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Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. Rather, it is the proportional, valid response to ''the epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present''which Preciado calls 'Read [[Forthcoming Publications|reviews 'dysphoria mundi''. The whole text is framed against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''. Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of books about weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to be published]]''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.|isbn=1804271454<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->}}

|isbnauthor=0578761718Samantha Harvey|title=The Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy CarverOrbital

|genre=HistoryGeneral Fiction|summary=The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the City of London from at least 1181Booker Prize for ''Orbital'', when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, the original church was destroyed a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the Great Fire lives of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during group of astronauts aboard the BlitzInternational Space Station. But Through a narrative lens that wasnmirrors the astronauts't the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effortorbital perspective, the stones from the church's walls were transported Harvey invites readers to Fulton, Missouri. There, see our planet in the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and today serves as a memorial to Winston Churchillwholly new light.|isbn=1529922933

|isbn=B08NF79QXT295967572X|title=Cherry Blossom BoutiquePale Pieces|author=Brooke AdamsG M Stevens|rating=35|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer AwardOur unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. SheWhere they's delighted re going and what the two people she's brought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, her motherpurpose of this journey is, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks fromuncertain. JessicaDjango found the tickets 's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: theyon the floor somewhere've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and their fourhas persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either -year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a man in her lifesteam locomotive.

|isbn=B08BTXSS840008551324|title=Fallen Angel The Devil You Know (Gaby Darin Book 3D S Max Craigie)|author=Jenny O'BrienNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than a dribble and sheIt's looking through cold cases unusual for inspiration as anyone from the Hardie family to which one she should have a good look atapproach the police. DS Owen Bates suggests Neither side likes or has any respect for the murder of eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in 1995 prison and Gaby he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is intriguedburied and who was responsible for her death. She can't see any immediate failings in the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room in a securely-locked houseThis person, wearing her pyjamashe promises, is someone big and was found dead by a dog walker on it will be worth the Gt Orme in Llandudno police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the next dayremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. She was wearing a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen before. Not much to ask, is it? Bates hasnThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't ''quite'' told the whole story: hethink so and she's married even prepared to Kate Brock, Angelicado the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's younger sisterhappening.

|author=Nick Jones Jon Fosse and Si ClarkDamion Searls (translator) |title=One Night in BeartownVaim

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary= Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears''All was strange''.. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is BerisfordThis haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every nightfictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, she looks out two of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her schoolprotagonists caught in its melancholic current. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X1804271829}}

|authorisbn=Gail Honeyman1035043092|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. She lives in Glasgow It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, alonethe daughter of his former partner. And Willow's also his boss, and she likes it that way. She works 9-5''should'' be on maternity leave, 5 days but when the body of a weekpopular islander, Archie Stout, is found, and spends in the weekend not drunkaftermath of a storm, but not sober. alone. And she likes it that waycan't resist getting involved. She lives by He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a routine, and thatmuseum.}}{{Frontpage|author=Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Tower|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''How unctuous are the fats of another's fine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing is missing from her life. Except everything is. Until one day, at a concert she won tickets for how dizzying their sugars in an office raffleour bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, she sees Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the man she is sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself identity of T, the best version protagonist of herself that she can, in order to secure this beautiful musiciantale. Then, Just as sheT's on her way home one Fridaystory is being told, the story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, she and the new IT guy at her office see daughter of a man collapse wealthy family in the street and stay close to him 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in hospitala tower, captures T's imagination. ThenAnnie's fate is, above all, before an enticing story to T. It is a story which she knows itconsumes avariciously, her once quiet life becomes both in a hubbub of social engagements with the man's family quest for truth and friendsknowledge, with Raymond from IT and in service of course her side project of falling in love with Johnnie Lomond. But just as her life seems to be looking upmyth, things take a turn for the worse. Is Johnnie all he's cracked up to be? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanor's walls have been broken down fable and she has to fight her way out of the shadows - but maybe she doesn't have to do it alonefantasy. |isbn=00081721451804271799

|isbnauthor=1838887334Claire-Louise Bennett|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)|author=Angela MarsonsBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=DI Kim Stone Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingdistortion. The need for coffee overtook Stone - the course had been Even a kiss, usually a complete waste symbol of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude to everyoneintimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. It was in When the shopping centre that Stone caught sight of narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a little girl clutching a teddy bear in the absence of desperate attempt to confirm her motheremotional numbness. Stone and Bryant didn't realise the extent to which The imagined recipient of this case was going to occupy their minds as the body of Katrina Nock plea is discovered some hours later. Her neck had been broken and it had all the hallmarks of a quickXavier, functional killher ex-partner, but who would do that a ghost she conjures to a young mother out shopping with test her child?detachment.|isbn=1804271934

|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard0008405026|title=The Coral BrideA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45

|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity It's sixteen years since nine-year- old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a female fisherwomanhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, making and her living father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a manstraightforward murder/suicide but there's world. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off something about the coast positioning of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in to come the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and head the investigationher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Although the signs seem to point What looked as though it was going to be an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister open-and-shut case is going on, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feudsnow a complex double murder. At Kerrigan is convinced that the same time explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as trying to run his investigation, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable to talk to his father aboutDerwent's boss, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiesUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1913193322

|isbnauthor=1472134710Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death|author=M C BeatonThe Other Girl

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and she's left South Moulton Street for a cottage in 'We were born from the Cotswold village of Carsleysame body. SheI'd have preferred one of the more romantic names but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail with all the problems that brings. Now the problem is settling into a different way of life - and Agatha has ve never done small talk or even being pleasant really wanted to peoplethink about this. The first move '' Ernaux's work is to enter the village quiche-baking competition always very candid and the beginning her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the campaign is taking the judgemost intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, Reginald Cummings-Brownehowever, and his wife Vera out to dinnerthis letter will never reach her. She knows sheWhy? Because Annie Ernaux's being ripped off sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a few months before the pub vaccine was made compulsory in France, and 2 years before the next village but this is necessary author was even born. The large and itinstant void created by the jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's a good investment as she knows process of reckoning with this giant absence in her life, an absence that she's going to win. How? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845

|author= Claire McGowanMaxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=The PushReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating= 3.5|genre= General FictionBiography|summary= Six mums-toBiographies are often seen as the form of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be meet at seen as more objective and less personal. I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a prenatal classvibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. ItIn the first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: 's NCT ''style'', but you write not the proper NCT. This bit of real life as it is important, but of what you have yourself imagine it to wait a little be. Whom would it help to know how I see this tower, that sea, or that Tartar - whyshould it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. This being LondonWell, such Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a class attracts a wide variety of peoplesubjective account, from all sorts of backgroundsgiving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, but for most Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of the ladies the thing they have in common is it's their first baby. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.|isbn=15420199901804271977

|isbn=14722559171529077745|title=The Roots of Evil Dark Wives (Bob SkinnerD I Vera Stanhope)|author=Quintin JardineAnn Cleeves

|summary=On New Year's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at A man walking his dog in the golf club with his wife, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner and early morning discovered the body of a man with whom she shares in the park near Rosebank, a house, Dominic Jacksoncare home for troubled teens. Jackson would be betterThe dead man was Josh -known one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith night before but he's reformed and the new name reflects a new manwho had never turned up. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the clubhouse and are dropped home not long into disappearance of one of the new residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Skinner's tempted to let the phone ring but knows Some people believe that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking Chloe was responsible for his presence at a crime scene in the centre of Edinburgh. Skinner's not technically with death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the police now - hegirl's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experiencediary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQB0FK5LHKD9|title=The Long Dark RoadColour of Memory|author=P R BlackChristopher Bowden

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Two It's been three years ago Dr Georgiasince we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, so we were very glad to see a new novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. Like all Bowden's Healeystories, there's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along a mystery at the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was a furious storm going on and sheheart of ''d already refused the offer The Colour of help from one man in a big vehicleMoney''. Welike this running theme in an author'll see s work - take a mystery but no one else will know - that another car stops give it different flavour and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven off. There has been no sign of her - or her body - in the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and she's not going to be stoppedatmosphere each time.}}

|author= Katharine OrtonOlga Tokarczuk|title= GlassheartHouse of Day, House of Night|rating= 45|genre= Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= Nona and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since ''What's the Blitz claimed the lives good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of her family. NowNight'', in the aftermath somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the warsmall, they travel all over subtle changes which govern our lives, like the countryshift from day to night, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombshowever quotidian, causing chaos. Their latest job takes them out to But, the wilds of Dartmoor, where Nona discovers constant in that her world image is full of the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and powerful magiche should be doing quite well financially. She also discovers that Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a mysterious entitymurder charge drained his savings. His wife, known only as The SoldierLaura, is hellhas been trying to persuade him to retire -bent ''maybe go travelling or go on using Nonacruises. That's innate magic for what 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his own endscase, and will not stop until it's the thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of justice that he has her…|isbn=1406385239really should put right.

|isbn=B08KKQ85FN1836284683|title=But Never For LunchThe Big Happy|author=Sandra AragonaDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesDystopian Fiction|summary=''If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in lipstick, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles Well! This is a pampered peacock about to be released into the company of carrion crows or, more to the point, about to discover the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas bills.''murder mystery unlike any other!

You don't get many better opening sentences than thatI do love it when I open a book, do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassadorit's Wife in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the Priorities]] and we learned what nothing like I expected it was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but the time has come for HE to retires , and for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of Former Ambassadorit takes me on a wild ride... They have left And that is just what happened with ''The Career and settled in RomeBig Happy''. Well I don'settledt want to ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but I' rather overstates ll have to at least set the situation and their dogscene. Once that's done, Beagle, has no intention of slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deafI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.

|author= Susi Holliday Sally Rooney|title= The Last Resort Intermezzo|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction |summary=A group Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist life and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area is something of expertise that makes their attendance necessarya grandmaster at putting it into words. All except Amelia whose presence Her dialogue is a mystery. We follow the group gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they explore feel. Among the islandmany relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have Peter Koubek. Ivan, a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks downsocially awkward chess prodigy, these well-kept secrets are revealedcontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cagesuccessful lawyer living in Dublin. In Following their father's passing after a race against timelong battle with cancer, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall thembrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials. |isbn=15420200180571365469

|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ1036916375|title=The Karma TrapJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Lisette BoydPeter McArdle

|genre=Women's FictionAutobiography|summary=George Jackson ''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is thirty-three a collection of memories and reflections from the years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - Peter McArdle spent growing up in and singlearound Liverpool. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in Some are factual, such as the karma trap: an awful lot family history of bad luck is being visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting dramasea-going family, with the docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the what-might-have-been. Her lifeIt's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs a book to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it settle into and left herallow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, stark nakedto think of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, staring at despite the pervy postmanblitz that was a constant factor in McArdle's early years. She only has to take her motherI's dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face d never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around could appear after the officeall-clear was sounded.

|isbn=00083331731836285493|title=Hungry: A Memoir The Double Life of Wanting Morea Wheelchair User|author=Grace DentRob Keeley

|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=I'm always relieved when Grace Dent Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of all, he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a couple of the judges on afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1009473085|title=The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''MasterchefThe Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. You know that If you're going to get looking for an honest opinion from someone whom easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of the time. You also ponder on how she If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can look so elegant with all that good food in front of herbe bettered for those tumultuous years. IIt've often wondered about the woman behind the media image s a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting MoreThe Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a stunning read series which will make you laugh looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and break your heart Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in equal measuresa lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|isbn=18387731691787333175|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=S J BennettBenji Waterhouse

|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=ItI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is at Windsor for Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the Easter CourtNHS, humour and autobiography. She's having a dine and sleep at the request of Prince Charles, who's attempting You Don't Have to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projectsbe Mad... There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour ' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to the evening mental illness and one of the performers brought in to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstances. The immediate reaction is that one work of the guests is responsiblea psychiatrist. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an ex-ambassador I did wonder whether it was acceptable to Moscow, be looking for humour in this setting but the Archbishop of Canterbury laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn't bear to go down any of ''those'' roadsunderstanding.

|author=Matt HaigMariana Enriquez|title=The Midnight LibraryA Sunny Place for Shady People

|genre=General FictionShort Stories|summary= Between life and death there Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is a library. And so, 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, she finds herself in the Midnight Library. Everything that could've gone wrong in Nora's life has. Her cat dieddisturbingly real, she lost achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her job, paranormal plots on gritty realities: her brother won't speak settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to heran urban planning mishap, her parents an overcrowded homeless shelter and a crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are dead, the boy she teaches piano to no longer cares about piano, she called off her wedding, and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her helproutine - all within Argentina. She gave up on all the things that would've let her escape the wet, cold town The circumstances of Bedford and given her life some purposeful direction. So at 23:22, she realises characters are so plausible that she isn't made for life and decides to die. But instead of death, she finds the library. Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each book providing a chance to try another life she could have lived, in supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a parallel time. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday the 18th of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life she could'vesimilarly tangible texture.|isbn=17868927311803511230

|isbn=03494230831529934753|title=Death and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)The Protest|author=Frances BrodyRob Rinder

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing CottageFor a little while, ably assisted by Jim Sykesit looked as though Sir Max Bruce, who lives in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. Shethe country's been approached by William Lofthouse most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the Barleycorn Brewery Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in Masham. Something is going wrong the nick of time, complete with his business two wives and he'd six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, you tend to do things like Kate to look into that, but it discreetly: he's hoping was fortunate that his nephew and right-hand manthere was a record of the protest. Lexi Williams, James Lofthousean intern at the RA, will be back grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a trip chair and proceeded to Germany before long. James went to see what spray Bruce in the continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to make. William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit face, whilst shouting ''tooStop the War'' much or is going . It seemed to bring back a German bride but hebe part of an ongoing series of 'd like the business to be shipblue-shape before his nephew returnsface' attacks, but this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.

|author=Caroline ScottAriel Saramandi|title=When I Come Home AgainPortrait of an Island on Fire

|genre=Historical FictionPolitics and Society|summary=1918 In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses slavery to give a name, no matter expose how hard they push he will not say who he isthese legacies still shape modern life. Eventually, they determine this isnSaramandi describes the country at one stage as ''t willful obstinance, he doesnrotting't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being on the road for a long time and being frightened, and some of the faces from the road, but other than that – everything that came before has gone. They need a name blunt yet apt metaphor for the forms and so they call him Adam andsystemic decay brought about by the malignant forces of racism, because he was found in the Galilee Chapelpatriarchy, it becomes Adam Galileeenvironmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. A fanciful name for a tired young man Each essay in this collection serves as a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he iskind of diagnostic, where he is or how he got therecharting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|isbn=14711921721804271616

|isbnauthor=1529410347Pekka Harju-Autti|title=Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)|author=Helen CoxLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse

|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=Kitt HartleyIt's assistantthe eighteenth century, a time of discovery and Britain is expanding its foreign trade. Captain Julius Hawthorne, Grace Edwardsan experienced Scottish sea captain, has left her library job and taken a place on is sent to the Venerable Bede Academy's vocational library studies course Andaman Islands in Durhamhis endeavour. It's an unusual place to study as students Along with government grants are not acceptedhis son, so most of the people attending are scions of the seriously richPeter, scholarship students - or they've managedand their cat, somehowMichi, they set off on a perilous voyage to scrape together these faraway lands. The islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and the money. Graceislanders' leader, who's 22Aarav, comes into the last category. Her parents agreed is keen to fund the course but told her that if that was what she chose to do then they were finished with her. Not long after she started the course, Kitt Hartley came for a visit - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance of a student from a year agoestablish good relations.|isbn=B0DS1VGHH3

|author=Vincent PanettiereHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=These Thy Gifts|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''2006 Lili is a tumultuous year for the Catholic Church. Reports of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled. He worries for the future of the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church and hit closer to home than he ever imagined.'' As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense of the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking his beloved Catholic church, he discovers that one child in his own parish has been abused by a priest sent by his bishop. And this isn't just any boy: this is Steve's grandson whose mother is the offspring of a long past relationship between Steve and a gangster's widow. Steve is determined to seek justice for this boy and all children victimised by priests who have been protected by his church. But he must also face up to his own failings, going right back to his breaking of the celibacy vows.|isbn=1503199886}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1800321104|title=The Body on the Island|author=Nick LouthCrying

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=A prison transport left HMP WakefieldFirst published in 1953 in French, heading for HMP Spring Hill. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old and had served six years for this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the manslaughter hearts of his wife. Only that wasn't who he was. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the murder of five boys between the ages of ten page and seventeenpositions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. He was being ghosted out of Wakefield and into a new identity set up in a deal whereby he divulged Like the whereabouts lives of the body of one of his victims. The Bogeyman was going to be set free on 2 July 2019. He appeared to be a reformed character but he had a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revengeher characters, they are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675

|isbnauthor=1473692407Tom Percival|title=The Book of Two Ways|author=Jodi PicoultWrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Dawn Edelstein is a death doula: thatWill's someone who life is there for the person who is dyingdifficult, to make their passage to whatever they believe in as easy as possible and to support their carersa multitude of ways. ItHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes's a rewarding, caring occupation he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and Dawn puts her heart doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and soul into it but this wasnhis dad can't always her life. Some fifteen years ago she was a graduate student work because he lost his job at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an Egyptologistthe college, she was working with her supervisor, Professor Ian Dumphries, on the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir ela cash-in-Bersha hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the Nile fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in Middle Egyptevery direction. Then she was Dawn McDowell: 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 was her maiden namefeel like a light at the end of a long, the name she published underdark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|author=Delia OwensSylvie Cathrall|title=Where The Crawdads SingA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=General Science Fiction|summary= In 1952, Kya's mother disappeared up the dirt track to town, wearing her alligator heels, and never came home. Then one by one her siblings left, ran from the shack on the North Carolina marsh that served as home and the life that would lead to nothing but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken father. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed 'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for There are few greater joys than a mother that would never return and grew book which lives up far too fast for a girl who can neither read nor write. Finally, one night her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone to survive on the marsh. Eventually, as the years drift painfully by, the time comes when Kya, now an emotional and vastly intelligent young woman, yearns for company besides the gulls and the land, yearning to be loved and to be held. So, when 2 boys from the town of Barkley Cove find their way to her, she finds a new way of lifecompelling premise. But in 1969, the body of former star quarterback and new husband Chase Andrews And this is found lying in the mud one of the marsh, and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysterious, run-down Marsh-Girlthem. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=14721546650356522776

|authorisbn=David C Mason1786482126|title=Pandora's GardenerThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5

|summary= John Cranston is Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a gardener, although what he did before he became child beneath a gardener, he claims, is classifieddoorway. There was no skull. That is just as well because he is about to be caught up in Was this a criminal / spy / terrorist plotritual killing or murder? Inevitably, where only he can save the dayDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. |isbn=0956180523}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0356512479|author= Alix E Harrow|title= The Once and Future Witches|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''There It's no such thing difficult as witchesRuth knows, but there used to be.Nelson doesn'' In 1893t, after that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the purges and the burnings, witching has been reduced to little more than weak charms and simple spellsone night they spent together some three months ago. If women want to hold power in their hands Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to have their voices heard, it is now through women's suffragesudden bouts of sickness.

|author=Onjali Q RaufGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Night Bus HeroAccidentals

|genre=Confident ReadersShort Stories|summary=Hector is a bully. Egged on by his two 'friends', he takes other children's sweetsThis collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the word: spellbinding with its fantastical, harasses magical elements and threatens, plays pranks at school, charming in its gentle portrayal of nature and gets into trouble at every turnhuman relationships. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isn't his fault, but then he isn't believed as everyone expects him to be telling lies. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely home, Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and seem to only care about his perfect sister and his annoying little brother when they areprecisely, and his teachers have abandoned him as her stories structured by a lost cause. So what happens when, in trying wisdom that appears to tell the truth & fight want to be believed, Hector finds himself embroiled with teach us something about the police; first trying to accuse, and then trying to save a homeless man from his local park?world.|isbn=15101067741804271470

|isbn=18497673430008551375|title=Count on MeWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Miguel TancoNeil Lancaster

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=The title and format of this book might lead you to think that itLeanne Wilson's either about responsibility - or itbody was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a tragic accident. She's a basic 1-2-3 book for those d looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just starting out on of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the numbers journeylast year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. It isnNone of the 't: it's what a hymn of praise stupid thing to mathsdo' explanations applied. ItThey were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday lifea killer on the loose.