by Ivan B
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Arboreal Love (2010) Can trees feel for human beings as human beings feel for trees? Not everybody thinks so, but one old lady holds a secret: a secret of a love and passion for a tree that knew no bounds. But could this love be infectious?
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The Last Assignment (2010) They are highly trained operatives. They have been specially prepared for any mission. They are kept under tight reign. But there is this special assignment, could it be their last?
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Cold (2010) Jim Tarrent is an ex-army sergeant turned private investigator following his untimely departure from the army. On solving his first case he gains a partner and together they look like they will make a go of his business. However, Jim has a traumatic past that he cannot seem to leave behind and his partner is probably no better off. Then two cases hit them that could change their lives, and their detective agency, for ever.
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The Rectory (2010) Stephen Holmes is the type of person for whom every silver cloud has a black lining. Up to now he has led a fairly uneventful life. Uneventful that is if you forget that everything he touches has a knack of turning to dust or biting back. So much so that after nearly a decade as a bank clerk he has not progresses more than one tiny step up the promotion ladder; so much so that he’s really given up on living and thinks of himself as just existing; so much so that you’d hardy call him a good catch or for that matter any sort of catch. However, a surprise letter offers him the chance to change all that and to begin a new life, nay a new wealthy life. But he knows that every time someone fills up his glass with beer it has a habit of leaking out through unnoticed cracks, so can it all be true, and are there really new horizons ahead?
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Lumen in Let Your Little Light Shine (2010) Lumen is a glow worm with attitude. Currently he's fed up with being a glow worm and lurned his lights off. But there is a problem, if his light doesn't shine, just where does his energy go?
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Book Woman (2010) Mary is the Manager of a private lending library in the sleepy Suffolk coastal town of Eastburgh. She originally wanted to be a journalist, but following a dreadful accident that she was forced to realign her career aspirations. Mary has a reputation of being rather short with people and fending off chances of friendship, not that she has much chance of friendships as she works full time and cares for her elderly mother.
However, Mary’s nicely ordered world of books and home is slowly turned round thanks to an unexpected discovery, a young girl and Mary’s changing inner needs.
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The Soulmate Agency (2010) The Soulmate Agency is a dating agency with a difference. Instead of pairing people up they invite groups of people away for a week and run them through a series of exercises to help them get to know one another. However, that is not to say the owner doesn't have a hidden plan of possible matings. But one assorted group, as soon as it arrives, starts to defy the odds...
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Trembine Halt (2010) Trembine Halt is a tiny Cambridgeshire village. Like most small villages the dozen inhabitants have their various foibles, but they have learnt to live together and support one another when necessary, even coping with the odd transitory interloper. However, lurking underneath are emotional hang-ups, hidden relationships, suicides and selfishness. All would remain as it was, except on one snowy day a freight train gets stuck in the village and the addition of the extra person starts off a train of events that will have long term repercussions.
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Nocturnus (2010) John Smith and Jane Doe (yes that’s their real names) are ordinary people living separate lives. He as a peripatetic lecturer and she as a night-time cleaning manager. In the normal course of events their paths would probably never cross. However, some events are far from normal and the two get thrown together to dispose of a corpse.
The question is can they get away with it? Especially as it's not just the police after them.
But the story is more than just a simple tale of misdeed and misdemeanor. Jane leads her nocturnal life for very good reasons (well good to her) and John prefers to travel rather than stay at home for equally valid reasons (well valid to him.) So as their lives are forcibly intertwined are their reasons still valid or are they redundant?
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Botanago (2010) Botanago refers to a mathematical formula, which is invented within a robotics company by an eccentric and irascible middle aged research engineer called Albert, who is not all he seems.
All would be well if they left him alone to think his mathematical thoughts, but in Jeddle Robotics lie people with ambition and downright managerial ruthlessness that Albert detests.
So while he strives to perfect his cherished formula, he must also deal with the rest of his life, and that is nowhere near as easy.
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Ruth (2010) Ruth is a runner with a unique sexual chemistry that combines in almost near perfection with the story-teller; but she says little and wants nothing else. However, as far as he is concerned this is enough, then the unexpected happens and life gets turned on it's head...
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Bitter (2010) Jim Tarrent and Jenn Tarrent are settling down to a new routine in their detective agency following their marriage.
They have the usual mix of cases, but also pick up a case for military intelligence involving two dead service personnel discovered in unusual circumstances while Jim (who still dreams of his army past) plugs away at solving a child hit and run mystery no matter what it costs.
However, both cases lead them into murky territory where simple objectives have morphed into potential scandals that no-one on high wants revealed.
Jims unusual evidence gathering skills and Jenn’s organisation lead them further on than anyone else, but perhaps the outcome is not worth the trouble involved.
(Bitter is a sequal to 'Cold')
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Barnabus can Fly! (2011) Barnabus the church mouse has got himself into a pickle again! He's been teaching the mouslets all about bats, but now he can't find one and his class are beginning to disbelieve him - can there be a solution?
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Barnabus and the 'Swerve' (2011) Barnabus has a lot on his mind; the church want to sell off their ancient pipe organ and he needs to find a way to beat the Red Rodents at Mouse Volley ball. The answer could lie in something very different...
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