Circus Circus...

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Adventures Under The Big Top…

The Bones Of Ruin - Sarah Raughley

Bacchanal - Veronica G Henry

Harley In The Sky - Akemi Dawn Bowman

Caraval - Stephanie Garber

Circus Of Wonders - Elizabeth Macneal

Wonder Show - Hannah Barnaby

The Immortal Circus - A.R. Kahler

Nights At The Circus - Angela Carter

Ladies Of The Secret Circus - Constance Sayers

Full Tilt - Neal Shusterman

Tumbling Turner Sisters - Juliette Fay

Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen

Stardust - Neil Gaiman

Carter Beats The Devil - Glen David Gold

Jonathan Strange & Mr.Norell - Susanna Clarke

The Lonely Hearts Hotel - Heather O'Neil

Crime Junkie...

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True Crime, Some Bloody, Some Bloodless…

Empire Of Pain - Patrick Reeden Keefe

Confident Women - Tori Telfer

The Psychopath: A True Story - Mary Turner Thomson

Two Truths & A Lie - Ellen McGarrhan

The Unusal Suspect - Ben Machell

The Babysitter: My Summers With A Killer - Liza Rodman

Golden Boy: Murder Among Manhattan Elite - John Glatt

Nowhere Girl:Memoir Of A Fugitive Childhood - Cheryl Diamond

Missing From The Village - Justin Ling

Highway Of Tears - Jessica McDiarmid

Bad Blood:Secrets & Lies In Silicon Valley - John Carreyrou

Wizard Of Lies - Diana B. Henriques

Billion Dollar Whale - Tom Wright

Kill Shot:A Shadow Industry & A Deadly Disease - Jason Dearen

The Less People Know About Us - Axton Betz-Hamilton

Tammy: Telling It My Way - Tammy Faye Baker

Murder Book - Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

In My Dreams I Hold A Knife - Ashley Winstead

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In My Dreams I Hold A Knife - Ashley Winstead

Thriller/Fiction

Rating: 8/10

Over the course of a single shocking night the author peels back lie after lie, exposing the poisoned roots that connected a group of friends during their university years. All of which lead to one of them cast as the murdered and one as the murderer. I lost count of the juicy secrets revealed and the masks dropped and just allowed myself the savor the salacious joy of it all.

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The Therapist - B.A. Paris

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The Therapist - B.A. Paris

Thriller/Mystery

Rating: 5/10

Alice and her partner have moved into a new home. As she attempts to befriend her new neighbours, she discovers a devasting, grisly secret about her new home. Alice embarks on a dissection of the labyrinth of secrets that are being concealed by seemingly everyone in the book. As she spirals down rabbit holes leading every which way, she begins to grate on everyone. Including this reader.

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Girl A - Abigail Dean

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Girl A - Abigail Dean

Thriller

Rating: 8/10

Lex doesn’t want to think about her family. She doesn’t want to think about growing up in her parents’ House Of Horrors. And she doesn’t want to think about her identity as Girl A; the girl who escaped and exposed the crimes. If you think is book only focuses on the horrors mentioned above, you would be wrong. It’s so much deeper than that.

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Novel(la) Pairings-Chapter Three

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Novel(la) Pairings - Chapter Three

A novella is that sweet spot that rests between a short novel or a long short story. Think of it as a tasting menu, or better still, an appetizer. When done well, as the ones I am sharing with you in this special summer series are, they can keep you company just long enough for a good walk and give you a sense of as yet unexplored authors.

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Billy Summers - Stephen King

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Billy Summers - Stephen King

Fiction/Thriller

Rating: 9/10

King has always flung aside the principles of “proper” writing with a kind of resplendent genius. Mashing up genres, bending the rules of structure to his almighty will, changing points of view on a dime and at times offering up the reader a head spinning number of narrative voices to follow. I won’t tell you which of these savvy skills is unleashed in his latest, suffice to say it’s more than one.

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Transport Yourself To Another Time...

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Historical Fiction…

The Lost Apothecary - Sarah Penner

Silver Sparrow - Tayari Jones

Everyone Brave Is Forgiven - Chris Cleave

Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi

The Masterpiece - Fiona Davis

The Downstairs Girl - Stacey Lee

Sparks Like Stars - Nadia Hashimi

The Secret Keeper - Kate Morton

Radiant Fugitives - Nawaaz Ahmed

Harlam Shuffle - Colson Whitehead

Our Darkest Night - Jennifer Robson

A Thousand Ships - Natalie Haynes

Dead Dead Girls - Nekesa Afia

Women Of Salt & Sea - Gabriela Garcia

Gentleman In Moscow - Amor Towles

Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter & Sweet - Jamie Ford

Dangerous Women - Hope Adams

Yellow Wife - Sadeqa Johnson

Wild Women & The Blues - Denny S. Bryce

Get Schooled!

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Don’t Know Much About…

The Code Breaker - Walter Isaacson (Science)

Broad Band: Untold Story Of Women Who Made The Internet (Tech)

The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green (Science)

This Is Your Mind On Plants - Michael Pollan (Science)

The God Equation - Michio Kaku (Math)

The Disordered Cosmos: Dark Matter, Spacetime & Dreams Deferred - Chanda Prescod Weinstein (Science)

The Premonition - Michael Lewis (Science)

Beyond Infinity - Eugenia Chang (Math)

The Math Of Life & Death - Kit Yates (Math)

Numbers Don't Lie - Vaclav Smil (Math)

Rationality - Steven Pinker (Science)

A Thousand Brains: New Intelligence (Tech)

Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies - Kelly Weinersmith (Tech)

The Innovators - Walter Isaacson (Tech)

A Short History Of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson (History)

Burning The Books: The Delibrate Destruction Of Knowledge - Richard Ovenden (History)

Dead Famous: A History Of Celebrity - Greg Jenner (History)

The Secret To Super Human Strength - Alison Bechdel (Non-Fiction)

Think Again - Adam Grant (Non-Fiction)