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===[[Underwater Breathing Vera Magpie by Cassandra ParkinLaura 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]] <!-- 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]]  <!-- Chase -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1789010098.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789010098/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Redemptor Domus by Gamelyn Chase]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the mud cliffs and away into scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the sea is where we meet Jacob and EllaFar East. They share As the boy travels to the school, a bathroom in family tragedy causes the turret, old and cold and not really supposed boy to be used…but this is where they hide away from arrive at the shouts of their parents' arguments. Here they play the Underwater Breathing gameschool a vulnerable orphan, submerging themselves in the water holding their breath for as long as they canwith an uncertain future. For sixteen year old Jacob it's just Plunged into a way school full of drowning out danger and betrayal, the arguments…but for Ella it boy is more than thatseen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. She is terrified of the seaWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, of it comes to the fact that it will come and swallow their house. She needs boy to attempt to know clean up the pit of filth that she can survive under water. She the school has to practicebecome. [[Underwater Breathing Redemptor Domus by Cassandra ParkinGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Believers Long Path To Wisdom by Rebecca MakkaiJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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''The Great Believers'' follows On my travels around the world, I have a group of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis tendency to end up in Chicago during the late 1980’s. Beginning in 1985any bookshop that is selling English-language books, the reader follows Yale and his friends while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as they come to terms with the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their communitynext person, alongside their demonisation at what I'm really looking for is the hands of a conservative America. Thirty years later Fiona'local' – the cookbook maybe, a devoted friend to Yalethe maps definitely, is searching for her estranged daughter on but above all: the streets of Parisfolk tales. If I ever get to Burma, trying I won't need to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurthunt, I can read before I go. [[The Great Believers Long Path To Wisdom by Rebecca MakkaiJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid Katalin Street by Dorothy KoomsonMagda Szabo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:4This is a story about the past. A specific past, certainly, in the form of pre-war Budapest, but also a story about how that past can impact on the present and the future.5starIn this book, the first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated and reissued, we witness a heart-rending nostalgia for happier days, guilt about those who did not survive, and a dogged but doomed determination to cling to long-gone times, feelings and experiences which mark the here and now, staining and warping it into another, subtler misery.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionKatalin Street by Magda Szabo|General FictionFull Review]]
In 1993, two teenagers stumble across a horrific scene on the beach as they're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: a body of a young woman, partially stripped, totally deceased. The find hits the girls in different ways. Nell becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the girl – who she calls ''the Brighton Mermaid'' because of a distinguishing tattoo – whereas Jude just wants to forget it ever happened. Fast forward 25 years and Nell is still haunted by what happened that night. With few leads to go on, the Police closed the case without cracking it, and so it remains one of those unsolved mysteries that become part of local folklore, but Nell struggles to let sleeping dogs, or even sleeping mermaids, lie. As for Jude, well no one knows if the discovery still haunts her because no one knows where she is. Shortly after that fateful night, she too disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. There's more to Brighton than Stag Dos and Gay Pride, it seems. [[The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson|Full Review]]
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===[[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Women's FictionFor Sharing|Women's FictionFor Sharing]]
Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague, and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|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]]<!-- Elisabeth Hyde Mandeville -->
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Every Colour of You by Elisabeth HydeAmelia Mandeville]]===
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Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when he waited for his three children Zoe believes in adding life to years as well as years to arrive one Friday nightlife. He might be a retired lawyerHer world, a state legislatorlike her name, elected congressman is bursting with life and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there colour. She is the sort of girl who would sing a rainbow is she could be trouble when Ruth and George arrived. Ruth, Tristan (or ''Tree'' as she calls him) is the opposite. Fresh out of hospital following a corporate lawyer, would find fault and want to talk about him going into prolonged stay in a retirement home. Georgepsychiatric unit, he sees a nurse, would argue and Lizzie, world as 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 happengrey place. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Every Colour of You by Elisabeth HydeAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[The Particular Wisdom A Spark of Sally Red Shoes Light by Ruth HoganJodi Picoult]]===
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Masha's son Gabriel died some years agoThe 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. She'd been a single parent with help from her friendIt is at The Center where one man, EdwardGeorge Goddard, who had grieved as much as Masha and whilst Edward has moved on (takes it upon himself to get revenge for the loss of his boyfriend moved out grandchild, in the immediate aftermath form of a mass-shooting. What arises is a novel that details the lives of the drowningremaining hostages, as well as other characters central to the story. One of these characters is Hugh McElroy, but there's now a new love interest) Masha is still strickenhostage negotiator called in to help deflate the situation, feeling who soon discovers that it would somehow be disloyal to Gabriel if she was his sister and daughter, Wren, happened to be happy. An independent, rebellious woman has somehow been diminishedat the clinic that day. [[The Particular Wisdom A Spark of Sally Red Shoes Light by Ruth HoganJodi Picoult|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Jane Ashland Death by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)M B Vincent]]===
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Jane Ashland is dying. That's a description of a very early scene here – but alsoDr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of coursethe prestigious Castle family has returned home to the sleepy, a platitude that can apply to all idyllic chocolate box town of usCastle Kidbury. Jane's lifeRather than being delighted, if anythingher family are suspicious, is going up and down in levels of pleasureespecially her father, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down placethe judge. Here thenLuckily for Jess, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we she doesn't have to try too hard to dodge her days finding a Lincolnesque lover family's suspicions as a student series of gruesome local murders are taking place and that's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in New York, glimpses the thick of therapythe investigation, a drive and to find her ancestors delight finds that takes her from rural America to Norway – she can actually be useful. But with the small population dwindling and a trip there with a new-found friend the sense of danger moving ever closer to watch the musk oxenhome, of all things. And nowhere in sight is anything like has Jess made a platitude… grave mistake getting involved? [[The Gradual Disappearance Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Jane Ashland Death by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)M B Vincent|Full Review]]<!-- Stone -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1789014921.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789014921/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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===[[Tale of a Tooth by Allie Rogers]]===
===[[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?''
Danny lives in I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a small Sussex town with his mother, Nataliebaby. Life is poor, but they manage - Many of them simply managed to put one foot in front of the other until they're threatened by a benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - things calmed down 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 some will have found it harder and wholly original eyes of four-yeardeveloped post-old Danny. natal depression[[Tale of a Tooth The Place Where Love Should Be by Allie RogersElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia by Anthony Trevelyan]]===
===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
When Claudia is called Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitorweekend and, she doesn't expect it while waiting for his wife to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samsonarrive, 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 finds a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group who prepare for key down the end back of the world an antique chair. The grubby and encourage humanity torn label to embrace their impending doomwhich is attached reads... 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 The Amber Maze by Anthony TrevelyanChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know Water Thief by Mike GayleClaire Hajaj]]===
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James DeWitt Nick is in the middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and Danny Allen are both men take up a post in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to go. At an all time low time some un-named west African country providing engineering support for both the building of them, the two men reconnect and slowly find theya children're exactly s hospital. He has no idea what the other needs. Together, they help each other put their lives back together. This he is a beautiful story about friendship and what it really means to help another persongetting himself into. [[The Man I Think I Know Water Thief by Mike GayleClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Landslide by Stephanie ButlandMelissa Leet]]===
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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]]
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]] <!-- Mohamed Wilson -->
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===[[Falling Leaves Aftershocks by Stefan MohamedA N Wilson]]===
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When your best friend vanishesIn a country very much like New Zealand, but at the same time most avowedly not, how can you begin two women will find love. Strong love too, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was the only thing to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether theymake sense of all those exaggerated songs she'd heard, and books and poems she'd read, and plays she're okay? And what would you do if they reappeared d acted in your life? – all questions works of art that Vanessa faces every dayhad until then seemed sheer hyperbole. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some time, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. When he reappearsbut it does burgeon, sheor so we's shocked not only by his presence back in her lifere promised from the off, but also by because of something quite drastic – a major earthquake very much like the fact one that he hasn't aged a day – for himhit Christchurch, no but at the same time has passed since his disappearancemost avowedly not. Shocked, confused This book then is the combined exploration of the lovers and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to her home town in order to help Mark find the answers he so desperately cravesstory of the quake. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Falling Leaves Aftershocks by Stefan MohamedA N Wilson|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls Hell's Unveiling by Gary SantorellaLaura Solomon]]===
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The USA, early 1980s. Charlie (or Charles, if heA little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's feeling belligerent, Deal]] and he often is) is being taken back I was delighted by the opportunity to his home by his drop-outread the sequel, slutty mother''Hell's Unveiling''. The home is called It's probably not much of a Cottagespoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', and while but the book doesndevil is not one to take defeat lying down. He't guide us s out to understand it perfectly, it seems to mean he has wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a private room 'goody two shoes' in Hell). Although a large self-contained bungalowstrong person, on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervision. Thereshe's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a paddock crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with horses for the kids to rideMarsha. Then, their own school – and of course there are all the adults other children who are armed with Thorazine not only targeted, but - worst of all - subverted to calm the kids downdevil's evil ends. Charlie, despite his obvious bookish intelligence, is struggling to get to grips with why and how he He's ended up where he is, but it must have something out to do prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with his single parent mother being violentmany foster children, and the fact he their self esteem is no longer allowed to stay with his grandfathervery fragile. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughtsno small-scale operation, as he tries to build a relationship with a girl in a different Cottage, and work out his lot. He certainly either - the devil has set up a lot training complex on his plate for a thirteen-year-oldearth, complete with an elevator to Hell. [[Dyed Souls Hell's Unveiling by Gary SantorellaLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Two Steps Forward Staying On by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistC M Taylor]]===
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When I read 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 Costa Verde and running a pub. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return to the blurb for this bookUK, I found myself instantly interested in its premise what with the uncertainty of Brexit and everything, but there are a couple of two people trying problems. First off, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to start their lives again following serious life changesthe UK. The book did She'd have you believe that she's not well, but there's a backstory there that's not disappointbeing talked about. Then there's the pub, which isn't doing well enough to sell. In fact Tony's cleaning the swimming pools of expats who have left Spain and returned home, in order to make a bit of money to try and make ends at least come in sight of each other, even if they never meet. [[Two Steps Forward Staying On by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistC M Taylor|Full Review]]
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===[[I Have Lost My Way The Day of the Orphan by Gayle FormanDr 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 ''I Have Lost My Wayhop-hip'' tells the story , eating copious amounts of three individuals who have each lost something important to them leading to them losing their wayfood, and learning about girls. Freya has lost her voiceLiving in an affluent, Harun has lost his love liberal and Nathaniel protected suburb, he has lost everythinga good life. However, these three elements do not give justice to the extent of what each character has lostsuburb is in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. In this expertly written novelWhen his friends and family are dragged into the conflict raging around the dictatorship that Saga lives under, Gayle Forman writes about how these three dissimilar individuals each came he is forced to lose what was most important become an unlikely revolutionary. Can chubby Saga really stand up to them, causing them a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of the soldiers desperate to all meet one fateful day in New York City. stop him? [[I Have Lost My Way The Day of the Orphan by Gayle FormanDr Nat Tanoh|Full Review]]
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Murmuration by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Robert Lock]]===
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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 Murmuration'' follows the book it describes has only lives of a host of characters from 1863 to the former two attributes in any quantitypresent day. What happens in January is that From a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland and eastern Germany. Which means that, when the book starts properly, mid-February, it has had time risqué comic to get a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precisefortune teller, for that is we see the road marker where one birth of our main characters sees itBlackpool and its steadily fading glamour. He There is trying to get back a hint of mysticism to work in Berlin for the first time in a monthtale, and to be with his girlfriend, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was away. Also fancying the bright lights and big city are a teenaged pair mesmerising dance of love-birds, starlings over the boy and girl next door to each other in pier acting as an eastern villageanchor throughout the distinct narratives here, who flee an unhappy lot on drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the off-chance of a better onesea. 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 Murmuration by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Robert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[W Smoking Kills by John BanksAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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On the slopes of Mt Hood Meet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, and a successful one too, in an office in OregonParis. All around him however his world is changing – yes, an 1000-year old Viking there is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationa new ban on smoking in all workplaces. Josh Kinninger is inspired Goaded by the Viking discovery his non- three personal catastrophes having left him angrysmoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, of sorts, unmoored and he sees a hypnotist who had success with his world a mutual friend in turmoilstopping their nicotine habit. Beginning The session seems to have been successful, however he faces the prospect of having such a journey westwardchange to his own personality, his imbued habits and lifestyle, with fear, when herealises it will never again grant him any pleasure. He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it's filled what he replaces the habit with a desire to wreak vengeance on that will surprise the individuals he finds morally corruptmost. [[W Smoking Kills by John BanksAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Family Next Door Island by Sally HepworthM A Bennett]]===
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Pleasant Court is a cul-de-sac a few minutes from A contemporary take on the beach in Melbourne. Kids play in the street and itsavage classic ''s Lord of the sort of place people aspire to. Certainly thatFlies's how the families who live there feel and there's : a good sense group of communitymismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. Ben and Essie are glad that Essie's mother Link is living next door as Essie had a mental breakdown three years ago when her first daughter was having difficulty sleepingfish out of water. Mia's come through that stageNewly arrived from America, but now he is finding it hard to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there's Poppy, who's been could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the perfect baby for school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the first six months of her life, but is just starting to be difficult. Ben, slowest time in particularyears, is pleased that he can rely on Barbara immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to keep an eye on the situation whilst he's out at workmake his life more miserable than others... [[The Family Next Door Island by Sally HepworthM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[Ask For Blues The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Malcolm WaltonHelen Cullen]]===
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Malcolm Walton's book William Woolf is clearly a memoir about his introduction to the Trad Jazz scene of the late 1950's and early 1960'sletter detective, but he has chosen to write it working in the form of a novel, claiming Dead Letters Depot in East London. He spends his prologue that this would give the book a different approach to the music memoir. His protagonist 'Martin' takes on Malcolm's mantledays deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and begins with his first discovery reading endless letters of the Salvation Army band with his grandfather. This catapults him into a love of music, initially taking piano lessonsguilt, death, hope, and later delving into his true love – the trumpeteveryday life. [[Ask For Blues The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Malcolm WaltonHelen Cullen|Full Review]]<br>
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