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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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|isbnauthor=1471179311Samantha Harvey|title=The Unheard|author=Nicci FrenchOrbital
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=TessIn 2024, a teacher and Jason, a headmaster, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of Samantha Harvey won the family home and Jason is now married to Emily. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was the family home and another in the flat she shares with her mother. It Booker Prize for ''seemedOrbital'' to be working well until the day , a compact yet profound work that Poppy came home with unfolds over a menacing drawing single day in the lives of a woman falling from group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Through a tall building and she started swearingnarrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, using words she was unlikely Harvey invites readers to have heard see our planet in either home. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems at nursery school. Tess turns to a therapist for help, then her doctor and finally the police but no one will take what she has to say seriouslywholly new light.|isbn=1529922933
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|isbn=1471196615295967572X|title=IcedPale Pieces|author=Felix FrancisG M Stevens|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Miles Pussett used Our unnamed narrator is about to be begin a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down what the three-quarter-mile Cresta Runpurpose of this journey is, occasionally reaching eighty miles an houris uncertain. He was in St Moritz Django found the same weekend as White Turf - thattickets ''s high-class horseracing on the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the saddling of the horses. Itfloor somewhere''s seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore that he'd never go back has persuaded our narrator to itaccompany him. But when he sees that something suspicious Why not? Not much else is going on, Miles can't help clear either - but look for answers, even when it puts him we are probably in dangerthe past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.
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|isbn=147228612X0008551324|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Alan JohnsonNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably havenIt't taken much notice of thems unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. They live quiet, uneventful lives Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and stay mostly under he's prepared to tell the police where the radarbody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. In a city like LondonThis person, he promises, that's quite easy - is someone big and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himit will be worth the police doing what he wants. The highlight And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes sentence and to work on the train each morning: he'd love get an early parole date. Not much to ask her for a date but he , is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't have think so and she's even prepared to do the courage. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him and asks for his help. Before long he finds himself on the run is kept well away from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan policewhat's happening.
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|author=Claire McGowanJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=I Know YouVaim
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=''Then:All was strange'' Casey returns from a walk with ... This haunting phrase encapsulates the babypervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down. ''Now:'' Rachel is out fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for a walk with her dogJatgeir and Eline, Brandy, when she comes across a body two of the protagonists caught in the woodsits melancholic current.|isbn=15420199741804271829
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|isbn=15291482511035043092|title=Misfits: A Personal ManifestoThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Michaela CoelAnn Cleeves
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=I can''How am I able t have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to be so transparent start a new life on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as though I were telling well as Cassie, the truth whilst simultaneously running away from itdaughter of his former partner. Willow'' Before you start reading s also his boss, and she ''Misfitsshould'' you need to be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a certain frame of mindstorm, she can't resist getting involved. You He're not going to read d been battered about the head with a book Neolithic stone - one of essays or a selfpair -help book. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on had been stolen from a cloud of exquisite writingmuseum.
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|isbnauthor=0008433631Thea Lenarduzzi|title=Next of Kin|author=Kia AbdullahThe Tower
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=It was ''How unctuous are the sort fats of thing that happened every day, although not to Leila Syed. Sheanother'd never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but his fathers life, Andrew Hanson, had rung her how dizzying their sugars in a panicour bloodstream''. He was supposed to be taking Max to school but he'd been called into work and In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the delay in getting there could lead to financial losses. As identity of T, the school was only five minutes out protagonist of Leilathis tale. Just as T's waystory is being told, could she drop him off? Of coursethe story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, she could and the daughter of a sleeping Max was duly strapped into wealthy family in the back 19th century, who died of her cartuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. On the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work tooAnnie's fate is, above all, with an enticing story to T. It is a problem story which could put she consumes avariciously, both in a multi-million-pound contract at riskquest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and fantasy. |isbn=1804271799
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|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmlyBig Kiss, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1784165263|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma CurtisBye-Bye
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|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Martin Curran's wifeEverything in this book, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dothowever sweet or seemingly innocent, despite the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letis steeped in anguish and distortion. If she didn't get homeEven a kiss, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was usually a paraplegic symbol of intimacy and confined to a wheelchaircloseness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the narrator cries out internally, but don't be too quick to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza 'come over here and kiss me,'you're good at being it is less an invitation than a disappointment''desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. All The imagined recipient of this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrivedplea is Xavier, unannouncedher ex-partner, at the flat just as Eliza was about a ghost she conjures to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availabletest her detachment.|isbn=1804271934
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|isbn=17847427750008405026|title=A Change of Circumstance Stranger in the Family (Simon SerraillerMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Susan HillJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Drugs hadnIt't really been that much of 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 problem halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of timetheir bed. They still were Initially, to it looks like a great extent, straightforward murder/suicide but Serrailler knew there's something about the positioning of the bodies that something had to be donemakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Children What looked as young as nine were being recruited though it was going to transport the drugs be an open-and the operation running the county lines was tight-shut case is now a complex double murder. A mule might know Kerrigan is convinced that the name explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (although it probably wouldnsuch as Derwent't be the correct ones boss, Una Burt) of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch a few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upare less convinced.
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|isbnauthor=B09FS89KX9Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope PottsThe Other Girl|rating=3.54|genre=Women's FictionAutobiography|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into ''We were born from the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BBsame body. I've never really wanted to think about this.'' Ernaux's diner. Bob - work is always very candid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good bossmost intimate accounts I've read. Hollie had moved Ernaux writes in with direct address to her boyfriendsister, Marcus: however, this letter will never reach her mother thought he . Why? Because Annie Ernaux's sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a few months before the vaccine was great made compulsory in France, and he 2 years before the author was doing well in his careereven born. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her The large and most instant void created by the jarring concept of all he wanted her writing to leave an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with this giant absence in her job at the diner. Then there was the fact life, an absence that he would be violent, both to her and to other peopleshe has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845
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|author=John GwynneMaxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=The Shadow Of The GodsReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyBiography|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is Biographies are often seen as the first installment form of the Bloodsworn Sagalife-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, set in the era subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the Vikings in the shadow first section of Ragnarokthis book, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all Tolstoy complains to see. This story his friend Gorky that: ''you write not of real life as it is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice but of what you yourself imagine it to be. Whom would it help to the genreknow how I see this tower, with mythical creaturesthat sea, archaic language and battles galoreor that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. This is Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a thick booksubjective account, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together giving us access to create a wonderfully realistic how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and gritty world Andreyev in which our heroes must do battlesuch privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=03565142181804271977
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|isbn=B09HTWX47X1529077745|title=Endless ObsessionThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Dai HenleyAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a DCI man in the Met but now park near Rosebank, a well-respected private investigatorcare home for troubled teens. He's married The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to Laura, formerly his DS in work a shift the Murder Squad night before but now working in a forensics laboratorywho had never turned up. Flood's daughters, Gemma and Pippa, have flown the nest, Pippa D I Vera Stanhope is called in to Australia, from where she has very little contact with investigate the family, and Gemma to married life. She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago murder - but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide her only clue is the disappearance of one of the support she needsresidents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Flood's business is going well and Some people believe that Chloe was why he felt able to turn down responsible for the case of Lisa Black.}}{{Frontpage|author=Peter Papathanasiou|title=The Stoning|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as if she were the worldgirl's tallest cricket stumpsdiary makes it clear that she adored Josh. When She knows that she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, find Chloe to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going discover what happened to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law..Josh.|isbn=1529416973
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|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7HB0FK5LHKD9|title=The Mystery Colour of HealingMemory|author=A P McGrathChristopher Bowden
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and heIt's the physician on duty been three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, so we were very glad to see a new novel arrive here at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populaceBookbag Towers. The remuneration isnLike all Bowden's stories, there't high but the work gives s a mystery at the doctor a feeling heart of virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wantsThe Colour of Money'' the warriors to live. ItWe like this running theme in an author's quite work - take a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers mystery but give it different flavour and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with the wild animals. Today, it's the crocodilesatmosphere each time.
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|author=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie BlackallOlga Tokarczuk|title=The Beatryce ProphecyHouse of Day, House of Night
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|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=''Stories have joy and surprises What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in themit?'' The title of this spellbinding work, we are told here. And none more so than in ''House of Day, House of Night'', somewhat reflects this wondrous storynotion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which feels an instant classic with govern our lives, like the freshness and the agelessness it has in equal proportionshift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. We start with a group of monksBut, the Order of constant in that image is the Chronicles of Sorrowinghouse, and stoic against the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upendingancient 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, trampling on and biting the poor Brothershe should be doing quite well financially. Things change drastically when the beast takes Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a totally maternal approach to a homeless girlmurder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memorybeen trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. Elsewhere sits a King in his castle That's what 'ordinary people do', desperate '' He's not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to find the girltake his case, for it is prophesied that a young child can unseat 's the throne and cause great change. Who foretold that revolution but the Order thought of the Chronicles money he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of Sorrowing? But how can a simple, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=1529500893justice that he really should put right.
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|isbn=B09FFJF8YS1836284683|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)The Big Happy|author=Justine Avery and Kate ZhoidikDavid Chadwick|rating=34.5|genre=For SharingDystopian Fiction|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear PantiesWell!" This is a cry (the big-girl kindmurder mystery unlike any other!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''
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|author=Nick Lake and Emily GravettSally Rooney|title=Locked Out LilyIntermezzo
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction |summary=Lily Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue isgripping and so brilliantly frustrating, or wasas her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, or has beena socially awkward chess prodigy, very illcontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, and to give her parents relief shea successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's been told to stay passing after a long battle with her grandma for cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1036916375|title=Just a Liverpool Lad|author=Peter McArdle|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=''Just a few days. The parents need the relief as LilyLiverpool Lad ''s baby sibling is just about to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already collection of memories and reflections from the years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and wants nothing to do witharound Liverpool. But on tracking back home for word Some are factual, such as the family history of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stonya sea-eyed simulacra of her parentsgoing family, and with the docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the babewhat-inmight-have-arms, already installedbeen. These devilish interlopers need It's a book to be ousted settle into and allow your mind to get roam across your childhood memories, to think of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, despite the family back intact, even if itblitz that was a constant factor in McArdle's not early years. I'd never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and could appear after the family Lily wants – and all she has to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snake-clear was sounded.|isbn=1471194833
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|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith1836285493|title=The Great Dream RobberyDouble Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Maya's father Will is a professor who invented an amazing dream machinekeen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But something went wrongmost of all, and now he can't wake upis an aspiring writer. Or English is his favourite lesson at leasthis school, that's what Maya has been told. In a rather strange dream one night Maya makes a new friendMarlowe Park, and discovers that the only way to save her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams and reality collide...really..at which he excels.and thereThis hasn's everything from llamas and bananast gone unnoticed by his headteacher, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offsMrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051Xcouple of afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.
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|isbn=18004644951009473085|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of MathsThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Emma SmithAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionPolitics and Society|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't''Babies seem and that applies to be born with an amazing number sense''The Conservative Effect: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?'' Did . If you know this? I didn't! How re looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about: what ''really''Maths ability happened on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievementcertain occasions, double then this isn't the book for you. If that of literacy skills.'s what you' re looking for, I didndon't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading storiesAnthony Seldon's book, teaching pen grips{{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, singing rhymes - gives children can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a solid foundation when they start schoolcompelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. But do we think It's the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, seventh book in part because so many a series which 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 us are afraid experts from various fields review the state of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths the nation when the coalition took over in daily life without realising 2010, the changes that occurred and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialthe situation in 2024.
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|isbnauthor=1529379385Jenny Valentine|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise PennyUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=In the Canadian village of Three PinesElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, we're post-pandemic: the scars are still there but life their friendship is starting to get back to normal. The villagers are beginning to return to the Bistro and the Aubergea once in a lifetime connection. Theymeet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don're visiting t get each other's homes contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and having friends and relatives to staythey are inseparable. A young Sudanese woman who Something has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - a bit like Vincent Gilberttheir friendship, known in the village as the Asshole Sainttogether.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbn= B09F4CTKJR1787333175|title= Flights for FreedomYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author= Steven BurgauerBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionPopular Science|summary=ItI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the later stages workings of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up NHS, humour and joined the 17 Aero Squadronautobiography. This company was the first US Aero Squadron ''You Don't Have to be trained in Canada, Mad...'' promised the first to be attached same elements but moved from physical problems to the RAF mental illness and the first work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans looking for humour in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying this setting but the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camellaughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|isbnauthor=183885410XMariana Enriquez|title=The Dark Remains|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinA Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=Bobby Carter was a lawyer and consigliere to one of the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgow. DC Jack Laidlaw Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on the CID team charged with the investigation. I say ''on the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to be an urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and a part of itcrime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. He does his own thing, goes his own way and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubssupernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture.|isbn=1803511230
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|isbn=19424102551529934753|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)The Protest|author=Michael PronkoRob Rinder
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|summary=''Zangyo: overtime workFor a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, often unpaid'' Itthe country's the culturemost famous living artist, isn't it? The hours was not going to show up for which you're paid are really just a statement the opening of his retrospective at the minimum you'll be required to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru OnizukaRoyal Academy. When Still, he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing arrived in the way nick of regret or grieftime, even from complete with his familytwo wives and six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the roof record of the building or been assisted in his descentprotest. Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof Lexi Williams, an intern at the exact same spot that an employeeRA, Mayu Yamasegrabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, had committed suicide some three years earlierwhilst shouting ''Stop the War''. She'd accused Onizuka It seemed to be part of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount ongoing series of overtime'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.
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|isbnauthor=0241425425Ariel Saramandi|title=The Man Who Died Twice|author=Richard OsmanPortrait of an Island on Fire
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|genre=CrimePolitics and Society|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letter. It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames and who had never existed but then In this is the sort powerful collection of conundrum which retired spies have essays, Saramandi seeks to deal with on a regular basis. When she visits intradermally dissect the sender sociopolitical fabric of the letter (he's moved Mauritius, tunneling deep into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she has a long professional history - wounds left by colonialism and who used slavery to be her husbandexpose how these legacies still shape modern life. HeSaramandi describes the country at one stage as ''rotting''s made , a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the range malignant forces of a CCTV camera on a raidracism, patriarchy, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds environmental degradation and a few death threatsgovernmental dysfunction. He's now Each essay in hiding with this collection serves as a young woman called Pollykind of diagnostic, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitresscharting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|isbn=1804271616
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|author=Andrew SharpPekka Harju-Autti|title=The Chef, the Bird LoveVortex and the BlessingDrakor's Curse
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - It's the eighteenth century, a time of discovery and Britain isexpanding its foreign trade. Captain Julius Hawthorne, in his mindan experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests Andaman Islands in an unnamed African countryhis endeavour. Mozzy is earnest and dedicated to Along with his task son, Peter, and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become the head chef of a restaurant in London or their cat, Michi, they set off on a big American city. Even perilous voyage to win a Michelin starthese faraway lands. He is thwarted The islands are beautiful and stunning in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to you their scenery and me) who incurs Mozzythe islanders's disapproval for his scruffy waysleader, his uninterest in his guests and - shockAarav, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the houseis keen to establish good relations.|isbn=B09926MK8HB0DS1VGHH3
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|author=Alex FoulkesHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Rules for VampiresLili is Crying
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the page and positions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. Like the lives of her characters, they are often left tragically incomplete.
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|author=Tom Percival
|title=The Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or Will'Leo' for short) s life is difficult, in a Vampiremultitude of ways. She drinks blood He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', she sleeps during he has the daywrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and she his dad can Grimwalk (turning into 't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back)building site and had an accident. Pretty cool stuff. Now, on Throw into that mix the night of her hundredth birthnight, she has to go out fact that his mum and hunt her first human. Howeverdad are separated, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanageWill's life seems bleak in every direction. Oops! And to make things worseyet, the ghosts he still has a tiny amount of one of the orphans hope. He is good at art, and clings to the evil master moments of the orphanage come back to haunt her. Sojoy when he is drawing, not only does Leo have to team up with that feel like a light at the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost end of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfula long, she has to do it all while hiding it from her familydark tunnel. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X1398527122
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|author=Tori BovalinoSylvie Cathrall|title=The Devil Makes ThreeA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herselfcompelling premise. What makes it worse And this is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, one of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|isbn=17890981300356522776
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|isbn= B09BG8V3Q61786482126|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! The Janus Stone (Everybody Potties!Dr Ruth Galloway)|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take apartments - when they discovered the pain out bones of potty training children and replace it a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with some funDCI Harry Nelson. It's a worthy aimdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as any frustrated parent will tell youa result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbnauthor=B098FFFBH9Guadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=Snowcub|author=Graham FulbrightThe Accidentals
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary FictionShort Stories|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way This collection was truly enchanting in which human beings exploit all senses of the animal world. She gets a great deal of support from her familyword: father Pip Harrisonspellbinding with its fantastical, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate magical elements and charming in its gentle portrayal of nature and her twin, Nickhuman relationships. Kate runs the family businessGuadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and precisely, her stories structured by a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toyswisdom that appears to want to teach us something about the world.|isbn=1804271470
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|authorisbn= Angharad Walker0008551375|title= The Ash HouseWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersCrime|summary= A new boy arrives Leanne Wilson's body was found at The Ash Housethe bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a tragic accident. He doesn She't know his named looked so happy, or why he is there but he is used to the systemtoo, used to different places and different faceswhen she posted her intentions on Facebook. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets Her friends were relieved as she was just out to teach him the rules of The Ash Housean unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the absent Headmasterlast year. All children must remember their Niceness were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and complete their chores, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash Housesensible people. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival None of the Doctor'what a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. By the end of They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same againloose.|isbn=1912626977
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