==General fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Sue Peebles
|title=The Death of Lomond Friel
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Rosie was a successful radio presenter when her father, Lomond Friel, had a stroke. Whether or not Rosie was always reckless and impulsive isn't entirely clear, but once she heard about the stroke she took a break from work and began to build her life around making a future for herself and her father. There are two problems here: Rosie isn't really all that capable of looking after herself, never mind her father and Lomond is quietly plotting his own death. He might not be able to speak, to move very much, but he has plans.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701184302</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Najat El-Hachmi
|summary=Eitan Enoch is known as Croc to his friends. There's a good reason but it's about to become rather more famous than Croc would like. It's begins on the morning that he takes his regular bus to work – the Little Number 5 – and a fellow passenger worries about the dark-skinned man with a suit bag who's sitting at the front. Just before Croc gets off at his stop he asks why people are so paranoid and wonders whether it's impossible for dark-skinned guys with suit bags to get on buses any more.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007327463</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Heather Gudenkauf
|title=The Weight of Silence
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=On a hot August morning in the small town of Willow Creek, Iowa, Calli Clark and Petra Gregory are reported missing. They are both seven years old, live in the same street, and are the very best of friends. Calli has suffered from selective mutism from the age of four when she witnessed a traumatic event in her home. As a result Petra has become Calli’s voice, speaking for her and is even able to tell others what Calli is thinking.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303691</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Katherine Hall Page
|title=The Body in the Basement
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The central character with the unforgettable name of Pix is one of those 'apple pie' moms. The family is her life. Every summer, most members de-camp to the coast, to get away from it all, recharge the batteries. But this particular year, Pix notes, is going to be a ''summer of women.'' Pix is a middle-aged, middle-of-the-road, ordinary person ... until she makes some gruesome discoveries.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090390</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Aifric Campbell
|title=The Loss Adjustor
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Caro's job is to 'adjust' people's losses. Working for a large insurance company, she deals day to day with people grieving for their lost or stolen belongings. Digital cameras with priceless honeymoon photos, laptops with work files and engagement rings. It's Caro's responsibility to assess the case and decide on whether to financially reimburse or not. But Caro knows well that sometimes it's not about the money. Her job requires emotional sensitivity and the sort of manner that invites people to open up to you. Her years of experience have made her an expert in dealing with everyone else's loss. But not her own.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687306</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bill Sheehy
|title=The Argentine Kidnapping
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Son Cardonsky is the type of guy that would make even the biggest of cowards want to take on the playground bully on their behalf. Which, funnily enough, is how Bernie Gould acquires Son Cardonsky as his 'best-friend-forever'; at least, that is, Son considers Bernie to be his best friend in the world, even if Bernie can't quite see it the same way.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089945</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Abbott
|title=The Upright Piano Player
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The central character, one Mr Henry Cage (he'd approve of the courteous form of address) is white, middle-aged and middle-class. He appears to have a perfect, enviable life. Reaping the substantial rewards of a successful business, he's acquired along the way a lovely London home, a wife and a family. All boxes ticked, you'd think.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694842</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joanna Davies
|title=Freshers
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Going to Uni is meant to be one of the best times of your life...that first taste of freedom from your family, learning independence, meeting new friends and discovering who you are. Oh, and a little studying of course! This book charts the first 'fresher' year of three students, Lois, Cerys and Hywel who are studying at Aberystwyth University during 1991/1992. I was interested because I did my first degree just a couple of years after this, and also I studied a post grad at Aberystwyth. Turns out this wasn't exactly a nice happy trip down memory lane however...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784140</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=D J Taylor
|title=Ask Alice
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The central character Alice, has had a humble start in life but ' ... the silence of the Kansas flat ... and the distant murmur of the freight trains ' is not for her. She dreams of the bright lights of the big cities and although she is naive and unworldly, fancies herself as an actress. Painful and difficult decisions are made as she reaches for her goal. Her talent and resourcefulness see her through; give her a modest roof above her head in this precarious profession.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531984</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rhys Thomas
|title=The Suicide Club
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Craig Bartlett-Taylor's third attempt at killing himself is nearly successful – except when he announces in class that he's taken a whole bottle of pills, new boy Frederick Spaulding-Carter steps in and saves his life. Freddy attains instant celebrity as a hero, and our narrator Richard Harper is as impressed as anyone else.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552774979</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Richard Flanagan
|title=Wanting
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Read the blurb on the back of Flanagan's ''Wanting,'' and you'll think it's the usual post colonial tale of Britain as enemy number one, ''wanting'' to impose its rule on everyone else. In a way it is such a tale, but what makes it more interesting is the story of a little girl caught up in the wider historical events.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848870779</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Patricia Duncker
|title=The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's rural France, and 2000 is barely begun, when hunters come across a spread of human corpses in the mountains. Several families, all in the same cult, seem to have killed themselves on their path to wherever. If so, this is a problem, for the last time it happened, in Switzerland a few years previous, nobody could work out why – and who was there to dispose of some of the evidence. This isn't a problem for the policeman involved, as he fell desperately in love with the investigative judge in collaborating on the initial case. Combining again, they see a link with everybody involved in both cases, a famous conductor /composer.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807041</amazonuk>
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