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The Fossil Door, Celia Lake 06 November 2024

2021 romantic fantasy. In 1922, Rathna is sent to look into a transportation portal that's shut down; she's very specialised in her understanding of portals, so an expert in other magics is sent to help her out.

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Spaceships and Spellcasters, Glynn Stewart 05 November 2024

2018 anthology of novellas from Stewart's various universes.

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The Dueling Duchess, Minerva Spencer 04 November 2024

2023 Regency romance, second of its series. Cecile Tremblay is a French emigré turned circus sharpshooter, and had an agreeable interlude with Gaius Darlington on their trip to ransom a missing brother. But then he wrecked it all…

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The Weekly Challenge 293: Domino Boomerang 03 November 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved checking dominoes and doing some floating-point operations. (Note that this ends today.)

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Silent Voices, Ann Cleeves 02 November 2024

2011 contemporary police mystery, fourth in Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series. Stanhope, reluctantly attending the local gym, finds a woman's body in the steam room.

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Marple: Twelve New Stories 01 November 2024

2022 detective fiction anthology. Twelve modern authors present their takes on Miss Marple. No editor is credited.

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The Lily of Ludgate Hill, Mimi Matthews 31 October 2024

2024 Victorian romance. Anne Deveril has been letting herself fade into obscurity looking after her widowed mother. Mr Felix Hartford is apparently a feckless man-about-town. They were almost married six years ago, and they've spend the intervening time despising each other…

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Deep Black, Miles Cameron 30 October 2024

2024 SF, second of its series. The crew of the greatship Athens has found out something about what's been going on. Now she has to make it home.

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Radlands 29 October 2024 - 1 comment

Radlands is a post-apocalyptic two-player duelling game from 2021. It's designed by Daniel Piechnik, who has no other BGG credits.

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The Pearl Dragon, Amelia Ellis 28 October 2024

2011 thriller, fourth of this ongoing series; translated from the original German by Rachel Ward. The owner of a Chinese restaurant hires Nea to get back a stolen videotape.

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