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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''
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|author=Christopher BowdenSamantha Harvey|title=Mr MagentaOrbital|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Christopher BowdenIn 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''Orbital's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and compact yet profound work that unfolds over a little bit single day in the lives of indulgence to a young nephew had had group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Through a much more interesting life than narrative lens that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to him an obligation to find it all outsee our planet in a wholly new light. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW1529922933
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|isbn=1739593901295967572X|title=22 Ideas About The FuturePale Pieces|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)G M Stevens
|rating=5
|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expectedunnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Instead Where they're going and what the purpose of flying carsthis journey is, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandmais uncertain.Django found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere' I've got a couple of confessions and has persuaded our narrator to makeaccompany him. I'm Why not keen on short stories ? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. There's got to be a very compelling hook pair travel to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology station by coach and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of train is a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved itsteam locomotive.
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|isbn=14059511840008551324|title=The Girls Who DisappearedDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Claire DouglasNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after a night outIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. As she passed through Neither side likes or has any respect for the darkly-wooded Devilother. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's Corridor, a figure appeared in prepared to tell the road. Olivia swerved to avoid him and police where the car smashed into body of a tree, leaving missing person is buried and who was responsible for her trappeddeath. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappeared. Ralph MiddletonThis person, he promises, who lived in the woods helped her before is someone big and it will be worth the police and ambulance arriveddoing what he wants. But And what had happened he wants is to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in transferred to an open prison to serve the Stafferbury area remainder of Wiltshirehis sentence and to get an early parole date. It was thought of as AveburyNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do 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 poor relationhappening.
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|isbnauthor=3949666079Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Noema|author=Dael AkkermanVaim|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=''This is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago.All was strange'' Maya is a young girl living in a hunter-gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, .. This haunting phrase encapsulates the Sea pervading sense of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest homeotherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, and food is becoming a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and more scarce. What to do? Can Eline, two of the law givers protagonists caught 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? its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829
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|isbn=194241028X1035043092|title=Azabu Getaway The Killing Stones (Detective HiroshiJimmy Perez)|author=Michael PronkoAnn Cleeves
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It'You s been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a storm, she can't put resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.}}{{Frontpage|author=Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Tower|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''good at golfHow unctuous are the fats of another' on your tombstones life, can you?how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''.
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|isbnauthor=B09SGWCXQ8Claire-Louise Bennett|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.
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|isbn=0008405026
|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)
|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for a runIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body She was never found dashed and the investigation ground to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Heada halt. Was it suicide Now, her mother, Helena, or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall and fall to his death? Or was he pushed? On balanceher father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looked looks like an accident a straightforward murder/suicide but then his there'accident' was linked to s something about the deaths positioning of others associated with himthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Scott Paterson What looked as though it was released after going to be an open-and-shut case is now a 'not-proven' verdict meant complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that Scotlandthe explanation lies in Rosalie's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigordisappearance: others (such as Derwent's last clientboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbnauthor=0989715337Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=Papa on the Moon|author=Marco NorthThe Other Girl
|rating=4
|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=''Some frogs had gotten into We were born from the wellsame body. I've never really wanted to think about this.''
Ernaux's work is always very candid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the most intimate accounts I'Walter stood waist-deep ve read. Ernaux writes in the fragrant waterdirect address to her sister, however, naked except for his beaten leather hatthis letter will never reach her. Long strands Why? Because Annie Ernaux's sister died of their eggs wove around himdiphtheria at 6 years old, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of a few months before the dogs leaned over vaccine was made compulsory in France, and 2 years before the opening author was even born. The large and barked down at instant void created by the strange noise jarring concept of the buckets as he filled themwriting to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with this giant absence in her life, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.''|isbn=1804271845}}{{Frontpage|author=Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)How is that for an opening? The style |title=Reminiscences of this novel in Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=Biographies are often seen as the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and laconic to wistful less personal. I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and musingoffers a vibrant, turning on a sixpencesubjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. And author Marco North, who has In the most wonderful turn first section of phrasethis book, starts Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: ''you write not of real life as it is, but of what you yourself imagine it to be. 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 a subjective account, giving us access to how he means to go onsaw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=1804271977
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|isbn=140639131X1529077745|title=A Practical Present for Philippa PheasantThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Briony May SmithAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross A man walking his dog in the Old Oak Road. She wrote to early morning discovered the mayor about body of a man in the problem but didn't even get park near Rosebank, a replycare home for troubled teens. Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there The dead man was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits Josh - one of the lollipop lady at care workers who was due to work a shift the school crossing and decided that she would set night before but who had never turned up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur D I Vera Stanhope is called in to start with investigate the murder - but her only clue is the benefits were obviousdisappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. All Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the animals used death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to provide a safe path overnightJosh.
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|isbn=000837936XB0FK5LHKD9|title=The Last Girl to DieColour of Memory|author=Helen FieldsChristopher Bowden|rating=54|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana ClarkeIt's family moved been three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, so we were very glad to Tobermory, on the Isle of Mull, in search of see a new lifenovel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. It was a bit of Like all Bowden's stories, there's a change from Las Vegas, but mystery at the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs heart of developing a social life - until she disappeared. ''The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been because AdrianaColour of Money''s mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called . We like this running theme in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagers. Brandon, Adrianaan author's twin, was upset and surly. Fourwork -year-old Luna just knew that she missed her big sister. It took four days, take a mystery but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnon's Cave. She'd been murdered give it different flavour and it looked like a ritual killingatmosphere each time.
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|isbnauthor=1509889612Olga Tokarczuk|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann CleevesHouse of Day, House of Night
|rating=5
|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.
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|title=Ultimate Obsession
|author=Dai Henley
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's fifty years since Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy IslandPrivate Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative and theyUnfortunately, his daughter've been coming back for s defence against a reunion every five years since thenmurder charge drained his savings. 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 awayHis wife, but her younger sister, LouisaLaura, has returned with the group each year as her husband, Ken, was one of the original teenagersbeen trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. Ken now has AlzheimerThat's and hewhat 'ordinary people do','' He's a shadow not been entirely up front about the state of the man he used their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to be. Philip Robson now a priesttake his case, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone in it's the chapel. Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much thought of the food: her deli money he could make that convinces him that this is famous in the areaa miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.
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|isbn=14736808831836284683|title=The Skeleton KeyBig Happy|author=Erin KellyDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction|summary=''The Golden Bones Well! This is going to follow me around for the rest of my life. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to youa murder mystery unlike any other!''
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|author=Holly WebbSally Rooney|title=The Story of GreenriverIntermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction |summary=Silken Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and Sedge, for all their differences, have a lot in common. Silken is something of a girl whose father is the Master Builder of what might be the finest beaver lodge on the Greenrivergrandmaster at putting it into words. Unfortunately she Her dialogue is also a kind of runt figuregripping and so brilliantly frustrating, and as a result is patronisedher characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, and given the most tokenistic tasks when it comes central one for readers to fetching wood unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and shoring the dam up. She also stands out for the unique artistic ability to singPeter Koubek. Otters like Sedge singIvan, but he tooa socially awkward chess prodigy, as the son of the lady of the holtcontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, has pressure on him to be a bit less feckless and more attentive to classsuccessful lawyer living in Dublin. He, Following their father's passing after alla long battle with cancer, 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 Springbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=15101096250571365469
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|authorisbn=Anna Kemp and David Wyatt1036916375|title=Into Goblyn WoodJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Peter McArdle
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Meet Hazel. For the last nine of her eleven years, she has been stuck as a foundling in ''Just a horrid, Victorian institution, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servant. SheLiverpool Lad 'd arrived at the place at the same time as Pete, and they're inseparably good friends now, until is a chance for them both to escape, collection of memories and enter reflections from the outside world, does not go to plan. There had always been the idea of a life idyllic years Peter McArdle spent growing up in the nearby forests, Goblyn Wood, and a tribe of Wild Children, but none of that comes to passaround Liverpool. Some are factual, such as Hazel finds herself in the care family history of a professor at sea-going family, with the Natural History Museumdocks dominating lives. But life with him is not anything like Other stories blend seamlessly into the what she -might -have expected it -been. It's a book to be – settle into and Hazel is determined to return allow your mind to the Woodsroam across your childhood memories, restore her friendship with Pete – and to work out just what is going on in the forestthink of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, both despite the light 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 shade, and the deathly darkall-clear was sounded...|isbn=1398503835
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|isbn=02419901651836285493|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Cara HunterRob Keeley
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting that Will is a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadn't come from the householder. A couple keen player of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright and it took quite video games, a while for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come in. In the kitchen there was conscientious student, a body on the floor: the head had been blown off with a shotgun slightly annoying brother and the corpse was holding a knife in its right handsupportive friend. Richard Swann told the police that But most of all, he'd heard sounds of is an intruder aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and had come downstairs to investigateone at which he excels. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'This hasn' t gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and come his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at him with a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defencedifferent school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.
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|authorisbn= Kit De Waal1009473085|title= Without Warning The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Only SometimesTom Egerton (Editors)|rating= 45|genre= AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it, “They f*** you up, your mum ''isn't'' and dad/ They may not mean 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, but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on then this idea of parenthood and isn't the bonds book for you. If that bind family. This 's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book is a memoir focussing on the author’s formative , {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years as . It's a teenager living in a lower class area of Birminghamcompelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. Her father ''The Conservative Effect'' is from Stan entirely different beast. Kitts It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the Caribbean impact a government has made and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by and marrying a black manco-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This intersectionality plays book follows the well-established format: a large role series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to her race, her class and her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with care, love, changes that occurred and the kind of anger only a child can express to their parentssituation in 2024.|isbn=1472284836
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|author=David LagercrantzJenny Valentine|title=Dark MusicUs in the Before and After|rating=35|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart of what little investigating is going onElk and Mab are best friends, but there is not a lot or more than that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on even, their exact wavelength. For one, the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, friendship is no John Watson MD. She's a Chilean once in the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad lifetime connection. They meet as she knows the prime suspect of old, in children one day on a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, and just outside trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the stadiumtime. BeppeBut then chance brings them back together, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogationthey are inseparable. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with Something has happened though, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe something terrible and how she might dress – that kind) are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it alltragic, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is a shambles. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve the crimenow they must work through their grief, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guytheir friendship, she can't get his full verdict on it all. Until, that may be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt..together.|isbn=15294131921471196585
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|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM1787333175|title=The Calculations of Rational MenYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Daniel GodfreyBenji Waterhouse
|rating=5
|genre=General FictionPopular Science|summary=ItI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to put what happens in contextHurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's mindsNHS, humour and autobiography. The world has barely had a chance ''You Don't Have to breathe outbe Mad... But for Joe Marr, it's not ' promised the missile crisis that's at same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the front work of his minda psychiatrist. He's been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, I did wonder whether it's hard was acceptable to think otherwise be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, person and it is always delivered with empathy and learning to be wary of the McArthur brothersunderstanding.
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|isbnauthor=1846976146Mariana Enriquez|title=The Bone Road|author=N E SolomonsA Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersShort Stories|summary=Heather BishopMariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, the former Olympic cyclist, flew to Bosnia achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to surprise her boyfriendan urban planning mishap, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnonan overcrowded homeless shelter and a crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. She even took their bikes The circumstances of her characters are so they could have a few days' break in the region. It was a little worrying plausible that he didn't seem exactly pleased to see her: she even wondered if he had a woman in the hotel room. Heather had to give up competitive cycling after supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but her reactions and her memory were not up to the standard she would need to race again. Sometimes she couldn't be certain about what she had or hadn't done and she simply couldn't cope in difficult situations. She didn't entirely trust herselfsimilarly tangible texture.|isbn=1803511230
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|authorisbn=Judith Eagle1529934753|title=The Accidental StowawayProtest|author=Rob Rinder
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Patch is For a little girl who has been passed from one relation to anotherwhile, until it seems that there is nobody left looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, was not going to show up for her to go tothe opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Her father died when she was very youngStill, he arrived in the nick of time, complete with his two wives and her mother ran awaysix children, one of whom filmed what happened. The family lawyer, after consultation with ‘someone’Being an influencer, arranges for her you tend to go to a school in Liverpooldo things like that, but on her arrival it was fortunate that therewas a record of the protest. Lexi Williams, she gets caught up in an adventure with intern at the RA, grabbed a little boy called Turo who works on spray can of blue paint from under a steamshipchair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. During a chase with him (when she is both trying It seemed to get her rollerskate back and running away from the police!) she winds up on the steamship hiding in a lifeboatbe part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, and before she knows itbut this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, the ship has left the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!|isbn=0571363121Sir Max Bruce was dead.
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|isbnauthor=0760379874Ariel Saramandi|title=Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri HammettPortrait of an Island on Fire
|rating=4.5
|genre=CraftsPolitics and Society|summary=I learned In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to knit in intradermally dissect the nineteen-fifties: it wasn't a choicesociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, it was a requirement. Girls learned to knit and to embroider and boys did wood and metal work. My knitting wa accompanied tunneling deep into the wounds left by a lot of criticism colonialism and quite a few tears: it was a long time before I realised that there was pleasure slavery to be had in the skillexpose how these legacies still shape modern life. Nearly seventy years later it's Saramandi describes the only thing that keeps my hands country at all supple. The turning point was one stage as ''rotting'', a booklet published blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by Patons which gave all the basics malignant forces of racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and some patternsgovernmental dysfunction. I've been looking for something simple to recommend to people who'd like to master Each essay in this collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, charting the various diseases afflicting the skillisland state. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?|isbn=1804271616
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|author=Sarah Todd TaylorPekka Harju-Autti|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse
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|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=Meet Alice Eclair. A perfect eye and very careful hands have made her one of ParisIt's best young cake makers the eighteenth century, a time of discovery and decorators, making sure her mother's establishment Britain is a classy affairexpanding its foreign trade. Not bad for a thirteen year old. OhCaptain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, and a perfect eye and a very careful handler and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spy. Her first real mission will be sent to chase a traitor across the country – working behind the scenes Andaman Islands in his endeavour. Along with his son, Peter, and their cat, Michi, they set off on a posh sleeper train perilous voyage to these faraway lands. The islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and the south of Franceislanders' leader, Aarav, and hoping against hope that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents is keen to creep into the country from getting into nefarious handsestablish good relations. But while nobody would have her down as a spy, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find the baddy?|isbn=1839940956B0DS1VGHH3
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|isbnauthor=0760379912Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Super Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Quarry BooksLili is Crying|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsLiterary Fiction|summary=I learned patchworking First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new their proper position on the page and usable when I was in my twentiespositions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. It would be a while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but I've never felt completely at home with quiltingLike the lives of her characters, they are often left tragically incomplete. I needed something a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knots. ''Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like a good place to start. So, how did it stack up?|isbn=1804271675
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|isbnauthor=1788360737Tom Percival|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander AdamsWrong Shoes|rating=25|genre= Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art Will's life is political because art is not made difficult, in a vacuummultitude of ways. It He is made by peoplebullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things 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. Antonio Gramsci stated Throw into that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying mix the social environment fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in which every direction. And yet, he develops’’still has a tiny amount of hope. Therefore, all He is good at art must be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in and clings to the Era moments of Postmodernism’ joy when he is adamant drawing, that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend feel like a light at the end 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 and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believeslong, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=1408712172Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Cliff House|author=Chris BrookmyreA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=''Many of them didn't know each other, one of them didn't know anybody, including Jen, one of them quite possibly hated her, and two of them definitely hated each other. What could possibly go wrong?'' That's the round-There are few greater joys than a book which lives up for Jen's hen party which is to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barra. They're all staying in The Cliff House, hosted by Lauren, and it's the utmost in luxury living but then Jen can afford ita compelling premise. She's just sold her muffin business for millions but And this is staying on to run it. She's got her doubts about the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting a little strangely one 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 that she's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months and desperately needs the breakthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=17883607021786482126|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised BiographyJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Edzard ErnstElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=For over forty years, Prince Charles has been Builders were demolishing an ardent supporter old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of alternative medicine and complementary therapiesa 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. It''Charless difficult as Ruth knows, The Alternative Princebut Nelson doesn'' critically assesses the Prince's opinionst, beliefs and aims against the background that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the scientific evidenceone night they spent together some three months ago. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to the reputation of a man who is proud sudden bouts of his refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitionssickness.
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|author=Will CarverGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Daves Next DoorAccidentals|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1529125790|title=The Family Remains|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=45|genre=ThrillersShort Stories|summary=In July 2019, Jason Mott This collection was mud larking on the banks truly enchanting in all senses of the River Thames when he came across a bag word: spellbinding with its fantastical, magical elements and charming in its gentle portrayal of what appeared to be nature and human bonesrelationships. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and Saffron Brown from forensics were there to investigate. The bones were indeed human: a young woman had been killed precisely, her stories structured by a blow wisdom that appears to want to teach us something about the head many years ago - probably as long as twenty-five - but the bones had not been in the river longer than a year. There was no identification but the bag contained vegetation, some of which was quite unusualworld.|isbn=1804271470
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|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason0008551375|title=Partitions of UnityWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Here Leanne Wilson's body was found at Bookbag Towersthe bottom of a Scottish mountain, we first met Elizabeth Cromwellseemingly the result of a tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]]too, when she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearancesposted her intentions on Facebook. In ''Partitions Her friends were relieved as she was just out of Unity''an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she sets was living her mind to solving a murderbest life now.Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year...|isbn=B09LQR9FRF}}{{Frontpage|author=Fiona Parashar |title=A Beautiful Way to Coach |rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary= So All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what am I they were doing reading this book, using this book, and being audacious enough to review it? sensible people. Truth is I bought it out None of curiosity. I was at an on-line launch for the book and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed 'what a stupid thing to medo' explanations applied. I wanted to see if there They were things in all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing them to 's a full day, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted to see if I could give myself a Vision Day, to bring me away from their vision and back to my ownkiller on the loose.|isbn=103211603X
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