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|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=15420372390008517061|title=Death in Heelsa Lonely Place|author=Kitty MurphyStig Abell
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|summary=Set against Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the backdrop future of Dublin's drag scenehis life with his vet girlfriend, ''Death in Heels'' tells the story of Fi McKinnery Livia and her best frienddaughter Diana, Robyn, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae B. What is meant to be moving in together would mean a night lot of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to the stage move in with Livia or does Livia move to mock Mae B. As if Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the night could not get any worse, when Fi heads home future she discovers Eve dead wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in a gutter. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet the drag community, present and putting the Guards, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself to solve future on the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperback burner.
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|isbn=18004652701786482126|title=The Lensky ConnectionJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Conrad DelacroixElly Griffiths
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, itBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's June 1995 and heluxury's at apartments - when they discovered the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburgbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. He's Was this a pallbearer for his elder brotherritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Timur, whose death was drug-relatedDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Valeri and TimurIt's fatherdifficult as Ruth knows, Ketobut Nelson doesn't, that she is also a pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to make pregnant with his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Within child as a matter result of the one night they spent together some three months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalistago. She's determined to expose any and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought to Her condition will be about her own safety. To herobvious before long, he's a good source. For him, it's a way not least because Ruth is prone to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possiblesudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=13997022890008551324|title=A World of Curiosities The Devil You Know (Chief Inspector GamacheD S Max Craigie)|author=Louise PennyNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=After a harsh winter, It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines other. But Davie Hardie is enjoying struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the arrival body of springa missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. But something This person, he promises, is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache someone big and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir of it will be worth the Sûreté du Québecpolice doing what he wants. Gamache had offered help And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to a young woman after serve the murder remainder of her mother: he'd been less certain about her charismatic brotherhis sentence and to get an early parole date. For Jean-GuyNot much to ask, is it had always been the other way around. ? Now theyThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she're both in s even prepared to do the village other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and neither can fathom anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. Armand will soon find that they're not just in Three Pines but in his home and in his life.
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|isbn=B0BHR8KWSK0008405026|title=DukkhaA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Martin HydeJane Casey|rating=45|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Sam wakes up chained in It'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 basementhalt. He rails against his captor Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the injustice positioning of his imprisonment? Why? ''Why?'' But of course, he knows whythe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Sam is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down and dirty life by What looked as though it was going to a retreat be an open-and emerging as -shut case is now a neophyte Buddhist monkcomplex double murder. Recently returning to join Kerrigan is convinced that the community explanation lies in his old neighbourhood, he knew his past would be hard to escape but he hadnRosalie't imagined it exploding into this new life in quite s disappearance: others (such a violent fashionas Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=B09XWSXSKY0571379877|title=Maestro Orpheus and the World ClockThe Kellerby Code|author=Robert Penee and Joanne GrodzinskiJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Frederick (or FredEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, but never Freddyobsessed with his upper-class friends, please) couldn't sleepRobert and Stanza. A tune, rather like the ticking of Robert's a clock was playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfathertheatre director. He hadn't really wanted to come; after alls also self-obsessed, demanding, he's ten now handsome and entitled and all those old clocks don't appeal uses Edward to run errands for him anymore. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the times drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. And time isnMost men in Robert't good for anything...'' And s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that was why a relationship had begun between them but he was looking at the clock beside the bed. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the clock chimed only six timestwo of them kissing in a dark passageway. There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?
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|isbnauthor=3756228711Jo Callaghan|title=CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans BodmerLeave No Trace
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|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=''The history of When a man is found crucified on the development top of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.'' Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that. He has chosen a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to tell us about the short, but explosivecase alongside her sidekick, history of the Control Data Company, CDC, for whom he workedAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a fascinating talesecond body found crucified a few days later, told in Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a mixture lot of technological summary 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 wry anecdote. , potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=15293566601399613073|title=The SanctuaryMoral Injuries|author=Emma HaughtonChristie Watson|rating=34.5
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|summary=It was the quiet which woke Zoey up - or, ratherOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the absence first day of the noise medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which was is a bonus when you aim to be a constant in New Yorkcardiothoracic surgeon. Here it was silent Laura is a perfectionist and the heat was overwhelminga trauma doctor. When she looked out Anjali is the free spirit of the window all group and she could see was the desertbecomes a GP. How did she get here? Zoey was houseWhen we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-sitting for Uncle Dan fuelled party and his two Manx cats and she remembered that sheit's going to end in tragedy. We don'd been out with Franny and Rocco last nightt know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. She knew Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that she'd had quite a lot to drink but how could she have got to will impact the desert from New York? three friends. She had no memory of getting on a plane but as she thought backThis time, a memory of sirens, flashing lights and of being pushed into a car snagged on the edge of her mindit's their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Christopher Golden0241636604|title=Road of BonesThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorAutobiography|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road If you were to bring up an image of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberiacity banker in your mind, ityou's one re unlikely to think of the world's most notorious routessomeone like Gary Stevenson. For months of A hoodie and jeans replaces the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above pin-stripe suit and his background is the permafrost surrounding itEast End, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremittingwhere he was familiar with violence, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dustpoverty and injustice. I don't think google streetview updates it very oftenThere was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and because he wanted to give too many people has a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it coversfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but He also realised that's a bit most richpeople expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-makeressentially, doing a recce card game which got him an internship with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projectsCitibank. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guideEventually, gain the company of this turned into permanent employment as a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood villagetrader. And that's where things start to go awry…|isbn=1803361476
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|isbn=18387761841035021803|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder Most Royal|author=S J BennettC L Miller|rating=3.5
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|summary=It''The Queen, like the sunrise and the tides, was generally a reliable way of marking time.'' It seemed to begin as a cold. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been suffering for a couple of days but seemed back to be getting better. Hopefully, the Queen thought, her cold would go the same wayEnglish country village where she grew up. She'd probably caught it s back now because of a request for help from one of the great-grandchildrenher beloved aunt, Carole. UnfortunatelyFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, it didn't get better Arthur Crockleford, is dead and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown flucircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. She and Arthur was the Duke were due to go reason why Freya had not been back to Sandringham by train that day but the doctor put his foot village: Arthur, she feels, let her downbadly. He'd have preferred that the queen have a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be satisfied with near the thought that they'd go by helicopter man or pursue the following dayprofession she loved. It After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was annoying: people would be ready for her today murdered) and Freya and Her Majesty did not like to disappointJames have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Peter Owen JonesAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Conversations with NatureAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Spirituality and ReligionScience Fiction|summary= One ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the comments made when shape of things to come.'' I was offered this beautiful book for review was 've heard it said that it's not very longtechnology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Having read the book twice overWell, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I'm brought back inescapably ve kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to the Spanish proverb that Life may be short, me but it is broad. In this case I'm brought to left with the idea feeling that the length it's all getting away from me. Some of life it is not - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the point; possibilities and the point is its depthprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Peter Owen Jones dives deepI needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1912992418
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|isbnauthor=1916459943Sunny Singh|title=Squeakily Baby|author=Beth WebbHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a squeakily babyterrorist group. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: insteadHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, he just lies killing everyone on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hushsite, there is Sam, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach wartime photographer and you have Abhi, the sound perfectlyhotel manager. The mermaids join As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in - ''la louthe hotel, la lay...'' And for he forms a moment it seems bond with Sam who refuses to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' be cowed by events, and we know exactly keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's going happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to happen nextsee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Robin Stevens1529153298|title=The Ministry List of Unladylike ActivitySuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=May Wong It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a long way from her Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family in Hong Kong, though. Women have been disappearing. She’s stuck in her schoolWell, Deepdeanthey've been murdered, and desperate but to get away, and do something useful to help end the war and to get homehave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. She just knows Miv's upset because she's overheard that she would make her father wants to move the perfect spy! family 'Down South'. And when she finds herself turned away by the MinistryWhen you're from Yorkshire, she takes matters into her own handsDown South is a frightening, along with a boy she meets outside the Ministryforeign place, Ericbest avoided. They both go undercover in a large country houseFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, pretending to be evacueesSharon, in an attempt and she'll do anything to prove prevent that someone there is passing secrets to the Nazis. But there is a lot more going on in Elysium Hall than either them have imagined, and suddenly they find themselves in She's not worried about the middle of a murder scene, with even more to try dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to unravel and solveanyone.|isbn=0241429862
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|isbn=19196350171398524085|title=A Thief to Catch a KillerHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Kitt TownsendNicci French|rating=45|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Solomon Klyne isnCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband't a bad lads 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, so why is he running around London committing a series not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? YouGreg'll have to wait to get s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an answer easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the second question because I avoid spoilersguilt. But I The Salter children are not convinced but there'll answer the first one: for his grandmother..s little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=13985153881035906708|title=The Boy and the DogDiva|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=First We tend to think of allMaria Callas as Greek, it but she was the earthquake, deep born to Greek parents in the ocean floorManhattan, which created the tsunami and thisNew York, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdownDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. The result Her original surname was complete and utter devastationKalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods When she was widespread. The fact back in Athens - supposedly so that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but she could get appropriate training for her voice - six months after she was raised under the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered Nazi occupation by a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door mother who mercilessly exploited her and Tamon the dog jumped inmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=1529153050Christopher Edge|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim BensonBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=HumourConfident Readers|summary=Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more Lucas and more like an adrenaline sporthis friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons a place that has the nickname of 2022'The Black Hole'. Sharp eyes will have noted that weAll big movie fans, they're not yet through looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the year: the cartoons run movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from 4 September 2021 one film genre to 31 August 2022. Who the next, can imagine they figure out what there will be on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to come in the 2023 editioncinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|author=Lisa GrayRachel Greenlaw|title=The Dark RoomCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=What if you knew someone was dead''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, because youthe answering beat in my heart.''d watched them die several years ago Rosevear, but then you come across a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened in a different place remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and time? This plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is what happens one of the seven who swim out to Leonard in this storysurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. He is an ex-crime reporter for But when the Council Watch lays a newspapertrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and since leaving journalism heMira's found himself an unusual hobby where father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he finds oldis secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, undeveloped rolls she sets off in search of film and develops them a family secret that lies buried deep in his own dark room at homethe sea. One With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of these photographs turns out foreign islands to show the murder scene heart of a young woman he met some years ago, and who he the smuggler''thought'' he had watched die in front of him one night in a hotel. He'd felt guilty ever since that nights territory, and lost everything because Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of it - his fiancee her home and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died the night ones she was with him, what on earth actually happened?holds most dear.|isbn=154203535X0008664730
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|author=Natasha Hastings and Alex T SmithJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost FairPlanet Storyland|rating=34.5
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|summary=''The River Thames had frozen to death in its sleepThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings.'' And thus the Frost Fair could happen – people trading on the completely iced-over riverAI and automation have been proceeding apace, like our heroine Thomasinaoften replacing jobs they's father with his gingerbread re paid to do and confectionery shopother tasks that took time to accomplish. Thomasina will be working the Fair too – but her twin brother won't, Just as he dies in Chapter One. It was a tragedy she feels no small guilt for, they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and which has made her father a sullenstarting to think of other, closed shop – and her bed-bound mother has spoken not a word – not even opened her eyesnew ways to spend time, more or less – in the four years since, eitheralong came an awful pandemic. But into the dark, frosted London comes InigoLife was pretty much shut down and, along with supreme magical powersit, and a willingness to help Thomasina. Not only can he introduce her to all the fantastical Other Frost Fair, using the river surface at night for no end of mystical beasts and characters and their happenings, but he has a unique proposal for Thomasina, many daily social interactions on which will shake her world to its corethey depend so heavily.|isbn=00084960561736128426
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|author=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams Matthew Tree|title=The Book of Hope We'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society Literary Fiction|summary= The done thing is Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to read be different from his father, a book drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all the way through before you sit down to review itfailed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want So Tim applied himself to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing bookhis studies, I want to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tearscultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. |isbn=024147857XB0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1529504767A G Slatter|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyBriar Book of the Dead
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|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary=Susan was very young when she was evacuated '' 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.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from London in 1939 the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and nervous about how the wider world from the Darklands. Though she would has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be greeted when born into her family for generations and as such since she got to was young, her final destinationtraining as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. She neednWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't have worried though as she went to s cousin Audra becomes the home of Mr and Mrs RussellBriar Witch, who couldnthe town't have been kinder to s leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. She even had As challenges come her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed way left, right and began centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to enjoy communicate with the dead, putting her lifeat the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and when it came determine what to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put do as the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morningBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)1529900360|title=Red as BloodThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missingIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, all the evidence seems Sturgis was reluctant to point towards her having been kidnappedask for his help on difficult cases. The ransom note tells him not to have any contact with the police, so instead he enlists His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of Aroraa psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, a financial investigatorwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She manages to persuade Flosi knew that the involvement was something that they will need the help man 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. He was the police, heir to an Italian shoe empire and she calls her detective friend, Daniel, whom she met when he was investigating her sister’s disappearance. Together, they start is married to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearance, trying an extremely rich man and it's not to arouse the suspicion Italian. But which of anyone, since they have no idea who the kidnappers might be, yet the more they uncover, them was the more confusing things become.|isbn=1914585321primary target?
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|isbn=08615419951529395224|title=Wolf PackLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Will DeanSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The story began Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on he considered the road north of Visberg. She sees blood strain that being on the road and a creature -call put on its side near his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the pine trees. It will turn out to be Bronco, opportunity of doing work experience with a Swedish Elkhound, family friend who has been attacked by was a wolfvet and was convinced this was the job for him. Tuva takes Bronco and his ownerBefore long, Bengt Nyberg, to the vethe was at Liverpool University. Bronco didnIt hadn't make it but on the way, Nyberg told Tuva that - as with so many students - been his dream since he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missinga child. SheIf anything, he'd been working at Rose Farm and Moodyson's journalist's instincts are soon brought to the fore. Rose Farm is now home wanted to be a group of survivalists but back in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wife, and his two eldest children and then killed himself. His newborn child, just four weeks old survivedprofessional footballer. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?
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|authorisbn=Alison Hughes0861541774|title=FlyA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=This is a very impressive readDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, as it does has taken a lot of what mainstream teen and tween fiction still struggles short holiday in Singapore to meet up withan old ally, Guy Trueman. Its focus is courtesy of the firstMaik was involved in a street brawl -person narration from Fly, he would later maintain that he was facing a secondary school lad man armed with cerebral palsy, a downknife -on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being and he killed a cleanerGhurka. Initially, he faced a carer while at school, and a bundle charge of assumptions people lay on himmanslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. First they assume that with a broken body comes a broken mind, then they decide Now he's could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a maths savant – they even believe they can get away with calling him Fly, which isndiplomatic incident and wouldn't his real name, but everybody just uses ithelp Danny at all.|isbn=1525305832
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|isbnauthor=3791388398Alexander McCall Smith|title=New European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and Pastries|author=Laurel KratochvilaThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=CookeryGeneral Fiction|summary=This The Perfect Passion Company is probably one 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 Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the most unusual baking books I've encounteredchance to come home to Edinburgh. It's built around 99 recipes for breadsAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, brioches thanks to 44 Scotland Street and pastries the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but the recipes are interwoven with some thoughtnew characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-provoking writing on how bread - and baking - have changed making, but Ness has full confidence in the twentieth her abilities, and early twenty-first centuries. We start with the basics - the equipment you'll need (there's nothing extravagant or indulgentalways her very helpful (and rather handsome) and the ingredientsneighbour, where the author is particular. You might not have realised that different salts can change the flavour and sensation on the tongue of the finished product butWilliam, apparently, they do.to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn=Andrew Givler0811771741|title=Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=FantasyCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'Matt has ' gives us a terrible lifecollection of knits from toys to blankets. Seriously—it Some will be quick knits - others are of the 's awfullong, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. It is so bad that Dan The projects are divided by the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his soul.time they'' Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soulll take to complete -catching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman. He never hits his targets andless than five hours, when he fails five to get even Matt ten hours, ten to sign on twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the dotted lineprojects are attractive, hemodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 's so desperate social-media-worthy projects' but that he simply forges Matt's signatureme being picky.|isbn=1958204021
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|author=Greg James and Chris SmithDean Koontz|title=Super GhostThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Paragon City Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has been lucky delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to have his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the great Doctor Extraordinarything that has trashed his house! The thing is, their Benny is the very own superhero taking care of themlast person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. Whenever So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the evil Captain Chaos has come up with another cunning plan (usually involving delivery to his house is a new friend, a giant robot of some description) Doctor Extraordinary bad weather friend called Spike, who has been there sent to thwart her mischief and save the dayhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. But one day the Doctor Spike is going to take care of Benny, and the Captain are trapped together inside a giant robot that then explodeswill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and the hero and the villain Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are no more. Or are they…?|isbn=02414705361662500491
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|isbnauthor=B0B7289HKQAdam Stower|title=Conversations Across America: A Father Murray and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari LoyaBun|rating=4.5|genre=TravelConfident Readers |summary=Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’Murray is supposed to be a humble, by the way) wanted tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to spend some time with sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his father and fancy next of the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. The decision was made to ride But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktowncatflap they both use can chuck them out, Virginia to Astorianot into the regular back garden, Oregon - all 4250 miles but into a world of it - in 2015frightening adventure and whiffs. They had 73 days to do This time round it - slightly less drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than the recommended time - Murray was, to be honest, but there were factors which pointed this he's turned up as more of a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|authorisbn=Christopher BowdenB0C47LV1PC|title=Mr MagentaFragility|author=Mosby Woods
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Christopher BowdenCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's lifejoke? And if you could, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and is the question should you make it seems to him an obligation to find ? Or is the question if you did, would it all out. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1739593901|title=22 Ideas About land? The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Our future will catch is that the answer for both could well be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''.. no.
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|isbn=14059511841529431735|title=The Girls Who DisappearedWinter Visitor|author=Claire DouglasJames Henry
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|summary=Back in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after a night out. As she passed through the darkly-wooded DevilIt's CorridorFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, a figure appeared in which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the roadmore surprising. Olivia swerved to avoid him and He'd been exiled on the car smashed into Costa del Sol as a tree, leaving her trappedwanted drug smuggler for a decade. When she regained consciousness her three friends The return has come about because he's had disappeared. Ralph Middletona letter from his ex-wife, who lived in the woods helped her before the police saying that she's ill and ambulance arrivedhasn't long to live. But what had happened It's hard to Sally Thornefeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Tamsin Cole stripped to his underwear and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening sent to a watery grave in the Stafferbury area boot of Wiltshirea stolen Ford Sierra. It was thought of as Avebury's poor relation.}}Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?