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  • Detective, Mystery & Thriller

    Uncertainty of Reason – Malcolm Hollingdrake

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    The Harrogate Crime Series … just keeps on giving! I loved reconnecting with Cyril Bennett, Julie, David Owen and his Hannah. This eleventh book in the fabulous series is enticing, emotive, engrossing, and exciting. About the Book ‘Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man.‘ – Aristotle A murderer is loose on the streets of Harrogate. His initial purpose is to inflict damage, not to cause death. Repercussions of a serious road accident and an abusive childhood haunt the perpetrator. The balance of his mind is disturbed and he experiences moments of intense, irrational anger which override his sanity. The colour red seems to trigger his psychosis.…

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  • Contemporary,  Fiction

    Everyday Kindness – LJ Ross et al

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    Uplifting, endearing, emotive. Everyday Kindness is a charming anthology of wonderful tales that makes you believe in mankind again – and with the proceeds going to a charity, you, we all, are making a difference and positive impact. About the Book Everyday Kindness is a charity anthology of short, fictional stories of kindness, edited by LJ Ross who has also written one of the stories. These uplifting tales of hope and of small, everyday kindnesses are intended to support wider, positive mental health goals and foster wellbeing through the act of reading tales of goodwill inspired by others. Featuring authors across the spectrum of literature, some international bestsellers and award-winning writers…

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  • Humour,  Non-Fiction

    Grammar Free in the UK – Derek & Dave Philpott

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    The Lockdown Letters – bonkers correspondence to and from U.K. punk artists during 2020 by D & D Philpott The Book & The Authors For over a decade, ‘Team Philpott’, as their followers fondly refer to them, have been on a quite bonkers crusade, writing old-fashioned letters to punk, pop and rock stars, picking up on genuine ambiguities within their lyrics or often deliberately misunderstanding them for comedic effect. The letters are eminently publishable in their own right, but what makes this project especially deserving of attention is that it has achieved a feat never before attempted or probably even thought of. The artists quite unexpectedly started to reply, writing…

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  • The Long Walk - Stephen King
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    The Long Walk – Stephen King

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    Mini Review As someone who owns Stephen King’s On Writing, who loved the series, Haven (based on the short story, ‘The Colorado Kid’), reading more of Stephen King’s prose was long overdue. I started with this little gem and I loved it. You can feel the tension building on that long road to… perdition? The longer they continue, the more miles they make, the more it feels like it. I was gripped by the horror and inevitability of it all but most of all by the friendship between Garraty and McVries. I forgot their ages, especially McVries seemed wise and someone who’s seen it all – who has lived it…

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  • Fiction,  Historical,  Supernatural

    Raven – Paul Leatherdale

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    Book Blurb Raven is the story of four teenage boys growing up in the Suffolk countryside who enlist to fight in the First World War. One of the boys falls in love with an enchantingly beautiful, blue-eyed, dark-haired, local, young girl of the same age before going off to war, but she is clearly not of this world and has a supernatural secret. The raven is her companion, a mysterious, red-eyed bird who accompanies her wherever she goes. The bird is powerful and strong and highly intelligent and has endured across the ages. The book spans three distinct periods, modern-day 1985, the turn of the century, and the 17th century.…

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  • Genre,  Thriller

    Termination – Richard T. Burke

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    Decimation Trilogy #2 Book Blurb Antimone Lessing returns in book two of the ground-breaking Decimation trilogy Nearly twenty years after the Orestes virus swept across the earth, finally there is hope. Women are no longer dying within seconds of giving birth. For the first time in two decades, the global population is on an upward trend. As the world returns to normal, Antimone is back on the athletics track and a single race away from achieving her lifetime goal of winning the Olympic 1500-metre Wheelchair gold medal. But a deadly new threat has emerged, one that could reverse the fragile recovery and spell the end of humanity’s time on the…

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  • Detective, Mystery & Thriller,  Thriller

    Catch as Catch Can – Malcolm Hollingdrake

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    ‘Catch as Catch Can’ is the first book in Malcolm Hollingdrake’s new Merseyside Crime Series, and I for one, am already hooked! Love it! Merseyside Crime Series #1 Book Blurb A mutilated body apparently washed up on a windswept beach… A violent criminal gang preys on moped riders across the area… A teenage girl desperate to escape sexual exploitation… It’s a tough introduction to Merseyside for Detective Inspector April Decent, who’s just arrived from her native Yorkshire. Together with new colleague Skeeter Warlock, Decent quickly discovers there’s a sinister link between them all, one that will bring them face-to-face with some uncomfortable home truths. Catch as Catch Can is the first…

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  • Contemporary,  Fiction,  Short Stories

    Backstories – Simon Van Der Velde

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    Fascinating. Intriguing. Compelling. I loved loved ‘Backstories’, to figure out who it was we were allowed to see a bit of the background of people we have all come to know throughout the times. Imaginative and sometimes shocking, but oh such a great read! Book Blurb These are people you know, but not as you know them. Peel back the mask and see. CAN YOU FIND THE FAMOUS PERSON HIDDEN IN EVERY STORY? Dreamers, singers, heroes and killers, they can dazzle with their beauty or their talent or their unmitigated evil, yet inside themselves, they are as frail and desperate as the rest of us. But can you see them? Can you…

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  • Detective, Mystery & Thriller

    Fragments – Malcolm Hollingdrake

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  • Contemporary,  Detective, Mystery & Thriller,  Fiction,  Thriller,  Women's Fiction

    The Housewarming – S.E. Lynes

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    What a fab thriller! S.E. Lynes’ The Housewarming is a book that will have you gripped to the pages while being consumed with all sorts of emotions – you cry with Ava and feel for her, and fear for little Abi. With Ava, you are grieving and searching for the truth, with Ava, you cannot let go until you’ve unravelled it all. The Story A child goes missing, a nightmare for the parents. Mother Ava blames herself, can barely continue her life but she had to, for her baby boy. Will he ever see his older sister? Will Ava and Matt ever come to know what happened to little Abi?…

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