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|author=Tom PercivalPaul B Preciado|title=The Wrong ShoesDysphoria Mundi|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|summary=Will's life 'It is difficult, in a multitude never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of ways. He is bullied because he has childhood'the wrong shoes' Through this hybrid text, he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic consisting of things like foodarias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his dad can't work because he lost his job at own hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the collegenew generation, was working a cash-new feeling mechanism in-hand job on which detachment is not considered a building site and had an accidentsign of political apathy. Throw into that mix Rather, it is the proportional, valid response to ''the fact that his mum epistemological and dad political crack we are separatedliving through, and Willthe tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''s life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He The whole text is good at art, and clings to framed against the moments backdrop of joy the Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when he is drawingdysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, that feel like or as ''pangea covidica''. Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a light at the end sign of a longweakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, dark tunnelPreciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.|isbn=13985271221804271454
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|author=Sylvie CathrallSamantha Harvey|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 a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsOrbital
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the site was going to hold seventy-five Booker Prize for 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a 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. ItOrbital's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, a compact yet profound work that she is pregnant with his child as unfolds over a single day in the lives of a result group of astronauts aboard the one night they spent together some three months agoInternational Space Station. Her condition will be obvious before longThrough a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, not least because Ruth is prone Harvey invites readers to sudden bouts of sicknesssee our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933
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|authorisbn=Joan Didion295967572X|title=The Year of Magical ThinkingPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyLiterary Fiction|summary=This book Our unnamed narrator is Joan Didionabout to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they's heartbreaking autobiographical account re going and what the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the grief she endured following her husbandtickets ''s sudden death. Books that shed light on taboo topics like death are such a beautiful the floor somewhere'' and necessary resource has persuaded our narrator to help people feel less aloneaccompany him. Didion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like selfWhy not? Not much else is clear either -pity, denial but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and delusion and makes them utterly normal, lends them the train is a human face to wearsteam locomotive.|isbn=0007216858
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|author=Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Vaim|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of 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 the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=17395269101804271829}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035043092|title=Where The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Ican've Not Been Lostt 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'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 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= ''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 a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to T. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and fantasy. |isbn=1804271799}}{{Frontpage|author=Glen SibleyClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Big 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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|genre=Crime
|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, 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 it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|author=Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)
|title=The Other Girl
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''We were born from the same 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've read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, this letter will never reach her. Why? Because Annie Ernaux's sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, 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 this giant absence in her life, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.
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|author=Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)
|title=Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev
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|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 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: ''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 saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.
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|isbn=1399613073B0FK5LHKD9|title=Moral InjuriesThe Colour of Memory|author=Christie WatsonChristopher Bowden|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of It's been three years since we last reviewed a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitiousbook by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, which is a bonus when you aim so we were very glad to be see a cardiothoracic surgeonnew novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. Laura is Like all Bowden's stories, there's a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is mystery at the free spirit heart of ''The Colour of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them theyMoney're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We donlike this running theme in an author't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twentys work -five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This take a mystery but give it different flavour and atmosphere each time, it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=Sometimes it''What's simpler to explain the good of a book by describing what world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it ?''isn The title of this spellbinding work, 't'House of Day, House of Night' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010, somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities -2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read the small, subtle changes which will deliver govern our lives, like the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasionsshift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, then this isn't the book for you. If constant in that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's bookimage is the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{amazonurlFrontpage|isbn=B0BH7SKG2ShenleyA|title=Johnson at 10}}Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, can and he should be bettered for those tumultuous yearsdoing quite well financially. ItUnfortunately, his daughter's defence against a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to politicsretire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do','The Conservative Effect' He' is an s not been entirely different beastup front about the state of their savings. ItWhen Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it's the seventh book in a series which looks at thought of the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards money he could make that convinces him that this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: is a series of experts from various fields review the state miscarriage of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes justice that occurred and the situation in 2024he really should put right.
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|authorisbn=Max Boucherat1836284683|title=The Last Life of Lori MillsBig Happy|author=David Chadwick
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|genre=Confident ReadersDystopian Fiction|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening sheWell! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, it's got the house nothing like I expected it to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intentionbe, and that is to log it takes me on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's worldwild ride. But first Lori has a tiny inkling And that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Fyodor Dostoyevsky|title=White Nights|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=As always in Dostoyevsky, the character work is sublime. One is never left wondering just what a character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments happened with remarkable clarity.|isbn=0241619785}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at 'The Manor. ItBig Happy's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and sheI don's converted it into an impressive retreat t want to ruin a similar experience for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts any of you reading but I'll have to at least set the sitescene. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it wonOnce that't be long before a body is founds done, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.
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|author=James BaldwinSally Rooney|title=Giovanni's RoomIntermezzo
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|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=''Giovanni's Room'' follows Sally Rooney has studied the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in chessboard of life and is something of a gay bargrandmaster at putting it into words. While David Her dialogue is engaged to Hellagripping and so brilliantly frustrating, who is travelling in Spainas her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the real tension in central one for readers to unravel is the novel arises not from fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himselfolder brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. It is DavidFollowing their father's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his passing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship with Giovannifaces new trials.|isbn=01411863560571365469
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|isbn=B0DGDJRHYD1036916375|title=Nowhere ManJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Deborah StonePeter McArdle
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|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=In ''Just a quiet suburban house, Patrick Liverpool Lad '' is making his final plansa collection of memories and reflections from the years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. A meticulous man Some are factual, he makes sure such as the family history of every preparationa sea-going family, down to with the last detaildocks dominating lives. Some last reflections, and then he says goodbye to his wife, Other stories blend seamlessly into the world, and his lifewhat-might-have-been. It's horribly sad. At work in her shopa book to settle into and allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, his wife Diana is fending off yet another phone call about her ageing and ailing motherto think of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, who needs extricating from yet another accidentdespite the blitz that was a constant factor in McArdle's early years. It will be a while I'd never heard of parachute mines before Diana realises what Patrick has done- but they were almost soundless and could appear after the all-clear was sounded.
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|authorisbn=Virginie Despentes1836285493|title=King Kong TheoryThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=45|genre=Autobiography Confident Readers|summary=''King Kong Theory'' Will is a hard-hitting memoir and feminist manifestokeen player of video games, a conscientious student, which can be seen as a call to arms for women in slightly annoying brother and a phallocentric society broken at its coresupportive friend. Originally written in FrenchBut most of all, the book he is an aspiring writer. English is a collection of essays in his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which Virginie Despentes explores her experiences as a woman through the complex prism of her varied life: from rape to sex work and pornographyhe excels. Though these discussions are intertwinedThis hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, their placement within the book can feel somewhat disjointedMrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a reflection couple of their original form as independent essaysafternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.|isbn=191309734X
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|authorisbn=James Baldwin1009473085|title=Giovanni's RoomThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction Politics and Society|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it 'Giovanni's Roomisn't' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=0141186356}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hicksonapplies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 -Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=414 Wasted Years?''.5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in verse If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this is Ronnyisn's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white schoolt the book for you. The move is initiated by RonnyIf that's mum who is worried what you're looking for Ronny, I don't think Anthony Seldon's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new schoolbook, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441}}{{Frontpageamazonurl|isbn=1635866847B0BH7SKG2S|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary= It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book a compelling read and should be compulsory for youanyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. Before I started reading ''The Lavender CompanionConservative Effect'', I visited the author's [https://wwwis an entirely different beast.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there It's the seventh book in a picture of series which looks at the impact a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes government has made and desserts co- but I wanted that cake viscerallyeditor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. (There's a recipe in the This book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading follows the book and I was told to make well-established format: a mess series of experts from various fields review the state of it. Notes the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down changes that occurred and the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book alreadysituation in 2024.
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|author=Onyi NwabineliMariana Enriquez|title=Allow Me A Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to Introduce Myselfan urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and a crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture. |isbn=1803511230}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529934753|title=The Protest|author=Rob Rinder
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the worldcountry's most famous living artist, thanks was not going to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social mediashow up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, where she posted every step he arrived in the nick of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals time, complete with his two wives andsix children, basically, monetary gainone of whom filmed what happened. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying Being an influencer, you tend to regain her confidence and to get her life backdo things like that, suing her step-mother to take down but it was fortunate that there was a record of the content about herprotest. Anuri is battling alcoholismLexi Williams, failing an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to start her PhDspray Bruce in the face, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing sowhilst shouting ''Stop the War''. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of Ophelia's online empireblue-face' attacks, but this was different. Can she save her sisterThe can had been laced with cyanide, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873Sir Max Bruce was dead.
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|author=David ChadwickAriel Saramandi|title=Headload Portrait of Napalman Island on Fire
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|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary= ItIn this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the country at one stage as ''rotting''s September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the malignant forces of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and Las Vegas both a significant drive awaygovernmental dysfunction. Not much happens Each essay in Hicks. A silver mine and this collection serves as a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much kind of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quietdiagnostic, until...charting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|isbn= B0D321VJ761804271616
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|author=Alba de Cespedes Pekka Harju-Autti|title=Forbidden NotebookLoveVortex 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.
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|author=Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)
|title=Lili is Crying
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This Italian work First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the hearts of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and tension sentences from their proper position on the moment our protagonistpage and positions them elsewhere, Valeria Cossatidisjointed, purchases truncated. Like the lives of her forbidden notebookcharacters, they are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and learns about herself 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. Throw into that mix the most intimate fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and revealing waysclings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=17822782221398527122
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|author=Ottessa MoshfeghSylvie Cathrall|title=My Year of Rest and RelaxationA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=35|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=At best, There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this novel is a scathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the cynical, predictable and slightly trite tale one of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, a slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the world, but resolves not to lose sleep over it: in fact, her solution lies in her hibernationthem.|isbn=17847074220356522776
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|authorisbn=Jo Callaghan1786482126|title=Leave No TraceThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When a man is found crucified on Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the top bones of a hill in Nuneatonchild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, DCS Kat Frank Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lockworking with DCI Harry Nelson. It's their first live case togetherdifficult as Ruth knows, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days laterbut Nelson doesn't, Kat that she is suddenly struggling pregnant with his child as a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot result of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing projectthe one night they spent together some three months ago. Will they Her condition will be able obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out sudden bouts of a career?|isbn=139851120Xsickness.
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|isbnauthor=B0DB64PYV5Guadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The White Rose|author=Dave BainesAccidentals|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian FictionShort Stories|summary=In 2033This collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the word: spellbinding with its fantastical, a superstorm known as the White Rose devastates the Northern Hemispheremagical elements and charming in its gentle portrayal of nature and human relationships. And it's not Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and precisely, her stories structured by a storm wisdom that gathers, wreaks havoc, then dissipates. Instead, it hovers across half appears to want to teach us something about the Earth with its octopus-like tentacles, not giving up and never going awayworld.|isbn=1804271470
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|authorisbn=Jenny Lecoat0008551375|title=Beyond SummerlandWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating Leanne Wilson's body was found at the end bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the occupationresult of a tragic accident. During the warShe'd looked so happy, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one nighttoo, leaving Jean and when she posted her mother waiting for years for news of himintentions on Facebook. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the NazisHer friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, and but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the war is finally overlast year. All were experienced climbers, their hopes rise that properly equipped for what they will finally learn what became of himwere doing and sensible people. But will None of the truth come as 'what a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? stupid thing to do' explanations applied. Who was They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537loose.
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