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A thousand feasts : small moments of joy ... a memoir of sorts / Nigel Slater.

Nigel Slater has kept notebooks of curiosities and wonderings, penned while at his kitchen table, soaked in a fisherman's hut in Reykjavik, sitting calmly in a moss garden in Japan or sheltering from a blizzard in a Vienna konditorei. Nigel records the small things, events and happenings that gave pleasure before they disappeared. In 'A Thousand Feasts' he details a soup for breakfast, packing a suitcase for a trip and watching a butterfly settle on a carpet, hiding in plain sight. He gives short stories of feasts such as a mango eaten in monsoon rain or a dish of restorative macaroni cheese. This funny and sharply observed collection of the good bits of life, often things that pass many of us by, is utter joy from beginning to end.
Author: Slater, Nigel
Published: London : 4th Estate, 2024.
320 pages ; 21 cm
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A postcard from Puffin Island / Christie Barlow.

Verity Callaway is running away. From her job. From her quiet life in the Midlands. And most of all from her ex-fiancée - who has just become her newest neighbour. The plan is simple: hop in her reliable camper van and cross the Channel for a rendezvous with her best friend in Amsterdam to kick off six months of travel. But when Verity stumbles across an old postcard while preparing her cottage for its temporary tenants, her life takes an unexpected turn, and she finds herself on a ferry to Puffin Island instead. Verity's childhood was filled with tales of adventures set here, but she'd always thought her beloved granny had made it all up. Now, knowing the stories and the setting were real, Verity is determined to find the sender and uncover the secrets of her grandmother's past - even if it means setting off a sequence of events that will change not just her own life, but also that of the close-knit community.
Author: Barlow, Christie
Published: London : One More Chapter, 2024.
384 pages ; 20 cm
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A therapeutic journey : lessons from the school of life / Alain de Botton.

This is a text about getting unwell. About losing direction and hope. About imagining that we have let ourselves and everyone down. But it is also a book about getting better. About regaining the thread, rediscovering meaning and finding a way back to connection and joy. Here, Alain de Botton follows the arc of a mental health journey, from crisis to recuperation; the moments we realize we cannot cope; the acts of selfcare or therapy in which we find respite; and the days we finally reclaim a sense of stability. Written with understanding and kindness, it is both a source of companionship in our loneliest moments - whether it's a relationship breakdown, a career setback or anxiety around the everyday - and a practical guide that will help us find reasons for hope.
Author: De Botton, Alain
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2024.
371 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm

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An eye for an eye / Jeffrey Archer.

In one of the most luxurious cities on earth, a billion-dollar deal is about to go badly wrong. A lavish night out is about to end in murder. And the British government is about to be plunged into crisis. Thousands of miles away, in the leafy Berkshire countryside, Lord Hartley, the latest in a line of peers going back over two hundred years, lies dying. But his will triggers an inheritance with explosive consequences. Two deaths. Continents apart. Completely unrelated. So why are they at the centre of a master criminal's plot for revenge? And can Scotland Yard's Chief Superintendent William Warwick uncover the truth before an innocent man's life and legacy are destroyed?
Author: Archer, Jeffrey, 1940-
Published: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024.
384 pages ; 24 cm
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Arkangel / James Rollins.

The execution of a Vatican archivist within the shadow of the Kremlin exposes a conspiracy going back three centuries - to the bloody era of the Russian Tsars. Before his murder, he manages to dispatch a coded message, a warning of a terrifying threat, one tied to a secret buried within the Golden Library of Tsars, a vast and treasured archive that had vanished into history. As combative forces race for the truth behind this death and alarming discovery, Sigma Force is summoned to aid in the search - not only for this missing trove of ancient books, but to follow a trail far into the Arctic, to search for the truth about a lost continent and a revelation that could ignite a global war. But Sigma Force has its own difficulties at home after an explosive attack on the National Mall - one aimed at the heart of their covert agency - has left them vulnerable and exposed.
Author: Rollins, James, 1961-
Published: New York : William Morrow, 2024.
528 pages ; 23 cm.
Sigma Force novel ; 18.
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Spectacular / Stephanie Garber ; illustrations by Rosie Thorns.

Snowflakes are falling. Invitations are arriving. And holiday magic is swirling in the Capital City of the Meridian Empire. It's Great Holiday Eve Eve. Scarlett Dragna is planning a spectacular Holiday celebration for the city. Donatella is searching for the perfect gift. Julian is looking ridiculously handsome in green. And Legend - well, sadly Legend is not a fan of the Great Holiday. Tella is hoping her perfect gift will change his mind. Unfortunately, she hasn't found this perfect gift just yet. But it is Great Holiday Eve Eve - surely there's some holiday magic swirling around. Welcome, welcome back to the world of Caraval, where even holidays are not as they seem.
Author: Garber, Stephanie
Published: London : Hodderscape, 2024.
224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Caraval
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The grey wolf / Louise Penny.

Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in the small village of Three Pines in Quebec. Someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. When he finally answers the call, his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning. That's only the first in a sequence of strange events that begin THE GREY WOLF. At first they seem small - a missing coat, a note for Gamache reading 'this might interest you', a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list - but then a murder. All propel Chief Inspector Gamache and his team toward a terrible realization. Something much more sinister than any one murder or any one case is fast approaching. A threat unlike anything they've seen before.
Author: Penny, Louise
Published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2024.
432 pages ; 24 cm.
Chief Inspector Gamache thriller
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The mighty red / Louise Erdrich.

In Argus, North Dakota, a fraught wedding is taking place. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe. Gary thinks Kismet is the answer to all of his problems; but Kismet can't so much as imagine her future, let alone the kind of future Gary might offer. During a clumsy proposal, Kismet misses her chance to say 'no' and so the die is cast. Hugo has been in love with Kismet for years. He has been her friend, confidante and occasinally her lover, and now she is marrying Gary, Hugo is determined to steal her back. Meanwhile Kismet's mother, Crystal, hauls sugar beets for Gary's family, and on her nightly truck drives along the highway from the farm to the factories, she tunes into the darkness of late-night radio, sees visions of guardian angels, and worries for the future - both her daughter's and her own.
Author: Erdrich, Louise
Published: London : Corsair, 2024.
384 pages ; 24 cm
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Patriot / Alexei Navalny.

Alexei Navalny began writing 'Patriot' shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family, his commitment to challenging a world super-power determined to silence him, and his total conviction that change cannot be resisted - and will come. In vivid, page-turning detail, including never-before-seen correspondence from prison, Navalny recounts, among other things, his political career, the many attempts on his life, and the lives of the people closest to him, and the relentless campaign he and his team waged against an increasingly dictatorial regime.
Author: Navalʹnyĭ, Alekseĭ
Published: London : The Bodley Head, 2024.
320 pages ; 24 cm

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Before we forget kindness / Toshikazu Kawaguchi ; translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot.

In the fifth book in the 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold' series, the mysterious Tokyo café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests: the father who could not allow his daughter to get married; a woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one; a boy who wants to show his smile to his divorced parents; and a wife holding a child with no name. They must follow the café's strict rules, however, and come back to the present before their coffee goes cold.
Author: Kawaguchi, Toshikazu, 1971-
Published: London : Picador, 2024.
202 pages : illustration (black and white) ; 21 cm.
Before the coffee gets cold
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The glassmaker / Tracy Chevalier.

Venice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here - like the glass the island's maestros spend their lives learning to handle. Women are not meant to work with glass, but Orsola Rosso flouts convention to save her family from ruin. She works in secret, knowing her creations must be perfect to be accepted by men. But perfection may take a lifetime. Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follow Orsola as she hones her craft through war and plague, tragedy and triumph, love and loss. The beads she creates will adorn the necks of empresses and courtesans from Paris to Vienna - but will she ever earn the respect of those closest to her?
Author: Chevalier, Tracy
Published: London : The Borough Press, 2024.
400 pages ; 24 cm
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Conflict : the evolution of warfare from 1945 to Ukraine / General David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts.

Two leading authorities - a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time - collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945.
Author: Petraeus, David Howell
Published: London : William Collins, 2024.
544 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm

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The lie of the land : who really cares for the countryside? / Guy Shrubsole.

Britain's landowners, we are told, are the rightful stewards of the countryside. They care for the land, they nurture it for future generations and for the good of all. But this is not true. In 'The Lie of the Land', Guy Shrubsole shows that a handful of large landowners are responsible for the destruction and degradation of many of our most important landscapes. This book paints a vivid picture of some of the most dramatic failures of land stewardship in Britain's recent history. But it also tells the story of the people trying to pick up the pieces - the small-scale farmers, community groups and members of the public who may not own land, but who nevertheless seek to be its custodians.
Author: Shrubsole, Guy
Published: London : William Collins, 2024.
272 pages ; 24 cm
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Leigh, myself and I / Leigh Francis.

Not many people know the real me. They know Keith Lemon, Avid Merrion, The Bear, but this book is all about who I am, out of character, totally honest, just being me. There's going to be some sad bits, but hopefully there'll be more happy bits that'll put a smile on your face a few times. It's everything I can remember up to the present day.
Author: Francis, Leigh, 1973-
Published: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024.
310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
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Chernobyl roulette : a war story / Serhii Plokhy.

On 24th February 2022, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. It was the most direct way for them to reach the capital - and an extraordinarily reckless plan after the disaster that had taken place there three decades earlier. Russian occupation of the plant had begun. It would last thirty-five days.Closely reported and narrated from multiple perspectives, this is the story of the Ukrainians who were held hostage and worked shifts for weeks instead of days to spare the world a new nuclear accident. We meet Valentyn Heiko, the foreman who had also been there for the clean-up of the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and turned sixty during the occupation; plant workers who found a way to celebrate International Women's Day despite all odds; and many others.
Author: Plokhy, Serhii, 1957-
Published: UK : Allen Lane, 2024.
xvii, 222 pages : maps (black and white) ; 24 cm

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Clive Cussler's Ghost soldier / Mike Madden.

When African jihadis attack a Nigerian regiment using American weapons, Cabrillo and the Oregon crew are on the case, investigating from Afghanistan to Kuala Lumpur to track a mysterious arms dealer - a genius, or perhaps a devil-known only as the Vendor. Cabrillo goes undercover to find the Vendor's base, but his adversary isn't just an arms smuggler. He's an arms maker, and Cabrillo just walked into a lethal military game alongside the most dangerous mercenaries in the world, designed to test the Vendor's cutting-edge AI arsenal. And yet, surviving an arena full of flame-throwing robots isn't even his biggest problem. The Vendor has an army of high-speed drones headed for a pivotal military site, and if the Oregon crew can't stop them from releasing a deadly neurotoxin, the entire globe will erupt in conflict.
Author: Madden, Mike
Published: London : Michael Joseph, 2024.
416 pages ; 24 cm
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Counting miracles / Nicholas Sparks.

Tanner has spent his whole life moving from place to place, belonging nowhere. So when his dying grandmother reveals the name and location of the father he never knew, he plans to visit Asheboro to lay the past to rest, then move on - just as he always has. Kaitlyn knows exactly where she belongs. In Asheboro, she's built a life for herself and her kids that she's proud of, especially after the turmoil of divorce. But when she meets lone wolf Tanner, she can't help but feel something has been missing until now. Jasper will never belong again. He had everything - and he lost it all. Now with only his old dog Arlo for company, he lives quietly, haunted by the tragic accident that took place decades before. Three strangers' worlds are about to collide, changing the trajectory of all their lives. Because some paths cross, some merge, and others guide you home.
Author: Sparks, Nicholas
Published: London : Sphere, 2024.
384 pages ; 24 cm

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Cassino '44 : the bloodiest battle of the Italian campaign / James Holland.

There are no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia, the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion, and with the Italian surrender, the Allies were confident that they would be in Rome before Christmas 1943. And yet it didn't happen. Hitler ordered his forces to dig in and fight for every yard, thus setting the stage for one of the grimmest and most attritional campaigns of the Second World War. By the start of 1944, the Allies found themselves coming up against the Gustav Line: a formidable barrier of wire, minefields, bunkers and booby traps, woven into a giant chain of mountains and river valleys that stretched the width of Italy where at its strongest point perched the Abbey of Monte Cassino. James Holland has drawn widely on diaries, letters and contemporary sources to write the definitive account of this brutal battle.
Author: Holland, James, 1970-
Published: London : Bantam Press, 2024.
640 pages ; 24 cm

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The hidden girl / Lucinda Riley writing as Lucinda Edmonds.

Born and raised in a small village on the Yorkshire moors, Leah Thompson grows more beautiful with each passing day. When she catches the attention of the influential, troubled Delancey family, she knows her life will never be the same again. Years later, Leah takes the modelling world by storm, travelling from Milan to London and New York and living life in the lap of luxury. But her past follows her like a dark shadow, mysteriously intertwined with the tragic tale of two young siblings in Poland during the Second World War. As two generations of secrets threaten to explode, Leah is haunted by a fatal, forgotten prophecy from her past, and must fight to challenge the destiny that has been mapped out for her in the stars.
Author: Edmonds, Lucinda
Revised and updated edition.
Published: London : Macmillan, 2024.
vii, 565 pages ; 24 cm
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The Unknown Warrior : a personal journey of discovery and remembrance / John Nichol.

Over one million British Empire soldiers were killed during the First World War. More than a century later, more than half a million still have no known grave. The scale of the fighting, the destructive power of high explosive, and the combination of relentless military engagement and glutinous mud meant that many of the dead were never recovered or identified. Names were left without bodies, and bodies, or fragments of bodies, without names. In an emotional personal journey, Sunday Times bestselling author John Nichol uncovers the dramatic story of the Unknown Warrior who lies in Westminster Abbey, and our nation's deep-seated need to honour and mourn the fallen.
Author: Nichol, John, 1963-
Published: London : Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., 2024.
400 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
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River Cottage great pies : pasties, puds and more / Gelf Alderson ; introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

Pastry is one of our favourite things to indulge in - the golden crust of a pie, the flaky pastry of the immortal Cornish pasty, or the soft encasing of a suet pudding: all provide comforting, homely dishes that we know and love. However, often it feels out of reach for everyday cooks, surrounded by rumours of impossibility, stories of failure and unachievable recipes. In 'River Cottage Great Pies', Gelf Alderson dispels all fear, giving every home cook the tools they need to achieve pastry greatness with achievable, delicious recipes for every pastry-laden occasion, from the buffet to the centrepiece of any meal.
Author: Alderson, Gelf
Published: London : Bloomsbury, 2024.
256 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm

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Lies he told me / James Patterson & David Ellis.

Everyone in the small town of Hemingway Grove knows David and Marcie Bowers. David owns the local pub. Marcie is a former big-city lawyer who practises family law. When David jumps into Cotton River to save a drowning stranger, he's celebrated as a hero and his daring actions are broadcast on every news outlet. For most people, newfound fame is a lifeline. For David, it's a death sentence. For Marcie, it's a test. A wife knows the difference between a loving family man and a cold-blooded assassin, right?
Author: Patterson, James, 1947-
Published: London : Century, 2024.
367 pages ; 24 cm
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Character limit : how Elon Musk destroyed twitter / Kate Conger, Ryan Mac.

Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk's unprecedented hostile takeover of Twitter and the forty-four-billion-dollar deal's seismic political, social, and financial fallout.
Author: Conger, Kate
Published: London : Cornerstone Press, 2024.
352 pages ; 24 cm

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RHS grow your own veg through the year : 365 days of homegrown vegetables & herbs / Royal Horticultural Society.

Plan smart, grow sustainably, and eat healthily with home-grown crops for every day of the year. In 'RHS Grow Your Own Veg Through the Year', experts from the world-renowned Royal Horticultural Society reveal the best vegetables and herbs to grow today, with practical advice to produce healthy harvests from any size of plot.
Published: London : Mitchell Beazley, 2024.
288 pages ; 26 cm
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Rick Stein's food stories / Rick Stein.

Accompanying the BBC2 series, 'Rick Stein's Food Stories' is an exciting collection of new classics that celebrate modern Britain. Rick's recipes reflect his mouth-watering and heartfelt exploration of today's British cuisine and how different cultures have influenced the nation's evolving palate. He highlights traditional favourites such as bangers and champ with red wine gravy, crumpets with potted shrimp, and tattie scones with smoked salmon and puts his twist on new food and flavours that have come to our shores.
Author: Stein, Rick
Published: London : BBC Books, 2024.
286 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm
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Blood ties / Jo Nesbo.

In many ways, the brothers Carl and Roy Opgard have succeeded in life. Or at least they've had as much success as is possible in a small town like Os where they've had to kill their way to the top. Carl manages the area's swanky spa hotel, while Roy has made ambitious plans for an amusement park complete with a roller coaster. The only way is up for the two brothers. Unless the local sheriff can bring them down. The sheriff believes he has new evidence that will prove the brothers involvement in several past murders, but Carl and Roy Opgard are used to covering their tracks, and they're not afraid to get their hands dirty. The high body count of Os is about to get higher.
Author: Nesbø, Jo, 1960-
Published: London : Harvill Secker, 2024.
416 pages ; 24 cm
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The women behind the door / Roddy Doyle.

At 66, Paula Spencer - mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor - is finally living her life. A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, a man - Joe - with whom she shares what she wants, friends who see her for who she is, and four grown children, now with families and petty dramas the likes of which Paula could only have hoped for. Despite its ghosts, Paula has started to push her past aside. That is until Paula's eldest, Nicola, turns up on her doorstep. Independent, affluent, a loving wife and mother, 'a success' - Nicola is suddenly determined to leave it all behind. Over the next few days, as Nicola gradually confides in Paula the secret that unleashed this moment of crisis, mother and daughter find themselves untangling anecdotes, jokes, memory and revelation to confront the bruised but beautiful symmetry of what each means to the other.
Author: Doyle, Roddy, 1958-
Published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2024.
272 pages ; 24 cm
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The girls who dared to love / Diney Costeloe.

Three girls seem to have the world at their feet in the summer of 1914. But World War 1 is coming and things will change forever - especially for women. Lucinda McFarlane is engaged to be married to dashing Sir David Melcome, but their society wedding has to be scaled right down when war is declared. Will David even live to see their baby born? Mabel Oakley, once a maid for the McFarlanes, has inherited Thomas Clarke's printing works, but an unexpected turn of events leaves her at the mercy of her father's old enemy, solicitor John Sheridan, just as she is beginning to fall for his son. What can she do? Lady Diana Fosse-Bury is incredibly beautiful - and reckless. When war is declared, she immediately wants to be in the thick of it, driving ambulances. Can her budding romance with Lucinda McFarlane's brother, Iain, possibly survive the Western Front? Three girls, three destinies, entwined and changed as war looms.
Author: Costeloe, Diney
Published: London : Head of Zeus, 2024.
421 pages ; 24 cm
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What a way to go / Bella Mackie.

Anthony Wistern is wealthy beyond imagination. Fragrant wife, gaggle of photogenic children, French chateau, Cotswold manor, plethora of mistresses, penchant for cutting moral corners, tick tick tick tick tick tick. Unfortunately for him, he's also dead. Suddenly poised to inherit his fortune, each member of the family falls under suspicion. And that's when everything comes crashing down.
Author: Mackie, Bella
Published: London : The Borough Press, 2024.
376 pages ; 24 cm
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The bone chests : unlocking the secrets of the Anglo-Saxons / Cat Jarman.

From bioarchaeologist and author Cat Jarman, this gripping history of the Anglo-Saxons is told through six bone chests, stored for over a thousand years in Winchester Cathedral. In 2014 when the chests were opened for the first time to anthropologists and archaeologist, the bones were photographed and catalogued so that the exact position of each individual item is a matter of record. Since then, cutting edge science, including isotope analysis, carbon dating and DNA analysis has revealed astonishing insights about the men and women who orchestrated and witnessed the creation of England.
Author: Jarman, Cat
Published: London : William Collins, 2024.
272 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (black and white) ; 20 cm

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