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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]] <!-- Houm Laura Solomon -->
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Black Light by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Laura Solomon]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:4Jim is a university student and, as the saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek.5star His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's never really managed to connect with his step-father.jpg|link=Category His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[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:Categorythe 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:General Fiction|General Fiction]], he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[:Category:Literary FictionBlack Light by Laura Solomon|Literary FictionFull Review]]
Jane Ashland is dying. That's a description of a very early scene here – but also, of course, a platitude that can apply to all of us. Jane's life, if anything, is going up and down in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down place. Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New York, glimpses of therapy, a drive to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway – and a trip there with a new-found friend to watch the musk oxen, of all things. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale of a Tooth Redemptor Domus by Allie RogersGamelyn Chase]]===
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Danny lives 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 school, a family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a small Sussex town vulnerable orphan, with his motheran uncertain future. Plunged into a school full of danger and betrayal, Natalie. Life the boy is poor, but they manage - until they're threatened seen as a trophy by a benefits sanctionfriends and enemies alike. A Job Centre employee looks to be With them locked into their salvation - but her impact on the family goes far beyond what they first expectscheming and plotting, and it comes to the resulting changes are described boy to attempt to clean up the reader through pit of filth that the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of four-year-old Dannyschool has become. [[Tale of a Tooth Redemptor Domus by Allie RogersGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia The Long Path To Wisdom by Anthony TrevelyanJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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When Claudia is called to On my travels around the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet world, I have a visitor, she doesn't expect it tendency to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samsonend up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, The Aztec and The Sun King, walked out of Claudia's life and into a world of success while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's help. Reggiethe next person, Samsonwhat I's son, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantulam really looking for is the 'local'– the cookbook maybe, a group who prepare for the end of maps definitely, but above all: the world and encourage humanity folk tales. If I ever get to embrace their impending doom. ClaudiaBurma, I won's journey takes her far from her home in Manchester t need to the end of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… hunt, I can read before I go. [[Claudia The Long Path To Wisdom by Anthony TrevelyanJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know 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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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland]]===
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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]]<!-- Mohamed Mandeville -->
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===[[Falling Leaves Every Colour of You by Stefan MohamedAmelia Mandeville]]===
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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 Zoe believes in your adding life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, even seven to years as well as years after her best friend Mark vanishedto life. When he reappearsHer world, she's shocked not only by his presence back in like her name, is bursting with life, but also by and colour. She is the fact that he hasnsort of girl who would sing a rainbow is she could. Tristan (or ''Tree''t aged a day – for as she calls him, no time has passed since his disappearance) is the opposite. Shocked, confused and emotionally reelingFresh out of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unit, Vanessa must return to her home town in order to help Mark find the answers he so desperately cravessees a world as a grey place. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Falling Leaves Every Colour of You by Stefan MohamedAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls A Spark of Light by Gary SantorellaJodi Picoult]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensGeneral Fiction|TeensGeneral Fiction]] The 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, George Goddard, takes it upon himself to get revenge for the loss of his grandchild, in the form of a mass-shooting. What arises is a novel that details the lives of the remaining hostages, as well as other characters central to the story. One of these characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in to help deflate the situation, who soon discovers that his sister and daughter, Wren, happened to be at the clinic that day. [[A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult|Full Review]] <!-- Vincent -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Category1471168239.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471168239/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align:General Fictionleft;"|General Fiction===[[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M B Vincent]]===
The USA, early 1980s[[image:4star. Charlie (or Charlesjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], 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:Category:Crime|Full ReviewCrime]]
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]]<!-- 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]]=== [[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 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 Claire 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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On [[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 slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-fact that Susie was a year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west older than any previously known Viking explorationJill. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry Susie lived with her mother, an alcoholic, unmoored and Jill lived with his world in turmoil''her'' mother, who dedicated herself to her garden. Beginning a journey westward Jill's father was Jay Tutle, the photographer, but hespent 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 filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on home. ''Landslide'' is the story of how what happened determined the individuals he finds morally corruptcourse of Jill's life and how great tragedy can breed resilience and hope. [[W Landslide by John BanksMelissa Leet|Full Review]]
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===[[The Family Next Door Aftershocks by Sally HepworthA N Wilson]]===
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Pleasant Court is In a cul-de-sac a few minutes from country very much like New Zealand, but at the beach in Melbournesame time most avowedly not, two women will find love. Kids play in Strong love too, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was the street only thing to make sense of all those exaggerated songs she'd heard, and itbooks and poems she's the sort of place people aspire to. Certainly that's how the families who live there feel d read, and thereplays she's a good sense d acted in – works of community. Ben and Essie are glad art that Essie's mother is living next door as Essie had a mental breakdown three years ago when her first daughter until then seemed sheer hyperbole. It was having difficulty sleeping. Mia's come through that stageentirely unrequited love for quite some time, but now there's Poppyit does burgeon, whoor so we's been re promised from the perfect baby for off, because of something quite drastic – a major earthquake very much like the first six months of her lifeone that hit Christchurch, but is just starting to be difficultat the same time most avowedly not. Ben, in particular, This book then is pleased that he can rely on Barbara to keep an eye on the situation whilst he's out at workcombined exploration of the lovers and the story of the quake. [[The Family Next Door Aftershocks by Sally HepworthA N Wilson|Full Review]]
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===[[Ask For Blues Hell's Unveiling by Malcolm WaltonLaura Solomon]]===
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Malcolm WaltonA little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's book is clearly a memoir about his introduction Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to read the Trad Jazz scene sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the late 1950devil in ''Marsha's and early 1960Deal''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 devil is not one to the music memoirtake defeat lying down. His protagonist He'Martin' takes s out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on MalcolmMarsha (who's mantlethought of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell). Although a strong person, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and begins refused permission to return to live with his first discovery Marsha. Then, of course there are all the other children who are not only targeted, but - worst of all - subverted to the Salvation Army band devil's evil ends. He's out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with his grandfathermany foster children, their self esteem is very fragile. This catapults him into is no small-scale operation, either - the devil has set up a love of musictraining complex on earth, initially taking piano lessons, and later delving into his true love – the trumpetcomplete with an elevator to Hell. [[Ask For Blues Hell's Unveiling by Malcolm WaltonLaura Solomon|Full Review]]<br><!-- Bala C M Taylor -->
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===[[The Boat People Staying On by Sharon BalaC M Taylor]]===
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Among Tony 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, but he's living in a mountain village just beyond the 500 Sri Lankans in Costa Verde and running a rickety boat making its way pub. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to Vancouver Island are Mahindan sell it and his six-year-old son Sellian. When return to the boat arrives the Canadian authorities take all the passengers into custodyUK, placing what with the women uncertainty of Brexit and children in everything, but there are a separate facility from the mencouple of problems. A gruelling series of hearings will decide on the fate of each individual or family: whether they will be allowed First off, his wife - Laney - refuses to stay in Canada, or deported go back to Sri Lankathe UK. The government fears She'd have you believe that she's not well, but there's a backstory there that up 's not being talked about. Then there's the pub, which isn't doing well enough to half sell. In fact Tony's cleaning the swimming pools of these asylum-seekers may expats who have links left Spain and returned home, in order to the Tamil Tigers, make a terrorist groupbit of money to try and make ends at least come in sight of each other, so judges are instructed to have a firm handeven if they never meet. [[The Boat People Staying On by Sharon BalaC M Taylor|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[The Hoarder Day of the Orphan by Jess KiddDr Nat Tanoh]]===
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Cathal Flood Saga is an oldeighteen and, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls ''hop-hip'', belligerent maneating copious amounts of food, living and learning about girls. Living in a filthyan affluent, liberal and protected suburb, crowded house that was once he has a family homegood life. When Maud Drennan – underpaid carer and unintentional psychic However, the suburb is employed to look after the ancient Cathalin Africa, she assumes she'll just where childhoods can be the next snatched in a long line of short-term dogsbodies for the old manan instant. Instead, Maud finds herself drawn When his friends and family are dragged into the mysteries concealed within Cathal's once great house – and as Maud begins to clean and sort the rooms she uncovers secrets about conflict raging around the old man dictatorship that awaken long-hidden memories within Maud herselfSaga lives under, he is forced to become an unlikely revolutionary. With the aid of her highly glamourous yet utterly agoraphobic landlady and Can chubby Saga really stand up to a troop murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of holy ghosts, Maud must uncover the secrets at the heart of the house – and exactly why they were buried… soldiers desperate to stop him? [[The Hoarder Day of the Orphan by Jess KiddDr Nat Tanoh|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Kintu Murmuration by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiRobert Lock]]===
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''KintuMurmuration'' opens with unbridled authority and mercilessnessfollows the lives of a host of characters from 1863 to the present day. In just From a few pages risqué comic to a man has been hunted down by an angry mob in Ugandafortune teller, we see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. He There is then brained a hint of mysticism to the tale, with a concrete slab; his woman is left in widowhood and has the hard task mesmerising dance of dealing with her man's debt. Blood flows easilystarlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, and quickly, when your family's steps are haunted drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by a curse that spans generationsthe sea. [[Kintu Murmuration by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiRobert Lock|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Anatomy of a Scandal Smoking Kills by Sarah VaughanAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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Sophie had been married to James for twelve years Meet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, and two children: to be honest she was more than a little bit successful one too, in an office in awe of Paris. All around himhowever his world is changing – yes, there is a new ban on smoking in all workplaces. James Whitehouse was Goaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an MP and junior minister: perhaps most importantly he was a friend ashtray, of the prime ministersorts, so when he sees a hypnotist who had success with a mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to admit that have been successful, however he'd been faces the prospect of having an affair he was confident that some contrition, such a public admission that he'd been wrongchange to his own personality, that he was not perfect, would soon have his career back on track. And it seemed as though that was the way it was goingimbued habits and lifestyle, until a friend of the 'other woman'with fear, parliamentary researcher Olivia Lytton, persuaded her to go to the policewhen he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. There was no dispute that the relationship had been consensual, He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but after James had finished the affair there was an incident in a lift in House of Commons and the police and the Crown Prosecution Service were both of the opinion that this amounted to rape. The prosecuting counsel is Kate Woodcroft and sheit's very determined what he replaces the habit with that Whitehouse is going to be brought to bookwill surprise the most. [[Anatomy of a Scandal Smoking Kills by Sarah VaughanAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Dark Pines The Island by Will DeanM A Bennett]]===
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Tuva Moodyson works for A contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'': a local paper in small town Sweden group of mismatched, modern- there day teenagers must fight to be near an ailing Mother, but desperate for the big break that will have her moving survive on to pastures newa deserted island. Just outside Link is a fish out of her townwater. Newly arrived from America, Gavrik, two bodies lie deep in he is finding it hard to settle into the forest - brutally murdered venerable and their eyes ripped outprestigious Osney School. They bring back dark memories for a town that has seen this crime before - and Tuva is desperate Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to find understand? And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the killer. At first, she's just out to write a good story school quad - but as however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the crimes continue she finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the forests outside butt of Gavrik, filled with stranger characters and dark secretsevery school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others... Will she find the killer before they find her? [[Dark Pines The Island by Will DeanM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[Mythos: A Retelling The Lost Letters of the Myths of Ancient Greece William Woolf by Stephen FryHelen Cullen]]===
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The Greek Myths are, arguablyWilliam Woolf is a letter detective, working in the greatest stories ever toldDead Letters Depot in East London. So old and influential they cast a shadow over western tales and traditionsHe spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, yet remain relatable tracking down mysterious people and readable millennia later. Here comedianreading endless letters of love, actorguilt, television presenterdeath, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent to these special stories and recreates them with a withope, warmth and humanity that brings them into the modern age whilst still giving the honour and respect that such ancient and influential stories deserveeveryday life. [[Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths The Lost Letters of Ancient Greece William Woolf by Stephen FryHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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