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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Vera Magpie by Elisabeth HydeLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:44star.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]] <!-- Laura Solomon -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:938689713X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/938689713X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Black Light by Laura Solomon]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Jim 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: the looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desired. Despite all that's he's not about to sit back and allow his life to drift: he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[Black Light by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when he waited for his three children to arrive one Friday night. He might be a retired lawyer, a state legislator, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrived. Ruth, a corporate lawyer, would find fault and want to talk about him going into a retirement home. George, a nurse, would argue and Lizzie, a professor of English Literature, who lived locally and kept and visited him regularly, would be unpredictable. Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, but that simply wasn't going to happen. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Elisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
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===[[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Redemptor Domus by Ruth HoganGamelyn Chase]]===
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Masha's son Gabriel died some years ago. She'd been a single parent with help A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from her friend, Edward, who had grieved as much as Masha and whilst Edward has moved on (his boyfriend moved out family in the immediate aftermath of Far East. As the boy travels to the drowningschool, but there's now a new love interest) Masha family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. Plunged into a school full of danger and betrayal, the boy is still strickenseen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. With them locked into their scheming and plotting, feeling that it would somehow be disloyal comes to the boy to Gabriel if she was attempt to be happy. An independent, rebellious woman clean up the pit of filth that the school has somehow been diminishedbecome. [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Redemptor Domus by Ruth HoganGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Long Path To Wisdom by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Jan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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Jane Ashland is dying. That's a description of a very early scene here – but also, of courseOn my travels around the world, I have a platitude that can apply tendency to all of us. Jane's life, if anything, is going end up and down in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn any bookshop that it recently found a very deeply dark down place. Here thenis selling English-language books, scattered through a timelineand while I buy as many second-bending narrativehand escapist tales as the next person, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New Yorkwhat I'm really looking for is the 'local' – the cookbook maybe, glimpses of therapythe maps definitely, a drive but above all: the folk tales. If I ever get to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America Burma, I won't need to Norway – and a trip there with a new-found friend to watch the musk oxenhunt, of all thingsI can read before I go. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Long Path To Wisdom by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Jan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale of a Tooth Katalin Street by Allie RogersMagda Szabo]]===
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Danny lives in a small Sussex town with his mother, Natalie. Life This is poor, but they manage - until they're threatened by a benefits sanctionstory about the past. A Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation specific past, certainly, in the form of pre- war Budapest, but her also a story about how that past can impact on the family goes far beyond what they first expect, present and the resulting changes are described to future. In this book, the reader through first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the naive yet perceptive same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated and wholly original eyes of fourreissued, we witness a heart-yearrending nostalgia for happier days, guilt about those who did not survive, and a dogged but doomed determination to cling to long-old Dannygone times, feelings and experiences which mark the here and now, staining and warping it into another, subtler misery. [[Tale of a Tooth Katalin Street by Allie RogersMagda Szabo|Full Review]] 
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===[[Claudia by Anthony Trevelyan]]===
===[[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionFor Sharing|General FictionFor Sharing]]
When Claudia is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitor, she doesn't expect it to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, The Aztec and The Sun King, walked out of Claudia's life and into a world of success as a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's help. Reggie, Samson's son, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group who prepare for the end of the world and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doom. Claudia's journey takes her far from her home in Manchester to the end of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[Claudia by Anthony Trevelyan|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]]<!-- Gayle Mandeville -->
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===[[The Man I Think I Know Every Colour of You by Mike GayleAmelia Mandeville]]===
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James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men Zoe believes in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed adding life to years as well as years to golife. At an all time low time for both of themHer world, like her name, is bursting with life and colour. She is the two men reconnect and slowly find theysort of girl who would sing a rainbow is she could. Tristan (or ''Tree''re exactly what as she calls him) is the other needsopposite. TogetherFresh out of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unit, they help each other put their lives back together. This is he sees a world as a beautiful story about friendship and what it really means to help another persongrey place. [[The Man I Think I Know Every Colour of You by Mike GayleAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart A Spark of Ailsa Rae Light by Stephanie ButlandJodi Picoult]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General 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:Women's Fiction//www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471168239/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Women's Fiction===[[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M B Vincent]]===
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[[image:4star. 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 ownjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland: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]]<!-- Mohamed Stone -->
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===[[Falling Leaves by Stefan Mohamed]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]],
When your best friend vanishes, how can you begin to move Sasha has a lot 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 vanishedplate. Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and the marriage needs work. When he reappears, sheSon Zac is entering a rebellious adolescent phase and it's shocked not only by his presence back in her lifehard to know how to redirect him. Mother Annie, an alcoholic, but also by is beginning the journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the fact that he hasn't aged a day – best of times. Thank heavens for himher lovely dog, no time has passed since his disappearance. ShockedSebastian, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to her home town in order to help Mark find the answers he so desperately craveshis unconditional love. But what[[What's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Falling Leaves Left Unsaid by Stefan MohamedDeborah Stone|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls by Gary Santorella]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionThe Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]===
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[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Dyed Souls by Gary Santorella:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral 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 think most women have felt like this shortly after having a baby. Many of them simply managed to put one foot in front of the other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder and developed post-natal depression[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis|Full Review]] <!-- Simsion Bowden -->
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===[[Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist]]===
===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
When I read Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the blurb weekend and, while waiting for this bookhis wife to arrive, I found myself instantly interested in its premise finds a mysterious key down the back of two people trying an antique chair. The grubby and torn label to start their lives again following serious life changeswhich is attached reads.. The book did not disappoint. [[Two Steps Forward The Amber Maze by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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===[[I Have Lost My Way The Water Thief by Gayle FormanClaire 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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''I Have Lost My Way'' tells the story of three individuals who 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 everything. However, these three elements do not give justice to the extent 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 to all meet one fateful day in New York City. | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[I Have Lost My Way Landslide by Gayle Forman|Full ReviewMelissa 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]] <!-- Schimmelpfennig Wilson -->
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Aftershocks by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)A N Wilson]]===
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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 In a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland and eastern Germany. Which means thatcountry very much like New Zealand, when but at the book starts properly, mid-February, it has had same time to get a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometresmost avowedly not, to be precisetwo women will find love. Strong love too, for our narrator will say that is her first attraction for her partner was the road marker where one only thing to make sense of our main characters sees it. He is trying to get back to work in Berlin for the first time in a monthall those exaggerated songs she'd heard, and to be with his girlfriendbooks and poems she'd read, not knowing and plays she has 'd acted in – works of art that had an infidelity while he until then seemed sheer hyperbole. It was away. Also fancying the bright lights and big city are a teenaged pair of entirely unrequited love-birdsfor quite some time, the boy and girl next door to each other in an eastern villagebut it does burgeon, who flee an unhappy lot on or so we're promised from the off-chance , because of something quite drastic – a better major earthquake very much like the one. You just know there is a chance that these characters – human and lupine alike – are sucked into one combined narrativehit Christchurch, but you won't know quite what that will entail…[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning same time most avowedly not. This book then is the combined exploration of the lovers and the story of the Twenty-First Century quake. [[Aftershocks by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)A N Wilson|Full Review]]
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===[[W Hell's Unveiling by John BanksLaura Solomon]]===
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On 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 slopes sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of Mt Hood a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in Oregon''Marsha's Deal'', an 1000-year old Viking but the devil is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationnot one to take defeat lying down. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and with his world particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in turmoilHell). Beginning Although a journey westwardstrong person, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a crime hedidn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, of course there are all the other children who are not only targeted, but - worst of all - subverted to the devil's filled 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 desire training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corruptHell. [[W Hell's Unveiling by John BanksLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Family Next Door Staying On by Sally HepworthC M Taylor]]===
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Pleasant Court Tony Metcalfe is a cul-de-sac a few minutes from the beach in Melbourne. Kids play in the street Yorkshireman through and through and itbeing honest, Yorkshire's the sort of place people aspire where he'd really like tobe. Certainly You suspect thatScarborough would be perfect, but he's how living in a mountain village just beyond the families who live there feel Costa Verde and thererunning a pub. The Viva Espagñe isn's a good sense t flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return to the UK, what with the uncertainty of community. Ben Brexit and Essie everything, but there are glad that Essie's mother is living next door as Essie had a mental breakdown three years ago when her first daughter was having difficulty sleepingcouple of problems. MiaFirst off, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to the UK. She'd have you believe that she's come through that stagenot well, but now there's Poppy, whoa backstory there that's not being talked about. Then there's been the perfect baby for the first six months of her lifepub, but is just starting which isn't doing well enough to be difficultsell. BenIn fact Tony's cleaning the swimming pools of expats who have left Spain and returned home, in particular, is pleased that he can rely on Barbara order to make a bit of money to keep an eye on the situation whilst he's out try and make ends at workleast come in sight of each other, even if they never meet. [[The Family Next Door Staying On by Sally HepworthC M Taylor|Full Review]]
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===[[Ask For Blues The Day of the Orphan by Malcolm WaltonDr Nat Tanoh]]===
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Malcolm Walton's book Saga is clearly a memoir about eighteen and, like many eighteen-year olds, his introduction prime concerns are listening to the Trad Jazz scene what his mum calls ''hop-hip'', eating copious amounts of the late 1950's food, and learning about girls. Living in an affluent, liberal and early 1960'sprotected suburb, but he has chosen to write it a good life. However, the suburb is in the form of a novelAfrica, claiming where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When his prologue that this would give friends and family are dragged into the book a different approach to conflict raging around the music memoir. His protagonist 'Martin' takes on Malcolm's mantledictatorship that Saga lives under, and begins with his first discovery of the Salvation Army band with his grandfatherhe is forced to become an unlikely revolutionary. This catapults him into Can chubby Saga really stand up to a love murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of music, initially taking piano lessons, and later delving into his true love – the trumpet. soldiers desperate to stop him? [[Ask For Blues The Day of the Orphan by Malcolm WaltonDr Nat Tanoh|Full Review]]<br><!-- Bala Lock -->
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===[[The Boat People Murmuration by Sharon BalaRobert Lock]]===
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Among ''Murmuration'' follows the 500 Sri Lankans in lives of a rickety boat making its way host of characters from 1863 to Vancouver Island are Mahindan and his six-year-old son Sellianthe present day. When the boat arrives the Canadian authorities take all the passengers into custodyFrom a risqué comic to a fortune teller, placing we see the women birth of Blackpool and children in its steadily fading glamour. There is a separate facility from hint of mysticism to the tale, with the men. A gruelling series mesmerising dance of hearings will decide on starlings over the fate of each individual or family: whether they will be allowed to stay in Canadapier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, or deported back to Sri Lanka. The government fears that up to half drawing together disparate stories of these asylum-seekers may have links to lives captivated by the Tamil Tigers, a terrorist group, so judges are instructed to have a firm handsea. [[The Boat People Murmuration by Sharon BalaRobert Lock|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[The Hoarder Smoking Kills by Jess KiddAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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Cathal Flood Meet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, and a successful one too, in an office in Paris. All around him however his world is changing – yes, there is a new ban on smoking in all workplaces. Goaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an oldashtray, belligerent manof sorts, living in he sees a filthy, crowded house that was once hypnotist who had success with a family homemutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. When Maud Drennan – underpaid carer and unintentional psychic is employed The session seems to look after the ancient Cathalhave been successful, she assumes she'll just be however he faces the next in prospect of having such a long line of short-term dogsbodies for the old manchange to his own personality, his imbued habits and lifestyle, with fear, when he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. Instead, Maud finds herself drawn into the mysteries concealed within CathalHe needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it's once great house – and as Maud begins to clean and sort what he replaces the rooms she uncovers secrets about habit with that will surprise the old man that awaken long-hidden memories within Maud herselfmost. With the aid of her highly glamourous yet utterly agoraphobic landlady and a troop of holy ghosts, Maud must uncover the secrets at the heart of the house – and exactly why they were buried… [[The Hoarder Smoking Kills by Jess KiddAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Kintu The Island by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiM A Bennett]]===
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A contemporary take on the savage classic ''KintuLord of the Flies'' opens with unbridled authority and mercilessness. In just : a few pages group of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a man has been hunted down by an angry mob in Ugandadeserted island. He Link is then brained with a concrete slab; his woman fish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he is left finding it hard to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. 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 school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in widowhood and has years, he immediately becomes the hard task butt of dealing with her man's debtevery school joke. Blood flows easily, and quickly, when your family's steps And some students are haunted by a curse that spans generationsdetermined to make his life more miserable than others... [[Kintu The Island by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiM A Bennett|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Anatomy The Lost Letters of a Scandal William Woolf by Sarah VaughanHelen Cullen]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Sophie had been married to James for twelve years and two children[[image: to be honest she was more than a little bit in awe of him5star. James Whitehouse was an MP and junior ministerjpg|link=Category: perhaps most importantly he was a friend of the prime minister{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], so when he had to admit that he'd been having an affair he was confident that some contrition, a public admission that he'd been wrong, that he was not perfect, would soon have his career back on track. And it seemed as though that was the way it was going, until a friend of the 'other woman', parliamentary researcher Olivia Lytton, persuaded her to go to the police. There was no dispute that the relationship had been consensual, 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 she's very determined that Whitehouse is going to be brought to book. [[Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan:Category:Literary Fiction|Full ReviewLiterary Fiction]]<br>
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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