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|author=Jennifer MasonJenny Lecoat|title=Partitions of UnityBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
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|summary= Here at Bookbag TowersJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, we first met Elizabeth CromwellJean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, dominatrix leaving Jean and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]]her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, when she investigated and unravelled a series the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of disappearanceshim. In ''Partitions of Unity'' But will the truth come as a relief, she sets her mind to solving a murder....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 been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=B09LQR9FRF1846976537
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|author=Will CarverOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Daves Next DoorAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to detonate his vest her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on a London tube linesocial media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. As their fates overlap Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the story content about her. Anuri is told in backwards orderbattling alcoholism, leading up failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the fateful momentnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn= 19145851860861546873}}
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|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason1529153298|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45
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|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'A struggling poetry zines not what's worrying Miv's family, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoodsthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympicsthey've been murdered, a womenbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-overheard that her father wants to move the-art S&M dungeonfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a man serving a life sentence in Alabamafrightening, an enigmatic signatureforeign place, K(sbest avoided. For Miv, x)the move would mean leaving her best friend, on a cheap oil paintingSharon, an erotic art dealer in Georgia..and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum' This is just a sample of the cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this..s stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=B09STS96HS
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|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM1035906708|title=The Calculations of Rational MenDiva|author=Daniel GodfreyDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's the 10th We tend to think of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to put what happens Greek parents in contextManhattan, New York, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a chance December 1923 and only moved to breathe outAthens when she was thirteen. But for Joe Marr, Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed itto 's not the missile crisis thatCallas's at to make it more manageable in the front of his mindStates. He's been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, Nazi occupation by a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, mother who mercilessly exploited her and learning to be wary made no secret of the McArthur brothersher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|author=A C WiseAlexander McCall Smith|title=HookedThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It’s been twenty two years since Captain HookThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, now going run by just ‘James’, has been Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in Neverland. Living providing a new life in Londonmore personal, he has never completely escaped his pasttailored service. But now he senses the edges of Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the beast circling around his life in Londonbusiness, and when suddenly he finds himself face as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to face in the street get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with Wendya bad boyfriend, he knows that and so jumps at the line between chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this world new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and Neverland is growing thinthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. The beast is finally coming to get himKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, and but Ness has full confidence in the process will pull Wendy her abilities, and there's always her daughter Jane back into their past once again.very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=17890968391846976596
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|isbnauthor=B09Y451X9KDean Koontz|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)|author=Richard F WalkerThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary= ''Anything can happen at Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a birthday partyreally weird, particularly when disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the birthday boy thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the young Lord of the Manorvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. But when an eerie signal He is picked up in a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the early hours, George and delivery to his house is a new girlfriendfriend, the vivacious Lady Antoniaa bad weather friend called Spike, embark on who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a quest good person. Spike is going to uncover its incredible message. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets the cat out take care of the bag Benny, and the world goes into a state will certainly take care of panic.Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny' Could it be? Could it? Have aliens reached out and contacted Earth? George and Antonia find themselves lifted s wild adventure) can figure out of their privileged lives of parties and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into the world of advanced science, secret agents.and politicians hungry for powerwho exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=0241542405Katherine Howe|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire AlexanderA True Account
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1Hannah Masury is living in Boston,214 days. She'd ''like'' having been sent to: in factlive with a family who run an inn, she so nearly doesand being made to work there from a young age. Her outdoor clothes are on and When she's even considered which shoes hears there is to wear if be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she's going decides to catch her traingo and watch. ThenEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, she canHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy'ts death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She simply canhides away, so that they don't force herself find and kill her too, and then to leave the safety of her home. She's fortunate that escape them completely she has runs away to sea, dressing as a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James boy and Matilda. Sadiejoining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sensecabin boy. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her catShe soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and from there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does we are caught up in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'srip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|isbn=0861547438
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|authorisbn=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)1471180158|title=Tasting SunlightMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sally is Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a teenager man who 's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has run away from an anorexia treatment clinichis problems'. She just wants space, He's asthmatic and for people to stop questioning herthe more you read, tiptoeing around her, and trying the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to fix her without ever truly understanding her. She finds herself on some farmland with take time off at short notice - she's a woman called Liss who is frequent flier in her forties the local A&E and seems sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to live aloneschool. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally as she is, giving her a room to sleep in, and Missed shifts or the space need to just be. As they work together away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the farm, wrong. It was going to come to a closeness develops between them, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendshiphead.|isbn=1914585143
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|isbn= B09NDJ77LMB0CKD1L5JL|title=Me and My ShadowRadio Free Olympia|author=Deborah StoneJeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= ''What happens when someone Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is pushed too brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and they begin to lose their grip armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on reality? How would you cope if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go a journey 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, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to be happy? Accompany Rachel as a school where she tries is taught to shake off 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 deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the shadows of her past same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and attempts to repair decades worth Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of painespionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''This story is not for everyone.''
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|isbn=B09MSC981W1472263936|title=The Woke IliadFigurine|author=George BoreasVictoria Hislop|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Helen is a popular activistIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. Or should we call She was alone: her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anywaymother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, Helen is so popular 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 United States government has made her its Ambassador first of Wokeseveral annual visits. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of She grew to love her grandmother and the governmentfamily's maid, Dina, including the Shaming Conference but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''for indoctrinating Junta and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to have itaccommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors. Ouch!
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|isbnauthor=0008441618Dean Koontz|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah StovellAfter Death|rating=53|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head Michael Mace, Head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a house price slump virus is released in that part of the towna bio-hazard accident. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a considerable benefit sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the schoolshrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. There was one difficultyAs he recovers his senses, though - they were he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''devastatingly shockableEverything'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence 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 Kate Monroe objected to Jopoor. It's restrictions 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 toys children could bring in on Toy Day but village and that was just is the reason Volushka, a warmdrunken, self-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationindulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.
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|authorisbn=Giovanna FletcherB0BYF82CXT|title=Walking on SunshineSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that she was dying Bill and that they would need help to carry on Amanda are living. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobein a semi-detached house, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one stuck in a depressing rut of their trips awayboredom and disappointment, when Terry and Vicky and ZazaFiona – glamorous, struggling with their grief successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their own different outlooks on life troubles, decide the couples befriend each other and life appears to drop everything in their own livesimprove for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and go along with himtheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|isbn=140593560X''
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Shalini Boland|title=Red is My HeartThe Silent Bride|rating=3.5|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white Alice and read Seth are a match made in my househeaven. And so was this one He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, although I funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could have spelled that more accurately – this one waspossibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is, black eagerly accepted by Alice and white the wedding is planned and redset. Yes When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, he has an artistic collaborator on beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this piecejoyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, and I think itAlice's possible world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideasbecome his wife.|isbn=19135471831662507089
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|authorisbn=Andrew Sharp1787636003|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - is, in his mind, It was the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. Mozzy is earnest summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and dedicated to his task Caroline went backpacking around Greece and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for arrived on the guests at BODisland. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-W safaris but his dream is old Alistair Wright started to become the head chef of a restaurant take an interest in London or a big American cityher, she was flattered rather than wary. Even to win It was quite a Michelin star. He is thwarted in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben while before he made any sort of physical approach to you her and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for his scruffy waysHenry Taylor, looking after his uninterest interests on the island and in particular in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the housebar where all the girls either worked or partied.|isbn=B09926MK8H
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|isbnauthor=1901514978Amanda Craig|title=There's a Problem With Dad|author=Carlos AlbaThree Graces
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Life is different for George Lovelace and he can't really understand whyFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. HeThere's always done everything he ought to: steady worker, husband and father - and a father something so utterly compelling about any writer who was always there for school plays can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and sports dayscapture it, crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. So why is he never quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why To say that Amanda Craig is someone with such a ''good'' mind unable to progress skilled at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breath-taking gaffes? Itdoing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's almost become practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a cliche these days to suggest that someone who is a little different is 'on gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the spectrum', but George Lovelace has all day into the symptoms lives of Asperger's Syndrome: highher characters in a way that feels natural and lived-functioning autismin, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X
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|authorisbn=Freya Sampson152915118X|title=The Last LibraryPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I am always a little nervous ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to start a story about a librarytheir brother Cord. They're Stocktons, since I am only Sasha isn't a librarianStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. I always grit my teeth slightly at The problem's exacerbated when the thought of the incoming cardigan-wearingclan matriarch, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this storyTilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the main characterPineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, June, does put her hair in a bunstreet or so away, and she does which they own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn. They won't immediately throw the book out need any of the windowfurniture from Pineapple Street, because I found I was interested so Sasha and Cord can move straight in June. Nominally, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used to be they had a librarian at choice but that wasn't the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University reality. Darley and stayed at home Georgiana start to take care of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at call Sasha 'the local librarygold digger'. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mum She's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mumliving in ''their''s old booksfamily home. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the changeGD'.|isbn=183877369X
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|author=Emily Critchley
|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small FlowersOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating=34|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= The Tiny Gestures 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of Small Flowers had all her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the hallmarks truth of something goodwhat happened all that time ago. I After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was intrigued by the plotlast time she saw her, liked the design she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the bookpast, she is forgetting more and thought more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the authortruth about Lucy's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong heredisappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn= 19114270911804181250}}
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|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LMadelaine Lucas|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker BittickThirst for Salt|rating=45|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Bosner''Love, orI'd read, was supposed to give him his full titlebe a light and weightless feeling, Petty Officer Third Class Bosner. We never really find out if he has but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a first name: there's merely retrospective view, a hint young woman unravels the year-long relationship that he had once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the nickname backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town 'Secretary' at one point. HeThirst for Salt''s simply Bosner to one and all. When we first encounter him hedetails the 24-year-old narrator's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helosdeepening relationship with her older lover, as they were called) at a naval establishment. The hours could be long and he was often working nights but at the age of twentydepicting its all-oneconsuming nature, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and eating) into his dayhow it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490
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|isbn=B095CY7NBN0008506337|title=Autumn CampThe Garnett Girls|author=Barry FowlerGeorgina Moore|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was to be Brianall-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's last campmother as 'an older man'. HeHer parents worried that Richard'd founded the organisation some four years ago s influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and had done all having a glittering career. In the organisation since but he was leaving school event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the time had come to hand the reins to someone elseIsle of Wight. The obvious person was Gary, who'd always been the fun element of the camps Margo did go to Oxford and Brian had said that went on this camp, Gary should act as the leader and he'd just be there to observebecome a well-respected journalist. The problem with this was that Gary wasn't really an organisercouple had three children: Rachel, an administrator if you likeImogen and Sasha. He Life was the entertainerlived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the person who basked in family home on the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did the organisingIsle of Wight. He handed Even then the camp over - and then took it back. And Gary determined to have his revenge. This should have been doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''hisshe would never be able to leave him in charge'' camp. Then Richard left them.
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|authorisbn=John Boyne1914585402|title=The Echo ChamberDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this I reviewed David F Ross's book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she[[There's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the worldOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's homeless with out-Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of-date food, years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingaffecting it was. Add in It was a few other characters – therapistsgripping, lawyersemotionally wounding read, random transgender types – and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that all I might not have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funnylavished enough praise on it.|isbn=0857526219
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|isbnauthor=0008444501Lucy Ashe|title=The Answer to Everything|author=Luke KennardClara and Olivia|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Life should have been good for EmilyThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. She had a lovely husbandBallerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, Stevenwe learn, who was on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a speech therapistlot that builds a dancer. We'll pass over the fact Some things that they rarely speak can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to each other detail – and donsome things, that ''je ne sais quoi't even sleep in the same bed. It isn't so much , that Emily has left the marital bed as that shedon's sharing a bed with one of her children as it's t come from the only way to get him to sleep during the nightclassroom. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are A stage presence, a handful and Emily has charm, a job to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a week. They've not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: it's a trendy area that has been gentrified and itjoie de vivre''s run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share ecodifference between a hard-friendly electric cars rather than owning their ownworker, and a star.|isbn=0861544080
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|author=Louise BeechHeather Fawcett|title=This Is How We Are HumanEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Veronica Emily Wilde is a devoted single mother an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her sonlife's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wantsis not so good with people. Sebastian So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has decided that it's time done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for him to have sexher book back on the right track. But as an autistic 20 year-old Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, thatmuch to Emily's easier said than donefrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And it's starting to cause them both problems. what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=19131937130356519120}}
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|authorisbn=Ananda Devi1398515388|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=At not even 200 pagesFirst of all, it was the earthquake, Eve Out deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of Her Ruins is one livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the shortest books Itsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn've read in t a long while, dog person but it's one of the most dramatic. Itconvenience store owner's also told in a way comment that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and pulls very few punches, Tamon the descriptions stark and unromanticdog jumped in.|isbn=0993009344}}
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|author=C J CareyChristopher Bowden|title=WidowlandMr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=ItChristopher Bowden's April 1953, and Adolf Hitlerlatest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to Londonlife, parading around carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up indulgence to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly young nephew had had a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of much more interesting life than that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, nephew Stephen had ever realised and beyond those, right on down it seems to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature him an obligation to take find it all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198XB0B6Z9VJDW
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|isbnauthor=0857527231Jennifer Mason|title=Dog Days|author=Ericka WallerPartitions of Unity|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angry. It's eight days since his wifeHere at Bookbag Towers, Ellenwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, died dominatrix and it's the first time that unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she's let him downinvestigated and unravelled a series of disappearances. HeIn 's lost, bereft without her ( he ''needs his wife, like a snail needs its shellPartitions of Unity''). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the doorstep, he'd much rather have a good row with someone. He's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared sets her mind to contradict him when he told her that the dog wasn't staying. Now he's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want and solving a load of busybodies who are trying to interfere in his life. Worst of all is Betty, who won't take no for an answermurder. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying to escape from and destroy them.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF
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|author=Martin VenningWill Carver|title=The Primary ObjectiveDaves Next Door|rating=24
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Sometimes a book starts off slowly, but eventually draws you Five strangers come together in to caring about the characters or simply wanting to know what happens next. Sometimes it doesn't. The basic premise is a good one – moment as a clandestine organisation, operating as suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a charity, but funded by various governments around the world and partially (maybeLondon tube line. As their fates overlap, I'm not sure) under the auspices of the UN, with the primary objective of keeping the peace, by any means possible. Diplomacy story is always the first option and sometimes one that needs to be carried out by third partiestold in backwards order, but for situations when that looks unlikely leading up to yield results Peace International maintains a call-on list of field operatives, ex-military, medics, scientists or anyone else with a taste for adventure and willing to risk their life for the sake of itfateful moment.|isbn=18004611001914585186}}
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|author=Karen M McManusJennifer Mason|title=The CousinsPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= The rich ''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and famous Story family led -pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a life of luxury on Gull Cove Islandyen for bullwhips, until 25 years ago when each a billionaire with a state-of -the Story children - Andersart S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, Archerx), Adam and Allison - received on a mysterious letter from their mother and were cut off completelycheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia... But now, '' This is just a quarter sample of a century later, their children have been called to return to the island for the summer by their grandmothercast of characters and settings in Preposterous. What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted liesAs you can see, secrets and tragedy that has held the Story family some keeping up - and held them apart - for a quarter will be required! The basic premise of a century is about to come crashing downthis mystery story goes like this...|isbn=0241376947B09STS96HS
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