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|authorisbn=Will Carver0241636604|title=The Daves Next DoorTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares If you were to detonate his vest on bring up an image of a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told city banker in backwards orderyour mind, leading up you're unlikely to the fateful momentthink of someone like Gary Stevenson.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1529125790|title=The Family Remains|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=In July 2019, Jason Mott was mud larking on A hoodie and jeans replaces the banks of pin-stripe suit and his background is the River Thames when East End, where he came across a bag of what appeared to be human bones. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu was familiar with violence, poverty and Saffron Brown from forensics were there to investigateinjustice. The bones were indeed human: a young woman There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been killed by a blow to the head many years ago - probably as long as twentyLondon School of Economics. Stevenson is bright -five extremely bright - but the bones had not been in the river longer than and he has a yearfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. There It was his ability at what was no identification but the bag contained vegetation, some of essentially, a card game which was quite unusualgot him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason1035021803|title=Partitions of UnityThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Here at Bookbag TowersIt'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, we first met Elizabeth CromwellArthur Crockleford, dominatrix is dead and unintentional detective in [[Preposterousthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]]Arthur, when she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearancesfeels, let her down badly. In ''Partitions of Unity'' Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she sets her mind has not felt able to solving be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a murdercafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced....|isbn=B09LQR9FRF
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|authorisbn=Fiona Parashar AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=A Beautiful Way to Coach All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Business and FinanceScience Fiction|summary= So what am ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I doing reading this book, using this book, and being audacious enough to review 've heard it? said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Truth is Well, I bought it out must confess that there have been more than a few decades of curiositytechnology in my lifetime. I was at an on-line launch for 've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the book and Fiona’s description feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of her Vision Days appealed to meit is - frankly - quite frightening. I wanted to see if there were things in there that Of course, I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without committing them to a full day, which really understanding whether I know would send them scurrying for their burrow'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I also wanted to see if needed people I knew I could give myself trust and who could deliver information in a Vision Day, to bring me away from their vision and back to my ownway I could understand.|isbn=103211603X
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|isbnauthor=1913750353Sunny Singh|title=Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue MacyHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers |summary=''Britannica's Word of the Day'' The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant bookterrorist group. It starts Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz''site, tells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ'')there is Sam, gives you a definition wartime photographer and then includes Abhi, the word hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a sentence so that you know how it should bond with Sam who refuses to be used. You also get an engaging cowed by events, and frequently amusing illustration tookeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. I don't think I've Although they only ever encountered a word which uses talk over the letter Z four times 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
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|authorisbn=A C Wise1529153298|title=HookedThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It’s 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 twenty-two years since Captain Hookdisappearing. Well, now going by just ‘James’they've been murdered, has been in Neverlandbut 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'. Living When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a new life in Londonfrightening, he has never completely escaped his pastforeign place, best avoided. But now he senses For Miv, the edges of the beast circling around his life in Londonmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and when suddenly he finds himself face she'll do anything to face in the street with Wendy, he knows prevent that the line between this world and Neverland is growing thin. The beast is finally coming to get him, and in She's not worried about the process will pull Wendy and dangers or that her daughter Jane back into their past once againMum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1789096839
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|isbn=17873017451398524085|title=ConfidenceHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Denise MinaNicci French|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=We're back in the world of podcasters Anna and Fin, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]. It was Anna who'd organised the 'family' holiday: her ex, Hamish, is now with her best friend, Estelle and her children are living with them. Fin (who was married to Estelle) is there too and it was Anna who invited his girlfriend, Sofia. It's not long before everyone realises that was a bad mistake. Sofia's difficult and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - a lighthouse, in a storm - she begins talking about Anna's past, including her real name and the rape. This was something which Anna had intended to tell the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess and ten-year-old Lizzie - when the time was right. And this wasn't the right time.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763566X|title=Listen to Me|author=Tess Gerritsen|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband're in Boston with Amys fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and she wore her newdaughter, buttery-leather pumps Etty. are all worried but as she comes out of the library she knows that they're going to be ruined - and unsafe strangely - in the snow that's now falling. As she crosses the road, a car comes out of nowhere and hits her. It doesn't stop. Two months laterhusband, we're with Angela RizzoliAlec, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoliis not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and a keen defender of Greg, find the suburb body of RevereGreg's father, north of BostonDuncan Ackerley, where she livesin the river. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has It was an easy assumption for the time police to watch whatmake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's happening in t stand the neighbourhoodguilt. The people who Salter children are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsnot 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=00083956321035906708|title=One Last SecretDiva|author=Adele ParksDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Natalya is an escort. WellWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, her name's not ''actually'' Natalya: that's her professional name but it is a nod she was born to her Serbian heritage. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora DziewulskiGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, usually known as Dora Wulskiin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. If you're thinking of Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'escort' as being a polite description of a prostitute, run by a pimp, whoCallas's turning tricks to fund a drug habit, forget make it. Dora is a professional more manageable in all senses of the wordStates. She has an agent, Elspeth, who takes 30% of When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her income and deals with voice - she was raised under the payments but checks out the clients to see that Dora is going to be safe. Dora describes herself as Nazi occupation by a self-employed clairvoyant to Her Majesty's Revenue mother who mercilessly exploited her and Customsmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|author=David SolomonsChristopher Edge|title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Gavin is being followedLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, seemingly constantly, by a place that has the new (very annoying) girl at schoolnickname of 'The Black Hole'. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl story. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! Because in this instanceHowever, as the girl in question movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is Nikivery different, and she is a galactic princess (nothey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, really, she can they figure out what on earth is!) going on? So what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled in a situation whereWill they ever get back to the cinema, potentially, Earth and everyone on it will be blown to smithereens, all because of Nikitheir real lives?|isbn=08576399351839942738
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|author=Alex CotterRachel Greenlaw|title=The Mermaid CallCompass and Blade
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|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids don't exist'I can hear the song of the sea. But she also knows they have to exist – at least The call of the deep, the answering beat in the public eyemy heart. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – '' Rosevear, a far northern English resort – without themremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. A hundred years and change agoMira, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaidslike her mother before her, but were forced is one of the seven who swim out to return survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to help out with end the Great War effort. They also showed female emancipationwrecking, which helped create they capture the townisland's tourism industry, now faded leader and falling apart but once a feminist success storyMira's father. AliceDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a girl bargain with a wreck survivor who stumbles into Vivien's gran's tourist shop one dayis as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, knows she certainly wants mermaids sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to exist – she thinks unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her familyfrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's black sheep died searching for themterritory, or else was just too successful in Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her hunthome and the ones she holds most dear. When the shy, doubting Thomasina that is Vivien collides with the exuberant, gung-ho Alice, what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they find?|isbn=18399419010008664730
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|isbnauthor=1739805100James Sherwood Metts|title=Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of war|author=Andrew MarchPlanet Storyland
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|genre=BiographyConfident Readers|summary= ''Loving Things have been a bit sticky for the Enemy'' tells the quite extraordinary story of author Andrew MarchEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's grandparents, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went re paid to Dresden do and other tasks that took time to teach in the early days of the Nazi regime in the 1930saccomplish. Fred, a sensitive Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and thoughtful manstarting to think of other, had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Fred's attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships Life was pretty much shut down and connections that lasted for a lifetime, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=B0B575J99NMatthew Tree|title=Beneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke AdamsWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and a teacher chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and now was the time to make a changewho had endless crises of self confidence. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she So Tim applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interviewhimself to his studies, she was offered the position cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and it wasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class set himself high but it went surprisingly wellachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1529125898A G Slatter|title=Godmersham Park|author=Gill HornbyThe Briar Book of the Dead
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|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary=''If it were not There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for the casual dereliction however long I can. This secret magic of the odd gentleman's dutymy own, all mine, there would no women at last. I just want to teach well-bred daughters at allenjoy it for a while.''
Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the position protection of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was the Briar's, a case family of necessitywitches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Until Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the death of first non-witch to be born into her motherfamily for generations and as such since she was young, Anne had her training as a comfortable life steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the householdpotions. When her mother diedgrandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her father cast . As challenges come her off way left, right and would have nothing more centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to do communicate with the dead, putting herat the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'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. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of £35 a yearpsychologist only worked for a while. Her maidFinally, it was Robin, AgnesDelaware's partner, would receive nothing but who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was fortunately taken something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in by some neighboursBel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Lev Parikian 1529395224|title=Light Rains Sometimes FallLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5
|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|summary= If you’re Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a writer yourself, or an aspiring writer, or someone who pretends GP and Rowlands didn't want to writefollow in his footsteps, then you know particularly when he considered the strain that there are unnumbered types being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of books. Some you read for fun, some for distraction, some for vicarious emotion, some to learn from in doing work experience with a family friend who was a random way, some for focussed research, vet and some because they are, broadly speaking, was convinced this was the kind of thing you think you might like to writejob for him. OrBefore long, indeedhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, are actually trying he'd wanted to writebe a professional footballer.|isbn=1783966386
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|isbn=07515815770861541774|title=Lying Beside YouA Nye of Pheasants|author=Michael RobothamSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthday. Voices told him former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to do itmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Only two people survived the carnage - Elias, who Maik was sent to Rampton, and his thirteen-year-old brother, Cyrus, who hid involved in a shed until the police found him. Twenty years street brawl - he would later, Cyrus is maintain that he was facing a man armed with a forensic psychologist knife - and he's been told that his brother is being releasedkilled a Ghurka. Can Cyrus forgive the sinner whilst having to live on Initially, he faced a daily basis with the results charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the crime? man. Can Now he bear to have Elias living in could be facing the same house? death penalty. How will his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbnauthor=140595115XAlexander McCall Smith|title=A Stranger on Board|author=Cameron WardThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Right from the beginningThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, we know this will not turn out well. Eight days into the trip to deliver the superyacht ''Escape'' run by Ness and operating as an alternative to Antigua, all 300 tonnes and six decks will be floundering without power in the Atlantic. Those of the crew who are left will be cowering online apps in fear providing a fellow crew member tries to pick them offmore personal, one by onetailored service. Some are already dead. They are three days from shore Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and there look after the business, as Ness is no way of making contact. But let's go back planning to take a trip to Canada to when all this started, in Southampton.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398508632|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It had been on the cards get away 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 Katie is coming out of Novembera break up with a bad boyfriend, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not and so jumps at the best time chance to come home to startEdinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate changebringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, Brexit thanks to 44 Scotland Street and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with a variety of terrainssome new characters who quickly begin to charm. She had electricity which allowed Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her to run a fridgeabilities, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - there's always her very helpful (and fuel. Most importantlyrather handsome) neighbour, William, she had shelter: this was not to lend a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=16358646740811771741|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes InstaKnits for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and MoreBaby|author=Joy HowardMelissa Leapman
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|genre=CookeryCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's 'Think of it as no-whining dining.'InstaKnits for BabyWe know it's gives us a fruit rather than a vegetable but the fact that so many people get confused just goes collection of knits from toys to show how versatile the tomato isblankets. Then there Some will be quick knits - others are all of the different types'long, not to mention cosy afternoons in front of the cultivars - and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didnfire't lovevariety. IThe projects are divided by the time they'd argue with her there ll take to complete - I have no affection for the ones you find in the supermarket ''next'' less than five hours, five to the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' ten hours, ten to distinguish them from twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the ones that have obviously just been grown for profitprojects are attractive, modern and useable. Personally, Iperhaps show my age when I wonder about 'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those social-media- and Howard makes good use of these. Sheworthy projects' but that's not at all precious if you get the tasteme being picky.
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|isbnauthor=0241989027Dean Koontz|title=We All Have Our Secrets|author=Jane CorryThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for live-in help as Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he was failing to cope at Willowmead House on loses his fiancee, and his ownhouse gets trashed. His advert was fairly specific: he was Oh, and someone has delivered a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke of the ability really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to cook a good steakhis home, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fads. it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The first thing is, Benny is the very last person who came 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 was Francoiseis a new friend, a French woman in her early twentiesbad weather friend called Spike, who fit the bill perfectly. She got the job but Francoise didn't know about the advert: she was there has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a completely different reasongood person. Emily Gentle Spike is Haroldgoing to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's daughter enemies, if he, Benny, and she came to Willowmead House because she was running away from Harper (a problem in London. Emilywaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's a midwife and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had been madewild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|author=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)Adam Stower|title=Tasting SunlightMurray and Bun
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=Sally Murray is supposed to be a teenager who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinic. She just wants spacehumble, tidy and for people to stop questioning her, tiptoeing around herfriendly cat, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding her. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss one who is in her forties able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and seems to live alone, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has ever met. She just accepts Sally as she is, giving her been turned into a room to sleep inhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the space to just be. As catflap they work together on both use can chuck them out, not into the farmregular back garden, but into a closeness develops between world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops theminto a Viking land, becoming where a beautifultroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, powerful friendship.but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=19145851430008561249
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|authorisbn=Jennifer MasonB0C47LV1PC|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryFragility|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Yo birthing person''A struggling poetry zinejoke? And if you could, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in is the question should you make it? Or is the Northern California redwoodsquestion if you did, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed would it land? The catch is that the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen answer for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgiaboth could well be....no.''
This ''Fragility'' is just a sample of set as the cast city of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can seePortland, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=B09STS96HSOregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Will Brooker1529431735|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]]It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, one of the most successful British authors Iwhich made Bruce Hopkins've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one of return all the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have readmore surprising. This book starts with He'd been exiled on the two meeting each other, Costa del Sol as well, and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer togethera wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote return has come about cup cakes, the words of her latest book she was reciting, and her being in a because he''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly s had a getletter from his ex-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend)wife, but pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole saying that is Jewellshe's diverse outputill and hasn't long to live. Brooker decides heIt'd like nothing more than s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to follow her through a year watery grave in the published author's life, working to make boot of a success of the latest title, and struggling with the next in linestolen Ford Sierra. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the result.|isbn=1529136024Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=1801109265Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Companion|author=Lesley ThomsonGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a punctual man who was inexplicably never on time'' helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and he was - as usual - late to pick up runs. Eli lives with his son, Wilburlovely gran, too – for their 'boys' day out'there is a generation missing in the family. These A few short years ago, Eli's parents were always days which appealed more both lost to James than the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to Wilbur and, competing for navigate the world in the boy's attention, his mother, Anna, promised him company of a roast dinner when he returnedmagical beast. The dinner would never be served, as James and Wilbur are This has made the race anathema to the victims of pair – but when a double stabbing on bad incident at the beach. The case falls eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to DI Toni Kemp enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of Sussex police. She's feeling magic at the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when end – the going gets toughonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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|isbn=152941363X178763681X|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Martin WalkerOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn''Nobody knows t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what the truth is any morehe wanted. Paul '' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis and much of the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as somehow'JJ'), got the head of detectives for impression that he'd be at the départment of the Dordogneschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. They're not just policemen The teaching - they're both deeply committed to and the wellproblems -being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Franceare all his own. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldnone thing he hadn't normally have worried them so much had it not been expected was for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the carsomeone to turn up dead. OhUnfortunately, and there he was a golf ball too, which didn't belong to the owner of person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the car. A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniper's weapon. Was there going police consider that person to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?prime suspect.
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|isbnauthor=0241542405Sarah Marsh|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire AlexanderA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her home for 1hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence,214 dayseverything about her life changes. She'd ''like'' to: Living in facta time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes Ellen is sent to wear if a school where she's going is taught to catch her trainlip read, but physically restrained from signing. ThenFrom here, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James deaf and Matilda. Sadie's using a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sensesystem called Visible Speech. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her catAt the same time, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries Bell is working on other inventions and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRLideas, so you can guess what she does and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'scomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614
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|isbn=B09Y451X9K1803816759|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)The Unravelling|author=Richard F WalkerWill Gibson
|rating=4
|genre=General Science Fiction|summary= It''Anything can happen at s 2038 and Joe is a birthday party, particularly when bored cop policing the birthday boy is the young Lord wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of the Manoradventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But when an eerie signal is picked up in then something goes horribly wrong with the early hoursAI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, George and his new girlfriend, the vivacious Lady Antoniariots start to spread. Finally, embark on a quest Joe gets to uncover its incredible messagedo some real policing. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets In the cat out aftermath of the bag rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the world goes into only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a state of panicBritish superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case.'' Could it beWhat went wrong? Could Did the system fail or was ithacked? Have aliens reached out and contacted EarthAnd how is Suki's kidnapping connected? George and Antonia find themselves lifted out of their privileged lives of parties and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into the world of advanced science, secret agents.and politicians hungry for power.
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|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529421284|title= Archibald Lox and Laying Out the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= SoIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. We're back In a gully, a human skeleton came to the Merge with surface and forensic testing proved the first chapter in the third volume of Darren Shanbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He's saga of Archibald Loxd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a young man who can pick the locks simple case of portals from our world to another, called the ''Merge'misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Since his last adventure Geary was a townie, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the topic suicide of his regular disappearancesHolly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. They don't ask too many questions Lockyer and Archie has settled into a fairly peaceful routine DC Gemma Broad of visiting Winston, his lock-picking mentor in the Major Crimes Review Unit (that''Merge'' s cold cases to you and showing Kojo, the young guardian, around our world of the Bornme) investigate. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD
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|authorisbn=John Henry Phillips0571379559|title=The SearchHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=HistoryLiterary Fiction|summary=Archaeology cannot be child''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's play, when you're scraping roots are in the dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should Jamaica: temperamentally she might be something happier there , but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is a case of instead, she lives in the house on the latterriverbank, as our author promises to locate the topic built of the titular searchbroken bricks. And he really hasn't made Insubstantial as it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – ohlook, and it's underwaterstood the passage of time, when he cannot divestorms and floods. Latching on Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to a particular Dbring in sufficient money. They have twin boys -Day veteran through helping Sonny and Max, the heroic old manrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the landing craft Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that delivered him to Normandythey're related, much less twins and that he was lucky to survive there's an assumption when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim Max is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perishedout with his mother that she's his nanny. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182
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|authorisbn=Fiona Longmuir1529425867|title=Looking for EmilyLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet LilyIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. She Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and her mother have just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town called Edgealways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and everyone from said mother to her teacher are making demands father of Lily that she make new friendsRyan, is not. It turns out that she doesn He't have s not any say in the matterof those things. He's white, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she is unaware her neighbour, Sam, is just about to make herself knownoriginated 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 big waypolice procedural written for laughs. But where does Emily come from? Well, Lily used that name because of what sheyou'd re not. The two men are just stumbled into – a mysterious collection different sides of the most mundane objects, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming door, in a place calling itself 'The Museum of Emily'same policing coin. Sam is completely unaware of this 'museum', too, leaving Sometimes the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding whatcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's behind the intrigueproblematic...|isbn=1839942754
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|isbnauthor=B09XZMCDVFMosby Woods|title=Stories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F WalkerA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=The West isn''A news vendor is crying out t the headlines dominant force it once was. Nobody in the middle West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of the night; action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; a stickler push for correct grammar goes back climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in time to correct an iconic quote; actual charge. Imagine then, there was a volunteer teacher proves man with precognition. Imagine the ideal person to have around strategic advantage in this asset; a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team is very useful with his feetman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, and awfully familiar…'' This collection of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot to offer right? Perhaps the eclectic readermost valuable asset in history. Tying them together is the idea that remarkable and strangeImagine then, even miraculous, things can happen to ordinary people. And that ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form and tone varies so this little treasury of short fiction is never boring and you're never quite sure what's coming nextman loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1
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