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===[[Song of the Dead Memories (DI WestphallD I Kim Stone) by Douglas LindsayAngela Marsons]]===
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A man walked into a police station Someone is recreating every traumatic event in EstoniaKim Stone's past, starting with the death of her twin when she was six years old. He told a tale Some of the events, or at least the details of having been held prisonerthem, are not public knowledge, used as but whoever is behind this has a donor for organ harvesting wealth of information and sperm donationis using it to evil intent. X-rays and medical examination bear out this part of his storyThat might seem bad enough, but this man, or the man he says he brutal truth of the matter is that people - John Baden innocent people - died twelve years agoare dying so that these dramas can be recreated. His body was identified by his partnerStone probably - well, Emily King and by his parents certainly - and then shouldn't be on the body was buried. Socase, but who is this manhas better knowledge of what happened to her than she does? DI Ben Westphall is sent If her boss can just turn a blind eye to Estonia because of his background in MI6the effect it's having on her for long enough, but that brings some baggage with she can sort it tooout.. Westphall cannot, will not, get on a plane. His last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. Or can she? [[Song of the Dead Memories (DI WestphallD I Kim Stone) by Douglas LindsayAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[A Pinch Out of Magic the Dark by Michelle HarrisonGregg Hurwitz]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
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1997. Evan Smoak is 19 years old ''A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Bettytrained up, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on the isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the neighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire livesmission ready. The middle sister, Betty, has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and she is determined that nothing and no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that the world has to offerAnd yet untested. But '' He's in setting out to do just that, she and her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. From their ancestors, as well as a lifetime trapped foreign city on Crowstone, they have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bagofficially unofficial mission, a set of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – which he executes with all of which are more than meets the eye and could possibly be the key to their problemimpeccable training that his youth belies. Evan Smoak is Orphan X. [[A Pinch Out of Magic the Dark by Michelle HarrisonGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[Never Tell Watching You by Lisa GardnerJewell]]===
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Evie Carter's husband was shot dead in A teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his own home and bedroom window. Down the road, a woman is convinced she was found with knows a man in the gun in village and that he is following her hands. Was this Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, and develops a domestic dispute which had got out of hand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediatelyfascination with her new neighbour. It might have been sixteen years agoThe man's wife, meanwhile, but thereengages the services of the young woman's no mistaking husband in some work around the teenager who had accidentally shot house. Oh, and killed that teenage boy? He's her father: son. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She'a tragic accidents the mother of the girl he' everyone saids spying on. Plus, as there was no doubt about the love man she thinks is out to get her is the two had for each otherwoman's husband (and is also the new headteacher at her daughter's school). D D had no worries Whichever way you look at the timeit, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is Evie about to get away with murder again? there's a lot of watching going on in this book. [[Never Tell Watching You by Lisa GardnerJewell|Full Review]]
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===[[The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersFantasy|Confident ReadersFantasy]]
After This novel is set about a big blow-up fight with her mum, Emily is left alone with her dadhundred years into the future. Her mum The world has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't think her mum even ''had'' a job) been decimated by nuclear conflict and so she is not quite sure what 's left of the old United States is going onrun from Center City. Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mum, Women run this world and then doesn't come backit is very proud of having defeated the old patriarchy. She heads out to investigate Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and discovers a strange, secret world called the Midnight Hourif they don't, which seems are medicalised to be London during Victorian timeskeep their baser instincts under control. And if that doesn't work, and is full of magical beings (and monsters!) What were her parents doing here? And will she be able they're sent to find them and rescue themwork camps, away from open society, so her life can go back or even worse: expelled to normal? the wilderness beyond the Central Authority's borders. [[The Midnight Hour Fish Seeking Bicycle by Benjamin Read and Laura TrinderKate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[Gallowstree Lane Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Kate LondonJames Atkinson]]===
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Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a London Street workout instructor and asked a complete stranger for help, begging him not to let him diehe looks the part. The stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to save Spence. Just one He's been actively involved in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a member of those things you might9 Parachute Regiment, thinkRoyal Engineers. Tragic, but teenage boys seem He has another qualification which means a lot to be getting stabbed me: he's been on the streets of London all the timeother side. His friend Ryan There was with Spence a time when he was stabbedoverweight and not particularly strong. It As a child he was Ryan who called the ambulance on the paramedicslow to develop. This means that he ''understands'' what it's instruction, sobbing as like and he held knows how his clients feel: it's much more helpful than the phone. But Ryan wasn't prepared to accept that it twenty-something who was just one of those things. He wanted revengeborn super-fit and with an attitude problem. [[Gallowstree Lane Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Kate LondonJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Lose a CountryLive Forever Manual: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Ece TemelkuranAdrian Cull]]===
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A little while ago a friend asked me if For many years now I thought 've (half) joked that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led I intended tolive forever and that so far, it was working out OK...'' Time has passed though and although I agreed that she was right 'm a great deal fitter and wasn't certain whether it was healthier than most people of my age there were a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. It was leading time to. look for a new approach and as so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the book I think now that I do knowneeded. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better oneLive Forever Manual: Science, particularly as ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teethseemed like the answer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. [[How to Lose a CountryLive Forever Manual: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Ece TemelkuranAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[A Danger to Herself and Others The City In The Middle Of The Night by Alyssa SheinmelCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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January is a dying planet. It wasn''They needed someone t exactly pleasant to blamebegin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and I was the only available scapegoattotally uninhabitable. Their daughter was my best friendThe other half is pure darkness and ice, where a creature can freeze to death in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. Playing In the scapegoat was middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is a knife-edge, stray too close to one side you die, to close to the least I could do under the circumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. She has dined in fancy restaurantsother, explored you die and yet the most sophisticated corners of heat from the globe sun and lived a the water from the ice are necessary for life . Life for the inhabitants of luxury. January is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[A Danger to Herself and Others The City In The Middle Of The Night by Alyssa SheinmelCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[When You Read This Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Mary AdkinsDavid Laws]]===
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Smith Simonyi At the time of my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and Iris Massey worked together for four yearsthis is hatred of 'Brexit'. Not just Brexit, during which time Iris left her husband at but use of the altar on their wedding dayword 'Brexit'. SmithYes, meanwhilepeople hate the people that instigated it then disappeared, relied on Irisand/or the people who just can't seem to get their fingers out and complete it, but his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running they also hate the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when use of the pressures got too much for himword. He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer This biggest turn-off has made people who have never so much as tutted in their life slam down their tea-cups in high dudgeon and died at leave the age room until it's safe to return, when all mention of thirty threeit has subsided. He was surprised I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, but because it too when he discovered that Iris had been writing seems to get to the actual Brexiting in a blog in very protracted manner. Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it seems, so the last six months reader of her life and her final request of Smith is that he gets this book has to get through a lot from Europe before the title's theme really arises. Here, at least though, the blog published as a bookauthor's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[When You Read This Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Mary AdkinsDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day We Met Hidden by Roxie CooperMary Chamberlain]]===
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This is an epic love story spanning ten years of When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother'will theys possessions, won't they'. Stephanie Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and Jamie are 'meant swiftly forced to be'confront their pasts. When they meet Revisiting their time on an art course they have an instant strong connection but both are with other people. Howeverthe Channel Islands during World War II, what I loved was that it's not Dora remembers a 'typical boy meets girltime when she concealed her Jewish identity, falls in love and lives happily ever after' storyJoe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a time when he hid something very different. In fact far from this story of love, loss and betrayal, it, without wanting remains to give too much away, be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the ending was both refreshingly unexpected and achingly poignant. darkest shadows of war… [[The Day We Met Hidden by Roxie CooperMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[Good Mood Food: Unlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well Painting Snails by Charlotte Watts and Natalie SavonaStephen John Hartley]]===
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It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought I was getting that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a cookbook: I liked lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. The answer would be something along the idea lines of 'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a series of recipes which would make me feel happybusker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part time). For once this I found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the book's about. There's a case lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of Hartley'if it sounds too good to be trues life, but it probably isdidn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way' ? Yep - itthat's a case of getting something which could change your life for the better - for good - rather than a quick fixone. It's autobiography. [[Good Mood Food: Unlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well Painting Snails by Charlotte Watts and Natalie SavonaStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last by Hanna Jameson]]===
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Jon Keller is in a hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the world ends. He has no idea if his family is alive, he has no idea what's going on in the nearest city, or if the nearest city has been obliterated. Shocked, amid the mass hysteria and exodus, Jon decides to stay at the hotel rather than attempt to get to the airport and home. He's not alone, twenty other people also stay and gradually form a small community. One day, when helping the hotel manager, Jon finds the body of a girl deemed to have been killed before the world ended. The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and finding the truth about what is possibly the last community on earth[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Last by Hanna Jameson:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
When Ollie and Nancy, the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are abducted in the middle of the night, things take a dangerous turn. Rescued by Dodge, Ollie is taken to the Haven, a secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels that the London above ground knows nothing about. Here, children work together to battle great evils. And there is an immediate enemy to fight. Ollie would have been the hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued. And Maddy intends to destroy the city. [[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic|Full Review]] <!-- d'Eramo Kennedy -->
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===[[Deviation by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Historical General Fiction|Historical General Fiction]]
For those of you who have read books of life The final novel in the Nazi camps – Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and of coursebanished to Scotland, for those of you who have not – this can be considered a next stepproviding trade craft spy training. It begins, after all, with someone escaping Dachau 's stifling and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, suffocating and you'd not blame her one minute, feels as her career was deemed much like a prison to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by Alex as anything the Germanswould provide. In Munich, she stumbles on help to get And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for work''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees her going back into instigator of the camp next to Dachau once moredisinformation campaign, and by then eyebrows are being raisedreturned to find her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. Alex can't get Justine out of his head. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[Deviation The Things That are Lost by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Alan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Fast-track Song of the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner Dead (DI Westphall) by Alok Ranjan TripathyDouglas Lindsay]]===
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So, what brought me to this book? A man walked into a police station in Estonia. As the owner He told a tale of having been held prisoner, used as a small business donor for organ harvesting and a buyer sperm donation. X-rays and medical examination bear out this part of IT services I should be the senior partner in the relationship with my suppliershis story, but I've frequently found myself this man, or the junior man he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years ago. His body was identified by his partner , Emily King and I've regularly been let down by themhis parents - and then the body was buried. I needed So, who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent to know where I could improve Estonia because of his background in MI6, but that relationship andbrings some baggage with it too. Westphall cannot, by looking at the situation from the supplier's point of viewwill not, what steps I needed to takeget on a plane. Alok Tripathy's book looked as though it might provide help and possibly some His last experience of the answers as to how my suppliers could better help meflight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[Fast-track Song of the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner Dead (DI Westphall) by Alok Ranjan TripathyDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison]]===
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Harper's life is pretty disastrous at 'A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on the isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the momentneighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire lives. The middle sister, Betty, through has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and she is determined that nothing and no fault of -one will prevent her own. Her mother from seeing everything that the world has cancer and not long to liveoffer. Her father But in setting out to do just that, she and her sisters discover a deadly curse which has scarpered but not taken his debts with himhaunted their family for generations. And her brother is forever getting into trouble. But Harper soldiers From their ancestors, as well as a lifetime trapped on nonethelessCrowstone, despite coping with her own cerebral palsy. One daythey have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, she sees a set of wooden nesting dolls and an attempted abduction antique handheld mirror – all of young girl which are more than meets the eye and intercedes, only could possibly be the key to find herself kidnapped in the girl's place. But even an imaginative girl like Harper couldn't have guessed where she was being taken..their problem. [[A Curse So Dark and Lonely Pinch of Magic by Brigid KemmererMichelle Harrison|Full Review]]
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===[[Loved to Bits Never Tell by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonLisa Gardner]]===
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''Loved to Bits'' is the heartwarming story of a boyEvie Carter's love for husband was shot dead in his bear. Bear's adventures own home and she was found with boy take him to all kinds of places and together they fight and defeat every obstacle put the gun in their way, from the jungle to the seaher hands. Inevitably mishaps occur on the way Was this a domestic dispute which had got out of hand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. The loss of an armIt might have been sixteen years ago, a leg, an ear or an eye are nothing to Stripy Ted but there's no mistaking the teenager who shrugs off all injuries with had accidentally shot and killed her father: 'a cheery tragic accident''don't worryeveryone said, I've got one more''. But boy loves him just as he is and won't hear of him being mendedthere was no doubt about the love the two had for each other. His place, after allD D had no worries at the time, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is in Boy's bed. Evie about to get away with murder again? [[Loved to Bits Never Tell by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonLisa Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[Louis The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Louise by Julie CohenLaura Trinder]]===
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What would you be likeAfter a big blow-up fight with her mum, right now, if youEmily is left alone with her dad. Her mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't think her mum even ''had''d been born a different gender? job) and so she is not quite sure what is going on. Would it simply be a matter of geneticsThings turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mum, and your life would still have unfolded in the same way? then doesn't come back. 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 She heads out to investigate and Louisediscovers a strange, born on secret world called the same dayMidnight Hour, which seems to the same parentsbe London during Victorian times, but in one storyline Lou and is a boy, full of magical beings (and in the other a girl. monsters!) Does it really make a difference, the gender box that is ticked when we arrive in this worldWhat were her parents doing here? We all know that men And will she be able to find them and women are treated differentlyrescue them, but this story really highlights how things have been in the past, how they still are, and prompts you so her life can go back to think about how they could be... normal? [[Louis The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Louise by Julie CohenLaura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[The Closest Thing to Flying Gallowstree Lane by Gill LewisKate London]]===
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Semira is an Eritraen refugee, living in the UK with her mum Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a London Street and Robel, asked a man who controls their moneycomplete stranger for help, their food, and their every move in the UKbegging him not to let him die. The stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to save Spence. He threatens them that if they don't do what he saysJust one of those things you might, they'll be sent homethink. One dayTragic, Semira finds herself buying an old hat but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on a market stall, strangely drawn to the bird that decorates streets of London all the hattime. His friend Ryan was with Spence when he was stabbed. When she takes it home she discovers there is an old diary hidden inside It was Ryan who called the ambulance on the hat boxparamedic's instruction, written by a young girl called Hen over 100 years agosobbing as he held the phone. Semira finds herself caught up in HenBut Ryan wasn's story, finding in t prepared to accept that it an escape from her own life that is full was just one of hunger and lossthose things. She finds that she is challenged by the girl in the diary, to speak up in her own life and fight for her place in the worldHe wanted revenge. [[The Closest Thing to Flying Gallowstree Lane by Gill LewisKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Lose a Country: The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Elly GriffithsEce Temelkuran]]===
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DCI Harry NelsonA little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''s life is complicatedDiscuss the factors which led to.. His two oldest daughters are either living away from home or really should be. '' His youngest daughter I agreed that she was conceived in a (very) brief affair (letright and wasn's not call t certain whether it was a one-night stand: theregood or bad thing that we didn's more emotion in their relationship) with archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway. Michelle, Nelsont know what all 's wife, knows about Kate and has been very understanding, but then therethis's the matter of her affair with a black policeman which she'd rather not have was leading to discuss with her daughters. Nelson knows about it and knows I think now that the baby which Michelle is about to deliver, could be Tim'sI do know. ThatWe are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a lot to cope with - and thatflawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's before he gets to workteeth. [[How to Lose a Country: The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Elly GriffithsEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wedding Guest A Danger to Herself and Others by Jonathan KellermanAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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It ''They needed someone to blame, and I was a bridesmaid who found the victim's body in a rather disreputable toilet at only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the wedding venue. She didn't know who she scapegoat was and neither did the bride or groomleast I could do under the circumstances. The bride wasn't particularly worried about the dead girl, but she ' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was furious that someone had set out to disrupt born mature – or so her parents tell her wedding. Baby (yes, that was what people called Brearley) didn't come across as being particularly likeableShe has dined in fancy restaurants, despite explored the fact that she said that everyone liked her, and her groom, Garrett didn't inspire confidence either. Lt Milo Sturgis was most sophisticated corners of the senior investigating officer globe and he called on the help lived a life of his friend, psychologist Dr Alex Delawareluxury. [[The Wedding Guest A Danger to Herself and Others by Jonathan KellermanAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Wide Open When You Read This by Douglas KennedyMary Adkins]]===
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Douglas Kennedy's ''The Great Wide Open'' has been described as epic by just about everyoneSmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, and it often feels as though that was during which time Iris left her husband at the intentionaltar on their wedding day. Though the novel often feels like a pastiche of the great American novel – epic in scope Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, preoccupied with matters of but his attention was on making enough money and literatureto cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, fixated with running the branding agency in New York – it often feels more like Kennedy is trying to reverse-engineer and losing money gambling when the concept altogetherpressures got too much for him. Initially, He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the novel presents itself as an intimate study age of family drama, thirty three. He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the latter half last six months of the novel it smoothly turns to examining the turn of American society since the 70s, her life and the rapid rise her final request of the hyper-capitalist neoliberal values Smith is that have dominated he gets the west since the election of Ronald Reagan. Though it takes place over blog published as a twenty-year period between the 70s and the 90s, it notably always keeps one an eye on the present day (Trump, of course, makes an inevitable and slightly incongruous cameo) such that what happens links subtly into current affairs without ever explicitly referencing thembook. [[The Great Wide Open When You Read This by Douglas KennedyMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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