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|isbnauthor=1788360702Sylvie Cathrall|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard ErnstA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=BiographyScience Fiction|summary=For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's opinions, beliefs and aims against the background of the scientific evidence. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments greater joys than a book which have no scientific support has done considerable damage lives up to the reputation of a man who compelling premise. And this is proud one of his refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitionsthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn=Will Carver0008517061|title=The Daves Next DoorDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a suicide bomber prepares to detonate little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlapvet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, the story is told as moving in backwards order, leading together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the fateful momentthey’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.|isbn= 1914585186}}
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|isbn=15291257901786482126|title=The Family RemainsJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Lisa JewellElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In July 2019, Jason Mott Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was mud larking on the banks of the River Thames when he came across a bag of what appeared going to be human bones. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu and Saffron Brown from forensics were there to investigate. The bones were indeed human: a young woman had been killed by a blow to the head many years ago - probably as long as twentyhold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - but when they discovered the bones had not been in the river longer than of a child beneath a yeardoorway. There was no identification skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the bag contained vegetationone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, some not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of which was quite unusualsickness.
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|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason0008551324|title=Partitions of UnityThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Here at Bookbag TowersIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, we first met Elizabeth Cromwellhe promises, dominatrix is someone big and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and unravelled a series of disappearancesto get an early parole date. In Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'Partitions of Unity's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what', she sets her mind to solving a murders happening....|isbn=B09LQR9FRF
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|authorisbn=Fiona Parashar 0008405026|title=A Beautiful Way to Coach Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
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|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary= So what am I doing reading this bookIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, using this bookHelena, and being audacious enough to review it? her father are dead in their bed. Truth is I bought Initially, it out looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of curiositythe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. I What looked as though it was at going to be an onopen-line launch for the book and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed to me-shut case is now a complex double murder. I wanted to see if there were things Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing them to a full day, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted to see if I could give myself a Vision DayRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, to bring me away from their vision and back to my ownUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=103211603X
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|isbn=19137503530571379877|title=Britannica's Word of the DayThe Kellerby Code|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue MacyJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert''Britannicas a theatre director. He's Word of the Day'' has a subalso self-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need uses Edward to know about this brilliant bookrun errands for him. It starts on January 1st Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he''Razzmatazz'', tells you s drunkenly confided how he feels to pronounce it (Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and then includes s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the word two of them kissing in a sentence so that you know how it should be useddark passageway. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!
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|author=A C WiseJo Callaghan|title=HookedLeave No Trace
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It’s been twenty-two years since Captain HookWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, now going by just ‘James’DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, has been in Neverlandthe AI detective Lock. Living a new life in LondonIt's their first live case together, he has never completely escaped his pasthaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But now he senses the edges of the beast circling around his life in Londonwhen there is a second body found crucified a few days later, and when Kat is suddenly he finds himself face to face in the street struggling with Wendy, he knows a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that the line between this world and Neverland is growing thindraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The beast is finally coming Will they be able to get himsolve the case in time, and in or will Kat find herself taken off the process will pull Wendy case and her daughter Jane back into their past once again., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1789096839139851120X
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|isbn=17873017451399613073|title=ConfidenceMoral Injuries|author=Denise MinaChristie Watson|rating=34.5
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|summary=We're back in Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the world first day of podcasters Anna medical school and Fintheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. It was Anna who'd organised the 'family' holiday: her ex, Hamish, Laura is now with her best friend, Estelle a perfectionist and her children are living with thema trauma doctor. Fin (who was married to Estelle) Anjali is there too the free spirit of the group and it was Anna who invited his girlfriend, Sofia. It's not long before everyone realises that was she becomes a bad mistakeGP. SofiaWhen we first meet them they's difficult re at a drug and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation alcohol- a lighthouse, fuelled party and it's going to end in a storm - she begins talking about Annatragedy. We don's past, including her real name and t know who suffered the tragedy or the rapeconsequences. This was something which Anna had intended to tell the girls Twenty- twelve-tear-old Jess and ten-year-old Lizzie - when five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the time was rightthree friends. And this wasnThis time, it't the right times their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=178763566X0241636604|title=Listen to MeThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Tess GerritsenGary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=1035021803
|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder
|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeIt're in Boston with Amys twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. When she set out She's back now because of a request for university this morning it help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was a spring day and the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she wore feels, let her newdown badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows that they're going has not felt able to be ruined - and unsafe - in near the man or pursue the snow that's now fallingprofession she loved. As she crosses After the roadsplit, she worked in a car comes out cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of nowhere her life, who was murdered) and Freya and hits herJames have now divorced. It doesn}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''t stopOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''
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|isbnauthor=0008395632Sunny Singh|title=One Last Secret|author=Adele ParksHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Natalya The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an escort. Well, her name's not ''actually'' Natalya: unnamed city that's her professional name but it is has suddenly been violently taken over by a nod to her Serbian heritageterrorist group. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora DziewulskiHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, usually known as Dora Wulski. If you're thinking of 'escort' as being a polite description of a prostitutekilling everyone on site, run by a pimpthere is Sam, who's turning tricks to fund a drug habitwartime photographer and Abhi, forget itthe hotel manager. Dora is a professional As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in all senses of the word. She has an agenthotel, Elspethhe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, who takes 30% and keeps on venturing out of her income and deals with the payments but checks out the clients room to see that Dora is going try to be safecapture what's happened through her photography. Dora describes herself Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as a self-employed clairvoyant Abhi tries to Her Majesty's Revenue help her keep safe and Customsthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists. |isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=David Solomons1529153298|title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Gavin It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is being followedPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, seemingly constantlyhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, by the new (very annoying) girl at schoolthough. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl storyWomen have been disappearing. Because in this instanceWell, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the girl in question is Nikifamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, and she Down South is a galactic princess (nofrightening, reallyforeign place, she is!) best avoided. So what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled in a situation whereFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, potentiallySharon, Earth and everyone on it will be blown she'll do anything to smithereens, all because of Niki?|isbn=0857639935prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=Alex Cotter1398524085|title=The Mermaid CallHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids donCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband't exists fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. But she also knows they have to exist – at least in the public eyeHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – a far northern English resort – without them. A hundred years and change agoare all worried but - strangely - her husband, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaidsAlec, but were forced to return to help out with the Great War effortis not. They also showed female emancipation, which helped create the town's tourism industryShortly afterwards, now faded Etty and falling apart but once a feminist success story. AliceGreg, a girl who stumbles into Vivienfind the body of Greg's gran's tourist shop one dayfather, knows she certainly wants mermaids to exist – she thinks her family's black sheep died searching for themDuncan Ackerley, or else was just too successful in her huntthe river. When It was an easy assumption for the shy, doubting Thomasina police to make that is Vivien collides 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 the exuberant, gung-ho Alice, their lives and wonder about what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they find?|isbn=1839941901really happened.
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|isbn=17398051001035906708|title=Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of warDiva|author=Andrew MarchDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=BiographyGeneral Fiction|summary= ''Loving the Enemy'' tells the quite extraordinary story We tend to think of author Andrew March's grandparentsMaria Callas as Greek, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went to Dresden but she was born to teach in the early days of the Nazi regime Greek parents in the 1930s. FredManhattan, a sensitive and thoughtful manNew York, had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the timeDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Fred Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and connections it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that lasted she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a lifetimemother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=B0B575J99NChristopher Edge|title=Beneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke AdamsBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a teacher movie marathon at their local cinema, a prestigious girl's school in York. It was 'place that has the nickname of 'comfortableThe Black Hole'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'All big movie fans, they' re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and now was the time to make a change. many, many snacks! She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for However, as the professoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interviewmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, she was offered the position and it wasnthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't long before she was exploring even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the beautiful city. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|isbnauthor=1529125898Rachel Greenlaw|title=Godmersham Park|author=Gill HornbyCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Historical FictionTeens|summary=''If it were not for I can hear the casual dereliction song of the odd gentleman's dutysea. The call of the deep, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at allthe answering beat in my heart.''
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|author=Lev Parikian James Sherwood Metts|title=Light Rains Sometimes FallPlanet Storyland
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|genre=Animals and WildlifeConfident Readers|summary= If you’re Things have been a writer yourselfbit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, or an aspiring writer, or someone who pretends often replacing jobs they're paid to write, then you know do and other tasks that there are unnumbered types of bookstook time to accomplish. Some you read for fun, some for distraction, some for vicarious emotion, some to learn from in a random way, some for focussed research, and some because Just as they are, broadly speaking, the kind of thing you think you might like were beginning to write. Or, indeed, are actually trying get used to write.|isbn=1783966386}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0751581577|title=Lying Beside You|author=Michael Robotham|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents all this technological change and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthday. Voices told him starting to do it. Only two people survived the carnage - Eliasthink of other, who was sent new ways to Ramptonspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and his thirteen-year-old brother, Cyrusalong with it, who hid in a shed until all the police found himmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. Twenty years later, Cyrus is a forensic psychologist and he's been told that his brother is being released. Can Cyrus forgive the sinner whilst having to live on a daily basis with the results of the crime? Can he bear to have Elias living in the same house? How will his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=140595115XMatthew Tree|title=A Stranger on Board|author=Cameron WardWe'll Never Know
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|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Right Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from the beginning, we know this will not turn out well. Eight days into the trip to deliver the superyacht ''Escape'' to Antiguahis father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all 300 tonnes failed miserably and six decks will be floundering without power in the Atlantic. Those of the crew who are left will be cowering in fear a fellow crew member tries to pick them off, one by one. Some are already dead. They are three days from shore and there is no way had endless crises of making contactself confidence. But let's go back So Tim applied himself to when all this startedhis studies, in Southamptoncultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1398508632A G Slatter|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo WildeBriar Book of the Dead
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|genre=LifestyleFantasy|summary=It had been on the cards '' 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 but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November'' Within a remote mountain pass, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not far away from the best time to startworld, in lies Silverton; a world where town under the protection of the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate changeBriar's, Brexit a family of witches who protect the town and a pandemicthe wider world from the Darklands. Wilde had a few advantages: Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the area around first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a known habitat with a variety of terrainssteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. She had electricity which allowed When her to run a fridgegrandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, freezer and dehydratorEllie takes her place beside her. She had As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a car - and fuelmaelstrom of chaos. Most importantlyReeling from one family secret to another, she had shelter: this was not a plan Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches''live'' wild just legacy, everything they have sacrificed to live off its producesurvive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=16358646741529900360|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and MoreThe Ghost Orchid|author=Joy HowardJonathan Kellerman
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|genre=CookeryCrime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'Think s 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 on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of it as no-whining dininga psychologist only worked for a while.'' We know Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's a fruit rather than a vegetable but partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the fact involvement was something that so many people get confused just goes to show how versatile the tomato isman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. Then there are all He was the different types, not heir to mention the cultivars - an Italian shoe empire and you begin she is married to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasnan extremely rich man and it't met one she didn't loves not the Italian. I'd argue with her there - I have no affection for But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the ones you find in Cat Out of the supermarket ''next'Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|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 ones labelled strain that being on-call put on his father'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from s life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the ones that have obviously just been grown job for profithim. PersonallyBefore long, Ihe was at Liverpool University. It hadn'd prefer t - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a tin of tomatoes to those - and Howard makes good use of thesechild. SheIf anything, he's not at all precious if you get the tasted wanted to be a professional footballer.
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|isbn=02419890270861541774|title=We All Have Our SecretsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Jane CorrySteve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for live-DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in help as he was failing Singapore to cope at Willowmead House on his ownmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. His advert Maik was fairly specific: involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a retired lawyer needing help but man armed with a knife - and he also spoke of the ability to cook killed a good steak, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fadsGhurka. The first person who Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the house was Francoise, a French woman in her early twenties, who fit the bill perfectlyman. She got Now he could be facing the job but Francoise didn't know about the advert: she was there for a completely different reasondeath penalty. Emily Gentle is Harold's daughter and she came Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to Willowmead House because she was running away help as any interference from another police force could provoke a problem in London. Emilydiplomatic incident and wouldn's a midwife and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had been madet help Danny at all.
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|author=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)Alexander McCall Smith|title=Tasting SunlightThe Perfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sally The Perfect Passion Company is a teenager who has dating agency in Edinburgh, run away from by Ness and operating as an anorexia treatment clinic. She just wants space, and for people alternative to stop questioning herall the online apps in providing a more personal, tiptoeing around tailored service. Ness has asked heryounger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, and trying as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to fix her without ever truly understanding herget away for a while. She finds herself on some farmland Katie is coming out of a break up with a woman called Liss who is in her forties bad boyfriend, and seems so jumps at the chance to live alonecome home to Edinburgh. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally as she isAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, giving her a room bringing us to sleep inan Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the space Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to just becharm. As they work together on the farm Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, a closeness develops between themWilliam, becoming to lend a beautiful, powerful friendship.hand…|isbn=19145851431846976596
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|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason0811771741|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's 'A struggling poetry zine, 'InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a momcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits -and-pop mobile diner in others are of the Northern California redwoods'long, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed cosy afternoons in front of the 2004 Olympics, a womenfire's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-variety. The projects are divided by thetime they'll take to complete -art S&M dungeonless than five hours, a man serving a life sentence in Alabamafive to ten hours, an enigmatic signatureten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia..modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'but that' This is just a sample of the cast of characters and settings in Preposterouss me being picky. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=B09STS96HS
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|author=Will BrookerDean Koontz|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyParanormal|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the most successful British authors I've never knowingly readBenny is having a terrifically bad day. Now meet Will BrookerHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have readand his house gets trashed. This book starts with the two meeting each otherOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, as welldisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and shows how 2021 drew it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the two closer and closer together. thing that has trashed his house! The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakesthing is, Benny is the words of her latest book she was reciting, and her being in very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the author events I get delivery to attend)his house is a new friend, but pulled Brookera bad weather friend called Spike, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that been sent to help him since Benny is Jewell's diverse outputclearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than Spike is going to follow her through a year in the published authortake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's lifeenemies, working to make a success of the latest titleif he, Benny, and struggling with the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the resultHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=15291360241662500491
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|isbnauthor=1801109265Adam Stower|title=The Companion|author=Lesley ThomsonMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''Murray is supposed to be a punctual man humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who was inexplicably never on time'' is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and he was - as usual - late to pick up his son, Wilburwell, for their 'boys' day out'whatever takes his fancy next of the two. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for the boyBut he's a bad magician's attentioncat, so his motherfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, Annanot into the regular back garden, promised him but into a roast dinner when he returnedworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. The dinner would never be servedThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, as James and Wilbur are the victims of where a double stabbing on the beach. The case falls troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. Shebe honest, but he's feeling the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets tough.turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=152941363XB0C47LV1PC|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Fragility|author=Martin WalkerMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Nobody knows what Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the truth question if you did, would it land? The catch is any morethat the answer for both could well be.... no.''
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|isbn=02415424051529431735|title=Meredith AloneThe Winter Visitor|author=Claire AlexanderJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs itIt's Wednesday 14 November 2018 February 1991 and sheEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins's not left her home for 1,214 daysreturn all the more surprising. SheHe'd ''like'' to: in fact, she so nearly doesbeen exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Her outdoor clothes are on and sheThe return has come about because he's even considered which shoes to wear if had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's going to catch her train. Then, she can't. She simply canill and hasn't force herself long to leave the safety of her homelive. SheIt's fortunate that she has a good friendhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James stripped to his underwear and Matilda. Sadie's sent to a cardiac nurse and full watery grave in the boot of sound common sensea stolen Ford Sierra. In fact Is it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's a warning from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=B09Y451X9KAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)|author=Richard F WalkerThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
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|summary= So. We're back to Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the Merge wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the first chapter evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the third volume of Darren Shanfamily. A few short years ago, Eli's saga of Archibald Loxparents were both lost to the titular race, a young man who can pick globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the locks of portals from our world to another, called in the ''Merge''company of a magical beast. Since his last adventure, Archie This has persuaded his foster parents into made the race anathema to the pair – but when a slightly uneasy truce on bad incident at the topic of his regular disappearances. They don't ask too many questions and Archie has settled into eatery leads to a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winstonconfession from gran, Eli knows his lock-picking mentor in only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the ''Merge'' and showing Kojo, sole aim the young guardian, around our world prize of magic at the end – the Bornonly thing to possibly save his gran. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD0571382231
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