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"2024)" is a bookshelf label for books that center on the year 2024—whether set in that moment, written about events that occurred then, or imagining consequences that sprang from it. It includes contemporary nonfiction (journalism, policy analysis, memoir, and cultural criticism) that treats 2024 as a hinge year—elections and geopolitical shifts, rapid advances in AI and tech, climate crises and extreme weather, public‑health responses, and prominent social movements—as well as near‑future and speculative fiction that extrapolates from those flashpoints. Works in this category are timely and often urgent, combining reportage, analysis, and imaginative projection to help readers understand, interpret, or reimagine the political, technological, and cultural forces that defined that particular year.

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  1. 1. The Last Word by Elly Griffiths

    Natalka and Edwin run a detective agency in Shoreham, Sussex. Natalka lives with Benedict while her Ukrainian mother Valentyna joins them, making the tiny flat crowded. When local writer Melody Chambers is found dead and her family suspects murder, the pair trace a lead to a writers' retreat. After another writer dies they turn to detective Harbinder Kaur and uncover a plot stranger than fiction.

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