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Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. Rather, it is the proportional, valid response to ''the epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''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}}

|author=Natalia Garcia FreireSamantha Harvey|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsOrbital|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''Orbital'', a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the lives of a group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Through a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to see our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933}}{{Frontpage|isbn=295967572X|title=Pale Pieces|author=G M Stevens

|summary= Early comments on Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the purpose of this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendousjourney is, a delightis uncertain. I will agree with Django found the first – tremendous is no understatement – but tickets 'a delight' is perhaps using on the expression in a way Ifloor somewhere''m and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance of ? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From past as the little I have read (in translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem pair travel to be a tendency towards the fantastical – station by coach and the mystical realismtrain is a steam locomotive. |isbn=0861541901

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin0008551324|title= Rebel SkiesThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has spent her entire life as a servant on any respect for the Midori, a massive dining hall floating other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the sky police where soldiers the body of the Empire come to drink a missing person is buried and make merry between their conquestswho was responsible for her death. However This person, he promises, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with big and it will be worth the power police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her be transferred to come with him, an open prison to leave serve the life remainder of dreary servitude that is all she has knownhis sentence and to get an early parole date. Well Not much to ask, soon Kurara wonis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, think so and she is forced 's even prepared to flee out into do the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a skyother thing that Hardie demanded -ship whose express purpose make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590kept well away from what's happening.

|author=Patrice LawrenceJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=NeedleVaim|rating=34|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Brave''All was strange''... Charlene, This haunting phrase encapsulates the 'heroine' pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this piece is extremely hard story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for some people Jatgeir and Eline, two of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035043092|title=The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to likestart a new life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, characters but he's now living with Willow Reeves and readers boththeir young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Kicked out Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of multiple homes and schoolsa storm, shecan't resist getting involved. He's fostering d been battered about the head with a pleasant yoga tutorNeolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.}}{{Frontpage|author=Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Tower|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. 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, and has taken up residence the daughter of a wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in her son Blakea tower, captures T's old room while heimagination. Annie's at unifate is, above all, an enticing story to T. Such It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a tempestuous personality may be quest for truth and knowledge, and in need service of a comfort blanketmyth, 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, you might perhaps thinkhowever sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and the creation distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of one such item is part intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the plot narrator cries out internally, ''come over hereand kiss me, as Charlene '' it is less an invitation than a wonder knitterdesperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – ex-partner, a younger sister ghost sheconjures to test her detachment.|isbn=1804271934}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's allowed contact with no moresixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. We see Charlene prove Now, her belligerence with a store detectivemother, Helena, and then force people to give her two days off schoolfather are dead in their bed. Initially, when she shouts someone down it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as expletively ignorantthough it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. And then... well, what exactly happens Kerrigan is not for me to sayconvinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can beUna Burt) are less convinced...|isbn=1800901011

|isbnauthor=1405940980Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Birdcage|author=Eve ChaseOther Girl

|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=It''We were born from the same body. I've never really wanted to think about this.'' Ernaux's the 7th of January 2019 work is always very candid and we know that a body has been pulled out her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the sea at Zennor most intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in Cornwalldirect address to her sister, however, this letter will never reach her. We donWhy? Because Annie Ernaux't know whose body it is. Four days earliers sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, Floraa few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at 2 years before the author was even born. The large and instant void created by the request jarring concept of their fatherwriting to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with this giant absence in her life, Charlie Finchan absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845}}{{Frontpage|author=Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Reminiscences of Tolstoy, a famous artistChekhov and Andreyev|rating=3. The girls 5|genre=Biography|summary=Biographies are actually ''half''often seen as the form of life-sisters writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closeless personal. Finch was known for his fecundityI think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a vibrant, if not for subjective yet informed portrait of three of his fidelityliterary contemporaries. It's been a long time since In the girls have been at Rock Point togetherfirst section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: just over twenty years ago''you write not of real life as it is, at the time but of the total eclipsewhat you yourself imagine it to be. Whom would it help to know how I see this tower, that sea, something happenedor that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a victim subjective account, giving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it's left her very wary of her sisters.|isbn=1804271977

|isbn=17876349061529077745|title=No Less the DevilThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Stuart MacBrideAnn Cleeves

|summary=We're A man walking his dog in Oldcastle and Malcolm is the early morning discovered the body of a man in troublethe park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. He's in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young peopleThe dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. One D I Vera Stanhope is Allegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Deancalled in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-Edwards) and Hugoold Chloe Spencer. It seems Some people believe that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this Chloe was responsible for homeless people, apparently) the death but sheVera thinks this is unlikely as the girl'd put a tracking device in s diary makes it so clear that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingadored Josh. It won't be long before the police realise She knows that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsJosh.

|authorisbn=Jennifer SaintB0FK5LHKD9|title=ElektraThe Colour of Memory|author=Christopher Bowden

|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells What's the story good of three women who live 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 heavily malesmall, 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=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ex-dominated world DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it's the thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of Ancient Greecejustice that he really should put right.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1836284683|title=The Big Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating=4. Cassandra5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, Clytemnestrait's nothing like I expected it to be, and Elektra are all bit players in it takes me on a wild ride. And that is just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. I don't want to ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but I'll have to at least set the scene. Once that's done, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sally Rooney|title=Intermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of 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 Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often many relationships woven into this story, the silent women have central one for readers to unravel is the most compelling stories fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, the most extreme furiesbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=14722739150571365469

|isbn=15291498001036916375|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce WasteJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsPeter McArdle

|genre=Home and FamilyAutobiography|summary=We begin with ''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a telling story. All collection of memories and reflections from the birds years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and animals fled when around Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the forest fire took hold and most family history of them stood and watcheda sea-going family, unable to think of anything they could dowith the docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the what-might-have-been. The tiny hummingbird flew It's a book to the river settle into and began taking tiny amounts allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, to think of water and flying back to drop them into simpler times when life seemed less constrained, despite the fire. The animals laughed: what good blitz that was that doinga constant factor in McArdle's early years. ''I'm doing d never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and could appear after the best I can'', said the hummingbird. And that, really, is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might beall-clear was sounded.

|isbn=17765743381836285493|title=Leilong's Too Long!The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnRob Keeley|rating=45|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Every morning LeilongWill is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of all, the brontosaurus he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school bus, makes his way through the cityMarlowe Park, picking up children as and one at which he goesexcels. Children who live at the top of tower blocks donThis hasn't even need gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to go downstairs – they simply climb out Will and his mum that he spends a couple of the window and slide down afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his neckability might be better extended. It}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1009473085|title=The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Sometimes it's perfect, simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going '' and that applies to school''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years? ''. There is a problemIf you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, thoughthen this isn't the book for you. Leilong isnIf that's what you're looking for, I don't happy in the city: hethink Anthony Seldon's always having to book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be careful about where he puts his feet and – because hebettered for those tumultuous years. It's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to and traffic regularly gets snarled uppolitics. ''The school decides Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in 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 experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that he caneven, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't be get each other's contact details at the bus anymoretime. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|isbn=303091657X1787333175|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonBenji Waterhouse

|genre=Business and FinancePopular Science|summary=Boards must act in I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the best interests workings of their stakeholders the NHS, humour and ensure that they are well-managed and financially secureautobiography. This might seem obvious ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or moved from physical problems to mental illness and the collapse work of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingpsychiatrist. Where were they? Occasionally the boards were unaware of what I did wonder whether it was happening or they preferred acceptable to turn a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminality. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals be looking for humour in this setting but what has happened the laughter is nothing new: Gerry Brown directed at a situation rather than a person and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, the South Sea Bubble it is always delivered with empathy and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very littleunderstanding.

|isbnauthor=1529337968Mariana Enriquez|title=In A Sunny Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPhersonfor Shady People

|genre=Crime (Historical)Short Stories|summary=It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to start work as an urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and a qualified medical almoner the following morning crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - on the day all within Argentina. The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the NHS is bornsupernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture. |isbn=1803511230}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529934753|title=The Protest|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4. She5|genre=Crime|summary=For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country'll be working s most famous living artist, was not going to show up for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in their GP surgery the nick of time, complete with his two wives and her job will be six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, you tend to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healthdo things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of the protest. The hardest part Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the job will be to persuade people that face, whilst shouting ''Stop the services she offers really are free and that they donWar''t have to do anything to qualify for them. Some It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of the problems will require delicate handling 'blue-face' attacks, but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insightthis was different. Her marriage has never The can had been consummatedlaced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.

|author=Mark LinganeAriel Saramandi|title=GalaxyPortrait of an Island on Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the country at one stage as ''rotting'', a blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the malignant forces of racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Each essay in this collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, charting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|isbn=1804271616}}{{Frontpage|author=Pekka Harju-Autti|title=LoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse

|summary=Spark, who There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an elite pilot with old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the Space Academy, barely makes it through bones of a child beneath a battle alivedoorway. His co-pilot There was not so fortunateno skull. Waking from Was this a coma that lasted yearsritual killing or murder? Inevitably, he remembers little and is in no physical shape to resume his dutiesDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. But Earth It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is under threat and he must. Returned by pregnant with his superiors to child as a result of the space stationone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt not least because Ruth is prone to save humanity - and not just from the alien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itselfsudden bouts of sickness. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W

|author=Lissa EvansGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=WishedThe Accidentals

|genre=Confident ReadersShort Stories|summary=When things contrive to force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay This collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the word: spellbinding with the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanits fantastical, Miss Filey, for a week magical elements and charming in its gentle portrayal of half-term, they're not looking forward to it. For one thing, she thinks Wi-Fi is a special brand of biscuit. They don't particularly take to Willard either, the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything nature and everywherehuman relationships. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candles, Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and manage to work out that these candles, for as long as their flames lastprecisely, make birthday wishes come true. How will things change for her stories structured by a second time when they realise wisdom that, having used up three of them, these should really be used for appears to want to teach us something about the wishes of someone two generations older than them?world.|isbn=178845202X1804271470

|authorisbn=Justyn Edwards0008551375|title=The Great Fox IllusionWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a contest with Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a differencetragic accident. No singing She'd looked so happy, no dancingtoo, this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks work, and who can attempt to win The Great Fox's magical legacy - the secrets to all when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of his tricks! Flick is determined to winan unpleasant relationship, but not because it looked like she wants to own was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the trickslast year. She is interested in just ''one All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. None of the 'what a stupid thing to do' trick, the trick that The Great Fox stole from her fatherexplanations applied. And she They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able to bring her missing father homea killer on the loose.|isbn=1529501946