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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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]] <!-- Gayle Laura Solomon -->
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===[[The Man I Think I Know Black Light by Mike GayleLaura 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: if you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him. Jim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why:5starthe looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desired.jpg|link=Category Despite all that's he's not about to sit back and allow his life to drift:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[:Category:General FictionBlack Light by Laura Solomon|General FictionFull Review]]
James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to go. At an all time low time for both of them, the two men reconnect and slowly find they're exactly what the other needs. Together, they help each other put their lives back together. This is a beautiful story about friendship and what it really means to help another person. [[The Man I Think I Know by Mike Gayle|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Redemptor Domus by Stephanie ButlandGamelyn Chase]]===
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Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole lifeA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, and just as she was edging closer sent far from his family in the Far East. As the boy travels to death she finally, finally got the call that she neededschool, that a heart was available for her family tragedy causes the boy to have arrive at the school a transplant. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to make decisions for hervulnerable orphan, running polls amongst her readers to decide on her actionswith an uncertain future. But with her new heartPlunged into a school full of danger and betrayal, she has been given the boy is seen as a new lifetrophy by friends and enemies alike. Can Ailsa manage With them locked into their scheming and plotting, it comes to the boy to start attempt to live on her own, and will her mother let her do clean up the pit of filth that? the school has become. [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Redemptor Domus by Stephanie ButlandGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[My Turn Will Come The Long Path To Wisdom by E G SmartJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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Things are changing in the pharmaceutical research company, CooksonPalmer. With On my travels around the retiring boss on his way outworld, I have a new CEO is on his way tendency to end up the ladder to in any bookshop that post. But bad man Steven Langham knows, because he bugs the offices in his path to gloryis selling English-language books, that good guy and exwhile I buy as many second-researcher James Truman has got hand escapist tales as the job. That decisionnext person, as what I'm really looking for is the 'local' – the prologue (and cookbook maybe, the blurb) provesmaps definitely, can lead to a lethal amount of jealousy – but can nice-guy James above all: the folk tales. If I ever get revengeto Burma, I won't need to hunt, even from the other side? I can read before I go. [[My Turn Will Come The Long Path To Wisdom by E G SmartJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Leaves Katalin Street by Stefan MohamedMagda Szabo]]===
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When your best friend vanishesThis is a story about the past. A specific past, certainly, in the form of pre-war Budapest, but also a story about how that past can you begin to move impact 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 vanishedthe present and the future. When he reappearsIn this book, she's shocked not only by his presence back in her lifethe first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated and reissued, but also by the fact that he hasn't aged we witness a day – heart-rending nostalgia for himhappier days, no time has passed since his disappearance. Shockedguilt about those who did not survive, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return a dogged but doomed determination to her home town in order cling to help Mark find long-gone times, feelings and experiences which mark the answers he so desperately craveshere and now, staining and warping it into another, subtler misery. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Falling Leaves Katalin Street by Stefan MohamedMagda Szabo|Full Review]]
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The USA, early 1980s. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerent, and he often is) is being taken back to his home by his drop-out, slutty mother. The home is called a Cottage, and while the book doesn't guide us to understand it perfectly, it seems to mean he has a private room in a large self-contained bungalow, on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervision. There's a paddock with horses for the kids to ride, their own school – and all the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm the kids down. Charlie, despite his obvious bookish intelligence, is struggling to get to grips with why and how he's ended up where he is, but it must have something to do with his single parent mother being violent, and the fact he is no longer allowed to stay with his grandfather. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughts, as he tries to build a relationship with a girl in a different Cottage, and work out his lot. He certainly has a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-old. [[Dyed Souls by Gary Santorella|Full Review]]
Something's gone horribly wrong. It's Christmas Eve and everything is very busy in Santa's grotto. The presents are all ready and waiting to be loaded onto the sleigh and the reindeer are itching to get going. But Santa? Santa is just not in the mood. He is tired of delivering the latest toys to children who only play with them for five minutes. He wishes people would remember what Christmas is really about - a time for families to come together for love and friendship and goodwill to one another. [[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston|Full Review]]<!-- Simsion Mandeville -->
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===[[Two Steps Forward Every Colour of You by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistAmelia Mandeville]]===
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When I read the blurb for this book, I found myself instantly interested Zoe believes in its premise of two people trying adding life to years as well as years to start their lives again following serious life changes. The book did not disappointHer world, like her name, is bursting with life and colour. She is the sort of girl who would sing a rainbow is she could. Tristan (or ''Tree'' as she calls him) is the opposite. Fresh out of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unit, he sees a world as a grey place. [[Two Steps Forward Every Colour of You by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[I Have Lost My Way A Spark of Light by Gayle FormanJodi Picoult]]===
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''I Have Lost My Way'' tells The Center is the story last remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi and is the source of three individuals who have each lost something important great controversy when it comes to them leading to them losing their waythe Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate. Freya has lost her voiceIt is at The Center where one man, George Goddard, Harun has lost takes it upon himself to get revenge for the loss of his love and Nathaniel has lost everything. Howevergrandchild, these three elements do not give justice to in the extent form of what each character has losta mass-shooting. In this expertly written What arises is a novelthat details the lives of the remaining hostages, Gayle Forman writes about how as well as other characters central to the story. One of these three dissimilar individuals each came characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in to lose what was most important to themhelp deflate the situation, who soon discovers that his sister and daughter, Wren, causing them happened to all meet one fateful be at the clinic that day in New York City. [[I Have Lost My Way A Spark of Light by Gayle FormanJodi Picoult|Full Review]]
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at Jess Castle and the Beginning Eyeballs of the Twenty-First Century Death by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)M B Vincent]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
Dr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to the sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her father, the judge. Luckily for Jess, she doesn't have to try too hard to dodge her family's suspicions as a series of gruesome local murders are taking place and that's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in the thick of the investigation, and to her delight finds that she can actually be useful. But with the small population dwindling and the sense of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M B Vincent|Full Review]]<!-- Stone -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:4star1789014921.jpg|link=Categoryhttp:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction//www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789014921/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21
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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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===[[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?''
On the slopes I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a baby. Many of Mt Hood them simply managed to put one foot in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger is inspired by front of the Viking discovery other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder and developed post- three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored and with his world in turmoil. Beginning a journey westward, he's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupt. natal depression[[W The Place Where Love Should Be by John BanksElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]
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===[[The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth]]===
===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Pleasant Court is a cul-de-sac a few minutes from Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the beach in Melbourne. Kids play in the street weekend and it's the sort of place people aspire , while waiting for his wife to. Certainly that's how arrive, finds a mysterious key down the families who live there feel and there's a good sense back of communityan antique chair. Ben The grubby and Essie are glad that Essie's mother torn label to which is living next door as Essie had a mental breakdown three years ago when her first daughter was having difficulty sleepingattached reads. Mia's come through that stage, but now there's Poppy, who's been the perfect baby for the first six months of her life, but is just starting to be difficult. Ben, in particular, is pleased that he can rely on Barbara to keep an eye on the situation whilst he's out at work. [[The Family Next Door Amber Maze by Sally HepworthChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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===[[Ask For Blues The Water Thief by Malcolm WaltonClaire Hajaj]]===
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Malcolm Walton's book Nick is clearly a memoir about his introduction to in the Trad Jazz scene middle of the late 1950's and early 1960's, but wedding preparations when he has chosen decides to write it leave his fiancée behind in the form of London and take up a novel, claiming post in his prologue that this would give some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the book building of a different approach to the music memoir. His protagonist 'Martin' takes on Malcolmchildren's mantle, and begins with his first discovery of the Salvation Army band with his grandfatherhospital. This catapults him into a love of music, initially taking piano lessons, and later delving He has no idea what he is getting himself into his true love – the trumpet. [[Ask For Blues The Water Thief by Malcolm WaltonClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]<br><!-- Bala Melissa Leet -->
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===[[The Boat People Landslide by Sharon BalaMelissa Leet]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]]The area where Jill and Susie lived wasn't highly populated so it was fortunate that they became such good friends, despite the fact that Susie was a year older than Jill. Susie lived with her mother, an alcoholic, and Jill lived with ''her'' mother, who dedicated herself to her garden. Jill's father was Jay Tutle, the photographer, but he spent much of his time working away - often for months on end. In reality there was little difference between the two families: Mrs Smith's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still young. Joy and tragedy would visit Jill's home. ''Landslide'' is the story of how what happened determined the course of Jill's life and how great tragedy can breed resilience and hope. [[Landslide by Melissa Leet|Full Review]]
Among the 500 Sri Lankans in a rickety boat making its way to Vancouver Island are Mahindan and his six-year-old son Sellian. When the boat arrives the Canadian authorities take all the passengers into custody, placing the women and children in a separate facility from the men. A gruelling series of hearings will decide on the fate of each individual or family: whether they will be allowed to stay in Canada, or deported back to Sri Lanka. The government fears that up to half of these asylum-seekers may have links to the Tamil Tigers, a terrorist group, so judges are instructed to have a firm hand. [[The Boat People by Sharon Bala|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Kidd Wilson -->
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===[[The Hoarder Aftershocks by Jess KiddA N Wilson]]===
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Cathal Flood is an oldIn a country very much like New Zealand, belligerent manbut at the same time most avowedly not, living in a filthytwo women will find love. Strong love too, crowded house for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was once a family home. When Maud Drennan – underpaid carer and unintentional psychic is employed the only thing to look after the ancient Cathalmake sense of all those exaggerated songs she'd heard, and books and poems she assumes 'd read, and plays she'll just be the next d acted in a long line – works of short-term dogsbodies art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbole. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some time, but it does burgeon, or so we're promised from the old man. Insteadoff, Maud finds herself drawn into the mysteries concealed within Cathal's once great house because of something quite drastic – and as Maud begins to clean and sort a major earthquake very much like the rooms she uncovers secrets about one that hit Christchurch, but at the old man that awaken long-hidden memories within Maud herselfsame time most avowedly not. With This book then is the aid combined exploration of her highly glamourous yet utterly agoraphobic landlady the lovers and a troop of holy ghosts, Maud must uncover the secrets at the heart story of the house – and exactly why they were buried… quake. [[The Hoarder Aftershocks by Jess KiddA N Wilson|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Kintu Hell's Unveiling by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiLaura Solomon]]===
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A 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, ''Hell'Kintus Unveiling'' opens with unbridled authority and mercilessness. In just It's probably not much of a few pages spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', but the devil is not one to take defeat lying down. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a man has been hunted down by an angry mob 'goody two shoes' in UgandaHell). Although a strong person, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. He Daniel is then brained with framed for a concrete slab; his woman is left in widowhood crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and has refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, of course there are all the hard task other children who are not only targeted, but - worst of dealing with her manall - subverted to the devil's debtevil ends. Blood flows easily He's out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, and quicklytheir self esteem is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, when your family's steps are haunted by either - the devil has set up a curse that spans generationstraining complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hell. [[Kintu Hell's Unveiling by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiLaura Solomon|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Anatomy of a Scandal Staying On by Sarah VaughanC M Taylor]]===
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Sophie had been married to James for twelve years Tony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through and two children: to be being honest she was more than a little bit in awe of him. James Whitehouse was an MP and junior minister: perhaps most importantly he was a friend of the prime minister, so when Yorkshire's where he had 'd really like to admit be. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfect, but he'd been having an affair he was confident that some contrition, s living in a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde and running a public admission that hepub. The Viva Espagñe isn'd been wrong, that he was not perfect, t flourishing: Tony would soon have his career back on track. And really like to sell it seemed as though that was and return to the UK, what with the way it was goinguncertainty of Brexit and everything, until but there are a friend couple of the 'other woman'problems. First off, parliamentary researcher Olivia Lytton, persuaded her his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to the policeUK. There was no dispute She'd have you believe that the relationship had been consensualshe's not well, but after James had finished the affair there was an incident in 's a lift in House of Commons and backstory there that's not being talked about. Then there's the police and the Crown Prosecution Service were both of the opinion that this amounted pub, which isn't doing well enough to rapesell. The prosecuting counsel is Kate Woodcroft and sheIn fact Tony's very determined that Whitehouse is going cleaning the swimming pools of expats who have left Spain and returned home, in order to be brought make a bit of money to booktry and make ends at least come in sight of each other, even if they never meet. [[Anatomy of a Scandal Staying On by Sarah VaughanC M Taylor|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Dark Pines The Day of the Orphan by Will DeanDr Nat Tanoh]]===
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Tuva Moodyson works for a local paper in small town Sweden Saga is eighteen and, like many eighteen- there year olds, his prime concerns are listening to be near an ailing Motherwhat his mum calls ''hop-hip'', but desperate for the big break that will have her moving on to pastures new. Just outside eating copious amounts of her town, Gavrikfood, two bodies lie deep in the forest - brutally murdered and their eyes ripped outlearning about girls. They bring back dark memories for a town that has seen this crime before - Living in an affluent, liberal and Tuva is desperate to find the killer. At firstprotected suburb, she's just out to write he has a good story - but as life. However, the crimes continue she finds herself drawn deeper suburb is in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When his friends and deeper family are dragged into the forests outside of Gavrikconflict raging around the dictatorship that Saga lives under, filled with stranger characters and dark secretshe is forced to become an unlikely revolutionary. Will she find Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of the killer before they find hersoldiers desperate to stop him? [[Dark Pines The Day of the Orphan by Will DeanDr Nat Tanoh|Full Review]]
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===[[Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece Murmuration by Stephen FryRobert Lock]]===
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The Greek Myths are, arguably, ''Murmuration'' follows the lives of a host of characters from 1863 to the greatest stories ever toldpresent day. So old and influential they cast From a risqué comic to a shadow over western tales and traditionsfortune teller, yet remain relatable we see the birth of Blackpool and readable millennia laterits steadily fading glamour. Here comedian, actor, television presenterThere is a hint of mysticism to the tale, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent to these special stories and recreates them with a wit, warmth and humanity that brings them into the modern age whilst still giving mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the honour and respect that such ancient and influential distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories deserveof lives captivated by the sea. [[Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece Murmuration by Stephen FryRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[Water & Glass Smoking Kills by Abi CurtisAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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Something has happenedMeet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, something very nasty and on a submarine successful one too, in an office in Paris. All around him however his world is changing – yes, there is a pregnant elephant is one new ban on smoking in all workplaces. Goaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, of only sorts, he sees a hypnotist who had success with a handful of animals living below the wavesmutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. We follow Nerissa CraneThe session seems to have been successful, however he faces the prospect of having such a vetchange to his own personality, his imbued habits and lifestyle, as she remembers recent eventswith fear, looks after 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 what he replaces the habit with that will surprise the animals most. [[Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain and falls into a world of intrigue.Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Strange Weather The Island by Joe HillM A Bennett]]===
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Strange Weather is A contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'': a collection group of four short novels all linked bymismatched, unsurprisingly, strange and cataclysmic weathermodern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. Each novel Link is distinct and showcases Hill's restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events and makes them bitinglya fish out of water. Newly arrived from America, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautiful, often switching from one sentence he is finding it hard to settle into the nextvenerable and prestigious Osney School. As Hill himself says ''the beauty Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the world and school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the horror of slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the world were twined together'', never is this truer than in Strange Weather where moments butt of abject horror every school joke. And some students are coupled with raw beautydetermined to make his life more miserable than others... [[Strange Weather The Island by Joe HillM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[The Life to Come Lost Letters of William Woolf by Michelle de KretserHelen Cullen]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
''The Life to Come'' tells the story of several ''interesting'' characters who are all linked by one person[[image: Pippa5star. The novel is split into five chapters with each one focusing on a different person, from Cassie and her bizarre relationship with Ash to George who has finished his thesis and is in the process of writing his first novel. Pippajpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], who is also a writer, appears in each of these chapters, in some cases just as a background character. However, what I found most fascinating about this novel was that de Kretser tells the story of Pippa's life through all these various appearances and leaves the reader with a real sense of who she is as a person and having watched her development as a character. [[The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser:Category:Literary Fiction|Full ReviewLiterary Fiction]]
William Woolf is a letter detective, working in the Dead Letters Depot in East London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of love, guilt, death, hope, and everyday life. [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen|Full Review]]
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