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|isbn=0241295955B0FK5LHKD9|title=TrioThe Colour of Memory|author=William BoydChristopher Bowden|rating=54

|summary=It was 1968: the year when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinated. It's also the year when YSK Films are making been three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, so we were very glad to see a movie in Brightonnew novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. ItLike all Bowden's called ''Emily Bracegirdlestories, there's Extremely Useful Ladder to a mystery at the Moonheart of '', or The Colour of Money''Ladder the Moon'' as it. We like this running theme in an author's known on set. Anny Viklund is the female star in work - take a production which is proving to be just a little bit rackety. There are odd pressures on the producer, Talbot Kydd, to employ this old actor friend for a couple of days because he needs the money, allow a fading star to use his catchphrase, or include a song from the leading man, whose musical star is fadingmystery but give it different flavour and atmosphere each time.

|author=Anna BrunoSaou Ichikawa and Polly Barton (translator)|title=Ordinary HazardsHunchback|rating=24

|summary= Some books either grab you I was in the middle of a self-imposed book-buying ban when I made an exception for this one. What first drew me in was the book's bold fuchsia cover, followed by its striking title: ''Hunchback''. This is a word I recognised to be loaded with historical and cultural baggage, often used to dehumanise or bore youreduce. And this was one that Curious, I wanted so badly leaned over the display table and turned to like but unfortunatelythe back inside cover. There, I discovered the author: Saou Ichikawa, a woman diagnosed in childhood with congenital myopathy, a condition that causes severe muscular weakness and touches every aspect of her life. The title took on new complexity in light of her biography. I just wasn't hookedhad to read it.|isbn=14711848620241700787

|isbnauthor=1712435728Jen Beagin|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherBig Swiss

|genre=TeensHumour |summary=When we first meet Alex HannahI found the premise of this book totally original and addictive. Greta possesses the power to know the population of Hudson, heNew York's just being released from the Southern General Hospitaldarkest secrets, their intimate lives, their fetishes and fears. How? Her job is to transcribe their sex therapy sessions. The nurse thinks heSure, there'll come back to visit s a confidentiality agreement, as the other patients sex coach who calls himself Om keeps reminding her, but Alex has no intention of doing that: hejust makes it more exciting. Like we's been there ve all probably wished for at some point in life, Greta can exist passively, placidly, as a yearfly on the wall. That is, on until Greta decides to unglue her fly-feet from the safety of the same ward where his brother died wall and now, with his hair all shorn offbuzz far too close to the sun. The sun in this analogy is the sex coach's newest patient, hewho Greta dubs 's going home in his dead brotherBig Swiss's clothes. He wants to get outside , and back with his friends: his brotherwho, Forbeslike the sun, says that the fresh air will do him good is bright, blonde and his mother tells him that he's not to mention TB beautiful - and irresistible to say it was tonsillitisGreta. Good luck with that oneSuddenly, the confidentiality agreement, the ethics of her professional position, her loyalties to Om, Alexfly out of the window. She's in too deep.|isbn=0571378579

|isbn=1784745758|title=Three Days in June|author=Anne Tyler|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The day before your daughter's wedding will always be busy but Gail Baines got far more than she asked for. First, it was her job as assistant head at the local school. There was a moment when she hoped that she would be promoted to head but the discussion moved into the subject of 'people skills' and before she knew what was happening Gail had been sacked or resigned, depending on who was explaining the situation. When she got home (in the middle of the day: who would have thought that could happen?) her ex-husband was there with a cat. He thinks that he'll be staying and that Gail will be adopting the cat. And that's before Gail discovers that the groom hasn't been entirely honest about his personal life.}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen FisherSamantha Harvey|title=Space HopperOrbital|rating=34.5

|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worseIn 2024, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormously. So whenSamantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''Orbital'', unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) compact yet profound work that takes her back to the 70's and her mum, she revels unfolds over a single day in the chance to create some memories and get to know lives of a group of astronauts aboard the woman who meant so much to herInternational Space Station. The time travelling, however, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears Through a narrative lens that her husband won't believe whatmirrors the astronauts's happening and so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangledorbital perspective, and Faye begins Harvey invites readers to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to the pastsee our planet in a wholly new light. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=14711886631529922933

|author= Claire McGowanHan Kang|title=The PushVegetarian|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at a prenatal class. It's NCT ''style'', but not the proper NCT. This bit is important, but you have to wait a little to see why. This being London, such a class attracts a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgroundsnovel, but for most winner of the ladies International Booker Prize in 2016 and penned by an author who received the thing they have in common Nobel Prize for Literature this year, is as close to unputdownable as it's their first babygets. Probably after It more than lives up to the first oneacclaim. The story introduces uncanny characters with fragile, you don't have time for classesvividly tangible bodies yet unknowable, or think you've got child-rearing down patelusive souls.|isbn=15420199901803510056

|isbnauthor=0008378363Sally Rooney|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneIntermezzo|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction |summary=A husband Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is about to have his throat cut in his own bedsomething of a grandmaster at putting it into words. To find out who - and why - we need to go back nine days Her dialogue is gripping and twenty years. Mackenzieso brilliantly frustrating, Robin and Lily met when as her characters never quite say exactly what they all went to feel. Among the same college in Monroevillemany relationships woven into this story, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best of friends. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as a nod central one for readers to unravel is the famous girl band of the dayfraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Lily would be Adventure SpiceIvan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - wellcontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress a successful lawyer living in her own lifeDublin. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have Following their father's passing after a daughterlong battle with cancer, Aria, whothe brothers's now fifteen-year-oldalready strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469

|isbn=B07WWSCGVSB0DGDJRHYD|title=The Lies You ToldNowhere Man|author=Harriet TyceDeborah Stone|rating=54|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start In a new schoolquiet suburban house, Patrick is making his final plans. She's left A meticulous man, he makes sure of every preparation, down to the school she loved in New York last detail. Some last reflections, and now she's going then he says goodbye to Ashams in North London. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as his wife, the pupils have all been there ''forever''world, they have their established groupsand his life. RobinIt's going to be an outsiderhorribly sad. And why At work in her shop, his wife Diana is this happening? Well, over a matter of a few days fending off yet another phone call about her parents' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - ageing and her ailing mother, Sadie Roper, who needs extricating from yet another accident. It will be a while before Diana realises what Patrick has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten years.

|isbn=1739526910|title=Where I've Not Been Lost|author=Antoine LaurainGlen Sibley|titlerating=The Readers Room4.5

|rating=3.5|summary=Violaine''One year after a suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's publishing house has had a great successlife, and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscripts. The three people who work he arrives in the Readers' Room an unfamiliar Devon town to sift through what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smashrecover. Living with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home, and so it he dreams of reconnecting with everything he has provenlost. But there are several 'howevers' to that. As inas those tentative plans falter, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own way, for she has been involved he becomes swept up in a near-fatal accident, and starts this book coming round from a coma. And, however – despite all urging, the author local world of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in personunlikely friendships, mobile discos and in fact, offered up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailsurprising romantic possibilities. What is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?|isbn=1910477974''

|isbnauthor=085752612XJenny Lecoat|title=Rodham: What if Hillary hadn't Married Bill?|author=Curtis SittenfeldBeyond Summerland

|summary=I was tempted to read ''Rodham'' by Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the success end of Curtis Sittenfeld's ''American Wife''the occupation. That book wasnDuring the war, Jean't marketed as being s father was arrested for listening to a portrait banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of Laura Bushhim. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, but and the word ''thinly-veiled'' seemed to occur very regularly in reviewswar is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. How would ''Rodham'' compareBut will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Unfortunately, there is a difference: relatively little Who was known the informer who told the Nazis about Laura Bush, which gave the book a freshness which radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537}}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the first third world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri''Rodham'' lackss childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. We've all heard the storiesNow Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, read suing her step-mother to take down the books - content about Hillary her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and particularly about Billsecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. It's still an interesting conceptMost importantly, though: how would Hillary have fared if she hadn't subsumed is desperately worried about her own ambitions into Bill's careerlittle sister, if she hadn't had to carry who is the burden new focus of all BillOphelia's baggage online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and if she hadn't left her own run relationship with her father at the presidency so late? Could she have done better without the Clinton surnamesame time?|isbn=0861546873

|authorisbn=Anstey Harris1529153298|title=Where We BelongThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|summary= It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? Imean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've always believed been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that places and buildings absorb what happens within them and reflect it back; this her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is how we can tell that a sacred space is sacredfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Cate Morris believes a similar thingFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she believes 'll do anything to prevent that . She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum'A house absorbs happinesss stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it blooms into more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the wallpaperonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the wood business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the window frameschance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the bricks: thatIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's how it becomes always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a homehand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.'' She 5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having these thoughts as she packs up her homea terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. She Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to leavedeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A combination of circumstances means really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is not only redundant but also homelessclearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. With nowhere else Spike is going to gotake care of Benny, she has called on her late husbandand will certainly take care of Benny's family for help. Just for enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a few weekswaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=14711738361662500491

|author=Frederic Beigbeder Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and Frank Wynne (translator)kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|isbn=0861547438}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A Life Without End&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=I looked at Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the calendar strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the other weekforests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and disappointedly realised I have armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a birthday this year – I knowjourney through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, yet another oneEllen Lark loses her hearing. It won't be one Suddenly plunged into a world of the major numberssilence, but the everything about her life changes. Living in a time when I have the same number use of sign language was seen as Heinz varieties looms on something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the horizondeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. And then a few of At the big 0-numberssame time, Bell is working on other inventions and if all goes wellideas, Iand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary='ll be an OBE'This story is not for everyone. (Which '' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of course stands for Over Bloody Eightyher fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened.) Now She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if thattruth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happycontagious. Our author here doesnIt't use that exact phrase, s not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he might be said to be living onewould notice her. Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would like tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, which is at least a way of continuing the life of his genes, house and a motive to keep ongoinghe raped her. But how can he get In shock, she even allowed him to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670give her a lift home.

|isbn=B08774SJYN1472263936|title=The Greenbecker GambitFigurine|author=Ben GraffVictoria Hislop

|summary=''I suppose the odd fleeting sense of loneliness is a price all truly successful people must pay for our gifts. I tell myself It was in 1968 that I do so willinglyHelena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena'' Tennessee Greenbecker. Isn't s parents) felt that it would be a name pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to conjure with? There are hints that it might not have been love her grandmother and the name he was given at birthfamily's maid, Dina, but many was wary - and frightened - of us have moved onher grandfather, so far as names go, from retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the one we were originally saddled withJunta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. Greenbecker His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's life Scottish ancestors.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is one of constant reinventionreleased in a bio-hazard accident. He tells us Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he's sits up and looks around at the foremost chess player never to have been world championshrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, and it does seem he realises that there is something different about him; he has some considerable talent as far as chess goescan ''feel'' everything. He ''Everything's determined that he's going to fulfil what he sees as his destiny. He just needs to do some study to be able to beat the current players ranked at numbers one and two in the world. Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana will not stand in his way Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467

|authorisbn=J Paul HendersonB0BVDC2VWH|title=DaisyThe Grave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary=This The village is the story of Herod Sisolated and poor. Pinkney, It's surrounded by a rather unusual (yet somehow charming) man who is in search of a woman called Daisy, whom he first sees in an episode of Judge Judy on television and instantly falls in love with her! Rod is writing Witching Forest. And the novel of his quest, guided villagers subsist largely by an embittered exfarming Uphegia plants - its bread-literary agent who is now clearing glasses in a pub for a livinglike fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. Determined to find The black wood of the forest provides heat and meet Daisywarmth, the book takes us through Rod's liferoofs on homes, introduces us to his friendsand even gallows, and tells us if needed. The fear of what happens being buried alive is an existential superstition in his quest for love.|isbn=0857303309}}{{Frontpage |isbn=1529123941 |title=The Silent Treatment |author=Abbie Greaves |rating=4.5 |genre=General Fiction |summary= When we meet Professor Frank Hobbs the village and his wife, Maggie, Frank that is playing chess against his computerthe reason Volushka, although not very successfully. Maggie, on the other handa drunken, has just taken some pills self- eight of themindulgent, in fact - and before long she will collapse. When Frank rings the emergency services in Oxford he has a bit lazy lout of a problem. He has to admit that he and Maggie haven't actually spoken for a while. How long? Well, it's about six months since he spoke to Maggie and he can't really say if it's likely that Maggie has tried to take her own lifeman is tolerated.

|authorisbn=Camilla BruceB0BYF82CXT|title=You Let Me InSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary= Eccentric''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has been missing for stuck in a year depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and has been pronounced legally dead by her lawyersvery much in love – move in next door. Her will instructs her niece Despite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and nephew life appears to enter her home improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and find the key to their inheritance in an old manuscript left in her office: the last story sheincreasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''ll ever tell.|isbn=1787633179

|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha SaeedShalini Boland|title= Yes No Maybe So The Silent Bride|rating= 43|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= ''We might give it our all Alice and crash and burnSeth are a match made in heaven. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, don't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in time for a special election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassingwife; beautiful, he can't think of anything worse. Howeversuccessful, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician confident… and decides there so the inevitable proposal is no time like eagerly accepted by Alice and the present to conquer his fear of speaking to wedding is planned and set. When the public. Maya is a Pakistanimuch-American Muslim girl who anticipated day arrives, Alice is having walked down the worst summer of aisle by her life. Her parents are going through a separationfather, beaming with pride and excitement as she has zero plans for surveys the summer congregation – their friends assembled to help take her mind off things celebrate this joyful day and her only close friend when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is permanently busy. To help occupy her, who is waiting for her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassingbecome his wife. The pair could possibly be the worst canvassing duo in history, as neither of them really want to be there, but as the campaign goes on they discover that they care, a lot, about the election - and maybe even about each other?|isbn=14711846681662507089

|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.}}{{Frontpage|author=Elliot ReedAmanda Craig|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary=This is Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the story state-of a young boy, William Tyce, -the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who is being raised by his uncle after can catch hold of the death atmosphere of his mother the day and his father's abandonment. Howevercapture it, crafting an image of the country as it isnstands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she't told in s practically synonymous with the usual narrative waygenre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Instead, She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the book is made up lives of glossary entries, written by William, as her characters in a way of describing certain events, situations that feels natural and emotions. It runs alphabeticallylived-in, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!' never making them ciphers for social commentary but I soon grew used to the styleinstead fully realised people, and was instead caught up in William's storygrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn=1911545418140871468X

|authorisbn= T R Hendrick152915118X|title= What if They KnewPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= It's 2025. Underneath a lodge in 'Pineapple Street'' is the Blue Mountain resort in Pennsylvaniastory of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a secret facilityStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. Here The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Dr Benton Tilda, asks Cord and his team are making some critical scientific advances on behalf Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the Benefactorfurniture from Pineapple Street, their anonymous funderso Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Already Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the team have succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place to anotherreality. But, unbeknownst Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the Benefactor, Dr Benton has also coded for another type of teleportation altogether - travel through timegold digger'. And he She's ready living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to test'the GD'. If successful, Benton has a very specific use for his technology in mind|isbn=1734277211

|author=H G Parry Emily Critchley|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepOne Puzzling Afternoon

|summary=Brothers Rob The love affair between Margo Garnett and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years poet Richard O'Leary was all- Rob a sensible lawyer who exists consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in the "normal" world love. Richard was twenty- one and Charley a described by Margo's mother as 'an older man who is blessed with an ability he can't fully control . Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - one which allows him going to bring literary characters into Oxford and having a glittering career. In the real worldevent, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. After years of protecting Charley, Rob wants Margo did go to discharge his duties Oxford and leave Charley went on to his own devices become a well- but circumstances soon take choices out of both their handsrespected journalist. As literary characters begin to appear everywhere The couple had three children: Rachel, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's powers Imogen and intends to use them for nefarious gainsSasha. Rob Life was lived in London and Charley must team up to stop holidays were spent at Sandcove, the madness - in a battle to win before they, family home on the characters and Isle of Wight. Even then the world reach The End…doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''. |isbn=0356513777Then Richard left them.

|isbn=16437850361914585402|title=The Wondrous ApothecaryDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Mary E MartinDavid F Ross|rating=4.5

|summary=Those who have known Alexander Wainwright, the landscape artist famous for his Turner prize-winning I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There'The Hay Wagons Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There'', s Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and Rinaldo, the renowned conceptual artist would say that they're chalk remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and cheese, if not sworn enemiesaffecting it was. If you've watched the relationship, as has our narrator, art dealer Jamie HelmsworthIt was a gripping, you'd have said that they were magnetsemotionally wounding read, drawing and repulsing each other in equal measure. Wainwright was at the socially acceptable end rereading my review of the artistic continuum, but with Rinaldo, it my main takeaway was all too obvious that there was but a fine dividing line between conceptual art and public nuisance. As time has worn I might not have lavished enough praise on, he's frequently been brought to the attention of the police. On this latest occasion, we see him charged with arson and theft of ''The Hay Wagon''it.

|author=Mary H.K. ChoiLucy Ashe|title=Permanent RecordClara and Olivia|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Pablo, a college drop-out, The year is working at a New York bodega1933. HeThe place? Sadler's massively in debtWells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, he's avoiding his mothertwins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, and he finds his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! Whilst working one eveningon the inside. And not on stage, heeither. Because there's surprised to discover a lot that the girl he is chatting with as he serves is a super-famous pop star and, as unlikely as it may seem, they start builds a relationshipdancer. With one character who is trying very hard not to Some things that can be seen taught or noticed by anyone learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and the other who is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over the worldsome things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', itthat don's an interesting clash as they t come togetherfrom the classroom. This isn't just A stage presence, a love story thoughcharm, and actually ita ''joie de vivre's really just Pab's story. The difference between a hard-worker, about the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smartand a star.|isbn=03490034590861544080