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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=3949666079Samantha Harvey|title=Noema|author=Dael AkkermanOrbital
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''Orbital''This is , a story about some things compact yet profound work that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya is unfolds over a young girl living single day in the lives of a hunter gatherer village during group of astronauts aboard the Mesolithic eraInternational Space Station. Climate change is occurring, Through a narrative lens that mirrors the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Mayaastronauts's forest homeorbital perspective, and food is becoming more and more scarce. What Harvey invites readers to do? Can the law givers see our planet in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions? wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933
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|isbn=194241028X295967572X|title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)Pale Pieces|author=Michael PronkoG M Stevens
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=''You can't put 'good at golf' on your tombstone, can you?'' When we meet Patrick Walsh he's outside his family's home in the Azabu district of Tokyo, hoping that his key will still work but prepared to break in if it doesn't. He's there Our unnamed narrator is about to remove his daughters, Jenna and Kiri, and take them back to Honolulu. It's begin a quick day trip, train journey with just one purpose in mindhis companion Django. PatrickWhere they's employed by Nine Dragons Wealth Management re going and for what the past yearpurpose of this journey is, heis uncertain. Django found the tickets 's been working in Wyoming because the privacy laws there are conducive to 'on the business hefloor somewhere's in. His wife, Miyuki, hasn't been in Wyoming with and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him and . Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the process of divorcing him after photographs sent past as the pair travel to her anonymously suggested that Patrick had not been faithful to her. Patrick's plan didn't work out the station by coach and he finds himself on the run in Tokyo with the two girlstrain is a steam locomotive.
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|isbn=B09SGWCXQ80008551324|title=The Night Watch Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)
|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out It's unusual for a run. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed anyone from the Hardie family to pieces below approach the cliffs at Dunnett Headpolice. Was it suicide, Neither side likes or did he - has any respect for some reason - climb over the stone wall other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and fall he's prepared to his tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death? Or was . This person, he pushed? On balancepromises, is someone big and it looked like will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an accident but then open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn'accidentt think so and she' was linked s even prepared to do the deaths of others associated other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him. Scott Paterson was released after a 'not-proven' verdict meant that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigoris kept well away from what's last clienthappening.
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|isbnauthor=0989715337Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Papa on the Moon|author=Marco NorthVaim
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Some frogs had gotten into the well.All was strange'' ''Walter stood waist-deep 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 the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of . This haunting phrase encapsulates the buckets as he filled them.'' How is that for an opening? The style pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this novel story set in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musingVaim, turning on a sixpence. And author Marco Northfictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, who has two of the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to go onprotagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829
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|isbn=140639131X|title=A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=000837936X|title=The Last Girl to Die|author=Helen Fields|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved to Tobermory, on the Isle of Mull, in search of a new life. It was a bit of a change from Las Vegas, but the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing a social life - until she disappeared. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been because Adriana's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, 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 in Mackinnon's Cave. She'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killing.}}{{Frontpage|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 EclairWill is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. A perfect eye But most of all, he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and very careful hands have made her one of Parisat which he excels. This hasn's best young cake makers t gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and decoratorshis mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, making sure her motherStation Road, where his ability might be better extended.}}{{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 establishment is simpler to explain a classy affairbook by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. Not bad 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 a thirteen year oldyou. OhIf that's what you're looking for, and I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a perfect eye compelling read and a very careful handler and remote trainer have also made sure she should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is a very competent young spyan entirely different beast. Her first real mission will be to chase It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a traitor across government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the country – working behind most important. This book follows the scenes on well-established format: a posh sleeper train to series of experts from various fields review the south state of Francethe nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and hoping against hope that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents to creep into the country from getting into nefarious handssituation in 2024. But while nobody would have her down as a spy, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find the baddy?|isbn=1839940956
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|isbnauthor=0760379912Jenny Valentine|title=Super Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Quarry BooksUs in the Before and After|rating=45|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: old Elk and Mab are best friends, or outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new and usable when I was more than that even, their friendship is a once in my twentiesa lifetime connection. It would be a while before it became a pleasure rather than They meet as children one day on a chore trip out but Iunfortunately they don't get each other've never felt completely s contact details at home with quiltingthe time. I needed But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knotsterrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together. ''Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like a good place to start. So, how did it stack up?|isbn=1471196585
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|isbn=17883607371787333175|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of PostmodernismYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Alexander AdamsBenji Waterhouse|rating=25|genre= Politics and SocietyPopular Science|summary= Can art ever I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be apolitical? All art Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is political because art is not made in Going to Hurt}}, a vacuumglorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad.. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes '' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to modifying mental illness and the social environment in which he develops’’work of a psychiatrist. Therefore, all art must I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle looking for Museum humour in this setting but the Era of Postmodernism’ laughter is adamant that art is freer when directed at a situation rather than a person and it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors always delivered with empathy and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believesunderstanding.
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|isbnauthor=1408712172Mariana Enriquez|title=The Cliff House|author=Chris BrookmyreA Sunny Place for Shady People
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersShort Stories|summary=''Many of them didn't know each otherMariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, one of them didn't know anybody, including Jen, one of them quite possibly hated achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her, and two settings include an abandoned field full of them definitely hated each other. What could possibly go wrong?'' That's the round-up for Jen's hen party which is disused refrigerators due to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barra. They're all staying in The Cliff House, hosted by Laurenurban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and it's the utmost in luxury living but then Jen can afford ita crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. She's just sold her muffin business for millions but is staying on to run it. She's got her doubts about the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting a little strangely The circumstances of late and wouldn't explain to her what the email he was hurriedly deleting was about. Added to that, he's just about forced her to bring his sister, Samira, whom Jen's never met, on the trip, on the grounds characters are so plausible that she's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months and desperately needs the breaksupernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture.|isbn=1803511230
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|isbn=17883607021529934753|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised BiographyProtest|author=Edzard ErnstRob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=For over forty yearsa little while, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''Charlesit looked as though Sir Max Bruce, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Princecountry's opinionsmost famous living artist, beliefs and aims against was not going to show up for the background opening of his retrospective at the scientific evidenceRoyal Academy. There are few instances Still, he arrived in the nick of time, complete with his beliefs being vindicated two wives and his relentless promotion six children, one of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of the reputation protest. Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a man who is proud chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of his refusal to apply evidence'blue-basedface' attacks, logical reasoning to his ambitionsbut this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.
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|author=Will CarverAriel Saramandi|title=The Daves Next DoorPortrait of an Island on Fire|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionPolitics and Society|summary= Five strangers come together in 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 moment stage as ''rotting'', a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on 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 London tube line. As their fates overlapkind of diagnostic, charting the story is told in backwards order, leading up to various diseases afflicting the fateful momentisland state.|isbn= 19145851861804271616}}
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|isbnauthor=1529125790Pekka Harju-Autti|title=The Family Remains|author=Lisa JewellLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse
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|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=In July 2019It's the eighteenth century, Jason Mott was mud larking on the banks of the River Thames when he came across a bag time of what appeared discovery and Britain is expanding its foreign trade. Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to be human bonesthe Andaman Islands in his endeavour. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu Along with his son, Peter, and Saffron Brown from forensics were there their cat, Michi, they set off on a perilous voyage to investigatethese faraway lands. The bones were indeed human: a young woman had been killed by a blow to the head many years ago - probably as long as twenty-five - but the bones had not been islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and the river longer than a year. There was no identification but the bag contained vegetationislanders' leader, Aarav, some of which was quite unusualis keen to establish good relations.|isbn=B0DS1VGHH3
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|author=Jennifer MasonHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Partitions of UnityLili is Crying|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective First published in 1953 in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]]French, when she investigated and unravelled this novel is a series timeless text which wrenches the hearts of disappearancesits readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the page and positions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. In ''Partitions Like the lives of Unity''her characters, she sets her mind to solving a murder...they are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF1804271675
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|author=Fiona Parashar Tom Percival|title=A Beautiful Way to Coach The Wrong Shoes
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|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary= So what am I doing reading this bookWill's life is difficult, using this bookin a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and being audacious doesn't have enough to review it? Truth is I bought it out money for even the most basic of curiositythings like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. I was at an on-line launch for Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. book and Fiona’s description And yet, he still has a tiny amount of her Vision Days appealed to mehope. I wanted He is good at art, and clings to see if there were things in there the moments of joy when he is drawing, that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing them to feel like a full day, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted to see if I could give myself light at the end of a Vision Daylong, to bring me away from their vision and back to my owndark tunnel.|isbn=103211603X1398527122
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|isbnauthor=1913750353Sylvie Cathrall|title=Britannica's Word of A Letter to the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue MacyLuminous Deep
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|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has There are few greater joys than a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' book which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how lives up to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it should be usedcompelling premise. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration tooAnd this is one of them. I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn=A C Wise1786482126|title=HookedThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It’s been twentyBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -two years since Captain Hook, now the site was going by just ‘James’, has been in Neverlandto hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Living Was this a new life in Londonritual killing or murder? Inevitably, he has never completely escaped his pastDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. But now he senses the edges of the beast circling around his life in LondonIt's difficult as Ruth knows, and when suddenly he finds himself face to face in the street with Wendybut Nelson doesn't, he knows that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the line between this world and Neverland is growing thinone night they spent together some three months ago. The beast Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is finally coming prone to get him, and in the process will pull Wendy and her daughter Jane back into their past once againsudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1789096839
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|isbnauthor=1787301745Guadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=Confidence|author=Denise MinaThe Accidentals|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersShort Stories|summary=We're back This collection was truly enchanting in the world all senses of podcasters Anna and Fin, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]. It was Anna who'd organised the 'family' holidayword: her ex, Hamish, is now spellbinding with her best friendits fantastical, Estelle magical elements and her children are living with them. Fin (who was married to Estelle) is there too charming in its gentle portrayal of nature and it was Anna who invited his girlfriend, Sofiahuman relationships. It's not long before everyone realises that was a bad mistake. Sofia's difficult Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - a lighthouseprecisely, in her stories structured by a storm - she begins talking wisdom that appears to want to teach us something about Anna's past, including her real name and the rape. This was something which Anna had intended to tell the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess and ten-year-old Lizzie - when the time was right. And this wasn't the right timeworld.|isbn=1804271470
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|isbn=178763566X0008551375|title=Listen to MeWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Tess GerritsenNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeLeanne Wilson're in Boston with Amy. When she set out for university this morning it s body was found at the bottom of a spring day and Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, too, when she wore posted her new, buttery-leather pumps but intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she comes was just out of the library an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she knows was living her best life now. Then it emerged that they're going to be ruined - and unsafe - five other women had died in similar circumstances in the snow that's now fallinglast year. As she crosses the road All were experienced climbers, a car comes out of nowhere properly equipped for what they were doing and hits hersensible people. It doesn None of the 't stop. Two months later, wewhat a stupid thing to do're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli, and a keen defender of the suburb of Revere, north of Boston, where she livesexplanations applied. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is in California, looking after his sister, she has the time to watch whatcertain there's happening in a killer on the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsloose.
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