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|author=Paul B Preciado
|title=Dysphoria Mundi
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood''
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 ''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''Read [[Forthcoming Publications|reviews . 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''.<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|isbn=1804271454}}
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|author=Francesca Simon and Steve MaySamantha Harvey|title=Two Terrible VikingsOrbital|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=In a small Viking village there live two twins2024, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be Samantha Harvey won the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad maraudingBooker Prize for ''Orbital'', as they cause havoc at a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking compact yet profound work that unfolds over a troll, and undertake single day in the lives of a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to all kinds group of mischief and naughty behaviourastronauts aboard the International Space Station. Through a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and their crazy cast of friendsHarvey invites readers to see our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=05713494981529922933
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|authorisbn=Helen Fisher295967572X|title=Space HopperPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=3.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very youngOur unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worse, and although Where they were kind 're going and very good to her she what the purpose of course missed her mum enormouslythis journey is, is uncertain. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to Django found the 70tickets ''s and her mum, she revels in on the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to her. The time travelling, however, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that her husband wonfloor somewhere't believe what's happening and so lies has persuaded our narrator to accompany him instead. The lies grow more tangled, Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to the pasttrain is a steam locomotive. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663
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|isbn=17874778000008551324|title=The Night Hawks Devil You Know (Dr Ruth GallowayD S Max Craigie)|author=Elly GriffithsNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists and they're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that thereIt's treasure unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to be foundapproach the police. Unfortunately, Neither side likes or has any respect for the youngest of other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the group, twenty-one-year-old Troy Evans, finds police where the body of a man floating on the incoming tidemissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. After pulling This person, he promises, is someone big and it ashore, they call will be worth the policedoing what he wants. DCI Nelson thinks that it's probably And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the body remainder of his sentence and to get an asylum seeker but thereearly parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's no evidence of any activity even prepared to be had from do the coastguard. The dead man turns out to be Jem Taylor, a North Norfolk man recently released other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from prisonwhat's happening.
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|isbnauthor=1529378648|title=Slough House Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (Jackson Lamb 7translator)|authortitle=Mick HerronVaim|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Someone is killing secret service agents, past and present, from the Slough House team. Jackson Lamb can't understand it. Well, what he actually can't understand is why, having seen them, anyone would botherAll was strange''. But the deaths are mounting up and something needs to be done. After all ''when things went awry on Spook Street, they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'' Over at Regent's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw This haunting phrase encapsulates the perpetrator pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a Novichok poisoning fictional fishing village in the UK (three people seriously injured Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and one dead) dispatched. It isn't just the message that was sent: she's also delighted that she managed to fund Eline, two of the operation off the books. Some private money was brought protagonists caught inits melancholic current. She won't always be so jubilant about this.|isbn=1804271829
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|isbn=18387734281035043092|title=The Art of DeathKilling Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=David FennellAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It I can't have been the only person who was an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by liquid. Only this time it's not Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tippingnew life on Orkney. The installation is the work of @nonymous, underground artist and extreme version of Banksy. HeIt's made a macabre promise: more will follow. In factbeen seven years since we heard from him, we've already met the artist although not by name: but he's been in the Lumberyard Cafe now living with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air Willow Reeves and iPhone. Elaine Kelly is there with her their young son, JordanJames, and she's explaining to her best friendas well as Cassie, Jackie Morris about the state daughter of her marriagehis former partner. ActuallyWillow's also his boss, it doesnand she ''should't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious be on her face despite maternity leave, but when the foundation body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a storm, shecan's appliedt resist getting involved. Chau Ho is behind the counter. There He's someone online, CassandraH, that d been battered about the artist has his eye on, toohead with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.
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|isbnauthor=1471191303Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Invisible|author=Tom PercivalTower
|rating=5
|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=This is ''How unctuous are the story fats of Isobelanother's life, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents how dizzying their sugars in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldnour bloodstream''t afford to put the heating on:.
In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, the story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T'Ice curled across s imagination. Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to T. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and fantasy. |isbn=1804271799}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire-Louise Bennett|title=Big Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the inside narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=1804271934}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the window Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and crept up the corner investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bedpostbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|author=Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Other Girl|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=''We were born from the same body. I've never really wanted to think about this.''
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|author=Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=Biographies are often seen as the form of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and less personal. I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: ''you write not of 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 - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178089905X1529077745|title=SerpentineThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Jonathan KellermanAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It wasn't exactly A man walking his dog in the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death from thirty-six years ago and early morning discovered the daughter body of a man in the woman who died wanted some answerspark near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. She had money and money translated into clout and so The dead man was Josh - one of the problem care workers who was dropped onto Milo's toesdue to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. Dorothy Swoboda was twentyD I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-four years old when she died in a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flamesChloe Spencer. It turned out Some people believe that she wasn't actually married to Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the man with whom shegirl'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man and he took out adoption papers for Ellie - and s diary makes it clear that she took his nameadored Josh. Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and She knows that she has nothing of her but one photograph of her mother and father and a necklace made of serpentineto find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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|isbn=0008379300B0FK5LHKD9|title=The Shadow ManColour of Memory|author=Helen FieldsChristopher Bowden
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that heIt's dying. His body is giving up on himbeen three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, his internal organs beginning so we were very glad to putrify but before he dies he wants see a wifenew novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. Like all Bowden's stories, a child and a brother. Hethere's been on a mystery at the lookout for the perfect people and heheart of ''The Colour of Money''s made certain preparations. The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures We like this running theme in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husband, Cal, had taken the children an author's work - take a boy of seven and a girl of five, away for the weekend. Unfortunately, mystery but give it doesn't go according to plan different flavour and Angela diesatmosphere each time.
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|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=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08NZ4LV2RhenleyA|title=Dark Memories (DS Nikki Parekh 3)Ultimate Obsession|author=Liz MistryDai Henley
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peggy Dyson was in her sixties Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and hadn't worn he should be doing quite wellfinancially. She was Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a drug addict and was living under the arches in Forster Square Station in Bradfordmurder charge drained his savings. Her killer thought that he was probably doing her a favour by putting her out of her misery. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on the casecruises. Nikki canThat's what 'ordinary people do',''t quite understand why she He's not been sent an anonymous letter with a press report entirely up front about the state of the deaththeir savings. It had been impossible When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to make any progress in the take his case and , it's the note seemed to taunt thought of the police. Then another note arrived with money he could make that convinces him that this is a report miscarriage of a seemingly unconnected death in Cambridge. The third death - in the street where Nikki lived as a child - brought another communication, with a further clue under the victim - and Nikki was sure justice that there was something personal in the casehe really should put right.
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|authorisbn=Anna Carey1836284683|title=This is Not the Jess ShowThe Big Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=Jess Well! This is a normal 90murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, it's teenage girl, just trying nothing like I expected it to navigate the usual stresses of schoolbe, and boys, and parent troublesit takes me on a wild ride. And that is just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. But strange things seem I don't want to be happening in her small town, with a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoors, and ruin a strange metal device, with an apple on it, that slips out similar experience for any of her friend's bag, you reading but that her friends just wonI't talk ll have to her aboutat least set the scene. Jess feels like she might be hearing voicesOnce that's done, and her sister (who is very ill) seems to be responding to her in strange ways sometimesI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself. Is there something going on beneath the surface of Jess' life?|isbn=1683691970
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|isbnauthor=B08LKT7HSRSally Rooney|title=Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena DixonIntermezzo|rating=34.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction |summary=In December 1933 Sally Rooney has studied the remains chessboard of life and is something of Elowed Underhay were discovered in a grandmaster at putting it into 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 cellar of central one for readers to unravel is the Glass Bottle Public Housefraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with the murder of Elowed and his half-older brotherPeter, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovereda successful lawyer living in Dublin. Kitty UnderhayFollowing their father's passing after a long search for her motherbattle with cancer, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now shethe brothers's determined that the man responsible for her murder will be brought to justicealready strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469
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|isbn=17822277411036916375|title=Little Gold TedJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha SathaPeter McArdle
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=One day, Gold Ted falls into ''Just a puddle. ItLiverpool Lad ''s quite is a deep puddle collection of memories and reflections from the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around and is sucked down a drain on Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the side family history of a sea-going family, with the streetdocks dominating lives. Finding himself down in Other stories blend seamlessly into the sewer, Ted starts to panicwhat-might-have-been. It''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries s a book to settle into and alerts the attention allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, to think of Reg the sewer ratsimpler times when life seemed less constrained, who plucks him out of despite the dirty water using his cane, which might look just blitz that was a bit like an old cricket batconstant factor in McArdle's early years. Reg is a kind soul I'd never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of brothcould appear after the all-clear was sounded.
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|isbn= 1836285493
|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User
|author=Rob Keeley
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Rob Keeley Will is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read a new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and lots a supportive friend. But most of actionall, he is an easy to read styleaspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalriesMarlowe Park, and always a good dollop of naughty humourone at which he excels. TheyThis hasn're all present heret gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, in ''The Treasure in the Tower''. The chance purchase and she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a book during week at a different school trip sparks the whole adventure, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure? Jess, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?|isbn=1800461321
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|isbn=15291244171009473085|title=Before She DisappearedThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Lisa GardnerAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani WhitehorseSometimes it's body in her car at the bottom of the lake. She knew simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that the twentyapplies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-two2024 -year-old waitress wouldn14 Wasted Years?''t have left her three-year-old daughter and run away. Lani was If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and now sheinside story about what ''really''s moving happened on againcertain occasions, then this time to Boston where thereisn's a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months agot the book for you. FrankieIf that's what you're looking for, middle-aged and whiteI don't think Anthony Seldon's book, gets a job and accommodation {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at Stoney10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's bar a compelling read and sets out should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to investigate politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the community seventh book in a series which is just about exclusively blacklooks 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.
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|isbnauthor=B08QDL5HDLJenny Valentine|title=The Jeeves Collection, Vol 1|author=P G WodehouseUs in the Before and After|rating=45|genre=HumourTeens|summary=In my youth, I wasn't fond of PG Wodehouse: I've never been keen on upper-class twits Elk and I was greedy. I wanted everything: I required brilliant plotsMab are best friends, exceptional characters and laugh-out-loud humour. Age brought the realisation or more than that you have to compromise and I came back to Wodehouse with even, their friendship is a once in a different mindsetlifetime connection. The humour is gentle and subtle: thereThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's never any malice in itcontact details at the time. The characterisation is two-dimensional where women are concerned: there's little in between old gorgons (Aunt AgathaBut then chance brings them back together, we're looking at you...) and young schemers such as Honoria Glossop. The plots they are superficial but gently engaginginseparable. They're fun - Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and the writing is exquisitetheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|authorisbn=H M Long1787333175|title=Hall of SmokeYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=FantasyPopular Science|summary= Hessa 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 an Eangi: Going to Hurt}}, a powerful priestess glorious mixture of insight into the Goddess workings of War. That is until she is banished by her high priestess for not following her one order: to kill the traveller that visits her temple. Her whole town is burnt to the ground while she is praying for forgivenessNHS, humour and Hessa – now left alone – must find this traveller autobiography. ''You Don't Have to atone for her weakness and win back her goddess' favourbe Mad.. On her journey, she encounters zealot soldiers, deceitful gods, and newly awakened demons at every turn. It is a gruelling quest, and along '' promised the way, she discovers a harrowing truth: the gods are dying, same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the High Halls work of the afterlife are fadinga psychiatrist. Soon Hessa's trust I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in her goddess weakens, this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and she it is thrust into a battle between the gods of the Old World always delivered with empathy and the Newunderstanding.|isbn=1789094984
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|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Mariana Enriquez|title=Kokoschka's DollA Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=2.5|genre=Literary FictionShort Stories|summary=WellMariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, achieving this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of it. I found things disused refrigerators due to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paperan urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and a chapter whose number was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. The circumstances of her characters are so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden plausible that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these pages, it was not actually caused by themspaces adopts a similarly tangible texture. So what happened?|isbn=15294026971803511230
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|authorisbn=David F Ross1529934753|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyThe Protest|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Years agoFor a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, Danny Garvey was a footballing prodigy playing not going to show up for the opening of his local clubretrospective at the Royal Academy. Everyone predicted a bright future – but Still, he arrived in the nick of time, complete with his career in professional football never quite worked outtwo wives and six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Thirteen years on Being an influencer, convinced you tend to return home by his "uncle" Higgy do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of the protest. Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to visit his dying motherspray Bruce in the face, Danny takes over whilst shouting ''Stop the shambolic and onceWar''. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-great team he used to play for face' attacks, but this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and tries to reform themSir Max Bruce was dead.|isbn= 1913193500
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|isbnauthor=1529337925Ariel Saramandi|title=The Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPhersonPortrait of an Island on Fire
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)Politics and Society|summary=It was In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the August Bank Holiday weekend andsociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, as so often happened, it was cold enough to have tunneling deep into the fire lit wounds left by colonialism and Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined slavery to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofaexpose how these legacies still shape modern life. The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took Saramandi describes the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. She was the publisher of country at one stage as ''rotting'', a magazine and had been told that blunt yet apt metaphor for the man running systemic decay brought about by the Punch malignant forces of racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and Judy show governmental dysfunction. Each essay in the local park had used copies this collection serves as a kind of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn diagnostic, charting the man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do various diseases afflicting the same jobisland state.|isbn=1804271616
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|isbnauthor=0099551063Pekka Harju-Autti|title=The Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies LoveVortex and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Duttonthe Drakor's Curse
|rating=4
|genre=Popular ScienceFantasy|summary=It'' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.'' Until s the events of 6 January 2021 that might have surprisedeighteenth century, even shocked many readers: now they're probably convinced that they knew it all along. The statement has lost a little time of discovery and Britain is expanding its shock value but it does help us foreign trade. Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to understand more about the nature of psychopathyAndaman Islands in his endeavour. It's too easy Along with his son, Peter, and their cat, Michi, they set off on a perilous voyage to associate psychopathy with these faraway lands. The islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and the Yorkshire Ripperislanders' leader, Jeffrey DahmerAarav, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsleyis keen to establish good relations.|isbn=B0DS1VGHH3}}{{Frontpage|author=Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Lili is Crying|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the real-life Hannibal Lecterhearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the page and positions them elsewhere, but disjointed, truncated. Like the truth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thinglives of her characters, they are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675
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|author=Alex WheatleTom Percival|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeWrong Shoes|rating=2.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of timesways. He should be getting a text from is bullied because he has 'the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema datewrong shoes', but he has the wrong shoes because his phone has packed up, hedad can's chundered last nightt work and doesn's meal t have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his breakfast over another girl in classdad can't work because he lost his job at the college, who's duffed him up was working a cash-in response, -hand job on a building site and the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anywayhad an accident. On a bigger scale he's living with Throw into that mix the fact that his mother mum and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yesare separated, things are so bad theyand Will're resorting to having cabbage for dinners life seems bleak in every direction. I knowAnd yet, right? he still has a tiny amount of hope. But surely this He is just a blipgood at art, a day at school and clings to forgetthe moments of joy when he is drawing, and everything (that feel like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This can't be a light at the start end of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?long, dark tunnel.|isbn=17811294951398527122
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|author=Karen M McManusSylvie Cathrall|title=The CousinsA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=General Science Fiction|summary= The rich and famous Story family led There are few greater joys than a life of luxury on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago when each of the Story children - Anders, Archer, Adam and Allison - received book which lives up to a mysterious letter from their mother and were cut off completelycompelling premise. But now, a quarter And this is one of a century later, their children have been called to return to the island for the summer by their grandmother. What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted lies, secrets and tragedy that has held the Story family up - and held them apart - for a quarter of a century is about to come crashing down.|isbn=02413769470356522776
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|isbn=17864959021786482126|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your MindJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Isabel HardmanElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered 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 trauma which she chooses not to sharechild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. She says that Was this a friend who does knowritual killing or murder? Inevitably, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbeliefDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Hardman dealt with this at the time by It'keeping goings difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn': the next day t, that she went to work to cover is pregnant with his child as a result of the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference seasonone night they spent together some three months ago. One night she had to Her condition will be sedated and returned home to begin obvious before long-term sick leave. That was what brought me , not least because Ruth is prone to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I didsudden bouts of sickness.
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|author=Emma Carroll Guadalupe Nettel and Kaja KajfezRosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Ghost GardenAccidentals
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersShort Stories|summary=Fran, the gardener's daughter at a posh country house, is worried. She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a large bone, buried under This collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the potatoes. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided word: spellbinding with Leoits fantastical, the older child magical elements and charming in its gentle portrayal of the house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. She is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surprisenature and human relationships. Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchairGuadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and precisely, she might have reason to be out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking - stories structured by a long-forgotten burial chamber. But surely wisdom that won't act as a premonition appears to want to anything - not here in teach us something about the sultry, summery days of 1914?world.|isbn=17811290021804271470
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|isbn=reed30008551375|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again When Shadows Fall (3rd EditionD S Max Craigie)|author=James ReedNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Six years on from Leanne Wilson's body was found at the original editionbottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the book is being re-issued with result of a bonus chapter entitled tragic accident. She''The Future d looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of Work'' which includes an additional 10 questionsunpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. I've come to this some 6 years after reviewing Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the original book last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and my life has changed significantly in sensible people. None of the meantime. I'm no longer working in middle-management having opted for what a down-shift into reduced hours freelancing stupid thing to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) workdo' explanations applied. I can therefore relate to They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the first point made in this chapter namely that independence and flexibility are core skills that employees need to haveloose.
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