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|isbn=15290777451787333175|title=The Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Ann CleevesBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=A man walking his dog in I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the early morning discovered the body workings of a man in the park near RosebankNHS, a care home for troubled teenshumour and autobiography. The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due ''You Don't Have to work a shift be Mad...'' promised the night before same elements but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in moved from physical problems to investigate mental illness and the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance work of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencera psychiatrist. Some people believe that Chloe I did wonder whether it was responsible acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the death but Vera thinks this laughter is unlikely as the girl's diary makes directed at a situation rather than a person and it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Joshis always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|isbnauthor=1399613073Mariana Enriquez|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie WatsonA Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersShort Stories|summary=OliviaMariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, Laura and Anjali met achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on the first day gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitiousdisused refrigerators due to an urban planning mishap, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist an overcrowded homeless shelter and a trauma doctorcrime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. Anjali is the free spirit The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the group and she becomes supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. 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 their teenage children who are involvedsimilarly tangible texture.|isbn=1803511230
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|isbn=02416366041529934753|title=The Trading Game: A ConfessionProtest|author=Gary StevensonRob Rinder
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|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=If you were to bring up an image of For a city banker in your mindlittle while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, youthe country're unlikely s most famous living artist, was not going to think show up for the opening of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is retrospective at the East EndRoyal Academy. Still, where he was familiar arrived in the nick of time, complete with violencehis two wives and six children, poverty and injusticeone of whom filmed what happened. There Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to a record of the London School of Economicsprotest. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a facility with numbers which most spray can of us can only envyblue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people It seemed to be stupidpart of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship The can had been laced with Citibank. Eventuallycyanide, this turned into permanent employment as a traderand Sir Max Bruce was dead.
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|author=Leanne EganAriel Saramandi|title=Lover BirdsPortrait of an Island on Fire
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|genre=TeensPolitics and Society|summary=When new girlIn this powerful collection of essays, IsabelSaramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, moves tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and slavery to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around herexpose how these legacies still shape modern life. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks Saramandi describes the country at Isabel or speaks with her, and thatone stage as ''s definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isnrotting't it? Because Lou is straight, isn't she? Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's never had a good kiss with any blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the malignant forces of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabelracism, and wanting to hang out with her because fighting with her is funpatriarchy, environmental degradation and she definitely just hates Isabelgovernmental dysfunction. Each essay in this collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, doesn't she?charting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|isbn=000862657X1804271616
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|author=Jacqueline RosePekka Harju-Autti|title=Women in Dark TimesLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse
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|genre=BiographyFantasy|summary=It''The world s the eighteenth century, a time of the unconscious discovery and Britain is not the antagonist of political lifeexpanding its foreign trade. Captain Julius Hawthorne, but its steadfast companionan experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to the hidden place or backdrop where any true revolution must begin…'' Women Andaman Islands in Dark Times is Jacqueline Rose's homage to courageous women throughout historyhis endeavour. Along with his son, particularly women of the 21stPeter, 20th and 19th centuries. Her historical and political backdrop istheir cat, thusMichi, expansive, yet she navigates it with intelligence and an acknowledgment that feminism's lengthy mission is they set off on a testament perilous voyage to its successes, these faraway lands. The islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and not its failures: ''the ongoing force of feminism'islanders'leader, Aarav, is keen to establish good relations.|isbn=1804271713B0DS1VGHH3
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|author=Sally RooneyHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=IntermezzoLili is Crying
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|genre=General Literary Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the chessboard hearts of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into its readers just as Bessette wrenches words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is sentences from their proper position on the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan page and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigypositions them elsewhere, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peterdisjointed, a successful lawyer living in Dublintruncated. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancerLike the lives of her characters, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trialsthey are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=05713654691804271675
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|isbnauthor=1009473085Gregor Hens and Jen Calleja (translator)|title=The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon City and Tom Egerton (Editors)the World|rating=54
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|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn'tIn '' The City and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?the World'', Gregor Hens reveals how cities are as much imagined spaces as they are physical ones. If you're looking With a deep affection for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened urban landscapes that have shaped his life, Hens reflects on certain occasionsplaces like Cologne, Berlin, then this isn't and Goch on the book for youLower Rhine with a blend of personal memory and thoughtful observation. If that's what you're looking forHis writing, I don't think Anthony Seldon's bookat times abstract, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}captures not just architectural features but the emotional and mental geographies tied to each location, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's example, his perspectives as a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return child as opposed to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is as an entirely different beastadult. It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made From Belgium and Germany to Berkeley and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: Columbus, Hens traces a series map of experts from various fields review the state experiences, turning cities into reflections of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred identity and the situation in 2024belonging.|isbn=1804271691
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|author=Mark LinganeTom Percival|title=ChimeraThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=Will''The survivor stumbles forwards life is difficult, her steps echoing in the oppressive silence. Her heart pounds like a jackhammer. She doesn’t know where she’s headingmultitude of ways. All she remembers He is running. Terror chasing. Everything lost.bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes' , he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn'Broken t have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and fragmented recollections tumble around her head. Fear courses through her body. Her breaths come in shallow, ragged gasps as desperation claws his dad can't work because he lost his job at her throat. Dehydration consumes herthe college, and was working a raging thirst feels unquenchable.'' ''There must be cash-in-hand job on a way outbuilding site and had an accident. As she moves through Throw into that mix the foreign areafact that his mum and dad are separated, memories begin to geland Will's life seems bleak in every direction. Disaster had ploughed through her life—not just hers, everyone’s.'' As our survivor struggles to orient herself And yet, she's guided by he still has a robot, which looks human-made, but she can't be suretiny amount of hope. It says it He is. It says she must try not good at art, and clings to injure herself. Guided to an interview with an eerie, terrifying group the moments of aliensjoy when he is drawing, she desperately tries to make sense that feel like a light at the end of flashes of memory - environmental degradationa long, deals done and then betrayed, horrifying rituals covering desperate attempts to survive - and to attempt to explain how she came to be here, apparently the last human being alivedark tunnel.|isbn=B0DNVWMYP21398527122
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|isbnauthor=1784745758Saou Ichikawa and Polly Barton (translator)|title=Three Days in June|author=Anne TylerHunchback
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|summary=The day before your daughter's wedding will always be busy but Gail Baines got far more than she asked I was in the middle of a self-imposed book-buying ban when I made an exception forthis one. First, it What first drew me in was her job as assistant head at the local schoolbook's bold fuchsia cover, followed by its striking title: ''Hunchback''. There was This is a moment when she hoped that she would word I recognised to be promoted loaded with historical and cultural baggage, often used to head but dehumanise or reduce. Curious, I leaned over the discussion moved into the subject of 'people skills' display table and before she knew what was happening Gail had been sacked or resigned, depending on who was explaining turned to the situationback inside cover. When she got home (in There, I discovered the middle of the dayauthor: who would have thought that could happen?) her ex-husband was there Saou Ichikawa, a woman diagnosed in childhood with congenital myopathy, a cat. He thinks condition that he'll be staying causes severe muscular weakness and that Gail will be adopting the cattouches every aspect of her life. The title took on new complexity in light of her biography. And that's before Gail discovers that the groom hasn't been entirely honest about his personal lifeI had to read it.|isbn=0241700787
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|author=Eowyn IveySylvie Cathrall|title=Black Woods Blue SkyA 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|author=Ian Penman|title=Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
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|genre=Literary FictionBiography|summary=This unconventional biography somewhat mirrors Satie''Black Woods Blue Sky'' tells s admittedly effusive personality: whimsical, experimental and creative. It is divided into three sections: the story of Birdiefirst, the young mother of toddler Emaleenan essay, who longs for a life beyond the Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitress, a setting which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of Emaleen. Described as a ''wild card''second, she feels stuck in her dayan A-to-day life, Z encyclopedia on Satie and yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on the North Fork to fulfil her desires of a simple life surrounded by nature. When she meets Arthur Nielsonthird, a strange'Satie Diary', taciturn and solitary man, who says he has a cabin over there, she feels called to go - and bring Emaleen with her. Without realising it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleendocumenting Ian Penman's lives foreverthoughts surrounding Satie, his muse.|isbn=14722790421804271535
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|authorisbn=Max Boucherat1786482126|title=The Last Life of Lori MillsJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=We meet Lori on Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the first evening shesite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's got apartments - when they discovered the house to herself – bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesomeskull. What could possibly go wrongWas this a ritual killing or murder? Snuggled in a blanket fortInevitably, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in LoriDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then that she finds something even more spookyis pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should Her condition will be able obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to enter shows signs sudden bouts of tamperingsickness. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482
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|isbnauthor=0008385068Guadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy FoleyAccidentals
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|genre=ThrillersShort Stories|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's This collection was truly enchanting in all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for senses of the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owenword: spellbinding with its fantastical, was the architect magical elements and work is still ongoing on parts charming in its gentle portrayal of the site. The heat is oppressive nature and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friendshuman relationships. Old scores are going to be settled Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and it won't be long before precisely, her stories structured by a body is foundwisdom that appears to want to teach us something about the world.|isbn=1804271470
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|authorisbn=James Baldwin0008551375|title=Giovanni's RoomWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=''GiovanniLeanne Wilson's Room'body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a tragic accident. She' follows the narrator Davidd looked so happy, an American man living in Paristoo, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovannishe was just out of an unpleasant relationship, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay barbut it looked like she was living her best life now. While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling Then it emerged that five other women had died in Spain, the real tension similar circumstances in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. None of the deeper conflict within himself'what a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. It They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is Davidcertain there's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovannia killer on the loose.|isbn=0141186356
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|authorisbn=Ashley Hickson-Lovence0008643660|title=Wild EastThe Burial Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Written in verse, this is RonnyA group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich idyllic and start at a mostly white schoolsome of the excavations are being televised. The move is initiated by RonnyThere's mum who is worried for Ronnyeven a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the finders and the landowner. It's safety after perfect until the group begin receiving threatening letters. Jake Jackson, a tragic eventformer police detective, and so Ronny finds himself is trying to settle lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he's inevitably drawn in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapperinvestigate. But nowReading the letters, in this new school, his teacher encourages him it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will be part of a poetry writing workshop group violence and, slowly, Ronny begins to see even the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your wordslocal police are keen that Jake should be involved.|isbn=0241645441
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|isbnauthor=1635866847Paul B Preciado|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin VesciDysphoria Mundi
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|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this It is never too late to embrace the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companionrevolutionary optimism of childhood'' Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, I visited and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's new generation, a picture of new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a slice sign of chocolate cake on political apathy. Rather, it is the homepage. I donproportional, valid response to ''t eat cakes the epistemological and desserts - but I wanted political crack we are living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that cake viscerally. (Therecharacterize our present''s a recipe in the book, which IPreciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading . The whole text is framed against the book and I was told to make a mess backdrop of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to fold down the corners of pagesemerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''. You suspect that smears Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of butter would not be a problem. I weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''loveduse dysphoria as your revolutionary platform'' this book already.|isbn=1804271454
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|author=Jacqueline FeldmanSamantha Harvey|title=Precarious LeaseOrbital|rating=34.5|genre=BiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=The title of this novel refers to a French legal term (In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''bail précaireOrbital'') associated with squatters in France, affording them temporary suspension from eviction charges and processes, but few scant property rights. Among mentions of other squats dotted around Paris like Le Carrosse and La Miroiterie, Feldman takes particular interest a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in one squat the lives of massive proportions which adopted an almost mythical status for its inhabitants, admirers and detractors alike: Le Bloc. Something like a haven for artists and marginal members group of society (as one character, Le Général, repeats throughout, ''I live on astronauts aboard the margins of International Space Station. Through a narrative lens that mirrors the margins of the marginsastronauts'')orbital perspective, Le Bloc was subject Harvey invites readers to the continual threat of eviction and the pressures from above which oppressed its inhabitants' lives. We follow Le Bloc from its opening see our planet in 2012 until its eventual dissolution, framed as a tragedy in this bookwholly new light. |isbn=18042714031529922933
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|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ThereIt's a new Superintendent 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 Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and sheprison and he's young, ambitious, prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and ruthlesswho was responsible for her death. She talks a good talk about work/life balance and family values This person, but as far as she's concerned, she has two main problemshe promises, is someone big and they're both called DI Wilkinsit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Ray Wilkins And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of Nigerian descent, Baliol educated his sentence and always immaculately dressedto get an early parole date. He's married Not much to Diane and has twin sons. ask, is it? ManagementThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn's opinion of him is that he thinks too highly of himself t think so and his last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called she's even prepared to do the wet end'. Ryan Wilkins comes from a trailer park other thing that Hardie demanded - in fact, it could be said make certain that heDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's never really left it. He lives in shell suits and tracksuits, always in vivid colours. Previous management was adamant that he should ''never'' be given responsibility. Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of themhappening.
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|isbn=17873331750008405026|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work HereA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Benji WaterhouseJane Casey
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|genre=Popular ScienceCrime|summary=I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam KayIt's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to Hurt}}a halt. Now, her mother, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHSHelena, humour and autobiographyher father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised s something about the positioning of the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and the work of a psychiatristher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. I did wonder whether What looked as though it was acceptable going to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter an open-and-shut case is directed at now a situation rather than a person and it complex double murder. Kerrigan is always delivered with empathy and understandingconvinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|author=Mariana EnriquezMary McCarthy|title=A Sunny Place for Shady PeopleMemories of a Catholic Girlhood|rating=54|genre=Short StoriesAutobiography|summary=Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly realMary McCarthy describes herself as an ''amateur architect'', achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing obsessively digging into the past to piece together the broken mosaic of her paranormal plots on gritty realities: life. She attributes her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due ''burning interest in the past'' to an urban planning mishapher orphanhood, an overcrowded homeless shelter and a crimeas she lacked any second-ridden neighbourhood hand memories from her parents, who died in the 1918 flu epidemic. This memoir chronicles her early years, beginning with her orphanhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentinashe lived under the harsh guardianship of her late father's Irish Catholic parents and her abusive Uncle Myers and Aunt Margaret. The circumstances of Later, she moved to Seattle to live with her maternal grandparents—her grandmother being Jewish and her grandfather Presbyterian—who provided her characters are so plausible that the supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts with a similarly tangible texturedifferent kind of upbringing. |isbn=18035112301804271659
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|author=Onyi NwabineliJonathan Buckley|title=Allow Me to Introduce MyselfOne Boat|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media'One Boat'' is a deeply introspective novella that defies traditional narrative structure, where she posted every step drawing the reader into a contemplative realm of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships philosophical musings and influencer deals fragmented memories flowing from our narrator andprotagonist, basicallyTeresa. Set against the evocative backdrop of a small coastal Greek town, monetary gainthis work masterfully captures the magic of its setting and its power to provoke profound introspection. Now Anuri is in her twenties and Teresa herself recognises these qualities as the reason she is slowly trying to regain has visited it after the death of both her confidence and to get parents. Prompted by her life backmourning, suing her stepnarrative voice is meditative and deeply self-mother to take down aware, inviting the content about reader into herlabyrinthine cogitations. Anuri It is battling alcoholisma book that not only requires but inspires depth of thought, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy since its narrative structure is fragmentary and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them ironically relies on analepsis for doing soits propulsion. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=08615468731804271764
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|author=David ChadwickJen Beagin|title=Headload of NapalmBig Swiss
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|genre=ThrillersHumour |summary= ItI found the premise of this book totally original and addictive. Greta possesses the power to know the population of Hudson, New York's September 1973 in Hicksdarkest secrets, their intimate lives, Californiatheir fetishes and fears. Hicks How? Her job is to transcribe their sex therapy sessions. Sure, there's a Mojave desert town of confidentiality agreement, as the sex coach who calls himself Om keeps reminding her, but that just makes it more exciting. Like we've all probably wished for at some point in life, Greta can exist passively, placidly, as a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours fly on the wall. That is, until Greta decides to unglue her fly-feet from the safety of LA the wall and Las Vegas both a significant drive awaybuzz far too close to the sun. Not much happens The sun in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are this analogy is the main local employers but otherwisesex coach's newest patient, therewho Greta dubs 'Big Swiss's not much of note other than dive bars , and Joshua trees. Life who, like the sun, is quietbright, until.blonde and beautiful - and irresistible to Greta.Suddenly, the confidentiality agreement, the ethics of her professional position, her loyalties to Om, fly out of the window.She's in too deep.|isbn= B0D321VJ760571378579
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|authorisbn=Tom Percival1529077745|title=The Wrong ShoesDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Will's life is difficultA man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, in a multitude care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of waysthe care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. He D I Vera Stanhope is bullied because he has 'called in to investigate the wrong shoes', he has murder - but her only clue is the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic disappearance of one of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the collegeresidents, was working a cashfourteen-inyear-hand job on a building site and had an accidentold Chloe Spencer. Throw into Some people believe that mix Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Willgirl's life seems bleak in every directiondiary makes it clear that she adored Josh. And yet, he still She knows that she 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 find Chloe to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up discover what happened to a compelling premise. And this is one of themJosh.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=17864821261399613073|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)Moral Injuries|author=Elly GriffithsChristie Watson
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a child beneath quarter of a doorwaycentury. There was no skullOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Was this Laura is a perfectionist and a ritual killing or murder? trauma doctor. Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry NelsonAnjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. ItWhen we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesngoing to end in tragedy. We don't, know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that she is pregnant with his child as a result of will impact the one night they spent together some three months agofriends. Her condition will be obvious before longThis time, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sicknessit's their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Joan Didion0241636604|title=The Year of Magical ThinkingTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|summary=This book is Joan DidionIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's heartbreaking autobiographical account re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the grief she endured following her husband's sudden deathEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Books that shed light There was no posh public school on taboo topics like death are such his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a beautiful and necessary resource facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to help people feel less alonebe stupid. Didion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self-pity It was his ability at what was, essentially, denial and delusion and makes them utterly normala card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, lends them this turned into permanent employment as a human face to weartrader.|isbn=0007216858
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|author=Samantha HarveyLeanne Egan|title=OrbitalLover Birds
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|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=In 2024When new girl, Isabel, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for moves to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel'Orbitals disdain for everything around her. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, and that's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the lives isn't she? Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's never had a group good kiss with any of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Through a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspectivethem? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, Harvey invites readers and wanting to see our planet in a wholly new light.hang out with her because fighting with her is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?|isbn=1529922933000862657X
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|isbnauthor=0008551324Sally Rooney|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterIntermezzo
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction |summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or Sally Rooney has any respect for studied the other. But Davie Hardie chessboard of life and is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body something of a missing person grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is buried gripping and who was responsible for so brilliantly frustrating, as her deathcharacters never quite say exactly what they feel. This personAmong the many relationships woven into this story, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants central one for readers to unravel is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and to get an early parole datePeter Koubek. Not much to askIvan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and shea successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's even prepared to do passing after a long battle with cancer, the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from whatbrothers's happeningalready strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469
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|isbn=02416784121009473085|title=The Proof of My InnocenceConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Jonathan CoeAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=45|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=Life after university hasnSometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't worked out quite '' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the way that Phyl anticipatedinside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. SheIf that's back homewhat you're looking for, living with her parents and on a zero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. All those ideas of becoming It's a writer seem to have come compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to nothingpolitics. ''The situation improves when Conservative Effect'Uncle' Chris comes to stay and introduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, Rashidais an entirely different beast. Christopher Swann (described by some as It's the seventh book in a lefty blogger) is investigating a think tank series which originated looks at Cambridge University in the 1980simpact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. It plans to push This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the government coalition took over in a more extreme direction 2010, the changes that occurred and is ready to actthe situation in 2024.
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|isbnauthor=1739526910Max Boucherat|title=Where I've Not Been Lost|author=Glen SibleyThe Last Life of Lori Mills
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=''One year after a suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’MalleyWe meet Lori on the first evening she's lifegot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, he arrives in just an unfamiliar Devon town to recoveravidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Living with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, he dreams of reconnecting with everything he she has lostone main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But as those tentative plans falterfirst Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, he becomes swept and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a local world of unlikely friendships, mobile discos and surprising romantic possibilities.''girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482
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|isbnauthor=0008405026Jenny Valentine|title=A Stranger Us in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane CaseyBefore and After
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|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found Elk and the investigation ground to a halt. NowMab are best friends, her motheror more than that even, Helena, and her father are dead their friendship is a once in their beda lifetime connection. Initially, it looks like They meet as children one day on a straightforward murder/suicide trip out but thereunfortunately they don't get each other's something about contact details at the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan time. But then chance brings them back together, and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspiciousthey are inseparable. What looked as Something has happened though it was going to be an open-, something terrible and tragic, and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's bossthey must work through their grief, and their friendship, Una Burt) are less convincedtogether.|isbn=1471196585
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