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'''Read [[Forthcoming Publications|reviews Through this hybrid text, consisting of books about arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to be published]]. <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{Frontpage|isbn=1786495902|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered the new generation, a trauma new feeling mechanism in which she chooses detachment is not to shareconsidered a sign of political apathy. She says that a friendRather, who does knowit is the proportional, burst into tears and health-care professionalsvalid response to ' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budgetepistemological and political crack we are living through, next there was and the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests tension between emancipatory forces and then it was party conference seasonconservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin longThe whole text is framed against the backdrop of the Covid-term sick leave. That was what brought me to 19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this book: 2020 was the year revolution, when the bins went out more often dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''. Rather than I didtaking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.|isbn=1804271454

|isbnauthor=3030513025Samantha Harvey|title=The Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to do|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe MoraisOrbital|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=Independent Director: ''a job In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for which no one is qualified'' (Orbital''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director is , a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a member of single day in the board lives of directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with the company, (2) is not part of the company's executive team, and (3) is not involved with the day-to-day operations group of astronauts aboard the companyInternational Space Station. (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel Through a narrative lens that mirrors the relationship between the executive members of boards and the independent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors), trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. The function of the independent director is to have general oversight of the executive side of the board - to spot when and where things are going wrong - but all too often the relationship is too cosyastronauts' orbital perspective, too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the knowledge and/or experience to understand what's happening or to know how to intervene. Covid-19 has highlighted the failings and weaknesses of leadership and governance and you might be tempted to think that these are extraordinary times and that all will be well once we get back Harvey invites readers to 'normal' but a pandemic was predicted and modelled see our planet in the past and there has been a general failure to prepare for what has happened - and is still happeningwholly new light.|isbn=1529922933

|isbn=B002SQCYWQ295967572X|title=The Complete Barchester ChroniclesPale Pieces|author=Anthony TrollopeG M Stevens

|summary=When I told my daughter that I didn't know what Our unnamed narrator is about to listen to now that Ibegin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense re going and Sensibilitywhat the purpose of this journey is, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for is uncertain. Django found the second time tickets ''on the trot she had the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles floor somewhere'' and they were in my inbox in a matter of minuteshas persuaded our narrator to accompany him. They're Why not ''quite'' as well known ? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the Austen books but they're an excellent follow onpair travel to the station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.

|isbn=00082144680008551324|title=A Time to LieThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Simon BerthonNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. It's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and is a hand, severed above unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the wristpolice. It's been there Neither side likes or has any respect for about twenty-five to thirty-five yearsthe other. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - But Davie Hardie is Prime Minister. Hestruggling in prison and he's married prepared to heiress Carol van Koon tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and they have two daughterswho was responsible for her death. This person, Becca he promises, is someone big and Bella. Sandford's determined to it will be a better type of politician: worth the police doing what he wants ''a government that is not just practically good, but morally good.'' One of the ways And what he's planning on going about this wants is to ban arms sales be transferred to dubious regimesan open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Henry Morland-CrossNot much to ask, the is it? The new Deputy Prime Minister Police Constable doesn't think so and Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: itshe's easy even prepared to see do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that he wouldnDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what't have been in agreements happening.

|isbnauthor=B077K6BQFDJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Jane AustenVaim|rating=54

|summary=Yes - that's over eighty-one hours 'All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of listening otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for the purchase Jatgeir and Eline, two of one audio book. All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin and they're presented in the order protagonists caught in which they were publishedits melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829

|isbn=02414535851035043092|title=Banking On It: How I Disrupted an IndustryThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Anne BodenAnn Cleeves

|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Anne Boden had an impressive track record in I can't have been the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Banknew life on Orkney. AIB was in 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, the throes daughter of recovering from the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived his former partner. Willow's also his boss, and she was one ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the first to realise that banks needed to do things differentlyaftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. AIB thought it was at He'd been battered about the cutting edge when it proposed opening head with a Neolithic stone - one of a branch pair - which allowed customers to access their accounts via a terminal. Boden took things had been stolen from a step further, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the old branch network, employing thousands of people, would soon become redundantmuseum.

|author=Lauren MartinThea Lenarduzzi|title=The Book of MoodsTower

|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary= I was ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in a great mood when I first learnt of our bloodstream''. In this bookcompelling novel, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writingThea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, imagine the word ''great'protagonist of this tale. Just as T' s story is being delivered with an eye roll and a sightold, through clenched teeth. I had spent the best part story of a rainysecond protagonist is unveiled: Annie, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club daughter of a wealthy family in the rescue rib19th century, on standby who died of tuberculosis after being locked in case anyone who was racing needed supporta tower, captures T's imagination. ItAnnie's a volunteer duty we fate is, above all do during the year, and normally I'm happy an enticing story toT. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, but that day the weather was miserable both in a quest for truth and I was miserableknowledge, and it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave in service of myth, fable and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book morefantasy. |isbn=15387336251804271799

|author=Becky AlbertalliClaire-Louise Bennett|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great lifeEverything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. He has Even a close group of friendskiss, usually a loving familysymbol of intimacy and closeness, and even an adorable dogbecomes evidence of love lost. But he has a secret: heWhen the narrator cries out internally, ''s gay. Only one person knows thiscome over here and kiss me, and that's Blue – ' it is less an invitation than a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out that there was another closeted guy at his schooldesperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. Their emails are a safe space for Simon; it's his own private universe without the fear The imagined recipient of being judged. Until one daythis plea is Xavier, these emails fall into the wrong handsher ex-partner, and everything Simon knows is turned upside downa ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=014135609X1804271934

|isbn=31106411190008405026|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking Stranger in the Value of Customer Journey MappingFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jerry AngraveJane Casey

|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=I had no idea what 'journey mappingIt' s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading never found and the book investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and acting on the contentsher father are dead in their bed. You're going to learn how to run a workshop to discover what Initially, it feels looks like to be one a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of your own customersthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. At this point, please don't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this is What looked as though it was going to be fun an open-and you-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie're going to be surprised by what emergess disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbnauthor=3110641291Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderOther Girl|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary=So, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with ''We were born from the same thing in a slightly different form and quite a bit of money spentbody. Why not just leave it as it is? After all, it's ''roughlyI've never really wanted to think about this.' working, isn't it?

You might not have said itErnaux's work is always very candid and her tone transparent, but youthis raw epistolary text must be one of the most intimate accounts I've probably thought itread. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, this letter will never reach her. YouWhy? Because Annie Ernaux've also thought s sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a few months before the smallvaccine was made compulsory in France, incremental improvements which you have been able to make - and 2 years before the optimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possible, author was even born. The large and instant void created by the extension jarring concept of your existing products into new areas - havenwriting to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux't really delivered s process of reckoning with this giant absence in terms her life, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845}}{{Frontpage|author=Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Reminiscences of ''growth''Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=3. It's been manageable and largely risk5|genre=Biography|summary=Biographies are often seen as the form of life-free but you could easily writing which offers less colour; it can be challenged by a competitor who takes a seen as more radical approachobjective and less personal. You've merely kept the business ticking over I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and there's offers a nagging suspicion in vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the back first section of your mind this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might : ''you write not survive in the twentyof real life as it is, but of what you yourself imagine it to be. Whom would it help to know how I see this tower, that sea, or that Tartar -first. What you need why should it interest anyone? Of what use is innovation - it?''radical'' innovation.Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, giving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=1804271977

|isbn=14729620441529077745|title=Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your BusinessThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Andrew HampshireAnn Cleeves

|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=I was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're eighteenA man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, so there's been a lot of technology in my lifecare home for troubled teens. I once worked for The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a manager shift the night before but who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they had a typewriternever turned up. Times D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen- thankfully year- have moved onold Chloe Spencer. Nowadays Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the problem death but Vera thinks this is that someone running a business doesn't have unlikely as the time to keep up with constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expected. Itgirl's also a fact diary makes it clear that no one develops a business because they have the knowledge of the required technology, so they start off in conversations about technology feeling she adored Josh. She knows that they're at a disadvantage. They need help, but they frequently don't know she has to find Chloe to discover what help they needhappened to Josh.

|authorisbn=Mark LinganeB0FK5LHKD9|title=Note to Self: An EducationThe Colour of Memory|author=Christopher Bowden

|genre=Science General Fiction|summary= In KryIt's worldbeen three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in so we were very glad to see a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 itnew novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. Like all Bowden's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years beforestories, in 2035 itthere's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with a mystery at the side effect heart of erasing seven years ''The Colour of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "deMoney''. We like this running theme in an author's work -age" their customers by seven years. In take a society obsessed with image mystery but give it different flavour and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KSatmosphere each time.}}

|author=Olga Tokarczuk|title=House of Day, House of Night|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''What's the 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 Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the constant in that image is the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=18387700461804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Body LanguageUltimate Obsession|author=A K TurnerDai Henley|rating=4.5

|summary=TwentyEx-five-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and not only does she talk to the deadhe should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, she also hears what they have has been trying to say persuade him to herretire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. ItThat's not something shewhat 's inclined to share with ordinary people as shedo',''s pretty certain about what their reaction will be. SheHe's certainly not going to share it with been entirely up front about the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer state of a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harroviantheir savings. HeWhen Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it's very conscious of his position and isn't even inclined to ask for the view thought of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact money he could make that they have a lot more experience than convinces him and he has only that this is a limited amount miscarriage of time to spend on each body. That will prove to be a mistakejustice that he really should put right.

|isbn=05787617181836284683|title=The Inspiring History of a Special RelationshipBig Happy|author=Nancy CarverDavid Chadwick

|genre=HistoryDystopian Fiction|summary=The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly's nothing like I expected it to be, the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire 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 the Blitztakes me on a wild ride. But And that wasnis just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. I don't the end want to ruin a similar experience for any of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, you reading but I'll have to at least set the stones from the churchscene. Once that's walls were transported to Fultondone, Missouri. There, in the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and today serves as a memorial to Winston ChurchillI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.

|isbnauthor=B08NF79QXTSally Rooney|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke AdamsIntermezzo|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini Sally Rooney has had her shop, studied the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - chessboard of life and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Awardis something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. She's delighted Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the two people she's brought with her many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the event couldn't be more pleasedfraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. SonjaIvan, her mothera socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks froma successful lawyer living in Dublin. JessicaFollowing their father's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husbandpassing after a long battle with cancer, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasnthe brothers't for one thing: she misses having a man in her lifealready strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469

|isbn=B08BTXSS841036916375|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)Just a Liverpool Lad|author=Jenny O'BrienPeter McArdle

|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than a dribble and shecountry's looking through cold cases most famous living artist, was not going to show up for inspiration as to which one she should have a good look the opening of his retrospective atthe Royal Academy. DS Owen Bates suggests Still, he arrived in the murder nick of eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock in 1995 time, complete with his two wives and Gaby is intriguedsix children, one of whom filmed what happened. She can't see any immediate failings in the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room in a securely-locked houseBeing an influencer, wearing her pyjamasyou tend to do things like that, and but it was fortunate that there was found dead by a dog walker on record of the Gt Orme in Llandudno the next dayprotest. She was wearing Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen before. Bates hasnchair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting 't 'Stop the War'quite'. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of ' told the whole story: heblue-face's married to Kate Brockattacks, but this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, Angelica's younger sisterand Sir Max Bruce was dead.

|author=Nick Jones and Si ClarkAriel Saramandi|title=One Night in Beartown|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Many children have Portrait of an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out 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 school. She even has bears Island on her bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X}} {{Frontpage|author=Gail Honeyman|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineFire

|genre=General FictionPolitics and Society|summary= Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30. She lives in GlasgowIn this powerful collection of essays, alone. And she likes it that way. She works 9-5Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, 5 days a week, and spends tunneling deep into the weekend not drunk, but not sober. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives wounds left by a routine, colonialism and that's fine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing is missing from her slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Except everything is. Until Saramandi describes the country at one daystage as ''rotting'', at a concert she won tickets blunt yet apt metaphor for in an office raffle, she sees the man she is sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself systemic decay brought about by the best version malignant forces of herself that she canracism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Each essay in order to secure this beautiful musician. Then, collection serves as she's on her way home one Friday, she and the new IT guy at her office see a man collapse in the street and stay close to him in hospital. Then, before she knows it, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub kind of social engagements with the man's family and friendsdiagnostic, with Raymond from IT and of course her side project of falling in love with Johnnie Lomond. But just as her life seems to be looking up, things take a turn for charting 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 and she has to fight her way out of various diseases afflicting the shadows - but maybe she doesn't have to do it aloneisland state.|isbn=00081721451804271616

|isbnauthor=1838887334Pekka Harju-Autti|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)|author=Angela MarsonsLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse

|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness training. The need for coffee overtook Stone - It's the course had been eighteenth century, a complete waste time of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude discovery and Britain is expanding its foreign trade. Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to everyone. It was in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight of a little girl clutching a teddy bear Andaman Islands in the absence of her motherhis endeavour. Stone Along with his son, Peter, and Bryant didn't realise the extent their cat, Michi, they set off on a perilous voyage to which this case was going to occupy these faraway lands. The islands are beautiful and stunning in their minds as the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours later. Her neck had been broken scenery and it had all the hallmarks of a quickislanders' leader, functional killAarav, but who would do that is keen to a young mother out shopping with her child?establish good relations.|isbn=B0DS1VGHH3

|author=Roxanne BouchardHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=The Coral BrideLili is Crying|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Angel Roberts First published in 1953 in French, this novel is an oddity - a female fisherwoman, making her living in a man's world. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off timeless text which wrenches the coast hearts of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in to come its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and head sentences from their proper position on the investigation. Although the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusionpage and positions them elsewhere, Morales feels something more sinister is going on, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendasdisjointed, fishing histories and secret family feudstruncated. At Like the same time 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 aboutlives of her characters, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiesthey are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=19131933221804271675

|isbnauthor=1472134710Tom Percival|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death|author=M C BeatonThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and sheWill's left South Moulton Street for life is difficult, in a cottage in the Cotswold village multitude of Carsleyways. SheHe is bullied because he has 'd have preferred one of the more romantic names but at least Carsley is off wrong shoes', he has the tourist trail with all the problems that brings. Now the problem is settling into a different way of life - wrong shoes because his dad can't work and Agatha has never done small talk or doesn't have enough money for even being pleasant to people. The first move is to enter the village quiche-baking competition and the beginning most basic of the campaign is taking the judge, Reginald Cummings-Brownethings like food, and his wife Vera out to dinner. She knows shedad can's being ripped off t work because he lost his job at the pub college, was working a cash-in -hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the next village but this is necessary fact that his mum and dad are separated, and itWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a good investment as she knows that she's going to wintiny amount of hope. How? WellHe is good at art, ''her'' quiche and clings to the moments of joy when he is coming from drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a Chelsea Bakery..long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|author= Claire McGowanSylvie Cathrall|title=The PushA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating= 5|genre= General Science Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at There are few greater joys than a prenatal class. It's NCT ''style'', but not the proper NCT. This bit is important, but you have book which lives up to wait a little to see whycompelling premise. This being London, such a class attracts a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common And this 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 patof them.|isbn=15420199900356522776

|isbn=14722559171786482126|title=The Roots of Evil Janus Stone (Bob SkinnerDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Quintin JardineElly Griffiths

|summary=On New Year's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at the golf club with his wife, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner and the man with whom she shares a Builders were demolishing an old house, Dominic Jackson. Jackson would be betterin Norwich -known the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the criminal fraternity bones of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but he's reformed and the new name reflects a new manchild beneath a doorway. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse and are dropped home not long into the new yearThere was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. SkinnerIt's tempted to let the phone ring difficult as Ruth knows, but knows Nelson doesn't, that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for she is pregnant with his presence at child as a crime scene in result of the centre of Edinburghone night they spent together some three months ago. Skinner's Her condition will be obvious before long, not technically with the police now - he's chairman least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experiencesickness.

|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackAccidentals|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersShort Stories|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There This collection was a furious storm going on and she'd already refused the offer truly enchanting in all senses of help from one man in a big vehicle. We'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car word: spellbinding with its fantastical, magical elements and driven off. There has been no sign charming in its gentle portrayal of her - or her body - in the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened nature and she's not going to be stoppedhuman relationships.}} {{Frontpage|author= Katharine Orton|title= Glassheart|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and precisely, her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since the Blitz claimed the lives of her family. Now, in the aftermath of the war, they travel all over the country, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed stories structured by bombs. Their latest job takes them out a wisdom that appears to want to teach us something about the wilds of Dartmoor, where Nona discovers that her world is full of ancient and powerful magic. She also discovers that a mysterious entity, known only as The Soldier, is hell-bent on using Nona's innate magic for his own ends, and will not stop until he has her…|isbn=14063852391804271470

|isbn=B08KKQ85FN0008551375|title=But Never For LunchWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Sandra AragonaNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=Leanne Wilson''If a woman approaching s body was found at the menopause can be likened to bottom of a Rottweiler in lipstickScottish mountain, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into seemingly the company result of carrion crows ora tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, more to the pointtoo, about to discover the real world when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of bus timetables and paying his own gas billsan unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now.'' You don't get many better opening sentences than Then it emerged that, do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife five other women had died in similar circumstances in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting sensible people. None of the Priorities]] and we learned 'what it was like a stupid thing 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 Ambassador..do' explanations applied. They have left The Career and settled in Rome. Well were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there'settled' rather overstates s a killer on the situation and their dog, Beagle, has no intention of slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deafloose.