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===[[Claudia The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Anthony TrevelyanAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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When Claudia is called to Long-time followers of The Bookbag will know I'm a die-hard fan of AMS. So you can imagine my excitement at reading a brand new book in a brand new series, described by the reception of her Manchester Office block author himself as Scandi Blanc (as opposed to Scandi Noir)! Here we meet a visitornew detective named Ulf Varg, she doesn't expect it to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen who works in the Department for fifteen yearsSensitive Crimes, solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the usual police parameters. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed in the knee, The Aztec and The Sun Kingthe disappearance of an imaginary boyfriend, walked out of Claudia's life and into a world case of success as a solar panel salesman – but now hepotential werewolves. They's returned re the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal with, and he needs Claudia's help. ReggieI rather enjoyed them, Samson's sonespecially the stabbing where you find that actually, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group you identify with the person who prepare for committed the end of crime, rather than the world and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doomvictim. 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 Department of Sensitive Crimes by Anthony TrevelyanAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know by Mike Gayle]]===
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James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men The final novel in their early thirties whose lives havenAlan Kennedy't s WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken them off active duty and banished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to Alex as anything the Germans would provide. And where they were supposed is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to go. At an all time low time for both ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of themthe disinformation campaign, the two men reconnect and slowly returned to find they're exactly what the other needsher missing. Together, they help each other put their lives back together. This A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is a beautiful story about friendship and what it really means to help quite another person. Alex can't get Justine out of his head. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[The Man I Think I Know Things That are Lost by Mike GayleAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae A Danger to Herself and Others by Stephanie ButlandAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life''They needed someone to blame, and just as she I was the only available scapegoat. Their daughter was edging closer to death she finally, finally got my best friend. Playing the call that she needed, that a heart scapegoat was available for her to have a transplantthe least I could do under the circumstances. Previously she had felt '' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so helpless that she had used her blog to make decisions for parents tell her, running polls amongst her readers to decide on her actions. But with her new heartShe has dined in fancy restaurants, she has been given explored the most sophisticated corners of the globe and lived a new lifeof luxury. Can Ailsa manage to start [[A Danger to live on her own, Herself and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Others by Stephanie ButlandAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[My Turn Will Come Louis and Louise by E G SmartJulie Cohen]]===
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Things are changing What would you be like, right now, if you'd been born a different gender? Would it simply be a matter of genetics, and your life would still have unfolded in the same way? Or would the way you had been raised affect who you became in life? This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all of the pharmaceutical research companyabove, CooksonPalmer. With covering the retiring boss on his way outstories of Louis and Louise, a new CEO is born on his way up the ladder same day, to that post. But bad man Steven Langham knowsthe same parents, because he bugs the offices but in his path to gloryone storyline Lou is a boy, that good guy and ex-researcher James Truman has got in the jobother a girl. That decision Does it really make a difference, as the prologue (gender box that is ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that men and women are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been in the blurb) provespast, how they still are, can lead and prompts you to a lethal amount of jealousy – but can nice-guy James get revenge, even from the other side? think about how they could be... [[My Turn Will Come Louis and Louise by E G SmartJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Leaves M for Mammy by Stefan MohamedEleanor O'Reilly]]===
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When your best friend vanishesThe Augustts are, how can you begin to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they're okay? And what would you do if they reappeared in your life? like all families, a bit complicated. A loving irish family, their love binds them together – but all questions express that Vanessa faces every dayin very different ways. However, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. When he reappearswhen misfortune strikes the family they are forced to work together in order to understand each other again, sheas with a family as complicated as the Augustts it's shocked not only by his presence back always what is spoken that makes the most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in her lifeand takes charge. Full of stern words and common sense, but also by the fact that he hasnshe't aged s a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearance. Shocked, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa force of nature who must return to try her home town in order hardest to help Mark find hold the answers he so desperately cravesfamily together. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Falling Leaves M for Mammy by Stefan MohamedEleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Gary SantorellaRuth Hogan]]===
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The USATilda returns to Brighton, early 1980s. Charlie (or Charles, if heto tidy away the remains of her mother's feeling belligerentlife after her death. Whilst there, and he often is) is being taken back she returns to his home by his drop-outthe Paradise hotel, slutty mothera haven for eccentrics and misfits. The home is called a CottageA place where people can be themselves, and while the book doesn't guide us to understand it perfectly, it seems to mean he has a private room in let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a large self-contained bungalowchild, on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervisionfrom this place of wonder. There's a paddock with horses for With the kids to ridehelp of Queenie Malone, their own school – and all the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm the kids down. Charliecaring, despite his obvious bookish intelligence, is struggling to get to grips with why and how he's ended up where he isgregarious, but it must have something Tilda begins to do with his single parent mother being violent, pick apart the tricky and the fact he is no longer allowed to stay with his grandfather. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughts, as he tries to build a uncertain relationship she had with a girl in a different Cottage, her sometimes cruel and work out his lot. He certainly has a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-olddistant mother. [[Dyed Souls Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Gary SantorellaRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist]]===
===[[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''In 1948, the first set of Caribbean nationals arrived in Great Britain on a ship called "Empire Windrush". They struggled to find housing. They worked as labourers. They faced open discrimination, forcing them to quickly form their own community. Decades later, Freddy makes the same journey.'' ''Does he find a place to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?''
When I read Freddie arrives in London in the early 2000s, answering the blurb call for this bookteachers. He thinks about his own Jamaican education, based on the British system, I found myself instantly interested in its premise and the way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the River Thames. He thinks about the love of two people trying to start their lives again following serious life changescricket and football, shared by both countries. The book did not disappointAnd he thinks of the generations of the diaspora who came before him. Freddy does well in his job in East London but he does have to face down some stereotypical attitudes from his pupils - all Jamaicans smoke weed, don't they? Everybody knows that! [[Two Steps Forward The Man Who Came to London by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistA S Cookson|Full Review]]
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===[[I Have Lost My Way Liberation Square by Gayle FormanGareth Rubin]]===
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''I Have Lost My Way'' tells In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the story of three individuals who have each lost something important to them leading to them losing their way. Freya has lost her voiceEast, Harun has lost his love and Nathaniel has lost everythingAmericans from the west. HoweverDividing the nation between them, these three elements do not give justice to London soon finds itself split in two, a wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the extent murder of what each character has losthis former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. In this expertly written noveldoing so, Gayle Forman writes about how these three dissimilar individuals each came Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to lose what was most important the highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to them, causing them to all meet stay one fateful day in New York City. step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[I Have Lost My Way Liberation Square by Gayle FormanGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century When You Read This by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Mary Adkins]]===
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FirstSmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, forgive me if I don't refer but his attention was on making enough money to this book with its full title often. Itcover his mother's pointedly precise, accuratenursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York and rather ungainly – losing money gambling when in fact the book it describes has only the former two attributes in any quantitypressures got too much for him. What happens in January is that He was devastated when Iris developed a wild wolf walks across terminal cancer and died at the frozen river separating Poland and eastern Germanyage of thirty three. Which means He was surprised too when he discovered that, when the book starts properly, mid-February, it has Iris had time to get been writing a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precise, for that is blog in the road marker where one last six months of our main characters sees it. He her life and her final request of Smith is trying to get back to work in Berlin for the first time in a month, and to be with his girlfriend, not knowing she has had an infidelity while that he was away. Also fancying gets the bright lights and big city are blog published as a teenaged pair of love-birds, the boy and girl next door to each other in an eastern village, who flee an unhappy lot on the off-chance of a better onebook. You just know there is a chance that these characters – human and lupine alike – are sucked into one combined narrative, but you won't know quite what that will entail…[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century When You Read This by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Mary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[W Vera Magpie by John BanksLaura Solomon]]===
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On the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - ''I have murdered three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationhusbands. Josh Kinninger is inspired by '' As an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera's telling us the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left truth. The first two husbands, Gary and Harry were abusive, but Larry was a treasure, a keeper, and it's difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him angry, unmoored particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and now she's in prison with his world in turmoila mandatory life sentence. Beginning Her only friend is Shirley, a journey westwardlesbian, hebut Vera's not one to let herself be a victim. She's filled not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the security of her life in prison for the sake of a desire to wreak vengeance fling), but she is keen on the individuals he finds morally corruptgetting an education and she's studying for a degree in English Literature. [[W Vera Magpie by John BanksLaura Solomon|Full Review]] <!-- Laura Solomon -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:938689713X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/938689713X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Black Light by Laura Solomon]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Jim is a university student and, as the saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's never really managed to connect with his step-father. His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him. Jim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desired. Despite all that's he's not about to sit back and allow his life to drift: he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[Black Light by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]  <!-- Hepworth Chase -->
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===[[The Family Next Door Redemptor Domus by Sally HepworthGamelyn Chase]]===
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Pleasant Court is a cul-de-sac a few minutes A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the beach in MelbourneFar East. Kids play in As the boy travels to the street and it's school, a family tragedy causes the sort of place people aspire boy toarrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. Certainly that's how the families who live there feel and there's Plunged into a good sense school full of community. Ben danger and Essie are glad that Essie's mother betrayal, the boy is living next door seen as Essie had a mental breakdown three years ago when her first daughter was having difficulty sleepingtrophy by friends and enemies alike. Mia's come through that stageWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, but now there's Poppy, who's been it comes to the perfect baby for boy to attempt to clean up the first six months pit of her life, but is just starting to be difficult. Ben, in particular, is pleased filth that he can rely on Barbara to keep an eye on the situation whilst he's out at workschool has become. [[The Family Next Door Redemptor Domus by Sally HepworthGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[Ask For Blues The Long Path To Wisdom by Malcolm WaltonJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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Malcolm Walton's book is clearly On my travels around the world, I have a memoir about his introduction tendency to end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the Trad Jazz scene of next person, what I'm really looking for is the late 1950's and early 1960local's, but he has chosen to write it in – the form of a novelcookbook maybe, claiming in his prologue that this would give the book a different approach to the music memoir. His protagonist 'Martin' takes on Malcolm's mantlemaps definitely, and begins with his first discovery of but above all: the Salvation Army band with his grandfatherfolk tales. This catapults him into a love of musicIf I ever get to Burma, initially taking piano lessonsI won't need to hunt, and later delving into his true love – the trumpetI can read before I go. [[Ask For Blues The Long Path To Wisdom by Malcolm WaltonJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]<br><!-- Bala Szabo -->
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===[[The Boat People Katalin Street by Sharon BalaMagda Szabo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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Among the 500 Sri Lankans in a rickety boat making its way to Vancouver Island are Mahindan and his six-year-old son Sellian. When the boat arrives the Canadian authorities take all the passengers into custody, placing the women and children in a separate facility from the men. A gruelling series of hearings will decide on the fate of each individual or family: whether they will be allowed to stay in Canada, or deported back to Sri Lanka. The government fears that up to half of these asylum-seekers may have links to the Tamil Tigers, a terrorist group, so judges are instructed to have a firm hand. [[The Boat People by Sharon Bala|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hoarder by Jess Kidd]]===
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Cathal Flood is an old, belligerent man, living in a filthy, crowded house that was once a family home. When Maud Drennan – underpaid carer and unintentional psychic is employed to look after the ancient Cathal, she assumes she'll just be the next in a long line of short-term dogsbodies for the old man. Instead, Maud finds herself drawn into the mysteries concealed within Cathal's once great house – and as Maud begins to clean and sort the rooms she uncovers secrets about the old man that awaken long-hidden memories within Maud herself. With the aid of her highly glamourous yet utterly agoraphobic landlady and a troop of holy ghosts, Maud must uncover the secrets at the heart of the house – and exactly why they were buried… [[The Hoarder by Jess Kidd|Full Review]]
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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]]<!-- Makumbi Mandeville -->
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===[[Kintu Every Colour of You by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiAmelia Mandeville]]===
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''Kintu'' opens with unbridled authority and mercilessness. In just a few pages a man has been hunted down by an angry mob Zoe believes in Ugandaadding life to years as well as years to life. He Her world, like her name, is then brained bursting with a concrete slab; his woman life and colour. She is left in widowhood and has the hard task sort of dealing with her mangirl who would sing a rainbow is she could. Tristan (or ''Tree''s debtas she calls him) is the opposite. Blood flows easilyFresh out of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unit, and quickly, when your family's steps are haunted by he sees a world as a curse that spans generationsgrey place. [[Kintu Every Colour of You by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Anatomy A Spark of Light by Jodi 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 Scandal 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 Sarah VaughanJodi 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]]
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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]]<!-- Dean Stone -->
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Tuva Moodyson works for Sasha has a local paper in small town Sweden - there to be near an ailing Mother, but desperate for the big break that will have lot on her moving on to pastures newplate. Just outside of her town, Gavrik, two bodies lie deep in Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and the forest - brutally murdered and their eyes ripped outmarriage needs work. They bring back dark memories for Son Zac is entering a town that has seen this crime before - rebellious adolescent phase and Tuva is desperate it's hard to know how to find the killerredirect him. At firstMother Annie, an alcoholic, she's just out to write a good story - but as is beginning the crimes continue she finds herself drawn deeper journey into dementia and deeper into has never been an easy person at the forests outside best of Gavriktimes. Thank heavens for her lovely dog, Sebastian, filled with stranger characters and dark secretshis unconditional love. Will she find the killer before they find her? [[Dark Pines What's Left Unsaid by Will DeanDeborah Stone|Full Review]]
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===[[Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece by Stephen Fry]]===
===[[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?''
The Greek Myths are, arguably, the greatest stories ever told. So old and influential they cast I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a shadow over western tales and traditions, yet remain relatable and readable millennia laterbaby. Here comedian, actor, television presenter, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent Many of them simply managed to these special stories and recreates them with a wit, warmth and humanity that brings them into put one foot in front of the modern age whilst still giving the honour other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder and respect that such ancient and influential stories deserve. developed post-natal depression[[Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece The Place Where Love Should Be by Stephen FryElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]
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Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a handful of animals living below the waves. We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after the animals and falls into a world of intrigue[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
It is difficult Hugh Mullion goes away to properly review this book without giving too much away. There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from Dorset for the start but I will try weekend and, while waiting for his wife to avoid arrive, finds a mysterious key down the main onesback of an antique chair. The grubby and torn label to which is attached reads... [[Water & Glass The Amber Maze by Abi CurtisChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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Strange Weather Nick is a collection in the middle of four short novels all linked by, unsurprisingly, strange and cataclysmic weather. Each novel is distinct and showcases Hill's restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events and makes them bitingly, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautiful, often switching from one sentence wedding preparations when he decides to the next. As Hill himself says ''the beauty of the world leave his fiancée behind in London and take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the horror building of the world were twined togethera children'', never s hospital. He has no idea what he is this truer than in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with raw beautygetting himself into. [[Strange Weather The Water Thief by Joe HillClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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