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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions Vera Magpie by Lydia SysonLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''I have murdered three husbands.''
On 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 remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealandtreasure, a family of settlers struggle keeper, and it's difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, particularly when she was likely to make such an unforgiving place get found out very quickly and now she's in prison with a homemandatory life sentence. When Her only friend is Shirley, a ship appearslesbian, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when Vera's not one to let herself be a vulnerable boy disappearsvictim. As both settlers and newcomers come together She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the security of her life in the search prison for the childsake of a fling), they uncover far, far more than they were looking but she is keen on getting an education and she's studying for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit ita degree in English Literature. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions Vera Magpie by Lydia SysonLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing Black Light by Cassandra ParkinLaura 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:5star4star.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:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] This 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. In 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. [[Katalin Street by Magda Szabo|Full 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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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's FictionSanta Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]===
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[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton:Category:For Sharing|Full ReviewFor Sharing]]
 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]] <!-- Vincent -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471168239.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471168239/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M B Vincent]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
Dr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to the sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her father, the judge. Luckily for Jess, she doesn't have to try too hard to dodge her family's suspicions as a series of gruesome local murders are taking place and that's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in the thick of the investigation, and to her delight finds that she can actually be useful. But with the small population dwindling and the sense of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M B Vincent|Full Review]]<!-- Houm Stone -->
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]
Jane Ashland Sasha has a lot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is dyingdistant and absent and the marriage needs work. ThatSon Zac is entering a rebellious adolescent phase and it's a description of a very early scene here – but also, of course, a platitude that can apply hard to know how to all of usredirect him. Jane's lifeMother Annie, if anythingan alcoholic, is going up beginning the journey into dementia and down in levels has never been an easy person at the best of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down placetimes. Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have Thank heavens for her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New Yorklovely dog, glimpses of therapySebastian, 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 thingshis unconditional love. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland What's Left Unsaid by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Deborah Stone|Full Review]]
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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<!-- Wilson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786496038.jpg|link=http://www. 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 actionsamazon. But with her new heart, she has been given a new lifeco. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do thatuk/dp/1786496038/ref=nosim? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland|Full Reviewtag=thebookbag-21]]
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===[[Falling Leaves Hell's Unveiling by Stefan MohamedLaura Solomon]]===
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When your best friend vanishesA little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to read the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', how can you begin but the devil is not one to move take defeat lying down. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on? How can you live your life not knowing whether theyMarsha (who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes'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 vanishedHell). When he reappears Although a strong person, she's shocked not only by his presence back in vulnerable where her life, but also by the fact that foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a crime he hasndidn't aged a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearancecommit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Shocked Then, confused and emotionally reelingof course there are all the other children who are not only targeted, Vanessa must return to her home town in order but - worst of all - subverted to help Mark find the answers he so desperately cravesdevil's evil ends. But what He's waiting for them out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self esteem is very fragile. This is far more surprising than no small-scale operation, either of them could ever have dreamt… - the devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hell. [[Falling Leaves Hell's Unveiling by Stefan MohamedLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls Staying On by Gary SantorellaC M Taylor]]===
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The USATony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honest, early 1980sYorkshire's where he'd really like to be. Charlie (or CharlesYou suspect that Scarborough would be perfect, if but he's feeling belligerent, living in a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde and he often is) is being taken back to his home by his drop-out, slutty motherrunning a pub. The home is called a Cottage, and while the book doesnViva Espagñe isn't guide us flourishing: Tony would really like to understand sell it perfectly, it seems and return to mean he has a private room in a large self-contained bungalowthe UK, on a gated compound what with round-the-clock adult supervision. There's a paddock with horses for the kids to rideuncertainty of Brexit and everything, their own school – and all the adults but there are armed with Thorazine to calm the kids downa couple of problems. CharlieFirst off, despite his obvious bookish intelligence, is struggling wife - Laney - refuses to get go back to grips with why and how hethe UK. She'd have you believe that she's ended up where he isnot well, but it must have something to do with his single parent mother there's a backstory there that's not being violenttalked about. Then there's the pub, and the fact he is no longer allowed which isn't doing well enough to stay with his grandfathersell. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughtsIn fact Tony's cleaning the swimming pools of expats who have left Spain and returned home, as he tries in order to build make a relationship with a girl bit of money to try and make ends at least come in a different Cottagesight of each other, and work out his lot. He certainly has a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-oldeven if they never meet. [[Dyed Souls Staying On by Gary SantorellaC M Taylor|Full Review]]
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===[[Two Steps Forward The Day of the Orphan by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistDr 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 ''hop-hip'', eating copious amounts of food, and learning about girls. Living in an affluent, liberal and protected suburb, he has a good life. However, the suburb is in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When I read his friends and family are dragged into the blurb for this bookconflict raging around the dictatorship that Saga lives under, I found myself instantly interested in its premise he is forced to become an unlikely revolutionary. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of two people trying the soldiers desperate to start their lives again following serious life changes. The book did not disappoint. stop him? [[Two Steps Forward The Day of the Orphan by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistDr Nat Tanoh|Full Review]]
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===[[I Have Lost My Way Murmuration by Gayle FormanRobert Lock]]===
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''I Have Lost My WayMurmuration'' tells follows the story lives of three individuals who have each lost something important a host of characters from 1863 to them leading the present day. From a risqué comic to them losing their way. Freya has lost her voicea fortune teller, Harun has lost his love we see the birth of Blackpool and Nathaniel has lost everythingits steadily fading glamour. HoweverThere is a hint of mysticism to the tale, these three elements do not give justice to with the extent mesmerising dance of what each character has lost. In this expertly written novelstarlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, 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 Citydrawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. [[I Have Lost My Way Murmuration by Gayle FormanRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Smoking Kills by Roland Schimmelpfennig Antoine Laurain and Jamie Bulloch Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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First, forgive me if I don't refer to this book with its full title oftenMeet Fabrice Valantine. ItHe's pointedly precisea headhunter, accurateand a successful one too, and rather ungainly – when in fact the book it describes has only the former two attributes an office in any quantityParis. What happens in January All around him however his world is changing – yes, there is that a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland and eastern Germanynew ban on smoking in all workplaces. Which means thatGoaded by his non-smoking wife, when the book starts properlyeven though they met over an ashtray, mid-Februaryof sorts, it has he sees a hypnotist who had time to get success with a lot closer mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to Berlin – within 80 kilometreshave been successful, to be precise, for that is however he faces the road marker where one prospect of our main characters sees it. He is trying to get back to work in Berlin for the first time in having such a month, and change to be with his girlfriendown personality, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was away. Also fancying the bright lights his imbued habits and big city are a teenaged pair of love-birdslifestyle, the boy and girl next door to each other in an eastern villagewith fear, who flee an unhappy lot on the off-chance of a better onewhen he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. You just know there is a chance that these characters He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – human and lupine alike – are sucked into one combined narrative, but you wonit't know quite s what he replaces the habit with that will entail…surprise the most. [[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Smoking Kills by Roland Schimmelpfennig Antoine Laurain and Jamie Bulloch Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[W The Island by John BanksM A Bennett]]===
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On A contemporary take on the slopes savage classic ''Lord of Mt Hood in Oregonthe Flies'': a group of mismatched, an 1000modern-year old Viking day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. Link is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationa fish out of water. Josh Kinninger Newly arrived from America, he is inspired 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 Viking discovery school quad - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored and with his world however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in turmoil. Beginning a journey westwardyears, he's filled with a desire immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corruptmake his life more miserable than others... [[W The Island by John BanksM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[The Family Next Door Lost Letters of William Woolf by Sally HepworthHelen Cullen]]===
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Pleasant Court William Woolf is a cul-de-sac a few minutes from letter detective, working in the beach Dead Letters Depot in MelbourneEast London. Kids play in the street and it's the sort of place He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people aspire to. Certainly that's how the families who live there feel and there's a good sense reading endless letters of community. Ben and Essie 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 sleeping. Mia's come through that stagelove, guilt, death, but now there's Poppyhope, who's been the perfect baby for the first six months of her and everyday life, but is just starting to be difficult. Ben, in particular, is pleased that he can rely on Barbara to keep an eye on the situation whilst he's out at work. [[The Family Next Door Lost Letters of William Woolf by Sally HepworthHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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