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|isbn=17395939010241636604|title=22 Ideas About The FutureTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead Opening up new ways of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets thinking about the shape of things to track grandmacome.''
I've got a couple of confessions to makeheard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read must confess that there have been more than a few stories and then forget to return to the bookdecades of technology in my lifetime. ThereI've kept up reasonably well with what's got to be a very compelling hook advantageous to keep me engaged. Then therebut I's science fiction: far too often m left with the feeling that it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the worldall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly -buildingquite frightening. ItOf course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's human beings m reading someone who fascinate me: knows what they're talking about or the technology and the world scape are purely incidentallatest conspiracy theorist. So, what did I think of needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, way I loved itcould understand.
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|isbnauthor=1405951184Sunny Singh|title=The Girls Who Disappeared|author=Claire DouglasHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Back The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a night outterrorist group. As she passed Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through the darkly-wooded Devil's Corridor, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a figure appeared in wartime photographer and Abhi, the roadhotel manager. Olivia swerved As Abhi continues to try to avoid him and care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the car smashed into hotel, he forms a treebond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, leaving and keeps on venturing out of her trapped. When she regained consciousness room to try to capture what's happened through her three friends had disappearedphotography. Ralph MiddletonAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, who lived in the woods helped their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her before the police keep safe and ambulance arrived. But what had happened they both wait to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would see if they will be yet another mysterious happening in rescued before they are discovered by the Stafferbury area of Wiltshire. It was thought of as Avebury's poor relationterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=39496660791529153298|title=NoemaThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Dael AkkermanJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'This is a story about some things s not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that happened her father wants to me about twelve thousand years agomove the family 'Down South'. When you'' Maya re from Yorkshire, Down South is a young girl living in a hunter-gatherer village during the Mesolithic erafrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Climate change is occurring For Miv, the Sea of Grass encroaches further move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and further into Mayashe'll do anything to prevent that. She's forest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce. What to do? Can not worried about the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to cope? Can the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions? anyone.
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|isbn=194241028X1398524085|title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Michael PronkoNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''You can't put 'good Charlotte Salter was expected at golf' on your tombstone, can you?'' When we meet Patrick Walsh he's outside his familyher husband's home in the Azabu district of Tokyo, hoping that his key will still work fiftieth birthday party but prepared to break in if it doesn'tnever turned up. He's there to remove his daughtersHer children, sons Niall, Jenna Paul and KiriOllie and her daughter, and take them back to HonoluluEtty. It's a quick day tripare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, with just one purpose in mindis not. Patrick's employed by Nine Dragons Wealth Management Shortly afterwards, Etty and for Greg, find the past year, hebody of Greg's been working father, Duncan Ackerley, in Wyoming because the privacy laws there are conducive to the business he's inriver. His wife, Miyuki, hasn't been in Wyoming with him and is in It was an easy assumption for the process of divorcing him after photographs sent police to her anonymously suggested make that Patrick Duncan had not been faithful to hermurdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. PatrickThe Salter children are not convinced but there's plan didn't work out and he finds himself little else they can do but get on the run in Tokyo with the two girlstheir lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81035906708|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)Diva|author=Neil LancasterDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for a run. The lawyer was on his honeymoon We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but his body she was found dashed born to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Head. Was it suicideGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall in December 1923 and fall only moved to his death? Or Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was he pushed? On balance, Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it looked like an accident but then his to 'accidentCallas' was linked to make it more manageable in the deaths of others associated with himStates. Scott Paterson When she was released after a 'notback in Athens -proven' verdict meant supposedly so that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was Grigor's last clientraised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=0989715337Christopher Edge|title=Papa on the Moon|author=Marco NorthBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'Some frogs had gotten . All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the wellcinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.''5|genre=Teens|summary=''Walter stood waist-deep in I can hear the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands song of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside themthe sea. Two The call of the dogs leaned over deep, the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled themanswering beat in my heart.''
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|isbnauthor=140639131XJames Sherwood Metts|title=A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May SmithPlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross Things have been a bit sticky for the Old Oak RoadEarthlings. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasnAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they't a bird re paid to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing do and decided other tasks that she would set up something similar herselftook time to accomplish. Her uniform and lollipop stick Just as they were both a little amateur beginning to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals get used the crossing to all this technological change and Hedgehog starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was even trained up to provide a safe path overnightpretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=000837936XMatthew Tree|title=The Last Girl to Die|author=Helen FieldsWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to Tobermorybe different from his father, on the Isle of Mull, in search of a new life. It was a bit drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of a change from Las Vegas, but the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs being exceptional at any of developing a social life - until she disappeared. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been because Adriana's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob his artistic passions all failed miserably and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagersendless crises of self confidence. BrandonSo Tim applied himself to his studies, Adriana's twin, was upset cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and surly. Four-year-old Luna just knew that she missed her big sister. It took four days, set himself high but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnon's Cave. She'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killingachievable ambitions.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1509889612|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Island. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative and 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 to high tide and her car was swept away, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with the group each year as her husband, Ken, was one of the original teenagers. Ken now has Alzheimer's and he's a shadow of the man he used to be. Philip Robson now a priest, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone in the chapel. Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much of the food: her deli is famous in the area.B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1473680883A G Slatter|title=The Skeleton Key|author=Erin KellyBriar Book of the Dead
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=''The Golden Bones is going There's a part of me that wants to follow me around keep this just to myself for the rest however long I can. This secret magic of my lifeown, all mine, at last. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back just want to you!enjoy it for a while.''
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|authorisbn=Holly Webb1529900360|title=The Story of Greenriver|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Silken and Sedge, for all their differences, have a lot in common. Silken is a girl whose father is the Master Builder of what might be the finest beaver lodge on the Greenriver. Unfortunately she is also a kind of runt figure, and as a result is patronised, and given the most tokenistic tasks when it comes to fetching wood and shoring the dam up. She also stands out for the unique artistic ability to sing. Otters like Sedge sing, but he too, as the son of the lady of the holt, has pressure on him to be a bit less feckless and more attentive to class. He, after 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 Spring.|isbn=1510109625}}{{FrontpageGhost Orchid|author=Anna Kemp and David Wyatt|title=Into Goblyn WoodJonathan 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
|genre=General Fiction
|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
|rating=4
|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
|rating=4
|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
|rating=4
|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''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, using this bookshe lives in the house on the riverbank, and being audacious enough to review built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it? Truth is I bought might look, it out 's stood the passage of curiositytime, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. I was at an onThey have twin boys -line launch for Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. book and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed to meSonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. I wanted to see if there were things in People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there 's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I could use with someone Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing them to a full dayWilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, which Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I know would send them scurrying for their burrowRyan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. I also wanted to see if I could give myself He's white, originated from a Vision Daytrailer park, to bring me away from their vision barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and back trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to my owna police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|isbn=103211603X
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|isbnauthor=1913750353Mosby Woods|title=Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue MacyA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-Literary Fiction|summary=The West isn''Britannica's Word of t the Day'' has 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 bookdominant force it once was. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you Nobody in the West is quite sure how to pronounce mend this or even if mending it (''raz-muh-TAZ'')is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, gives you a definition and push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then includes , there was a man with precognition. Imagine the word strategic advantage in this asset; a sentence so that man who can tell you know how it should what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be usedvaluable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. You also Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1
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