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Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. Rather, it is the proportional, valid response to ''the epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. The whole text is framed against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''Read [[Forthcoming Publications|reviews . Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of books about weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to be published]]''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|isbn=1804271454}}

|author=Samantha Harvey|title=Orbital|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''Orbital'', a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the lives of a group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Through a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to see our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933}}{{Frontpage|isbn=295967572X|title=Pale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=00085512780008551324|title=Blood Runs Cold The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)

|summary=Affi Smith was snatched It's unusual for anyone from the bottom of Fyrish, where she'd been doing her trainingHardie family to approach the police. SheNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'd been a bit s prepared to tell the police where the body of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it now looks as though she could will be heading for worth the national squadpolice doing what he wants. That's quite And what he wants is to be transferred to an achievement for someone with her background: you see, Affo came open prison to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at serve the age remainder of twelvehis sentence and to get an early parole date. She was rescued when she was carrying a kilo of drugs Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and three years later she's happy even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with her foster family. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sister, Melodi him is in a childrenkept well away from what's home in Tirana - and anyone could get to herhappening.

|author=Emily TeshJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Some Desperate GloryVaim|rating=4.5|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=''While EarthAll was strange's children live, the enemy shall fear us'' Following ... This haunting phrase encapsulates the destruction pervading sense of the Earthotherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, amongst a rare number of survivorsfictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home two of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the world that should have been hers. All her life, she has been conditioned to fall protagonists caught in line, to fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveresits melancholic current.|isbn=03565218341804271829

|isbn=08615440561035043092|title=Twin TruthsThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Jacqueline SutherlandAnn Cleeves

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Belle and DavidI can's twin daughters are just coming t have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to the end of their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeterstart a new life on Orkney. It's not only the first time they've been away seven years since we heard from their parents for any length of time - him, but theyhe've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home s now living with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset KitWillow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. IvoWillow's apparently also his boss, and she 'older': heshould's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen be on maternity leave, but Belle figures that when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a storm, she can cope with that't resist getting involved. And they He'll be sharing d been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a bedroommuseum.

|isbnauthor=1785633457Thea Lenarduzzi|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive WilkinsonThe Tower

|genre=TravelLiterary Fiction|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, the story of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the idea daughter of exploring a wealthy family in the edges 19th century, who died of England tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. Annie's fate is, above all, an electric car was not totally outrageousenticing story to T. In factIt is a story which she consumes avariciously, it should be both in a pleasant holiday quest for Clive truth and his wifeknowledge, Joanand in service of myth, shouldn't it?fable and fantasy. |isbn=1804271799

|author=Frederic SeagerClaire-Louise Bennett|title= JesusBig Kiss, the Man and the Myth: A Jewish Reading of the New TestamentBye-Bye

|genre= Spirituality and ReligionLiterary Fiction|summary= I was brought up Everything in a family where religion played little this book, however sweet or no partseemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and Welsh Methodist on closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the othernarrator cries out internally, nobody really discussed religion ''come over here and the adults around kiss me ranged from lapsed to agnostic ,'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to atheistconfirm her emotional numbness. Other than the odd church wedding or baptism or the school nativity playThe imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, I didn't think too much about faith or what people did or didn't believea ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=B092BWWG9Y1804271934

|isbn=05713709770008405026|title=The Lock-UpA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=John BanvilleJane Casey|rating=45|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's six months sixteen years since the dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebenine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. The worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened She was never found and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficultinvestigation ground to a halt. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of a youngNow, Jewish scholarher mother, Rosa JacobsHelena, is found and her father are dead in a lock-uptheir bed. At firstInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that it was murder rather than suicidethe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|author=Julia BartzAnnie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Writing RetreatOther Girl

|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary= Roza Vallo''We were born from the same body. Anyone in the world 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 publishing knows the namemost intimate accounts I've read. Writers want Ernaux writes in direct address to be hersister, however, agents want to represent this letter will never reach her. SheWhy? Because Annie Ernaux's something sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a legend with an impressivefew months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she and 2 years before the author was barely out of childhoodeven born. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, The large and is stunned when, following a series instant void created by the jarring concept of unexpected events, she is invited writing to be part an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with this giant absence in her month-long writers' retreatlife, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=08615444391804271845

|author=Patrick Ness Maxim Gorky and Tea BendixBryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Different for BoysReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=43.5|genre=Teens Biography|summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard schoolBiographies are often seen as the form of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and less personal. I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructuredoffers a vibrant, so his desk is one subjective yet informed portrait of three of four with both his best buddy from literary contemporaries. In the football teamfirst section of this book, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back Tolstoy complains to primary school days together. As theyhis friend Gorky that: ''re all fired upyou write not of real life as it is, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns but of what you yourself imagine it to sexbe. Which is confusing for AntWhom would it help to know how I see this tower, that sea, as he doesn't know or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what his score use is, where his achievements in that regard lieit?''. He's had a casual relationshipWell, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a secret onesubjective account, for several months nowgiving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set Andreyev in stone, he can't be sure. And such privileged detail that's mostly because one almost feels unworthy of who he's been having the relationship and the sex withit.|isbn=15295094911804271977

|authorisbn=M R Carey1529077745|title=Infinity GateThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary= I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fictionA man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. Not because it's a genre I dislike – nothing The dead man was Josh - one of the sort. My standards are high precisely because it's care workers who was due to work a hard genre to get right – and when it's bad, it's often terrible. But shift the premise of Infinity Gate night before but who had me hookednever turned up. A concept this intriguing felt like a high D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder -stakes gamble: if it was done wellbut her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, it'd be fantasticfourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. So Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is where I sum up unlikely as the girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that premiseshe has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.|isbn=0356518043

|isbn=1398509582B0FK5LHKD9|title=The FavourColour of Memory|author=Nicci FrenchChristopher Bowden

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was 2 am, not long after A levels's been three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, when the car crash happened. It would cause problems for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he and Jude Winter so we were together. She was utterly driven by her determination very glad to go to medical schoolsee a new novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. Liam was Like all Bowden's stories, there's a mystery at the reverse. He just acted heart of ''as if life just rolled him over and carried him alongThe Colour of Money''. A bit of weed here, a few drinks there: the legal effects of the car crash really didnWe like this running theme in an author't worry him at all. The relationship broke up soon after that s work - or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any moretake a mystery but give it different flavour and atmosphere each time.

|isbnauthor=0857051741Olga Tokarczuk|title=The Sins House of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Day, House of Night

|summary=Lars Pohjanen Ex-DCI Andy Flood has only been a few weeks to live but Private Investigator for some time now, and heshould be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate the case of defence against a body found in a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholicmurder charge drained his savings. The problem is that the case His wife, Laura, has long passed the statute of limitationsbeen trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. That's what 'ordinary people do','' He was 's not been entirely up front about the father state of Olympic boxing champion Borje Stromtheir savings. Rebecka wants nothing When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to do with a fifty-year-old take his case on which she can take no action: , it's the thought of the problem is money he could make that convinces him that this is a dying man's wish. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes miscarriage of justice that Henry Pekkari, the dead alcoholic, was also murderedhe really should put right. Is there a connection between the two deaths?

|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni1836284683|title=Her Deadly GameThe Big Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeDystopian Fiction|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the lifeWell! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, it's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed nothing like I expected it to be, and it takes me on a wild ride. And that is just what happened with ''The Irish BrawlerBig Happy''. I don' due t want to his reputation ruin a similar experience for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence any of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself you reading but I'll have to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow at least set the formerscene. Enter Keera DugganOnce that's done, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southyourself.|isbn=1662500181

|author= Rob KeeleySally Rooney|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other StoriesIntermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction |summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is back with something of a return to grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the short many relationships woven into this story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us , the central one for readers to eleven new talesunravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, each as fun to read as contrasts sharply with his previous offeringsolder brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn= B0BVW69N1G0571365469

|authorisbn= Michael Grothaus1036916375|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Peter McArdle

|genre= Literary FictionAutobiography|summary= ''But fearing something Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of memories and having it come to pass reflections from the years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. Some are two different thingsfactual, 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. And I It'm willing s a book to bet most settle into and allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, to think of what we fear will never happensimpler times when life seemed less constrained, or we can take steps to change itdespite 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.}}

|isbn=B09BLBP3P81836285493|title=Neville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Frederic SeagerRob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryConfident Readers|summary=Received wisdom Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about historya supportive friend. But most of all, he is an aspiring writer. One such English is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of the early days of World War II from 1939-40his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, known as the and one at which he excels. This hasn''Phoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitlert gone unnoticed by his headteacher, war breaking outMrs Howarth, and Churchill coming in she has suggested to save the day. Very little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections Will and yethis mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, as Frederic Seager argues in this bookStation Road, it was of vital significance in how the war played outwhere his ability might be better extended.

|isbn=07603781341009473085|title=The FirstConservative Effect 2010 -Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening2024|author=Pamela FarleyAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)

|genre=Home Politics and FamilySociety|summary=If youSometimes it've ever thought how good s simpler to explain a book by describing what it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit ''isn't'' and vegetables for a meal – but realised that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you wouldn't know where to startre looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this is isn't the book for you need. ItIf that's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to growlooking for, what youI don'll grow it in (both containers and soil), where yout think Anthony Seldon'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the s book with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossary. So, is it any good?}}{{frontpageamazonurl|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRoccaB0BH7SKG2S|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within usJohnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It is used as 's a way compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process thempolitics. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big BadThe Conservative Effect'', whether that is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a home invader, a monster or series which looks at the impact a ghost, it usually something tangible government has made and, by co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the end of most important. This book follows the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is well-established format: a collection series of short stories more interested in experts from various fields review the horrors state of illnessthe nation when the coalition took over in 2010, grief and humiliation. Horrors the changes that linger occurred and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''the situation in 2024.

|author=Amelia Estelle DellosJenny Valentine|title=Delilah RecoveredUs in the Before and After|rating=45|genre=FantasyTeens|summary= We Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet Dee at as children one day on a point when her life isntrip out but unfortunately they don't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountantget each other's jobcontact details at the time. But it's not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathedthen chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Witch hunters? What on earth Something has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary womanhappened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the same...their friendship, together.|isbn=B0BKYFDLLV1471196585

|isbn=00084049761787333175|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Jane CaseyBenji Waterhouse

|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=It I was because of Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Close. If youtempted to read ''You Don're a regular reader of the [[Jane Caseyt Have to be Mad to Work Here's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read that sentence twice and wondered if itafter enjoying Adam Kay's a massive spoiler because there first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a delicious sexual chemistry between glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the two which seems veryNHS, very realhumour and autobiography. But (there's always a 'butYou Don't Have to be Mad...', isn't there?) Josh has a partner promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and he dotes on her son, even if the relationship with Melissa can be work of a little rockypsychiatrist. As I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for Maeve, she's just come out of an abusive relationship which has left her more humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a little uncertainperson and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.

|author=Merryn GloverMariana Enriquez|title=The Hidden FiresA Sunny Place for Shady People

|genre=TravelShort Stories|summary= It Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is always about the bookdisturbingly real, not the writer, but there are times when the author's hinterland is also the background achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to the book and so it is necessary to understand that contextan urban planning mishap, in order to appreciate the book. Merryn Glover is of Australian parentage, was born in Kathmandu, grew up in the Annapurna an overcrowded homeless shelter and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotland. I can think of noa crime-one better a combination to give us a reridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine -appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence in the Cairngorms National Parkall within Argentina. Merryn walks, not so much in the shadow The circumstances of Shepherd, but in her spirit. I think characters are so plausible that the two would have gotten along famouslysupernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture.|isbn=18469757511803511230

|authorisbn=Alice M Ross1529934753|title=The Nowhere ThiefProtest|author=Rob Rinder

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in For a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen little while, itlooked 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. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found outStill, because she has he arrived in the ability to leave this worldnick of time, complete with his two wives and use six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours influencer, you tend to enter other worldsdo things like that, where but it was fortunate that there was a record of the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunderprotest. With eviction imminentLexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can Elsbeth nab anything of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to actually generate custom at spray Bruce in the shop? Well yesface, is whilst shouting ''Stop the answerWar''. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these this was different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=1839943769. The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.

|isbnauthor=1529504775Ariel Saramandi|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyPortrait of an Island on Fire

|genre=For SharingPolitics and Society|summary=Elsie and her little brother David loved to go In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the park wounds left by colonialism and watch slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the red buses drive past. Elsie would race country at one stage as ''rotting'', a blunt yet apt metaphor for the buses along systemic decay brought about by the side malignant forces of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and even just standing up was very difficultgovernmental dysfunction. One day Elsie spotted Each essay in this collection serves as a bus in kind of diagnostic, charting the various diseases afflicting the toy shop window which would help David island state.|isbn=1804271616}}{{Frontpage|author=Pekka Harju- Autti|title=LoveVortex and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at homeDrakor's Curse|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=It's the eighteenth century, a time of discovery and Britain is expanding its foreign trade. GraduallyCaptain Julius Hawthorne, David learned an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind itAndaman Islands in his endeavour. Many decades laterAlong with his son, Elsie brought the busPeter, now damaged and rustedtheir cat, Michi, they set off on a perilous voyage to these faraway lands. The islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and the Repair Shopislanders' leader, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with itAarav, is keen to establish good relations.|isbn=B0DS1VGHH3

|isbnauthor=1847941834Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Atomic Habits|author=James ClearLili is Crying

|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=I've said First published in 1953 in French, this before but there are some books that you seek out, some books that you stumble across novel is a timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the page and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read positions themelsewhere, likedisjointed, right now! ''Atomic Habits'' is in truncated. Like the last categorylives of her characters, they are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675

|author=Natasha FarrantTom Percival|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodWrong Shoes

|summary=This story Will's life is another excellent adventure from the author difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawkwrong shoes''. Ravenwood is an old house, in he has the North of England, where Bea wrong shoes because his dad can't work and Raffy doesn't have been living enough money for even the most basic of their lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leothings like food, and Raffy is there with his mumdad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and they are living together as a familyhad an accident. They have grown up swimming in Throw into that mix the covefact that his mum and dad are separated, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving Will's life seems bleak in every inch direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of the placehope. But now He is good at art, and clings to the house moments of joy when he is under threatdrawing, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell that feel like a light at the property to end of a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to livelong, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn downdark tunnel.|isbn=05713487851398527122

|author=Nick BrooksSylvie Cathrall|title=Promise BoysA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a grudge one of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murderthem. But who killed him, and why, and if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|isbn=10350031550356522776

|authorisbn=G K Holloway1786482126|title=In the Shadows of CastlesThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= We begin after the momentous battle Builders were demolishing an old house in 1066 and on Norwich - the day of William of Normandysite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's coronation as King apartments - when they discovered the bones of Englanda child beneath a doorway. William's position is not secure and the new king has many challenges There was no skull. Imposing authority through Was this a coronation is importantritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. And William is right to worry. While the previous king It's difficult as Ruth knows, Haroldbut Nelson doesn't, that she is dead and pregnant with his child as a result of the likelihood of more pitched battles is overone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish least because Ruth is prone to recognise a new overlordsudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1800422466

|isbnauthor=0008506337Guadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Georgina MooreAccidentals|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionShort Stories|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary This collection was truly enchanting in all-consumingsenses of the word: spellbinding with its fantastical, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell magical elements and charming in love. Richard was twenty-one its gentle portrayal of nature and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'human relationships. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and having a glittering career. In the eventprecisely, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go stories structured by a wisdom that appears to Oxford and went on want to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on teach us something about the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''world. Then Richard left them.|isbn=1804271470

|authorisbn=Vanda Symon0008551375|title=Expectant When Shadows Fall (Detective Sam ShephardD S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching Leanne Wilson's body was found at the start bottom of her maternity leave when there is a brutalScottish mountain, shocking murder seemingly the result of an expectant woman in Dunedina tragic accident. Suddenly She'd looked so happy, too, when she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfposted her intentions on Facebook. Finding herself put on desk duties, which Her friends were relieved as she rails againstwas just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she just can't let was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the case go last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and she starts sensible people. None of the 'what a stupid thing to follow every thread to uncover whatdo' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's actually happening, and a killer on the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen nextloose.|isbn=1914585577