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===[[Hell's Unveiling Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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A little while ago I really enjoyed [[MarshaAs an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] telling us the truth. The first two husbands, Gary and I Harry were abusive, but Larry was delighted by the opportunity to read the sequela treasure, a keeper, ''Hell's Unveiling''. Itand it's probably not much of a spoiler difficult to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal''understand why Vera would have killed him, but the devil is not one particularly when she was likely to take defeat lying down. He's get found out to wage war on Planet Earth very quickly and particularly on Marsha (whonow she's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell). Although prison with a strong person, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concernedmandatory life sentence. Daniel Her only friend is framed for Shirley, a 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 are not only targetedlesbian, but - worst of all - subverted to the devilVera's evil endsnot one to let herself be a victim. HeShe's out to prey not keen on their fears and weaknesses and as having a sexual relationship with many foster childrenShirley (she wouldn't risk the security of her life in prison for the sake of a fling), their self esteem but she is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, either - the devil has set up a training complex keen on earth, complete with getting an elevator to Helleducation and she's studying for a degree in English Literature. [[Hell's Unveiling Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On Black Light by C M TaylorLaura 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]]
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 UK, what with the uncertainty of Brexit and everything, but there are a couple of problems. First off, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to the UK. She'd have you believe that she's not well, but there's a backstory 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, 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. [[Staying On by C M Taylor|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of the Orphan Redemptor Domus by Dr Nat TanohGamelyn Chase]]===
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Saga is eighteen and, like many eighteen-year oldsA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his prime concerns are listening family in the Far East. As the boy travels to what his mum calls ''hop-hip''the school, eating copious amounts of fooda family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, and learning about girlswith an uncertain future. Living in an affluent, liberal Plunged into a school full of danger and protected suburb, he has a good life. Howeverbetrayal, the suburb boy is in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When his seen as a trophy by friends and family are dragged enemies alike. With them locked into their scheming and plotting, it comes to the conflict raging around boy to attempt to clean up the dictatorship pit of filth that Saga lives under, he is forced to the school has become an unlikely revolutionary. 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 Redemptor Domus by Dr Nat TanohGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[Murmuration The Long Path To Wisdom by Robert LockJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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''Murmuration'' follows On my travels around the lives of world, I have a host of characters from 1863 tendency to the present day. From a risqué comic to a fortune tellerend up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, we see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. There is a hint of mysticism to while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the talenext person, with what I'm really looking for is the mesmerising dance of starlings over 'local' – the pier acting as an anchor throughout cookbook maybe, the distinct narratives heremaps definitely, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by but above all: the seafolk tales. If I ever get to Burma, I won't need to hunt, I can read before I go. [[Murmuration The Long Path To Wisdom by Robert LockJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Smoking Kills Katalin Street by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Magda Szabo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:4starThis 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionKatalin Street by Magda Szabo|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 by M A Bennett]]===
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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]]
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]]<!-- Cullen Mandeville -->
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===[[The Lost Letters Every Colour of William Woolf You by Helen CullenAmelia Mandeville]]===
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William Woolf Zoe believes in adding life to years as well as years to life. Her world, like her name, is bursting with life and colour. She is the sort of girl who would sing a letter detective, working in rainbow is she could. Tristan (or ''Tree'' as she calls him) is the Dead Letters Depot in East Londonopposite. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters Fresh out of lovehospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unit, guilt, death, hope, and everyday lifehe sees a world as a grey place. [[The Lost Letters Every Colour of William Woolf You by Helen CullenAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[Marsha's Deal A Spark of Light by Laura SolomonJodi Picoult]]===
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Marsha didn't have an easy ride The Center is the last remaining abortion clinic in life the first time around. She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], a rare disease which turned parts state of Mississippi and is the source of her body great controversy when it comes to bone when they were damagedthe Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate. Finally she was unable It is at The Center where one man, George Goddard, takes it upon himself to stand her life any longer and went to Dignitasget revenge for the loss of his grandchild, in the Swiss euthanasia clinicform of a mass-shooting. She'd thought What arises is a novel that would be details the lives of the endremaining hostages, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-as well as other characters central to-face with the devilstory. And that was when she made One of these characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in to help deflate the pact. In exchange for details about some of those situation, who had been close soon discovers that his sister and daughter, Wren, happened to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be reborn on at the same clinic that day to the same parents, but would live her life free of disease. [[Marsha's Deal A Spark of Light by Laura SolomonJodi Picoult|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Naomi NovikM B Vincent]]===
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Miryem comes from a long line Dr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at it at all. Lending freely and rarely collecting, he leaves the prestigious Castle family on has returned home to the edge sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of povertyCastle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, until Miryem must step inespecially her father, the judge. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagersLuckily for Jess, she becomes doesn't have to try too hard to dodge her family's suspicions as a person series of great interest when she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from her Grandfather gruesome local murders are taking place and returns it full that's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in the thick of goldthe investigation, soon becoming entangled and to her delight finds that she can actually be useful. But with an array of strange creatures, from the dark beings that haunt small population dwindling and the wood through sense of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made 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… grave mistake getting involved? [[Spinning Silver Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Naomi NovikM 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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===[[Four by Andy Jones]]===
===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.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?''
Friends are nice, and couple friends are doubly nice, giving you I think most women have felt like minded people to spend time withthis shortly after having a baby. A pair Many of pairs, or a couple them simply managed to put one foot in front of couples. Married couple Sally and Al the other until things calmed down but some will have known Mike for ages – Sally from university, 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 found it harder and so on. developed post-natal depression[[Four The Place Where Love Should Be by Andy JonesElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness by Stephan Collishaw]]===
===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Mazowe ValleyHugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the weekend and, 2011 – Natalie hears a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be a birdwhile waiting for his wife to arrive, but turns out to be finds a baby, abandoned to mysterious key down the birds on the kopjeback of an antique chair. She is there with her uncle The grubby and they take the child, back torn label to his farm initially and then to a local village where it which is taken inattached reads.. They do not report it to the police. [[A Child Called Happiness The Amber Maze by Stephan CollishawChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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[[image:4star.jpg|linkstyle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [["vertical-align:Categorytop; text-align: Historical Fictionleft;"|Historical Fiction]], ===[[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionLandslide by Melissa Leet]]===
On a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], a family of settlers struggle to make [[: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 an unforgiving place good friends, despite the fact that Susie was a homeyear older than Jill. When a ship appears Susie lived with her mother, an alcoholic, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – Jill lived with ''her'' mother, who dedicated herself to her garden. Jill's father was Jay Tutle, the photographer, but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappearshe 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. As both settlers Joy and newcomers come together in tragedy would visit Jill's home. ''Landslide'' is the search for story of how what happened determined the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island course of Jill's life and how great tragedy can breed resilience and those who inhabit ithope. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions Landslide by Lydia SysonMelissa Leet|Full Review]]
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A tumble-down Edwardian house that In a country very much like New Zealand, but at the same time most avowedly not, two women will sooner rather than later tumble down the mud cliffs and away into the sea is where we meet Jacob and Ellafind love. They share a bathroom in Strong love too, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was the turretonly thing to make sense of all those exaggerated songs she'd heard, old and cold books and not really supposed to be used…but this is where they hide away from the shouts of their parentspoems she' arguments. Here they play the Underwater Breathing gamed read, submerging themselves and plays she'd acted in the water holding their breath – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbole. It was entirely unrequited love for as long as they can. For sixteen year old Jacob quite some time, but itdoes burgeon, or so we's just re promised from the off, because of something quite drastic – a way of drowning out major earthquake very much like the arguments…but for Ella it is more than one thathit Christchurch, but at the same time most avowedly not. She This book then is terrified the combined exploration of the sea, lovers and the story of the fact that it will come and swallow their house. She needs to know that she can survive under water. She has to practicequake. [[Underwater Breathing Aftershocks by Cassandra ParkinA N Wilson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Believers Hell's Unveiling by Rebecca MakkaiLaura Solomon]]===
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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 sequel, ''The Great BelieversHell's Unveiling' follows '. It's probably not much of a group of friends whose lives are devastated by spoiler to say that Marsha bested the AIDS crisis devil in Chicago during ''Marsha's Deal'', but the late 1980’sdevil is not one to take defeat lying down. Beginning He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in 1985Hell). Although a strong person, the reader follows Yale she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and his friends as they come refused permission to return to terms live with Marsha. Then, of course there are all the other children who are not only targeted, but - worst of all - subverted to the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout devil's evil ends. He's out to prey on their communityfears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, alongside their demonisation at the hands of a conservative Americaself esteem is very fragile. Thirty years later Fiona This is no small-scale operation, either - the devil has set up a devoted friend to Yale, is searching for her estranged daughter training complex on the streets of Parisearth, trying complete with an elevator to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurtHell. [[The Great Believers Hell's Unveiling by Rebecca MakkaiLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid Staying On by Dorothy KoomsonC M Taylor]]===
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In 1993Tony 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, two teenagers stumble across but he's living in a horrific scene on mountain village just beyond the beach as they're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: a body of Costa Verde and running a young woman, partially stripped, totally deceasedpub. The find hits the girls in different ways. Nell becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the girl – who she calls Viva Espagñe isn''the Brighton Mermaid'' because of a distinguishing tattoo – whereas Jude just wants t flourishing: Tony would really like to forget sell it ever happened. Fast forward 25 years and Nell is still haunted by what happened that night. With few leads return to go onthe UK, what with the Police closed the case without cracking it, uncertainty of Brexit and so it remains one of those unsolved mysteries that become part of local folkloreeverything, but Nell struggles to let sleeping dogs, or even sleeping mermaids, liethere are a couple of problems. As for JudeFirst off, well no one knows if his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to the discovery still haunts her because no one knows where she isUK. Shortly after She'd have you believe that fateful nightshe's not well, she too disappearedbut there's a backstory there that's not being talked about. Then there's the pub, never which isn't doing well enough to be seen or heard from againsell. ThereIn fact Tony's more cleaning the swimming pools of expats who have left Spain and returned home, in order to make a bit of money to Brighton than Stag Dos try and Gay Pridemake ends at least come in sight of each other, it seemseven if they never meet. [[The Brighton Mermaid Staying On by Dorothy KoomsonC M Taylor|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short The Day of the Orphan by Lex CoultonDr Nat Tanoh]]===
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Lex CoultonSaga is eighteen and, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls ''hop-hip''s debut novel is a story about mistakes, failureseating copious amounts of food, and relationshipslearning about girls. The main protagonistLiving in an affluent, Frances Pilgrimliberal and protected suburb, is he has a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jacksongood life. However, a work colleaguethe suburb is in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When his friends and is grappling with family are dragged into the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is complicated by conflict raging around the fact dictatorship that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years oldSaga 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 soldiers desperate to stop him? [[Falling Short The Day of the Orphan by Lex CoultonDr Nat Tanoh|Full Review]]
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Murmuration by Elisabeth HydeRobert Lock]]===
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Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for ''Murmuration'' follows the best when he waited for his three children lives of a host of characters from 1863 to arrive one Friday nightthe present day. He might be From a retired lawyer, risqué comic to a state legislatorfortune teller, elected congressman we see the birth of Blackpool and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrivedits steadily fading glamour. Ruth, There is a corporate lawyer, would find fault and want hint of mysticism to talk about him going into a retirement home. Georgethe tale, a nursewith the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, would argue and Lizzie, a professor drawing together disparate stories 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 happenlives captivated by the sea. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Murmuration by Elisabeth HydeRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Smoking Kills by Ruth HoganAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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MashaMeet Fabrice Valantine. He's son Gabriel died some years agoa headhunter, and a successful one too, in an office in Paris. She'd been All around him however his world is changing – yes, there is a single parent with help from her friendnew ban on smoking in all workplaces. Goaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, Edwardof sorts, he sees a hypnotist who had grieved as much as Masha and whilst Edward has moved on (his boyfriend moved out success with a mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to have been successful, however he faces the immediate aftermath prospect of the drowninghaving 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 thereit's now a new love interest) Masha is still stricken, feeling what he replaces the habit with that it would somehow be disloyal to Gabriel if she was to be happy. An independent, rebellious woman has somehow been diminishedwill surprise the most. [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Smoking Kills by Ruth HoganAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Island by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)M A Bennett]]===
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Jane Ashland is dying. ThatA contemporary take on the savage classic ''s a description Lord of the Flies'': a very early scene here – but also, group of coursemismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a platitude that can apply to all deserted island. Link is a fish out of uswater. Jane's life, if anythingNewly arrived from America, he is going up finding it hard to settle into the venerable and down in levels prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind of pleasure, energy – sobriety – 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 these pagesyears, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down placehe 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]] <!-- Cullen -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0718189140.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0718189140/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen]]=== [[image:5star. Here thenjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], scattered through [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] William Woolf is a timeline-bending narrativeletter detective, we have her working in the Dead Letters Depot in East London. He spends his days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New Yorkdeciphering smudged addresses, glimpses tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of therapylove, guilt, death, hope, 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 thingseveryday life. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance Lost Letters of Jane Ashland William Woolf by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Helen Cullen|Full Review]]
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