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|isbn=10094730851035043092|title=The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)Ann Cleeves
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|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Sometimes itI can's simpler t have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to explain start a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened new life on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for youOrkney. If thatIt's what you're looking forbeen seven years since we heard from him, I don't think Anthony Seldonbut he's booknow living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}as well as Cassie, can be bettered for those tumultuous yearsthe daughter of his former partner. ItWillow's a compelling read also his boss, and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. she ''The Conservative Effectshould'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book found, in a series which looks at the impact aftermath of a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most importantstorm, she can't resist getting involved. This book follows He'd been battered about the wellhead with a Neolithic stone -established format: one of a series of experts pair - which had been stolen from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024a museum.
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|author=Mark LinganePolly Barton|title=ChimeraWhat Am I, A Deer?|rating=4.5|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Polly Barton''The survivor stumbles forward, her steps echoing in the oppressive silence. Her heart pounds like a jackhammer. She doesn’t know where she’s heading. All she remembers s debut novel is running. Terror chasing. Everything lost.'' ''Broken an intellectually playful yet emotionally exposed work that uses translation as both subject and fragmented recollections tumble around her headgoverning metaphor. Fear courses through her body. Her breaths come in shallowThe narrator, ragged gasps as desperation claws at her throat. Dehydration consumes hernewly relocated from London to Berlin, and a raging thirst feels unquenchable.'' ''There must be a way out. As she moves works translating video games into Japanese through the foreign areaprocess of localisation, memories begin rewriting language until it feels comfortably familiar to gela new audience. Disaster had ploughed through her life—not just hers, everyone’s.'' As our survivor struggles to orient herself, she's guided by Barton treats this as a robotparadoxical act: arguably, which looks human-madein striving for universality, but she can't be sure. It says it language is. It says she must try not to injure herself. Guided to an interview with an eerieendlessly repackaged, terrifying group its originality at risk of aliensdisappearing altogether. From this, she desperately tries to make sense of flashes of memory - environmental degradation, deals done and then betrayedthe novel opens out into a wider, horrifying rituals covering desperate attempts resonant question: to survive - and to attempt to explain how she came what extent do we translate ourselves in order to be hereunderstood, apparently the last human being alive.accepted, or loved?|isbn=B0DNVWMYP21804272175
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|authorisbn=Max BoucheratZabriskie1|title=The Last Life A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Lori MillsBelonging and Community, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop 'Across many African and Indigenous systems, differences inhow children learn, babysitter poorlysense , mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesomeor process the world were not treated as disorders to be corrected. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, They were understood as natural variations of human intelligence and that is to log on to Voxminerawareness, each holding value within the world-building, critter-collecting game that community.'' This lovely story is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling synthesis of that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her owntradition, and then she finds something even more spookywhich was carried down through generations by oral retellings. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter It shows signs that a community or society is not made up from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but by a range of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, people with different skills and her safe place in the game has been doctored – welldifferent personalities, where is all contributing to a girl whole that combines them all and to turn?|isbn=0008666482the benefit of them all.
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|authorisbn=Fyodor Dostoyevsky1787333175|title=White NightsYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
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|genre=Short StoriesPopular Science|summary=As always in DostoyevskyI 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 workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the character work is sublimeof a psychiatrist. One I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is never left wondering what directed at a situation rather than a character person and it is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions always delivered with empathy and temperaments with remarkable clarityunderstanding.|isbn=0241619785
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|isbnauthor=0008385068Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy FoleyDisappearing Act|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=ItDespite her anonymisation of place names and people, Stepanova's midsummer on message in this short work of autofiction is unmistakable. A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to the Dorset coast and guests gather town of F for a literary festival she is to be a guest speaker at The Manor. It's their opening weekend Detoured by erratic train schedules and splendid celebrations are promisednudged by forces beyond her control, her journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. It's all headed Swept up by Francesca Meadowsin this series of events, M eventually offers to step in for a circus performer who has unexpectedly left the show. The Manor was her ancestral home train functions as a motif of transience and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for impermanence, while the circus embodies the wealthy reshaping of identity and famous. Her husbanda retreat into fantasy, Owen, was an impulse that lies at the architect and work is still ongoing on parts very heart of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst 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 foundnovel form itself.|isbn=1804272329
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|authorisbn=James BaldwinB0GFQ81YQK|title=Giovanni's RoomHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie
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|genre=Literary Children's Non-Fiction |summary=''Giovanni's Room'' follows Before people came and joined the narrator Davidanimals, an American man living in Paristhere was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovannithe earth created bodies. And then, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay barthe sky breathed life into them. While David is engaged These were the first humans and they belonged to Hellaboth earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, who is travelling in Spainespecially how they came to be. When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the real tension in earth and their life returned to the novel arises not from his infidelity but from sky. And that is why the deeper conflict within himselfearth and the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. It And that is David's crippling shame why people must pay attention to, and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovannicare for, both.|isbn=0141186356
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|authorisbn=B0GHPMNF6P|title=Ashley HicksonThe Zookeeper's Dragon: A Magical Modern Fantasy Tale for Grown-LovenceUps|titleauthor=Wild EastCarolyn Mathews
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|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=Written in verse, this is RonnyWhen Phil's storyfather unexpectedly dies, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has he quits his Canary Wharf finance job to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronnytake over the running of the family's mum who is worried for Ronnyfarm zoo. He's safety after a tragic eventnot expecting much excitement, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle until he receives an unidentified egg that his new-age stoner uncle Edgar found in a new town, a new schoolcave in New Zealand, and keep himself out of troublesuddenly life is no longer quite what it seems. He listens to music constantlyThen the egg hatches into neither a reptile nor a bird, and has always dreamed of being but a rapper. But nowdragon! Now he, in this new schoolEdgar, his teacher encourages him mother Abi, and the zoo's part-time café waitress Pearl have to be part raise this little bundle of a poetry writing workshop group scales andjoy, slowly, Ronny begins despite having no idea how to see the connections between rap actually raise dragons and poetry, not being able to tell anyone about it. But this tiny little dragon may show them love and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441connection in ways they had never before imagined…
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|isbnauthor=1635866847Stephanie Zabriskie|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin VesciHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the book for youoral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania. Before I started reading '' The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://wwwMaasai are a cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be so.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] Cattle are status and therewealth in Maasai culture but this doesn's a picture t tell the whole story of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes intimate and symbiotic connection its people, and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the bookespecially its women, which I'm avoiding have with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book their cows and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in for the margins are sanctionednatural world. You get to fold down The oral tradition retelling the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book alreadymany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, does.|isbn=B0G9WTGY6J
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|author=Han KangLivi Michael|title=The VegetarianElizabeth and Ruth|rating=43.5|genre=General Historical Fiction|summary=This ''Elizabeth and Ruth'' is a work of historical fiction wrought from the life of the Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, best known for her first novelMary Barton (1848), winner a radical critique of the International Booker Prize treatment of the working class published under a pseudonym. The ''Ruth'' from Livi Michael's title appears in her novel as Pasley, a young Irish prostitute who was abandoned as a child and finds herself in Manchester's New Bailey Prison after a difficult and unjust hand at life. Set in 2016 Manchester between 1839 and penned 1842, the novel examines the harsh conditions endured by an author who received the Nobel Prize for Literature this year, is as close to unputdownable as it gets. It more than lives up Victorian working poor and interrogates the extent to which the acclaim. The story introduces uncanny characters with fragile, vividly tangible bodies yet unknowable, elusive soulswealthy (including Gaskell herself) were responsible for addressing these injustices.|isbn=18035100561784633682
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|author=Jenny ValentineMakenna Goodman|title=Us in the Before and AfterHelen of Nowhere|rating=4.5|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than It could be argued that even, their friendship the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a once hard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, a lifetime disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connectionbetween Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each otherAs the former owner of the countryside house he's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back togetherconsidering, Helen represents a volta in his life, and they are inseparableher past tied to his potential fresh start. Something has happened thoughThe realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, something terrible and tragicdescribes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, and beyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, togetherHelen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=14711965851804272205
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|isbn=1787333175B0GCB1MQ7D|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work HereWhy My Mother Went Away|author=Benji WaterhouseAlan Kennedy
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|genre=Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary=I was tempted have often wondered how prominent people came to read hold their positions. With 'celebrities'You Don, there't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kays frequently a book they might or might not have written, which might or might not tell the true story. It's first not often that you find a book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This that gives the full backstory, and rarely do you discover a memoir where the telling is Going to Hurt}}so perfect that you'll go back and reread paragraphs and sentences, a glorious mixture of insight into just for the workings of pleasure the NHS, humour and autobiographywords give. ''You DonWhy My Mother Went Away't Have to be Mad..' is one of those rare exceptions. It'' promised s the same elements but moved story of how a boy from physical problems to mental illness and the work Midlands, born at the beginning of the Second World War, would become a psychiatristProfessor of Psychology at Dundee University. I did wonder whether it In fact, he was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but one of the founders of the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understandingdepartment.
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|author=Mariana EnriquezJeremy Cooper|title=A Sunny Place for Shady PeopleDiscord|rating=3.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realitiesDiscord: her settings include an abandoned field full a lack of disused refrigerators due to an urban planning mishapagreement or harmony (as between persons, things, 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. ideas)|isbn=1803511230}}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to The principal example of discord within the worldnovel, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social mediaas with most instances of discord, where she posted every step is easily located. The two protagonists of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals the novel, Rebekah Rosen andEvie Bennet, basically, monetary gainare as different as they come. Now Anuri Rebekah is in her twenties an uptight, traditional and she is slowly trying no-nonsense composer close to regain her confidence and to get her life backretirement, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri while Evie is battling alcoholisma force of nature, failing to start her PhDbounding onto the musical scene as a precocious saxophonist, undergoing therapy oozing with talent and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing socharm. Most importantlyThe two, she is desperately worried about her little sisterpredictably, who is the new focus of Opheliadon's online empire. Can she save her sistert always see eye to eye, their approaches different and perhaps herself and her relationship Evie's progressive views at odds with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|author=David Chadwick|title=Headload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= ItRebekah's September 1973 in Hicksconservative leaning. However, California. Hicks is something connects them beyond just their musical project: a Mojave desert town sort 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 fragile alliance formed within the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until...clamour.|isbn= B0D321VJ761804272264
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|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 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 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 clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.
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|author=Edward W Said
|title=Representations of the Intellectual
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|summary=Edward Said's ''Representations of the Intellectual'' is less a strict theory of what intellectuals are and more a passionate argument for what they should be. Said clearly rejects the comfortable image of the intellectual as a detached expert speaking only to other specialists. Instead, he insists on the intellectual as a public figure, often awkward, abrasive, and unpopular, who speaks truth to power even when it is inconvenient or risky.
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|authorisbn=Joan Didion0008551375|title=The Year of Magical ThinkingWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=This book is Joan DidionLeanne Wilson's heartbreaking autobiographical account body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the grief result of a tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she endured following was living her husband's sudden deathbest life now. Books Then it emerged that shed light on taboo topics like death are such five other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. None of the 'what a beautiful and necessary resource stupid thing to help people feel less do' explanations applied. They were all alonewhen they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the loose.}}{{Frontpage|author=Paul B Preciado|title=Dysphoria Mundi|rating=4. Didion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like 5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood'' Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self-pity, denial and delusion brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. Rather, it is the proportional, valid response to ''the epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and makes them utterly normalconservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. The whole text is framed against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, lends them when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''. Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a human face sign of weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to wear''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.|isbn=00072168581804271454}}{{Frontpage|author=Samantha Harvey|title=Orbital|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''Orbital'', a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the lives of a group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Through a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to see our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933}}{{Frontpage|isbn=295967572X|title=Pale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.
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|isbnauthor=0241678412Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Proof of My Innocence|author=Jonathan CoeTower|rating=45|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Life after university hasn't worked out quite 'How unctuous are the way that Phyl anticipated. Shefats of another's back homelife, living with her parents and on a zero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at terminal 5 of Heathrow Airporthow dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. All those ideas In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity 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 daughterT, Rashidathe protagonist of this tale. Christopher Swann (described by some Just as a lefty blogger) T's story is investigating a think tank which originated at Cambridge University in being told, the 1980s. It plans to push the government in story of a more extreme direction and second protagonist is ready to act.}}{{Frontpage|title=Monstersunveiled: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?|author=Claire Dederer|rating=3|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Dederer sets out to unveil what she calls a ''biography of the audience'' in a deconstructed, thoroughly nitpickedAnnie, exploration of the old aphorism daughter of separating the art from the artist a wealthy family in the context 19th century, who died of contemporary ''cancel culture'tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. DedererAnnie's work fate is original and expressive. The reader gets the impression that the thoughts simply sprang and leapt from her brilliant mind and onto the page. In particular, the prologue packs a punch: she simultaneously condemns and exalts the director Roman Polanskiabove all, an artist she personally admires for his art, and yet despises for his actionsenticing story to T. This model of ''monstrous men'' as It is a story which she calls themconsumes avariciously, is consistent both in a quest for the first few chapters, interrogating the likes of Woody Allen, Michael Jackson truth and Pablo Picasso. Her critical voice is acutely present throughoutknowledge, never slipping into anonymity and maintaining her own subjectivity, as she holds it so dearlyin service of myth, fable and a personal, rather than collective voicefantasy. |isbn=13997150701804271799
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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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|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
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|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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|isbnauthor=1399613073Olga Tokarczuk|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie WatsonHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on ''What's the first day good of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitiousDay, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit House of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them theyNight''re at a drug and alcohol, somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities -fuelled party and it's going the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to end in tragedynight, however quotidian, causing chaos. We don't know who suffered But, the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event constant in that will impact image is the three friends. This timehouse, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it's their teenage children who are involvedis perceived.|isbn=1804271918
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|isbn=02416366041836284683|title=The Trading Game: A ConfessionBig Happy|author=Gary StevensonDavid Chadwick
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|genre=AutobiographyDystopian Fiction|summary=If you were to bring up an image of Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a city banker in your mindbook, youit're unlikely s nothing like I expected it to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East Endbe, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school it takes me on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envywild ride. He also realised And that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at is just what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship happened with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|author=Leanne Egan|title=Lover Birds|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When new girl, Isabel, moves to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, and thatThe Big Happy's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, isn. I don't she? Even though none want to ruin a similar experience for any of her relationships with boys you reading but I'll have gone very well so far, and sheto at least set the scene. Once that's never had a good kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabeldone, and wanting to hang out with her because fighting with her is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?|isbn=000862657XI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.
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