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|isbnauthor=0857051741Tom Percival|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Wrong Shoes
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but heWill's determined that Rebecka Martinsson life is going to investigate the case of a body found difficult, in a freezer at the home multitude of a deceased alcoholicways. The problem He is that bullied because he has 'the case wrong shoes', he has long passed the statute wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with working a fiftycash-yearin-old case hand job on which she can take no action: a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the problem is fact that this is a dying manhis mum and dad are separated, and Will's wishlife seems bleak in every direction. The situation changes when And yet, he still has a post-mortem establishes that tiny amount of hope. Henry PekkariHe is good at art, and clings to the dead alcoholicmoments of joy when he is drawing, was also murdered. Is there that feel like a connection between light at the two deaths?end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|author=Robert DugoniSylvie Cathrall|title=Her Deadly GameA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the formercompelling premise. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position And this is one of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, souththem.|isbn=16625001810356522776
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|authorisbn= Rob Keeley0008517061|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other StoriesDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a return to little uncertainty about the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new talesfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, each as fun moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to read as his previous offeringsmove 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 moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.|isbn= B0BVW69N1G
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|authorisbn= Michael Grothaus1786482126|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different thingsapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, or we can take steps to change itDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around t, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the question of identity and acceptanceone night they spent together some three months ago. Of what it means to Her condition will be human. Of what obvious before long, not least because Ruth is real and what is artificial, and whether the development prone to sudden bouts of technology is exciting or frighteningsickness.|isbn=191458564X
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|isbn=B09BLBP3P80008551324|title=Neville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Frederic SeagerNeil Lancaster
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|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to misconceptions about historyapproach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. One such But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the scrubbing from police where the popular imagination body of the early days of World War II from 1939-40, known as the ''Phoney War''a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler This person, war breaking outhe promises, is someone big and Churchill coming in to save it will be worth the daypolice doing what he wants. Very little time And what he wants is spent on this period in cultural reflections to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and yet, as Frederic Seager argues in this bookto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it was of vital significance in how ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the war played outother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=07603781340008405026|title=The First-Time Gardener: Container Food GardeningA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Pamela FarleyJane Casey
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|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=If youIt've ever thought how good it would be 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 be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the book you needhalt. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own foodNow, her mother, what you're going to growHelena, what you'll grow it and her father are dead in (both containers and soil)their bed. Initially, where youit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish s something about the main part positioning of the book with bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a handy section on troubleshootingcomplex double murder. ThereKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's also a good glossaryboss, Una Burt) are less convinced. So, is it any good?
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{{frontpageFrontpage|isbn=18033630020571379877|authortitle= Eric LaRoccaThe Kellerby Code|titleauthor= The Trees Grew Because I Bled ThereJonny Sweet|rating= 3.5|genre= HorrorCrime|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It Edward Jevons is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and how we as humans react and process themStanza. Most horror fiction feature Robert's a theatre director. He''Big Bad''s also self-obsessed, whether that is a home invaderdemanding, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible handsome and entitled and, by the end of the story, beatableuses Edward to run errands for him. Eric LaRocca Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is s not like that. It most men: Edward is a collection left to stumble upon the two of short stories more interested them kissing in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''a dark passageway.
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|author=Amelia Estelle DellosJo Callaghan|title=Delilah RecoveredLeave No Trace
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= We meet Dee at When a man is found crucified on the top of a point when hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her life isnsidekick, the AI detective Lock. It't going as planned but things mights their first live case together, just mighthaving 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 about able to look upsolve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4. Out 5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of worka century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, about which is a bonus when you aim to lose her flat, Dee be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is up for an accountantthe free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's jobgoing to end in tragedy. But We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's not their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary 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 bethink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Dee A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is attacked by two men calling themselves witch huntersthe East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. She survives There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the attack but not unscathedLondon School of Economics. Witch hunters? What on earth 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 do be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Dee? Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's just an ordinary womanback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, living an ordinary lifeto say the least. Slivers of memory of things that are Arthur was the reason why Freya had not ordinary at all return been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her and things will never 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 sameprofession 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...|isbn=B0BKYFDLLV
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|isbn=0008404976AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Jane CaseyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It was because ''Opening up new ways of Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Closethinking about the shape of things to come.''
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|author=Merryn GloverSunny Singh|title=The Hidden FiresHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=TravelThrillers |summary= It The Hotel Arcadia is always about a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the bookterrorists who are rampaging through, not the writerkilling everyone on site, but there are times when the author's hinterland is also Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the background hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the book and so it is necessary to understand that context, residents who are still alive in order to appreciate the book. Merryn Glover is of Australian parentagehotel, was born in Kathmanduhe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, grew up in the Annapurna and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotland. I can think keeps on venturing out of no-one better a combination her room to try to give us a re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence in the Cairngorms National Parkcapture what's happened through her photography. Merryn walks, not so much in Although they only ever talk over the shadow of Shepherdphone, but in their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her spirit. I think keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the two would have gotten along famouslyterrorists.|isbn=1846975751086154742X
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|authorisbn=Alice M Ross1529153298|title=The Nowhere ThiefList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=At last there It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside townPrime Minister. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it(A woman? I mean, honestly... ) She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she has 's overheard that her father wants to move the ability to leave this worldfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worldsforeign place, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunderbest avoided. With eviction imminentFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, can Elsbeth nab and she'll do anything to actually generate custom at the shop? prevent that. Well yes, is She's not worried about the answer, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=1839943769dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=15295047751398524085|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Elsie Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive pastdaughter, Etty. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park are all worried but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David strangely - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at homehusband, Alec, is not. GraduallyShortly afterwards, David learned to stand upEtty and Greg, use find the bus for supportbody of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, and walk behind itin the river. Many decades later, Elsie brought It was an easy assumption for the bus, now damaged and rusted, police to the Repair Shop, hoping make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the experts guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there could make it so that her grandchildren could play 's little else they can do but get on with ittheir lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=18479418341035906708|title=Atomic HabitsDiva|author=James ClearDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=I've said this before We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but there are some books that you seek outshe was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, some books that you stumble across in December 1923 and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'Atomic Habits'' to make it more manageable in the States. is When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the last categoryNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|author=Natasha FarrantChristopher Edge|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54
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|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the author nickname of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk'The Black Hole'. Ravenwood is an old houseAll big movie fans, in the North they're looking forward to lots of Englandexciting films, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. many, many snacks! They are part of a complex, extended family arrangementHowever, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leothe movie starts, and Raffy they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is there with his mumvery different, and they are living together as a family. They have grown swept up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the placeinto an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure they lurch from his other two brothers one film genre to sell the property to a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? The children find themselves worrying not only about where Will they're going ever get back to live, but if they'll even be togetherthe cinema, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.to their real lives?|isbn=05713487851839942738
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|author=Nick BrooksRachel Greenlaw|title=Promise BoysCompass and Blade|rating=43.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=When ''I can hear the principal (headmaster) song of Urban Promise Prep school is murderedthe sea. The call of the deep, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspectsanswering beat in my heart. Each'' Rosevear, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Mooreremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and each could have been there at plundering the time wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of his murderthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But who killed when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save himfrom death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and whywith only coordinates to guide her, and if any she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the boys are innocentsmuggler's territory, will they Mira must be able determined to stop at nothing to clear their names?save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=10350031550008664730
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|author=G K HollowayJames Sherwood Metts|title=In Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a bit sticky for the Shadows Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of Castlesother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We'll Never Know
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|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary= We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and on the day chronic underachiever whose dreams of William being exceptional at any of Normandy's coronation as King his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of England. William's position is not secure and the new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is importantself confidence. And William is right So Tim applied himself to worry. While the previous kinghis studies, Harold, is dead cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and the likelihood of more pitched battles is over, the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to recognise a new overlordset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1800422466B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=0008506337A G Slatter|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Georgina MooreBriar Book of the Dead
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|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that RichardThere's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle part of Wight. Margo did go me that wants to Oxford and went on keep this just to become a well-respected journalistmyself for however long I can. The couple had three children: RachelThis secret magic of my own, all mine, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wightlast. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able I just want to leave him in chargeenjoy it for a while.''.
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|isbn=15291259601529900360|title=Unnatural HistoryThe Ghost Orchid
|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement It 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. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a photographerwhile. Well Finally, it was AdonisRobin, actually, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - itDelaware's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bedpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Three shots were placed neatly through his heartShe knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The PA, Mel Gornicknext case did look simple, is distraught and it falls to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as he tries to establish what's happenedthough. Donny had just finished Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a series of photographs called ''The Wishers''remote property in Bel Air. He'd taken eight homeless people off was the streets heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and asked them what theyit'd really like to bes not the Italian. They were then dressed up as their fantasy, photographed and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollars.But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson1529395224|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – Letting the phoenixes and unicorns Cat Out of the world, for example. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. Bag: The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew Secret Life of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=0241573483}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Let's Celebrate Being DifferentVet|author=Lainey DeeSion Rowlands
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|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Todd Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was excited about spending the weekend with a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his grandmotherfootsteps, not least because she made particularly when he considered the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show strain that being on-call put on his grandmotherfather's life. She had promised to take him to When he was seventeen he took the Friday Night Club at the local community centre opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and Todd was pleased about convinced this as he wanted to make new friendswas the job for him. At homeBefore long, his only friend he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his mum and dream since he wondered why that could bewas a child. Grandma thought that it might If anything, he'd wanted to be because he looked differenta professional footballer.
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|isbn=17873010360861541774|title=What July KnewA Nye of Pheasants|author=Emily KochSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 sheDCI Domenic Jejeune's just ten years close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an oldally, Guy Trueman. She's Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a careful, meticulous childGhurka. The care has been taught by her fatherInitially, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to discuss the death of his wife, July's mother, and any hint light that the conversation is heading suggested that way will lead he might have planned to murder the necessity of a Lessonman. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and Now he's not even careful about whether or not could be facing the injuries are visibledeath penalty. July's teacher is concerned Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for himhelp Danny at all.
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|author=Lucy AsheAlexander McCall Smith|title=Clara and OliviaThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The year Perfect Passion Company is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – disciplinedating agency in Edinburgh, attention run by Ness and operating as an alternative to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from all the classroom. A stage presence, online apps in providing a charmmore personal, a ''joie de vivre''tailored service. The difference between a hard-worker, Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and a star.|isbn=0861544080}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008454493|title=All look after the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for business, as Ness is planning to take a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off trip to Canada to get away for a momentwhile. It's now Katie is coming out of a break up with a year since her son, Masonbad boyfriend, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in so jumps at the morning when she thought he was sleeping inchance to come home to Edinburgh. In that year she's done everything she could And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to raise awareness about 44 Scotland Street and the case. She does interviews and when we meet herIsabel Dalhousie novels, she's just been but with some new characters who quickly begin to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentationcharm. On the plane backKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, sheand there's approached by a podcasteralways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, Waylon SpencerWilliam, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to lend a few hundred people at conferences.hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene0811771741|title=Fritz and KurtInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=We start with the pair Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes knits from toys to the synagogue choir and at a vocational schoolblankets. Kurt has to make sure Some will be quick knits - others are of the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – long, cosy afternoons in front of the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switchfire' variety. But this is The projects are divided by the time just before the Austrian leader is going they'll take to cave complete - less than five hours, five to Hitler's willten hours, ten to twenty hours and instead of having a national vote to keep more than twenty hours. All the Nazis outprojects are attractive, invite them in with open armsmodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'Kristallnachtbut that'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jewss me being picky. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|isbn=024156574X
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|isbnauthor=1529421241Dean Koontz|title=Stay Buried|author=Kate WebbThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=DI Matt Lockyer Benny is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that it's actually having a cold case unit terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and there are just two of them doing the jobhis house gets trashed. LockyerOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's not unduly worriedpossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, though although he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable of something betterBenny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. It was So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a bit of new friend, a shock when he got the phone call bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from Hedy Lambert: she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park nefarious forces for murder - and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years agobeing a good person. SheSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's keen to see him enemies, if he, Benny, and to tell him that the man everyone thought sheHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny'd murdered - but the body turned s wild adventure) can figure out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadeswho exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=B0BQXSYYTFAdam Stower|title=Just Looking|author=Matthew TreeMurray and Bun
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|genre=Dystopian FictionConfident Readers |summary=It was the summer of 2035 Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and on a cruise ship in Marseilles, Jim was celebrating well, whatever takes his new-found wealth and fancy next of the end of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a man! . HeBut he's watching the tornado - they're more common in Europe these days - thata bad magician's keeping cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the cruise ship in port and falls catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into conversation with Jean-Pierrethe regular back garden, but into a French journalist in his thirtiesworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. He writes for This time round it drops them into a relatively new paperViking land, the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and he's interesting if where a little wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France' and 'the French'. His partnertroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, Helento be honest, whobut he's English turned up and Jewish, keeps him in check he'll have to some extent.do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=057137493XB0C47LV1PC|title=The Other HalfFragility|author=Charlotte VassellMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''The room was full of the sort of people Yo birthing person''Tatler'' thinks joke? And if you could, is the question should knowyou make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.''
''The Other HalfFragility'' is set as the story city of two menPortland, both with what looks like the same surname. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir Oregon, cautiously begins to a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Town. Think Bollinger and cocaine. His surname is pronounced 'Beecham'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with emerge from the Metropolitan police and is bi-racial. His surname is pronounced as you see it. The two encounter each other when Caius, out for a run, stumbles across restrictions imposed during the body of Clemmie O'Hara, Rupert's girlfriend. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under a bush.covid pandemic
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|isbn=1529431735
|title=The Winter Visitor
|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?