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|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=T KingfisherGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=ThornhedgeThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=''You had a right Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to retake your placecome.''
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|isbnauthor= B0CCCVRSGXSunny Singh|title=Stories 2|author=Richard F WalkerHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Short StoriesThrillers |summary= This The Hotel Arcadia is Richard F Walker's second volume of short storiesa luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. There Hiding from the terrorists who are thirteen in all rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and I took something from each of themAbhi, the hotel manager. There isn't a single one that doesn't deserve As Abhi continues to try to be among care remotely for the others or brings down residents who are still alive in the overall quality. It can hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be tricky cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to review short stories without giving too much awaycapture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, so I'll just pick two their friendship grows as Abhi tries to talk about help her keep safe and I think they give a general flavourboth wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=17876366071529153298|title=The TrapList of Suspicious Things|author=Catherine Ryan HowardJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get homeWomen have been disappearing. Some are lucky and manage Well, they've been murdered, but to get one of the few taxis availablehave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Others squash onto the night bus Miv's upset because she's overheard that will only go as far as one of her father wants to move the outlying villagesfamily 'Down South'. The woman all regret the 'taxi problemWhen you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, particularly in the light of 'the missing women'best avoided. For one young womanMiv, the final stop on the bus leaves move would mean leaving her a long way short of her homebest friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had not worried about the chance to beg the bus driver to let dangers or that her use his. ThereMum's no option but stopped talking - to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoesanyone.
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|isbn=14059571741398524085|title=A Death at the PartyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Amy StuartNicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=From the first page, we know that Nadine WalshCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party will not end wellbut never turned up. The victim Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - a man strangely - her husband, Alec, is dying when we first meet him not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the ambulance he so desperately needsriver. What we donIt was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't know is who stand the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him dieguilt. IThe Salter children are not convinced but there'd better give you a s little more background so that you else they can understand do but get on with their lives and wonder about what's happeningreally happened.
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|authorisbn=Tania Unsworth1035906708|title=Nowhere IslandDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Gil. Just twelveWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, he is so determined but she was born to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him Greek parents in futureless places that are not homes – and find a home for himself. He is en route to yet another fostererManhattan, when he jumps into an anonymous carNew York, in December 1923 and lets it ride him only moved to his futureAthens when she was thirteen. That future seems Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough 'Callas' to provide for their safety and seclusion. Them, and a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much make it more successfully. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=1804540080}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=Murder manageable in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4States.5|genre=Crime|summary=It When she was back in December 2003 Athens - supposedly so that fifteenshe could get appropriate training for her voice -year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken she was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now raised under the subject of ''Infamous'', Nazi occupation by a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence mother who mercilessly exploited her and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's made no dump secret of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewingher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|author=Judith EagleChristopher Edge|title=The Stolen SongbirdBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Caro's motherLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a world-famous whistler, place that has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missingthe nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Her other motherAll big movie fans, Ronnie, is having to go up North they're looking forward to take care lots of her sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despisesexciting films, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's housemany, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. many snacks! But she soon finds herself caught up in a mysteryHowever, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcasethe movie starts, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. 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=0571363148}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529195977|title=None of they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=On her 45th birthdayvery different, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only and they are Alix and Josie birthday twins, swept up into an adventure they were both born in St Marycouldn's hospitalt even imagine. That's where But as they lurch from one film genre to the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathannext, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst can they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, figure out what on earth is going on? Will they're enjoying themselves. Josie, on ever get back to the other handcinema, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|genre=HorrorTeens|summary=Love is love; although humans continue to be confused by this sentiment''I can hear the song of the sea. Gay conversion therapy is ongoingThe call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart. The UK government ruled out plans to make it '' Rosevear, a crime remote andpartially forgotten island, in survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the USwrecks. Mira, nearly 700 000 adults have received itlike 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. Although it is both But when the Council Watch lays a secular trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a religious prejudice, Chuck Tinglebargain 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 his new horrorthe sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the skin heart of Christian ''pray the gay awaysmuggler'' camps s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to show save the reader future of her home and the horror lurking withinones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|isbnauthor=1803136383James Sherwood Metts|title=Tin Soldiers|author=David ChadwickPlanet 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
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|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
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|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
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|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 It's February 1991 and Essex is isolated and poorbitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. It The return has come about because he's surrounded by had a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants letter from his ex- its bread-like fruit provides nutrition wife, saying that she's ill and its blossom provides herbal medicineshasn't long to live. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and even gallows, if neededsent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The fear Glorious Race of being buried alive Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day an existential superstition apprentice in the village wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and that 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 reason Volushkafamily. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a drunken, selfglobe-indulgent, lazy lout trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a man magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is toleratedto dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran. |isbn=0571382231
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|isbn=024162343X178763681X|title=Stolen HistoryKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Sathnam SangheraOrlando Murrin|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I was the bad company other people got into Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse stillBelgravia. Not too long after the end of WWII, I He didn't so much really want to learn about but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the British armyimpression that he's successes (and occasional failuresd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but we it didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'turn out that way. The teaching - and the coloniesproblems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn' as want to dispute what right the army had t expected was for someone to be there in the first placeturn up dead. Looking backUnfortunately, I still believe I he was right - but I regret the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that I lacked the maturity police consider that person to approach 'be the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''prime suspect.
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|author=Amanda CraigSarah Marsh|title=Three GracesA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Few styles After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of contemporary fiction interest me like silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the state-use of-the-nation novelsign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who can catch hold of has been teaching the atmosphere of deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the day same time, Bell is working on other inventions and capture itideas, crafting an image and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of the country as it stands in one particular momentespionage. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803816759|title=The Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=It's practically synonymous with 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the genre wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of contemporary social fiction at this pointadventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. She has such a gift But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for weaving many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the ongoing issues aftermath of the day into rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the lives of her characters in only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a way that feels natural British superfan and lived-intech nerd, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselvesis also on the case.|isbn= 140871468XWhat went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?
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|isbn=14483093791529421284|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)Laying Out the Bones|author=David MarkKate Webb|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's something was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a surprise human skeleton came to find that you're deadthe surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, particularly when youwho had disappeared nine years earlier. He're thinking that you're actually on d been a break with your wife known drug user and childrenhad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but thatDI Matt Lockyer wasn's what happened to DS Aector McAvoyt convinced. Whilst he Geary was relieved to find that he was stilla townie, officially, alive, it so what was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but There are connections to the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the early hours time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the morning when it was obvious Major Crimes Review Unit (that someone was tampering with her car, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - cold cases to you and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aectorme) investigate.
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|isbn=09571811670571379559|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk House of Brian LewisBroken Bricks|author=Alan MarshallFiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=ArtLiterary Fiction|summary=There ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are few positive things which can in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday happier there, but this timeinstead, she lives in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures the house on the walls - and was completely taken by the work riverbank, built of Brian Lewisbroken bricks. I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of this book time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the print I wanted was ‘not available’delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. OhThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, dear - then a few doors down from the apartmentrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, I found a gift shop much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with a stack of brand new books - and a framed print of the picture I wantedhis mother that she's his nanny.
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|authorisbn=Simon Fox1529425867|title=DeadlockLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Late one night Graham Blake In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is late back from his shift on the forceof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and then suddenly rings Archiefather of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, demanding he fetch something originated from a secret placetrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and join him on the runtrackies. They get together're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, but barely begin to smell you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|author=Mosby Woods|title=A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= The West isn't the whiff of Southern trains when dominant force it once was. Nobody in the father West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brightonbest course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, toting a tin his father push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and a man with precognition. Imagine the bearer of strategic advantage in this asset; a whole heap man who can tell you what will happen given any set of questionscircumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=1839944420B0C9SNG8R1
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