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The Parent Agency

David Baddiel and Jim Field

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A brilliantly funny, gripping novel - and the bestselling hardback children's debut of 2014 - from a...

Madame Mephisto: A Novel

A.M. Bakalar

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What would you talk about if you were stuck in a room with a drug dealer for five days? Magda, a...

Black Dog

Neil Gaiman

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A special illustrated edition of Black Dog by bestselling storytelling legend, Neil Gaiman. This...

Andy Bell recommended Hatful of Hollow by The Smiths in Music (curated)

"This is the record that made me a guitar player. I got given a guitar aged nine and had been taught a couple of things on it, but it’d basically stayed propped against the corner of the room and not used that much… until I first heard The Smiths when I was 13. It was just like, ‘This is what I want to do – I’m doing this! I’m going to be a guitarist in a band!’ “Johnny Marr was like a surrogate guitar teacher right through my early teens - 13, 14, 15 years old - to when I met Mark Gardener at school. We became mates because he heard I could play the riff off Bigmouth Strikes Again and asked me to show him. "That’s how we became friends, so Ride’s got a lot to thank The Smiths for. I still find some of Johnny Marr’s playing totally baffling, like those swoopy lead parts on How Soon Is Now?.”"

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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2340 KP) rated Chesapeake Crimes: Invitation to Murder in Books

Oct 7, 2020

Accept this Invitation to Seventeen Murders

In the seventh short story anthology from the Chesapeake Chapter of Sisters in Crime, each story revolves around an invitation. Some are the obvious invitations for events, but others are a more casual invitation. Either way, they lead to danger of some kind. There’s a mother whose young son is writing a hard-boiled mystery, an escape room that ends in death, a guest who overstays her welcome, bedbugs and murder in London, and a debutant ball in early 1900’s South Carolina. The stories are as varied as their locations, and many are fun. As with every short story collection, not every story will be for every taste. Personally, I found a couple of them too dark to be enjoyable. But the majority of the seventeen stories were a delight. If you are searching for bite sized stories, you’ll be glad you picked up this collection.