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 ===[[The Man Who Came to London American Royals by A S CooksonKatharine McGee]]===
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''In 1948Two and a half centuries ago, America won the Revolutionary War and General George Washington was offered the crown. Today, the first set House of Caribbean nationals arrived Washington still sit on the thrown with Princess Beatrice next in Great Britain on a ship called "Empire Windrush"line. They struggled Beatrice's whole life has been building up to find housing. They worked as labourers. They faced open discrimination, forcing them to quickly form their own community. Decades later, Freddy makes her ruling the United States and the same journeytime for her reign is imminent.''[[American Royals by Katharine McGee|Full Review]]
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Freddie arrives in London in the early 2000s, answering the call for teachers. He thinks about his own Jamaican education, based on the British system, and the way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the River Thames. He thinks about the love of cricket and football, shared by both countries. And he thinks of the generations of the diaspora who came before him. Freddy does well in his job in East London but he does have to face down some stereotypical attitudes from his pupils - all Jamaicans smoke weed, don't they? Everybody knows that! [[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson|Full Review]]
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In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British StreetsMore fool me. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the west. Dividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Liberation Square Train Man by Gareth RubinAndrew Mulligan|Full Review]]
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===[[When You Read This The Girl at the Window by Mary AdkinsRowan Coleman]]===
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Smith Simonyi Trudy Heaton is going home, to a house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and Iris Massey worked together to a mother she hasn't spoken to for four sixteen years, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. SmithHome, meanwhileher refuge, relied on IrisPonden Hall, but his attention was on making enough money where she can heal herself and try to come to cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running terms with the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for himtraumatic loss of her husband. He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer She needs to build bridges with her mother and died at the age of thirty threeconvince her grieving son that his father is dead. He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in Where better than the last six months house full of light and shadow, that nurtured her life and throughout her final request of Smith is that he gets the blog published as a book. childhood? [[When You Read This The Girl at the Window by Mary AdkinsRowan Coleman|Full Review]]
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===[[Vera Magpie We Are Not Okay by Laura SolomonNatalia Gomes]]===
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Set in a typical American town, ''I have murdered three husbands.We Are Not Okay'' As an opening line that must take some beating, but Veratells the story of four teenage girls facing the difficulties brought on by high school and growing up as a girl in today's telling us the truthsociety. The first two husbandsnovel is told from four different perspectives, those of Lucy, Ulana, Gary Trina and Harry were abusiveSophia, but Larry was whose friendship statuses vary from BFFs to sworn enemies. The reader is presented with a treasureglimpse into each of their lives, a keeperbut more importantly their minds, and it's difficult to understand why Vera would at times the thoughts of those characters could have killed himbeen taken directly from my own. Gomes has created a heartbreakingly real and relevant novel that focuses on prominent topic areas which are becoming ingrained in our society, particularly when she was likely in relation to get found out very quickly and now shethe ''Me Too Movement''s in prison with a mandatory life sentence. Her only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, but Vera's not one to let herself be a victim. She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldnWe Are Not Okay''t risk reminds the security reader of her life in prison for the sake importance of a fling), but she is keen on getting an education and shephrases like ''I'm With Her''s studying for a degree in English Literature. [[Vera Magpie We Are Not Okay by Laura SolomonNatalia Gomes|Full Review]]
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===[[Black Light Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Laura SolomonKate Tough]]===
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Jim is Life has just hidden behind a university student corner and, stuck a foot out as the saying goes, he hasnRhona Beech came past. She and Mark had been together for nine years and it was beginning to feel ''settled''t got his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when Then Mark announced that he was young 'd got a job in Canada and somehow he's never really managed was going whether Rhona wanted to connect come with his step-fatherhim or not. His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest youThe ''not''d just say that he bit of the sentence was very difficult, but Jim does his best with the way it worked out and for himRhona was left on her own. JimWell, she wasn's in love with a woman, but t completely on her own: she finds him repulsive had friends and you can understand why: the looksfamily, but it's not the attitudesame as having that special someone in your life, the (lack that someone who makes you part of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desiredcouple. Despite all So Rhona had to start again, rejoining a world thatbore little resemblance to the one she's he's not about to sit back d left nine years ago - and allow his life to drift: hethere's actually writing ''two'' novels a lot of difference between being in the middle of your twenties and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pubmiddle of your thirties. [[Black Light Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Laura SolomonKate Tough|Full Review]]
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===[[Redemptor Domus Equator by Gamelyn ChaseAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in Wild West outside the Far Eastwalls of a theme park. As the boy travels Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the schoolindignity of white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a family tragedy causes buffalo hunt, and who hates the boy to arrive way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the school a vulnerable orphanbat of an eyelid. But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, and the attendant problems with an uncertain futuregold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. Plunged into a school full He finds himself trying to find this book's version of danger and betrayalUtopia, namely the boy Equator, where everything is seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. With them locked into upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their scheming and plotting, it comes pockets to keep them on the boy ground to attempt to clean up counter the pit anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of filth that the school has become. Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[Redemptor Domus Equator by Gamelyn ChaseAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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On my travels around We first meet Sylvia Penton on her birthday and her boss, the worldProf, I have a tendency is taking her out to end up in any bookshop lunch. This is her favourite day of the year, not because it's her birthday but because of the special time she gets to spend with the man she loves. He's told her that he and his wife are going to divorce - Martha is selling Englishapparently having an affair -language books, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as Sylvia is convinced that the next person, what IProf will then declare his love and they can be together. She hasn'm really looking for is the t fully constructed 'localtogether' – the cookbook maybein her own mind - she envisages it as romantic, but her imagination hasn't yet progressed to the maps definitely, but above all: sexual part of the folk talesrelationship. If I ever get to Burma, I wonThere's time though - she's only been the prof't need to hunt, I can read before I gos PA for fifteen years. [[The Long Path To Wisdom Needlemouse by Jan-Philipp SendkerJane O'Connor|Full Review]]
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===[[Katalin Street Vintage 1954 by Magda SzaboAntoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)]]===
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This is Vintage 1954 starts by thrusting several completely different characters upon us, before deciding to run with them and formulate a story about the pastplot. A specific past, certainlySo we have an American biker, just landing in Paris but unfortunately not with the form wife who shared his dream of pre-war Budapestvisiting the city together. We have a goth girl who everyone recognises from an American crime show, but actually is a humble restorer of antiques. We have a cocktail barman, infatuated with the goth girl. We also have a man ruling the roost over a story about how that past can impact on whole suite of individual apartments fabricated from the present Haussmann-era mansion his family once owned. Finally something conspires to get them together, and drinking from the futuresame bottle of a rare 1954 red wine. In this bookOnly, the first one of three Magda Szabó wrote on them has a bizarre incidence in his family history that also features the same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated and reissued, we witness plonk – where a heart-rending nostalgia for happier daysgrandfather imbibed, guilt about those who did not surviveand walked out the door one rainy morning, and a dogged but doomed determination never to cling to long-gone times, feelings and experiences which mark the here and be seen again. But of course nobody will be doing any disappearing now, staining and warping it into another, subtler misery. though – will they? [[Katalin Street Vintage 1954 by Magda SzaboAntoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Felicity McLean]]===
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[[image:4starWhen Tikka Molloy was eleven and one-sixth years old, the Van Apfel sisters disappeared. In the long hot summer of 1992, in an isolated suburb of Australia surrounded by Bushland, the girls vanished during the school's Showstopper concert at the riverside amphitheatre. Did they run away? Were they taken? While the search for the sisters united the small community, they were never found. Returning home years later, Tikka must make sense of that strange moment in time – of the summer that shaped her, and the girls she never forgot.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingThe Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Felicity McLean|For SharingFull Review]]
 Something's gone horribly wrong. It's Christmas Eve and everything is very busy in Santa's grotto. The presents are all ready and waiting to be loaded onto the sleigh and the reindeer are itching to get going. But Santa? Santa is just not in the mood. He is tired of delivering the latest toys to children who only play with them for five minutes. He wishes people would remember what Christmas is really about - a time for families to come together for love and friendship and goodwill to one another. [[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston|Full Review]]<!-- Mandeville AMS -->
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===[[Every Colour The Department of You Sensitive Crimes by Amelia MandevilleAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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Zoe believes Long-time followers of The Bookbag will know I'm a die-hard fan of AMS. So you can imagine my excitement at reading a brand new book in adding life to years a brand new series, described by the author himself as well Scandi Blanc (as years opposed to life. Her worldScandi Noir)! Here we meet a new detective named Ulf Varg, like her namewho works in the Department for Sensitive Crimes, is bursting solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the usual police parameters. This particular book deals with life and colour. She crimes including someone who is stabbed in the knee, the sort disappearance of girl who would sing an imaginary boyfriend, and a rainbow is she couldcase of potential werewolves. Tristan (or They''Tree'' as she calls him) is re the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal with, and I rather enjoyed them, especially the stabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the person who committed the opposite. Fresh out of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unitcrime, he sees a world as a grey placerather than the victim. [[Every Colour The Department of You Sensitive Crimes by Amelia MandevilleAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult]]===
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The Center is the last remaining abortion clinic final novel in the state of Mississippi Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and is the source of great controversy when it comes banished to the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debateScotland, providing trade craft spy training. It is at The Center where one man, George Goddard, takes it upon himself 's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to get revenge for the loss of his grandchild, in Alex as anything the form of a mass-shootingGermans would provide. What arises And where is a novel Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''that details the lives '' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the remaining hostagesdisinformation campaign, as well as other characters central and returned to the storyfind her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. One Alex can't get Justine out of these characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in to help deflate the situation, who soon discovers that his sister and daughter, Wren, happened to be at head. Has she left the clinic that day. service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[A Spark of Light The Things That are Lost by Jodi PicoultAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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[[image:4star''They needed someone to blame, and I was the only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the circumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the most sophisticated corners of the globe and lived a life of luxury. [[:Category:CrimeA Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel|CrimeFull Review]]
Dr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to the sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her father, the judge. Luckily for Jess, she doesn't have to try too hard to dodge her family's suspicions as a series of gruesome local murders are taking place and that's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in the thick of the investigation, and to her delight finds that she can actually be useful. But with the small population dwindling and the sense of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M B Vincent|Full Review]]<!-- Stone Cohen -->
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===[[Louis and Louise by Julie Cohen]]===
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Sasha has What would you be like, right now, if you'd been born a different gender? Would it simply be a lot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is distant matter of genetics, and absent your life would still have unfolded in the same way? Or would the way you had been raised affect who you became in life? This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all of the above, covering the stories of Louis and Louise, born on the marriage needs work. Son Zac same day, to the same parents, but in one storyline Lou is entering a rebellious adolescent phase boy, and in the other a girl. Does it's hard to know how to redirect him. Mother Annie, an alcoholicreally make a difference, the gender box that is beginning the journey into dementia ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that men and has never women are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been an easy person at in the best of times. Thank heavens for her lovely dogpast, Sebastianhow they still are, and his unconditional loveprompts you to think about how they could be... [[What's Left Unsaid Louis and Louise by Deborah StoneJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[M for Mammy by Eleanor O'Reilly]]===
===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]  ''Edward is six weeks old and I’ve had no sleep. I had thirty stitches in my perineum, the wounds still tug and itch. They had to do the stitches twice because the first lot became infected. The old-school midwife told me I wasn’t paying enough attention to personal hygiene. I must shower twice a day, or better still, take a salt bath. Do they really expect me to do that? Have they ever tried to shower when a baby is crying and you’re so tired you can barely stand and your partner is banging around downstairs because he’s late for work again?''
I think most women have felt The Augustts are, like this shortly after having all families, a babybit complicated. Many of A loving irish family, their love binds them simply managed together – but all express that in very different ways. However, when misfortune strikes the family they are forced to put one foot work together in front of order to understand each other again, as with a family as complicated as the other until things calmed down but some will have found Augustts it harder 's not always what is spoken that makes the most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and takes charge. Full of stern words and developed post-natal depressioncommon sense, she's a force of nature who must try her hardest to hold the family together. [[The Place Where Love Should Be M for Mammy by Elizabeth EllisEleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]]
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===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan]]===
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[[image:4starTilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of wonder. With the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionQueenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan|General FictionFull Review]]
Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the weekend and, while waiting for his wife to arrive, finds a mysterious key down the back of an antique chair. The grubby and torn label to which is attached reads... [[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden|Full Review]] <!-- Hajaj Cookson -->
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===[[The Water Thief by Claire Hajaj]]===
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Nick is in the middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the building of a children's hospital. He has no idea what he is getting himself into[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Water Thief by Claire Hajaj:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral Fiction]]
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''Does he find a place to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?''
| style="verticalFreddie arrives in London in the early 2000s, answering the call for teachers. He thinks about his own Jamaican education, based on the British system, and the way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the River Thames. He thinks about the love of cricket and football, shared by both countries. And he thinks of the generations of the diaspora who came before him. Freddy does well in his job in East London but he does have to face down some stereotypical attitudes from his pupils -align: top; text-align: left;"|===all Jamaicans smoke weed, don't they? Everybody knows that! [[Landslide The Man Who Came to London by Melissa LeetA S Cookson|Full Review]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]]The area where Jill and Susie lived wasn't highly populated so it was fortunate that they became such good friends, despite the fact that Susie was a year older than Jill. Susie lived with her mother, an alcoholic, and Jill lived with ''her'' mother, who dedicated herself to her garden. Jill's father was Jay Tutle, the photographer, but he spent much of his time working away - often for months on end. In reality there was little difference between the two families: Mrs Smith's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still young. Joy and tragedy would visit Jill's home. ''Landslide'' is the story of how what happened determined the course of Jill's life and how great tragedy can breed resilience and hope. [[Landslide by Melissa Leet|Full Review]] <!-- Wilson Rubin -->
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===[[Aftershocks Liberation Square by A N WilsonGareth Rubin]]===
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In a country very much like New Zealandan alternate 1952, but at the same time most avowedly not, two women will find loveSoviet Troops control British Streets. Strong love tooAfter D-Day goes horribly wrong, for our narrator will say that her Britain is first attraction for her partner was the occupied by Nazi Germany – only thing to make sense of all those exaggerated songs she'd heardbe rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and books and poems she'd readAmericans from the west. Dividing the nation between them, and plays she'd acted London soon finds itself split in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperboletwo, a wall running through it like a scar. It was entirely unrequited love When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for quite some timethe murder of his former wife, but it does burgeon, or Jane is determined to clear his name. In doing so we're promised from the off, because Jane follows a trail of something quite drastic – a major earthquake very much like the one corruption that hit Christchurch, but at the same time most avowedly not. This book then is leads her right to the combined exploration highest levels of the lovers state – and the story soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the quake. murderous secret police… [[Aftershocks Liberation Square by A N WilsonGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Hell's Unveiling When You Read This by Laura SolomonMary Adkins]]===
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A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] Smith Simonyi and I was delighted by Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the opportunity to read the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''altar on their wedding day. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal''Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but the devil is not one his attention was on making enough money to take defeat lying down. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (whocover his mother's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' nursing home fees in Hell). Although a strong personWisconsin, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concernedrunning the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. Daniel is framed for He was devastated when Iris developed a crime he didn't commit terminal cancer and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, of course there are all died at the other children who are not only targeted, but - worst age of all - subverted to the devil's evil endsthirty three. He's out to prey on their fears was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the last six months of her life and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self esteem her final request of Smith is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, either - that he gets the devil has set up blog published as a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hellbook. [[Hell's Unveiling When You Read This by Laura SolomonMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On Vera Magpie by C M TaylorLaura Solomon]]===
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Tony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honest, Yorkshire's where he'd really like to beI have murdered three husbands. You suspect '' As an opening line that Scarborough would be perfectmust take some beating, but heVera's living in a mountain village just beyond telling us the Costa Verde and running a pubtruth. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return to the UKfirst two husbands, what with the uncertainty of Brexit Gary and everythingHarry were abusive, but there are Larry was a treasure, a couple of problems. First offkeeper, his wife - Laney - refuses and it's difficult to go back understand why Vera would have killed him, particularly when she was likely to the UK. She'd have you believe that get found out very quickly and now she's not wellin prison with a mandatory life sentence. Her only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, but thereVera's not one to let herself be a backstory there thatvictim. She's not being talked about. Then there's the pub, which isnkeen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't doing well enough to sell. In fact Tony's cleaning risk the swimming pools security of expats who have left Spain and returned home, her life in order to make prison for the sake of a bit of money to try fling), but she is keen on getting an education and make ends at least come she's studying for a degree in sight of each other, even if they never meetEnglish Literature. [[Staying On Vera Magpie by C M TaylorLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of the Orphan Black Light by Dr Nat TanohLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Jim is a university student and, as the saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's never really managed to connect with his step-father. His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him. Jim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desired. Despite all that's he's not about to sit back and allow his life to drift: he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[Black Light by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
Saga is eighteen and, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls ''hop-hip'', eating copious amounts of food, and learning about girls. Living in an affluent, liberal and protected suburb, he has a good life. However, the suburb is in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When his friends and family are dragged into the conflict raging around the dictatorship that Saga lives under, he is forced to become an unlikely revolutionary. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of the soldiers desperate to stop him? [[The Day of the Orphan by Dr Nat Tanoh|Full Review]]
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===[[Murmuration Redemptor Domus by Robert LockGamelyn Chase]]===
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''Murmuration'' follows A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the lives of a host of characters scenic North Wales coast, sent far from 1863 his family in the Far East. As the boy travels to the present day. From school, a risqué comic family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a fortune tellervulnerable orphan, we see the birth with an uncertain future. Plunged into a school full of Blackpool danger and its steadily fading glamour. There betrayal, the boy is seen as a hint of mysticism trophy by friends and enemies alike. With them locked into their scheming and plotting, it comes to the tale, with boy to attempt to clean up the mesmerising dance pit of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by filth that the seaschool has become. [[Murmuration Redemptor Domus by Robert LockGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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