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===[[Murmuration Vera Magpie by Robert LockLaura Solomon]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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As an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera''Murmuration'' follows s telling us the lives of truth. The first two husbands, Gary and Harry were abusive, but Larry was a host of characters from 1863 to the present day. From treasure, a risqué comic keeper, and it's difficult to a fortune tellerunderstand why Vera would have killed him, we see the birth of Blackpool particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and its steadily fading glamournow she's in prison with a mandatory life sentence. There Her only friend is Shirley, a hint of mysticism lesbian, but Vera's not one to the tale, let herself be a victim. She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the mesmerising dance security of starlings over her life in prison for the pier acting as sake of a fling), but she is keen on getting an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the seaeducation and she's studying for a degree in English Literature. [[Murmuration Vera Magpie by Robert LockLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Smoking Kills Black Light by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Laura Solomon]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[imageJim is a university student and, as the saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's never really managed to connect with his step-father. His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him. Jim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why:4starthe looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desired.jpg|link=Category Despite all that's he's not about to sit back and allow his life to drift:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[:Category:General FictionBlack Light by Laura Solomon|General FictionFull Review]]
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 ashtray, of sorts, he sees a hypnotist who had success with a mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to have been successful, however he faces the prospect of having such a change to his own personality, his imbued habits and lifestyle, with fear, when he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it's what he replaces the habit with that will surprise the most. [[Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Island Redemptor Domus by M A BennettGamelyn Chase]]===
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A contemporary take young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the savage classic ''Lord of scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the Far East. As the boy travels to the Flies'': school, a group of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight family tragedy causes the boy to survive on arrive at the school a deserted islandvulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. Link Plunged into a school full of danger and betrayal, the boy is seen as a fish out of watertrophy by friends and enemies alike. Newly arrived from AmericaWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, he is finding it hard comes to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions boy to attempt to understand? And what kind clean up the pit of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad - however ancient filth that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others..has become. [[The Island Redemptor Domus by M A BennettGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Long Path To Wisdom by Helen CullenJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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William Woolf On my travels around the world, I have a tendency to end up in any bookshop that is a letter detectiveselling English-language books, working in and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the Dead Letters Depot in East London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addressesnext person, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of lovewhat I'm really looking for is the 'local' – the cookbook maybe, guiltthe maps definitely, deathbut above all: the folk tales. If I ever get to Burma, hopeI won't need to hunt, and everyday lifeI can read before I go. [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Long Path To Wisdom by Helen CullenJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Marsha's Deal Katalin Street by Laura SolomonMagda Szabo]]===
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Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life This is a story about the first time aroundpast. She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva]A specific past, certainly, a rare disease which turned parts in the form of her body to bone when they were damaged. Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer and went to Dignitaspre-war Budapest, the Swiss euthanasia clinic. She'd thought but also a story about how that would be past can impact on the end, but after cremation her body went straight to hell present and she found herself face-to-face with the devilfuture. And that was when she made In this book, the first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the pact. In exchange same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated and reissued, we witness a heart-rending nostalgia for details happier days, guilt about some of those who had been close did not survive, and a dogged but doomed determination to cling to her long- their strengths gone times, feelings and weaknesses - she would be reborn on experiences which mark the same day to the same parentshere and now, staining and warping it into another, but would live her life free of diseasesubtler misery. [[Marsha's Deal Katalin Street by Laura SolomonMagda Szabo|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Teens|TeensSanta Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]===
Miryem comes from a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at it at all[[image:4star. Lending freely and rarely collecting, he leaves the family on the edge of poverty, until Miryem must step in. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagers, she becomes a person of great interest when she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from her Grandfather and returns it full of gold, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creatures, from the dark beings that haunt the wood through to a King who's eager to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik: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]]<!-- Jones Mandeville -->
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===[[Four Every Colour of You by Andy JonesAmelia Mandeville]]===
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Friends are niceZoe believes in adding life to years as well as years to life. Her world, and couple friends are doubly nicelike her name, giving you like minded people to spend time is bursting withlife and colour. A pair She is the sort of pairs, or girl who would sing a couple of couplesrainbow is she could. Married couple Sally and Al have known Mike for ages – Sally from university, Al through work. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome and though she doesnTristan (or ''Tree''t have their shared history, as she's calls him) is the opposite. Fresh out of hospital following a lot of fun – prolonged stay in a bit younger than the rest of thempsychiatric unit, an actress and so onhe sees a world as a grey place. [[Four Every Colour of You by Andy JonesAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness Spark of Light by Stephan CollishawJodi Picoult]]===
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Mazowe ValleyThe 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, 2011 – Natalie hears a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be a birdGeorge Goddard, but turns out takes it upon himself to be get revenge for the loss of his grandchild, in the form of a mass-shooting. What arises is a babynovel that details the lives of the remaining hostages, abandoned as well as other characters central to the birds on the kopjestory. She One of these characters is there with her uncle and they take Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in to help deflate the childsituation, back to who soon discovers that his farm initially sister and then to a local village where it is taken in. They do not report it daughter, Wren, happened to be at the policeclinic that day. [[A Child Called Happiness Spark of Light by Stephan CollishawJodi 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]]<!-- Syson Stone -->
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson]]===
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On a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, a family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers and newcomers come together in the search for the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit it[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral Fiction]]
Sasha has a lot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and the marriage needs work. Son Zac is entering a rebellious adolescent phase and it's hard to know how to redirect him. Mother Annie, an alcoholic, is beginning the journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the best of times. Thank heavens for her lovely dog, Sebastian, and his unconditional love. [[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone|Full Review]] <!-- Parkin Ellis -->
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===[[Underwater Breathing by Cassandra Parkin]]===
===[[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?''
A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down the mud cliffs and away into the sea is where we meet Jacob and Ella. They share a bathroom in the turret, old and cold and not really supposed to be used…but I think most women have felt like this is where they hide away from the shouts of their parents' arguments. Here they play the Underwater Breathing game, submerging themselves in the water holding their breath for as long as they can. For sixteen year old Jacob it's just shortly after having a way of drowning out the arguments…but for Ella it is more than thatbaby. She is terrified Many of the sea, them simply managed to put one foot in front of the fact that other until things calmed down but some will have found it will come harder and swallow their house. She needs to know that she can survive under water. She has to practice. developed post-natal depression[[Underwater Breathing The Place Where Love Should Be by Cassandra ParkinElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai]]===
===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LGBT General Fiction|LGBT General Fiction]]
''The Great Believers'' follows a group of friends whose lives are devastated by Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the AIDS crisis in Chicago during the late 1980’s. Beginning in 1985weekend and, the reader follows Yale and while waiting for his friends as they come wife to terms with the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their communityarrive, alongside their demonisation at finds a mysterious key down the hands back of a conservative Americaan antique chair. Thirty years later Fiona, a devoted friend The grubby and torn label to Yale, which is searching for her estranged daughter on the streets of Paris, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurtattached reads... [[The Great Believers Amber Maze by Rebecca MakkaiChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid Water Thief by Dorothy KoomsonClaire 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]]
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In 1993[[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, two teenagers stumble across a horrific scene on despite the beach as they're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: fact that Susie was a body of a young womanyear older than Jill. Susie lived with her mother, partially strippedan alcoholic, totally deceased. The find hits the girls in different ways. Nell becomes obsessed and Jill lived with finding the identity of the girl – who she calls ''the Brighton Mermaidher'' because of a distinguishing tattoo – whereas Jude just wants mother, who dedicated herself to forget it ever happenedher garden. Fast forward 25 years and Nell is still haunted by what happened that night. With few leads to go on Jill's father was Jay Tutle, the Police closed the case without cracking itphotographer, and so it remains one but he spent much of those unsolved mysteries that become part of local folklore, but Nell struggles to let sleeping dogs, or even sleeping mermaids, liehis time working away - often for months on end. As for Jude, well no one knows if In reality there was little difference between the discovery two families: Mrs Smith's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still haunts her because no one knows where she isyoung. Shortly after that fateful night, she too disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again Joy and tragedy would visit Jill's home. There ''Landslide'' is the story of how what happened determined the course of Jill's more to Brighton than Stag Dos life and how great tragedy can breed resilience and Gay Pride, it seemshope. [[The Brighton Mermaid Landslide by Dorothy KoomsonMelissa Leet|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short Aftershocks by Lex CoultonA N Wilson]]===
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Lex CoultonIn a country very much like New Zealand, but at the same time most avowedly not, 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 make sense of all those exaggerated songs she's debut novel is a story about mistakesd heard, failuresand books and poems she'd read, and relationshipsplays she'd acted in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbole. The main protagonistIt was entirely unrequited love for quite some time, Frances Pilgrimbut it does burgeon, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jacksonor so we're promised from the off, because of something quite drastic – a work colleaguemajor earthquake very much like the one that hit Christchurch, and is grappling with but at the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mothersame time most avowedly not. This relationship book then is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years oldcombined exploration of the lovers and the story of the quake. [[Falling Short Aftershocks by Lex CoultonA N Wilson|Full Review]]
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Hell's Unveiling by Elisabeth HydeLaura Solomon]]===
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Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for 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 best when he waited for his three children sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of a spoiler to arrive say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', but the devil is not one Friday nightto take defeat lying down. He might be 's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a retired lawyer, 'goody two shoes' in Hell). Although a state legislatorstrong person, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrivedshe's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Ruth, Daniel is framed for a corporate lawyer, would find fault crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and want refused permission to talk about him going into a retirement homereturn to live with Marsha. GeorgeThen, a nurseof course there are all the other children who are not only targeted, would argue and Lizzie, a professor but - worst of English Literature, who lived locally all - subverted to the devil's evil ends. He's out to prey on their fears and kept weaknesses and visited him regularlyas with many foster children, would be unpredictabletheir self esteem is very fragile. Murray hoped that all would go smoothlyThis is no small-scale operation, either - the devil has set up a training complex on earth, but that simply wasn't going complete with an elevator to happenHell. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Hell's Unveiling by Elisabeth HydeLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Staying On by Ruth HoganC M Taylor]]===
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MashaTony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honest, Yorkshire's son Gabriel died some years agowhere he'd really like to be. SheYou suspect that Scarborough would be perfect, but he'd been s living in a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde and running a single parent pub. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return to the UK, what with help from her friendthe uncertainty of Brexit and everything, Edwardbut there are a couple of problems. First off, who had grieved as much as Masha and whilst Edward has moved on (his boyfriend moved out in wife - Laney - refuses to go back to the immediate aftermath of the drowningUK. She'd have you believe that she's not well, but there's now a new love interest) Masha is still strickenbackstory there that's not being 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, feeling that it would somehow be disloyal in order to Gabriel if she was make a bit of money to be happy. An independenttry and make ends at least come in sight of each other, rebellious woman has somehow been diminishedeven if they never meet. [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Staying On by Ruth HoganC M Taylor|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance Day of Jane Ashland the Orphan by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Dr Nat Tanoh]]===
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Jane Ashland Saga is dying. That's a description of a very early scene here – but alsoeighteen and, of courselike many eighteen-year olds, a platitude that can apply his prime concerns are listening to all of us. Janewhat his mum calls ''hop-hip''s life, if anythingeating copious amounts of food, is going up and down learning about girls. Living in levels of pleasurean affluent, energy – sobriety – in these pagesliberal and protected suburb, but we soon learn that it recently found he has a very deeply dark down placegood life. Here thenHowever, scattered through a timeline-bending narrativethe suburb is in Africa, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student where childhoods can be snatched in New Yorkan instant. When his friends and family are dragged into the conflict raging around the dictatorship that Saga lives under, glimpses of therapy, a drive he is forced to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America become an unlikely revolutionary. Can chubby Saga really stand up to Norway – and a trip there with a new-found friend murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of the soldiers desperate to watch the musk oxen, of all things. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… stop him? [[The Gradual Disappearance Day of Jane Ashland the Orphan by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Dr Nat Tanoh|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale of a Tooth Murmuration by Allie RogersRobert Lock]]===
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Danny ''Murmuration'' follows the lives in of a small Sussex town with his motherhost of characters from 1863 to the present day. From a risqué comic to a fortune teller, Nataliewe see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. Life There is poor, but they manage - until they're threatened by a benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee looks hint of mysticism to be their salvation - but her impact on the family goes far beyond what they first expecttale, and with the resulting changes are described to mesmerising dance of starlings over the reader through pier acting as an anchor throughout the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of four-year-old Dannylives captivated by the sea. [[Tale of a Tooth Murmuration by Allie RogersRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia Smoking Kills by Anthony TrevelyanAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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When Claudia is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet Meet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, and a visitorsuccessful one too, she doesn't expect it to be her father figure in an office in Paris. All around him however his world is changing – yes, there is a man she hasn't seen for fifteen yearsnew ban on smoking in all workplaces. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild SamsonGoaded by his non-smoking wife, The Aztec and The Sun Kingeven though they met over an ashtray, walked out of Claudia's life and into sorts, he sees a world of hypnotist who had success as with a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's helpmutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. ReggieThe session seems to have been successful, Samson's son, has joined however he faces the prospect of having such a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula''change to his own personality, a group who prepare for the end of the world his imbued habits and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doomlifestyle, with fear, when he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. ClaudiaHe needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it's journey takes her far from her home in Manchester to what he replaces the end of habit with that will surprise the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… most. [[Claudia Smoking Kills by Anthony TrevelyanAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Bennett -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471407535.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471407535/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Island by M A Bennett]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
A contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'': a group of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. Link is a fish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he is 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 years, he immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others... [[The Island by M A Bennett|Full Review]] <!-- Gayle Cullen -->
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===[[The Man I Think I Know Lost Letters of William Woolf by Mike GayleHelen Cullen]]===
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James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men William Woolf is a letter detective, working in the Dead Letters Depot in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to goEast London. At an all time low time for both He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of themlove, guilt, death, the two men reconnect and slowly find they're exactly what the other needs. Togetherhope, they help each other put their lives back together. This is a beautiful story about friendship and what it really means to help another personeveryday life. [[The Man I Think I Know Lost Letters of William Woolf by Mike GayleHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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