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A girl power heist caper with a cast of capable women. Jennifer daydreams of a carefree life traveling the world, ordering what she wants at restaurants and opening her own surf shop (who wouldn’t?). When she is roped into her roommate Nari’s “entrepreneurial” ventures that aren't totally above board, her dreams might actually be within reach. That the target is an exploitative company and the plan can be seen as pretty much altruistic is a bonus that is well focused on. Drawn into an attempt at an even bigger pay-out, Nari is putting together ... View Full Review
Bright sparks of feeling in a collection of poetry highlighting love and connection. Being familiar with Jane Lightbourne’s prose I was interested to see which qualities of her writing she brought to her poetry. Light Beneath the Lids is her second collection of poems and focuses on love in all its forms. Most of the poems are a snapshot of a moment, a bright flash of feeling. A few of the poems extend into multiple stanzas, like The Rollercoaster, allowing you to be swept away for a few moments longer. Light Beneath the Lids shows off Jane Lightbourne&... View Full Review
Take a narrative jaunt through life’s oddities with this engaging and entertaining fact book. From extremes of the largest and smallest, cutest and ugliest things in the natural world to wildest foods on the planet and the absurdity of the captions for modern art, in Strange but True author Tony Fosgate chattily takes on a winding journey through the weirdness of our world. Written with a witty and engaging style it reminded me of picking up Elephants on Acid by Alex Boase as a teen, and sits well within the area of entertaining trivia. As I was reading ... View Full Review
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“Adventures of a Seventies Seafarer” — the subtitle of Nick Eliason’s Cold War Candles says it all, in that this chattily-penned memoir is very much underpinned by a sense of adventure as the author shares his life experiences in an engagingly honest style. Demonstrating how life has a habit of taking unexpected turns (in this case, a turn from the prospect of working for free on an Israeli kibbutz, to joining the Merchant Navy, and eventually venturing beyond the Iron Curtain), it’s an evocatively authentic read.
“My last ... View Full Review
A young entrepreneur lets his ambitions drag him into a dark world where power and influence is the only thing that matters. When we first meet Ernest McCloskey he is a young man from reasonably modest means with big aspirations. Not wanting the life his parents were modelling he looks to build his wealth in real estate. His ambition to get rich quicker leads him to partner with Alejandro Prince, taking bigger risks and getting involved with the mafia with the promise of bigger profits. When tragedy strikes closer to home, what little guiding morality and common sensibility is lost ... View Full Review
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Following the death of her mother, Lily returns to her childhood home of Lostmor, Cornwall to hear of a life-changing inheritance. Returning to the place she horrifically lost her father and younger sister stirs up painful memories of that fateful night, though she also discovers new friends and love in wake of her loss. Meanwhile, Marcus, veteran and pub manager has come to Lostmor driven by his own grief and a search for answers. The intertwining threads of this small Cornish community brings threats but also answers, new friends and community.
The powerful prologue sets the ... View Full Review
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A spate of murders and suicides occur involving a lawyer, business men and a doctor. The detective assigned to the case, Jaydon Lynch, wrestles to understand why a mathematical formula is found at the scene of the crimes. He painstakingly investigates every detail, and his findings lead him and his colleagues on to more and more intriguing developments. As the plot unfolds, we also learn of the personal burden of grief which Detective Lynch is carrying. Morals, ethics and justice are all entwined in this fascinating investigation which has a great twist at the ... View Full Review
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Buying a home is a stressful process. From first-hand experience when I bought my first home I often found I was going through the motions of what I needed to do or was told to do, without any real understanding of what was being said and what it all meant. A guide that outlined the initial steps of the conveyancing searches and the home surveys required when purchasing a home would have been valuable to me indeed.
Your Neighbourhood Surveyor has been a practising surveyor for a decade and has used his knowledge to provide explanations about ... View Full Review
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In a world on the brink of climate catastrophe, two scientists continue their confidential work to develop a practical quantum computer, but they get more than they bargained for when their creation calls into question everything they thought to be true about the laws of physics and the world around them. The Quantum Revelations is a multifaceted sci-fi story. First off we have Skylar’s quantum computer experiment, tangentially linked to his interest in “quantum scale physics. He wanted to understand what really makes the universe tick”.
My knowledge of physics extends as ... View Full Review
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We return to Thera and the bloody interpersonal conflicts taking place in the shadow of a deadly unavoidable threat. Prince Magnus gave Game of Thrones’ Jeoffrey a run for his money in the first book, and he’s still in relentless pursuit of Jake, Emilya and Alicya. His ferocity is replaced as other storylines take the fore, with the nauseating Brother Cyrus and Obadiah, the ruthless Calidius putting his plans into action and Drax living from fight to fight in a Gladiator-esque storyline that delivers bloody and fierce battle sequences to sink your teeth ... View Full Review
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The Strains of Malice is the first in a detailed four book epic fantasy set in the world of Thera. The book is front loaded with all the world building information you’d need, with graphs and maps to explain time and geography as well as a prologue that offers historical context to the story as well as an explanation of the Shield of Crenac that separates the two hemispheres. This may seem daunting at first but it sets the stage so that when the story begins you’re equipped with all the knowledge ... View Full Review
