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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Eggers0008517061|title=The Wild ThingsDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet MaxFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. When I say he sometimes gets There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the wrong end future of the stick about adults, or dislikes his mother's new boyfriendlife with his vet girlfriend, or gets a bit feisty when he feels the need for revengeLivia and her daughter Diana, I am certainly understating the facts. He is as moving in together would mean a bit lot of a rascal compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to say Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the least. future she wants for herself and her daughter? But all that might change when he finds himself travelling to a strange land of roisterous animals, For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and ends up installed as their kingputting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144221</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Strong1786482126|title=Christmas Chaos for the Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Trevor's troublesome dog, Streaker, has had three puppies. They Builders were fathered, according demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to local bully Charlie Smugg, by one hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of his Alsatiansa child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Trevor would ideally like to keep them, at least until ChristmasWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, but his parents have other ideas and put them up for saleDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Charlie Smugg declares that heIt's entitled to half difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the money from the sale of the puppies, but before one night they can spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be sold the three puppies go missing in the park and it's up obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to Trevor and his best friend Tina to try and track them down before Charlie demands his cash!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141327243</amazonuk>sudden bouts of sickness.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Beth Durst0008551324|title=Ice|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cassie lives on an Arctic research station in Alaska. She loves the ice and the wilderness of her remote home and she'd definitely prefer to spend her time on tracking polar bears and fending off frostbite rather than on mixing with her peers and enjoying college and home comforts back in Fairbanks. However, things aren't all rosy. Cassie's mother died when she was just a baby and she can't help feeling a huge hole in her heart. Her scientist father is remote and unloving and her grandmother left the station after an argument with him when Cassie was still very young. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386571</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Iain Smyth and Michael Terry|title=The Wide-Mouthed FrogNeil Lancaster
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Do you know It's unusual for anyone from the joke about Hardie family to approach the wide-mouthed frog? You must have heard itpolice. It's a classic Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. ItBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's one that you really need prepared to tell in person, with your fingers pulling your mouth wide open, but to hopefully spark your memory, the wide-mouthed frog introduces himself to a number police where the body of animals until he finally comes across a crocodile missing person is buried and who eats wide-mouthed frogswas responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the frog does his best to disguise who police doing what he wants. And what he wants is whilst saying ''Ooh, you don't see many to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of those round herehis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, do youis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn'' I'm hardly doing it justice, but itt think so and she's very cheesy even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and funny. Anyway, this anyone who works with him is a book of that jokekept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408804964</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Aaron Carroll and Dr Rachel Vreeman0008405026|title=Don't Swallow Your GumA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=It'''BANG'''s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. That's She was never found and the sound of copious urban myths being shot downinvestigation ground to a halt. '''BANG'''Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. ThatInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the sound positioning of the old wives slamming the door, as their tales get revealed as baselessbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. '''CLICK'''What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. ThatKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's the noise lots of ill-informed websites make disappearance: others (such as they get closed downDerwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. All noises come due to this brilliant book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043369</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Annie Taylor0571379877|title=VioletThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Violet Edward Jevons is a very special hippoworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. She is extremely small but that does not make her adoptive parents Albert He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and Mavis uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love her any the lesswith Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. However, they are slightly worried Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that Violet has a very unusual habit relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of turning pink without warning and for no explicable reasonthem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906847371</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary DixonJo Callaghan|title=When Rooks Speak of LoveLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Arthur Transcombe When a man is found crucified on the top of a middle-agedhill in Nuneaton, grey-hairedDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, self-effacing poet. Unremarkable really - on the outsideAI detective Lock. He hasIt's their first live case together, however, managed to achieve some success having previously been very successful with his poemsseveral cold cases. (Being But when there is a guest speaker at the Cheltenham Literary Festival second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is no mean feat)suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. He is also Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a babe magnet!career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1904529429</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A J Healy1399613073|title=Tommy Storm and the Galactic KnightsMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Meet Tommy StormOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. He's one of five teenagers snapped up from around the universe Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a gang of heroic detectives charged with rescuing EVERYTHING from destructioncardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Not just Anjali is the planet, or free spirit of the solar system, or even the galaxy, but EVERYTHINGgroup and she becomes a GP. Nobody seems to know whatWhen we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to cause this destruction, end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or when, but he and his friends and their ship seem to the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the only people proactively going about saving the daythree friends. So This time, it's a pity that they start this book strung up by a nasty loony their teenage children who's about to kill themare involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847247555</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham McCann0241636604|title=Bounder!The Trading Game: The Biography of Terry-ThomasA Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=When I was If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in my early teensyour mind, it sometimes seemed as if Terry-Thomas was one you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the stars of almost every other fivepin-star British comedy film aroundstripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. He There was certainly one of no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the most recognizable characters London School of all with his gapEconomics. Stevenson is bright -toothed grin, cigarette holder and inimitable 'Helextremely bright -lo!', 'Hard cheese!', and best he has a facility with numbers which most of allus can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, the angryessentially, 'You're a card game which got him an absolute shower!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845134419</amazonuk>internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay Parker1035021803|title=Stop MeThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Spam E-Mails can be incredibly annoyingIt'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, but most of us will have had to deal with themCarole. FortunatelyFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, we can hit Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the delete button and forget about them as quickly as they cameleast. I certainly prefer Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to torture my friends by sending such rubbish onthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, no matter how bad my luck is supposed she has not felt able to become if I don'tbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. But I wonder how many of us would react if After the split, she worked in a spam E-Mail actually was a matter cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life , who was murdered) and Freya and death, rather than just claiming to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>James have now divorced.
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{{Frontpage
|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.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean UreSunny Singh|title=Love and KissesHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Tamsin and Katie were just thirteen and worried The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that they were boringhas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. They'd been best friends since forever and were Hiding from the good girls. Neither missed schoolterrorists who are rampaging through, skipped her homework nor had boyfriends. Wellkilling everyone on site, that there isSam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, not so farthe hotel manager. Up until then Tamsin had been As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the boffin head – consistently strong academically hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and looking forward to going keeps on venturing out of her room to university. All that seemed try to change when she met Alexcapture what's happened through her photography. WellAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, when I say 'met' I should perhaps clarify their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and say that Alex pushed his wheelbarrow into her, from they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the building site where he workedterrorists. Oh, and did I mention that he was seventeen, Polish and spoke very little English?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007281722</amazonuk>086154742X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henry Mintzberg1529153298|title=ManagingThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'Study after study has shown that managers work at an unrelenting paces not what's worrying Miv' How trues family, though it always makes me wonder why. Women have been disappearing. Well, as a resultthey've been murdered, therebut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's such a market for bulky management and leadership and general business books like this one. How does anyone who needs or upset because she's overheard that her father wants to read one ever find move the time to do so? This title actually has an answer to this, by providing two books in onefamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, and it Down South is such a simple yet effective solution that I have to start there. You can read this book in one of two ways. Option one is to read every wordfrightening, chapter by chapterforeign place, cover to coverbest avoided. If you have For Miv, the time I move would recommend this approach because the book is very readablemean leaving her best friend, not too repetitiveSharon, and quite thoughtshe'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking -provokingto anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0273709305</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox1398524085|title=Blood BornHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support to a vulnerable gang-rape victimCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart to the courthouse on the day she is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brothers. But when Anya arrives at the house she finds Giverny close to death Paul and Ollie and faces a battle against time to save herdaughter, Etty. In the panicare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, Anya fails to take note of an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murderis not. Worse still Shortly afterwards, in trying to save Etty and Greg, find the girlbody of Greg's lifefather, Anya has interfered with a crime scene and Duncan Ackerley, in the case falls apartriver. She blames herself It was an easy assumption for the Harbourn brothers being allowed police to walk free make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and only hours later then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there is news of another attack. A pair of sisters have been stabbed 's little else they can do but get on with their lives and raped resulting in the death of one, while the other clings to lifewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. 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, Jackie.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leah FlemingChristopher Edge|title=Remembrance DayBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary=In the year 2000 an old lady Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a wheelchair watches movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the unveiling nickname of the new war memorial in the village square'The Black Hole'. ThereAll big movie fans, they's pride in what has been achievedre looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, in as the family who are gathered around her movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and there they are memories tooswept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Some are good but many are not.But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847561039</amazonuk>1839942738
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{{Frontpage
|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ursula Jones and Sarah GibbJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Princess Who Had No KingdomPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5
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|summary=The princess who has no kingdom wanders around in Things have been a cart pulled by her horse Prettybit sticky for the Earthlings. SheAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's very politere 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 other, friendlynew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and kind-hearted, but she feels like something is lacking because she doesn't have a kingdom of her own. The other royals she meets treat her nicely enoughalong with it, but there's always a feeling that she's not quite as good as them because she isn't all the princess of anywheremany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846160421</amazonuk>1736128426
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mij Kelly and Louise NisbetMatthew Tree|title=The Happiest Man in the World or the Mouse Who Made ChristmasWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Mouse doesn't like anyone and keeps herself to herself. Her things are her things and she is too selfish to share them with anyone else. One day, an old man moves in to Mouse's house. He used Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be the happiest man in the worlddifferent from his father, but now he's sad. He's fed up a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of having given, given, given his artistic passions all his life failed miserably and never got anything backwho had endless crises of self confidence. He just sits quietly So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and mopes. This makes Mouse miserable, so one day she decides to cheer him up by giving him a clementine..set himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340931558</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{Frontpage
|author=A G Slatter
|title=The Briar Book of the Dead
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kes Gray and Lee Wildish1529900360|title=Mum and Dad GlueThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=A young boyIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's parents are splitting upfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. He His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's going through t need the usual emotions that children help of divorce go through: worrya psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, feeling unsureit was Robin, blaming himselfDelaware's partner, angerwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, denial, and then trying to get them to stay togetherthough. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. His method for this isn't He was the usual response though: he looks for glue heir to stick his mum an Italian shoe empire and dad together. Thankfully, he finds some wise she is married to an extremely rich man and kindly advice in it's not the processItalian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340957107</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clara Vulliamy1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Bear With Sticky Paws Won't Go To BedSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=ItSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn's Pearl's bedtimet want to follow in his footsteps, but she says sheparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's really busy and isn't going to sleep. She just wants to play and play and playlife. When he was seventeen he took the bear opportunity of doing work experience with sticky paws rings a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the doorbelljob for him. Before long, he whisks her away on an amazing adventure was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - although as you might expectwith so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, the bear has a little more energy than Pearl and eventually she does get he'd wanted to be a little sleepyprofessional footballer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408300648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Mackey0861541774|title=MikiA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's cold, dark close friend and icyformer colleague, and Miki and Penguin are trudging through the snow. But it's Midwinter EveDanny Maik, when wishes come true. They wish for has taken a tree, lights, someone strong short holiday in Singapore to power the lightsmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and finally he killed a star Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that will shine brightly foreverhe might have planned to murder the man. Miki is taken deep below Now he could be facing the ice death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to find the star, whilst up top Penguin help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and new friend Polar Bear start to worry about herwouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034095065X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kristin CashoreAlexander McCall Smith|title=FireThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Possessed of great beautyThe Perfect Passion Company is a 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 kind that drives men madbusiness, Fire as Ness is used planning to people trying take a trip to kill her. She isn't used Canada to them doing it by accidentget away for a while. When Katie is coming out of a break up with a poacher in bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the woods outside her chance to come home accidentally shoots her, Fire is hard pressed to keep the temperamental Lord Archer Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from killing him. But as sure as Fire is the man did not mean Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to cause her harman Edinburgh we already love, she is made unsure by thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the strange fog that exists Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in the man's mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905200129</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Justin Scroggie|title=Eye Spy: Uncovering the Secrets of the World Around You|rating=4|genre=Trivia|summary=Signs are everywhere. I wasn't really one of those who thought our roads were littered with too many traffic signs until the day I was driven past running a pair of speed regulation signsbusiness, positioned at the exit end of a oneor in match-way street making, but facing the illegal way up it. Not all signsNess has full confidence in her abilities, of course, are quite as unnecessaryand there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, or indeed as blatantly visibleWilliam, which is where this pictorial guide to countless coded messages, signifiers and other similar factoids comes in.lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340994487</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jose Saramago 0811771741|title=Small MemoriesInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
|rating=4
|genre=AutobiographyCrafts|summary=Having been born in 1922 and lived through so much of the twentieth century, with an authorMelissa Leapman's view ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of change and people, Jose Saramago has certainly experienced a lotknits from toys to blankets. Civil Wars Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the neighbouring Spain; the growth of his country - which still left it as western Europefire's poorestvariety. Here he allows us witness The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to his mind drifting through his childhoodten hours, in ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the country and in Lisbonprojects are attractive, modern and provides a subtle and gentle memoiruseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655148X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin ColferDean Koontz|title=And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three (Hitchhikers Guide 6) The Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=Science FictionParanormal|summary=Of all the big books announced for this yearBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, this one must have raised more eyebrows than manyand his house gets trashed. Why try Oh, and write someone has delivered a new Hitchhikerreally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's Guide to possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the Galaxy bookthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, when way before Benny is the end, its creator Douglas Adams was proving quite hopeless at such very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a task? nice person. A really nice person. And why approach an IrishmanSo fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, Eoin Colfera bad weather friend called Spike, when the originals - tempered with their humour which could only be described as Monty Python doing who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a sci-fi Terry Pratchettgood person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and with their cups will certainly take care of tea Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and dressing gowns, could only be described as very English? Well the answer is most evident - Colfer is Harper (a world-beater when it comes to knocking up a storywaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718155149</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Harlan CobenAdam Stower|title=Tell No OneMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=I've been meaning Murray is supposed to get around to reading some or all of Harlan Coben's workbe a humble, tidy and friendly cat, because if the reviews are one who is able to be believed sleep and eat and eat and sleep and you are a fan , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he'Bloody Knife /Blunt Instruments a bad magician' thrillers cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the man is quite simply catflap they both use can chuck them out, not capable into the regular back garden, but into a world of turning out a duff novelfrightening adventure and whiffs. But you know how This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter isexpected – well, what with one thing and another and a bulging pile of books much bigger than Murray was, to be read honest, but he's turned up and reviewed, I just somehow hadnhe't managed ll have to give him my full attention. Until now.do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409117022</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0C47LV1PC
|title=Fragility
|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez 1529431735|title=Perfumes: The A - Z GuideWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=WonderfulIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, wonderful, wonderfulwhich 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. The only thing return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that could be conceivably better than reading she's ill and hasn'Perfumest long to live. It'' would be s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to read it while sampling a watery grave in the scents boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it reviews, but even without the olfactory component, ''Perfumes'' is a delight: Turin (warning from a lyrical scientist) and Sanchez (an analytically enthusiastic collector) not only treat perfume creation as high art, but turn perfume criticism into an art form (Spanish gang or at least a sophisticated genre of writing) too. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681278</amazonuk>problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Malouf Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=RansomThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Taking his theme from Eli is a small part of Homer's Iliadbusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, Malouf tells and in the evening a helper at the story of dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the king of Troyfamily. A few short years ago, PriamEli's grief-stricken voyage into the Greek camp parents were both lost to ransom Troy's wealth for the body of his fallen sontitular race, Hector, killed by a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the equally grief-stricken Achilles whose great friend Hector had killed world in battle before Achilles took his cruel revengethe company of a magical beast. Malouf tells This has made the story in sparse, yet lyrical and poetic fashion suggesting race anathema to the personal stories behind pair – but when a bad incident at the epic themes that Homer related. It eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is an exquisitely written piece managing to be both deeply moving as well as a great piece dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of story tellingmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701184159</amazonuk>0571382231
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