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===[[The Day of the Orphan Vera Magpie by Dr Nat TanohLaura Solomon]]===
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Saga is eighteen and, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls ''hop-hipI have murdered three husbands.'' As an opening line that must take some beating, eating copious amounts of foodbut Vera's telling us the truth. The first two husbands, Gary and learning about girls. Living in an affluentHarry were abusive, but Larry was a treasure, a keeper, liberal and protected suburbit's difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, he has particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and now she's in prison with a good mandatory lifesentence. However Her only friend is Shirley, the suburb is in Africaa lesbian, where childhoods can but Vera's not one to let herself be snatched in an instanta victim. When his friends and family are dragged into She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the conflict raging around security of her life in prison for the dictatorship that Saga lives undersake of a fling), he but she is forced to become keen on getting an unlikely revolutionaryeducation and she's studying for a degree in English Literature. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of the soldiers desperate to stop him? [[The Day of the Orphan Vera Magpie by Dr Nat TanohLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Murmuration Black Light by Robert LockLaura 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:3starif you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him.jpg|link=Category Jim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[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:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[:Category:Historical FictionBlack Light by Laura Solomon|Historical FictionFull Review]]
''Murmuration'' follows the lives of a host of characters from 1863 to the present day. From a risqué comic to a fortune teller, we see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. There is a hint of mysticism to the tale, with the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. [[Murmuration by Robert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[Smoking Kills Redemptor Domus by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Gamelyn Chase]]===
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Meet Fabrice ValantineA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the Far East. He's As the boy travels to the school, a headhunter, and family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a successful one toovulnerable orphan, in with an office in Parisuncertain future. All around him however his world is changing – yesPlunged into a school full of danger and betrayal, there the boy is seen as a new ban on smoking in all workplacestrophy by friends and enemies alike. Goaded by his non-smoking wifeWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, 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 it comes to have been successful, however he faces the prospect of having such a change boy to attempt 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 clean up the habit with pit of filth that will surprise the mostschool has become. [[Smoking Kills Redemptor Domus by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Gamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[The Island Long Path To Wisdom by M A BennettJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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A contemporary take on On my travels around the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'': world, I have a group of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight tendency to survive on a deserted island. Link end up in any bookshop that is a fish out of water. Newly arrived from Americaselling English-language books, he is finding it hard to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so while I buy as many strange traditions to understand? And second-hand escapist tales as the next person, what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round I'm really looking for is the 'local' – the school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs cookbook maybe, the slowest time in yearsmaps definitely, he immediately becomes but above all: the butt of every school jokefolk tales. And some students are determined If I ever get to make his life more miserable than others..Burma, I won't need to hunt, I can read before I go. [[The Island Long Path To Wisdom by M A BennettJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Katalin Street by Helen CullenMagda Szabo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:5starThis 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]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. [[:Category:Literary FictionKatalin Street by Magda Szabo|Literary FictionFull Review]]
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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===[[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|FantasySanta Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]===
Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life the first time around. She'd been afflicted with [https[image://en4star.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressivajpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]], a rare disease which turned parts of her body to bone when they were damaged. Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer and went to Dignitas, the Swiss euthanasia clinic. She'd thought that would be the end, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-to-face with the devil. And that was when she made the pact. In exchange for details about some of those who had been close to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the same day to the same parents, but would live her life free of disease. [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon: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]]<!-- Novik Mandeville -->
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===[[Spinning Silver Every Colour of You by Naomi NovikAmelia Mandeville]]===
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Miryem comes from a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at it at all. Lending freely and rarely collecting, he leaves the family on the edge of poverty, until Miryem must step Zoe believes inadding life to years as well as years to life. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagersHer world, she becomes a person of great interest when she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from like her Grandfather and returns it full of goldname, soon becoming entangled is bursting with an array life and colour. She is the sort of strange creatures, from the dark beings that haunt the wood through to girl who would sing a King whorainbow is she could. Tristan (or ''Tree's eager to exploit Miryem's talents – as she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… calls him) is the opposite. Fresh out of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unit, he sees a world as a grey place. [[Spinning Silver Every Colour of You by Naomi NovikAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[Four A Spark of Light by Andy JonesJodi 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:4.5star1471168239.jpg|link=Categoryhttp:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews//www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471168239/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] [[  | style="vertical-align:Categorytop; text-align:General Fictionleft;"|General Fiction===[[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M B Vincent]]===
Friends are nice, and couple friends are doubly nice, giving you like minded people to spend time with[[image:4star. A pair of pairs, or a couple of couples. Married couple Sally and Al have known Mike for ages – Sally from universityjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], Al through work. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome and though she doesn't have their shared history, she's a lot of fun – a bit younger than the rest of them, an actress and so on. [[Four by Andy Jones: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]]<!-- Collishaw Stone -->
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===[[A Child Called Happiness by Stephan Collishaw]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Mazowe Valley, 2011 – Natalie hears Sasha has a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be lot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and the marriage needs work. Son Zac is entering a birdrebellious adolescent phase and it's hard to know how to redirect him. Mother Annie, but turns out to be a babyan alcoholic, abandoned to is beginning the birds on journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the kopjebest of times. She is there with Thank heavens for her uncle lovely dog, Sebastian, and they take the child, back to his farm initially and then to a local village where it is taken in. They do not report it to the policeunconditional love. [[A Child Called Happiness What's Left Unsaid by Stephan CollishawDeborah Stone|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category: Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionThe Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]===
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]]
''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]] <!-- Parkin Bowden -->
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===[[Underwater Breathing by Cassandra Parkin]]===
===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[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 the mud cliffs and Hugh Mullion goes away into to Dorset for the sea is where we meet Jacob weekend and Ella. They share a bathroom in the turret, old and cold and not really supposed while waiting for his wife to be used…but this is where they hide away from the shouts of their parents' arguments. Here they play the Underwater Breathing gamearrive, submerging themselves in finds a mysterious key down the water holding their breath for as long as they can. For sixteen year old Jacob it's just a way back of drowning out the arguments…but for Ella it is more than thatan antique chair. She The grubby and torn label to which is terrified of the sea, of the fact that it will come and swallow their houseattached reads. She needs to know that she can survive under water. She has to practice. [[Underwater Breathing The Amber Maze by Cassandra ParkinChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Believers Water Thief by Rebecca MakkaiClaire 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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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]]The Great Believersarea where Jill and Susie lived wasn'' follows a group of t highly populated so it was fortunate that they became such good friends whose lives are devastated by , despite the AIDS crisis in Chicago during the late 1980’sfact that Susie was a year older than Jill. Beginning in 1985 Susie lived with her mother, an alcoholic, the reader follows Yale and his friends as they come to terms Jill lived with the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community''her'' mother, alongside their demonisation at the hands of a conservative Americawho dedicated herself to her garden. Thirty years later Fiona Jill's father was Jay Tutle, a devoted friend to Yalethe photographer, is searching but he spent much of his time working away - often for her estranged daughter months on end. In reality there was little difference between the streets 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 Paris, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories Jill's life and how great tragedy can breed resilience and old hurthope. [[The Great Believers Landslide by Rebecca MakkaiMelissa Leet|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid Aftershocks by Dorothy KoomsonA N Wilson]]===
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In 1993a country very much like New Zealand, two teenagers stumble across a horrific scene on but at the beach as they're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: a body of a young womansame time most avowedly not, partially stripped, totally deceased. The two women will find hits the girls in different wayslove. Nell becomes obsessed with finding Strong love too, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was the identity only thing to make sense of the girl – who all those exaggerated songs she calls 'd heard, and books and poems she'the Brighton Mermaidd read, and plays she'' because d acted in – works 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 art that nighthad until then seemed sheer hyperbole. With few leads to go onIt was entirely unrequited love for quite some time, the Police closed the case without cracking but itdoes burgeon, and or so it remains we're promised from the off, because of something quite drastic – a major earthquake very much like the one of those unsolved mysteries that become part of local folklorehit Christchurch, but Nell struggles to let sleeping dogs, or even sleeping mermaids, lieat the same time most avowedly not. As for Jude, well no one knows if This book then is the combined exploration of 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 lovers and Gay Pride, it seemsthe story of the quake. [[The Brighton Mermaid Aftershocks by Dorothy KoomsonA N Wilson|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short Hell's Unveiling by Lex CoultonLaura Solomon]]===
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Lex CoultonA little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's debut novel is 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 story about mistakes, failuresspoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', but the devil is not one to take defeat lying down. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and relationshipsparticularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell). The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim Although a strong person, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a sixth form English teacher crime he didn'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 has recently fallen are not only targeted, but - worst of all - subverted to the devil's evil ends. He's out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with her best friend Jackson, a work colleaguemany foster children, and their self esteem is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mothervery fragile. This relationship is complicated by no small-scale operation, either - the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years olddevil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hell. [[Falling Short Hell's Unveiling by Lex CoultonLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Staying On by Elisabeth HydeC M Taylor]]===
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Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when Tony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honest, Yorkshire's where he waited for his three children 'd really like to arrive one Friday nightbe. He might You suspect that Scarborough would be a retired lawyerperfect, a state legislator, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth 's living in a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde and George arrivedrunning a pub. Ruth, a corporate lawyer, The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would find fault really like to sell it and want return to talk about him going into a retirement home. Georgethe UK, a nurse, would argue what with the uncertainty of Brexit and Lizzieeverything, but there are a professor couple of English Literatureproblems. First off, who lived locally and kept and visited him regularly, would be unpredictablehis wife - Laney - refuses to go back to the UK. Murray hoped She'd have you believe that all would go smoothlyshe's not well, but there's a backstory there that simply wasn's not being talked about. Then there's the pub, which isn't going doing well enough to happensell. 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. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Staying On by Elisabeth HydeC M Taylor|Full Review]]
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===[[The Particular Wisdom Day of Sally Red Shoes the Orphan by Ruth HoganDr Nat Tanoh]]===
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MashaSaga is eighteen and, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls ''hop-hip's son Gabriel died some years ago. She'd been a single parent with help from her friend, Edwardeating copious amounts of food, and learning about girls. Living in an affluent, who had grieved as much as Masha liberal and whilst Edward protected suburb, he has moved on (a good life. However, the suburb is in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When his boyfriend moved out in friends and family are dragged into the conflict raging around the dictatorship that Saga lives under, 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 the immediate aftermath soldiers desperate to stop him? [[The Day of the drowningOrphan by Dr Nat Tanoh|Full Review]] <!-- Lock -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1787198243.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787198243/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Murmuration by Robert Lock]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], but there[[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''Murmuration''s now follows the lives of a new love interest) Masha is still stricken, feeling that it would somehow be disloyal host of characters from 1863 to Gabriel if she was the present day. From a risqué comic to be happya fortune teller, we see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. An independentThere is a hint of mysticism to the tale, rebellious woman has somehow been diminishedwith the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Murmuration by Ruth HoganRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Smoking Kills by Nicolai Houm Antoine Laurain and Anna Paterson Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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Jane Ashland is dyingMeet Fabrice Valantine. ThatHe's a description of headhunter, and a very early scene here successful one too, in an office in Paris. All around him however his world is changing – but also, of courseyes, there is a platitude that can apply to new ban on smoking in all of usworkplaces. Jane's lifeGoaded by his non-smoking wife, if anythingeven though they met over an ashtray, is going up and down in levels of pleasuresorts, energy – sobriety – he sees a hypnotist who had success with a mutual friend in these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down placestopping their nicotine habit. Here thenThe session seems to have been successful, scattered through however he faces the prospect of having such a timeline-bending narrativechange to his own personality, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New Yorkhis imbued habits and lifestyle, glimpses of therapywith fear, a drive to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway when he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – and a trip there but it's what he replaces the habit with a new-found friend to watch that will surprise the musk oxen, of all thingsmost. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Smoking Kills by Nicolai Houm Antoine Laurain and Anna Paterson Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale of a Tooth The Island by Allie RogersM A Bennett]]===
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Danny lives in A contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'': a small Sussex town with his mothergroup of mismatched, Nataliemodern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. Life Link is poor, but they manage - until they're threatened by a benefits sanctionfish out of water. A Job Centre employee looks Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be their salvation so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad - but her impact on however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the family goes far beyond what they first expectslowest time in years, and he immediately becomes the resulting changes butt of every school joke. And some students are described determined to the reader through the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of four-year-old Dannymake his life more miserable than others... [[Tale of a Tooth The Island by Allie RogersM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Anthony TrevelyanHelen Cullen]]===
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When Claudia William Woolf is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitorletter detective, she doesn't expect it to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen yearsworking in the Dead Letters Depot in East London. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild SamsonHe spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, The Aztec tracking down mysterious people and The Sun Kingreading endless letters of love, 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. Reggieguilt, Samson's sondeath, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula''hope, a group who prepare for the end of the world and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doomeveryday life. 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 Lost Letters of William Woolf by Anthony TrevelyanHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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