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|authorisbn=Alexia Casale0241636604|title=Sing if you Can't Dance|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music The Trading Game: A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day-to-day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=0571373801}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find YouConfession|author=Jane CorryGary Stevenson
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|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father If you were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brotherto bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, Martin, has been convicted you're unlikely to think of their murdersomeone like Gary Stevenson. We first meet Nancy outside A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the courtEast End, after Martin receives a life sentencewhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' There was no posh public school on his CV - she's not but he had been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest London School of her lifeEconomics. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich Stevenson is bright - she inherited five million pounds from her mother extremely bright - and the papers are making the he has a facility with numbers which most of itus can only envy. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''He also realised that most rich bitch'' might not people expect poor people to be printed but is undoubtedly spokenstupid. 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.
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|isbn=15294136801035021803|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Martin WalkerC L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and BrunoIt's there twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to see the show with some friendsEnglish country village where she grew up. ItShe's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one back now because of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs a request for help from the scripther beloved aunt, Carole. LuckilyFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, his doctor is there dead and the man is whisked away in a helicoptercircumstances 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. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - Even though they were in business together as he's a senior government employeeantique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man who runs Frenchelon - or pursue the military has stepped inprofession she loved. One daughter lives nearby and anotherAfter the split, who lives she worked in Californiaa cafe, is flying in with some met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holidaylife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1529196388AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The TrialAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Rob RinderBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to by just about everyonecome.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, so I must confess that there was public uproar when he was murdered have been more than a few decades of technology in plain sight at the Old Baileymy lifetime. ThereI've kept up reasonably well with what's just one man in advantageous to me but I'm left with the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and feeling that it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murderall getting away from me. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron Some of Stag Court Chambers and it's Tayloris - frankly -Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent himquite frightening. KnightOf course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameronm reading someone who knows what they's recommendations to re talking about or the contrarylatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|author=Essie FoxSunny Singh|title=The FascinationHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers |summary= The Victorian era Hotel Arcadia is incredibly a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over-romanticised as by a setting for historical fiction (matched onlyterrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, perhapsthere is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, by the Second World War) which has often led hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to more than a few writers mishandling it. There's such a glut of media set in the era that care remotely for the hallmarks we've come to associate with it residents who are familiar to still alive in the point of being clichedhotel, hackneyed even. All this is simply he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. But despite thatcowed by events, something about it still grabs me – and something about this bookkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's description did happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as wellAbhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1914585526086154742X
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|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1529153298|title=Death in Fine ConditionThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=35|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fictionIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, and in particular a series called Sleuth Houndhonestly... ) She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, sometimes 'tweakingthey' themve been murdered, but to add value, in somewhat fraudulent wayshave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. One day Miv's upset because she discovers 's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the background of a photograph on move would mean leaving her drug dealer's living room wallbest friend, and so she sets about discovering where this collection isSharon, and how she can steal it! 'll do anything to prevent that. ItShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's a nextstopped talking -level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when the owner of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947to anyone.
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|isbn=15295079871398524085|title=The Repair Shop Craft BookHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop'Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. It's my goHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely -to programme when I want to be cheered upher husband, Alec, is not. After a hard dayShortly afterwards, thereEtty and Greg, find the body of Greg's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You seefather, Duncan Ackerley, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they holdriver. No expense appears It was an easy assumption for the police to be spared make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the desired resultguilt. Regular viewers know the experts The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and they're all brilliant at explaining wonder about what it is they're doingreally happened. But how did they start?
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|authorisbn=Nicole Jarvis1035906708|title=A Portrait in ShadowDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=''I want all We tend to think of Florence Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to know my name'' Cast out from RomeGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home December 1923 and where only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her future can thrive rather than stagnatefather changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. But as some as When she enters Florentine society was back in Athens - supposedly so that she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the selfcould get appropriate training for her voice -proclaimed guardians of she was raised under the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture made no secret of her preference for centuries and guard it above all else. To themher elder sister, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their societyJackie.|isbn=1803362340
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|isbnauthor=B0BVDC2VWHChristopher Edge|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William FrankBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=The village is isolated Lucas and poor. It's surrounded by his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a Witching Forest. And place that has the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicinesnickname of 'The Black Hole'. The black wood All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the forest provides heat and warmthmovie starts, roofs on homesthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even gallows, if neededimagine. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in But as they lurch from one film genre to the village and that next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the reason Volushkacinema, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated. and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
Rosevear, 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's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a 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 foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.
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|isbnauthor=024162343XJames Sherwood Metts|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam SangheraPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of Things have been a 'god'. Where was bit sticky for the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse stillEarthlings. Not too long after the end of WWIIAI and automation have been proceeding apace, I didnoften replacing jobs they't so much want re paid to learn about the British army's successes (do and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came other tasks that took time to be called 'the colonies' accomplish. Just as want they were beginning to dispute what right the army had get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to be there in the first placespend time, along came an awful pandemic. Looking backLife was pretty much shut down and, along with it, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked all the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|author=Amanda CraigMatthew Tree|title=Three GracesWe'll Never Know
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Few styles Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about being exceptional at any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day his artistic passions all failed miserably and capture it, crafting an image who had endless crises of the country as it stands in one particular momentself confidence. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary set himself high but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselvesachievable ambitions.|isbn= 140871468XB0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1448309379A G Slatter|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=David MarkThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=It'' There's something a part of a surprise me that wants to keep this just to find that you're deadmyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, particularly when youat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'re thinking that you're actually on Within a break with your wife and childrenremote mountain pass, far away from the world, but thatlies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's what happened to DS Aector McAvoy, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Whilst he was relieved Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to find that he be born into her family for generations and as such since she was stillyoung, officiallyher training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, aliveEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man whotown'd dashed from s leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her flat in way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the early hours of rare ability to communicate with the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with dead, putting her carat the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoyEllie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches's doppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aectorlegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=09571811671529900360|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian LewisGhost Orchid|author=Alan MarshallJonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=ArtCrime|summary=There are few positive things which can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but this timehe felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, in trying Sturgis was reluctant to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures ask for his help on the walls difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open- and was completely taken by -shut cases which didn't need the work help of Brian Lewisa psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and She knew that the print I wanted involvement was ‘not available’something that the man she loved needed. OhThe next case did look simple, dear - then though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a few doors down from remote property in Bel Air. He was the apartment, I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and a framed print it's not the Italian. But which of them was the picture I wanted.primary target?
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|authorisbn=Simon Fox1529395224|title=DeadlockLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his shift footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a secret place, vet and join was convinced this was the job for him on the run. They get togetherBefore long, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his father dream since he was determined a child. If anything, he'd wanted to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of be a whole heap of questionsprofessional footballer.|isbn=1839944420
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|authorisbn=Shalini Boland0861541774|title=The Silent BrideA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=34|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Alice DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and Seth are former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a match made short holiday in heavenSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and utter husband-materialhe killed a Ghurka. She is all Initially, he could possibly want in faced a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and man. Now he could be facing the wedding is planned and setdeath penalty. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alicewouldn's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man t help Danny at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wifeall.|isbn=1662507089
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|author=Mark EdwardsAlexander McCall Smith|title=Keep Her SecretThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= Matthew The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and Helena are operating as an alternative to all the online apps in Icelandproviding a more personal, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first mettailored service. The alien-landscape of Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the lava fields and black beaches business, as Ness is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph planning to take a trip to Canada to encapsulate the joy she get away for a while. Katie is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge coming out of a ravine gives way break up with a bad boyfriend, and Helena finds herself clinging so jumps at the chance to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop come home to certain death belowEdinburgh. Convinced she is going And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to diean Edinburgh we already love, Helena must purge herself of thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panickedIsabel Dalhousie novels, cryptic declaration but with some new characters who quickly begin to Matthewcharm. Just moments later their heroicKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and frankly there's always her very well preparedhelpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.lend a hand…|isbn=166250893X1846976596
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|isbn=B0BYF82CXT0811771741|title=Semi-DetachedInstaKnits for Baby|author=Deborah StoneMelissa Leapman
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|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's 'Bill and Amanda are living in 'InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a semicollection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits -detached houseothers are of the 'long, stuck cosy afternoons in a depressing rut front of boredom and disappointmentthe fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, when Terry and Fiona – glamorousfive to ten hours, successful ten to twenty hours and very much in love – move in next doormore than twenty hours. Despite their different outlooks on life, All the couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seemsprojects are attractive, modern and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedyuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'but that's me being picky.
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|isbnauthor=1787636003Dean Koontz|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie BishopBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the islandhis house gets trashed. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she wasOh, perhapsand someone has delivered a really weird, naive, so when thirty-four-yeardisturbing coffin-old Alistair Wright started sized object to take an interest in herhis home, she and it's possible that whoever or whatever was flattered rather than waryinside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. It was quite He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a while before he made any sort of physical approach bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to her and by that time she was obsessed by help himsince Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Alistair worked for Henry TaylorSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partiedHarper (a waitress 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=1529135389Adam Stower|title=The Fall|author=Gilly MacmillanMurray and Bun
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barntwo. TheyBut he'd not s a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been in turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some regular back garden, but into a world of them fought with each other frightening adventure and didn't work as reliably as they shouldwhiffs. It had all come about through This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a ten-million-pound lottery win troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and they were still getting used he'll have to having do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' 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 that sort the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of moneyPortland, too. EventuallyOregon, Nicole found Tom dead in cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the swimming pool with a wound to his head.covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Alan Parks1529431735|title=To Die in JuneThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What first seems like It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man more surprising. He'd been exiled on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister Costa del Sol as another body is discovered, and then anothera wanted drug smuggler for a decade. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so The return has come about because he's had a letter from his own father is a down-andex-out alcoholic, with no fixed abodewife, saying that she's ill and he has been for yearshasn't long to live. At the same time as facing these possible murdersIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Harry is also dealing with a move stripped to his underwear and sent to a different police station, and watery grave in the arrival there boot of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be foundstolen Ford Sierra. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going onIs it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?|isbn=1805300784
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|author=Laura NoakesAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the home she lives wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in is for the girls to just be named by evening a helper at the number they correspond to in the ledger, dessert cafe his gran owns and they're all Unfortunates – young people runs. Eli lives with disabilitieshis lovely gran, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upontoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. But Cosima bears A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the tag as titular race, a surname because nothing else seems globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to be known about where she came from, as navigate the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family world in the outside worldcompany of a magical beast. During This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a daring escapade bad incident at the eatery leads to steal some posh cakes a confession from the kitchen one afternoongran, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems Eli knows his only hope is to want dare to adopt all enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the girls for only thing to possibly save his Institutegran. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=00085790590571382231
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|authorisbn=Thomas D Lee178763681X|title=Perilous TimesKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=34|genre= FantasyCrime|summary= Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow''Hate is got the path of least resistanceimpression that he'' Set in d be at the near-distant futureschool to assist Paul, in who had a world on the verge of climate collapsebroken arm, Britain is in great perilbut it didn't turn out that way. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save teaching - and the day and rescue what little remainsproblems - are all his own. What no The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer police consider that person to be the callprime suspect.|isbn=0356518523
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|author=Madelaine LucasSarah Marsh|title=Thirst for SaltA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be After a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from bout of scarlet fever as a retrospective viewchild, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined Ellen Lark loses herhearing. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with Suddenly plunged into a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop world of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming naturesilence, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered everything about her irrevocablylife changes.|isbn=0861546490}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529382823|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly Living in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemmatime when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, reckons that Pete Ellen is going sent to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and school where she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointedis taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. They've not From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been a couple for that long teaching the deaf and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him using a bit bettersystem called Visible Speech. MeanwhileAt the same time, Gemma Bell is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementiaworking on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. It's going to be good, isn't it?|isbn=1035401614
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|authorisbn=Lex Croucher1803816759|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson
|rating=4
|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Who knew It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestlyruns everything, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this storymaking life easier for many, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tinyriots start to spread. Finally, much Joe gets to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is in love with Bridget (assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the kingdom's only female knight) one trying to save Suki - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing Dylan, a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant alliesBritish superfan and tech nerd, creating is also on the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentscase. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, What went wrong? Did the system fail or are they destined to live a lie their whole liveswas it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?|isbn=1526651793
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|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1529421284|title=One Puzzling AfternoonLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=84 year old Edie has lived It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in the same small town for almost her whole lifea heatwave. In a gully, but now she is facing a move as her son wants human skeleton came to move to another house the surface and bring Edie forensic testing proved the body to live with his familybe Lee Geary, as Edie is starting to lose her memorywho had disappeared nine years earlier. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years agoHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, and the worry that there was so it could have been a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth simple case of what happened all that time agomisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high streetGeary was a townie, just as she so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets suicide of memories coming back Holly Gilbert and to hertwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more Lockyer and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover DC Gemma Broad of the truth about LucyMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's disappearance before her move, cold cases to you and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250me) investigate.
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|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)0571379559|title=Thirty Days The House of DarknessBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers Literary Fiction|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsfour people. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fairTess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she flukes her way into a public argument with lives in the latest hot shot in house on the world riverbank, built of crime fictionbroken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, saying heit's populist trash stood the passage of time, storms and only writing what anyone could writefloods. Cue Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the bet that she cannot live up delivery rounds - and to that accusationbring in sufficient money. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to IcelandThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it allthe rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Just on the point of despairing – about her writingPeople don't believe that they're related, about the people much less twins and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that the landladyshe's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615his nanny.
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|isbn=18045456001529425867|title=The MonkLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Tim SullivanSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The body in the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and dumped in a ditchfather of Ryan, is not. He'd been savagely beatens not any of those things. It He's white, originated from a while before D S George Cross trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominictrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. HeYou might wonder if you'd been missing re being introduced to a police procedural written for a few days and certainly hadnlaughs. Well, you't asked permission to leave his abbeyre not. As The two men are just different sides of the team gradually unpick same policing coin. Sometimes the monk's past it becomes clear that he'd been combination works brilliantly well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and friend. HeSometimes it'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faiths problematic. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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|author=Lauren BravoMosby Woods|title=PrelovedA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary= Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-my-God-IThe West isn'm-nearly-fortyt the dominant force it once was. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue Nobody in the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a mid-life crisis. Catharsis West is key and Gwen has decided now quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the time to take back her life'|isbn=1398510629}}{{Frontpage|author=Cath Howe|title=My Life on Fire|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ren's family home is destroyed in a firebest course of action. Governments are flailing. SheA war here, her parents, and her little brother lose everythinga push for climate action there. She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and now she A feeling that nobody is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anythingin actual charge. Imagine then, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eatthere was a man with precognition. When she goes back to school she discovers that Imagine the class are doing strategic advantage in this asset; a special art project, creating boxes man who can tell you what will happen given any set of their livescircumstances. That man would be valuable, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to put right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in a box, and so she finds herself starting to steal thingshistory. Small thingsImagine then, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much alreadythis man loses this ability. But what will happen What would governments do to her if someone finds out what she is doingget it back?|isbn=1839942835B0C9SNG8R1
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