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|isbn=17765743381806344777|title=LeilongArthur and the Land of Nimbostratus: Arthur's Too Long!Able Adventures|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnRob Keeley|rating=4.5
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|summary=Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goesArthur dreams of adventures. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb He looks out of the his window each day and slide down his neck. It's perfectthinks of all the escapades he could have, isn't it? What the places he could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in go and the city: things hecould see. His favourite day is Saturday because that's always having to be careful about where he puts the day his feet friend Maxine - she of the booming laugh and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending silver bangles - comes to and traffic regularly gets snarled upvisit. The school decides that he can't be Maxine is a great believer in the bus anymorepower of imagination.
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|isbn=303091657X1035043092|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonAnn Cleeves
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|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Boards must act in I can't have been the best interests of 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 stakeholders and ensure that they are young son, James, as well-managed and financially secureas Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. This might seem obvious Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a series of disasters - some of which have resulted popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in death or the collapse aftermath of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingstorm, she can't resist getting involved. Where were they? Occasionally He'd been battered about the boards were unaware head with a Neolithic stone - one of what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering pair - which was worse - ignorance or criminality. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us had been stolen from a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very littlemuseum.
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|isbnauthor=1529337968Polly Barton|title=In Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPhersonWhat Am I, A Deer?|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=ItPolly Barton's July 1948 and Helen Crowther debut novel is due to start an intellectually playful yet emotionally exposed work that uses translation as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS is born. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar both subject and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healthgoverning metaphor. The hardest part of the job will be narrator, newly relocated from London to persuade people that Berlin, works translating video games into Japanese through the services she offers really are free and that they don't have process of localisation, rewriting language until it feels comfortably familiar to do anything to qualify a new audience. Barton treats this as a paradoxical act: arguably, in striving for themuniversality, language is endlessly repackaged, its originality at risk of disappearing altogether. Some of From this, the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has novel opens out into a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.wider, resonant question: to what extent do we translate ourselves in order to be understood, accepted, or loved?|isbn=1804272175
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|authorisbn=Mark LinganeZabriskie1|title=GalaxyA Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=45|genre=Science Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Spark''Across many African and Indigenous systems, differences in how children learn, sense , who is an elite pilot with or process the Space Academyworld were not treated as disorders to be corrected. They were understood as natural variations of human intelligence and awareness, barely makes it through a battle aliveeach holding value within the community. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from '' This lovely story is a coma synthesis of that lasted yearstradition, he remembers little and is in no physical shape to resume his dutieswhich was carried down through generations by oral retellings. But Earth It shows that a community or society is under threat not made up from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but by a range of people with different skills and he must. Returned by his superiors different personalities, all contributing to the space station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt whole that combines them all and to save humanity - and not just from the alien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itselfbenefit of them all. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W
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|authorisbn=Lissa Evans1787333175|title=WishedYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=When things contrive I was tempted to force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old woman, Miss Filey, for a week of half-term, theyWork Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay're not looking forward s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to it. For one thingHurt}}, she thinks Wi-Fi is a special brand glorious mixture of biscuitinsight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. They don''You Don't particularly take Have to Willard either, be Mad...'' promised the new kid next door, who seems same elements but moved from physical problems to ebulliently take over everything mental illness and everywherethe work of a psychiatrist. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candles, and manage I did wonder whether it was acceptable to work out that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come true. How will things change for a second time when they realise that, having used up three of them, these should really be used looking for humour in this setting but the wishes of someone two generations older laughter is directed at a situation rather than them?|isbn=178845202Xa person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|author=Justyn EdwardsMaria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=The Great Fox IllusionDisappearing Act
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|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is a contest with a difference. No singing, no dancingDespite her anonymisation of place names and people, Stepanova's message in this show short work of autofiction is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks work, and who can attempt unmistakable. A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to win The Great Fox's magical legacy - the secrets to all town of his tricks! Flick F for a literary festival she is determined to winbe a guest speaker at. Detoured by erratic train schedules and nudged by forces beyond her control, her journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. Swept up in this series of events, but not because she wants M eventually offers to own step in for a circus performer who has unexpectedly left the tricksshow. She is interested in just ''one'' trickThe train functions as a motif of transience and impermanence, while the circus embodies the trick reshaping of identity and a retreat into fantasy, an impulse that The Great Fox stole from her father. And she's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able to bring her missing father homelies at the very heart of the novel form itself.|isbn=15295019461804272329
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|authorisbn=Jason RohanB0GFQ81YQK|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.How the Sky and the Earth Made People: Access DeniedFrom the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Arun Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and Sam have had little the sky began to do with Donnatal to each other. First, a girl at their schoolthe earth created bodies. But things immediately change at And then, the start of this extended sprint of a novel, when she insists Arun's house has become sky breathed life into them. These were the attention of plain-clothes coppers first humans and that they should bunk off school belonged to find out whyboth earth and sky. And thus an unlikely trio of misfit young heroes is formed – Sam is really not Donna's idea of company, but he is the computer buff, Donna seems to know all the criminal ins so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and outs learned and survival skillsremembered, especially how they came to be. When they grew old and Arun? Welldied, it's his lot their bodies returned to find out that all he based his family the earth and their life on isn't true, and that his father – kidnapped returned to the sky. And that very morning – is involved in something quite unexpectedwhy the earth and the sky are both revered. But how Only together can this disparate trio hope they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to best MI6, kidnappers, people able to keep the truth about themselves secret and care for decades, and so much more?|isbn=1839943386both.
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|isbn=1638485216B0GHPMNF6P|title=Black, White, and Gray All OverThe Zookeeper's Dragon: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law EnforcementMagical Modern Fantasy Tale for Grown-Ups|author=Frederick ReynoldsCarolyn Mathews|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyFantasy|summary=When Phil''Corruption is not departments father unexpectedly dies, gender or race specific. It has everything he quits his Canary Wharf finance job to do with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''. The murder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police officer, in take over the US city running of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floydfamily's death was an exceptionfarm zoo. The image of Chauvin kneeling on GeorgeHe's neck is not one which I'll ever forget expecting much excitement, until he receives an unidentified egg that his new-age stoner uncle Edgar found in a cave in New Zealand, and suddenly life is no longer quite what it seems. Then the protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There was egg hatches into neither a reptile nor a bird, but a backlash against dragon! Now he, Edgar, his mother Abi, and the police zoo's part- time café waitress Pearl have to raise this little bundle of scales and joy, despite having no idea how to actually raise dragons and not just being able to tell anyone about it. But this tiny little dragon may show them love and connection in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed ways they were ''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brush.had never before imagined…
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|isbnauthor=B09DD1QJKJStephanie Zabriskie|title=The Club|author=Ellery LloydHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''The party of How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the year turned into the murder mystery oral traditions of the decadeMaasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania.''
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|author=Melissa Fu Livi Michael|title=Peach Blossom Spring Elizabeth and Ruth
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|genre=Historical Fiction |summary= I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''OriginsElizabeth and Ruth''. Unfortunately it is a work of historical fiction wrought from the life of the Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, best known for her first novel Mary Barton (1848), a radical critique of the only truly poetic part treatment of the working class published under a book that I expected more frompseudonym. Covering Chinese history The ''Ruth'' from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one familyLivi Michael's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the war with Japantitle appears in her novel as Pasley, a young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those Irish prostitute who flee. The story follows them on their journey across China, was abandoned as a child and finds herself in RenshuManchester's case eventually New Bailey Prison after a difficult and unjust hand at life. Set in Manchester between 1839 and 1842, the novel examines the harsh conditions endured by the Victorian working poor and interrogates the extent to Americawhich the wealthy (including Gaskell herself) were responsible for addressing these injustices. |isbn=14722775381784633682
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|author=Vanda SymonMakenna Goodman|title=FacelessHelen of Nowhere|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=In It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book told from multiple viewpoints, several troubled people are thrown into the same story thanks is malaise - a hard-to just one mis-stepplace feeling that something in your life is not quite right. Set in New ZealandThe protagonist, a disgraced professor on the first brink of our characters is Bradleylosing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, a middle aged man struggling Goodman counteracts his discomfort with an overbearing boss, a weighty mortgageforce which is seductive, radical and what he feels unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the protagonist is an unappreciative wifeindirect yet intimate. Then there’s BillyAs the former owner of the countryside house he's considering, Helen represents a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes volta in order his life, her past tied to pay for the materials she needshis potential fresh start. And then we have Max, The realtor who is also living on shows the protagonist around the streets house shares stories about Helen, and who keeps describes her as ''an eye on Billy. He entity that is a shell of a manpure consciousness, barely able to take any care of himself, and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he is beyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now. One night, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress and anxiety, driving down Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the street looking for a prostitute. He picks up Billy, and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and a spiral away from reader gets the person he thought he was into someone very differentsense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=19145850461804272205
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|isbn=0760373531B0GCB1MQ7D|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the WorldWhy My Mother Went Away|author=Sue FlandersAlan Kennedy
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|genre=CraftsAutobiography|summary=Just occasionally you encounter a book of knitting patterns which seems I have often wondered how prominent people came to meet your every needhold their positions. Right nowWith 'celebrities', itthere's bitterly cold and wefrequently a book they might or might not have written, which might or might not tell the true story. It're in s not often that you find a book that gives the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socksfull backstory, scarves, hats and mittens. They have to look stylish, keep me warm and be rarely do you discover a memoir where the telling is so cheerful perfect that they make me feel betteryou'll go back and reread paragraphs and sentences, just for the pleasure the words give. If that sounds like a lot to ask, have a look at ''Cozy KnitsWhy My Mother Went Away'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and I don't think that there was is one of them which I couldn't see myself wearingthose rare exceptions. We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some It's the story of how a boy from the Midlands, born at the beginning of the history Second World War, would become a Professor of knittingPsychology at Dundee University. It's not essential but it's a nice extraIn fact, he was one of the founders of the department.
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|isbnauthor=1776574028Jeremy Cooper|title=Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David ElliottDiscord|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=I love Discord: a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books lack of agreement or harmony (eras between persons, see my first sentencethings, or ideas) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' The principal example of discord within the novel, as with words most instances of discord, is easily located. The two protagonists of the novel, Rebekah Rosen and make something quite Evie Bennet, are as different from each oneas they come. We have the elephant who dons a tutu Rebekah is an uptight, traditional and no- and becomes nonsense composer close to retirement, while Evie is a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had force of nature, bounding onto the musical scene as a bath (complete precocious saxophonist, oozing with yellow duck) talent and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''charm. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a two, predictably, don't always see eye to eye, their approaches different and Evie'crynoceross progressive views at odds with Rebekah'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into s conservative leaning. However, something connects them beyond just their musical project: a ''smsort of fragile alliance formed within the clamour.......'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!|isbn=1804272264
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|isbnauthor=B09V1NQ5SXTom Percival|title=Death at Friar's Inn|author=Rob KeeleyThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were Will's life is difficult, in the finals a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society of Friarwrong shoes's Inn. For aspiring barristers, moots test he has the participantswrong shoes because his dad can' knowledge t work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: itthings like food, and his dad can's t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a great way of getting invaluable practice building site and of getting yourself noticedhad an accident. Tom Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and Nat dad are from 'a provincial university' separated, and theyWill're ''almost'' looked down on because of thiss life seems bleak in every direction. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca And yet, he still has an abundance a tiny amount of confidencehope. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel any betterlike a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=1529125944Edward W Said|title=City Representations of the Dead|author=Jonathan KellermanIntellectual |rating=4.5|genre=CrimePolitics and Society|summary=When you drive large vehicles for a living, youEdward Said's 're careful and it's not just about Representations of the way that you drive. You restrict your alcohol intake and if itIntellectual's a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleep. When you're taking is less a removals truck through strict theory of what intellectuals are and more a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 passionate argument for what they should be. Said clearly rejects the comfortable image of the intellectual as adetached expert speaking only to other specialists.m. when Instead, he insists on the roads are quieterintellectual as a public figure, often awkward, abrasive, and unpopular, who speaks truth to power even if you have to wait up when you get to where you're going. And it was going well until the men hit something in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeles. The man was stark naked and couldn't be identifiedis inconvenient or risky.|isbn=1804272248
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|author=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)Sylvie Cathrall|title=I May Be WrongA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre= AutobiographyScience Fiction|summary= When the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think it doesn't really matter how the rest of the world responds There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to your booka compelling premise. I know, having read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. He knows (and at core so do I) that it matters very much how the rest of the world responds to And this book, because it tells the truth as it is, in the early 21st centuryone of them.|isbn=15266448270356522776
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC11786482126|title=The Patient Janus Stone (A DS Cross thrillerDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Tim SullivanElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
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|summary=DS George Cross has Builders were demolishing an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Aspergerold house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's Syndromeapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. He can be rudeWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, difficult and awkward Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with people, although it's never intentionalDCI Harry Nelson. It's just that he thinks differently and social niceties simply dondifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't occur to him. There's , that she is pregnant with his child as a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and it's that he has result of the best conviction rate with cases, everone night they spent together some three months ago. His partner Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached prone to himself) and even attempts to instil some sudden bouts of those missing social niceties into Cross's behavioursickness.
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|isbn=15291516000008551375|title=Give Unto OthersWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Donna LeonNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changed. The Leanne Wilson''pandemia'' stripped s body was found at the city bottom of its tourists for nearly two years and a lot Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of businesses have closeda tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, most never to reopentoo, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. There's now a cascade Her friends were relieved as she was just out of money as an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end to greednow. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the money which is coming their way? last year. Whilst he's thinking about thisAll were experienced climbers, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since properly equipped for what they were neighbours when he was a childdoing and sensible people. Elisabetta Foscarini has None of the 'what a problem and shestupid thing to do'd like Brunettiexplanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's advicea killer on the loose.
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|author=Marcus SedgwickPaul B Preciado|title=WrathDysphoria Mundi
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|genre=TeensPolitics and Society|summary=Meet Fitz''It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood'' Through this hybrid text, a young Scottish lad full consisting of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just overarias, and he should be free to do what he wantsletters, to go where he wants essays and with whom he wantsautofiction, but he cannot stop himself from putting Preciado expresses his foot in it when he talks own hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to his best friendthe new generation, Cassiea new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. They were half of a desultory school bandRather, it is the proportional, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent valid response to ''the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the earthtension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying The whole text is framed against the end backdrop of the world is already Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music sheglobal scale, or as ''pangea covidica''s dreaming . Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Wellweakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, not when Cassie has gone missing he canPreciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''t...|isbn=18009008991804271454
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|isbnauthor=1635864070Samantha Harvey|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah TalleyOrbital|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsGeneral Fiction|summary=If youIn 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for 've ever started knitting 'Orbital'', a pair compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the lives of socks, finished the first one and either got bored by the idea a group of doing the same thing all over again, or started on the second sock and lost the first before you finished it, this is astronauts aboard the book for youInternational Space Station. Where is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed Through a system narrative lens that allows you mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to knit two socks see our planet in one, divide them up and have a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds good? It's clever and well-thought-outwholly new light.|isbn=1529922933
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|authorisbn=Olivie Blake295967572X|title=The Atlas SixPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=45|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary= Dark, sharp, Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and highly inquisitivewhat the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the tickets ''The Atlas Sixon the floor somewhere'' makes its publishing debut after becoming 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 Tik-Tok sensationsteam locomotive.|isbn=1529095239
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|isbn=00083849830008551324|title=The Paris ApartmentDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Lucy FoleyNeil Lancaster
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It'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'Things 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 the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|author=Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Tower|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''How unctuous are not what they seemthe fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''.
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|isbnauthor=0760373558Claire-Louise Bennett|title=Nordic Knits|author=Sue FlandersBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=CraftsLiterary Fiction|summary=I was so delighted by Sue Flanders' [[Cozy Knits: 30 HatEverything in this book, Mittenhowever sweet or seemingly innocent, Scarf is steeped in anguish and Sock Projects from Around distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didnnarrator cries out internally, 't need any persuading at all to pick up her 'come over here and kiss me,'Nordic Knits'it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=1804271934}}{{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. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles She was never found and local traditions from Norwaythe investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, Sweden and Icelandher father are dead in their bed. There are Initially, it looks like a few sweaters or jackets straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the majority positioning of patterns are for smaller items such the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as mittens, gloves, hats though it was going to be an open-and bags-shut case is now a complex double murder. All Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are bright and cheerful and very cosyless convinced.
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|isbnauthor=1916072038Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie CresswellOther Girl|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionAutobiography|summary=''We meet part of were born from the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811same body. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, I've never really wanted to the house in the hollowthink about this. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, the deplorable truth''.
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|author=Matthieu AikinsMaxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyBiography|summary=It's easy to forget at times 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 The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fictionGorky completely rejects this perspective, because it reads very much like and offers a well-paced thriller at timesvibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. This is not by any means a criticismIn the first section of this book, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided Tolstoy complains to accompany his friend Gorky that: ''you write not of real life as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts it is, but of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way throughwhat you yourself imagine it to be. But 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?'s written with '. Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a haunting subjective account, giving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people describedfeels unworthy of it.|isbn= B09N9157T61804271977
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1529077745|title=Unhinged The Dark Wives (Volume 3) (Blix and RammD I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves
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|summary=This is A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the third book in a series body of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Rammman in the park near Rosebank, a crime journalistcare home for troubled teens. In this book we find that when The dead man was Josh - one of Blix's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers the care workers who was due to work a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to contact investigate the murder - but her superioronly clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, Blixfourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Before she can reach him, however, she Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is murdered, and Blixunlikely as the girl's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered toodiary makes it clear that she adored Josh. We then She knows that she has to find ourselves a few days later with Blix and Ramm, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happen. What had Kovic discovered? And Chloe to discover what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led happened to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003Josh.
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|author=Daniel AbrahamOlga Tokarczuk|title=Age House of AshDay, House of Night|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary= We meet Alys under ''What's the most northerly good of Oldgatea world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?'s four bridges' The title of this spellbinding work, she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile''House of Day, the City House of Kithamar is at a point in the turning Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of years when shifting realities - the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. It is small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to night between , however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the funeral of a Prince and constant in that image is the coronation of his successor. For a night house, stoic against the Kithamar ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is un-ruledperceived.|isbn=03565154271804271918
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|isbn=15290955221836284683|title=The InterviewBig Happy|author=C M EwanDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction|summary=Kate Harding Well! This is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge Communicationsa murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, it's nothing like I expected it to be, and it takes me on a wild ride. And that is just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. ItI don's the last interview t want to ruin a similar experience for any of the day at one of Londonyou reading but I's newest office buildings and Edge ll have fitted out their part of to at least set the building to be something specialscene. Maggie, KateOnce that's recruitment agentdone, is keen to see that Kate approaches the interview in a good state of mind: Kate assumes that I think you should simply experience this is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets the job - and she has to admit that life has not been easy wonderfully original story for her recentlyyourself.
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|isbnauthor=B097XNMCRKSally Rooney|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterIntermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction |summary=Loch Torridon ''is'' Sally Rooney has studied the back chessboard of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which life and is why something of a grandmaster at putting it was into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the perfect place central one for readers to land illegal deliveries of drugsunravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto Ivan, a nice little earnersocially awkward chess prodigy, only to find that Maccacontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, the man he thought he was working a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle withcancer, is dead. His remains would never be found. The delivery is hijacked by Davie and Callum. As the story progresses webrothers'll get to know them quite wellalready strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469
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|isbn= B09NDJ77LM1836285493|title=Me and My ShadowThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Deborah StoneRob Keeley|rating=45|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= ''What happens when someone Will is pushed too far and they begin to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off the shadows a keen player of her past video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and attempts to repair decades worth of pain.'' Rachel is in a current conversation with her psychiatrist, who pushes her to recall her life from very young childhood onwardssupportive friend. But Rachel most of all, he is combative with Doctor Blake, sometimes even contemptuous of her. You can see that it's not an easy therapeutic relationshipaspiring writer. Rachel's recall of her life English is in remarkable detailhis favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. She remembers each minor slight This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute she has suggested to Will and unforgiving clarityhis mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.
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|isbn=15294096591009473085|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Elly GriffithsAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)
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|genre=CrimePolitics and Society|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen Sometimes it's simpler to do some decorating explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered that applies to clear out her mother's belongings'The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. She was intrigued by If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the discovery of a picture of her own house: it was an old photographinside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, taken in misty conditions and on then this isn't the back it said book for you. If that's what you're looking for, I don'dawn 1963t think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, some can be bettered for those tumultuous years before Ruth was born. It was before her parents were married's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to find out what was behind ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the photograph but Covid intervened impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the country was well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in lockdown. Ruth and Kate are restricted to 2010, the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate changes that occurred and continue with her university teaching duties. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carerssituation in 2024.
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|isbnauthor=1847941834Jenny Valentine|title=Atomic Habits|author=James ClearUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleTeens|summary=I've said this before but there Elk and Mab are some books best friends, or more than that you seek even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip outbut unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themthey are inseparable. Something has happened though, likesomething terrible and tragic, right and now! ''Atomic Habits'' is in the last categorythey must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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