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|authorisbn=Tania Unsworth0241636604|title=Nowhere IslandThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Meet GilIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the care system – A hoodie and jeans replaces the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – pin-stripe suit and find a home for himself. He his background is en route to yet another fostererthe East End, when where he jumps into an anonymous carwas familiar with violence, poverty and lets it ride him to his futureinjustice. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals There was no posh public school on his one bag of belongings – CV - but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between he had been to the two directions London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to provide for their safety and seclusionbe stupid. ThemIt was his ability at what was, essentially, and a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfullycard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combineEventually, or if this is one place where life turned into permanent employment as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=1804540080a trader.
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|isbn=00085300251035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder in the Family|author=Cara HunterC L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the body English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her stepfather, Luke Ryderbeloved aunt, in the garden of their West London homeCarole. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if heFreya's former mentor and Carole'd slipped down s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the steps but circumstances seem suspicious, to say the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberateleast. Twenty years later, no one has Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been charged with his murder and it's now back to the subject of ''Infamous''village: Arthur, she feels, a true-crime showlet her down badly. A group of experts Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has been brought together not felt able to review be near the evidence and to take man or pursue the investigation furtherprofession she loved. More to After the pointsplit, she worked in a cafe, they're going to do this live met and married James (on camerathe rebound from the love of her life, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - who was murdered) and Freya and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewingJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover
|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''
I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|author=Judith EagleSunny Singh|title=The Stolen SongbirdHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Caro's mother, The Hotel Arcadia is a world-famous whistler, luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missingsuddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Her other motherHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, Ronniekilling everyone on site, there is having Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to go up North try to take care of her sister remotely for the residents who is unwell. So are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who is going to look after Caro? Sent refuses to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despisesbe cowed by events, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All keeps on venturing out of her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment room to practise her gymnastics are brought try to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian ladycapture what's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there toohappened through her photography. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mysteryAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside Abhi tries to help her mum's old suitcase, keep safe and all across London a fearsome gang called they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising peopleterrorists. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=0571363148086154742X
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|isbn=15291959771529153298|title=None The List of this is TrueSuspicious Things|author=Lisa JewellJennie Godfrey
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=On her 45th birthdayIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fairhonestly... ) She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that 's not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Marywhat's hospital. Thatworrying Miv's where the similarities endfamily, though: Alix. Women have been disappearing. Well, with her husbandthey've been murdered, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst theybut to have 'disappeared' doesn're not t sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she'exactlys overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South' rowdy, they. When you're enjoying themselvesfrom Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. JosieFor Miv, on the other handmove would mean leaving her best friend, holds her handbag close Sharon, and she'll do anything to her tummy and you get the sense prevent that Walter's not too happy. HeShe's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is Josieworried about the dangers or that her Mum's birthday after allstopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=18033651101398524085|authortitle=Chuck TingleHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|titleauthor=Camp DamascusNicci French|rating=3.5|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Love is love; although humans continue to be confused by this sentimentCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Gay conversion therapy is ongoing. The UK government ruled out plans to make it a crime Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie andher daughter, in the US, nearly 700 000 adults have received itEtty. Although it is both a secular and a religious prejudiceare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Chuck TingleAlec, in his new horroris not. Shortly afterwards, ''Camp Damascus''Etty and Greg, peels back find the skin body of Christian Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn'pray t stand the gay awayguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there'' camps to show the reader the horror lurking withins little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=18031363831035906708|title=Tin SoldiersDiva|author=David ChadwickDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something We tend to think of a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took placeMaria Callas as Greek, but an act of heroism leading she was born to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and disgrace seems only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to be 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the consensusStates. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest 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, as he always doesJackie.
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|isbnauthor=B0C7J9D21BChristopher Edge|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J LewisBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet our hero, Lucas and his name is Ettore and he lives friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The House Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of Beautiful Swallows. exciting films, and many, many snacks! Idyllic However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this might soundnew film format is very different, it's a bordello and Ettorethey are swept up into an adventure they couldn's mother died when he was bornt even imagine. He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult But as they lurch from one film genre to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work next, can they figure out and bastards are considered bad luck what on earth is going on fishing boats. ? Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - Will they ever get back to the cinema, and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|author=Dean KoontzRachel Greenlaw|title=After DeathCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary= Michael Mace''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, Head of Securitythe answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, at a top secret biological research facilityremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is among 55 people one of the seven who die swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a virus is released in trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in bargain with a makeshift mortuarywreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, covered she sets off in plastic, he has search of a sense family secret that something verylies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, very bad has happened 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 him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around stop at nothing to save the shrouded bodies future of his dead friends her home and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymorethe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=16625004670008664730}}
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|author=Jamie LittlerJames Sherwood Metts|title=ArkspirePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Two sisters, Juniper Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apartautomation have been proceeding apace, are growing often replacing jobs they're paid to be chalk do and cheeseother tasks that took time to accomplish. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting closer Just as they were beginning to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even get used to become the child in line all this technological change and starting to inherit the power think of the Watcherother, the closest new ways to a ruler the district hasspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and one of , along with it, all the five major victors in said earlier warmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=02415861431736128426
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|author=Thiago de MoraesMatthew Tree|title=Old Gods New TricksWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapesTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, larks a drunk and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess chronic underachiever whose dreams of nuisance. But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even exceptional at any of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, his artistic passions all failed miserably and all that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power who had endless crises of power from usself confidence. And so she begins her epic quest, So Tim applied himself to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giantshis studies, half-gods cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and so on known as the trickstersset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=178845295XB0CVFXPGP8
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|author=Alexia CasaleA G Slatter|title=Sing if you Can't DanceThe Briar Book of the Dead
|rating=5
|genre=TeensFantasy|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 thatThere's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle a part of a dance performance me that was going wants to keep this just to change her lifemyself for however long I can. But she comes back fightingThis secret magic of my own, all mine, desperate at last. I just want to avoid enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the pity staresworld, and desperate to get back to lies Silverton; a life thattown under the protection of the Briar's , a family of witches 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 normal such since she was young, her training as she can possibly managea steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. Meanwhile thereWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's a new (cute!) boy in schoolleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her music A Level performance piece to try to sort outway left, right and just centre, Ellie uncovers the day-rare ability to-day traumas of all communicate with the challenges dead, putting her body continues at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to throw at her another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to navigate. So even though she cando as the Briar witches't dance anymorelegacy, might she be able everything they have sacrificed to sing her way through instead?survive, is under threat.|isbn=05713738011803364548
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|authorisbn=Helen Peters1529900360|title=Friends and TraitorsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=34|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=EnglandIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, WW2Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Two young girls are new at His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the country pile called Stanbrookhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. One is NancyFinally, destined to be in service all her life it seemswas Robin, like the female generations before herDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school She knew that the involvement was something that has been removed there away from bomber flight-pathsthe man she loved needed. The girls are chalk and cheesenext case did look simple, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it sothough. But something is amiss, and first separately and then Two lovers were murdered in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be swimming pool of a rum 'unremote property in Bel Air. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is made of meetings with Germans, married to an extremely rich man and it's not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attackedthe Italian. But surely which of them was the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhandprimary target?|isbn=1788004647
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|isbn=02419961041529395224|title=Coming to Find YouLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Jane CorrySion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Nancy's mother and step-Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse was a GP and her step-brotherRowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside particularly when he considered the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her strain that she's received a 'silent sentence' being on- shecall put on his father's not been found guilty life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of anything but will have to live doing work experience with what happened a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for the rest of her lifehim. Of courseBefore long, ithe was at Liverpool University. It hadn's made worse because Nancy's rich t - she inherited five million pounds from her mother as with so many students - and the papers are making the most of itbeen his dream since he was a child. If anything, he''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not d wanted to be printed but is undoubtedly spokena professional footballer.
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|isbn=15294136800861541774|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief Nye of Police Novel)Pheasants|author=Martin WalkerSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|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 BrunoDCI Domenic Jejeune's there close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to see the show meet up with some friendsan old ally, Guy Trueman. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when armed with a knife - and he departs from the scriptkilled a Ghurka. LuckilyInitially, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in he faced a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances charge of survival manslaughter but - as evidence came to light that suggested that he's a senior government employee, might have planned to murder the man who runs Frenchelon - . Now he could be facing the military has stepped indeath penalty. One daughter lives nearby Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her fatherwouldn's friends for a pre-arranged holidayt help Danny at all.
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|isbnauthor=1529196388Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Trial|author=Rob RinderPerfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Grant Cliveden was The Perfect Passion Company is a hero: dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a policeman who stood trip to Canada to get away for all that was good and honest and looked a while. Katie is coming out of a break up to by just about everyonewith a bad boyfriend, and so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight jumps at the Old Baileychance to come home to Edinburgh. There's just one man in And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in courtIsabel Dalhousie novels, charged but with Cliveden's murdersome new characters who quickly begin to charm. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and itthere's Taylor-Cameron always her very helpful (and his pupilrather handsome) neighbour, Adam GreenWilliam, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn=Essie Fox0811771741|title=The FascinationInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=Historical FictionCrafts|summary= The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led collection of knits from toys to more than a few writers mishandling itblankets. There Some will be quick knits - others are of the 's such a glut long, cosy afternoons in front of media set in the era that fire' variety. The projects are divided by the hallmarks wetime they've come ll take to associate with it are familiar complete - less than five hours, five to the point of being clichedten hours, hackneyed eventen to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All this is simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. But despite thatthe projects are attractive, something about it still grabs me – modern and something useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about this book'social-media-worthy projects' but that's description did as wellme being picky.|isbn=1914585526
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|author=Andrew CartmelDean Koontz|title=Death in Fine ConditionThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=Cordelia Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really loves classic paperback crime fictionweird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and in particular it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a series called Sleuth Houndnice person. A really nice person. She spends her time hunting So fortunately for Benny it turns out copies that she can sell on for profitthe delivery to his house is a new friend, sometimes 'tweaking' thema bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to add value, in somewhat fraudulent wayshelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. One day she discovers a near perfect collection Spike is going to take care of these books after seeing them in the background Benny, and will certainly take care of a photograph on her drug dealerBenny's living room wallenemies, and so she sets about discovering where this collection isif he, Benny, and how she can steal it! ItHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's a next-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?wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=17890989471662500491
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|isbnauthor=1529507987Adam Stower|title=The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books Murray and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Bun
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers |summary=I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want Murray is supposed to be cheered up. After a hard dayhumble, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You seetidy and friendly cat, the value one who is in what these possessions are worth able to the people who own them sleep and eat and eat and sleep and , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the memories they holdtwo. No expense appears to be spared But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the experts spend as much time catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and effort as is required to achieve the desired resultwhiffs. Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is theyexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he're doing. But how did they start?ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|authorisbn=Nicole JarvisB0C47LV1PC|title=A Portrait in ShadowFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''I want all of Florence to know my nameYo 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 the answer for both could well be.... no.
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|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH1529431735|title=The Grave ListenersWinter Visitor|author=William FrankJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching ForestFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. And He'd been exiled on the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicinesCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homesreturn has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and even gallows, if neededhasn't long to live. The fear of being buried alive It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is an existential superstition abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout boot of a man is toleratedstolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=024162343XAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam SangheraThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=I was Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of evening a 'god'helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Where was Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse stillfamily. Not too long after the end of WWIIA few short years ago, I didnEli't so much want s parents were both lost to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failurestitular race, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to dispute what right navigate the army had to be there world in the first placecompany of a magical beast. Looking back, I still believe I was right - This has made the race anathema to the pair – but I regret that I lacked when a bad incident at the maturity eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to approach 'dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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|authorisbn=Amanda Craig178763681X|title=Three GracesKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Few styles 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 contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novelgetting both men and women to do what he wanted. There Paul ''s something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of somehow'' got the atmosphere of impression that he'd be at the day and capture itschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, crafting an image of the country as but it stands in one particular momentdidn't turn out that way. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with The teaching - and the genre of contemporary social fiction at this pointproblems - are all his own. She has such a gift The one thing he hadn't expected was for weaving someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the ongoing issues of person who discovered the day into body and everyone knows that the lives of her characters in a way police consider that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselvesperson to be the prime suspect.|isbn= 140871468X
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|isbnauthor=1448309379Sarah Marsh|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=David MarkA Sign of Her Own
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's something After a bout of scarlet fever as a surprise to find that you're deadchild, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on a break with your wife and children, but that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoyEllen Lark loses her hearing. Whilst he was relieved to find that he was stillSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, officially, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoaheverything about her life changes. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat Living in a time when the early hours use of the morning when it sign language was obvious that someone was tampering with her carseen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, was notbut physically restrained from signing. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindlyusing a system called Visible Speech. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet At the same time, Bell is working on Aectorother inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614
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|isbn=09571811671803816759|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian LewisUnravelling|author=Alan MarshallWill Gibson|rating=54|genre=ArtScience Fiction|summary=There are few positive things which can be said about It's 2038 and Joe is a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a couple bit of pictures on adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the walls - AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and was completely taken by riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the work aftermath of Brian Lewisthe rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. I searched online and could Joe isn't the only find ‘used’ versions of this book and the print I wanted was ‘not available’. Oh, dear one trying to save Suki - then a few doors down from the apartmentDylan, I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - British superfan and a framed print of tech nerd, is also on the picture I wantedcase.What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?
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|authorisbn=Simon Fox1529421284|title=DeadlockLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Late It was one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on of those flash downpours that the forceBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and then suddenly rings Archieforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, demanding he fetch something from who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a secret placeknown drug user and had learning disabilities, and join him on the runso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. They get togetherGeary was a townie, but barely begin so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to smell the whiff suicide of Southern trains when Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the father is arrested, leaving Archie on time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to keep away from his colleagues, you and the bearer of a whole heap of questionsme) investigate.|isbn=1839944420
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|authorisbn=Shalini Boland0571379559|title=The Silent BrideHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=35|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Alice and Seth ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are a match made in heavenJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. He is everything she has been searching for; handsomeInsubstantial as it might look, accomplished, cleverit's stood the passage of time, funny; total storms and utter husband-materialfloods. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautifulHer husband, Richard, successfulstruggles to grow his vegetables, confident… and so to complete the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice delivery rounds - and the wedding is planned and setto bring in sufficient money. When the muchThey have twin boys -anticipated day arrivesSonny and Max, Alice is walked down the aisle by her rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day much less twins and there's an assumption when Seth turns to face Max is out with his approaching bride, Alicemother that she's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wifenanny.|isbn=1662507089
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|authorisbn=Mark Edwards1529425867|title=Keep Her SecretLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Matthew and Helena In Oxford, there are in Icelandtwo D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first metBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. The alien-landscape D I Ryan Wilkins, son of the lava fields Ryan and black beaches father of Ryan, is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this momentnot. He's not any of those things. He's white, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of originated from a ravine gives way trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap his wardrobe consists mainly of her rucksack between her shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a 500 foot drop to certain death belowpolice procedural written for laughs. Convinced she is going to dieWell, Helena must purge herself you're not. The two men are just different sides of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthewsame policing coin. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X Sometimes it's problematic.
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|isbnauthor=B0BYF82CXTMosby Woods|title=Semi-Detached|author=Deborah StoneA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=The West isn''Bill and Amanda are living t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next dooraction. Despite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairsGovernments are flailing. But all is not what it seemsA war here, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated a push for tragedyclimate action there.''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen A feeling that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the islandnobody is in actual charge. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in herImagine then, she there was flattered rather than warya man with precognition. It was quite Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a while before he made man who can tell you what will happen given any sort set of physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by himcircumstances. Alistair worked for Henry TaylorThat man would be valuable, looking after his interests on right? Perhaps the island and most valuable asset in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partiedhistory. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1
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