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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=Will BrookerSamantha Harvey|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellOrbital|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]]In 2024, one of Samantha Harvey won the most successful British authors IBooker Prize for 've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the words of her latest book she was reciting, and her being in a 'Orbital'black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly , a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a get-up never commonly worn at single day in the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, lives of a professor group of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down astronauts aboard the rabbit-hole that is Jewell's diverse outputInternational Space Station. Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through Through a year in narrative lens that mirrors the published authorastronauts's lifeorbital perspective, working Harvey invites readers to make see our planet in a success of the latest title, and struggling with the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the resultwholly new light.|isbn=15291360241529922933
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|isbn=1801109265295967572X|title=The CompanionPale Pieces|author=Lesley ThomsonG M Stevens
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=James Ritchie thought Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the purpose of himself as this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the tickets ''a punctual man who was inexplicably never on timethe floor somewhere'' and he was - as usual - late to pick up his son, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'. These were always days which appealed more to James than has persuaded our narrator to Wilbur and, competing for the boy's attention, his mother, Anna, promised accompany him a roast dinner when he returned. The dinner would never be served, as James and Wilbur Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the victims of a double stabbing on past as the beach. The case falls pair travel to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. She's feeling the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when station by coach and the going gets toughtrain is a steam locomotive.
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|isbn=152941363X0008551324|title=To Kill a Troubadour The Devil You Know (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelD S Max Craigie)|author=Martin WalkerNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It''Nobody knows what s unusual for anyone from the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges is Hardie family to approach the police chief . Neither side likes or has any respect for St Denis and much of the Vézère valley other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as he'JJ'), s prepared to tell the police where the head body of detectives a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the départment of the Dordognepolice doing what he wants. They're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the well-being remainder of his sentence and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Franceto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldnnew Deputy Police Constable doesn't normally have worried them think so much had it not been for and she's even prepared to do the strange bullet, other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the carhim is kept well away from what's happening. Oh, }}{{Frontpage|author=Jon Fosse and there Damion Searls (translator) |title=Vaim|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''All was a golf ball too, which didnstrange''t belong to ... This haunting phrase encapsulates the owner pervading sense of the car. A golf bag would be otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a good place to hide a sniper's weapon. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someonefictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, or were two of the detectives being pushed protagonists caught in a certain direction?its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829
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|isbn=02415424051035043092|title=Meredith AloneThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Claire AlexanderAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=When 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 start a new life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we first meet Meredith Maggs itheard from him, but he's Wednesday 14 November 2018 now living with Willow Reeves and she's not left her home for 1their young son, James, as well as Cassie,214 daysthe daughter of his former partner. SheWillow'd ''like'' to: in facts also his boss, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, she canshould't. She simply can't force herself to be on maternity leave , but when the safety body of her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friendpopular islander, SadieArchie Stout, who visits regularly with her two childrenis found, James and Matilda. Sadie's in the aftermath of a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her catstorm, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and thereshe can's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrivest resist getting involved. He's d been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'smuseum.
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|isbnauthor=B09Y451X9KThea Lenarduzzi|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)|author=Richard F WalkerThe Tower|rating=45|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= ''Anything can happen at a birthday party, particularly when How unctuous are the birthday boy is the young Lord fats of the Manor. But when an eerie signal is picked up another's life, how dizzying their sugars in the early hours, George and his new girlfriend, the vivacious Lady Antonia, embark on a quest to uncover its incredible message. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets the cat out of the bag and the world goes into a state of panic.our bloodstream''.
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|author=Darren ShanClaire-Louise Bennett|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox seriesBig Kiss, book 7 Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= SoEverything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. We're back to the Merge with the first chapter in the third volume of Darren Shan's saga of Archibald LoxEven a kiss, usually a young man who can pick the locks symbol of portals from our world to anotherintimacy and closeness, called becomes evidence of love lost. When the narrator cries out internally, ''Mergecome over here and kiss me,''. Since his last adventure, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into it is less an invitation than a slightly uneasy truce on the topic of his regular disappearancesdesperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. They don't ask too many questions and Archie has settled into a fairly peaceful routine The imagined recipient of visiting Winstonthis plea is Xavier, his lockher ex-picking mentor in the ''Merge'' and showing Kojopartner, the young guardian, around our world of the Borna ghost she conjures to test her detachment. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD1804271934
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|authorisbn=John Henry Phillips0008405026|title=The SearchA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=Archaeology cannot be childIt's play, when you're scraping in sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the dirt looking investigation ground to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thinghalt. This book is a case of the latter Now, as our author promises to locate the topic of the titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide oneher mother, the target might not exist any more – ohHelena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, itlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping something about the heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find positioning of the landing craft bodies that delivered him to Normandy, makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and that he her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was lucky going to survive when it sank from beneath himbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. The secondary aim Kerrigan is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboardconvinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, the vast majority of whom perishedUna Burt) are less convinced. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182
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|author=Fiona LongmuirAnnie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=Looking for EmilyThe Other Girl|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Meet Lily''We were born from the same body. She I've never really wanted to think about this.'' Ernaux's work is always very candid and her mother have just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town called Edgetone transparent, and everyone from said mother to her teacher are making demands but this raw epistolary text must be one of Lily that she make new friendsthe most intimate accounts I've read. It turns out that she doesn't have any say Ernaux writes in the matterdirect address to her sister, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emilyhowever, she is unaware this letter will never reach her neighbour, Sam, is just about to make herself known, and in a big way. But where does Emily come fromWhy? WellBecause Annie Ernaux's sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of few months before the most mundane objects, vaccine was made compulsory in some converted houses behind a most unassuming doorFrance, in a place calling itself 'and 2 years before the author was even born. The Museum large and instant void created by the jarring concept of Emilywriting to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux'. Sam is completely unaware s process of reckoning with this 'museum'giant absence in her life, too, leaving the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behind the intrigue..an absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=18399427541804271845
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|isbnauthor=B09XZMCDVFMaxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Stories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F WalkerReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=43.5|genre=Short StoriesBiography|summary=''A news vendor is crying out the headlines in Biographies are often seen as the middle form of the nightlife-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 wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his imagination; a stickler for correct grammar goes back in time to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves literary contemporaries. In the ideal person first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to have around in a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team is very useful with his feet, and awfully familiar…friend Gorky that: '' This collection you write not of real life as it is, but of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot what you yourself imagine it to offer the eclectic readerbe. Tying them together is the idea Whom would it help to know how I see this tower, that remarkable and strangesea, even miraculousor that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. Well, things Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can happen be gained from a subjective account, giving us access to ordinary people. And how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form and tone varies so this little treasury one almost feels unworthy of short fiction is never boring and you're never quite sure what's coming nextit.|isbn=1804271977
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|isbn=18009012321529077745|title=Stitched UpThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Steve ColeAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyCrime|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life A man walking his dog in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when early morning discovered the smartly-dressed body of a man and woman came to in the village to offer Hahn park near Rosebank, a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missedcare home for troubled teens. Some money changed hands and Hanh The dead man was on the miniJosh -bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and one of the other girls were not going care workers who was due to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factoryshift the night before but who had never turned up. You know those jeans you really wanted: D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on murder - but her only clue is the legs? The ones with disappearance of one of the artfullyresidents, fourteen-placed rips and distressed seams year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that felt so soft when you touched them? ItChloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's quite possible diary makes it clear that Hanh and her co-workers made themshe adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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|authorisbn=Daisy HildyardB0FK5LHKD9|title=EmergencyThe Colour of Memory|author=Christopher Bowden
|rating=4
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=The summary of this It's been three years since we last reviewed a book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the premise.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sisterby favourite regular Christopher Bowden, she awakes so we were very glad to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volumesee a new novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. Her GPLike all Bowden's stories, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as there's a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay mystery at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis heart of ''The Colour of a kindMoney''. As MarianneWe like this running theme in an author's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory work - take a mystery but give it different flavour and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itselfatmosphere each time.|isbn= 086154112X
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|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Olga Tokarczuk|title=Little DrummerHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=35|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=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives seriesEx-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, this crime story is a mixture of police procedural and thrillerhe should be doing quite well financially. Beginning with the death of a young woman in a carpark, that looks very much like an overdose Unfortunately, it unravels into his daughter's defence against a far-reaching investigation of murdercharge drained his savings. His wife, fraudLaura, and international pharmaceutical dealingshas been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich That's what 'ordinary people do', who end '' He's not been entirely up working separately on front about the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led to Africa as they follow the twists and turns state of the investigationtheir savings. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenaciousWhen Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, chasing down it's the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard to uncover thought of the truth as they are sure money he could make that convinces him that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, this is going ona miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.|isbn=1914585127
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|isbn=00085414771836284683|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!The Big Happy|author=Lauren ChildDavid Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersDystopian Fiction|summary=It was Well! This is a hot summer day right at the beginning of the summer holidays and Clarice Bean was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except for sometimes... And only on rare-sh occasions, which is hardly ever.''murder mystery unlike any other!
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|isbnauthor=0711266204Sally Rooney|title=The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Intermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-General Fiction|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and watch the vast numbers is something of birds which visit our garden on a daily basisgrandmaster at putting it into words. An hour can pass without my noticingHer dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. I've established which species feed from Among the groundmany relationships woven into this story, which pop the central one for readers to unravel is the feeders for a quick snatch of some food fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeablePeter Koubek. It would have been wonderful ifIvan, as a childsocially awkward chess prodigy, Icontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father'd had access to s passing after a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds'long battle with cancer, the brothers'already strained relationship faces new trials. So – what is it?|isbn=0571365469
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|isbn=17370309421036916375|title=Bag O'GoodiesJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Jolly Walker BittickPeter McArdle
|rating=4
|genre= AnthologiesAutobiography|summary=Sometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'GoodiesJust a Liverpool Lad ''is a collection of memories and reflections from the years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. I first encountered his writing about Some are factual, such as the family history of a year agosea-going family, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], a rollicking tale of with the docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the what happens when five young men find a base for their partying-might-have-been. Right now, I didnIt't want s a full-length novelbook to settle into and allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, so I turned to this anthology think of verse and short storiessimpler times when life seemed less constrained, despite the blitz that was a constant factor in McArdle's early years. BittickI's writing has matured d never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and so have his characters. Wellcould appear after the all-clear was sounded... most of them!
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|authorisbn=Caryl Lewis and George Ermos1836285493|title=SeedThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his lifeWill is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and they both might be thought a supportive friend. But most of as complete embarrassmentsall, he is an aspiring writer. His grandfather runs an allotmentEnglish is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and manages to stink the entire town out from it when one at which he douses it in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetablesexcels. His mother somehow combines the dual roles of housebound failure and hoarder – while she seems to do nothing and This hasn't left the building in years gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has still managed suggested to fill it to the brim with junk. What Marty's classmates don't know about this they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always looks, with Will and his one mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school uniform built from lost property. We see him as once again the council threaten her and him with eviction, and as he celebrates Station Road, where his birthday with the gift from his grandfather of a solitary plant seedability might be better extended.|isbn=1529077664
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|authorisbn=Sophie Cameron1009473085|title=Our Sister, AgainThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|summary=After IslaSometimes it's older sister Flora dies, her family struggle simpler to find explain a way forwardbook by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. In particular If that's what you're looking for, IslaI don't think Anthony Seldon's mum who can’t seem to book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be able to let her daughter gobettered for those tumultuous years. When Isla passes her mum It's details onto a support group she finds online, she compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks they might be able Johnson should return to helppolitics. But actually, it turns out they are part of ''The Conservative Effect'' is an experimental company who offer the family entirely different beast. It's the chance to have Flora back again, seventh book in robot form. But this won't just be a look-series which looks at the impact agovernment has made and co-likeeditor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. They use all This book follows the well-established format: a series of Flora's online historyexperts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and interviews with family and friends, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possiblethe situation in 2024. But what will it really mean for the family, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916
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|isbnauthor=1398507504Jenny Valentine|title=Cold Reckoning|author=Russ ThomasUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide Elk and for the last sixteen years he's been searching for evidence to prove Mab are best friends, or more than that he's right. When even, their friendship is a frozen body was found once in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back to lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a cold case from 2002. There didntrip out but unfortunately they don't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tylerget each other's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to contact details at the case his father was investigating before he diedtime. Above all there's a growing sense that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the open 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. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?|isbn=1471196585
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|isbn=07278505471787333175|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=David MarkBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnI was tempted to read ''You Don't even had time for breakfast when 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 call came through. A body had been found in workings of the roots of a fallen tree at BrantinghamNHS, near Hullhumour and autobiography. When he gets ''You Don't Have to the scene, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedbe Mad... A young man's corpse is entangled with ' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the roots work of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyespsychiatrist. It would seem that this I did wonder whether it was done whilst the man was still alive. McAvoy makes a promise acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes laughter is directed at a cost situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and this time the cost might be to McAvoy's own familyunderstanding.
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|author=Natalia Garcia FreireMariana Enriquez|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsA Sunny Place for Shady People
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|genre=Literary FictionShort Stories|summary= Early comments Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire gritty realities: her settings include Tremendousan abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to an urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and a delightcrime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using the expression in a way I'm not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance The circumstances of the Spanish-language literary tradition her characters are so forgive my generalisation here. From plausible that the little I have read (in translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismsimilarly tangible texture. |isbn=08615419011803511230
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|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin1529934753|title= Rebel SkiesThe Protest|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life For a little while, it looked as a servant on though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the MidoriRoyal Academy. Still, a massive dining hall floating he arrived in the sky where soldiers nick of the Empire come to drink time, complete with his two wives and make merry between their conquestssix children, one of whom filmed what happened. However Being an influencer, when a man named Himura arrives you tend to tell her do things like that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – but it was fortunate that there was a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave record of the life of dreary servitude that is all she has knownprotest. Well Lexi Williams, soon Kurara won't have any say in an intern at the matterRA, because the Midori is destroyed by grabbed a monstrous paper spirit known as spray can of blue paint from under a shikigami, chair and she is forced proceeded to flee out into spray Bruce in the worldface, whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigamibut this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590Sir Max Bruce was dead.
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|author=Patrice LawrenceAriel Saramandi|title=NeedlePortrait of an Island on Fire|rating=34.5|genre=TeensPolitics and Society|summary=Brave. CharleneIn this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the 'heroine' sociopolitical fabric of this piece is extremely hard for some people to likeMauritius, characters tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and readers bothslavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, sheSaramandi describes the country at one stage as ''s fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blakerotting's old room while he's at uni. Such , a tempestuous personality may be in need blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the malignant forces of a comfort blanketracism, you might perhaps thinkpatriarchy, environmental degradation and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, governmental dysfunction. Each essay in this collection serves as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full kind of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detectivediagnostic, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be..charting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|isbn=18009010111804271616
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|isbnauthor=1405940980Pekka Harju-Autti|title=The Birdcage|author=Eve ChaseLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse
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|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=It's the 7th eighteenth century, a time of January 2019 discovery and we know that a body has been pulled out of Britain is expanding its foreign trade. Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to the sea at Zennor Andaman Islands in Cornwallhis endeavour. We don't know whose body it is. Four days earlierAlong with his son, FloraPeter, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at the request of their fathercat, Charlie FinchMichi, they set off on a famous artistperilous voyage to these faraway lands. The girls islands are actually ''half''-sisters beautiful and stunning in their dates of birth are embarrassingly close. Finch was known for his fecundity, if not for his fidelity. Itscenery and the islanders's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years agoleader, at the time of the total eclipseAarav, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and it's left her very wary of her sistersis keen to establish good relations.|isbn=B0DS1VGHH3
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|isbnauthor=1787634906Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBrideLili is Crying
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|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=We're First published in 1953 in Oldcastle French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and Malcolm 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.|isbn=1804271675}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in troublea multitude of ways. Heis bullied because he has 's in an abandoned house and the wrong shoes', hehas the wrong shoes because his dad can's being threatened by two young people. One is Allegra (wet work and doesn'll soon learn that shet have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can's Allegra Deant work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-Edwards) hand job on a building site and Hugohad an accident. It seems Throw into that mix the fact that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peoplehis mum and dad are separated, apparently) but sheand Will'd put a tracking device s life seems bleak in it so that she and Hugo could find out where every direction. And yet, he was sleepingstill has a tiny amount of hope. It won't be long before He is good at art, and clings to the police realise moments of joy when he is drawing, that Malcolm was one feel like a light at the end of their own: not many other people a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are going few greater joys than a book which lives up to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsa compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn=Jennifer Saint1786482126|title=ElektraThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'Elektraluxury' by Jennifer Saint tells apartments - when they discovered the story bones of three women who live in the heavily male-dominated world of Ancient Greecea child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Cassandra It's difficult as Ruth knows, Clytemnestrabut Nelson doesn't, and Elektra are all bit players in the story that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the Trojan Warone night they spent together some three months ago. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furies Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1472273915
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|isbnauthor=1529149800Guadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsThe Accidentals|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyShort Stories|summary=We begin This collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the word: spellbinding with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold its fantastical, magical elements and most charming in its gentle portrayal of them stood nature and watched, unable to think of anything they could dohuman relationships. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I'm doing the best I can''precisely, said the hummingbird. And her stories structured by a wisdom that, really, is the only way that we will solve appears to want to teach us something about the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might beworld.|isbn=1804271470
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|isbn=17765743380008551375|title=Leilong's Too Long!When Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Every morning LeilongLeanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the brontosaurus school busresult of a tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, makes his way through the citytoo, picking up children as he goeswhen she posted her intentions on Facebook. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the window last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and slide down his necksensible people. It's perfect, isnNone of the 't it? What could be what a more fun way of going stupid thing to school? There is a problem, thoughdo' explanations applied. Leilong isn't happy in the cityThey were all alone when they died: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because heDS Max Craigie is certain there's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be killer on the bus anymoreloose.
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