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|authorisbn=Vincent PanettiereB0FK5LHKD9|title=These Thy GiftsThe Colour of Memory|author=Christopher Bowden

|summary=It''2006 is s been three years since we last reviewed a tumultuous year for the Catholic Church. Reports of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled. He worries for the future of the church—and rightly book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, so. A we were very glad to see a new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church and hit closer to home than he ever imaginednovel arrive here at Bookbag Towers.Like all Bowden's stories, there' As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense s a mystery at the heart of the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking his beloved Catholic church, he discovers that one child in his own parish has been abused by a priest sent by his bishop. And this isn't just any boy: this is Steve's grandson whose mother is the offspring The Colour of a long past relationship between Steve and a gangsterMoney''s widow. Steve is determined to seek justice for We like this boy running theme in an author's work - take a mystery but give it different flavour and all children victimised by priests who have been protected by his church. But he must also face up to his own failings, going right back to his breaking of the celibacy vowsatmosphere each time.|isbn=1503199886}}

|author=Delia OwensSaou Ichikawa and Polly Barton (translator)|title=Where The Crawdads SingHunchback|rating=54

|summary= In 1952, KyaI 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 mother disappeared up the dirt track to town, wearing her alligator heelsbold fuchsia cover, and never came home. Then one followed by one her siblings left, ran from the shack on the North Carolina marsh that served as home and the life that would lead to nothing but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken father. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed its striking title: ''Hunchback'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for . This is a mother that would never return word I recognised to be loaded with historical and grew up far too fast for a girl who can neither read nor writecultural baggage, often used to dehumanise or reduce. FinallyCurious, one night her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone I leaned over the display table and turned to survive on the marshback inside cover. EventuallyThere, as I discovered the years drift painfully byauthor: Saou Ichikawa, the time comes when Kya, now an emotional and vastly intelligent young a womandiagnosed in childhood with congenital myopathy, yearns for company besides the gulls a condition that causes severe muscular weakness and the land, yearning to be loved and to be held. So, when 2 boys from the town touches every aspect of Barkley Cove find their way to her, she finds a new way of life. But in 1969, the body of former star quarterback and The title took on new husband Chase Andrews is found lying complexity in the mud light of the marsh, and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysterious, run-down Marsh-Girlher biography. I had to read it. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=14721546650241700787

|isbnauthor=1473692407Jen Beagin|title=Big Swiss|rating=4.5|genre=Humour |summary=I found the premise of this book totally original and addictive. Greta possesses the power to know the population of Hudson, New York's darkest secrets, their intimate lives, their fetishes and fears. How? Her job is to transcribe their sex therapy sessions. Sure, there's a confidentiality agreement, as the sex coach who calls himself Om keeps reminding her, but that just makes it more exciting. Like we've all probably wished for at some point in life, Greta can exist passively, placidly, as a fly on the wall. That is, until Greta decides to unglue her fly-feet from the safety of the wall and buzz far too close to the sun. The Book sun in this analogy is the sex coach's newest patient, who Greta dubs 'Big Swiss', and who, like the sun, is bright, blonde and beautiful - and irresistible to Greta. Suddenly, the confidentiality agreement, the ethics of Two Waysher professional position, her loyalties to Om, fly out of the window. She's in too deep.|isbn=0571378579}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784745758|title=Three Days in June|author=Jodi PicoultAnne Tyler

|summary=Dawn Edelstein is a death doula: thatThe day before your daughter's someone who is there wedding will always be busy but Gail Baines got far more than she asked for the person who is dying, to make their passage to whatever they believe in as easy as possible and to support their carers. It's a rewardingFirst, caring occupation and Dawn puts her heart and soul into it but this wasn't always was her lifejob as assistant head at the local school. Some fifteen years ago she There was a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an Egyptologist, 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 working with her supervisor, Professor Ian Dumphrieshappening Gail had been sacked or resigned, depending on who was explaining the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egyptsituation. Then When she was Dawn McDowellgot home (in the middle of the day: who would have thought that could happen?) her ex-husband was her maiden name, 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 name she published undergroom hasn't been entirely honest about his personal life.

|isbnauthor=0241295955Samantha Harvey|title=Trio|author=William BoydOrbital|rating=4.5

|summary=It was 1968: In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the year when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinated. It's also the year when YSK Films are making a movie in Brighton. ItBooker Prize for 's called ''Emily Bracegirdle's Extremely Useful Ladder to the MoonOrbital'', or ''Ladder the Moon'' as it's known on set. Anny Viklund is the female star in a production which is proving to be just compact yet profound work that unfolds over a little bit rackety. There are odd pressures on single day in the producer, Talbot Kydd, to employ this old actor friend for lives of a couple group of days because he needs astronauts aboard the moneyInternational Space Station. Through a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, allow a fading star Harvey invites readers to use his catchphrase, or include see our planet in a song from the leading man, whose musical star is fadingwholly new light.|isbn=1529922933

|author=Anna BrunoHan Kang|title=Ordinary HazardsThe Vegetarian|rating=24.5

|summary= Some books either grab you or bore youThis novel, winner of the International Booker Prize in 2016 and penned by an author who received the Nobel Prize for Literature this year, is as close to unputdownable as it gets. And this was one that I wanted so badly It more than lives up to like but unfortunatelythe acclaim. The story introduces uncanny characters with fragile, vividly tangible bodies yet unknowable, I just wasn't hookedelusive souls.|isbn=14711848621803510056

|isbnauthor=1712435728Sally Rooney|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherIntermezzo

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction |summary=When we first meet Alex HannahSally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, he's just being released from the Southern General Hospital. The nurse thinks he'll come back central one for readers to visit unravel is the other patients but Alex has no intention of doing that: he's been there for fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a yearsocially awkward chess prodigy, on the same ward where contrasts sharply with his older brother died and nowPeter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with his hair all shorn offcancer, hethe brothers's going home in already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0DGDJRHYD|title=Nowhere Man|author=Deborah Stone|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=In a quiet suburban house, Patrick is making his dead brother's clothesfinal plans. He wants A meticulous man, he makes sure of every preparation, down to get outside the last detail. Some last reflections, and back with his friends: then he says goodbye to his brotherwife, Forbesthe world, says that the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that helife. It's not to mention TB horribly sad. At work in her shop, his wife Diana is fending off yet another phone call about her ageing and to say it was tonsillitisailing mother, who needs extricating from yet another accident. Good luck with that one, AlexIt will be a while before Diana realises what Patrick has done.

|authorisbn=Helen Fisher1739526910|title=Space HopperWhere I've Not Been Lost|author=Glen Sibley|rating=34.5

|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours ''One year after her mum died from a cold that got worse, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormously. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's and her mumlife, she revels he arrives in the chance an unfamiliar Devon town to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to herrecover. The time travellingLiving with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home, howeverhe dreams of reconnecting with everything he has lost. But as those tentative plans falter, is neither easy nor safehe becomes swept up in a local world of unlikely friendships, mobile discos and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies to him insteadsurprising romantic possibilities. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to the past. 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=1471188663

|author= Claire McGowanJenny Lecoat|title=The PushBeyond Summerland|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at a prenatal classJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. It During the war, Jean's NCT ''style'', but not the proper NCT. This bit is important, but you have father was arrested for listening to wait a little to see why. This being Londonbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, such a class attracts a wide variety leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of people, him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from all sorts of backgroundsthe Nazis, but for most of the ladies and the thing they have in common war is it's finally over, their first babyhopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. Probably after But will the first onetruth come as a relief, you don't or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=15420199901846976537

|isbnauthor=0008378363Onyi Nwabineli|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=A husband is about Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to have his throat cut in his own bed. To find out who her step- mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and why - we need to go back nine days influencer deals and twenty years, basically, monetary gain. Mackenzie, Robin Now Anuri is in her twenties and Lily met when they all went she is slowly trying to the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania regain her confidence and twenty years later they're still the best of friends. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as a nod to the famous girl band of the day. Lily would be Adventure Spiceget her life back, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie suing her step- well, Mackenzie would be mother to take down the supporting actress in content about her own life. She married OwenAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her college sweetheart PhD, undergoing therapy and they have a daughtersecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, Ariashe is desperately worried about her little sister, whois the new focus of Ophelia's now fifteen-year-oldonline empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbn=B07WWSCGVS1529153298|title=The Lies You ToldList of Suspicious Things|author=Harriet TyceJennie Godfrey

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isnIt't happy about having to start a new schools 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) She's left the school she loved in New York and now shenot what's worrying Miv's going to Ashams in North Londonfamily, though. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as the pupils Women have all been there disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'foreverdisappeared'doesn', they have their established groupst sound quite so frightening. RobinMiv's going upset because she's overheard that her father wants to be an outsidermove the family 'Down South'. And why When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is this happening? a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. WellFor Miv, over a matter of a few days the move would mean leaving her parentsbest friend, Sharon, and she' marriage fell apartll do anything to prevent that. Andrew Spence is staying She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's 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 more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - he works supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a securities firm - mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her motherpreference 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, Sadie Roperrun by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come back and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to London Canada to pick get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance 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 Isabel 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 practice as abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a criminal barristerterrifically bad day. ThatHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's easier said than done when you've 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 deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A 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 out sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of the market place - Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and the country - for more than ten yearsHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Antoine LaurainKatherine Howe|title=The Readers RoomA True Account|rating=4.5

|rating=3.5|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a great successfamily who run an inn, and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscriptsbeing made to work there from a young age. The three people who work in the Readers' Room When she hears there is to sift through what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor be a hanging of some pirates in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smashtown, she decides to go and so it has provenwatch. But there are several Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy'howevers' to thats death at the hands of two vicious pirates. As inShe hides away, however – Violaine herself is not having life all so that they don't find and kill her own waytoo, for and then to escape them completely she has been involved 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 near-fatal accidentmutiny on board, and starts this book coming round 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 comaman who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. AndJamie's son, Bo, however – despite all urging'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the author of more you'll suspect that he's on the book has never once made themselves known autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the publishers in person, local A&E and in fact, offered sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up a most peculiar statement-come-threat from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in their last emailthe wrong. What is It was going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of it due come to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?|isbn=1910477974a head.

|isbn=085752612XB0CKD1L5JL|title=Rodham: What if Hillary hadn't Married Bill?Radio Free Olympia|author=Curtis SittenfeldJeffrey Dunn

|summary=I was tempted to read ''Rodham'' Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the success strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the forests of Curtis SittenfeldWashington's ''American Wife''Olympic Peninsula. That book wasn't marketed as being After Bear dies and a portrait of Laura Bush, but the word ''thinly-veiled'' seemed to occur very regularly brief sojourn in reviews. How would ''Rodham'' compare? Unfortunatelyhuman company, there is and armed with only a difference: relatively little was known about Laura Bushpirate radio transmitter, which gave the book Petr goes on a freshness which journey through the first third of ''Rodham'' lacks. We've all heard forest, broadcasting the storiesstrange, read the books - about Hillary wild and particularly about Billrarely heard voices he encounters. It's still an interesting concept, though: how would Hillary have fared if she hadn't subsumed her own ambitions into Bill's career, if she hadn't had to carry the burden of all Bill's baggage and if she hadn't left her own run at the presidency so late? Could she have done better without the Clinton surname?

|author=Anstey HarrisSarah Marsh|title=Where We BelongA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5

|summary= I've always believed that places and buildings absorb what happens within them and reflect it back; this is how we can tell that After a bout of scarlet fever as a sacred space is sacredchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Cate Morris believes Suddenly plunged into a similar thingworld of silence, she believes that ''A house absorbs happiness, it blooms into everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the wallpaper, the wood use of the window framessign language was seen as something only savages do, the bricks: that's how it becomes Ellen is sent to a home.'' She school where she is having these thoughts as she packs up her home. She has taught to leavelip read, but physically restrained from signing. A combination of circumstances means that is not only redundant but also homeless. With nowhere else to goFrom here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called on her late husband's family for helpVisible Speech. Just for At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a few weekscomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=14711738361035401614

|authorisbn=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)B0BC3YTCMR|title=A Life Without EndGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one''This story is not for everyone. It won't be one ' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of the major numbers, but the time her fifteenth birthday when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizonThe Incident happened. And then She was a few of the big 0-numbersvery bright student, and a bit too nerdy if all goes welltruth be told, Iand suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it'll be an OBEs contagious. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if thatIt's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happynot easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, 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=It was in 1968 that Helena 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's parents) felt that it would be a 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 love her grandmother and the family'I suppose s maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the odd fleeting sense Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of loneliness Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a price all truly successful people must pay for our giftssense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. I tell myself As he recovers his senses, he realises that I do so willinglythere is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated. }}

|authorisbn=J Paul HendersonB0BYF82CXT|title=DaisySemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=This is the story of Herod S. Pinkney, a rather unusual (yet somehow charming) man who is ''Bill and Amanda are living in search of a woman called Daisysemi-detached house, whom he first sees stuck in an episode a depressing rut of Judge Judy on television boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and instantly falls very much in love with her! Rod is writing the novel of his quest, guided by an embittered ex-literary agent who is now clearing glasses – move in a pub for a livingnext door. Determined to find and meet DaisyDespite their different outlooks on life, the book takes us through Rod's couples befriend each other and life, introduces us appears to his friendsimprove for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and tells us of what happens in his quest their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for lovetragedy.|isbn=0857303309''

{{Frontpage |isbnauthor=1529123941 Shalini Boland|title=The Silent Treatment |author=Abbie Greaves Bride|rating=4.5 3|genre=General Fiction |summary= When we meet Professor Frank Hobbs Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and his utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, Maggiesuccessful, Frank confident… and so the inevitable proposal is playing chess against his computer, although not very successfullyeagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. MaggieWhen the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, on beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the other handcongregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has just taken some pills - eight absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|isbn=1662507089}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of themSummer|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 fact - and before long her, she will collapsewas flattered rather than wary. When Frank rings the emergency services in Oxford It was quite a while before he has a bit made any sort of a problem. He has physical approach to admit her and by that he and Maggie haven't actually spoken for a whiletime she was obsessed by him. How long? WellAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, it's about six months since he spoke to Maggie looking after his interests on the island and he can't really say if it's likely that Maggie has tried to take her own lifein particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.

|author=Camilla BruceAmanda Craig|title=You Let Me InThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary= Eccentric, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has been missing for a year and has been pronounced legally dead by her lawyersFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. Her will instructs her niece There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and nephew to enter her home and find capture it, crafting an image of the key to their inheritance country as it stands in an old manuscript left in her officeone particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: the last story she'll ever tells practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn=1787633179140871468X

|authorisbn= Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed152915118X|title= Yes No Maybe So Pineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= ''We might give it our all Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and crash George are sisters and burnSasha is married to their brother Cord. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for They're Stocktons, dononly Sasha isn't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for a special election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassing, he canStockton by birth so she isn't think of anything worsereadily accepted into the tribe. However The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician asks Cord and decides there is no time Sasha if they'd like the present to conquer his fear of speaking to move into the publicPineapple Street property. Maya is Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through a separationfurniture from Pineapple Street, she has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things so Sasha and her only close friend is permanently busyCord can move straight in. To help occupy her Nominally, her parents offer to buy her they had a car if she agrees choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to go canvassingcall Sasha 'the gold digger'. The pair could possibly be the worst canvassing duo She's living in history, as neither of them really want to be there, but as the campaign goes on they discover ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they care, a lot, about abbreviate it to 'the election - and maybe even about each other?|isbn=1471184668GD'.

|author=Elliot ReedEmily Critchley|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingOne Puzzling Afternoon

|summary=This is the story of a young boy, William Tyce, who is being raised by his uncle after the death of his mother and his fatherI reviewed David F Ross's abandonment. However, it isnbook [[There't told in the usual narrative way. Instead, the book is made up of glossary entries, written s Only One Danny Garvey by William, as David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a way couple of describing certain events, situations years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and emotionsaffecting it was. It runs alphabeticallywas a gripping, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began to emotionally wounding read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used to the style, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was instead caught up in William's storythat I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|isbn=1911545418

|author= T R HendrickLucy Ashe|title= What if They KnewClara and Olivia|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= ItThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's 2025Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Underneath a lodge in Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the Blue Mountain resort in Pennsylvaniainside. And not on stage, is either. Because there's a lot that builds a secret facilitydancer. HereSome things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, Dr Benton attention to detail – and his team are making some critical scientific advances on behalf of the Benefactorthings, their anonymous funder. Alreadythat ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the team have succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place to anotherclassroom. ButA stage presence, unbeknownst to the Benefactora charm, Dr Benton has also coded for another type of teleportation altogether - travel through time. And hea ''joie de vivre''s ready to test. If successfulThe difference between a hard-worker, Benton has and a very specific use for his technology in mindstar.|isbn=17342772110861544080