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|isbnauthor=1409181669Tom Percival|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesWrong Shoes
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Danny Will's life is eleven years olddifficult, and what he really, really loves to do is drawin a multitude of ways. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds is bullied because he has 'the words. Dannywrong shoes's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on he has the wrong shoes because his maths, dad can't work and forget about doesn't have enough money for even the drawingmost basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has lost his own roomjob at the college, where he can draw was working a cash-in secret -hand job on a building site and in peacehad an accident. But then one day Throw into that mix the fact that his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, mum and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with themdad are separated, and who will not only be sharing DannyWill's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of his bunk bed! hope. Danny He is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no Englishgood at art, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitterclings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, and showing her around that feel like a light at the town. Poor Danny, stuck on end of a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situationlong, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi..dark tunnel.how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X1398527122
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|author=Terry MilesSylvie Cathrall|title=RabbitsA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this There are few greater joys than a book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and which lives up to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very shortcompelling premise. However And this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed..of them.|isbn=15290169320356522776
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|authorisbn=C J Carey0008517061|title=WidowlandDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It's April 1953Former Metropolitan Police detective, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to LondonJake Johnson, parading around has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to little uncertainty about the throne future of Edward VIII his life with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know itvet girlfriend, Livia and we are now a protectorate – wellher daughter Diana, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly moving in together would mean a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas lot of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from highcompromise: does Jake give up his off-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, grid and beyond those, right on down relaxing life to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement future she wants for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, herself and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and so they just get a hefty tweak towards putting the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until future on the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visitback burner.|isbn=152941198X
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|authorisbn=Louise Beech1786482126|title=This Is How We Are HumanThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to her son, Sebastian hold seventy- but she canfive 'luxury't give him everything he wantsapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Sebastian has decided that it It's time for him to have sex. But difficult as an autistic 20 year-oldRuth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that's easier said than doneshe is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. And it's starting Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to cause them both problemssudden bouts of sickness. |isbn=1913193713
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|isbn=B093VPBL5L0008551324|title=Cape Henry HouseThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jolly Walker BittickNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet Bosner, or, It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosnerapproach the police. We never really find out if Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he has a first name: there's merely prepared to tell the police where the body of a hint that missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he had promises, is someone big and it will be worth the nickname 'Secretary' at one pointpolice doing what he wants. He's simply Bosner And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to one serve the remainder of his sentence and allto get an early parole date. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helosNot much to ask, as they were called) at a naval establishment. is it? The hours could be long new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and he was often working nights but at she's even prepared to do the age of twentyother thing that Hardie demanded -one, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking make certain that DS Max Craigie and eating) into his dayanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|authorisbn=Hannah Whitten0008405026|title=For A Stranger in the WolfFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=In RedIt's family, the first daughter becomes queen, sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the second daughter becomes investigation ground to a sacrificehalt. To Red's misfortune Now, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her backmother, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolfHelena, and he is the one who will decide the fate of her father are dead in their kingdombed. If she is not Initially, it looks like a worthy sacrifice, straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the monsters he keeps contained to positioning of the woods will be released, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories goher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than What looked as though it was going to be killed within the hour, she finds an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the legends are explanation lies. The wolf is not a monster—hein Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's a manboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=0356516369
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|authorisbn=M G Leonard0571379877|title=TwitchThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Twitch Edward Jevons is a boy who loves birdsworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He keeps pigeons at home's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and chickens, entitled and even uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has swallows nesting been in his bedroom! His time spent watching love with Stanza since their university days - and helping birds is easy compared he's drunkenly confided how he feels to that of his time in schoolRobert. But things are about to change for Twitch Most men in all aspects of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the run, and itRobert's possible that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has his secret hide and position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he knows 's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the back two of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mystery, and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1838853804Jo Callaghan|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro RamsayLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their 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, Kat is 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. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?
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|isbn=1399613073
|title=Moral Injuries
|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pondruthlessly ambitious, only which is a bonus when you aim to find that he'd hanged himselfbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Twenty years later she's back home again Laura is a perfectionist and this time the occasion is no less sada trauma doctor. She's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who Anjali is dying the free spirit of anorexiathe group and she becomes a GP. As she dies, Melissa whispers When we first meet them they'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor re at a drug and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry alcohol- or was fuelled party and it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? going to end in tragedy. The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the County and money was never in short supply consequences. Twenty- but five years later there did seem to will be a cursean eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. In addition to MelissaThis time, it's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years beforeteenage children who are involved. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?
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|isbn=02414001200241636604|title=The Girl Who DiedTrading Game: A Confession|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Una was not thriving If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then sheyour mind, you'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teacherre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. She A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was thirty years old familiar with violence, poverty and money was tightinjustice. Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the Langanes PeninsulaLondon School of Economics. There were Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only ten envy. He also realised that most rich people in the village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would expect poor people to be paid and accommodation providedstupid. Una It was his ability at what was the only applicant and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefullyessentially, save some money over the winter a card game which her contract coveredgot him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=18469757191035021803|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Denzil MeyrickC L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to awkward placesthe English country village where she grew up. But thatShe's Londonback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, isnCarole. Freya't it? s former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. WhatArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's happening in Kinloch?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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|author=Richard BrookSunny Singh|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleThrillers |summary= I am The Hotel Arcadia is a firm believer luxury hotel in an unnamed city that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose ushas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. In my caseHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, this there is one of Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the latterhotel manager. Not so very long ago As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed ithe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, found some and keeps on venturing out of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came her room to me not just because I was likely try to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbagcapture what's uhappened through her photography.s.p. is that people chose Although they only ever talk over the phone, their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to like see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right nowterrorists.|isbn=1800461682086154742X
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|isbn=B095CY7NBN1529153298|title=Autumn CampThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Barry FowlerJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It was to be Brian's last camp1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. He(A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'd founded the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since but he was leaving school and the time had come to hand the reins to someone elses not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. The obvious person was GaryWell, whothey'd always ve been the fun element of the camps and Brian had said that on this campmurdered, Gary should act as the leader and hebut to have 'disappeared' doesn'd just be there to observet sound quite so frightening. The problem with this was Miv's upset because she's overheard that Gary wasnher father wants to move the family 'Down South't really an organiser, an administrator if you like. He was the entertainerWhen you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did the organisingbest avoided. He handed For Miv, the camp over - move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and then took it back. And Gary determined she'll do anything to have his revengeprevent that. This should have been She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum'his'' camps stopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=194812467X1398524085|title=The Farm ShopHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicNicci French|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Kirelle Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walkdaughter, Etty. Kirelle is dressed for are all weathers in worried but - strangely - her bright yellow wellies and Sam husband, Alec, is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coatnot. As they walk to Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the top body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outsideriver. Itwas an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all t stand the stallholders and customers are farmyard animalsguilt. There The Salter children are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and Sam go shoppingwonder about what really happened. What will they buy?
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|isbn=00084049251035906708|title=The Killing KindDiva|author=Jane CaseyDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new We tend to barrister Ingrid Lewis think of Maria Callas as Greek, but John Webster came as something of a surprise. After allshe was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, it in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was her cross-examination of the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentencethirteen. He'd been accused of stalking the woman Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it didnto 'Callas't take long to establish that - if anything - make it was more manageable in the other way aroundStates. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then When she came to see him as a threat and was forced to remember back in Athens - supposedly so that the police officer at his trial had told she could get appropriate training for her that this voice - she was raised under the best chance they'd had to put Webster away Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for a long time: he was a very dangerous manher elder sister, Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=0008395594Christopher Edge|title=Both of You|author=Adele ParksBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=You could be forgiven Lucas and his friends are all booked in for thinking a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoresthe nickname of 'The Black Hole'. ThenAll big movie fans, one Mondaythey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, she went to work and never came home. many, many snacks! MarkHowever, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, Oli and Seb they are shatteredswept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. WellBut as they lurch from one film genre to the next, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom can they figure out what on earth is his best look. going on? He's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down Will they ever get back to him growing up the cinema, and starting to become independent. Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without trace.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|isbnauthor=1473685745Rachel Greenlaw|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie MarshCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary=When Beth Carlyle ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and Simon Withers first met they were partially forgotten island, survives on opposite ends luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of an angry exchange - wellthe 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, Simon was angry they capture the island's leader and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked SimonMira's sonfather. Desperate to save him from death, JakeMira 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 his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - in search of a family secret that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronymslies buried deep in the sea. When he was bornWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the left side watched streets of his foreign islands to the heart hadnof the smuggler't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. Sos territory, Simon has every right Mira must be determined to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're drivingstop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|author=Louie StowellJames Sherwood Metts|title=OtherlandPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Myra and Rohan are like Yin Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and Yang – Myra is loudautomation have been proceeding apace, bright and hates rules, while Rohan is very polite, serious often replacing jobs they're paid to do and worries about the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same other tasks that took time at the same hospital on Midsummer's dayto accomplish. And so, every year their families Just as they were beginning to get together used to all this technological change and starting to celebrate the two's birthday/deathday. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queenthink of other, they must journey new ways to the Otherlandspend time, a magical realm full of fairies, vampiresalong came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, dragonsalong with it, and Gods. It's going to be all the worst night of their livesmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=17880004631736128426
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|isbnauthor=walker14Matthew Tree|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in the prehistory museum Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at Les Eyzies that chief any of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, to solve a case that artistic passions all failed miserably and who had haunted him for thirty years. The body endless crises of a young male was found in the woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought to justiceself confidence. What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull and the resulting publicity be used So Tim applied himself to identify the young man? J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' and has a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves studies, cultivated his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until abilities rather than his killer has been brought to justicedaydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|author= Martha LeighA G Slatter|title= Invisible Ink: A Family MemoirThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating= 5|genre= BiographyFantasy|summary= Martha Leigh begins her book talking about '' There's a childhood spent in 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 slightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English familywhile. Her father is '' Within a Cambridge donremote mountain pass, forever clacking far away on his typewriter as he edits from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the complete correspondence protection of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his lifeBriar's work, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Her mother Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a concert pianist who practises for hours every daysteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Neither parent is hugely interested in As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the practicalities heart of lifea maelstrom of chaos. There is love in Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the house but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is thereunder threat.|isbn=18004603841803364548
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|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529900360|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=SoIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'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. Having done the impossible His assertions that there were only open-and unpicked -shut cases which didn't need the lock to the Forgotten Crypthelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, from which the Departed communicate with the Mergeit was Robin, Archie now has Delaware''grop'' to think abouts partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. But before She knew that the involvement was something thatthe man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, soireesthough. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. Soirees! Archie, much He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to Inezan extremely rich man and it's amusement, doesn't even know what one of those isnot the Italian. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez which of them was crushed in the first volume of this series. |isbn=B093J9TF73primary target?
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|authorisbn= Adrian Tchaikovsky1529395224|title= Shards Letting the Cat Out of Earththe Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating= 43.5|genre= Science FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped Siôn Rowlands fell into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architectsveterinary science accidentally. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to the architect's reshaping. Thenfollow in his footsteps, just particularly when they had he considered the human race strain that being on the run, the Architects vanished-call put on his father's life. And so, When he was seventeen he took the memories opportunity of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, doing work experience with a family friend who was a man genetically engineered to try vet and communicate with was convinced this was the Architects, does not want to be rememberedjob for him. But Before long, when he and the crew of the salvage ship was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlightwas a child. As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers If anything, he slowly begins 'd wanted to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886be a professional footballer.
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|isbn=18484584280861541774|title=Local Woman MissingA Nye of Pheasants|author=Mary KubicaSteve Burrows
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Eleven years agoDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a man regularly came home short holiday in Singapore to his wife meet up with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - againan old ally, Guy Trueman. His wife Maik was involved in the habit of going out for a run late at night. It was the only time she had for herself when she didn't have to look after her baby street brawl - but when she he would later maintain that he was out she would meet up facing a man armed with a man, grateful for the unquestioning affection knife - and he gave herkilled a Ghurka. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappearedInitially, seemingly without he faced a trace, leaving her husband charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to look after her disabled babymurder the man. Ten days later, a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed to Now he could be under some strain for facing the last couple of weeks or sodeath penalty. Her body was eventually found in Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a seedy motel - it appeared that shediplomatic incident and wouldn'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for hert help Danny at all.
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|author=Nicolas BouvierAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Japanese ChroniclesPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary= It never does The 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 business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to start Canada to get away for a review while. Katie is coming out of a book break up with a quote from bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the blurb, but sometimes it's unavoidablechance to come home to Edinburgh. Le Monde reviewed And so begins this booknew story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, at some pointthanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with the words ''what the old master craftsmen would call a masterpiece.'' It is precisely thatsome new characters who quickly begin to charm. A masterpiece Katie has no experience in the sense of the craft as well as the art of writing. I'm going to hesitate to call it 'travel writing' because this is as much running a history of Japanbusiness, a mythologyor in match-primer for the Japanese culture as it is making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a personal response to living and travelling in the country. hand…|isbn=19060110441846976596
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|authorisbn=Genevieve Gornichec0811771741|title=The Witch's HeartInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=FantasyCrafts|summary= A modern and approachable reimagining Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrbodaknits from toys to blankets. She hides in a forest at the edge Some will be quick knits - others are of the nine worlds'long, remembering nothing cosy afternoons in front of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odinfire's wrathvariety. Her attempts to live in peace, however, The projects are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to divided by the stake—and refuses time they'll take to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrustcomplete - less than five hours, Angrboda begins five to fall for Loki's charmsten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the two start an unusual family made of up a halfprojects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-dead daughter, a son thatworthy projects's a wolf, and another son but that's a snakeme being picky.|isbn=1789097061
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|isbnauthor=1788549759Dean Koontz|title=The Distant Dead|author=Lesley ThomsonBad Weather Friend
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|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old sonBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, Williamhe loses his fiancee, at home with her parentsand his house gets trashed. The boy thought that Maple was Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his sister - home, and it 's possible that whoever or whatever was better for inside is the family than thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the shame of illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William's) on very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a better footingnice person. She was going A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to meet her well-to-do fiancéhis house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, hoping who has been sent to persuade help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to come take care of Benny, and meet her family the following week. Laterwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, her body would be found in the bombed-and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out home where he had taken herwho exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=1529407249Adam Stower|title=The Perfect Lie|author=Jo SpainMurray and Bun
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=It was July 2019 Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and Erin was happy, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: thatBut he's always a dangerous thing to do when youbad magician're married to s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a cop but she was hopeful. They'd been married for six months hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and life was good with a decent apartment by the sea in Newportcatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, Long Islandbut into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. The knock on the door was insistent and when This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was opened, Dannyto be honest, but he's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officers. Danny took one look, turned, walked to the open window up and jumped he'll have to his death from the fourth floor.do… Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husband's murder.|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=1523092734B0C47LV1PC|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming SpaceFragility|author=Eliza Van CortMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.Yo birthing person'' (Alma Derricksjoke? And if you could, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It question should you make it? Or is to live the life question if you've always wanteddid, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.''
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|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529431735|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The second trilogy in ShanIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'return all the more surprising. He'Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in d been exiled on the world of the BornCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. It The return has come about because he's not been easyhad a letter from his ex-wife, explaining to his foster parents where hesaying that she's been, or slipping back into ordinary life ill and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his besthasn't long to live.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben It's clock tower hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock sent to a watery grave in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awaythe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ}} Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?