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|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Jane Goodall 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 Douglas Abrams 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 Book 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 Hope 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)
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|genre=Politics and Society Science Fiction|summary= The done thing is to read a book all ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the way through before you sit down shape of things to review come.'' I've heard itsaid that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. I’m making an exception here Well, because I don’t want to lose any must confess that there have been more than a few decades of the experience of reading this amazing book, technology in my lifetime. I want 've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to capture me but I'm left with the feeling that it as it hits 's all getting away from me. And Some of it is hitting me- frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. This beautiful book has me I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in tearsa way I could understand. |isbn=024147857X
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|isbnauthor=1529504767Sunny Singh|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=Susan was very young when she was evacuated The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from London in 1939 the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destinationAbhi, the hotel manager. She needn't have worried though as she went As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the home of Mr and Mrs Russellresidents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who couldn't have been kinder refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began try to enjoy capture what's happened through her lifephotography. She'd Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help Mrs Russell with the baking her keep safe and when it came they both wait to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morningterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)1529153298|title=Red as BloodThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missingIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, all the evidence seems to point towards her having though. Women have been kidnappeddisappearing. The ransom note tells him not Well, they've been murdered, but to have any contact with the police, 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so instead he enlists frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the help of Arorafamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a financial investigatorfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. She manages to persuade Flosi that they will need For Miv, the help of the police, and she calls move would mean leaving her detective best friend, DanielSharon, whom and she met when he was investigating her sister’s disappearance'll do anything to prevent that. Together, they start to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearance, trying She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to arouse the suspicion of anyone, since they have no idea who the kidnappers might be, yet the more they uncover, the more confusing things become.|isbn=1914585321
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|isbn=08615419951398524085|title=Wolf PackHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Will DeanNicci French|rating=4.5
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|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove Charlotte Salter was expected at her Hilux pickup truck on the road north of Visberghusband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She sees blood on the road and a creature on its side near the pine trees. It will turn out to be BroncoHer children, a Swedish Elkhoundsons Niall, who has been attacked by a wolf. Tuva takes Bronco Paul and Ollie and his ownerher daughter, Bengt Nyberg, to the vetEtty. Bronco didn't make it are all worried but on the way, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-yearstrangely -old Elsa Nybergher husband, who had gone missingAlec, is not. She'd been working at Rose Farm Shortly afterwards, Etty and MoodysonGreg, find the body of Greg's journalist's instincts are soon brought to father, Duncan Ackerley, in the foreriver. Rose Farm is now home It was an easy assumption for the police to a group of survivalists but back in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson make that Duncan had murdered his wife, and his two eldest children Charlie and then killed himselfcommitted suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. His newborn child, just four weeks old survivedThe Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?
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|authorisbn=Alison Hughes1035906708|title=FlyDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=This is a very impressive readWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, as it does a lot of what mainstream teen in December 1923 and tween fiction still struggles withonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Its focus is courtesy of Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the first-person narration from Fly, a secondary school lad with cerebral palsy, a down-onStates. When she was back in Athens -supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for hervoice -luck single mom nearing retirement from being she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a cleaner, a carer while at school, mother who mercilessly exploited her and a bundle made no secret of assumptions people lay on him. First they assume that with a broken body comes a broken mind, then they decide he's a maths savant – they even believe they can get away with calling him Fly, which isn't his real nameher preference for her elder sister, but everybody just uses itJackie.|isbn=1525305832
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|isbnauthor=3791388398Christopher Edge|title=New European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and Pastries|author=Laurel KratochvilaBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryConfident Readers|summary=This is probably one Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of the most unusual baking books I've encounteredThe Black Hole'. ItAll big movie fans, they's built around 99 recipes for breadsre looking forward to lots of exciting films, brioches and pastries but many, many snacks! However, as the recipes movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are interwoven with some thought-provoking writing on how bread - and baking - have changed in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuriesswept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. We start with But as they lurch from one film genre to the basics - the equipment you'll need (there's nothing extravagant or indulgent) and the ingredientsnext, where the author can they figure out what on earth is particular. going on? You might not have realised that different salts can change Will they ever get back to the flavour cinema, and sensation on the tongue of the finished product but, apparently, they do.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|author=Andrew GivlerRachel Greenlaw|title=Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)Compass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=''Matt has a terrible lifeI can hear the song of the sea. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that Dan The call of the deep, the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life answering beat in exchange for his soulmy heart.''
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|author=Greg James and Chris SmithSherwood Metts|title=Super GhostPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5
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|summary=Paragon City has Things have been lucky to have a bit sticky for the great Doctor Extraordinary, their very own superhero taking care of themEarthlings. Whenever the evil Captain Chaos has come up with another cunning plan (usually involving a giant robot of some description) Doctor Extraordinary has AI and automation have been there proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to thwart her mischief do and save the dayother tasks that took time to accomplish. But one day the Doctor Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and the Captain are trapped together inside a giant robot that then explodesstarting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and , along with it, all the hero and the villain are no moremany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. Or are they…?|isbn=02414705361736128426
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|isbnauthor=B0B7289HKQMatthew Tree|title=Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, AlzheimerWe's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loyall Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=TravelLiterary Fiction|summary=Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to spend some time with be different from his father , a drunk and the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. The decision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles chronic underachiever whose dreams of it - in 2015. They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more being exceptional at any of a challenge that it would be for most people his artistic passions all failed miserably and who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Bowden|title=Mr Magenta|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling had endless crises of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has diedself confidence. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence So Tim applied himself to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than that nephew Stephen had ever realised his daydreams and it seems to him an obligation to find it all outset himself high but achievable ambitions. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDWB0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1739593901A G Slatter|title=22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)Briar Book of the Dead
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|genre=Science FictionFantasy|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expectedThere's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. Instead This secret magic of flying carsmy own, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets all mine, at last. I just want to track grandmaenjoy it for a while.''
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|isbn=14059511841529900360|title=The Girls Who DisappearedGhost Orchid|author=Claire DouglasJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in November 1998It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Olivia Rutherford Sturgis was driving her three friends home after a night outreluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. As she passed through the darklyHis assertions that there were only open-and-wooded Devilshut cases which didn's Corridor, t need the help of a psychologist only worked for a figure appeared in the roadwhile. Olivia swerved to avoid him and the car smashed Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into a tree, leaving her trappedasking for help again. When She knew that the involvement was something that the man she regained consciousness her three friends had disappearedloved needed. Ralph MiddletonThe next case did look simple, who lived in the woods helped her before the police and ambulance arrivedthough. But what had happened to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening Two lovers were murdered in the Stafferbury area swimming pool of Wiltshirea remote property in Bel Air. It He was thought of as Aveburythe heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's poor relationnot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=39496660791529395224|title=NoemaLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Dael AkkermanSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn''This is a story about some things that happened t want to me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya is a young girl living follow in a hunter-gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurringhis footsteps, particularly when he considered the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Mayastrain that being on-call put on his father's forest home, and food is becoming more and more scarcelife. What to do? Can the law givers in When he was seventeen he took the federation opportunity of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the Travellerjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Lifechild. If anything, provide solutions? he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.
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|isbn=194241028X0861541774|title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Michael PronkoSteve Burrows|rating=54
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|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''You can't put 'good at golf' on your tombstones close friend and former colleague, can you?'' When we meet Patrick Walsh he's outside his family's home in the Azabu district of TokyoDanny Maik, hoping that his key will still work but prepared to break has taken a short holiday in if it doesn't. He's there Singapore to remove his daughters, Jenna and Kirimeet up with an old ally, and take them back to HonoluluGuy Trueman. It's Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a quick day trip, man armed with just one purpose in mind. Patrick's employed by Nine Dragons Wealth Management a knife - and for the past year, he's been working in Wyoming because the privacy laws there are conducive to the business he's inkilled a Ghurka. His wifeInitially, Miyuki, hasn't been in Wyoming with him and is in the process he faced a charge of divorcing him after photographs sent manslaughter but evidence came to her anonymously light that suggested that Patrick had not been faithful he might have planned to hermurder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Patrick's plan didnDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't work out and he finds himself on the run in Tokyo with the two girlshelp Danny at all.
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|isbnauthor=B09SGWCXQ8Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterPerfect Passion Company
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed by Ness and operating as an alternative to pieces below all the cliffs at Dunnett Headonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Was it suicide Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, or did he - as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for some reason - climb over a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the stone wall and fall chance to come home to his death? Or was he pushed? On balanceEdinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, it looked like bringing us to an accident but then his 'accident' was linked Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the deaths of others associated Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with himsome new characters who quickly begin to charm. Scott Paterson was released after Katie has no experience in running a 'notbusiness, or in match-proven' verdict meant that Scotlandmaking, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigor's last client.always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=09897153370811771741|title=Papa on the MoonInstaKnits for Baby|author=Marco NorthMelissa Leapman
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|genre=Literary FictionCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's 'Some frogs had gotten into the well.'InstaKnits for Baby' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands gives us a collection of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside themknits from toys to blankets. Two Some will be quick knits - others are of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the buckets as he filled themfire' variety.'' How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in projects are divided by the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to wistful twenty hours and musing, turning on a sixpencemore than twenty hours. And author Marco North, who has All the most wonderful turn of phraseprojects are attractive, starts as he means to go onmodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.
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|isbnauthor=140639131XDean Koontz|title=A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May SmithThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=For SharingParanormal|summary=Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak RoadBenny is having a terrifically bad day. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a replyHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Philippa wasn't Oh, and someone has delivered a bird really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to sit back on her tail feathers when there his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was a problem which needed solving: she saw inside is the benefits of thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herselfvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a little amateur bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to start with but the benefits were obvioushelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. All the animals used the crossing Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide Harper (a safe path overnightwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=000837936XAdam Stower|title=The Last Girl to Die|author=Helen FieldsMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved Murray is supposed to Tobermorybe a humble, tidy and friendly cat, on the Isle of Mullone who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, in search whatever takes his fancy next of a new lifethe two. It was But he's a bit of bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a change from Las Vegashyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but the family seemed determined into a world of frightening adventure and Adriana had shown signs of developing a social life - until she disappearedwhiffs. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could This time round it have been because Adriana's mother drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banffexpected – well, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagers. Brandonone much bigger than Murray was, Adriana's twin, was upset and surly. Four-year-old Luna just knew that she missed her big sister. It took four daysto be honest, but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnonhe's Cave. Sheturned up and he'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killing.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=1509889612B0C47LV1PC|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)Fragility|author=Ann CleevesMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=ItCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'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 joke? And if you could, is the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off question should you make it? Or is the island too close to high tide and her car was swept awayquestion if you did, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with would it land? The catch is that the group each year as her husband, Ken, was one of the original teenagersanswer for both could well be.... no. Ken now has Alzheimer ''s and heFragility's a shadow ' is set as the city of the man he used to be. Philip Robson now a priestPortland, Oregon, always gets there early as he likes cautiously begins to have some quiet time alone in the chapel. Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much of emerge from the food: her deli is famous in restrictions imposed during the area.covid pandemic
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|isbn=14736808831529431735|title=The Skeleton KeyWinter Visitor|author=Erin KellyJames Henry|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'The Golden Bones is going to follow me around for return all the rest of my lifemore surprising. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to you!He'' Nell didn't want to go to d been exiled on the reunion to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of ''The Golden Bones''Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. SheThe return has come about because he'd s had no benefit a letter from it his ex- in factwife, it had made her life precarious saying that she's ill and unbelievably challenging. Ihasn'd better explaint long to live. It''The Golden Bones'' was s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a treasure quest book painted and written by Frank and Cora Churcher. The story revolved around murdered Elinore whose golden and bejewelled bones were hidden around the country. The clues - some of them quite tortuous - were disguised watery grave in the words and pictures boot of the book - and all the parts were discovered except for the pelvisa stolen Ford Sierra. As with such quests, some people were obsessive and the theories became more and more outlandish.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|author=Holly WebbAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Story Glorious Race of GreenriverMagical Beasts|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Silken and Sedge, for all their differences, have Eli is a lot busy lad – by day an apprentice 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 figurewondrous library we start by visiting with him, and as in the evening a result is patronised, and given helper at the most tokenistic tasks when it comes to fetching wood dessert cafe his gran owns and shoring the dam upruns. She also stands out Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the unique artistic ability to singfamily. Otters like Sedge singA few short years ago, but he tooEli's parents were both lost to the titular race, as a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the son of world in the lady company of a magical beast. This has made the holt, has pressure on him race anathema to be the pair – but when a bit less feckless and more attentive bad incident at the eatery leads to class. Hea confession from gran, after allEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, will eventually inherit with the sole aim the job prize of keeping magic at the otters safe from end – the wolf that both animal species fear the most, and from dreaded events like a Dark Springonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=15101096250571382231
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|authorisbn=Anna Kemp and David Wyatt178763681X|title=Into Goblyn WoodKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Hazel. For the last nine of her eleven years, she has been stuck as Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a foundling residential cookery school in a horrid, Victorian institution, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servantBelgravia. She He didn'd arrived at the place at the same time as Pete, and they're inseparably good friends now, until t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a chance for them way of getting both to escape, men and enter the outside world, does not go women to plando what he wanted. There had always been Paul ''somehow'' got the idea of a life idyllic in impression that he'd be at the nearby forestsschool to assist Paul, Goblyn Wood, and who had a tribe of Wild Childrenbroken arm, but none of it didn't turn out that comes to pass, as Hazel finds herself in the care of a professor at way. The teaching - and the Natural History Museumproblems - are all his own. But life with him is not anything like what she might have The one thing he hadn't expected it was for someone to be – and Hazel is determined to return to the Woodsturn up dead. Unfortunately, restore her friendship with Pete – and to work out just what is going on in he was the forest, both person who discovered the light body and everyone knows that the shade, and police consider that person to be the deathly darkprime suspect...|isbn=1398503835
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|isbnauthor=0241990165Sarah Marsh|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It began rather oddlyAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. There was Suddenly plunged into a 999 call suggesting that world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadn't come from time when the householder. A couple use of PCs went sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to make certain that everything was alright and it took quite a while for the elderly householder school where she is taught to answer the doorlip read, but physically restrained from signing. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come From here, she ends up in. In the kitchen there was a body on the floor: another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the head had been blown off with a shotgun deaf and the corpse was holding using a knife in its right handsystem called Visible Speech. Richard Swann told At the police that he'd heard sounds of an intruder same time, Bell is working on other inventions and had come downstairs to investigate. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'' ideas, and come at him with Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defencecomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614
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|authorisbn= Kit De Waal1803816759|title= Without Warning and Only SometimesThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating= 4|genre= AutobiographyScience Fiction|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, your mum It's 2038 and dad/ They may not mean to, but they do” Without Warning Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of parenthood adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the bonds AI system that bind familynow runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. This book is a memoir focussing on Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the author’s formative years as a teenager living in a lower class area aftermath of Birmingham. Her father the rioting global pop star Suki is from St. Kitts in the Caribbean kidnapped and her mother Joe is an Irish woman ostracized by assigned to bring her family for becoming pregnant by and marrying a black manhome. This intersectionality plays a large role in Joe isn't the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due only one trying to her racesave Suki - Dylan, her class and her gender. Her parents loom large a British superfan and are written with caretech nerd, love, and is also on the kind of anger only a child can express to their parentscase.|isbn=1472284836What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?
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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz1529421284|title=Dark MusicLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from It was one of those flash downpours that the original can British weather often delivers in a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? heatwave. This does have In a wonder-mind at the heart of what little investigating is going ongully, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelength. For one, human skeleton came to the main focus of surface and forensic testing proved the narrativebody to be Lee Geary, Micaela, is no John Watson MDwho had disappeared nine years earlier. SheHe's d been a Chilean in the Stockholm policeknown drug user and had learning disabilities, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of old, in so it could have been a simple case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, and just outside the stadiummisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Beppe, the suspectGeary was a townie, so what was drunkenly antagonistic he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks suicide of interrogation. 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 Holly Gilbert 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 he says Beppe is innocent and two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the investigation is a shamblestime. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve the crime, Lockyer and with Rekke DC Gemma Broad of the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she canMajor Crimes Review Unit (that't get his full verdict on it all. Until, that may be, she manages s cold cases to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt..you and me) investigate.|isbn=1529413192
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|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM0571379559|title=The Calculations House of Rational MenBroken Bricks|author=Daniel GodfreyFiona Williams
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=It's 'The House of Broken Bricks'' is the 10th story of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marrfour people. Just to put what happens Tess Hembry's roots are in contextJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in peoplehouse on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's mindsstood the passage of time, storms and floods. The world has barely had a chance Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to breathe outbring in sufficient money. But for Joe MarrThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, itthe rainbow twins. Sonny's not the missile crisis thatcolouring reflects his mother's at the front of Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his mindfather. HePeople don't believe that they's been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledgere related, itmuch less twins and there's hard to think otherwise than an assumption when Max is out with his mother that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queenshe's Bench, a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be wary of the McArthur brothersnanny.
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|isbn=18469761461529425867|title=The Bone RoadLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=N E SolomonsSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Heather BishopIn Oxford, the former Olympic cyclistthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, flew to Bosnia to surprise her boyfriendBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, cycling journalist son of Ryan and father of Ryan Mackinnon, is not. She even took their bikes so they could have He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a few daystrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They' break re usually in the regionlime green or acid yellow. It was a little worrying that he didnYou might wonder if you't seem exactly pleased re being introduced to see her: she even wondered if he had a woman in the hotel roompolice procedural written for laughs. Heather had to give up competitive cycling after a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but her reactions and her memory were Well, you're not up to . The two men are just different sides of the standard she would need to race againsame policing coin. Sometimes she couldn't be certain about what she had or hadn't done and she simply couldn't cope in difficult situationsthe combination works brilliantly well. She didnSometimes it't entirely trust herselfs problematic.
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|author=Judith EagleMosby Woods|title=The Accidental StowawayA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Patch The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is a little girl who has been passed from one relation quite sure how to another, until mend this or even if mending it seems that there is nobody left for her to go tothe best course of action. Her father died when she was very young, and her mother ran awayGovernments are flailing. The family lawyerA war here, after consultation with ‘someone’, arranges a push for her to go to a school in Liverpool, but on her arrival climate action there, she gets caught up in an adventure with a little boy called Turo who works on a steamship. During a chase with him (when she A feeling that nobody is both trying to get her rollerskate back and running away from the police!) she winds up on the steamship hiding in a lifeboat, and before she knows it, the ship has left the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!|isbn=0571363121}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760379874|title=Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri Hammett|rating=4actual charge.5|genre=Crafts|summary=I learned to knit in the nineteen-fifties: it wasn't a choiceImagine then, it there was a requirementman with precognition. Girls learned to knit and to embroider and boys did wood and metal work. My knitting wa accompanied by Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a lot man who can tell you what will happen given any set of criticism and quite a few tears: it was a long time before I realised that there was pleasure to circumstances. That man would be had valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in the skillhistory. Nearly seventy years later it's the only thing Imagine then, that keeps my hands at all supplethis man loses this ability. The turning point was a booklet published by Patons which gave all the basics and some patterns. I've been looking for something simple What would governments do to recommend to people who'd like to master the skill. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work outget it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1
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