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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=B09SGWCXQ8Samantha Harvey|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterOrbital
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for a run. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed to pieces below In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the cliffs at Dunnett Head. Was it suicide, or did he - Booker Prize for some reason - climb over the stone wall and fall to his death? Or was he pushed? On balance, it looked like an accident but then his 'accident' was linked to Orbital'', a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the deaths lives of others associated with hima group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Scott Paterson was released after Through a 'not-proven' verdict meant narrative lens that Scotlandmirrors the astronauts's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigor's last clientorbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to see our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933
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|isbn=0989715337295967572X|title=Papa on the MoonPale Pieces|author=Marco NorthG M Stevens|rating=45
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they''Some frogs had gotten into re going and what the wellpurpose of this journey is, is uncertain.Django found the tickets '' on the floor somewhere''Walter stood waistand has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either -deep but we are probably in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of past as the dogs leaned over pair travel to the opening station by coach and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.'' How train is that for an opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. And author Marco North, who has the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to go onsteam locomotive.
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|isbn=140639131X0008551324|title=A Practical Present for Philippa PheasantThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Briony May SmithNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Philippa Pheasant was It''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to cross approach the Old Oak Roadpolice. She wrote Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the mayor about police where the problem but didn't even get body of a replymissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. Philippa wasn't a bird And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw serve the benefits remainder of the lollipop lady at the school crossing his sentence and decided that she would set up something similar herselfto get an early parole date. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur Not much to start with but the benefits were obvious. ask, is it? All the animals used the crossing The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and Hedgehog was she's even trained up prepared to provide a safe path overnightdo the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbnauthor=000837936XJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The Last Girl to Die|author=Helen FieldsVaim|rating=54|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved to Tobermory, on 'All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the Isle pervading sense of Mull, otherworldliness which permeates this story set in search of a new life. It was a bit of a change from Las VegasVaim, but the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing a social life - until she disappeared. The local police demonstrated little interest fictional fishing village in the case (Norway which paradoxically could it have been because Adriana's mother is obviously Latino?) not feel more real for Jatgeir and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from BanffEline, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagers. Brandon, Adriana's twin, was upset and surly. Four-year-old Luna just knew that she missed her big sister. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana two of the protagonists caught in Mackinnon's Cave. She'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killingits melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829
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|isbn=15098896121035043092|title=The Rising Tide Killing Stones (D I Vera StanhopeJimmy Perez)
|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItI can's fifty years since 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 group of teenagers went new life on a weekend retreat to Holy IslandOrkney. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative and theyIt've s been coming back for a reunion every five seven years since then. There was a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide and her car was swept awaywe heard from him, but her younger sisterhe's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, LouisaJames, has returned with the group each year as her husbandwell as Cassie, Ken, was one the daughter of the original teenagershis former partner. Ken now has AlzheimerWillow's also his boss, and heshe ''should''s a shadow be on maternity leave, but when the body of the man he used to be. Philip Robson now a priestpopular islander, Archie Stout, is found, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone in the chapelaftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of the food: her deli is famous in the areaa pair - which had been stolen from a museum.
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|isbnauthor=1473680883Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Skeleton Key|author=Erin KellyTower
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=''The Golden Bones is going to follow me around for How unctuous are the rest fats of my another's life. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to you!, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''.
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|author=Holly WebbClaire-Louise Bennett|title=The Story of GreenriverBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Silken and SedgeEverything in this book, for all their differenceshowever sweet or seemingly innocent, have a lot is steeped in commonanguish and distortion. Silken is Even a girl whose father is the Master Builder of what might be the finest beaver lodge on the Greenriver. Unfortunately she is also kiss, usually a kind symbol of runt figure, intimacy and as a result is patronisedcloseness, and given becomes evidence of love lost. When the most tokenistic tasks when it comes to fetching wood and shoring the dam up. She also stands narrator cries out for the unique artistic ability to sing. Otters like Sedge singinternally, but he too''come over here and kiss me, as the son of the lady of the holt, has pressure on him to be '' it is less an invitation than a bit less feckless and more attentive desperate attempt to classconfirm her emotional numbness. HeThe imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, after allher ex-partner, will eventually inherit the job of keeping the otters safe from the wolf that both animal species fear the most, and from dreaded events like a Dark Springghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=15101096251804271934
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|authorisbn=Anna Kemp and David Wyatt0008405026|title=Into Goblyn WoodA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Hazel. For the last It's sixteen years since nine of -year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her eleven years, she has been stuck as a foundling in a horrid, Victorian institution, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servantbed one summer night. She'd arrived at was never found and the place at the same time as Peteinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, and they're inseparably good friends nowher mother, until a chance for them both to escapeHelena, and enter the outside world, does not go to planher father are dead in their bed. There had always been the idea of a life idyllic in the nearby forests Initially, Goblyn Wood, and it looks like a tribe of Wild Children, straightforward murder/suicide but none of that comes to pass, as Hazel finds herself in there's something about the care positioning of a professor at the Natural History Museumbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. But life with him is not anything like what she might have expected What looked as though it was going to be – an open-and Hazel -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is determined to return to convinced that the Woods, restore her friendship with Pete – and to work out just what is going on explanation lies in the forest, both the light and the shadeRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and the deathly dark.Una Burt) are less convinced..|isbn=1398503835
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|isbnauthor=0241990165|title=Hope to Die Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (D I Fawleytranslator)|authortitle=Cara HunterThe Other Girl|rating=54|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadn't come 'We were born from the householdersame body. A couple of PCs went I've never really wanted to make certain that everything was alright think about this.'' Ernaux's work is always very candid and it took quite a while for her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the elderly householder most intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in direct address to answer the doorher sister, however, this letter will never reach her. He somewhat reluctantly told them that theyWhy? Because Annie Ernaux'd better come in. In s sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a few months before the kitchen there vaccine was a body on the floor: the head had been blown off with a shotgun made compulsory in France, and 2 years before the corpse author was holding a knife in its right handeven born. Richard Swann told The large and instant void created by the police that he'd heard sounds jarring concept of writing to an intruder and had come downstairs to investigate. The ignorant young lout had called him imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux''Grandad'' and come at him s process of reckoning with a knife. Swann had shot him this giant absence in self-defenceher life, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845
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|author= Kit De WaalMaxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title= Without Warning Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Only SometimesAndreyev|rating= 43.5|genre= AutobiographyBiography|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put Biographies are often seen as the form of life-writing which offers less colour; itcan be seen as more objective and less personal. I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, “They f*** you up, your mum and dad/ They may not mean tooffers a vibrant, but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea subjective yet informed portrait of three of parenthood and his literary contemporaries. In the bonds first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that bind family. This book : ''you write not of real life as it is a memoir focussing on the author’s formative years as a teenager living in a lower class area , but of Birminghamwhat you yourself imagine it to be. Her father Whom would it help to know how I see this tower, that sea, or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from St. Kitts in the Caribbean and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by and marrying a black man. This intersectionality plays a large role in the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due subjective account, giving us access to her racehow he saw Tolstoy, her class Chekhov and her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with care, love, and the kind Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of anger only a child can express to their parentsit.|isbn=14722848361804271977
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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz1529077745|title=The Dark MusicWives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from A man walking his dog in the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before early morning discovered the allusion breaks? This does have body of a wonder-mind at man in the heart of what little investigating is going onpark near Rosebank, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthcare home for troubled teens. For The dead man was Josh - one, of the main focus of care workers who was due to work a shift the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MDnight before but who had never turned up. She's a Chilean D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows - but her only clue is the prime suspect disappearance of old, in a case where a referee one of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the matchresidents, and just outside the stadiumfourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Beppe, the suspect, Some people believe that Chloe was drunkenly antagonistic to responsible for the ref during the closing minutes, death but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogation. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke Vera thinks of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe this is innocent and unlikely as the investigation is a shambles. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve the crime, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she cangirl't get his full verdict on s diary makes it allclear that she adored Josh. Until, She knows that may be, she manages has to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt..find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.|isbn=1529413192
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|isbn=B0B2N7MVYMB0FK5LHKD9|title=The Calculations Colour of Rational MenMemory|author=Daniel GodfreyChristopher Bowden|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's the 10th of December 1962 when been three years since we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in contextlast reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, the Cuban missile crisis is still so we were very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had glad to see a chance to breathe outnew novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. But for Joe Marr, itLike all Bowden's not the missile crisis thatstories, there's a mystery at the front heart of his mind. He's been convicted 'The Colour of murderMoney''. With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days We like this running theme in HMP Queenan author's Bench, work - take a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, mystery but give it different flavour and learning to be wary of the McArthur brothersatmosphere each time.
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|isbnauthor=1846976146Olga Tokarczuk|title=The Bone Road|author=N E SolomonsHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Heather Bishop''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 former Olympic cyclistsmall, subtle changes which govern our lives, flew like the shift from day to Bosnia to surprise her boyfriendnight, however quotidian, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnoncausing chaos. She even took their bikes so they could have a few days' break But, the constant in that image is the house, stoic against the regionancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived. It was |isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a little worrying that Private Investigator for some time now, and he didnshould be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter't seem exactly pleased to see her: she even wondered if he had s defence against a woman in the hotel roommurder charge drained his savings. Heather had His wife, Laura, has been trying to give up competitive cycling after a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but her reactions and her memory were not up persuade him to the standard she would need to race againretire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. Sometimes she couldnThat't be certain about s what she had or hadn't done and she simply couldnordinary people do',''t cope in difficult situations. She didnHe't s not been entirely trust herselfup 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 justice that he really should put right.
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|authorisbn=Judith Eagle1836284683|title=The Accidental StowawayBig Happy|author=David Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersDystopian Fiction|summary=Patch Well! This is a little girl who has been passed from one relation to anothermurder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, until it seems that there is nobody left for her 's nothing like I expected it to go to. Her father died when she was very youngbe, and her mother ran awayit takes me on a wild ride. And that is just what happened with ''The family lawyer, after consultation with ‘someone’, arranges for her to go Big Happy''. I don't want to ruin a school in Liverpool, similar experience for any of you reading but on her arrival there, she gets caught up in an adventure with a little boy called Turo who works on a steamship. During a chase with him (when she is both trying I'll have to get her rollerskate back and running away from at least set the police!) she winds up on the steamship hiding in a lifeboatscene. Once that's done, and before she knows it, the ship has left the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!|isbn=0571363121I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.
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|isbnauthor=0760379874Sally Rooney|title=Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri HammettIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=CraftsGeneral Fiction |summary=I learned to knit in Sally Rooney has studied the nineteen-fifties: it wasn't chessboard of life and is something of a choice, grandmaster at putting it was a requirementinto words. Girls learned to knit Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to embroider and boys did wood unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and metal workPeter Koubek. My knitting wa accompanied by Ivan, a lot of criticism and quite socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a few tears: it was a long time before I realised that there was pleasure to be had successful lawyer living in the skillDublin. Nearly seventy years later itFollowing their father's the only thing that keeps my hands at all supple. The turning point was passing after a booklet published by Patons which gave all long battle with cancer, the basics and some patterns. Ibrothers've been looking for something simple to recommend to people who'd like to master the skillalready strained relationship faces new trials. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?|isbn=0571365469
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|authorisbn=Sarah Todd Taylor1036916375|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Peter McArdle
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of memories and reflections from the years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the family history of a sea-going family, with the docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the what-might-have-been. It's a book to settle into and allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, to think of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, despite the blitz that was a constant factor in McArdle's early years. I'd never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and could appear after the all-clear was sounded.
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|isbn= 1836285493
|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User
|author=Rob Keeley
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Alice Eclair. A perfect eye and very careful hands have made her one Will is a keen player of Paris's best young cake makers and decoratorsvideo games, making sure her mother's establishment is a classy affair. Not bad for a thirteen year old. Ohconscientious student, and a perfect eye slightly annoying brother and a very careful handler supportive friend. But most of all, he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spyone at which he excels. Her first real mission will be to chase a traitor across the country – working behind the scenes on a posh sleeper train to the south of FranceThis hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and hoping against hope that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents has suggested to creep into the country from getting into nefarious hands. But while nobody would have her down as Will and his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a spydifferent school, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find the baddy?|isbn=1839940956Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.
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|isbn=07603799121009473085|title=Super Easy Quilting for BeginnersThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors of Quarry Books)|rating=45|genre=CraftsPolitics and Society|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed Sometimes it's simpler to be turned into something new explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and usable when I was in my twentiesthat 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. It would be a while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but If that's what you're looking for, Idon've never felt completely t think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at home with quilting10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. I needed something It's a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knotscompelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''Super Easy Quilting for BeginnersThe Conservative Effect''is an entirely different beast. It' seemed like s the seventh book in a good place to startseries which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. SoThis 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, how did it stack up?the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.
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|isbnauthor=1788360737Jenny Valentine|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums Us in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander AdamsBefore and After|rating=25|genre= Politics and SocietyTeens|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is political because art is not made a once in a vacuumlifetime connection. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the social environment in which he develops’’time. Therefore But then chance brings them back together, all art must be political, even implicitlyand they are inseparable. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of so-called artivism Something has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors happened though, something terrible and tragic, and media elites hoping to create a more globalist now they must work through their grief, and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believestheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbn=14087121721787333175|title=The Cliff HouseYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Chris BrookmyreBenji Waterhouse
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|genre=ThrillersPopular Science|summary=I was tempted to read ''Many of them didnYou Don't know each otherHave to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, one a glorious mixture of them didn't know anybody, including Jen, one insight into the workings of them quite possibly hated herthe NHS, humour and two of them definitely hated each otherautobiography. What could possibly go wrong?'' ThatYou Don's the round-up for Jen's hen party which is t Have to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barrabe Mad... They're all staying in The Cliff House, hosted by Lauren, and it's promised the utmost in luxury living same elements but then Jen can afford it. She's just sold her muffin business for millions but is staying on moved from physical problems to run it. She's got her doubts about mental illness and the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting work of a little strangely of late and wouldn't explain to her what the email he was hurriedly deleting was aboutpsychiatrist. Added I did wonder whether it was acceptable to that, he's just about forced her to bring his sister, Samira, whom Jen's never met, on be looking for humour in this setting but the trip, on the grounds that she's been stuck laughter is directed at home a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with newborn twins for the last six months empathy and desperately needs the breakunderstanding.
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|isbnauthor=1788360702Mariana Enriquez|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard ErnstA Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=45|genre=BiographyShort Stories|summary=For over forty yearsMariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, Prince Charles has been achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an ardent supporter abandoned field full of alternative medicine disused refrigerators due to an urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and complementary therapiesa crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's opinions, beliefs and aims against the background circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the scientific evidence. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments supernatural or otherworldly horror which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the reputation of seeps into these spaces adopts a man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitionssimilarly tangible texture.|isbn=1803511230
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|authorisbn=Will Carver1529934753|title=The Daves Next DoorProtest|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Five strangers come together For a little while, it looked as 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 Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in the nick of time, complete with his two wives and six children, one moment as a suicide bomber prepares of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, you tend to detonate his vest on do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a London tube linerecord of the protest. As their fates overlap Lexi Williams, an intern at the story is told RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in backwards orderthe face, leading up whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. It seemed to the fateful momentbe part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.|isbn= 1914585186}}
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|isbnauthor=1529125790Ariel Saramandi|title=The Family Remains|author=Lisa JewellPortrait of an Island on Fire|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=In July 2019this powerful collection of essays, Jason Mott was mud larking on Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the banks sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the River Thames when he came across a bag of what appeared to be human bones. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu wounds left by colonialism and Saffron Brown from forensics were there slavery to investigateexpose how these legacies still shape modern life. The bones were indeed human: Saramandi describes the country at one stage as ''rotting'', a young woman had been killed blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by a blow to the head many years ago - probably malignant forces of racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Each essay in this collection serves as long as twenty-five - but a kind of diagnostic, charting the bones had not been in various diseases afflicting the river longer than a year. There was no identification but the bag contained vegetation, some of which was quite unusualisland state.|isbn=1804271616
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|author=Jennifer MasonPekka Harju-Autti|title=Partitions of UnityLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse
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|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary= Here at Bookbag TowersIt's the eighteenth century, we first met Elizabeth Cromwella time of discovery and Britain is expanding its foreign trade. Captain Julius Hawthorne, dominatrix and unintentional detective an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to the Andaman Islands in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]]his endeavour. Along with his son, Peter, when she investigated and unravelled their cat, Michi, they set off on a series of disappearancesperilous voyage to these faraway lands. In ''Partitions of Unity'The islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and the islanders'leader, Aarav, she sets her mind is keen to solving a murder...establish good relations.|isbn=B09LQR9FRFB0DS1VGHH3
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|author=Fiona Parashar Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=A Beautiful Way to Coach Lili is Crying|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceLiterary Fiction|summary= So what am I doing reading this bookFirst published in 1953 in French, using this book, and being audacious enough to review it? Truth novel is I bought it out a timeless text which wrenches the hearts of curiosity. I was at an its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on-line launch for the book page and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed to me. I wanted to see if there were things in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing positions them to a full dayelsewhere, disjointed, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrowtruncated. I also wanted to see if I could give myself a Vision DayLike the lives of her characters, to bring me away from their vision and back to my ownthey are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=103211603X1804271675
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|isbnauthor=1913750353Tom Percival|title=Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue MacyThe Wrong Shoes
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=''BritannicaWill's Word life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the Day'wrong shoes' , he has a sub-title: the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn'366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium t have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, tells you how to pronounce it (''razwas working a cash-muhin-TAZ''), gives you hand job on a definition building site and then includes had an accident. Throw into that mix the word fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a sentence so that you know how it should be usedtiny amount of hope. You also get an engaging He is good at art, and frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a word which uses light at the letter Z four times before!end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|author=A C WiseSylvie Cathrall|title=HookedA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=It’s been twenty-two years since Captain Hook, now going by just ‘James’, has been in Neverland. Living There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a new life in London, he has never completely escaped his pastcompelling premise. But now he senses the edges of the beast circling around his life in London, and when suddenly he finds himself face to face in the street with Wendy, he knows that the line between And this world and Neverland is growing thin. The beast is finally coming to get him, and in the process will pull Wendy and her daughter Jane back into their past once againone of them.|isbn=17890968390356522776
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|isbn=17873017451786482126|title=ConfidenceThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Denise MinaElly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We're back Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the world of podcasters Anna and Fin, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]. It site was Anna whogoing to hold seventy-five 'luxury'd organised apartments - when they discovered the 'family' holiday: her ex, Hamish, is now with her best friend, Estelle and her children are living with thembones of a child beneath a doorway. Fin (who There was married to Estelle) is there too and it was Anna who invited his girlfriend, Sofiano skull. It's not long before everyone realises that was Was this a bad mistakeritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. SofiaIt's difficult and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - a lighthouseas Ruth knows, in a storm - she begins talking about Annabut Nelson doesn's pastt, including her real name and that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the rapeone night they spent together some three months ago. This was something which Anna had intended Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to tell the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess and ten-year-old Lizzie - when the time was right. And this wasn't the right timesudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbnauthor=178763566XGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=Listen to Me|author=Tess GerritsenThe Accidentals
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|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=We're This collection was truly enchanting in Boston all senses of the word: spellbinding with Amy. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day and she wore her newits fantastical, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows that they're going to be ruined - magical elements and unsafe - charming in the snow that's now falling. As she crosses the road, a car comes out its gentle portrayal of nowhere nature and hits herhuman relationships. It doesn't stop. Two months later, we're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli, Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and a keen defender of the suburb of Revereprecisely, north of Boston, where she lives. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has the time stories structured by a wisdom that appears to want to watch what's happening in teach us something about the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsworld.|isbn=1804271470
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|isbn=00083956320008551375|title=One Last SecretWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Adele ParksNeil Lancaster
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Natalya is an escort. Well, her nameLeanne Wilson's not ''actually'' Natalya: that's her professional name but it is body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a nod to her Serbian heritagetragic accident. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora Dziewulskid looked so happy, too, usually known as Dora Wulskiwhen she posted her intentions on Facebook. If you're thinking of 'escort' Her friends were relieved as being a polite description she was just out of a prostitutean unpleasant relationship, run by a pimp, who's turning tricks to fund a drug habit, forget but itlooked like she was living her best life now. Dora is a professional Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in all senses of the wordlast year. She has an agentAll were experienced climbers, Elspeth, who takes 30% properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. None of her income and deals with the payments but checks out the clients 'what a stupid thing to see that Dora is going to be safedo' explanations applied. Dora describes herself as a self-employed clairvoyant to Her MajestyThey were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's Revenue and Customsa killer on the loose.
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