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|isbnauthor=1635866847Paul B Preciado|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin VesciDysphoria Mundi
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|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this It is never too late to embrace the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companionrevolutionary optimism of childhood'' Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, I visited and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's new generation, a picture of new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a slice sign of chocolate cake on the homepagepolitical apathy. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in Rather, it is the bookproportional, which Ivalid response to ''m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book epistemological and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins political crack we are sanctioned. You get to fold down living through, and the corners of pages. You suspect tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that smears of butter would not be a problem. I characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''loveddysphoria mundi'' this book already.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in The whole text is framed against the backdrop of the Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than Covid-19 pandemic as that evenwhich has catalysed this revolution, their friendship is when dysphoria began to emerge on a once in a lifetime connection. They meet global scale, or as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the timepangea covidica''. But then chance brings them back togetherRather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of weakness, and they are inseparable. Something has happened thoughor mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, togetherPreciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.|isbn=14711965851804271454
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|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the world, thanks to her step-mother OpheliaBooker Prize for ''Orbital's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about herlives of a group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Anuri is battling alcoholismThrough a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, failing Harvey invites readers to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the see our planet in a wholly new focus of Ophelia's online empirelight. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=08615468731529922933
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|authorisbn=David Chadwick295967572X|title=Headload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76}}{{FrontpagePale Pieces|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong ShoesG M Stevens
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|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Will's life Our unnamed narrator is difficult, in about to begin a multitude of waystrain journey with his companion Django. He is bullied because he has Where they're going and what the wrong shoes'purpose of this journey is, he has is uncertain. Django found the wrong shoes because his dad cantickets 't work and doesn't have enough money for even on the most basic of things like food, and his dad canfloor somewhere''t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accidenthas persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are separated, and Will's life seems bleak probably in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and clings to the moments of joy when he train is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnelsteam locomotive.|isbn=1398527122
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - It's unusual for anyone from the site was going Hardie family to hold seventy-five approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'luxury' apartments - when they discovered s prepared to tell the police where the bones body of a child beneath a doorway. There missing person is buried and who was no skullresponsible for her death. Was this a ritual killing or murder? InevitablyThis person, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn'the promises, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of someone big and it will be worth the one night they spent together some three months agopolice doing what he wants. Her condition will And what he wants is to be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone transferred to an open prison to sudden bouts serve the remainder of sicknesshis sentence and to get an early parole date.}}{{Frontpage|author=Joan Didion|title= Not much to ask, is it? The Year of Magical Thinking|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=This book is Joan Didionnew Deputy Police Constable doesn's heartbreaking autobiographical account of the grief t think so and she endured following her husband's sudden death. Books even prepared to do the other thing that shed light on taboo topics like death are such a beautiful and necessary resource to help people feel less alone. Didion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like selfHardie demanded -pity, denial make certain that DS Max Craigie and delusion and makes them utterly normal, lends them a human face to wearanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=0007216858
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|author=Alba de Cespedes Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Forbidden NotebookVaim
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''All was strange''... This Italian work haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of feminist fiction holds an air otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, two of suspense and tension from the moment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her forbidden notebook, and learns about herself protagonists caught in the most intimate and revealing waysits melancholic current.|isbn=17822782221804271829
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|authorisbn=Ottessa Moshfegh1035043092|title=My Year of Rest and RelaxationThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=35|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=At bestI can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, this novel is Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a scathing critique of modern society new life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and reveals their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the fragility daughter of human relationships; at worsthis former partner. Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, it is but when the cynical, predictable and slightly trite tale body of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroinea popular islander, a slimArchie Stout, attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the worldfound, but resolves not to lose sleep over it: in factthe aftermath of a storm, her solution lies in her hibernationshe can't 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.|isbn=1784707422
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|isbnauthor=0008551324Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterTower|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It''How unctuous are the fats of another's unusual for anyone from life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the Hardie family to approach identity of T, the policeprotagonist of this tale. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and heJust as T's prepared to tell story is being told, the police where story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the body daughter of a missing person is buried and wealthy family in the 19th century, who was responsible for her deathdied of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. This personAnnie's fate is, he promisesabove all, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wantsan enticing story to T. And what he wants It is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and to get an early parole date. Not much to askknowledge, 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 in service of myth, fable and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happeningfantasy. |isbn=1804271799
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|isbnauthor=1739526910Claire-Louise Bennett|title=Where I've Not Been Lost|author=Glen SibleyBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=''One year after a suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's lifeEverything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, he arrives is steeped in an unfamiliar Devon town to recoveranguish and distortion. Living with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday homeEven a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, he dreams becomes evidence of reconnecting with everything he has love lost. But as those tentative plans falterWhen the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me, he becomes swept up in '' it is less an invitation than a local world desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of unlikely friendshipsthis plea is Xavier, mobile discos and surprising romantic possibilitiesher ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.''|isbn=1804271934
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|author=Jo CallaghanAnnie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=Leave No TraceThe Other Girl
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|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=When a man ''We were born from the same body. I've never really wanted to think about this.'' Ernaux's work is found crucified on always very candid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the top of a hill most intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned direct address to the case alongside her sidekicksister, however, the AI detective Lockthis letter will never reach her. ItWhy? Because Annie Ernaux's their first live case togethersister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days latermonths before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, Kat is suddenly struggling and 2 years before the author was even born. The large and instant void created by the jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with a potential serial killer 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)|title=Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=Biographies 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 offers a very high profile case vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that draws a lot : ''you write not of real life as it is, but of unwanted attention what you yourself imagine it to their AI Future Policing projectbe. Will they be able Whom would it help to solve the case in timeknow how I see this tower, that sea, or will Kat find herself taken off the case andthat Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, potentiallygiving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, out Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of a career?it.|isbn=139851120X1804271977
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|isbn=1399613073B0FK5LHKD9|title=Moral InjuriesThe Colour of Memory|author=Christie WatsonChristopher Bowden|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's been three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, so we were very glad to see a new novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. Like all Bowden's stories, there's a mystery at the heart of ''The Colour of Money''. We like this running theme in an author's work - take a mystery but give it different flavour and atmosphere each time.}}{{Frontpage|author=Olga Tokarczuk|title=House 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.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1836284683|title=The Big Happy|author=David Chadwick
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|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for Well! This is a quarter of murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitiousbook, which is a bonus when you aim it's nothing like I expected it to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist , and it takes me on a trauma doctorwild ride. Anjali And that is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them theyjust what happened with ''The Big Happy're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We I don't know who suffered the tragedy or want to ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but I'll have to at least set the consequencesscene. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event Once that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involveddone, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.
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|isbnauthor=0241636604Sally Rooney|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary StevensonIntermezzo
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|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction |summary=If you were to bring up an image Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a city banker in your mindgrandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevensonas her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. A hoodie and jeans replaces Among the many relationships woven into this story, the pin-stripe suit and his background central one for readers to unravel is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and injusticePeter Koubek. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has Ivan, a facility socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentiallyolder brother Peter, a card game which got him an internship successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with Citibank. Eventuallycancer, this turned into permanent employment as a traderthe brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469
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|isbn=B0DB64PYV51036916375|title=The White RoseJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Dave BainesPeter McArdle
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|genre=Dystopian FictionAutobiography|summary=In 2033''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 superstorm known as sea-going family, with the White Rose devastates docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the Northern Hemispherewhat-might-have-been. And it It's not a storm that gathersbook to settle into and allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, wreaks havocto think of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, then dissipatesdespite the blitz that was a constant factor in McArdle's early years. Instead, it hovers across half I'd never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and could appear after the Earth with its octopusall-like tentacles, not giving up and never going awayclear was sounded.
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|authorisbn=Leanne Egan1836285493|title=Lover BirdsThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=When new girlWill is a keen player of video games, Isabela conscientious student, moves to Lou's hometown a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around herall, he is an aspiring writer. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each otherEnglish is his favourite lesson at his school, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with herMarlowe Park, and that's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isnone at which he excels. This hasn't it? Because Lou is straightgone unnoticed by his headteacher, isn't she? Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well so farMrs Howarth, and she's never had has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a good kiss with any couple of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and wanting to hang out with her because fighting with her is funafternoons a week at a different school, and she definitely just hates IsabelStation Road, doesn't she?|isbn=000862657Xwhere his ability might be better extended.
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|author=Max BoucheratJenny Valentine|title=The Last Life of Lori MillsUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop inElk and Mab are best friends, babysitter poorlyor more than that even, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesometheir friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has They meet as children one main intention, and that is to log day on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Loritrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's worldcontact details at the time. But first Lori then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her ownhappened though, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she terrible and her bestie tragic, and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screennow they must work through their grief, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – welltheir friendship, where is a girl to turn?together.|isbn=00086664821471196585
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|authorisbn=Jenny Lecoat1787333175|title=Beyond SummerlandYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=General FictionPopular Science|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the end workings of the occupationNHS, humour and autobiography. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening 'You Don't Have to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of himbe Mad... As '' promised the British finally free the Channel islands same elements but moved from the Nazis, physical problems to mental illness and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became work of hima psychiatrist. But will I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the truth come as laughter is directed at a situation rather than a relief, or will person and it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|isbnauthor=1529428289Mariana Enriquez|title=A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerSunny Place for Shady People|rating=45|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=Because of various property transactionsMariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell disused refrigerators due to Brunoan urban planning mishap, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies an overcrowded homeless shelter and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - is flowing at record levelsall within Argentina. It's not just the local autumn rains The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a devastating floodsimilarly tangible texture.|isbn=1803511230
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|isbn=152919640X1529934753|title=The SuspectProtest
|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The nationFor a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's favourite daytime TV presentermost famous living artist, Jessica Holbywas not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, was murdered live on television he arrived in the nick of time, complete with his two wives and it seems that there's only six children, one suspectof whom filmed what happened. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holbythere was a record of the protest. She's seriously allergic and carries Lexi Williams, an EpiPen in case intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in blue paint from under a busy, live television studio - chair and Brooks served a ragout proceeded to Holbyspray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. Her EpiPen was nowhere It seemed to be found and she part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was dead within minutesdifferent. It The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was soon clear that this was no accidentdead.
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|isbnauthor=0008385068Ariel Saramandi|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy FoleyPortrait of an Island on Fire
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|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=It's midsummer on In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the Dorset coast wounds left by colonialism and guests gather slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the country at The Manor. Itone stage as ''s their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. Itrotting's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat , a blunt yet apt metaphor for the wealthy and famous. Her husbandsystemic decay brought about by the malignant forces of racism, Owenpatriarchy, was the architect environmental degradation and work is still ongoing on parts governmental dysfunction. Each essay in this collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, charting the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst various diseases afflicting the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is foundisland state.|isbn=1804271616
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|author=Ashley HicksonPekka Harju-LovenceAutti|title=Wild EastLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=It's the eighteenth century, a time of discovery and Britain is expanding its foreign trade. Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to the Andaman Islands in his endeavour. Along with his son, Peter, and their cat, Michi, they set off on a perilous voyage to these faraway lands. The islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and the islanders' leader, Aarav, is keen to establish good relations.|isbn=B0DS1VGHH3}}{{Frontpage|author=Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Lili is Crying
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|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Written First published in verse1953 in French, this novel is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, their proper position on the page and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new townpositions them elsewhere, a new schooldisjointed, and keep himself out of troubletruncated. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part Like the lives of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetryher characters, and the power of creativity and crafting your wordsthey are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=02416454411804271675
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|author=Rob KeeleyTom Percival|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special editionThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45
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|summary=Around hereWill's life is difficult, wein a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 're big fans 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 childrenthings like food, and his dad can's author Rob Keeleyt work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. He Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a ball tiny amount of happy positivityhope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he understands childrenis drawing, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoymentthat feel like a light at the end of a long, not dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to lecture or hectora compelling premise. And this is one of them. |isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'Childish Spirits'' series is one apartments - when they discovered the bones of his greatest achievementsa 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's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a sequence result of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at herone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|author=Kieran Larwood Guadalupe Nettel and Joe Todd-StantonRosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero TrialThe Accidentals|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersShort Stories|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the people This collection was truly enchanting in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan all senses of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-oldword: spellbinding with its fantastical, magical mazes, elements and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad charming in its gentle portrayal of nature and the points they grant you along the wayhuman relationships. Unfortunately for KitGuadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and precisely, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is her stories structured by a wisdom that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken appears to want to teach us something about the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=18399451841804271470
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|isbn=00085170610008551375|title=Death in a Lonely PlaceWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Stig AbellNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life Leanne Wilson's body was found at Little Sky. There’s perhaps the bottom of a little uncertainty about Scottish mountain, seemingly the future result of his life with his vet girlfrienda tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, too, Livia and when she posted her daughter Diana, intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as moving in together would mean a lot she was just out of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life to move now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for herself what they were doing and her daughter? sensible people. For None of the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future 'what a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the back burnerloose.
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