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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=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=08615419951786482126|title=Wolf PackThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Will DeanElly Griffiths
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|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on they discovered the road north bones of Visberga child beneath a doorway. She sees blood on the road and a creature on its side near the pine treesThere was no skull. It will turn out to be Bronco, Was this a Swedish Elkhoundritual killing or murder? Inevitably, who has been attacked by a wolfDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Tuva takes Bronco and his ownerIt's difficult as Ruth knows, Bengt Nyberg, to the vet. Bronco didnbut Nelson doesn't make it but on the way, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for she is pregnant with his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missing. She'd been working at Rose Farm and Moodyson's journalist's instincts are soon brought to the fore. Rose Farm is now home to child as a group result of survivalists but back in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wife, and his two eldest children and then killed himselfone night they spent together some three months ago. His newborn childHer condition will be obvious before long, just four weeks old survived. Does this have any connection not least because Ruth is prone to the disappearance sudden bouts of Elsa Nyberg?sickness.
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|authorisbn=Alison Hughes0008551324|title=FlyThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=This It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a very impressive readmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, as he promises, is someone big and it does a lot will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of what mainstream teen his sentence and tween fiction still struggles withto get an early parole date. Its focus Not much to ask, is courtesy of it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the firstother thing that Hardie demanded -person narration make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from Fly, a secondary school lad with cerebral palsy, a downwhat's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-onyear-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a cleanerhalt. Now, a carer while at schoolher mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a bundle straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of assumptions people lay on himthe 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 complex double murder. First they assume Kerrigan is convinced that with a broken body comes a broken mind, then they decide hethe explanation lies in Rosalie's a maths savant – they even believe they can get away with calling him Fly, which isndisappearance: others (such as Derwent't his real names boss, but everybody just uses itUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1525305832
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|isbn=37913883980571379877|title=New European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and PastriesThe Kellerby Code|author=Laurel KratochvilaJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=CookeryCrime|summary=This Edward Jevons is probably one of the most unusual baking books Ia working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert've encountereds a theatre director. ItHe's built around 99 recipes for breadsalso self-obsessed, demanding, brioches and pastries but the recipes are interwoven with some thought-provoking writing on how bread - handsome and baking - have changed in the twentieth entitled and early twenty-first centuriesuses Edward to run errands for him. We start Edward has been in love with the basics Stanza since their university days - the equipment youand he'll need (theres drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's nothing extravagant position would stay away from Stanza or indulgent) and the ingredients, where the author tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is particular. You might not have realised that different salts can change left to stumble upon the flavour and sensation on the tongue two of the finished product but, apparently, they dothem kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Andrew GivlerJo Callaghan|title=Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)Leave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=''Matt has When a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It man is so bad that Dan found crucified on the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years top of a blissful life hill in exchange for his soulNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It'' Poor Dan! I know, I knows their first live case together, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demonshaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But he really when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a terrible salesman. He never hits his targets potential serial killer and, when he fails a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to get even Matt their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to sign on solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the dotted linecase and, potentially, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.out of a career?|isbn=1958204021139851120X
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|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith1399613073|title=Super GhostMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Paragon City has been lucky to have Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the great Doctor Extraordinary, first day of medical school and their very own superhero taking care friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of thema century. Whenever the evil Captain Chaos has come up with another cunning plan (usually involving Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a giant robot of some description) Doctor Extraordinary has been there bonus when you aim to thwart her mischief be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and save the daya trauma doctor. But one day Anjali is the free spirit of the Doctor group and the Captain are trapped together inside she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a giant robot that then explodes, drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the hero and tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the villain are no morethree friends. Or This time, it's their teenage children who are they…?|isbn=0241470536involved.
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|isbn=B0B7289HKQ0241636604|title=Conversations Across AmericaThe Trading Game: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of AmericaConfession|author=Kari LoyaGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=TravelAutobiography|summary=Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, by you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the way) wanted to spend some time East End, where he was familiar with his father violence, poverty and the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do itinjustice. The decision There was made no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles London School of it - in 2015Economics. They had 73 days to do it Stevenson is bright - slightly less than the recommended time extremely bright - but there were factors and he has a facility with numbers which pointed this up as more most of a challenge us can only envy. He also realised that it would be for most rich people expect poor people who considered taking it onto be stupid. Merv Loya It was 75 years old and he his ability at what was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|authorisbn=Christopher Bowden1035021803|title=Mr MagentaThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Christopher BowdenIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's latest novel is a patient untangling back now because of a seemingly ordinary womanrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's lifeclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, carried out by let her nephew after down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has diednot felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. The aunt who always provided After the split, she worked in a safe harbour cafe, met and a little bit married James (on the rebound from the love of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting her life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised , who was murdered) and Freya and it seems to him an obligation to find it all outJames have now divorced. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW
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|isbn=1739593901AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=22 Ideas About The FutureAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead Opening up new ways of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets thinking about the shape of things to track grandmacome.''
I've got a couple of confessions to makeheard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read must confess that there have been more than a few stories and then forget to return to the bookdecades of technology in my lifetime. ThereI've kept up reasonably well with what's got to be a very compelling hook advantageous to keep me engaged. Then therebut I's science fiction: far too often m left with the feeling that it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the worldall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly -buildingquite frightening. ItOf course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's human beings m reading someone who fascinate me: knows what they're talking about or the technology and the world scape are purely incidentallatest conspiracy theorist. So, what did I think of needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, way I loved itcould understand.
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|isbnauthor=1405951184Sunny Singh|title=The Girls Who Disappeared|author=Claire DouglasHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Back The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a night outterrorist group. As she passed Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through the darkly-wooded Devil's Corridor, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a figure appeared in wartime photographer and Abhi, the roadhotel manager. Olivia swerved As Abhi continues to try to avoid him and care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the car smashed into hotel, he forms a treebond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, leaving and keeps on venturing out of her trapped. When she regained consciousness room to try to capture what's happened through her three friends had disappearedphotography. Ralph MiddletonAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, who lived in the woods helped their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her before the police keep safe and ambulance arrived. But what had happened they both wait to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would see if they will be yet another mysterious happening in rescued before they are discovered by the Stafferbury area of Wiltshire. It was thought of as Avebury's poor relationterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=39496660791529153298|title=NoemaThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Dael AkkermanJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'This is a story about some things 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's overheard that happened her father wants to me about twelve thousand years agomove the family 'Down South'. When you'' Maya re from Yorkshire, Down South is a young girl living in a hunter-gatherer village during the Mesolithic erafrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Climate change is occurring For Miv, the Sea of Grass encroaches further move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and further into Mayashe'll do anything to prevent that. She's forest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce. What to do? Can not worried about the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to cope? Can the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions? anyone.
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|isbn=194241028X1398524085|title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Michael PronkoNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''You can't put 'good Charlotte Salter was expected at golf' on your tombstone, can you?'' When we meet Patrick Walsh he's outside his familyher husband's home in the Azabu district of Tokyo, hoping that his key will still work fiftieth birthday party but prepared to break in if it doesn'tnever turned up. He's there to remove his daughtersHer children, sons Niall, Jenna Paul and KiriOllie and her daughter, and take them back to HonoluluEtty. It's a quick day tripare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, with just one purpose in mindis not. Patrick's employed by Nine Dragons Wealth Management Shortly afterwards, Etty and for Greg, find the past year, hebody of Greg's been working father, Duncan Ackerley, in Wyoming because the privacy laws there are conducive to the business he's inriver. His wife, Miyuki, hasn't been in Wyoming with him and is in It was an easy assumption for the process of divorcing him after photographs sent police to her anonymously suggested make that Patrick Duncan had not been faithful to hermurdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. PatrickThe Salter children are not convinced but there's plan didn't work out and he finds himself little else they can do but get on the run in Tokyo with the two girlstheir lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81035906708|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)Diva|author=Neil LancasterDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for a run. The lawyer was on his honeymoon We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but his body she was found dashed born to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Head. Was it suicideGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall in December 1923 and fall only moved to his death? Or Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was he pushed? On balance, Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it looked like an accident but then his to 'accidentCallas' was linked to make it more manageable in the deaths of others associated with himStates. Scott Paterson When she was released after a 'notback in Athens -proven' verdict meant supposedly so that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was Grigor's last clientraised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=0989715337Christopher Edge|title=Papa on the Moon|author=Marco NorthBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they'Some frogs had gotten re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the 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 one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the wellanswering beat in my heart.''
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|isbnauthor=140639131XJames Sherwood Metts|title=A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May SmithPlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross Things have been a bit sticky for the Old Oak RoadEarthlings. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasnAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they't a bird re paid to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing do and decided other tasks that she would set up something similar herselftook time to accomplish. Her uniform and lollipop stick Just as they were both a little amateur beginning to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals get used the crossing to all this technological change and Hedgehog starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was even trained up to provide a safe path overnightpretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=000837936XMatthew Tree|title=The Last Girl to Die|author=Helen FieldsWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to Tobermorybe different from his father, on the Isle of Mull, in search of a new life. It was a bit drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of a change from Las Vegas, but the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs being exceptional at any of developing a social life - until she disappeared. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been because Adriana's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob his artistic passions all failed miserably and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagersendless crises of self confidence. BrandonSo Tim applied himself to his studies, Adriana's twin, was upset cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and surly. Four-year-old Luna just knew that she missed her big sister. It took four days, set himself high but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnon's Cave. She'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killingachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1509889612A G Slatter|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann CleevesBriar Book of the Dead
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|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=It's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Island. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative and they've been coming back for a reunion every five years since then. There was a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide and her car was swept away, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with the group each year as her husband, Ken, was one of the original teenagers. Ken now has Alzheimer's and he's a shadow part of the man he used me that wants to be. Philip Robson now a priest, always gets there early as he likes keep this just to have some quiet time alone in the chapelmyself for however long I can. Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much This secret magic of the food: her deli is famous in the areamy own, all mine, at last.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473680883|title=The Skeleton Key|author=Erin Kelly|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''The Golden Bones is going I just want to follow me around enjoy it for the rest of my lifea while. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to you!''
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|authorisbn=Holly Webb1529900360|title=The Story of Greenriver|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Silken and Sedge, for all their differences, have a lot in common. Silken is a girl whose father is the Master Builder of what might be the finest beaver lodge on the Greenriver. Unfortunately she is also a kind of runt figure, and as a result is patronised, and given the most tokenistic tasks when it comes to fetching wood and shoring the dam up. She also stands out for the unique artistic ability to sing. Otters like Sedge sing, but he too, as the son of the lady of the holt, has pressure on him to be a bit less feckless and more attentive to class. He, after all, will eventually inherit the job of keeping the otters safe from the wolf that both animal species fear the most, and from dreaded events like a Dark Spring.|isbn=1510109625}}{{FrontpageGhost Orchid|author=Anna Kemp and David Wyatt|title=Into Goblyn WoodJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that a shot Alex Delaware had been fired in an isolated house badly injured but the call hadnhe 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 come from need the householder. A couple help of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright and it took quite a psychologist only worked for a while for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they Finally, it was Robin, Delaware'd better come ins partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. In She knew that the kitchen there involvement was a body on something that the floor: man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the head had been blown off with a shotgun and the corpse was holding swimming pool of a knife remote property in its right handBel Air. Richard Swann told He was the police that he'd heard sounds of heir to an intruder Italian shoe empire and had come downstairs she is married to investigate. The ignorant young lout had called him an extremely rich man and it''Grandad'' and come at him with a knifes not the Italian. Swann had shot him in self-defence.But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn= Kit De Waal1529395224|title= Without Warning and Only SometimesLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating= 43.5|genre= AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, your mum Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and dad/ They may not mean Rowlands didn't want tofollow in his footsteps, but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood and particularly when he considered the bonds strain that bind family. This book is a memoir focussing being on-call put on the author’s formative years as a teenager living in a lower class area of Birmingham. Her his father is from St's life. Kitts in When he was seventeen he took the Caribbean and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her opportunity of doing work experience with a family for becoming pregnant by friend who was a vet and marrying a black man. This intersectionality plays a large role in was convinced this was the autobiographyjob for him. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to her race Before long, her class and her genderhe was at Liverpool University. Her parents loom large and are written It hadn't - as with care, love, and the kind of anger only so many students - been his dream since he was a child can express . If anything, he'd wanted to their parentsbe a professional footballer.|isbn=1472284836
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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz0861541774|title=Dark MusicA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart of what little investigating is going onDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelength. For oneDanny Maik, the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MD. She's has taken a Chilean short holiday in the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of Singapore to meet up with an oldally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a case where street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a referee of man armed with a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, knife - and just outside the stadiumhe killed a Ghurka. BeppeInitially, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogationman. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk when Now he says Beppe is innocent and could be facing the investigation is a shamblesdeath penalty. But taken off the case, she Domenic Jejeune can no longer do nothing to help solve the crime, as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she canwouldn't get his full verdict on it help Danny at all. Until, that may be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt...|isbn=1529413192
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|isbnauthor=B0B2N7MVYMAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel GodfreyPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in contextEdinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh online apps in people's mindsproviding a more personal, tailored service. The world Ness has barely had asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a chance trip to Canada to breathe outget away for a while. But for Joe MarrKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, it's not the missile crisis that's and so jumps at the front of his mindchance to come home to Edinburgh. He's been convicted of murderAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. With the current state of medical knowledgeKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr Ness has spent his first few days full confidence in HMP Queen's Benchher abilities, a relatively new prison. Heand there's just getting used to his roommatealways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, MervynWilliam, and learning to be wary of the McArthur brothers.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=18469761460811771741|title=The Bone RoadInstaKnits for Baby|author=N E SolomonsMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=Heather Bishop, the former Olympic cyclist, flew to Bosnia Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnonblankets. She even took their bikes so they could have a few daysSome will be quick knits - others are of the ' break long, cosy afternoons in front of the regionfire' variety. It was a little worrying that he didnThe projects are divided by the time they't seem exactly pleased ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to see her: she even wondered if he had a woman in the hotel roomtwenty hours and more than twenty hours. Heather had to give up competitive cycling after a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but her reactions All the projects are attractive, modern and her memory were not up to the standard she would need to race againuseable. Sometimes she couldn't be certain I perhaps show my age when I wonder about what she had or hadn't done and she simply couldnsocial-media-worthy projects't cope in difficult situations. She didnbut that't entirely trust herselfs me being picky.
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|author=Judith EagleDean Koontz|title=The Accidental StowawayBad Weather Friend
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|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Patch Benny is having a little girl who terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has been passed from one relation delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to anotherhis home, until and it seems 's possible that there whoever or whatever was inside is nobody left for her to go the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person todeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. Her father died when she was very young, and her mother ran awayA really nice person. The family lawyer, after consultation with ‘someone’, arranges So fortunately for her to go Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a school in Liverpoolnew friend, but on her arrival there, she gets caught up in an adventure with a little boy bad weather friend called Turo Spike, who works on has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a steamshipgood person. During a chase with him (when she Spike is both trying going to get her rollerskate back take care of Benny, and running away from the police!) she winds up on the steamship hiding in a lifeboatwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, and before she knows itBenny, the ship has left the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=05713631211662500491
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|isbnauthor=0760379874Adam Stower|title=Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri HammettMurray and Bun
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|genre=CraftsConfident Readers |summary=I learned Murray is supposed to knit in the nineteen-fifties: it wasn't be a choicehumble, tidy and friendly cat, it was a requirement. Girls learned one who is able to knit sleep and to embroider eat and eat and boys did wood sleep and metal work, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. My knitting wa accompanied by But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a lot world of criticism frightening adventure and quite whiffs. This time round it drops them into a few tears: it was Viking land, where a long time before I realised that there troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was pleasure , to be had in the skill. Nearly seventy years later ithonest, but he's the only thing that keeps my hands at all supple. The turning point was a booklet published by Patons which gave all the basics turned up and some patterns. Ihe've been looking for something simple ll have to recommend to people who'd like to master the skill. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?do…|isbn=0008561249
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|authorisbn=Sarah Todd TaylorB0C47LV1PC|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleFragility|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet Alice Eclair. A perfect eye and very careful hands have made her one of ParisCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's best young cake makers and decorators, making sure her mother's establishment is a classy affair. Not bad for a thirteen year old. Ohjoke? And if you could, and a perfect eye and a very careful handler and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spy. Her first real mission will be to chase a traitor across the country – working behind the scenes on a posh sleeper train to question should you make it? Or is the south of Francequestion if you did, and hoping against hope would it land? The catch is that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents to creep into the country from getting into nefarious handsanswer for both could well be.... no. But while nobody would have her down ''Fragility'' is set as a spythe city of Portland, Oregon, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the baddy?|isbn=1839940956covid pandemic
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|isbn=07603799121529431735|title=Super Easy Quilting for BeginnersThe Winter Visitor|author=Editors of Quarry BooksJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new It's February 1991 and usable when I was in my twenties. It would be a while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but IEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins've never felt completely at home with quilting. I needed something a little return all the more stylish than my usual buttons or knotssurprising. He''Super Easy Quilting d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for Beginners'' seemed like a good place to startdecade. So, how did it stack up?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360737|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=2|genre= Politics and Society|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political return has come about because art is not made in he's had a vacuumletter 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 made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes abducted, stripped to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum underwear and sent to a watery grave in the Era boot of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of so-called artivism has caused artists a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.}}home?