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|isbnauthor=1399613073Paul B Preciado|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie WatsonDysphoria Mundi
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|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=Olivia''It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood'' Through this hybrid text, Laura and Anjali met on the first day consisting of medical school arias, letters, essays and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitiousautofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, which is and brings forth a bonus when you aim new sensorium as an offering to be the new generation, a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a perfectionist and a trauma doctorsign of political apathy. Anjali Rather, it is the free spirit of proportional, valid response to ''the group epistemological and she becomes a GP. When political crack we first meet them they're at a drug are living through, and alcohol-fuelled party the tension between emancipatory forces and itconservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''s going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered The whole text is framed against the tragedy or backdrop of the consequences. TwentyCovid-five years later there will be an eerily similar event 19 pandemic as that will impact the three friendswhich has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''. This timeRather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of weakness, itor mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''s their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1804271454
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|isbnauthor=0241636604Samantha Harvey|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary StevensonOrbital
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|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=If you were to bring up an image 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 city banker narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to see our planet in your mind, youa 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 unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie going and jeans replaces what the pin-stripe suit and his background purpose of this journey is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injusticeis uncertain. There was no posh public school Django found the tickets ''on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - floor somewhere'' and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people persuaded our narrator to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got accompany him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment 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 tradersteam locomotive.
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|authorisbn=Leanne Egan0008551324|title=Lover BirdsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When new girl, Isabel, moves to LouIt's hometown of Liverpool unusual for anyone from London Lou immediately feels Isabelthe Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's disdain prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for everything around herdeath. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each otherThis person, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with herhe promises, is someone big and that's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so crossit will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, isn't is it? Because Lou is straight, isnThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't she? Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well think so far, and she's never had a good kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and wanting to hang out with her because fighting anyone who works with her him is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesnkept well away from what't she?|isbn=000862657Xs happening.
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|author=Jacqueline RoseJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Women in Dark TimesVaim
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|genre=BiographyLiterary 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=1804271829}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035043092|title=The world Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It'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 unconscious body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is not 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 antagonist fats of political another's life, but its steadfast companion, the hidden place or backdrop where any true revolution must begin…how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''.
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|author=Sally RooneyClaire-Louise Bennett|title=IntermezzoBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
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|genre=General Literary Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of life intimacy and is something closeness, becomes evidence of a grandmaster at putting it into wordslove lost. Her dialogue is gripping When the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and so brilliantly frustratingkiss me, as '' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her characters never quite say exactly what they feelemotional numbness. Among the many relationships woven into The imagined recipient of this story, the central one for readers to unravel plea is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. IvanXavier, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peterher ex-partner, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trialsghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=05713654691804271934
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|isbn=10094730850008405026|title=The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)Jane Casey
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|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Sometimes itIt's simpler sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to explain a book by describing what halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there''isn't'' 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 applies to the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|author=Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?Other Girl|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=''We were born from the same body. If youI're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story ve never really wanted to think about what this.''really 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' happened on certain occasionsve read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, then this isn't the book for youletter will never reach her. If thatWhy? Because Annie Ernaux's what you're looking forsister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, I don't think Anthony Seldonand 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 bookprocess of reckoning with this giant absence in her life, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845}}{{amazonurlFrontpage|isbnauthor=B0BH7SKG2SMaxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Johnson at 10}}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 bettered for those tumultuous yearsseen as more objective and less personal. It's I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to politics. ''The Conservative Effecthis friend Gorky that: '' you write not of real life as it is an entirely different beast, but of what you yourself imagine it to be. ItWhom 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?''s the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010subjective account, giving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, the changes that occurred Chekhov and the situation Andreyev in 2024such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=1804271977
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|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1529077745|title=ChimeraThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves
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|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=''The survivor stumbles forward, her steps echoing A man walking his dog in the oppressive silence. Her heart pounds like early morning discovered the body of a jackhammer. She doesn’t know where she’s heading. All she remembers is running. Terror chasing. Everything lost.'' ''Broken and fragmented recollections tumble around her head. Fear courses through her body. Her breaths come man in shallowthe park near Rosebank, ragged gasps as desperation claws at her throat. Dehydration consumes her, and a raging thirst feels unquenchablecare home for troubled teens.'' ''There must be The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a way out. As she moves through shift the foreign area, memories begin to gel. Disaster night before but who had ploughed through her life—not just hers, everyone’snever turned up.'' As our survivor struggles D I Vera Stanhope is called in to orient herselfinvestigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, she's guided by a robot, which looks humanfourteen-year-made, old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but she canVera thinks this is unlikely as the girl't be sure. It says s diary makes it is. It says clear that she must try not to injure herselfadored Josh. Guided to an interview with an eerie, terrifying group of aliens, She knows that she desperately tries to make sense of flashes of memory - environmental degradation, deals done and then betrayed, horrifying rituals covering desperate attempts has to survive - and find Chloe to attempt discover what happened to explain how she came to be here, apparently the last human being aliveJosh.|isbn=B0DNVWMYP2
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|isbn=1784745758B0FK5LHKD9|title=Three Days in JuneThe Colour of Memory|author=Anne TylerChristopher Bowden
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|summary=The day before your daughterIt's wedding will always be busy but Gail Baines got far more than she asked for. Firstbeen three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, it was her job as assistant head so we were very glad to see a new novel arrive here at the local schoolBookbag Towers. There was Like all Bowden's stories, there's a moment when she hoped that she would be promoted to head but mystery at the discussion moved into the subject heart of ''The Colour of Money'people skills' and before she knew what was happening Gail had been sacked or resigned, depending on who was explaining the situation. When she got home (We like this running theme in the middle of the day: who would have thought that could happen?) her exan author's work -husband was there with take a cat. He thinks that he'll be staying mystery but give it different flavour and that Gail will be adopting the cat. And that's before Gail discovers that the groom hasn't been entirely honest about his personal lifeatmosphere each time.
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|author=Eowyn IveyOlga Tokarczuk|title=Black Woods Blue SkyHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=3.5
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|summary=''Black Woods Blue SkyWhat's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?' tells the story ' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of BirdieDay, the young mother House of toddler EmaleenNight'', who longs for a life beyond somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the Alaskan lodge where she works as a bar waitresssmall, a setting subtle changes which enables her bad habits and her accidental neglect of Emaleen. Described as a ''wild card''govern our lives, she feels stuck in her like the shift from day-to-day lifenight, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, and yearns to cross the Wolverine river and live on constant in that image is the house, stoic against the North Fork to fulfil her desires of 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 simple life surrounded by naturePrivate Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. When she meets Arthur Nielson Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a strangemurder charge drained his savings. His wife, taciturn and solitary manLaura, who says he has a cabin over there, she feels called been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go - and bring Emaleen with heron cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. Without realising When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it, this calling will transform hers and Emaleen's lives foreverthe thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.|isbn=1472279042
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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 oldbe, and it takes me on her lonesomea wild ride. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and And that is just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. I don't want to log on ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but I'll have to Voxminer, at least set the world-building, critter-collecting game scene. Once that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her owndone, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else I think you should be able to enter shows signs of tamperingsimply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself. 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
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|isbnauthor=0008385068Sally Rooney|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy FoleyIntermezzo
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction |summary=It's midsummer on Sally Rooney has studied the Dorset coast chessboard of life and guests gather is something of a grandmaster at The Manorputting it into words. It's their opening weekend Her dialogue is gripping and splendid celebrations are promisedso brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it Among the many relationships woven into an impressive retreat this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the wealthy fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and famousPeter Koubek. Her husbandIvan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, Owencontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the sitea successful lawyer living in Dublin. The heat is oppressive and amongst Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it wonbrothers't be long before a body is foundalready strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469
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|authorisbn=James Baldwin1036916375|title=Giovanni's RoomJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Peter McArdle|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction Autobiography|summary=''GiovanniJust a Liverpool Lad 's Room'' follows is a collection of memories and reflections from the narrator David, an American man living years Peter McArdle spent growing up in Parisand around Liverpool. Some are factual, such as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in the family history of a gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spainsea-going family, with the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the deeper conflict within himselfwhat-might-have-been. It is David's crippling shame a book to settle into and denial allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, to think of his sexuality simpler times when life seemed less constrained, despite the blitz that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanniwas 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=0141186356
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|authorisbn=Ashley Hickson-Lovence1836285493|title=Wild EastThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Written in verseWill is a keen player of video games, this is Ronny's storya conscientious student, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich slightly annoying brother and start at a mostly white schoolsupportive friend. The move But most of all, he is initiated by Ronny's mum who an aspiring writer. English is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic eventhis favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new townone at which he excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, a new schoolMrs Howarth, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens she has suggested to music constantly, Will and has always dreamed his mum that he spends a couple of being afternoons a rapper. But nowweek at a different school, in this new schoolStation Road, where his teacher encourages him to ability might 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 wordsbetter extended.|isbn=0241645441
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|isbn=16358668471009473085|title=The Lavender CompanionConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Jessica Dunham Anthony Seldon and Terry Barlin VesciTom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=ItSometimes it's strange, the things that make you simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn'immediatelyt'' feel and that this is the book for you. Before I started reading applies to ''The Lavender CompanionConservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?'', I visited . If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the authorinside story about what 's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I donreally't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the bookhappened on certain occasions, which Ithen this isn'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading t the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pagesfor you. You suspect If that smears of butter would not be a problem. I 's what you'lovedre looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon' this s book already.}}, {{Frontpageamazonurl|authorisbn=Jacqueline FeldmanB0BH7SKG2S|title=Precarious Lease|rating=3Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years.5|genre=Biography|summary=The title of this novel refers It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to a French legal term (politics. ''bail précaireThe Conservative Effect'') associated with squatters in France, affording them temporary suspension from eviction charges and processes, but few scant property rightsis an entirely different beast. Among mentions of other squats dotted around Paris like Le Carrosse and La Miroiterie, Feldman takes particular interest It's the seventh book in one squat of massive proportions a series which adopted an almost mythical status for its inhabitants, admirers looks at the impact a government has made and detractors alikeco-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: Le Bloc. Something like a haven for artists and marginal members series of society (as one character, Le Général, repeats throughout, ''I live on experts from various fields review the margins state of the margins of nation when the margins'')coalition took over in 2010, Le Bloc was subject to the continual threat of eviction changes that occurred and the pressures from above which oppressed its inhabitants' lives. We follow Le Bloc from its opening situation in 2012 until its eventual dissolution, framed as a tragedy in this book2024. |isbn=1804271403
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|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.
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|isbn=1529934753|title=The Protest|author=Onyi NwabineliRob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=For a little while, it looked 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. Still, he arrived in the nick of time, complete with his two wives and six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of the protest. Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ariel Saramandi|title=Allow Me to Introduce MyselfPortrait of an Island on Fire
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|genre=General FictionPolitics and Society|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the worldsociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, thanks tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and slavery to her step-mother Opheliaexpose how these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the country at one stage as ''rotting''s increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step a blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the malignant forces of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals andracism, basicallypatriarchy, monetary gainenvironmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Now Anuri is Each essay in her twenties this collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, charting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|isbn=1804271616}}{{Frontpage|author=Pekka Harju-Autti|title=LoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=It's the eighteenth century, a time of discovery and she Britain is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life backexpanding its foreign trade. Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, suing her step-mother is sent to take down the content about herAndaman Islands in his endeavour. Anuri is battling alcoholismAlong with his son, failing to start her PhDPeter, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantlytheir cat, she is desperately worried about her little sisterMichi, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empirethey set off on a perilous voyage to these faraway lands. Can she save her sister, The islands are beautiful and perhaps herself stunning in their scenery and her relationship with her father at the same time?islanders' leader, Aarav, is keen to establish good relations.|isbn=0861546873B0DS1VGHH3
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|author=David ChadwickHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Headload of NapalmLili is Crying
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|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= It's September 1973 First published in Hicks1953 in French, California. Hicks this novel is a Mojave desert town timeless text which wrenches the hearts of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the page and Las Vegas both a significant drive awaypositions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are Like the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much lives of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiether characters, until...they are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn= B0D321VJ761804271675
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|author=Joan DidionGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Year of Magical ThinkingAccidentals
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|genre=AutobiographyShort Stories|summary=This book is Joan Didion's heartbreaking autobiographical account collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the grief she endured following her husband's sudden death. Books 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 self-pityword: spellbinding with its fantastical, denial magical elements and delusion charming in its gentle portrayal of nature and makes them utterly normal, lends them a human face to wearrelationships.|isbn=0007216858}}{{Frontpage|author=Samantha Harvey|title=Orbital|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''Orbital''Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and precisely, her stories structured by a compact yet profound work wisdom 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 appears to want to teach us something about the astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to see our planet in a wholly new lightworld.|isbn=15299229331804271470
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|isbn=00085513240008551375|title=The Devil You Know When Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)
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|summary=ItLeanne Wilson's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve found at the remainder bottom of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to aska Scottish mountain, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do seemingly the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241678412|title=The Proof result of My Innocence|author=Jonathan Coe|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Life after university hasn't worked out quite the way that Phyl anticipateda tragic accident. She's back homed looked so happy, too, living with when she posted her parents and intentions on a zero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at terminal 5 of Heathrow AirportFacebook. All those ideas Her friends were relieved as she was just out of becoming a writer seem to have come to nothing. The situation improves when 'Uncle' Chris comes to stay and introduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, Rashida. Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is investigating a think tank which originated at Cambridge University in the 1980s. It plans to push the government in a more extreme direction and is ready to act.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1739526910|title=Where I've Not Been Lost|author=Glen Sibley|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''One year after a suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's life, he arrives in an unfamiliar Devon town to recover. Living with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home, he dreams of reconnecting with everything he has lost. But as those tentative plans falter, he becomes swept up in a local world of unlikely friendships, mobile discos and surprising romantic possibilities.''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|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. Initiallyunpleasant relationship, but it looks looked like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and she was living her boss DI Josh Derwent suspiciousbest life now. What looked as though Then it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced emerged that the explanation lies five other women had died in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077745|title=The Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=A man walking his dog similar circumstances in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebanklast year. All were experienced climbers, a care home properly equipped for troubled teenswhat they were doing and sensible people. The dead man was Josh - one None of the care workers who was due to work 'what a shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in stupid thing to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencerdo' explanations applied. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is unlikely as the girlcertain there's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josha killer on the loose.
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