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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]] <!-- Rogers Laura Solomon -->
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===[[Tale of a Tooth Black Light by Allie RogersLaura 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]]
Danny lives in a small Sussex town with his mother, Natalie. Life is poor, but they manage - until they're threatened by a benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - but her impact on the family goes far beyond what they first expect, and the resulting changes are described to the reader through the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of four-year-old Danny. [[Tale of a Tooth by Allie Rogers|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia Redemptor Domus by Anthony TrevelyanGamelyn Chase]]===
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When Claudia is called A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the Far East. As the boy travels to the reception of her Manchester Office block school, a family tragedy causes the boy to meet arrive at the school a visitorvulnerable orphan, she doesn't expect it to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen yearswith an uncertain future. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, The Aztec and The Sun King, walked out of Claudia's life and Plunged into a world school full of success danger and betrayal, the boy is seen as a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned trophy by friends and he needs Claudia's helpenemies alike. ReggieWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, Samson's son, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group who prepare for the end of it comes to the world and encourage humanity boy to embrace their impending doom. Claudia's journey takes her far from her home in Manchester attempt to clean up the end pit of filth that the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… school has become. [[Claudia Redemptor Domus by Anthony TrevelyanGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man Long Path To Wisdom by Jan-Philipp Sendker]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] 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 buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next person, what I Think 'm really looking for is the 'local' – the cookbook maybe, the maps definitely, but above all: the folk tales. If I Know ever get to Burma, I won't need to hunt, I can read before I go. [[The Long Path To Wisdom by Jan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]] <!-- Szabo -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0857058452.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0857058452/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Katalin Street by Mike GayleMagda Szabo]]===
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James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men This is a story about the past. A specific past, certainly, in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to go. At an all time low time for both the form of thempre-war Budapest, but also a story about how that past can impact on the two men reconnect present and slowly find they're exactly what the other needsfuture. TogetherIn this book, the first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated and reissued, they help each other put their lives back together. This is we witness a beautiful story heart-rending nostalgia for happier days, guilt about friendship those who did not survive, and what a dogged but doomed determination to cling to long-gone times, feelings and experiences which mark the here and now, staining and warping it really means to help into another person, subtler misery. [[The Man I Think I Know Katalin Street by Mike GayleMagda Szabo|Full Review]] 
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Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and just as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the call that she needed, that a heart was available for her to have a transplant. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to make decisions for her, running polls amongst her readers to decide on her actions. But with her new heart, she has been given a new life. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland|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]]<!-- Smart Mandeville -->
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===[[My Turn Will Come Every Colour of You by E G SmartAmelia Mandeville]]===
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Things are changing Zoe believes in the pharmaceutical research companyadding life to years as well as years to life. Her world, like her name, CooksonPalmeris bursting with life and colour. With She is the retiring boss on his way out, sort of girl who would sing a new CEO rainbow is she could. Tristan (or ''Tree'' as she calls him) is on his way up the ladder to that postopposite. But bad man Steven Langham knowsFresh out of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unit, because he bugs the offices in his path to glory, that good guy and ex-researcher James Truman has got the job. That decision, sees a world as the prologue (and the blurb) proves, can lead to a lethal amount of jealousy – but can nice-guy James get revenge, even from the other side? grey place. [[My Turn Will Come Every Colour of You by E G SmartAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Leaves A Spark of Light by Stefan MohamedJodi Picoult]]===
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When your best friend vanishesThe Center is the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi and is the source of great controversy when it comes to the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate. It is at The Center where one man, how can you begin George Goddard, takes it upon himself to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they're okay? And what would you do if they reappeared get revenge for the loss of his grandchild, in your life? – all questions the form of a mass-shooting. What arises is a novel that Vanessa faces every daydetails the lives of the remaining hostages, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanishedas well as other characters central to the story. When he reappearsOne of these characters is Hugh McElroy, she's shocked not only by his presence back a hostage negotiator called in her lifeto help deflate the situation, but also by the fact who soon discovers that he hasn't aged a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearance. Shockedsister and daughter, confused and emotionally reelingWren, Vanessa must return to her home town in order happened to help Mark find be at the answers he so desperately cravesclinic that day. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Falling Leaves A Spark of Light by Stefan MohamedJodi Picoult|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Gary SantorellaM B Vincent]]===
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The USADr Jess Castle, early 1980sthe self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to the sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Charlie (or CharlesRather than being delighted, if he's feeling belligerenther family are suspicious, and he often is) is being taken back to his home by his drop-outespecially her father, slutty motherthe judge. The home is called a CottageLuckily for Jess, and while the book she doesn't guide us have to understand it perfectly, it seems try too hard to mean he has a private room in a large self-contained bungalow, on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervision. Theredodge her family's suspicions as a paddock with horses for the kids to ride, their own school – series of gruesome local murders are taking place and that's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm thick of the kids down. Charlieinvestigation, 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 her delight finds that she can actually be useful. But with his single parent mother being violent, the small population dwindling and the fact he is no longer allowed sense of danger moving ever closer 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 Cottagehome, and work out his lot. He certainly has Jess made a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-old. grave mistake getting involved? [[Dyed Souls Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Gary SantorellaM B Vincent|Full Review]] <!-- Simsion Stone -->
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===[[Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
When I read Sasha has a lot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and the blurb for this bookmarriage needs work. Son Zac is entering a rebellious adolescent phase and it's hard to know how to redirect him. Mother Annie, an alcoholic, I found myself instantly interested in its premise is beginning the journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the best of two people trying to start their lives again following serious life changestimes. The book did not disappointThank heavens for her lovely dog, Sebastian, and his unconditional love. [[Two Steps Forward What's Left Unsaid by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistDeborah Stone|Full Review]]
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===[[I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman]]===
===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]=== [[image:5star4star.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?''
''I Have Lost My Way'' tells the story of three individuals who think most women have each lost something important to them leading to them losing their way. Freya has lost her voice, Harun has lost his love and Nathaniel has lost everythingfelt like this shortly after having a baby. However, these three elements do not give justice to the extent Many of what each character has lost. In this expertly written novel, Gayle Forman writes about how these three dissimilar individuals each came to lose what was most important to them, causing them simply managed to all meet put one fateful day foot in New York City. front of the other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder and developed post-natal depression[[I Have Lost My Way The Place Where Love Should Be by Gayle FormanElizabeth Ellis|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)]]===
===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
First, forgive me if I don't refer Hugh Mullion goes away 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 Dorset for the former two attributes in any quantity. What happens in January is that a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland weekend and eastern Germany. Which means that, when the book starts properly, mid-Februarywhile waiting for his wife to arrive, it has had time to get finds a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precise, for that is mysterious key down the road marker where one back of our main characters sees itan antique chair. He is trying to get back to work in Berlin for the first time in a month, The grubby and torn label to be with his girlfriend, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was awaywhich is attached reads.. 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…[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century The Amber Maze by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Christopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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===[[W The Water Thief by John BanksClaire Hajaj]]===
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On Nick is in the slopes middle of Mt Hood wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen London and take up a post in some un- three thousand miles further named west than any previously known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger is inspired by African country providing engineering support for the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored and with his world in turmoil. Beginning building of a journey westward, hechildren's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals hospital. He has no idea what he finds morally corruptis getting himself into. [[W The Water Thief by John BanksClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[The Family Next Door Landslide by Sally HepworthMelissa Leet]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Pleasant Court is a cul-de-sac 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 few minutes from the beach in Melbourneyear older than Jill. Kids play in the street Susie lived with her mother, an alcoholic, and itJill lived with ''her'' mother, who dedicated herself to her garden. Jill's father was Jay Tutle, the sort photographer, but he spent much of place people aspire tohis time working away - often for months on end. Certainly that's how In reality there was little difference between the two families who live there feel and there: Mrs Smith's a good sense of communityalcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still young. Ben Joy and Essie are glad that Essietragedy would visit Jill's mother is living next door as Essie had a mental breakdown three years ago when her first daughter was having difficulty sleepinghome. Mia's come through that stage, but now there's Poppy, whoLandslide''s been is the perfect baby for story of how what happened determined the first six months course of her Jill's life, but is just starting to be difficult. Ben, in particular, is pleased that he and how great tragedy can rely on Barbara to keep an eye on the situation whilst he's out at workbreed resilience and hope. [[The Family Next Door Landslide by Sally HepworthMelissa Leet|Full Review]]
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===[[Ask For Blues Aftershocks by Malcolm WaltonA N Wilson]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:3In a country very much like New Zealand, but at the same time most avowedly not, two women will find love.5starStrong love too, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was the only thing to make sense of all those exaggerated songs she'd heard, and books and poems she'd read, and plays she'd acted in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbole.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]]It was entirely unrequited love for quite some time, but it does burgeon, or so we're promised from the off, [[:Category:Entertainment|Entertainment]]because of something quite drastic – a major earthquake very much like the one that hit Christchurch, but at the same time most avowedly not. This book then is the combined exploration of the lovers and the story of the quake. [[:Category:General FictionAftershocks by A N Wilson|General FictionFull Review]]
Malcolm Walton's book is clearly a memoir about his introduction to the Trad Jazz scene of the late 1950's and early 1960's, but he has chosen to write it in the form of a novel, claiming in his prologue that this would give the book a different approach to the music memoir. His protagonist 'Martin' takes on Malcolm's mantle, and begins with his first discovery of the Salvation Army band with his grandfather. This catapults him into a love of music, initially taking piano lessons, and later delving into his true love – the trumpet. [[Ask For Blues by Malcolm Walton|Full Review]]<br><!-- Bala Laura Solomon -->
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===[[The Boat People Hell's Unveiling by Sharon BalaLaura Solomon]]===
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Among A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the 500 Sri Lankans in a rickety boat making its way opportunity to Vancouver Island are Mahindan and his six-year-old son Sellian. When the boat arrives the Canadian authorities take all read the passengers into custodysequel, placing ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the women and children devil in a separate facility from ''Marsha's Deal'', but the mendevil is not one to take defeat lying down. A gruelling series of hearings will decide He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on the fate Marsha (who's thought of each individual or family: whether they will be allowed to stay as a 'goody two shoes' in CanadaHell). Although a strong person, or deported back she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent to Sri Lankajuvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. The government fears that up to half Then, of course there are all the other children who are not only targeted, but - worst of these asylumall -seekers may have links subverted to the Tamil Tigersdevil's evil ends. He's out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self esteem is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, either - the devil has set up a terrorist grouptraining complex on earth, so judges are instructed complete with an elevator to have a firm handHell. [[The Boat People Hell's Unveiling by Sharon BalaLaura Solomon|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[The Hoarder Staying On by Jess KiddC M Taylor]]===
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Cathal Flood Tony Metcalfe is an olda Yorkshireman through and through and being honest, belligerent manYorkshire's where he'd really like to be. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfect, but he's living in a filthy, crowded house that was once mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde and running a family homepub. When Maud Drennan – underpaid carer The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and unintentional psychic is employed return to look after the ancient CathalUK, she assumes she'll just be what with the next in uncertainty of Brexit and everything, but there are a long line couple of shortproblems. First off, his wife -term dogsbodies for Laney - refuses to go back to the old manUK. InsteadShe'd have you believe that she's not well, Maud finds herself drawn into the mysteries concealed within Cathalbut there's a backstory there that's once great house – and as Maud begins to clean and sort the rooms she uncovers secrets not being talked about . Then there's the old man that awaken long-hidden memories within Maud herselfpub, which isn't doing well enough to sell. With In fact Tony's cleaning the aid swimming pools of her highly glamourous yet utterly agoraphobic landlady expats who have left Spain and returned home, in order to make a troop bit of holy ghosts, Maud must uncover the secrets money to try and make ends at the heart least come in sight of the house – and exactly why each other, even if they were buried… never meet. [[The Hoarder Staying On by Jess KiddC M Taylor|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Kintu The Day of the Orphan by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiDr Nat Tanoh]]===
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Saga is eighteen and, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls ''Kintuhop-hip'' opens with unbridled authority , eating copious amounts of food, and mercilessnesslearning about girls. In just a few pages Living in an affluent, liberal and protected suburb, he has a man has been hunted down by an angry mob in Ugandagood life. He However, the suburb is then brained with a concrete slab; his woman is left in widowhood and has the hard task of dealing with her man's debtAfrica, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. Blood flows easily, When his friends and quickly, when your family's steps are haunted by a curse dragged into the conflict raging around the dictatorship that spans generationsSaga lives under, he is forced to become an unlikely revolutionary. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of the soldiers desperate to stop him? [[Kintu The Day of the Orphan by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiDr Nat Tanoh|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Anatomy of a Scandal Murmuration by Sarah VaughanRobert Lock]]===
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Sophie had been married to James for twelve years and two children: to be honest she was more than ''Murmuration'' follows the lives of a little bit in awe host of himcharacters from 1863 to the present day. James Whitehouse was an MP and junior minister: perhaps most importantly he was From a friend of the prime minister, so when he had risqué comic to admit that he'd been having an affair he was confident that some contrition, a public admission that he'd been wrongfortune teller, that he was not perfect, would soon have his career back on trackwe see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. And it seemed as though that was the way it was going, until There is a friend hint of the 'other woman', parliamentary researcher Olivia Lytton, persuaded her to go mysticism to the police. There was no dispute that the relationship had been consensualtale, but after James had finished with the affair there was an incident in a lift in House mesmerising dance of Commons and starlings over the police and pier acting as an anchor throughout the Crown Prosecution Service were both distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the opinion that this amounted to rape. The prosecuting counsel is Kate Woodcroft and she's very determined that Whitehouse is going to be brought to booksea. [[Anatomy of a Scandal Murmuration by Sarah VaughanRobert Lock|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Dark Pines Smoking Kills by Will DeanAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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Tuva Moodyson works for Meet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, and a local paper successful one too, in small town Sweden - there to be near an ailing Motheroffice in Paris. All around him however his world is changing – yes, but desperate for the big break that will have her moving there is a new ban on to pastures newsmoking in all workplaces. Just outside Goaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, of her townsorts, Gavrik, two bodies lie deep he sees a hypnotist who had success with a mutual friend in the forest - brutally murdered and stopping their eyes ripped outnicotine habit. They bring back dark memories for The session seems to have been successful, however he faces the prospect of having such a town that has seen this crime before - change to his own personality, his imbued habits and Tuva is desperate to find the killerlifestyle, with fear, when he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. At first, sheHe needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it's just out to write a good story - but as what he replaces the crimes continue she finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into habit with that will surprise the forests outside of Gavrik, filled with stranger characters and dark secretsmost. Will she find the killer before they find her? [[Dark Pines Smoking Kills by Will DeanAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Mythos: The Island by M A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece by Stephen FryBennett]]===
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The Greek Myths areA contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'': a group of mismatched, arguably, the greatest stories ever toldmodern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. So old and influential they cast Link is a shadow over western tales and traditionsfish out of water. Newly arrived from America, yet remain relatable he is finding it hard to settle into the venerable and readable millennia laterprestigious Osney School. Here comedian, actor, television presenter, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to these special stories and recreates them with a wit, warmth and humanity understand? And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad - however ancient that brings them into quad may be? When Link runs the modern age whilst still giving slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the honour and respect that such ancient and influential stories deservebutt of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others... [[Mythos: The Island by M A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece by Stephen FryBennett|Full Review]]
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===[[Water & Glass The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Abi CurtisHelen Cullen]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]
Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a handful of animals living below the waves[[image:5star. We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent eventsjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], looks after the animals and falls into a world of intrigue.[[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]
It William Woolf is difficult to properly review this book without giving too much awaya letter detective, working in the Dead Letters Depot in East London. There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the start but I will try to avoid the main onesHe spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of love, guilt, death, hope, and everyday life. [[Water & Glass The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Abi CurtisHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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