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|isbnauthor=1529109116Sylvie Cathrall|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah JacksonLetter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary=''I want the image of There are few greater joys than a British farmer book which lives up to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nationcompelling premise. I don't think that And this is too much to askone of them.''|isbn= 0356522776}}{{FrontpageThe stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his'' family have farmed for generationsrustic life at Little Sky. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be There’s perhaps a farmer. It's not always little uncertainty about the case though. Hannah Jackson was born future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love lot of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and she was well on relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her way to achieving reservations about whether or not this when is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life changed on a family holiday to in the Lake District. She saw a lamb being born present and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked putting the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a shepherd. With future on the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambitionback burner.
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|isbn=08575272311786482126|title=Dog DaysThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Ericka WallerElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angry. ItBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's eight days since his wife, Ellen, died and itluxury's apartments - when they discovered the first time that she's let him downbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. He's lost, bereft without her ( he ''needs his wife, like Was this a snail needs its shell''). ritual killing or murder? He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the doorstepInevitably, he'd much rather have a good row Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with someoneDCI Harry Nelson. HeIt's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared to contradict him when he told her that the dog wasndifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't staying. Now he's lumbered , that she is pregnant with his child as a dog he doesn't want and a load result of busybodies who are trying to interfere in his lifethe one night they spent together some three months ago. Worst of all Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is Betty, who won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot prone to sudden bouts of time trying to escape from and destroy themsickness.
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|isbn=B003UH99X40008551324|title=The Eustace DiamondsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Anthony TrollopeNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he didn't live long enough s unusual for this anyone from the Hardie family to become a problemapproach the police. After his death, his wife, Lizzie - still only Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in her late teens - was in possession prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a very valuable diamond necklace missing person is buried and who was determined that she would not hand it over to responsible for her husband's executorsdeath. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to her absolutely, although serve the precise circumstances remainder of the giving varied from telling his sentence and to tellingget an early parole date. Lady Eustace was not a woman Not much to whom truth meant a great deal. ask, is it? All The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that was important to her now, she maintained, was her son. And, of course, her diamondsDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=15290473150008405026|title=The LamplightersA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Emma StonexJane Casey
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two facess sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. You have She was never found and the investigation ground to take a halt. them bothNow, he saidher mother, the good and the badHelena, and never turn your back on either one of them.'' In 1972, fifteen miles off the coast of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse her father are dead in ''the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''their bed. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeperInitially, the weather such that ''the boat [was] rocking and bobbing it looks like a bath toy over the waveletsstraightforward murder/suicide but there'' but they were unable to get any response from s something about the Maiden Rock. It was broken into the next day, but there was no sign positioning of the menbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The table What looked as though it was set for a meal for two going to be an open- and the clocks were stopped at 8.45-shut case is now a complex double murder. Contact with Kerrigan is convinced that the light had not been possible explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened to the menDerwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Mary H K Choi0571379877|title=YolkThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Jayne Baek Edward Jevons is a fashion student that's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps working-class young man, obsessed with. She's an allhis upper-round messy character; class friends, Robert and thatStanza. Robert's her charm. June, on the other hand, is a complete contrast to Jaynetheatre director. She He's a typical older sister: she's smartalso self-obsessed, thinks she knows it alldemanding, handsome and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices, entitled and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city uses Edward to run errands for the past two yearshim. This is until June finds out she Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's sick, and Jayne is the only person she can turn drunkenly confided how he feels toRobert. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they Most men in Robert'll go to save each others position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's lives – even if it means swapping identitiesnot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn= 0349003696
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|author=Saima MirJo Callaghan|title=The KhanLeave No Trace|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by When a man is found crucified on the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her rise through sidekick, the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sisterAI detective Lock. It's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exiletheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, she Kat is at the top suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of her gameunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Returning Will they be able to solve the city of her birthcase in time, to old scars or will Kat find herself taken off the case and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense potentially, out of honour and duty.a career?|isbn=1786079097139851120X
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|isbn=00083368301399613073|title=Two WrongsMoral Injuries|author=Mel McGrathChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Sondra was Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on her way home after work when she saw the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from the Clifton suspension bridgecentury. She talks to herOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam which is a bonus when you aim to call her best friend be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and flatmate, Nevis Smitha trauma doctor. Nevis Anjali is unworldly the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and rather reserved alcohol- fuelled party and she canit't understand why Satnam hasns going to end in tragedy. We don't shared her problems with herknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. She thought they shared everythingTwenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Satnam is taken to hospital and Nevis calls her motherThis time, Honor. Theyit've not been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her mothers their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)0241636604|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=This was If you were to bring up an incredibly readable novellaimage of a city banker in your mind, but one that left me a little conflictedyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and before we even know injustice. There was no posh public school on his gender or CV - but he had been to the nature 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=The 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 person heEnglish country village where she grew up. She's addressing in his second person monologue back now because of a narrationrequest for help from her beloved aunt, we see him picked up by his motherCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's chauffeurclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and carted off the circumstances seem suspicious, to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried say the following dayleast. The mother Arthur was a businesswomanthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, who clearly left northern Italy and settled let her down badly. Even though they were in Romania with her (night-time and business) partnertogether as antique hunters, and feelings of abandonment are still strongshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. And so we flit from current (well After the split, this came out she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the original Italian in 2007love of her life, so moderately currentwho 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) Bucharest|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the ladfeeling that it's childhoodall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and see just end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what he has to tell her as they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a private farewell addressway I could understand.|isbn=1939810965
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|author=Jane LightbourneSunny Singh|title= My Cat Called RedHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre=Emerging ReadersThrillers |summary= Robin The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has red hairsuddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. He hates it Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the freckles that go along hotel, he forms a bond with it. He's been bullied Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and mocked at school because keeps on venturing out of it. her room to try to capture what''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are means happened through her photography. But red hair is not Robin's Although they only misery in life. He's already lost his dad ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill help her keep safe and is taken into hospital. She doesn't come home againthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn= 1838216812086154742X
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|isbn=B003L7TDMU1529153298|title=Phineas FinnThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Anthony TrollopeJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Phineas Finn It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is the son of Dr Malachi FinnPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County Clarethey've been murdered, who sent his son but to London have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to train as a lawyermove the family 'Down South'. PhineasWhen you's interest re from Yorkshire, Down South is more in making influential friends than in becoming a lawyer and one of themfrightening, Barrington Erleforeign place, suggests that he runs for Parliament in the forthcoming electionbest avoided. His father is not entirely in favour of this as members are not remunerated For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and it would be up she'll do anything to him to provide financial support for his son as well as funding his electionprevent that. One of She's not worried about the doctordangers or that her Mum's patients stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is Lord Tulla who controls not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the borough body of Loughshane and by this stroke of luck Finn isGreg's father, eventuallyDuncan Ackerley, elected by a small marginin the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=18385950311035906708|title=Crooked: Honest CriminalityDiva|author=Bronwen JohnDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=The con had seemed like a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by the new Banksy - and they should have made a decent profit from it. The problem We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was they were too successful: one of the marks had bought a few and then discovered that they were valueless. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for a simple con and his fatherborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, celebrity criminal Harry HolmesNew York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was determined that he and his family could not lose face like thatthirteen. The grifters were going Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to pay. Ashia 'AshCallas' Cox and Max 'Colorado' Ying needed to be got out of make it more manageable in the countryStates. In When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the course Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of bringing this about, Luke Gaines, Ash's foster fatherher preference for her elder sister, lost his lifeJackie.
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|author=Hayley WebsterChristopher Edge|title=Luna Rae is Not AloneBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54
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|summary=Luna Rae Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has just moved housethe nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Moving house is always trickyAll big movie fans, but especially when youthey're ten years oldlooking forward to lots of exciting films, and you miss your old homemany, many snacks! However, and you and your little sister have to start a new school but your mum seems to be out working all as the time. Then there's your dadmovie starts, who doesn't seem like he's coping so wellthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and so therethey are swept up into an adventure they couldn's no t even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to take care of things but you. Everything feels different and strangethe next, and mysterious, and so Luna finds a way of coping can they figure out what on earth is by watching. going on? She turns detective Will they ever get back to the cinema, and starts keeping an eye on her new neighbourhood, but it turns out she's not the only one keeping watch!to their real lives?|isbn=17880060461839942738
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|isbnauthor=B003A6W0FORachel Greenlaw|title=Can You Forgive Her?Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=Anthony TrollopeJames Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland
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|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=On Things have been a bit sticky for the surface Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: it's the story of one woman re paid to do and two men who are vying with each other for her lovetasks that took time to accomplish. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged Just as they were beginning to her cousin, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and later became engaged get used to John Grey. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour of the continent with George Vavasor all this technological change and his sister Kate. It's obvious that there's still a great deal of chemistry between John and Alice - and Kate is all for encouraging the relationship as it would tie Alice starting to her. George wants Alice but it's a matter think of ''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and the original engagement had fallen through because of his infidelity and deceitfulness, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. This thread is the story of a very complicated love affair Life was pretty much shut down and a woman who lacks confidence in her own judgement. You might not like Alice to start , along with but you will warm to herit, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|author=Hannah GoldMatthew Tree|title=The Last BearWe'll Never Know
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|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=April's Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a scientist, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, drunk and he accepts the job deciding to take chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his daughter April with him. They live alone anyway, since April's mother died some time before, and he feels it will be educational for her to experience the island and artistic passions all its natural beauty. April already has an affinity with nature, failed miserably and she's excited to travel with her father, thinking who had endless crises of all the fun things they will be able self confidence. So Tim applied himself to experience together on the island. But when they get therehis studies, her father finds that cultivated his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of abilities rather than his time, daydreams and so April is left to explore by herself. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, set himself high but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find the Bear, and then when she sees he is injured, to befriend and help himachievable ambitions.|isbn=000841128XB0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1472276140A G Slatter|title=What Will Burn (Inspector McLean)|author=James OswaldThe Briar Book of the Dead
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|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=When Cecily Slater'' There's body was founda part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, she'd already been dead at last. I just want to enjoy it for a week - in while.'' Within a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburgh. Heavy rain had washed remote mountain pass, far away most from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the evidenceBriar's, but DI Tony McLean, demoted a family of witches who protect the town and just returned the wider world from suspensionthe Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is reluctant the first non-witch to accept that this is nothing more be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than a careless accidentspells and potions. There were indications that Slater had been savagelyWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, almost ritualistically beaten before the firetown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. But who would hate a ninety-year-old woman As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the extent dead, putting her at the heart of doing something like that? She was a virtual recluse: maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who could she to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have upset sacrificed to that extent?survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=000845552X1529900360|title=Where Ravens RoostThe Ghost Orchid|author=Karin NordinJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been estranged from his father, Stenarbadly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for more than a decade but when he got the rather muddled phone call from him saying his help on difficult cases. His assertions that he'd seen a murder in the barn on his land he there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't hesitate to drop everything and go to Varsundneed the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. ActuallyFinally, it was Robin, Delaware'drop everything' rather overstates s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the situationman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Nygaard was on suspension following Two lovers were murdered in the shooting swimming pool of a suspect remote property in the Aubuchon murder enquiryBel Air. There had been a complication: He was the Kattegat Killer turned out heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to be Nils Hedin, Nygaardan extremely rich man and it's best friendnot the Italian. Still, the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg in the south But which of Sweden to Varsund in them was the far north shouldn't be underestimated.primary target?
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|isbn=14711871791529395224|title=A Beautiful SpyLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Rachel HoreSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburbSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. The book is set His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her motherstrain that being on-call put on his father's expectations and find life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a nice young man to marry, produce children vet and spend was convinced this was the rest of her days looking after her husband and their homejob for him. UnfortunatelyBefore long, this isnhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a secretarychild. As a result of a chance meetingIf anything, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living he'd wanted to be a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Partyprofessional footballer.
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|authorisbn= T L Huchu0861541774|title= The Library A Nye of the DeadPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Ropa Moyo is a ghostalkerDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, using Zimbabwean magic (and has taken a bit of Scottish pragmatism) short holiday in Singapore to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relativesmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and her aging grandmotherhe killed a Ghurka. However Initially, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets he faced a charge of Edinburgh, targeting manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the city's childrenman. Soon, Ropa is pulled into Now he could be facing the search for death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library diplomatic incident and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever couldwouldn've imaginedt help Danny at all. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 1529039452
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|author=Everina Maxwell|title=Winter's Orbit|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= Prince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He's outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past few years. So when an important political alliance is to be arranged – one that is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the role. Least of all him.|isbn=0356515885}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838952012Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Favour|author=Laura VaughanPerfect Passion Company
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=The rejection Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Oxford came Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a bit of a shock to Ada Howell: more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she was, could come and look after all, the daughter of the renowned authorbusiness, Anthony Howell, who'd been as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to this collegeget away for a while. WellKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, she wasn't ''actually'' Howell's daughter: he'd married her mother after her birth and had then adopted her, so she was 'chosen' rather than just 'made', which was better reallyjumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And whilst so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we're being honestalready love, we might as well admit that 'renowned author' might be stretching thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the truth Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a little: his books degenerated into selfbusiness, or in match-published poetry which Ada couldn't understand. Stillmaking, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, Ada had felt entitled and this was why her godmotherthere's offer had come at such always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a brilliant time.hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn=C A Sacha0811771741|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a plan collection of knits from toys to increase his already startling wealth and ensure his legacy: to bring blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the worldfire's first emission-free car to market and dominate productionvariety. The secret development project projects are divided by the time they'll take to enable thiscomplete - less than five hours, Bucephalusfive to ten hours, is already underway ten to twenty hours and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into a second term to help him carry it outmore than twenty hours. Montgomery is also looking for a legacy All the projects are attractive, modern and one useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that does not involve his controlling mother and her foundation, so grabs onto Finnegan's Feed Africa programme with both hands.me being picky..|isbn=1800461976
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|author=Martin VenningDean Koontz|title=The Primary ObjectiveBad Weather Friend|rating=24.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary= Sometimes Benny is having a book starts off slowly, but eventually draws you in to caring about the characters or simply wanting to know what happens nextterrifically bad day. Sometimes it doesn'tHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. The basic premise is Oh, and someone has delivered a good one – a clandestine organisationreally weird, operating as a charitydisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, but funded by various governments around the world and partially (maybe, Iit'm not sure) under s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the auspices of the UNthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, with Benny is the primary objective of keeping the peace, by any means possiblevery last person to deserve all this bad luck. Diplomacy He is always a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the first option and sometimes one that needs delivery to be carried out by third partieshis house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, but who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for situations when that looks unlikely being a good person. Spike is going to yield results Peace International maintains a call-on list take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of field operativesBenny's enemies, ex-militaryif he, medicsBenny, scientists or anyone else with and Harper (a taste for waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure and willing to risk their life for the sake of it) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=18004611001662500491
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|author=Francesca Simon and Steve MayAdam Stower|title=Two Terrible VikingsMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=In Murray is supposed to be a small Viking village there live two twinshumble, Hack tidy and Whackfriendly cat, one who are eager is able to be sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the very worst Vikings ever! two. Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at But he's a birthday partybad magician's cat, chaos whilst tracking so his favourite bun has been turned into a trollhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and undertake the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to all kinds world of mischief frightening adventure and naughty behaviourwhiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Biteyone much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and their crazy cast of friends.he'll have to do…|isbn=05713494980008561249
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|authorisbn=Helen FisherB0C47LV1PC|title=Space HopperFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=3.54|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from Can you make a cold that got worse, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormously. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70's and her mum'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, she revels in is the chance to create some memories and get to know question should you make it? Or is the woman who meant so much to her. question if you did, would it land? The time travelling, however, catch is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that her husband wonthe answer for both could well be.... no. ''t believe whatFragility's happening and so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangled' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, and Faye cautiously begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663covid pandemic
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|isbn=17874778001529431735|title=The Night Hawks (Dr Ruth Galloway)Winter Visitor|author=Elly GriffithsJames Henry|rating=4.5
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|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists It's February 1991 and theyEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that there's treasure to be foundreturn all the more surprising. Unfortunately, He'd been exiled on the youngest of the group, twenty-one-year-old Troy Evans, finds the body of Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a man floating on the incoming tidedecade. After pulling it ashoreThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, they call the police. DCI Nelson thinks saying that itshe's probably the body of an asylum seeker but thereill and hasn't long to live. It's no evidence of hard to feel any activity sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to be had from his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the coastguardboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. The dead man turns out to be Jem Taylor, Is it a North Norfolk man recently released warning from prison.a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=1529378648Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick HerronThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Someone Eli is killing secret service agentsa busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, past and present, from in the evening a helper at the Slough House teamdessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Jackson Lamb can't understand itEli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. WellA few short years ago, what he actually canEli't understand is whys parents were both lost to the titular race, having seen them, anyone would bothera globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. But This has made the deaths are mounting up and something needs race anathema to be done. After all ''the pair – but when things went awry on Spook Street, they generally went a bad incident at the full Chris Grayling.'' Over at Regent's Parkeatery leads to a confession from gran, Diana Taverner Eli knows his only hope is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the perpetrator prize of a Novichok poisoning in magic at the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatched. It isn't just end – the message that was sent: she's also delighted that she managed only thing to fund the operation off the books. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about thispossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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