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• Dark Parties by Sara Grant
  ...ng in the Protectosphere doesn't mean that Neva is being protected. Maybe, the Protectosphere's job is to keep things in, rather than things out. ...y've all taken a vow of chastity – to not have sex until they're sure that the future generation they create won't be like theirs.
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• Now is Good by Jenny Downham
  ...reaking, agonising, Before I Die tells the story of the final few weeks in the life of a terminally ill adolescent. It's frank and open, dealing with ever ...l of everything she wants to experience before the dying of the light. And the first thing on it is casual sex.
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• My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
  ...literary agency which handled J D Salinger. The writing is brilliant and the book is compulsive reading. You have to read it. ...rather than computers - but its main client was J D Salinger. Rakoff knew the name - obviously - but she had never read one of his books.
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• Before I Die by Jenny Downham
  ...reaking, agonising, Before I Die tells the story of the final few weeks in the life of a terminally ill adolescent. It's frank and open, dealing with ever ...l of everything she wants to experience before the dying of the light. And the first thing on it is casual sex.
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• The Boy Book by Emily Lockhart
  |title=The Boy Book ...you realise you've not yet got dressed or washed your face or done any of the other things you would normally do straight after breakfast if you hadn't i
  5 KB (864 words) - 20:05, 29 August 2020
• Got You Back by Jane Fallon
  ...ds a text message from a strange woman. Katie has no reason to believe her boyfriend, James, is cheating until someone claiming to be his wife gets in touch… ...ack'' was a Richard and Judy Summer read of 2007. Right, now you know who the author is and how brilliant her CV looks, let's get down to brass tacks.
  5 KB (863 words) - 12:37, 4 April 2018
• Crossing the Line by Gillian Philip
  |title=Crossing the Line |summary=Gritty and tense with dollops of deadpan humour, this story of the aftermath of a fatal stabbing comes highly recommended.
  4 KB (677 words) - 10:46, 2 March 2018
• Bad Faith by Gillian Philip
  ...ion, and is a rattlingly good read. Gillian Philip was kind enough to be [[The Interview: Bookbag talks to Gillian Philip|interviewed by Bookbag]]. She ha ...he militias are just as violent, but they're slowly becoming absorbed into the security forces, and provided you're orthodox, you can get along.
  4 KB (558 words) - 12:48, 13 August 2020
• Under a Cornish Sky by Liz Fenwick
  ...a glorious estate set in the picturesque Cornish countryside, not far from the sea. ..., and so the two must forge an uneasy alliance if Boscawen is to remain in the Tregan family.
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• Bedlam by Ally Kennen
  ...ely. Her mother's beloved dog Tyson runs off as soon as Lexi lets him into the garden. And even that's overshadowed when her GHD hair straighteners break ...mpses. And there's the all-too-real menace presented by Owen, the horrible boyfriend.
  3 KB (541 words) - 14:42, 25 February 2018
• Outstanding by Kathryn Flett
  ...lligent women's fiction which looks at such varied topics as revenge porn, the case for special needs to be addressed in schools and adoption by same sex ...) choose Ivy House for their son and daughter. There's another bonus too: the Sorensens run a hedge fund and Eve's seventeen-year-old daughter Zoe is kee
  3 KB (550 words) - 20:04, 11 August 2020
• A Lovely Way to Burn (Plague Times Trilogy 1) by Louise Welsh
  ...to solve it? This is Louise Welsh's great premise, grippingly told - and the trilogy is only just beginning. ...cross the world. When Stevie's boyfriend dies it's easy to put it down to the pandemic but Stevie has a hunch and she won't stop till she's followed it,
  4 KB (620 words) - 14:57, 23 August 2020
• The Last Days by Scott Westerfeld
  |title=The Last Days ...s will see it slightly differently to the newbies. Recommended for fans of the genre.
  4 KB (677 words) - 12:07, 14 May 2018
• Going Vintage by Lindsey Leavitt
  ...er grandmother did. Will she find the answer to her modern-day problems in the past? ...n in Sean Griswold's Head were one of my favourite recent couples. For me, the love interest in this book wasn't quite as engaging as Sean was, although I
  2 KB (404 words) - 15:13, 9 April 2018
• I Heart New York by Lindsey Kelk
  ...Angela Clark has decided to flee her cheating boyfriend and is headed for The City That Never Sleeps. ''I Heart New York'' is a perfect beach read for t ...cked off your Louboutins, hitched up your bridesmaids dress and headed for the nearest airport too!
  4 KB (640 words) - 11:43, 7 October 2020
• White Crow by Marcus Sedgwick
  |summary=If you don't mind the slow start and loads of confusing philosophizing, there are some thrills an ...d horrible experiments on human corpses. He wanted to learn something from the dead. But what was it? And what does Ferelith really want from Rebecca?
  4 KB (607 words) - 12:27, 1 March 2018
• Boys for Beginners by Lil Chase
  ...e, this is the debut novel of an author going straight on the One To Watch list. ...oing to be a big jump from ''being'' one of the guys to ''bagging'' one of the guys.
  4 KB (669 words) - 15:14, 30 March 2018
• The Escape by Adam Thirlwell
  |title=The Escape ...olic farce of a story, but it's not a novel that engages the reader due to the lack of sympathetic characters.
  4 KB (668 words) - 16:03, 29 August 2020
• The Average Life of the Average Person by Tadg Farrington
  |title=The Average Life of the Average Person |summary=Some of the most interesting and unusual facts in the world, and then some, wrapped up in some delicious writing. A great gift fo
  5 KB (839 words) - 12:29, 28 February 2018
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  ...depth. Bookbag didn't enjoy this any more than it enjoyed its predecessor, The Kite Runner. Its weighty setting belies what is in actuality, a pleasant bu ...t like ''A Thousand Splendid Suns'' very much either. Sorry. It's not that the book is bad, it's just that everyone says it's wonderful, and it isn't.
  4 KB (677 words) - 09:00, 11 August 2020

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