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|authorisbn=Andrew Sharp0008517061|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - isFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, in has settled into his mind, rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the head chef future of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. Mozzy is earnest and dedicated to his task life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and he puts all her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BODcompromise: does Jake give up his off-W safaris but his dream is grid and relaxing life to become the head chef of a restaurant move in London with Livia or a big American city. Even does Livia move to win a Michelin star. He Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is thwarted in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to you the future she wants for herself and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in his guests the present and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into putting the future on the houseback burner.|isbn=B09926MK8H
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|authorisbn=Alex Foulkes1786482126|title=Rules for VampiresThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'Leoluxury' for short) is apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a Vampiredoorway. There was no skull. She drinks blood, she sleeps during the day, and she can Grimwalk (turning into Was this a flock of bats to travel aroundritual killing or murder? Inevitably, although not all of them remember to come back)Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Pretty cool stuff. Now It's difficult as Ruth knows, on the night of her hundredth birthnightbut Nelson doesn't, that she has to go out and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worse, is pregnant with his child as a result of the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt hernight they spent together some three months ago. So Her condition will be obvious before long, not only does Leo have least because Ruth is prone to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost sudden bouts of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do it all while hiding it from her familysickness. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X
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|authorisbn=Tori Bovalino0008551324|title=The Devil Makes ThreeYou Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Working all summer in her boarding schoolIt's library is unusual for anyone from the last thing Tess Matheson wants Hardie family to do — especially when she gets a request approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herselfthe other. What makes it worse But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the man who requested police where the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, body of a missing person is buried and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge who was responsible for making her find death. This person, he promises, is someone big and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of will be worth the books, scribbled with police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the ugliest insults she can think remainder ofhis sentence and to get an early parole date. They're never meant Not much to reach himask, of course. Her plan is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to get her anger out like this, do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadnanyone who works with him is kept well away from what't delivered them for hers happening.|isbn=1789098130
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|isbn= B09BG8V3Q60008405026|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! A Stranger in the Family (Everybody Potties!Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= It''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the latest release investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series positioning of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and replace her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it with some funwas going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. It Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's a worthy aimboss, as any frustrated parent will tell you. Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=B098FFFBH90571379877|title=SnowcubThe Kellerby Code|author=Graham FulbrightJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=FourteenEdward Jevons is a working-yearclass young man, obsessed with his upper-old Rachel is her schoolclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's animal rights project leader also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and she entitled and her friend are producing a competition entry uses Edward to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal worldrun errands for him. She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and her twin, Nickhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Kate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia Most men in Putney, which is where weRobert'll meet Rachels position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's main (if unsuspected) source not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of information: five soft toysthem kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author= Angharad WalkerJo Callaghan|title= The Ash HouseLeave No Trace|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersCrime|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his name, or why he When a man is there but he is used to found crucified on the systemtop of a hill in Nuneaton, used DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by case alongside her sidekick, the absent HeadmasterAI detective Lock. All children must remember their Niceness and complete It's their choresfirst live case together, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash Househaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But soon their easy peace when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is shattered by the arrival suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of the Doctorunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. By Will they be able to solve the end of the storycase in time, lives or will be changed forever Kat find herself taken off the case and The Ash House will never be the same again., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1912626977139851120X
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|authorisbn=Yancey Williams1399613073|title=Crosshairs of the DevilMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
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|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years andOlivia, despite his strenuous objections Laura and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point Anjali met on the first day of view - in room 315 medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkinscentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, for palatable company. Nothing which is going a bonus when you aim to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's workbe a cardiothoracic surgeon.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the Face free spirit of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In group and she becomes a word, richGP. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on When we first meet them they're at a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, drug and seaalcohol-witches, fuelled party and legends of the Dark family that has it's going to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sailend in tragedy. The current Darks are We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the Hidden Landsthree friends. This time, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andreweit's foundling daughter, their teenage children who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or notinvolved.|isbn=1788452372
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|authorisbn=Erling Kagge0241636604|title=WalkingThe Trading Game: One Step At A TimeConfession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre= LifestyleAutobiography|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved If you were to bring up an image of a book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was city banker in your book not mine. In my defencemind, I will say that as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – Iyou'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about re unlikely to do as soon as I have finished telling you why)think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Erligg Kagge A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South PoleEast End, the North Pole where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the summit London School of EverestEconomics. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it Stevenson is instead bright - extremely bright - and he has a thoughtful exploration facility with numbers which most of what it means us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to walkbe stupid. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page and I haven't counted. In small format paperbackwas his ability at what was, essentially, each essay is only a few pages longcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Perhaps then Eventually, better thought of this turned into permanent employment as a meditation rather than an essaytrader.|isbn=0241357705
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|authorisbn=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault1035021803|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet JackIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he She's back now because of a slight boyrequest for help from her beloved aunt, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sightCarole. That Freya's because Jackformer mentor and Carole's mother knew all about monstersclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and look what happened the circumstances seem suspicious, to her – she diedsay the least. Luckily or unluckily then Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, depending on your point of viewshe feels, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOLlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, Jack will fluke she has not felt able to be near the ogre's deathman or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster huntercafe, met and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about married James (on the rebound from the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced...|isbn=0755501942
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|authorisbn=Keith GrayAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The ClimbersAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Sully is ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the best tree climber in the villageshape of things to come. He has what's known amongst the kids as 'reach I've heard it said that 'technology'. But is what happens when after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a new kid shows up few decades of technology in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers my lifetime. I've kept up some of the hardest trees reasonably well with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, and not only that, that his chance what's advantageous to name me but I'm left with the final, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer feeling that it, might be snatched 's all getting away from his handsme. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will Some of it cost him his best friendis - 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 maybe even all of his friends, to do so?|isbn=1781129991the 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=Emma CarrollSunny Singh|title=The Week at World's EndHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=FirstThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, the title. We're in World's End Closekilling everyone on site, there is Sam, a mediocre set of houseswartime photographer and Abhi, where Stevie (Vie the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to her friends) finds fun only with try to care remotely for the family dog and with the boy over residents who are still alive in the road. But we could also be at World's Endhotel, because something taking he forms a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries bond with Sam who refuses to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshorebe cowed by events, and not much else is able keeps on venturing out of her room to try to make the news. That said, Vie has news of capture what's happened through her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shedphotography. Anna has, in no short time, taken a strong interest in Although they only ever talk over the American airforce base behind the Closephone, said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed their friendship grows as Abhi tries to leave, help her keep safe and implied her life was at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing they both wait to do with what see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the Cold War is doing miles away?terrorists.|isbn=0571364438086154742X
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|authorisbn=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston1529153298|title=Julia and the SharkThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=JuliaIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, our pre-teen heroinehonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, has though. Women have been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islandsdisappearing. Here be VikingsWell, they've been murdered, that kind of Scottish islandbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Dad is going Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to be automating move the lanternfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, which Down South is his specialist thinga frightening, while mum will be foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Juliabest friend, wellSharon, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1510107789
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|authorisbn=Freya Sampson1398524085|title=The Last LibraryHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=I am always a little nervous to start a story about a libraryCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, since I am a librarianEtty. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought of the incoming cardiganare all worried but -wearing, hair in a bun, catstrangely -owningher husband, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this storyAlec, the main character, June, does put her hair in a bunis not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett)Greg, and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating find the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didnbody of Greg't immediately throw the book out of the windows father, Duncan Ackerley, because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she didthe river. Her mum used to be a librarian at It was an easy assumption for the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going police to University make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and stayed at home to take care of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the local libraryguilt. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working The Salter children are not convinced but there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, little else they can do but get on with their lives and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is wonder about the changewhat really happened.|isbn=183877369X
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|isbn=00083709821035906708|title=Rock Paper ScissorsDiva|author=Alice FeeneyDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Amelia Wright is forty-two and it We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away born to Greek parents in a converted chapel Manhattan, New York, in ScotlandDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her husband, Adam, isn't so keen on the idea. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy of making original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels heCallas's hoping to adapt than with her. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with make it more manageable in the dogs, many of whom have been abused, is never easyStates. Still When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she's won the weekend away, even if it does mean driving could get appropriate training for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat voice - and then doing she was raised under the same thing to come back Nazi occupation by a couple mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of days laterher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|author=Doug JohnstoneChristopher Edge|title=The Great SilenceBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=For those whoLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, like me, haven't come across a place that has the Skelfs before, Inickname of 'll risk a quick synopsis of whoThe Black Hole's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn All big movie fans, they't some fantastic creaturere looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, though it sounds as though it ought to bethe movie starts, it they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is merely the surname of a family of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinctvery different, she married a scot and ended they are swept up helping into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46next, can they figure out what on earth is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about going on? Will they ever get back to graduate with a first-class physics degree the cinema, and join the academic staff next term.to their real lives?|isbn=19131938371839942738
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|isbnauthor=1901514978Rachel Greenlaw|title=There's a Problem With Dad|author=Carlos AlbaCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=Life is different for George Lovelace and he ''I canhear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'t really understand why. He's always done everything he ought to: steady worker Rosevear, husband a remote and father - partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and a father plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who was always there for school plays swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and sports daysany treasure that lies within. So why is he never quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why is someone with such But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'good'' mind unable s father. Desperate to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breath-taking gaffes? It's almost become save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a cliche these days to suggest that someone wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a little different is 'on family secret that lies buried deep in the spectrum'sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, but George Lovelace has all as her journey takes her from the symptoms watched streets of Aspergerforeign islands to the heart of the smuggler's Syndrome: high-functioning autismterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|author=Louise CandlishJames Sherwood Metts|title=The HeightsPlanet Storyland
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. She's on site, visiting Things have been a client bit sticky for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the wayEarthlings. There are lots of thingsAI and automation have been proceeding apace, lots often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of peopleother, you might see when you look out across Londonnew ways to spend time, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other dayalong came an awful pandemic. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two yearsLife was pretty much shut down and, and Ellen knows this for a factalong with it, because she had a hand in his murderall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=14711834831736128426
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|isbnauthor=0008421714Matthew Tree|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia FeitoWe'll Never Know
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|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to either be reading it or different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had already done soendless crises of self confidence. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie So Tim applied himself to buy olive bread but on that particular morninghis studies, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchachievable ambitions.''|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=John BoyneA G Slatter|title=The Echo ChamberBriar Book of the Dead
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|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=Meet George Cleverley'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. He is self-defined as "one This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the few television personalities over world, lies Silverton; a town under the age protection of fifty without the Briar's, a criminal record"family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him Though she's carrying his childhas always wished for magic, but then his author wife Ellie Briar is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired first non-witch to be born into her with. They have three childrenfamily for generations and as such since she was young, who are her training as a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoeversteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signallingEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the worldtown's homeless with out-of-date foodleader, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingEllie takes her place beside her. Add in a few other characters – therapistsAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, lawyersEllie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to his lifeanother, Ellie must decide who to trust and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach determine what to do as the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even moreBriar witches' legacy, howevereverything they have sacrificed to survive, is the fact this is bloody funnyunder threat.|isbn=08575262191803364548
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|isbn=02419890941529900360|title=The Perfect LifeGhost Orchid|author=Nuala EllwoodJonathan Kellerman
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and sheIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's viewing a house in Goring-fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help ondifficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-Thames and telling -shut cases which didn't need the estate agent about her three childrenhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, Lavenderit was Robin, Freddie and BarclayDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The boys are a bit next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a handful which remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is why shemarried to an extremely rich man and it's making this trip on her ownnot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The house would be perfect for themSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeIt|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the same month but now we're in Wimbledon opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and we encounter was convinced this was the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and living in her sisterfor him. Before long, Georgiehe was at Liverpool University. It hadn's, spare room, where she's t - as with so many students - been his dream since she broke up with her boyfriendhe was a child. If anything, Connorhe'd wanted to be a professional footballer.
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|authorisbn=Darren Shan0861541774|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides A Nye of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=So. Having done the impossible DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Cryptformer colleague, from which the Departed communicate with the MergeDanny Maik, Archie now has ''grop'' taken a short holiday in Singapore to think aboutmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. But before Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that, soireeshe was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Soirees! Archie Initially, much he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to Inez's amusement, doesn't even know what one of those is. But light that suggested that he manages might have planned to come through murder the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in man. Now he could be facing the first volume of this seriesdeath penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all. |isbn=B093J9TF73
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|isbnauthor=B07GZ81J7CAlexander McCall Smith|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter CottonThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Fred. WellThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, actually, you're going run by Ness and operating as an alternative to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you the online apps in providing a bit more about Fredpersonal, tailored service. Fred Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going trip to warm Canada to himget away for a while. He arrived as Katie is coming out of a present in break up with a box with holes bad boyfriend, and so that he could breathe and immediately became part of jumps at the family, chance to come home to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walkEdinburgh. And that was where so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the problem startedIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Fred didnKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there't have any road sense. Or brakes.s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova0811771741|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary= Can potty training ever Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be joyous? It often isnquick knits - others are of the 'tlong, as any parent will tell youcosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. But really The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, why shouldn't it be? We all have five to learn about our bodily functions just as we have ten hours, ten to learn about everything else when we twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are smallattractive, modern and useable. Why shouldn I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHHs me being picky.
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|isbnauthor=1787634493Dean Koontz|title=All Her Fault|author=Andrea MaraThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happenBenny is having a terrifically bad day. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her sonHe loses his job, Milohe loses his fiancee, to go on a play dateand his house gets trashed. She Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was concerned inside is the thing that he didn't have any friends at has trashed his new schoolhouse! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove He is a little laternice person. What could be better? A really nice person. Only, when Marissa arrived at So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his houseis a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, expecting who has been sent to meet Jacobhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's motherenemies, Jennyif he, the door was answered by EstherBenny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jennyfinds herself roped into Benny's nannywild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|author=Claire NorthAdam Stower|title=Notes from the Burning AgeMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers |summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North Murray is supposed to be a spy thriller, with as many double crosseshumble, interrogations tidy and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with the best novelsfriendly cat, it wears many masks and its most affecting one who is that of a new able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and timely genre, cli-fiwell, or climate change fictionwhatever takes his fancy next of the two. North But he's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been forced to start anew turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuelscatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, weapons but into a world of mass destructionfrightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, intensive farming). There where a troll hunter is a growing unhappiness with this limiting worldexpected – well, and one groupmuch bigger than Murray was, the Brotherhoodto be honest, aims but he's turned up and he'll have to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.do…|isbn=03565147570008561249
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|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)B0C47LV1PC|title=Girls Who LieFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=34|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map that weCan you make a ''Yo birthing person're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital cityjoke? And if you could, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for question should you make it? Or is the usual small-town feelquestion if you did, would it's not just in Akranes land? The catch is that our interests liethe answer for both could well be... Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, and a couple of delighted adoptersno. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the woman ''Fragility''s car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, is set as the body has been discoveredcity of Portland, in a thirdOregon, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue cautiously begins to emerge from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make restrictions imposed during the right one?|isbn=191319373Xcovid pandemic
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|isbn=B0925KS87N1529431735|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)The Winter Visitor|author=Neil LancasterJames Henry
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and it took some finding - in an overgrown old cemetery. It was a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to doFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted to dowhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Only, his family didn't hear from him again after heHe'd said that been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he'd found the grave s had a letter from his ex- the one which said wife, saying that it shouldnshe's ill and hasn't be opened - and his three sons began long to worrylive. Tam JuniorIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Frankie stripped to his underwear and Dave wouldn't normally go sent to a watery grave in the police but they weren't certain where their father had been and they were worriedboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|author=Emily CritchleyAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I was intrigued by the plot, liked the design Glorious Race of the book, and thought the author's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} {{Frontpage|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good NeighboursMagical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and it's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211}}{{Frontpage|author=Lisa Thompson|title=The Small Things|rating=5
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|summary=Although Anna has friends at schoolEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, she feels like she never really fits and inthe evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Her family don't have enough money to let her do after school activities Eli lives with his lovely gran, and so she feels like her life at home too – for there is boring a generation missing in comparison to theirsthe family. When a new girl joins her class A few short years ago, Anna is asked Eli's parents were both lost to partner herthe titular race, but things are complicated because a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can't attend school world in personthe company of a magical beast. Instead, she joins in with This has made the race anathema to the class by using pair – but when a robot. Can Anna overcome bad incident at the challenge of making friends with someone through eatery leads to a robotconfession from gran, and Eli knows his only hope is she even interesting enough to be a good friend dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to Ellie?possibly save his gran.|isbn=17811296490571382231
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|isbn=0008350388178763681X|title=We Need to Talk About MoneyKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Otegha UwagbaOrlando Murrin|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=''To be Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts..residential cookery school in Belgravia.'' He didn''We Need t really want to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a writer way of colour while only 7% study a book by a womangetting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul '' somehow''The Booksellergot the impression that he'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came d be at the school to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother assist Paul, who came firsthad a broken arm, with her father joining them laterbut it didn't turn out that way. The family was hardteaching -working, principled and determined that their children would have the best education possibleproblems - are all his own. There The one thing he hadn't expected was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvestedfor someone to turn up dead. When Otegha Unfortunately, he was ten the family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to a private school in London and then a place at New College, Oxfordbe the prime suspect.
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