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|isbn=B0BHR8KWSK0241636604|title=DukkhaThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Martin HydeGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorAutobiography|summary=Sam wakes If you were to bring up chained an image of a city banker in a basementyour mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. He rails against A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his captor background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and the injustice of . There was no posh public school on his imprisonment? Why? ''Why?'' But CV - but he had been to the London School of course, he knows whyEconomics. Sam Stevenson is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down bright - extremely bright - and dirty life by going to he has a retreat and emerging as a neophyte Buddhist monkfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Recently returning He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to join the community in be stupid. It was his old neighbourhoodability at what was, he knew his past would be hard to escape but he hadn't imagined it exploding essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into this new life in quite such permanent employment as a violent fashiontrader.
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|isbn=B09XWSXSKY1035021803|title=Maestro Orpheus and the World ClockThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Robert Penee and Joanne GrodzinskiC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldnIt't sleeps twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. A tune, rather like the ticking She's back now because of a clock was playing over and over in his mindrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadnFreya't really wanted to come; after all, hes former mentor and Carole's ten now close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and all those old clocks don't appeal the circumstances seem suspicious, to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell say the timeleast. And time isn't good for anything...'' And that Arthur was the reason why he was looking at Freya had not been back to the clock beside the bedvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the clock chimed only six timesprofession she loved. There After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was nothing for it but to go murdered) and Freya and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1399702289AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Louise PennyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=After a harsh winter, the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of spring. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québec. Gamache had offered help to a young woman after the murder of her mother: he'd been less certain about her charismatic brother. For Jean-Guy, it had always been the other way around. Now they're both in the village and neither can fathom what's happening. Armand will soon find that they're not just in Three Pines but in his home and in his life.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3756228711|title=CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer|rating=4|genre=History|summary=''The history Opening up new ways of thinking about the development shape of IT could fill books of several hundred pagesthings to come.''
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|isbnauthor=1529356660Sunny Singh|title=The Sanctuary|author=Emma HaughtonHotel Arcadia
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|genre=Thrillers|summary=It was The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the quiet which woke Zoey up - orterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, ratherthere is Sam, the absence of the noise which was a constant in New York. Here it was silent wartime photographer and Abhi, the heat was overwhelminghotel manager. When she looked out of As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the window all she could see was residents who are still alive in the desert. How did she get here? Zoey was house-sitting for Uncle Dan hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and his two Manx cats and she remembered that she'd been keeps on venturing out with Franny and Rocco last night. She knew that she'd had quite a lot of her room to drink but how could she have got try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the desert from New York? She had no memory of getting on a plane but phone, their friendship grows as she thought back, a memory of sirens, flashing lights Abhi tries to help her keep safe and of being pushed into a car snagged on they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the edge of her mindterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Christopher Golden1529153298|title=Road The List of BonesSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=3.5|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the It'Road of Bones'… the R504s 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia(A woman? I mean, ithonestly...) She's not what's one of the worldworrying Miv's most notorious routesfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. For months of the year itWell, they's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding itve been murdered, while its but to have 'springdisappeared' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I dondoesn't think google streetview updates it very oftensound quite so frightening. Built Miv's upset because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted she's overheard that her father wants to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it coversmove the family 'Down South'. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'TeigWhen you' Teiglandre from Yorkshire, Down South is a film-makerfrightening, doing a recce with his cameraman buddyforeign place, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projectsbest avoided. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guideFor Miv, gain the company of a local beautymove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and fetch up at the guideshe's childhood villagell do anything to prevent that. And She's not worried about the dangers or thather Mum's where things start stopped talking - to go awry…|isbn=1803361476anyone.
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|isbn=18387761841398524085|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=S J BennettNicci French
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|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''The Queens fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, like the sunrise Paul and Ollie and the tidesher daughter, was generally a reliable way of marking timeEtty.'' It seemed to begin as a cold. Hardly surprisingare all worried but - strangely - her husband, reallyAlec, as Prince Philip had been suffering for a couple of days but seemed to be getting betteris not. HopefullyShortly afterwards, the Queen thoughtEtty and Greg, her cold would go find the same way. Shebody of Greg'd probably caught it from one of the great-grandchildren. Unfortunatelys father, Duncan Ackerley, it didn't get better and when in the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown fluriver. She and It was an easy assumption for the Duke were due to go police to Sandringham by train make that day but Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the doctor put his foot downguilt. HeThe Salter children are not convinced but there'd have preferred that the queen have a few days' bed rest before venturing out s little else they can do but had to be satisfied get on with the thought that they'd go by helicopter the following day. It was annoying: people would be ready for her today their lives and Her Majesty did not like to disappointwonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Peter Owen Jones1035906708|title=Conversations with NatureDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Spirituality and ReligionGeneral Fiction|summary= One We tend to think of the comments made Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when I she was offered this beautiful book for review thirteen. Her original surname was that Kalogeropoulos but her father changed itto 's not very long. Having read the book twice over, ICallas'm brought back inescapably to make it more manageable in the Spanish proverb that Life may be short, but it is broadStates. In this case I'm brought to the idea When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the length Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of life is not the point; the point is its depthher preference for her elder sister, Jackie. Peter Owen Jones dives deep.|isbn=1912992418
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|isbnauthor=1916459943Christopher Edge|title=Squeakily Baby|author=Beth WebbBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Much as mothers love Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their babieslocal cinema, therea place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or wonAll big movie fans, they't - go re looking forward to sleep: insteadlots 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, he just lies on his blanket and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn''wails''t even imagine. The sea offers But as they lurch from one film genre to help. the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? It rocks Baby gently and Will they ever get back to the waves sing ''hushcinema, hushand to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''. Think I can hear the song of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectlysea. The mermaids join call of the deep, the answering beat in - my heart.''la lou Rosevear, la lay.a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.Mira, 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' And for s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a moment it seems wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to have worked as Baby closes his eyesguide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly With only nine days to unearth whatmight save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's going territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to happen nextsave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|author=Robin StevensJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Ministry of Unladylike ActivityPlanet Storyland
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=May Wong is Things have been a long way from her family in Hong Kongbit sticky for the Earthlings. She’s stuck in her school, DeepdeanAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and desperate other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get away, and do something useful used to help end the war all this technological change and starting to get home. She just knows that she would make the perfect spy! And when she finds herself turned away by the Ministrythink of other, she takes matters into her own handsnew ways to spend time, along with a boy she meets outside the Ministry, Ericcame an awful pandemic. They both go undercover in a large country houseLife was pretty much shut down and, pretending to be evacueesalong with it, in an attempt to prove that someone there is passing secrets to all the Nazis. But there is a lot more going many daily social interactions on in Elysium Hall than either them have imagined, and suddenly which they find themselves in the middle of a murder scene, with even more to try to unravel and solvedepend so heavily.|isbn=02414298621736128426
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|isbnauthor=1919635017Matthew Tree|title=A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But IWe'll answer the first one: for his grandmother...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)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
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|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
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|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
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|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 KratochvilaMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryLiterary Fiction|summary=This is probably one of the most unusual baking books ICan you make a ''Yo birthing person've encountered. It's built around 99 recipes for breadsjoke? And if you could, brioches and pastries but is 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 question should you make it? Or is the basics - the equipment question if you'll need (there's nothing extravagant or indulgent) and the ingredientsdid, where the author would it land? The catch is particular. You might not have realised that different salts can change the flavour and sensation on answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the tongue city of the finished product butPortland, apparentlyOregon, they do.cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Andrew Givler1529431735|title=Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'Matt has a terrible lifereturn all the more surprising. Seriously—it He's awful. It is so bad that Dan d been exiled on the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of Costa del Sol as a blissful life in exchange wanted drug smuggler for his soula decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she' Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldns ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really any sympathy when Hopkins is a terrible salesman. He never hits abducted, stripped to his targets underwear and, when he fails sent to get even Matt to sign on a watery grave in the dotted line, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signatureboot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=1958204021 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|author=Greg James Alex Bell and Chris SmithTim McDonagh|title=Super GhostThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Paragon City has been lucky to have Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the great Doctor Extraordinarywondrous library we start by visiting with him, their very own superhero taking care of themand in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. Whenever A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the evil Captain Chaos has come up with another cunning plan (usually involving titular race, a giant robot of some description) Doctor Extraordinary has been there globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to thwart her mischief and save navigate the world in the daycompany of a magical beast. But one day This has made the race anathema to the Doctor and pair – but when a bad incident at the Captain are trapped together inside eatery leads to a giant robot that then explodesconfession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, and with the sole aim the prize of magic at the hero and end – the villain are no moreonly thing to possibly save his gran. Or are they…?|isbn=02414705360571382231
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|isbn=B0B7289HKQ178763681X|title=Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of AmericaKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Kari LoyaOrlando Murrin
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|genre=TravelCrime|summary=Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the 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) wanted to spend some time with his father of getting both men and the period between two jobs seemed like a good time women to do itwhat he wanted. The decision was made Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktownassist Paul, Virginia to Astoriawho had a broken arm, Oregon but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all 4250 miles of it - in 2015his own. They had 73 days The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this turn up as more of a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it ondead. Merv Loya Unfortunately, he was 75 years old the person who discovered the body and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer'severyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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|author=Christopher BowdenSarah Marsh|title=Mr MagentaA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Christopher Bowden's latest novel is After a patient untangling bout of scarlet fever as a seemingly ordinary woman's lifechild, carried out by Ellen Lark loses her nephew after she has diedhearing. The aunt who always provided Suddenly plunged into a safe harbour and world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a little bit time when the use of indulgence sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a young nephew had had school where she is taught to 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 much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and it seems to him an obligation to find it all outEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW1035401614
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|isbn=17395939011803816759|title=22 Ideas About The FutureUnravelling|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)Will Gibson|rating=54
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=It''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones s 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandmapeaceful New York City.'' I've got Joe longs for a couple bit of confessions adventure and to makeget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and then forget to return riots start to the bookspread. There's got to be a very compelling hook Finally, Joe gets to keep me engageddo some real policing. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's In the technology which takes centre stage along with aftermath of the world-buildingrioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. ItJoe isn's human beings who fascinate me: t the technology only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the world scape are purely incidentalcase. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short storiesWhat went wrong? Well, I loved Did the system fail or was it. hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?
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|isbn=14059511841529421284|title=The Girls Who DisappearedLaying Out the Bones|author=Claire DouglasKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in November 1998a heatwave. In a gully, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after a night outhuman skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. As she passed through the darkly-wooded DevilHe's Corridord been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a figure appeared in townie, so what was 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 roadtime. Olivia swerved Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to avoid him you and me) investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379559|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the car smashed into a tree, leaving her trappedstory of four people. When Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she regained consciousness her three friends had disappearedlives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Ralph MiddletonInsubstantial as it might look, who lived in it's stood the woods helped her before the police passage of time, storms and ambulance arrivedfloods. But what had happened Her husband, Richard, struggles to Sally Thornegrow his vegetables, Tamsin Cole to complete the delivery rounds - and Hetty Riding? to bring in sufficient money. Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the Stafferbury area of Wiltshirerainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. It was thought of as AveburyPeople 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 poor relationhis nanny.
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|isbn=39496660791529425867|title=NoemaLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Dael AkkermanSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=''This is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years agoIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins.'' Maya Raymond Wilkins is a young girl living in a hunter-gatherer village during the Mesolithic eraof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Climate change is occurring D I Ryan Wilkins, the Sea son of Grass encroaches further Ryan and further into Mayafather of Ryan, is not. He's forest homenot any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and food is becoming more his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and more scarcetrackies. What They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to do? Can the law givers in the federation a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets same policing coin. Sometimes the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions? combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|isbnauthor=194241028XMosby Woods|title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael PronkoA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=''You canThe West isn't put 'good at golf' on your tombstone, can you?'' When we meet Patrick Walsh he's outside his family's home the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the Azabu district of Tokyo, hoping that his key will still work but prepared West is quite sure how to break in mend this or even if mending it doesn'tis the best course of action. Governments are flailing. He's there to remove his daughters, Jenna and KiriA war here, and take them back to Honolulu. It's a quick day trip, with just one purpose in mind. Patrick's employed by Nine Dragons Wealth Management and push for the past year, he's been working in Wyoming because the privacy laws climate action there are conducive to the business he's . A feeling that nobody is inactual charge. His wifeImagine then, Miyuki, hasn't been in Wyoming there was a man with him and is precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in the process this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of divorcing him after photographs sent to her anonymously suggested that Patrick had not been faithful to hercircumstances. Patrick's plan didn't work out and he finds himself on That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the run most valuable asset in Tokyo with the two girlshistory. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1
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