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===[[Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''I have murdered three husbands.'' As an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera's telling us the truth. The first two husbands, Gary and Harry were abusive, but Larry was a treasure, a keeper, and it's difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and now she'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 wouldn't risk the security of her life in prison for the sake of a fling), but she is keen on getting an education and she's studying for a degree in English Literature. [[Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon|Full Review]] <!-- Mohamed Laura Solomon -->
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===[[Falling Leaves Black Light by Stefan MohamedLaura Solomon]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[imageJim 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:5starif you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him.jpg|link=Category Jim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[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:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[:Category:FantasyBlack Light by Laura Solomon|FantasyFull Review]],
When your best friend vanishes, how can you begin to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they're okay? And what would you do if they reappeared in your life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. When he reappears, she's shocked not only by his presence back in her life, but also by the fact that he hasn't aged a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearance. Shocked, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to her home town in order to help Mark find the answers he so desperately craves. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Falling Leaves by Stefan Mohamed|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls Redemptor Domus by Gary SantorellaGamelyn Chase]]===
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The USAA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, early 1980ssent far from his family in the Far East. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerent, and he often is) is being taken back As the boy travels to his home by his drop-outthe school, slutty mother. The home is called a Cottage, and while family tragedy causes the book doesn't guide us boy to understand it perfectly, it seems to mean he has arrive at the school a private room in a large self-contained bungalowvulnerable orphan, on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervisionan uncertain future. There's Plunged into a paddock with horses for the kids to ride, their own school – full of danger and all betrayal, the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm the kids downboy is seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. Charlie, despite his obvious bookish intelligence, is struggling to get to grips with why With them locked into their scheming and how he's ended up where he isplotting, but it must have something comes to do with his single parent mother being violent, and the fact he is no longer allowed boy to stay with his grandfather. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughts, as he tries attempt to build a relationship with a girl in a different Cottage, and work out his lot. He certainly clean up the pit of filth that the school has a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-oldbecome. [[Dyed Souls Redemptor Domus by Gary SantorellaGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[Two Steps Forward The Long Path To Wisdom by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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When On my travels around the world, I have a tendency to end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, and while I read buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the blurb next person, what I'm really looking for this bookis the 'local' – the cookbook maybe, the maps definitely, but above all: the folk tales. If I ever get to Burma, I found myself instantly interested in its premise of two people trying won't need to start their lives again following serious life changes. The book did not disappointhunt, I can read before I go. [[Two Steps Forward The Long Path To Wisdom by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[I Have Lost My Way Katalin Street by Gayle FormanMagda Szabo]]===
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''I Have Lost My Way'' tells This is a story about the story of three individuals who have each lost something important to them leading to them losing their waypast. Freya has lost her voiceA specific past, Harun has lost his love and Nathaniel has lost everything. Howevercertainly, these three elements do not give justice to in the extent form of what each character has lostpre-war Budapest, but also a story about how that past can impact on the present and the future. In this expertly written novelbook, the first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated and reissued, Gayle Forman writes we witness a heart-rending nostalgia for happier days, guilt about how these three dissimilar individuals each came those who did not survive, and a dogged but doomed determination to lose what was most important cling to themlong-gone times, causing them to all meet one fateful day in New York Cityfeelings and experiences which mark the here and now, staining and warping it into another, subtler misery. [[I Have Lost My Way Katalin Street by Gayle FormanMagda Szabo|Full Review]] 
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)]]===
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First, forgive me if I don't refer to this book with its full title often. It's pointedly precise, accurate, and rather ungainly – when in fact the book it describes has only the former two attributes in any quantity. What happens in January is that a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland and eastern Germany. Which means that, when the book starts properly, mid-February, it has had time to get a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precise, for that is the road marker where one of our main characters sees it. He is trying to get back to work in Berlin for the first time in a month, and to be with his girlfriend, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was away. Also fancying the bright lights and big city are a teenaged pair of love-birds, the boy and girl next door to each other in an eastern village, who flee an unhappy lot on the off-chance of a better one. You just know there is a chance that these characters – human and lupine alike – are sucked into one combined narrative, but you won't know quite what that will entail…
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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]]<!-- Banks Mandeville -->
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===[[W Every Colour of You by John BanksAmelia Mandeville]]===
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On the slopes of Mt Hood Zoe believes in Oregonadding life to years as well as years to life. Her world, like her name, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationbursting with life and colour. Josh Kinninger She is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left sort of girl who would sing a rainbow is she could. Tristan (or ''Tree'' as she calls him angry, unmoored and with his world ) is the opposite. Fresh out of hospital following a prolonged stay in turmoil. Beginning a journey westwardpsychiatric unit, he's filled with sees a world as a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corruptgrey place. [[W Every Colour of You by John BanksAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[The Family Next Door A Spark of Light by Sally HepworthJodi Picoult]]===
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Pleasant Court The Center is a cul-de-sac a few minutes from the beach in Melbourne. Kids play last remaining abortion clinic in the street state of Mississippi and it's is the sort source of place people aspire great controversy when it comes tothe Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate. Certainly that's how It is at The Center where one man, George Goddard, takes it upon himself to get revenge for the loss of his grandchild, in the families who live there feel and there's form of a good sense of communitymass-shooting. Ben and Essie are glad that Essie's mother What arises is living next door as Essie had a mental breakdown three years ago when her first daughter was having difficulty sleeping. Mia's come through novel that stage, but now there's Poppy, who's been details the perfect baby for lives of the first six months of her liferemaining hostages, but is just starting as well as other characters central to be difficultthe story. BenOne of these characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in particularto help deflate the situation, is pleased who soon discovers that he can rely on Barbara his sister and daughter, Wren, happened to keep an eye on be at the situation whilst he's out at workclinic that day. [[The Family Next Door A Spark of Light by Sally HepworthJodi Picoult|Full Review]]
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===[[Ask For Blues Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Malcolm WaltonM B Vincent]]===
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Malcolm Walton's book is clearly a memoir about his introduction to Dr Jess Castle, the Trad Jazz scene self proclaimed failure of the late 1950's and early 1960's, but he prestigious Castle family has chosen returned home to write it in the form sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of a novelCastle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her father, claiming in his prologue that this would give the book a different approach to the music memoirjudge. His protagonist Luckily for Jess, she doesn'Martint have to try too hard to dodge her family' takes on Malcolms suspicions as a series of gruesome local murders are taking place and that's mantleall anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in the thick of the investigation, and begins to her delight finds that she can actually be useful. But with his first discovery of the Salvation Army band with his grandfather. This catapults him into a love small population dwindling and the sense of music, initially taking piano lessonsdanger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[Jess Castle and later delving into his true love – the trumpet. [[Ask For Blues Eyeballs of Death by Malcolm WaltonM B Vincent|Full Review]]<br><!-- Bala Stone -->
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===[[The Boat People by Sharon Bala]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Among Sasha has a lot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and the 500 Sri Lankans in marriage needs work. Son Zac is entering a rickety boat making its way rebellious adolescent phase and it's hard to know how to Vancouver Island are Mahindan and his six-year-old son Sellianredirect him. When the boat arrives the Canadian authorities take all Mother Annie, an alcoholic, is beginning the passengers journey into custody, placing the women dementia and children in a separate facility from has never been an easy person at the men. A gruelling series of hearings will decide on the fate best of each individual or family: whether they will be allowed to stay in Canada, or deported back to Sri Lankatimes. The government fears that up to half of these asylum-seekers may have links to the Tamil TigersThank heavens for her lovely dog, a terrorist groupSebastian, so judges are instructed to have a firm handand his unconditional love. [[The Boat People What's Left Unsaid by Sharon BalaDeborah Stone|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[The Hoarder by Jess Kidd]]===
===[[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?''
Cathal Flood is an old, belligerent man, living in a filthy, crowded house that was once I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a family homebaby. When Maud Drennan – underpaid carer and unintentional psychic is employed Many of them simply managed to look after the ancient Cathal, she assumes she'll just be the next put one foot in a long line front of short-term dogsbodies for the old man. Instead, Maud finds herself drawn into the mysteries concealed within Cathal's once great house – other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder and as Maud begins to clean and sort the rooms she uncovers secrets about the old man that awaken longdeveloped post-hidden memories within Maud herself. With the aid of her highly glamourous yet utterly agoraphobic landlady and a troop of holy ghosts, Maud must uncover the secrets at the heart of the house – and exactly why they were buried… natal depression[[The Hoarder Place Where Love Should Be by Jess KiddElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi]]===
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''Kintu'' opens with unbridled authority Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the weekend and mercilessness. In just , while waiting for his wife to arrive, finds a few pages a man has been hunted mysterious key down by the back of an angry mob in Ugandaantique chair. He The grubby and torn label to which is then brained with a concrete slab; his woman is left in widowhood and has the hard task of dealing with her man's debtattached reads.. Blood flows easily, and quickly, when your family's steps are haunted by a curse that spans generations. [[Kintu The Amber Maze by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Anatomy The Water Thief by Claire Hajaj]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] Nick is in the middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and take up a Scandal 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. [[The Water Thief by Sarah VaughanClaire Hajaj|Full Review]] <!-- Melissa Leet -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1943826331.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1943826331/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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===[[Dark Pines Aftershocks by Will DeanA N Wilson]]===
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Tuva Moodyson works for In a local paper in small town Sweden - there to be near an ailing Mothercountry very much like New Zealand, but desperate at the same time most avowedly not, two women will find love. Strong love too, for the big break our narrator will say that will have her moving on first attraction for her partner was the only thing to pastures new. Just outside make sense of her townall those exaggerated songs she'd heard, Gavrikand books and poems she'd read, two bodies lie deep and plays she'd acted in the forest - brutally murdered and their eyes ripped out– works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbole. They bring back dark memories It was entirely unrequited love for quite some time, but it does burgeon, or so we're promised from the off, because of something quite drastic – a town major earthquake very much like the one that has seen this crime before - and Tuva hit Christchurch, but at the same time most avowedly not. This book then is desperate to find the killer. At first, she's just out to write a good story - but as combined exploration of the crimes continue she finds herself drawn deeper lovers and deeper into the forests outside story of Gavrik, filled with stranger characters and dark secretsthe quake. Will she find the killer before they find her? [[Dark Pines Aftershocks by Will DeanA N Wilson|Full Review]]
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===[[Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece Hell's Unveiling by Stephen FryLaura Solomon]]===
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The Greek Myths areA little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to read the sequel, arguably''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', but the greatest stories ever tolddevil is not one to take defeat lying down. So old He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and influential they cast particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell). Although a shadow over western tales and traditionsstrong person, yet remain relatable and readable millennia latershe's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Here comedian, actor, television presenter, actor Daniel is framed for a crime he didn't commit and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent sent to these special stories juvenile detention and recreates them refused permission to return to live with a witMarsha. Then, warmth and humanity that brings them into of course there are all the modern age whilst still giving other children who are not only targeted, but - worst of all - subverted to the honour devil's evil ends. He's out to prey on their fears and respect that such ancient weaknesses and influential stories deserveas with many foster children, their self esteem is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, either - the devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hell. [[Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece Hell's Unveiling by Stephen FryLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Water & Glass Staying On by Abi CurtisC M Taylor]]===
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Something has happenedTony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honest, Yorkshire's where he'd really like to be. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfect, something very nasty but he's living in a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde and on running a submarine a pregnant elephant is one pub. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return to the UK, what with the uncertainty of only Brexit and everything, but there are a handful couple of animals living below problems. First off, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to the wavesUK. We follow Nerissa CraneShe'd have you believe that she's not well, but there's a vetbackstory there that's not being talked about. Then there's the pub, as she remembers recent events, looks after which isn't doing well enough to sell. In fact Tony's cleaning the animals swimming pools of expats who have left Spain and falls into returned home, in order to make a world bit of money to try and make ends at least come in sight of intrigueeach other, even if they never meet.[[Staying On by C M Taylor|Full Review]]
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===[[Strange Weather The Day of the Orphan by Joe HillDr Nat Tanoh]]===
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Strange Weather Saga is a collection eighteen and, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls ''hop-hip'', eating copious amounts of four short novels all linked byfood, unsurprisingly, strange and cataclysmic weatherlearning about girls. Each novel is distinct and showcases Hill's restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events Living in an affluent, liberal and makes them bitinglyprotected suburb, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautifulhe has a good life. However, often switching from one sentence to the nextsuburb is in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. As Hill himself says ''the beauty of the world When his friends and family are dragged into the horror of conflict raging around the world were twined together''dictatorship that Saga lives under, never he is this truer than in Strange Weather where moments forced to become an unlikely revolutionary. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of abject horror are coupled with raw beauty. the soldiers desperate to stop him? [[Strange Weather The Day of the Orphan by Joe HillDr Nat Tanoh|Full Review]]
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===[[The Life to Come Murmuration by Michelle de KretserRobert Lock]]===
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''The Life to ComeMurmuration'' tells follows the story lives of a host of several ''interesting'' characters who are all linked by one person: Pippafrom 1863 to the present day. The novel is split into five chapters with each one focusing on From a risqué comic to a different personfortune teller, from Cassie and her bizarre relationship with Ash to George who has finished his thesis and is in we see the process birth of writing his first novelBlackpool and its steadily fading glamour. Pippa, who There is also a writerhint of mysticism to the tale, appears in each with the mesmerising dance of these chapters, in some cases just starlings over the pier acting as a background character. Howeveran anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, what I found most fascinating about this novel was that de Kretser tells the story drawing together disparate stories of Pippa's life through all these various appearances and leaves lives captivated by the reader with a real sense of who she is as a person and having watched her development as a charactersea. [[The Life to Come Murmuration by Michelle de KretserRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[Servants of the Underground Smoking Kills by David SsembajjoAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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Having experienced Meet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, and a terrible famine successful one too, in an office in Paris. All around him however his own countryworld is changing – yes, Kalamchi leaves to travel and learnthere is a new ban on smoking in all workplaces. He returns Goaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, of sorts, he sees a hypnotist who had success with a burning desire to feed his people - but not only to feed mutual friend in stopping their stomachs but nicotine habit. The session seems to feed their mindshave been successful, too. Kalamchi wants however he faces the prospect of having such a change to raise his peopleown personality, his imbued habits and lifestyle, with fear, when he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it's consciousness so what he replaces the habit with that they can fight against will surprise the dictator Bamutu - chillingly known as ''president for life and after death''most. [[Servants of the Underground Smoking Kills by David SsembajjoAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Rotten to the Core The Island by Rob MurphyM A Bennett]]===
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ItA contemporary take on the savage classic ''s 2009, and Russia look like being awarded Lord of the football World Cup hosting rights for the oh-so-distant 2018 tournament - that is, until England stick their oar in. They have solved their hooligan problem, and improved their transport system, and so at last are valid final holders. Watching this is France, who have to reciprocate with the Russians who helped them get France Flies''98, and they have : a plan. At this stage the UEFA European championship group of 2016 has not been awardedmismatched, and while France remain favourites modern-day teenagers must fight to get the job, again some upstart idea has poked its head above the parapet - survive on a joint offering from Wales and Scotlanddeserted island. Yes, these two tiny countries, separated by 200 miles and without Link is a brilliant connection fish out of water. Newly arrived from one America, he is finding it hard to settle into the other, and without some vital posh hotels here venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there, and with no serious claim to soccer fame when it comes to winning things, are unlikely hosts. But what if France could persuade the world it was a good idea - and let Russian espionage prove it not to be so, with all the while the French around many strange traditions to pick up the piecesunderstand? All And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the UK would school quad - however ancient that quad may be damaged? When Link runs the slowest time in years, meaning England '18 would be dead in he immediately becomes the water, and Russia would win outbutt of every school joke. And who's some students are determined to say the Brits, with their devolution habits, and their first coalition government in a long time, could not get through without damaging themselves? make his life more miserable than others... [[Rotten to the Core The Island by Rob MurphyM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[Forests in the Sahara The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Paul StidolphHelen Cullen]]===
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''Everyone I speak to thinks you are going to come to some sort of sticky end.'' Those are not the most promising words William Woolf is a man can hear from his new partnerletter detective, but she doesn't lie working in this instancethe Dead Letters Depot in East London. He is Jeffrey Harveyspends his days deciphering smudged addresses, a young Cambridge professortracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of love, who has been dabbling with some extra-curricular workguilt, creating GM trees that can keep vast quantities of water purified. Get an iceberg or three worth of H2O near Africadeath, where clean water is still a scarce resourcehope, and the trees can do their bit and the water will advance the place and make Jeffrey a well-respected global entrepreneur. If, that is, he can get round all the problems in his everyday life - fractions in the start-up involved in the project, a finance officer embezzling the funds for gambling - oh, and a man ready to accuse Jeffrey of murder and theft of research data on a case reaching back several years. It seems the lovely girlfriend was right to see no shortage of possible sticky ends... [[Forests in the Sahara The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Paul StidolphHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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