can Cyrus forgive the sinner whilst having to live on a daily basis with the results of the crime? Can he bear to have Elias living in the same house? How will his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=140595115XMatthew Tree|title=A Stranger on Board|author=Cameron WardWe'll Never Know
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|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Right Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from the beginning, we know this will not turn out well. Eight days into the trip to deliver the superyacht ''Escape'' to Antiguahis father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all 300 tonnes failed miserably and six decks will be floundering without power in the Atlantic. Those of the crew who are left will be cowering in fear a fellow crew member tries to pick them off, one by one. Some are already dead. They are three days from shore and there is no way had endless crises of making contactself confidence. But let's go back So Tim applied himself to when all this startedhis studies, in Southamptoncultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1398508632A G Slatter|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo WildeBriar Book of the Dead
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|genre=LifestyleFantasy|summary=It had been on the cards '' 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 but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November'' Within a remote mountain pass, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not far away from the best time to startworld, in lies Silverton; a world where town under the protection of the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate changeBriar's, Brexit a family of witches who protect the town and a pandemicthe wider world from the Darklands. Wilde had a few advantages: Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the area around first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a known habitat with a variety of terrainssteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. She had electricity which allowed When her to run a fridgegrandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, freezer and dehydratorEllie takes her place beside her. She had As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a car - and fuelmaelstrom of chaos. Most importantlyReeling from one family secret to another, she had shelter: this was not a plan Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches''live'' wild just legacy, everything they have sacrificed to live off its producesurvive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=16358646741529900360|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and MoreThe Ghost Orchid|author=Joy HowardJonathan Kellerman
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|genre=CookeryCrime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'Think s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and 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 it as no-whining dininga psychologist only worked for a while.'' We know Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's a fruit rather than a vegetable but partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the fact involvement was something that so many people get confused just goes to show how versatile the tomato isman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. Then there are all He was the different types, not heir to mention the cultivars - an Italian shoe empire and you begin she is married to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasnan extremely rich man and it't met one she didn't loves not the Italian. I'd argue with her there - I have no affection for But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the ones you find in Cat Out of the supermarket ''next'Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=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 ones labelled strain that being on-call put on his father'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from s life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the ones that have obviously just been grown job for profithim. PersonallyBefore long, Ihe was at Liverpool University. It hadn'd prefer t - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a tin of tomatoes to those - and Howard makes good use of thesechild. SheIf anything, he's not at all precious if you get the tasted wanted to be a professional footballer.
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|isbn=02419890270861541774|title=We All Have Our SecretsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Jane CorrySteve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for live-DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in help as he was failing Singapore to cope at Willowmead House on his ownmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. His advert Maik was fairly specific: involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a retired lawyer needing help but man armed with a knife - and he also spoke of the ability to cook killed a good steak, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fadsGhurka. The first person who Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the house was Francoise, a French woman in her early twenties, who fit the bill perfectlyman. She got Now he could be facing the job but Francoise didn't know about the advert: she was there for a completely different reasondeath penalty. Emily Gentle is Harold's daughter and she came Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to Willowmead House because she was running away help as any interference from another police force could provoke a problem in London. Emilydiplomatic incident and wouldn's a midwife and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had been madet help Danny at all.
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|author=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)Alexander McCall Smith|title=Tasting SunlightThe Perfect Passion Company
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|summary=Sally The Perfect Passion Company is a teenager who has dating agency in Edinburgh, run away from by Ness and operating as an anorexia treatment clinic. She just wants space, and for people alternative to stop questioning herall the online apps in providing a more personal, tiptoeing around tailored service. Ness has asked heryounger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, and trying as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to fix her without ever truly understanding herget away for a while. She finds herself on some farmland Katie is coming out of a break up with a woman called Liss who is in her forties bad boyfriend, and seems so jumps at the chance to live alonecome home to Edinburgh. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally as she isAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, giving her a room bringing us to sleep inan Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the space Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to just becharm. As they work together on the farm 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, a closeness develops between themWilliam, becoming to lend a beautiful, powerful friendship.hand…|isbn=19145851431846976596
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|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason0811771741|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's 'A struggling poetry zine, 'InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a momcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits -and-pop mobile diner in others are of the Northern California redwoods'long, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed cosy afternoons in front of the 2004 Olympics, a womenfire's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-variety. The projects are divided by thetime they'll take to complete -art S&M dungeonless than five hours, a man serving a life sentence in Alabamafive to ten hours, an enigmatic signatureten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia..modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'but that' This is just a sample of the cast of characters and settings in Preposterouss me being picky. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=B09STS96HS
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|author=Will BrookerDean Koontz|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyParanormal|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the most successful British authors I've never knowingly readBenny is having a terrifically bad day. Now meet Will BrookerHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have readand his house gets trashed. This book starts with the two meeting each otherOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, as welldisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and shows how 2021 drew it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the two closer and closer together. thing that has trashed his house! The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakesthing is, Benny is the words of her latest book she was reciting, and her being in very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the author events I get delivery to attend)his house is a new friend, but pulled Brookera bad weather friend called Spike, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that been sent to help him since Benny is Jewell's diverse outputclearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than Spike is going to follow her through a year in the published authortake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's lifeenemies, working to make a success of the latest titleif he, Benny, and struggling with the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the resultHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=15291360241662500491
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|isbnauthor=1801109265Adam Stower|title=The Companion|author=Lesley ThomsonMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''Murray is supposed to be a punctual man humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who was inexplicably never on time'' is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and he was - as usual - late to pick up his son, Wilburwell, for their 'boys' day out'whatever takes his fancy next of the two. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for the boyBut he's a bad magician's attentioncat, so his motherfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, Annanot into the regular back garden, promised him but into a roast dinner when he returnedworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. The dinner would never be servedThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, as James and Wilbur are the victims of where a double stabbing on the beach. The case falls troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. Shebe honest, but he's feeling the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets tough.turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=152941363XB0C47LV1PC|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Fragility|author=Martin WalkerMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Nobody knows what Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the truth question if you did, would it land? The catch is any morethat the answer for both could well be.... no.''
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|isbn=02415424051529431735|title=Meredith AloneThe Winter Visitor|author=Claire AlexanderJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs itIt's Wednesday 14 November 2018 February 1991 and sheEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins's not left her home for 1,214 daysreturn all the more surprising. SheHe'd ''like'' to: in fact, she so nearly doesbeen exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Her outdoor clothes are on and sheThe return has come about because he's even considered which shoes to wear if had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's going to catch her train. Then, she can't. She simply canill and hasn't force herself long to leave the safety of her homelive. SheIt's fortunate that she has a good friendhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James stripped to his underwear and Matilda. Sadie's sent to a cardiac nurse and full watery grave in the boot of sound common sensea stolen Ford Sierra. In fact Is it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's a warning from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=B09Y451X9KAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)|author=Richard F WalkerThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
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|summary= So. We're back to Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the Merge wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the first chapter evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the third volume of Darren Shanfamily. A few short years ago, Eli's saga of Archibald Loxparents were both lost to the titular race, a young man who can pick globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the locks of portals from our world to another, called in the ''Merge''company of a magical beast. Since his last adventure, Archie This has persuaded his foster parents into made the race anathema to the pair – but when a slightly uneasy truce on bad incident at the topic of his regular disappearances. They don't ask too many questions and Archie has settled into eatery leads to a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winstonconfession from gran, Eli knows his lock-picking mentor in only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the ''Merge'' and showing Kojo, sole aim the young guardian, around our world prize of magic at the end – the Bornonly thing to possibly save his gran. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD0571382231
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|authorisbn=John Henry Phillips178763681X|title=The SearchKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=54|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=Archaeology cannot be childChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's play, when you're scraping in the dirt looking t really want to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a fair bit harder when you set out way of getting both men and women to find some specific thingdo what he wanted. This book is a case of Paul ''somehow'' got the latter, as our author promises to locate the topic of the titular search. And impression that he really hasn't made it easy for himself – d be at the search area is school to assist Paul, who had a wide onebroken arm, the target might not exist any more – oh, and but itdidn's underwater, when he cannot divet turn out that way. Latching on to a particular DThe teaching -Day veteran through helping and the heroic old manproblems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn's visit back t expected was for someone to Franceturn up dead. Unfortunately, our author has promised to find he was the person who discovered the landing craft body and everyone knows that delivered him to Normandy, and the police consider that he was lucky person to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, be the vast majority of whom perishedprime suspect. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182
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|author=Fiona LongmuirSarah Marsh|title=Looking for EmilyA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Lily. She and her mother have just moved from After a city to bout of scarlet fever as a tiny seaside town called Edgechild, and everyone from said mother to Ellen Lark loses her teacher are making demands hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of Lily that she make new friendssilence, everything about her life changes. It turns out that she doesn't have any say Living in a time when the matter, for while pretending when phoning home that she use of sign language was with someone called Emilyseen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is unaware her neighbour, Sam, is just about taught to make herself knownlip read, and in a big waybut physically restrained from signing. But where does Emily come from? Well From here, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a mysterious collection of system called Visible Speech. At the most mundane objectssame time, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming doorBell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a place calling itself 'The Museum of Emily'. Sam is completely unaware complicated tangle of this 'museum', too, leaving the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behind the intrigue..espionage.|isbn=18399427541035401614
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|isbn=B09XZMCDVF1803816759|title=Stories: 13 tantalising talesThe Unravelling|author=Richard F WalkerWill Gibson
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|genre=Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary=It''A news vendor s 2038 and Joe is crying out a bored cop policing the headlines in the middle wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; a stickler AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for correct grammar goes back in time many, and riots start to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person spread. Finally, Joe gets to have around in a lawless village; do some real policing. In the new boy on aftermath of the pub football team rioting global pop star Suki is very useful with his feet, kidnapped and awfully familiar…'' This collection of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot Joe is assigned to offer the eclectic readerbring her home. Tying them together is Joe isn't the idea that remarkable only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and strangetech nerd, even miraculous, things can happen to ordinary peopleis also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And that ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form and tone varies so this little treasury of short fiction how is never boring and you're never quite sure whatSuki's coming next.kidnapping connected?
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|isbn=18009012321529421284|title=Stitched UpLaying Out the Bones|author=Steve ColeKate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyCrime|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a fashion designerheatwave. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happyIn a gully, if not prosperous, so when a human skeleton came to the smartly-dressed man surface and woman came to forensic testing proved the village body to offer Hahn be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a job in Hanoi known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it was an opportunity not to be missedcould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Some money changed hands and Hanh Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the mini-bus suicide of Holly Gilbert and to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the two other girls deaths which were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factoryconsidered suspicious at the time. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery Lockyer and beading on DC Gemma Broad of the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams Major Crimes Review Unit (that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh cold cases to you and her co-workers made themme) investigate.
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|authorisbn=Daisy Hildyard0571379559|title=EmergencyThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45
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|summary=''The summary House of this book doesnBroken Bricks''t come close to explaining what is done with the premise.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight story of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grievingfour people. Traumatised after Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the death riverbank, built of her sisterbroken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from it's stood the bones passage of her spine which steadily increase in size time, storms and volumefloods. Her GPhusband, Richard, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction struggles to her griefgrow his vegetables, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in Walessufficient money. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kindrainbow twins. As Marianne Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's memories threaten to overwhelm herJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory much less twins and pain—but only at a terrible price: there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that of identity itselfshe's his nanny.|isbn= 086154112X
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|authorisbn=1529425867|title=Kjell Ola Dahl Lost and Don Bartlett Never Found (translatorA D I Wilkins Mystery)|titleauthor=Little DrummerSimon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives seriesIn Oxford, this crime story there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is a mixture of police procedural Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and thrilleralways exquisitely dressed. Beginning with the death D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of a young woman in a carparkRyan, that looks very much like an overdoseis not. He's not any of those things. He's white, it unravels into originated from a far-reaching investigation trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of murdershell 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, fraud, and international pharmaceutical dealingsyou're not. Our The two detectives men are Gunnarstranda and Frolich, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led to Africa as they follow the twists and turns just different sides of the investigationsame policing coin. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down Sometimes the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard to uncover the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is going oncombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|isbn=1914585127
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|isbnauthor=0008541477Mosby Woods|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!|author=Lauren ChildA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=It The West isn't the dominant force it once was a hot summer day right at . Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the beginning best course of the summer holidays and Clarice Bean was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for sometimes.climate action there.A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. And only on rare-sh occasionsImagine then, which is hardly everthere was a man with precognition.'' There are seven members of Imagine the Bean family living strategic advantage in the house: Grandad (this asset; a man who lives on the ground floor because he's wobbly), Mum and Dad, Clarice's older brother, Kurt and younger brother, Minal Cricketcan tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. There's also MarcieThat man would be valuable, who's main claim to fame seems to be that she steals right? Perhaps the batteries from Clarice's torchmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, which means that she can't read in the airing cupboardthis man loses this ability. Clarice What would love governments do to have someone who listened to her, rather than wanting to talk, but the only one who does that is Granny and she lives in New York. The Bean family is ''different''.get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1
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