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|isbn=14059511840241636604|title=The Girls Who DisappearedTrading Game: A Confession|author=Claire DouglasGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Back If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in November 1998your mind, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after a night outyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. As she passed through A hoodie and jeans replaces the darklypin-wooded Devil's Corridor, a figure appeared in the road. Olivia swerved to avoid him stripe suit and his background is the car smashed into a treeEast End, where he was familiar with violence, leaving her trappedpoverty and injustice. When she regained consciousness her three friends There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had disappearedbeen to the London School of Economics. Ralph Middleton, who lived in the woods helped her before the police Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and ambulance arrivedhe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. But what had happened He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in the Stafferbury area of Wiltshirestupid. It was thought of his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as Avebury's poor relationa trader.
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|isbn=39496660791035021803|title=NoemaThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Dael AkkermanC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It''This is a story about some things that happened s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to me about twelve thousand years agothe English country village where she grew up. She'' Maya is s back now because of a young girl living in a hunter-gatherer village during the Mesolithic erarequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Climate change is occurring, the Sea of Grass encroaches further Freya's former mentor and further into MayaCarole's forest homeclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, and food is becoming more dead and more scarcethe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. What Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to do? Can the law givers 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 federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can man or pursue the profession she loved. After the Travellersplit, she worked in a spiritual figure who interprets cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the wisdom love of All Lifeher life, provide solutions? who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=194241028XAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Michael PronkoBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=''You can't put 'good at golf' on your tombstone, can you?Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''
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|isbnauthor=B09SGWCXQ8Sunny Singh|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Fergus Grigor went out for The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a runterrorist group. The lawyer was Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to pieces below care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the cliffs at Dunnett Head. Was it suicidehotel, or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and fall keeps on venturing out of her room to his death? Or was he pushed? On balance, it looked like an accident but then his 'accident' was linked try to the deaths of others associated with him. Scott Paterson was released after a 'not-proven' verdict meant that Scotlandcapture what's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonmenthappened through her photography. Paterson was Grigor's last client 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
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|isbn=09897153371529153298|title=Papa on the MoonThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Marco NorthJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=It''Some frogs had gotten into the wells 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what' 's worrying Miv'Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant waters family, naked except for his beaten leather hatthough. Women have been disappearing. Long strands of their eggs wove around him Well, they've been murdered, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled thembut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she' How is s overheard that for an opening? The style of this novel in her father wants to move the form of interconnected short stories goes family 'Down South'. When you're from succinct and laconic to wistful and musingYorkshire, turning on Down South is a sixpencefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. And author Marco North For Miv, who has the most wonderful turn of phrasemove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, starts as he means and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to go onanyone.
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|isbn=140639131X1398524085|title=A Practical Present for Philippa PheasantHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Briony May SmithNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Philippa Pheasant Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Roads fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She wrote to the mayor about the problem Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but didn't even get a reply- strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the benefits body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the lollipop lady at river. It was an easy assumption for the school crossing police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and decided that she would set up something similar herselfthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a The Salter children are not convinced but there's little amateur to start else they can do but get on with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing their lives and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnightwonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=000837936X1035906708|title=The Last Girl to DieDiva|author=Helen FieldsDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved We tend to Tobermory, on the Isle think of MullMaria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in search of a new life. It was a bit of a change from Las VegasManhattan, New York, but the family seemed determined in December 1923 and Adriana had shown signs of developing a social life - until only moved to Athens when she disappearedwas thirteen. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it have been because Adrianato 's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called Callas' to make it more manageable in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagersthe States. Brandon, Adriana's twin, When she was upset and surly. Four-yearback in Athens -old Luna just knew supposedly so that she missed could get appropriate training for her big 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. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnon's Cave. She'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killingJackie.
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|isbnauthor=1509889612Christopher Edge|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann CleevesBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It's fifty years since Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a group place that has the nickname of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Island'The Black Hole'. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative and All big movie fans, they've been coming back for a reunion every five years since then. There was a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close re looking forward to high tide lots of exciting films, and her car was swept awaymany, but her younger sistermany snacks! However, Louisa, has returned with as the group each year as her husbandmovie starts, Kenthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, was one of the original teenagers. Ken now has Alzheimer's and hethey are swept up into an adventure they couldn's a shadow of the man he used to bet even imagine. Philip Robson now a priest, always gets there early But as he likes they lurch from one film genre to have some quiet time alone in the chapel. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Annie Laidler Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives locally and she provides much of the food: her deli is famous in the area.?|isbn=1839942738
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|isbnauthor=1473680883Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Skeleton Key|author=Erin KellyCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The Golden Bones is going to follow me around for call of the rest of deep, the answering beat in my lifeheart. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to you!''
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|author=Holly WebbJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Story of GreenriverPlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Silken and Sedge, for all their differences, Things have been a lot in common. Silken is a girl whose father is the Master Builder of what might be bit sticky for the finest beaver lodge on the GreenriverEarthlings. Unfortunately she is also a kind of runt figure, AI and as a result is patronisedautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and given the most tokenistic other tasks when it comes that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to fetching wood all this technological change and shoring the dam up. She also stands out for the unique artistic ability starting to sing. Otters like Sedge sing, but he too, as the son think of the lady of the holtother, has pressure on him new ways to be a bit less feckless spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and more attentive to class. He, after along with it, all, will eventually inherit the job of keeping the otters safe from the wolf that both animal species fear the most, and from dreaded events like a Dark Springmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=15101096251736128426
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|author=Anna Kemp and David WyattMatthew Tree|title=Into Goblyn WoodWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet Hazel. For the last nine of her eleven years, she has been stuck as a foundling in a horrid, Victorian institution, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servant. She'd arrived at the place at the same time as Pete, and they're inseparably good friends now, until a chance for them both Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to escape, and enter the outside worldbe different from his father, does not go to plan. There had always been the idea of a life idyllic in the nearby forests, Goblyn Wood, drunk and a tribe chronic underachiever whose dreams of Wild Children, but none being exceptional at any of that comes to pass, as Hazel finds herself in the care his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of a professor at the Natural History Museumself confidence. But life with him is not anything like what she might have expected it So Tim applied himself to be – and Hazel is determined to return to the Woodshis studies, restore her friendship with Pete – cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and to work out just what is going on in the forest, both the light and the shade, and the deathly dark..set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1398503835B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=0241990165A G Slatter|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterThe Briar Book of the Dead
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|genre=Fantasy
|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''
Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born 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 cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. 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 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.
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|isbn=1529900360
|title=The Ghost Orchid
|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that a shot Alex Delaware had been fired in an isolated house badly injured but the call hadnhe 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 come from need the householder. A couple help of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright and it took quite a psychologist only worked for a while for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they Finally, it was Robin, Delaware'd better come ins partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. In She knew that the kitchen there involvement was a body on something that the floor: man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the head had been blown off with a shotgun and the corpse was holding swimming pool of a knife remote property in its right handBel Air. Richard Swann told He was the police that he'd heard sounds of heir to an intruder Italian shoe empire and had come downstairs she is married to investigate. The ignorant young lout had called him an extremely rich man and it''Grandad'' and come at him with a knifes not the Italian. Swann had shot him in self-defence.But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn= Kit De Waal1529395224|title= Without Warning and Only SometimesLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating= 43.5|genre= AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, your mum Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and dad/ They may not mean Rowlands didn't want tofollow in his footsteps, but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood and particularly when he considered the bonds strain that bind family. This book is a memoir focussing being on-call put on the author’s formative years as a teenager living in a lower class area of Birmingham. Her his father is from St's life. Kitts in When he was seventeen he took the Caribbean and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her opportunity of doing work experience with a family for becoming pregnant by friend who was a vet and marrying a black man. This intersectionality plays a large role in was convinced this was the autobiographyjob for him. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to her race Before long, her class and her genderhe was at Liverpool University. Her parents loom large and are written It hadn't - as with care, love, and the kind of anger only so many students - been his dream since he was a child can express . If anything, he'd wanted to their parentsbe a professional footballer.|isbn=1472284836
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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz0861541774|title=Dark MusicA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart of what little investigating is going onDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelength. For oneDanny Maik, the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MD. She's has taken a Chilean short holiday in the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of Singapore to meet up with an oldally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a case where street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a referee of man armed with a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, knife - and just outside the stadiumhe killed a Ghurka. BeppeInitially, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogationman. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk when Now he says Beppe is innocent and could be facing the investigation is a shamblesdeath penalty. But taken off the case, she Domenic Jejeune can no longer do nothing to help solve the crime, as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she canwouldn't get his full verdict on it help Danny at all. Until, that may be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt...|isbn=1529413192
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|isbnauthor=B0B2N7MVYMAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel GodfreyPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in contextEdinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh online apps in people's mindsproviding a more personal, tailored service. The world Ness has barely had asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a chance trip to Canada to breathe outget away for a while. But for Joe MarrKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, it's not the missile crisis that's and so jumps at the front of his mindchance to come home to Edinburgh. He's been convicted of murderAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. With the current state of medical knowledgeKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr Ness has spent his first few days full confidence in HMP Queen's Benchher abilities, a relatively new prison. Heand there's just getting used to his roommatealways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, MervynWilliam, and learning to be wary of the McArthur brothers.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=18469761460811771741|title=The Bone RoadInstaKnits for Baby|author=N E SolomonsMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=Heather Bishop, the former Olympic cyclist, flew to Bosnia Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnonblankets. She even took their bikes so they could have a few daysSome will be quick knits - others are of the ' break long, cosy afternoons in front of the regionfire' variety. It was a little worrying that he didnThe projects are divided by the time they't seem exactly pleased ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to see her: she even wondered if he had a woman in the hotel roomtwenty hours and more than twenty hours. Heather had to give up competitive cycling after a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but her reactions All the projects are attractive, modern and her memory were not up to the standard she would need to race againuseable. Sometimes she couldn't be certain I perhaps show my age when I wonder about what she had or hadn't done and she simply couldnsocial-media-worthy projects't cope in difficult situations. She didnbut that't entirely trust herselfs me being picky.
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|author=Judith EagleDean Koontz|title=The Accidental StowawayBad Weather Friend
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|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Patch Benny is having a little girl who terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has been passed from one relation delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to anotherhis home, until and it seems 's possible that there whoever or whatever was inside is nobody left for her to go the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person todeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. Her father died when she was very young, and her mother ran awayA really nice person. The family lawyer, after consultation with ‘someone’, arranges So fortunately for her to go Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a school in Liverpoolnew friend, but on her arrival there, she gets caught up in an adventure with a little boy bad weather friend called Turo Spike, who works on has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a steamshipgood person. During a chase with him (when she Spike is both trying going to get her rollerskate back take care of Benny, and running away from the police!) she winds up on the steamship hiding in a lifeboatwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, and before she knows itBenny, the ship has left the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=05713631211662500491
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|isbnauthor=0760379874Adam Stower|title=Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri HammettMurray and Bun
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|genre=CraftsConfident Readers |summary=I learned Murray is supposed to knit in the nineteen-fifties: it wasn't be a choicehumble, tidy and friendly cat, it was a requirement. Girls learned one who is able to knit sleep and to embroider eat and eat and boys did wood sleep and metal work, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. My knitting wa accompanied by But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a lot world of criticism frightening adventure and quite whiffs. This time round it drops them into a few tears: it was Viking land, where a long time before I realised that there troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was pleasure , to be had in the skill. Nearly seventy years later ithonest, but he's the only thing that keeps my hands at all supple. The turning point was a booklet published by Patons which gave all the basics turned up and some patterns. Ihe've been looking for something simple ll have to recommend to people who'd like to master the skill. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?do…|isbn=0008561249
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|authorisbn=Sarah Todd TaylorB0C47LV1PC|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleFragility|author=Mosby Woods
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|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet Alice Eclair. A perfect eye and very careful hands have made her one of ParisCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's best young cake makers and decorators, making sure her mother's establishment is a classy affair. Not bad for a thirteen year old. Ohjoke? And if you could, and a perfect eye and a very careful handler and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spy. Her first real mission will be to chase a traitor across the country – working behind the scenes on a posh sleeper train to question should you make it? Or is the south of Francequestion if you did, and hoping against hope would it land? The catch is that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents to creep into the country from getting into nefarious handsanswer for both could well be.... no. But while nobody would have her down ''Fragility'' is set as a spythe city of Portland, Oregon, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the baddy?|isbn=1839940956covid pandemic
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|isbn=07603799121529431735|title=Super Easy Quilting for BeginnersThe Winter Visitor|author=Editors of Quarry BooksJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new It's February 1991 and usable when I was in my twentiesEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. It would be He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a while before it became a pleasure rather than wanted drug smuggler for a chore but I've never felt completely at home with quiltingdecade. I needed something The return has come about because he's had a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knotsletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It''Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a good place to startstolen Ford Sierra. So, how did Is it stack upa warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=1788360737Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era Glorious Race of Postmodernism|author=Alexander AdamsMagical Beasts|rating=24|genre= Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art Eli is political because art is not made a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a vacuumhelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. It Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is made by peoplea generation missing in the family. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Thereforetitular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all art must be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum entrants have to navigate the world in the Era company of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sakea magical beast. The recent trend of so-called artivism This has caused artists made the race anathema to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at least that’s what Alexander Adams believesthe end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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|isbn=1408712172178763681X|title=The Cliff House|author=Chris Brookmyre|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''Many of them didn't know each other, one of them didn't know anybody, including Jen, one of them quite possibly hated her, and two of them definitely hated each other. What could possibly go wrong?'' That's the round-up for Jen's hen party which is to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barra. They're all staying in The Cliff House, hosted by Lauren, and it's the utmost in luxury living but then Jen can afford it. She's just sold her muffin business Knife Skills for millions but is staying on to run it. She's got her doubts about the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting a little strangely of late and wouldn't explain to her what the email he was hurriedly deleting was about. Added to that, he's just about forced her to bring his sister, Samira, whom Jen's never met, on the trip, on the grounds that she's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months and desperately needs the break.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360702|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised BiographyBeginners|author=Edzard ErnstOrlando Murrin
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|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of alternative medicine getting both men and complementary therapieswomen to do what he wanted. Paul ''Charles, The Alternative Princesomehow'' critically assesses got the Princeimpression that he's opinionsd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, beliefs but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and aims against the background of the scientific evidenceproblems - are all his own. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the reputation of a man person who is proud of his refusal discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitionsbe the prime suspect.
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|author=Will CarverSarah Marsh|title=The Daves Next DoorA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Five strangers come together After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in one moment a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a suicide bomber prepares school where she is taught to detonate his vest on lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a London tube linesystem called Visible Speech. As their fates overlap At the same time, the story Bell is told in backwards orderworking on other inventions and ideas, leading and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up to the fateful momentin a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn= 19145851861035401614}}
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|isbn=15291257901803816759|title=The Family RemainsUnravelling|author=Lisa JewellWill Gibson
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|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=In July 2019, Jason Mott was mud larking on It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the banks of the River Thames when he came across wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bag bit of what appeared adventure and to be human bonesget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and Saffron Brown from forensics were there riots start to investigatespread. The bones were indeed human: a young woman had been killed by a blow Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the head many years ago - probably as long as twenty-five - but aftermath of the bones had not been in rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the river longer than only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a yearBritish superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case. There was no identification but What went wrong? Did the bag contained vegetation, some of which system fail or was quite unusual.it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?
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|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason1529421284|title=Partitions of UnityLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Here at Bookbag TowersIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, we first met Elizabeth Cromwella human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, dominatrix who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]]had learning disabilities, when she investigated and unravelled so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a series townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of disappearancesHolly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. In ''Partitions Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of Unitythe Major Crimes Review Unit (that'', she sets her mind s cold cases to solving a murder..you and me) investigate..|isbn=B09LQR9FRF
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|authorisbn=Fiona Parashar 0571379559|title=A Beautiful Way to Coach The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=Business and FinanceLiterary Fiction|summary= So what am I doing reading this book, using this book, and being audacious enough to review it? Truth ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is I bought it out the story of curiosityfour people. I was at an Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on-line launch for the riverbank, built of broken bricks. book Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed to mefloods. I wanted Her husband, Richard, struggles to see if there were things in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying grow his vegetables, to mentor – without committing them complete the delivery rounds - and to a full daybring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrowthe rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. I also wanted to see if I could give myself a Vision DayMax takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, to bring me away from their vision much less twins and back to my ownthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|isbn=103211603X
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|isbn=19137503531529425867|title=Britannica's Word of the DayLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue MacySimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He'Britannicas white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's Word of the Daynot '' has a sub-title: really''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and Tickle Your Humerustrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you' which probably tells you all that you need re being introduced to know about this brilliant booka police procedural written for laughs. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'' Well, tells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and then includes re not. The two men are just different sides of the word in a sentence so that you know how it should be usedsame policing coin. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. I donSometimes it't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!s problematic.
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|author=A C WiseMosby Woods|title=HookedA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=It’s been twenty-two years since Captain Hook, now going by just ‘James’, has been The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in Neverlandthe West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. Living A war here, a new life push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in Londonactual charge. Imagine then, he has never completely escaped his pastthere was a man with precognition. But now he senses Imagine the edges strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the beast circling around his life most valuable asset in London, and when suddenly he finds himself face to face in the street with Wendyhistory. Imagine then, he knows that the line between this world and Neverland is growing thinman loses this ability. The beast is finally coming What would governments do to get him, and in the process will pull Wendy and her daughter Jane it back into their past once again.?|isbn=1789096839B0C9SNG8R1
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