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|title=
The Collected Works of A J Fikry
|author=Gabrielle Zevin
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=A J Fikry is not having a good time. He's lost his wife to a car crash, and he's not making that much money. The book store he runs, stuck out on a limb on a quiet island community, is too remote to turn a profit year-round, and he has just dismissed the latest publisher's rep to turn up at his door, partly because her previous counterpart, an inconsequential part of A J's life when all is said and done, had died and he didn't know about it. But his bad time is about to get a lot worse, as the one thing he owns worth the most – a rare book, more valuable than his house, his business, anything – is about to vanish. Which bizarrely will cause several major changes to his one-person household…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704617</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Last Boat Home
|summary=Maximilian Sacheverell Hollingsworth was - as the name might suggest - of aristocratic birth, but had broken off all contact with his family and in consequence found himself labouring for forty hours a week in a printing works in Dagenham. He came upon the idea of planning out his entire life and this he did in the course of a single afternoon whilst enjoying a little illicit sick leave in a pub in Bloomsbury. He would first become a counterfeiter - on a massive scale - and then a sculptor, filmmaker, collector of artefacts, sound artist and mystic. Circumstances would also turn him into a recluse, except on certain well-ordered occasions, most of which would occur - somewhat to his initial surprise - later in his life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1564788571</amazonuk>
}}
 
{{newreview
|author=Charlie Hill
|title=Books
|rating=4.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=Neurology professor Lauren Furrows witnesses the sudden untimely
death of two tourists in a bar while on holiday. Birmingham bookshop owner
Richard Anger happens to be in the same bar so together our single holiday
makers decide to team up as an investigatory force to be reckoned with.
(Well, Lauren teams up for that. Richard's reasons are more physical than
intellectual to begin with.) The murders seem to emanate from author Gary
Sayles, a legend in his own mind and, apparently, fatal to read. Elsewhere
hippy exhibitionists (in an over-18 way) Zeke and Pippa, are planning the
art installation to end all art installations and, are determined to make
Gary the centrepiece, whether he realises it or not.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251630</amazonuk>
}}