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|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Christopher GoldenGary 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=Road of BonesThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
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|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, itIt's one of twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the world's most notorious routesEnglish country village where she grew up. For months of the year itShe's a spread back now because of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremittingrequest for help from her beloved aunt, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dustCarole. I donFreya't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, s former mentor and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but thatCarole's a bit rich, for one of our main charactersclose friend, Felix 'Teig' TeiglandArthur Crockleford, is a film-makerdead and the circumstances seem suspicious, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage say the least. Arthur was the project reason why Freya had not been back to fruition 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 claw back some of be near the funds he'd invested in man or pursue the pair's prior TV projectsprofession she loved. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guideAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, gain met and married James (on the company rebound from the love of a local beautyher life, who was murdered) and fetch up at the guide's childhood villageFreya and James have now divorced. And that's where things start to go awry…|isbn=1803361476
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|isbn=1838776184AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Her Majesty the Queen InvestigatesAll Tomorrow's Futures: Murder Most RoyalFictions that Disrupt|author=S J BennettBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=''The Queen, like the sunrise and Opening up new ways of thinking about the tides, was generally a reliable way shape of marking timethings to come.''
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|authorisbn=Peter Owen Jones1529153298|title=Conversations with NatureThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
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|genre=Spirituality and ReligionGeneral Fiction|summary= One of the comments made when It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I was offered this beautiful book for review was that itmean, honestly...) She's not very longwhat's worrying Miv's family, though. Having read the book twice overWomen have been disappearing. Well, Ithey'm brought back inescapably ve been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the Spanish proverb that Life may be shortfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, but it Down South is broada frightening, foreign place, best avoided. In this case I For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'm brought ll do anything to the idea prevent that the length of life is . She's not worried about the point; the point is its depth. Peter Owen Jones dives deepdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1912992418
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|isbn=19164599431398524085|title=Squeakily BabyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Beth WebbNicci French|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, thereCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's something they all dread - a squeakily babyfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. He's so tired Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but he can't - or won't strangely - go to sleep: insteadher husband, Alec, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''is not. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the waves sing body of Greg''hushs father, Duncan Ackerley, hush''in the river. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and you have then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the sound perfectlyguilt. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''Salter children are not convinced but there' s little else they can do but get on with their lives and we know exactly wonder about what's going to happen nextreally happened.
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|authorisbn=Robin Stevens1035906708|title=The Ministry of Unladylike ActivityDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her 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, Jackie.
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|author=Christopher Edge
|title=Black Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=May Wong is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a long way from her family in Hong Kongplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. She’s stuck in her schoolAll big movie fans, Deepdeanthey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and desperate to get awaymany, and do something useful to help end the war and to get home. She just knows that she would make the perfect spymany snacks! And when she finds herself turned away by the Ministry, she takes matters into her own handsHowever, along with a boy she meets outside as the Ministrymovie starts, Eric. They both go undercover in a large country housethey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, pretending to be evacuees, in and they are swept up into an attempt to prove that someone there is passing secrets to the Nazisadventure they couldn't even imagine. But there as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is a lot more going on in Elysium Hall than either them have imagined, and suddenly ? Will they find themselves in ever get back to the middle of a murder scenecinema, with even more to try and to unravel and solve.their real lives?|isbn=02414298621839942738
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|isbnauthor=1919635017Rachel Greenlaw|title=A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt TownsendCompass and Blade|rating=43.5
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|summary= Solomon Klyne isn't 'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a bad ladremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, so why like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he running around London committing is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a series family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of robberies? And how did he learn foreign islands to crack safes? Youthe heart of the smuggler'll s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to wait do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilersawful pandemic. But I'll answer Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the first one: for his grandmother..many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=1398515388Matthew Tree|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)We'll Never Know
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=First Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete failed miserably and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list who had endless crises of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience storeself confidence. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa So Tim applied himself to open his car door studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and Tamon the dog jumped inset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1529153050A G Slatter|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim BensonThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=HumourFantasy|summary=Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to seem more and more like an adrenaline sportmyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I was nudged towards just want to enjoy it for a while.''Britain Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's Best Political Cartoons , a family of 2022witches 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. Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the year: dead, putting her at the cartoons run heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from 4 September 2021 one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to 31 August 2022. Who can imagine trust and determine what there will be to come in do as the 2023 edition?Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1529900360|title=The Dark RoomGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone was dead, because youIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'd watched them die several years ago, s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but then you come across a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened in a different place he felt responsible and time? This is what happens even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to Leonard in this storyask for his help on difficult cases. He is an exHis assertions that there were only open-and-crime reporter shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a newspaperwhile. Finally, it was Robin, and since leaving journalism heDelaware's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds oldpartner, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them in his own dark room at homewho nudged Milo into asking for help again. One of these photographs turns out to show She knew that the involvement was something that the murder scene of a young woman he met some years agoman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, and who he ''thought'' he had watched die though. Two lovers were murdered in front the swimming pool of him one night a remote property in a hotelBel Air. He'd felt guilty ever since that night, was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and lost everything because of it - his fiancee and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died s not the night she Italian. But which of them was with him, what on earth actually happenedthe primary target?|isbn=154203535X
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|authorisbn=Natasha Hastings and Alex T Smith1529395224|title=The Miraculous SweetmakersLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Frost FairSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands
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|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn''The River Thames had frozen t want to death follow in its sleep.'' And thus his footsteps, particularly when he considered the Frost Fair could happen – people trading strain that being on the completely iced-over river, like our heroine Thomasinacall put on his father's father life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with his gingerbread a family friend who was a vet and confectionery shopwas convinced this was the job for him. Thomasina will be working the Fair too – but her twin brother won'tBefore long, as he dies in Chapter Onewas at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a tragedy she feels no small guilt for, and which has made her father a sullen, closed shop – and her bed-bound mother has spoken not a word – not even opened her eyes, more or less – in the four years since, eitherchild. But into the dark, frosted London comes Inigo, with supreme magical powersIf anything, and a willingness to help Thomasina. Not only can he introduce her 'd wanted to the fantastical Other Frost Fair, using the river surface at night for no end of mystical beasts and characters and their happenings, but he has be a unique proposal for Thomasina, which will shake her world to its coreprofessional footballer.|isbn=0008496056
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|authorisbn=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams 0861541774|title=The Book A Nye of Hope Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54|genre=Politics and Society Crime|summary= The done thing is DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to read meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a book all the way through before you sit down to review itstreet brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. I’m making an exception here Initially, because I don’t want he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to lose any of light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the experience of reading this amazing book, I want death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to capture it help as it hits meany interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears. |isbn=024147857X
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|isbnauthor=1529504767Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in 1939 Edinburgh, run by Ness and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got operating as an alternative to her final destinationall the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. She needn't have worried though as Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she went to could come and look after the home of Mr and Mrs Russellbusiness, who couldn't have been kinder as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to herget away for a while. She even had her own room - all Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to herselfEdinburgh. Gradually she relaxed And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and began the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to enjoy her lifecharm. SheKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there'd help Mrs Russell with the baking s always her very helpful (and when it came rather handsome) neighbour, William, to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)0811771741|title=Red as BloodInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missing, all the evidence seems Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to point towards her having been kidnappedblankets. The ransom note tells him not to have any contact with Some will be quick knits - others are of the police'long, so instead he enlists cosy afternoons in front of the help of Arora, a financial investigatorfire' variety. She manages to persuade Flosi that they will need the help of The projects are divided by the police, and she calls her detective friend, Daniel, whom she met when he was investigating her sister’s disappearance. Together, time they start 'll take to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearancecomplete - less than five hours, trying not five to arouse the suspicion of anyoneten hours, since they have no idea who ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the kidnappers might beprojects are attractive, yet the more they uncover, the more confusing things becomemodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1914585321
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|isbnauthor=0861541995Dean Koontz|title=Wolf Pack|author=Will DeanThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on the road north of VisbergBenny is having a terrifically bad day. She sees blood on the road He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and a creature on its side near the pine treeshis house gets trashed. It will turn out to be BroncoOh, and someone has delivered a Swedish Elkhoundreally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, who and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has been attacked by trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a wolfnice person. Tuva takes Bronco and his owner, Bengt Nyberg, to the vetA really nice person. Bronco didn't make So fortunately for Benny it but on turns out that the way, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for delivery to his niecehouse is a new friend, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberga bad weather friend called Spike, who had gone missing. She'd has been working at Rose Farm and Moodyson's journalist's instincts are soon brought sent to the forehelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Rose Farm Spike is now home going to a group take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of survivalists but back in 1987 the then ownerBenny's enemies, if he, Johan Svenson murdered his wifeBenny, and his two eldest children and then killed himselfHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. His newborn child, just four weeks old survived. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?|isbn=1662500491
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|author=Alison HughesAdam Stower|title=FlyMurray and Bun
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This Murray is supposed to be a very impressive readhumble, as it does a lot of what mainstream teen tidy and tween fiction still struggles with. Its focus friendly cat, one who is courtesy able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the first-person narration from Flytwo. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a secondary school lad with cerebral palsyhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, a down-on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being a cleanerand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, a carer while at schoolnot into the regular back garden, and but into a bundle world of assumptions people lay on himfrightening adventure and whiffs. First they assume that with This time round it drops them into a broken body comes Viking land, where a broken mindtroll hunter is expected – well, then they decide one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's a maths savant – they even believe they can get away with calling him Fly, which isnturned up and he't his real name, but everybody just uses it.ll have to do…|isbn=15253058320008561249
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|isbn=3791388398B0C47LV1PC|title=New European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and PastriesFragility|author=Laurel Kratochvila|rating=4.5|genre=Cookery|summary=This is probably one of the most unusual baking books I've encountered. It's built around 99 recipes for breads, brioches and pastries but the recipes are interwoven with some thought-provoking writing on how bread - and baking - have changed in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. We start with the basics - the equipment you'll need (there's nothing extravagant or indulgent) and the ingredients, where the author is particular. You might not have realised that different salts can change the flavour and sensation on the tongue of the finished product but, apparently, they do.}}{{Frontpage|author=Andrew Givler|title=Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)Mosby Woods
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|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—itYo birthing person''s awful. It joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange answer for his soulboth could well be.... no.''
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|genre=TravelCrime|summary=Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, by which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the way) Costa del Sol as a wanted to spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like drug smuggler for a good time to do itdecade. The decision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail return has come about because he's had a letter from Yorktownhis ex-wife, Virginia saying that she's ill and hasn't long to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015live. They had 73 days It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to do it - slightly less than a watery grave in the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more boot of a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it onstolen Ford Sierra. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering Is it a warning from early-stage Alzheimer's.a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|author=Christopher BowdenAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Mr MagentaThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Christopher Bowden's latest novel Eli is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out busy lad – by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him day an obligation to find it all out. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1739593901|title=22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Our future will be more complex than apprentice in the wondrous library we expected. Instead of flying carsstart by visiting with him, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got in the evening a couple of confessions to makehelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a few stories and then forget to return to generation missing in the bookfamily. ThereA few short years ago, Eli's got parents were both lost to be the titular race, a very compelling hook globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's navigate the technology which takes centre stage along with world in the world-buildingcompany of a magical beast. It's human beings who fascinate me: This has made the race anathema to the technology and pair – but when a bad incident at the world scape are purely incidental. Soeatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what did I think he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved itmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran. |isbn=0571382231
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|isbn=1405951184178763681X|title=The Girls Who DisappearedKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Claire DouglasOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a night outway of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. As she passed through Paul ''somehow'' got the darkly-wooded Devilimpression that he's Corridord be at the school to assist Paul, who had a figure appeared in the roadbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. Olivia swerved to avoid him The teaching - and the car smashed into a tree, leaving her trappedproblems - are all his own. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappearedThe one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Ralph MiddletonUnfortunately, he was the person who lived in discovered the woods helped her before body and everyone knows that the police and ambulance arrived. But what had happened consider that person to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in the Stafferbury area of Wiltshire. It was thought of as Avebury's poor relationprime suspect.
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|isbnauthor=3949666079Sarah Marsh|title=Noema|author=Dael AkkermanA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''This is After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a story about some things that happened to me world of silence, everything about twelve thousand years agoher life changes.'' Maya is a young girl living Living in a hunter-gatherer village during time when the Mesolithic erause of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Climate change is occurring From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the Sea of Grass encroaches further deaf and further into Maya's forest homeusing a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and food is becoming more ideas, and more scarce. What to do? Can the law givers Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom complicated tangle of All Life, provide solutions? espionage.|isbn=1035401614
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|isbn=194241028X1803816759|title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)The Unravelling|author=Michael PronkoWill Gibson|rating=54|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=''You can't put 'good at golf' on your tombstone, can you?'' When we meet Patrick Walsh heIt's outside his family's home in 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the Azabu district wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of Tokyo, hoping that his key will still work but prepared adventure and to break in if it doesn'tget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. He's there to remove his daughtersBut then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, Jenna and Kirimaking life easier for many, and take them back riots start to Honoluluspread. It's a quick day tripFinally, with just one purpose in mindJoe gets to do some real policing. Patrick's employed by Nine Dragons Wealth Management and for In the past year, he's been working in Wyoming because aftermath of the privacy laws there are conducive to the business he's in. His wife, Miyuki, hasn't been in Wyoming with him rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is in the process of divorcing him after photographs sent to her anonymously suggested that Patrick had not been faithful assigned to bring herhome. Patrick's plan didnJoe isn't work out the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and he finds himself tech nerd, is also on the run in Tokyo with case. What went wrong? Did the two girls.system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?
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|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81529421284|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)Laying Out the Bones|author=Neil LancasterKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for a run. The lawyer It was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed to pieces below one of those flash downpours that the cliffs at Dunnett HeadBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. Was it suicide In a gully, or did he - for some reason - climb over a human skeleton came to the stone wall surface and fall forensic testing proved the body to his death? Or was he pushed? On balancebe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it looked like an accident could have been a simple case of misadventure but then his 'accidentDI Matt Lockyer wasn' t convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was linked he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of others associated with him. Scott Paterson was released after a 'not-proven' verdict meant the Major Crimes Review Unit (that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigor's last clientcold cases to you and me) investigate.
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|isbn=09897153370571379559|title=Papa on the MoonThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Marco NorthFiona Williams|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Some frogs had gotten into The House of Broken Bricks'' is the wellstory of four people. Tess Hembry'' ''Walter stood waist-deep s roots are in the fragrant waterJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around himbut instead, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of she lives in the dogs leaned over house on the opening and barked down at the strange noise riverbank, built of the buckets broken bricks. Insubstantial as he filled them.it might look, it'' How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in s stood the form passage of interconnected short stories goes from succinct time, storms and laconic floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to wistful grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and musing, turning on a sixpenceto bring in sufficient money. And author Marco North They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, who has the most wonderful turn of phraserainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, starts as he means to go onmuch less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.
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|isbn=140639131X1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A Practical Present for Philippa PheasantD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Briony May SmithSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved to TobermoryIn Oxford, on the Isle there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of MullNigerian descent, in search of a new lifeBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. It was a bit D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of a change from Las VegasRyan, but the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs is not. He's not any of developing a social life - until she disappearedthose things. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (could it have been because Adrianareading's mother is obviously Latino?not ''really'' his thing) and Rob his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and Isabella Clarke called trackies. They're usually in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagerslime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. BrandonWell, Adrianayou's twin, was upset and surlyre not. Four-year-old Luna The two men are just knew that she missed her big sisterdifferent sides of the same policing coin. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnon's CaveSometimes the combination works brilliantly well. SheSometimes it'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killings problematic.
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|isbnauthor=1509889612Mosby Woods|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann CleevesA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=ItThe West isn's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to Holy Island. Some of them found mend this or even if mending it is the Only Connect best course transformative and they've been coming back of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for a reunion every five years since climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then. There , 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 man with precognition. Imagine the group each year as her husband, Ken, was one strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of the original teenagerscircumstances. Ken now has Alzheimer's and he's a shadow of the That man he used to would be. Philip Robson now a priestvaluable, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in the chapelhistory. Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much of the food: her deli is famous in the areaImagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1
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