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===[[The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith]]===
 
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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 author himself as Scandi Blanc (as opposed to Scandi Noir)! Here we meet a new detective named Ulf Varg, who works in the Department for Sensitive Crimes, solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the usual police parameters. This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed in the knee, the disappearance of an imaginary boyfriend, and a case of potential werewolves. They're the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal with, and I rather enjoyed them, especially the stabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the person who committed the crime, rather than the victim. [[The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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Danny lives The final novel in a small Sussex town with his motherAlan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, Natalieproviding trade craft spy training. Life is poor, but they manage - until theyIt're threatened by s stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a benefits sanctionprison to Alex as anything the Germans would provide. A Job Centre employee looks And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to be their salvation - but her impact on ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the family goes far beyond what they first expectdisinformation campaign, and the resulting changes are described returned to the reader through the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes find her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. Alex can't get Justine out of four-year-old Dannyhis head. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[Tale of a Tooth The Things That are Lost by Allie RogersAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia A Danger to Herself and Others by Anthony TrevelyanAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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When Claudia is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitor, she doesn't expect it 'They needed someone to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samsonblame, The Aztec and The Sun King, walked out of Claudia's life and into a world of success as a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's helpI was the only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Reggie, Samson's son, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group who prepare for Playing the scapegoat was the end of least I could do under the world and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doomcircumstances. Claudia's journey takes ' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her far from parents tell her home . She has dined in Manchester to fancy restaurants, explored the end most sophisticated corners of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… globe and lived a life of luxury. [[Claudia A Danger to Herself and Others by Anthony TrevelyanAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know Louis and Louise by Mike GayleJulie Cohen]]===
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James DeWitt What would you be like, right now, if you'd been born a different gender? Would it simply be a matter of genetics, and Danny Allen are both men your life would still have unfolded in the same way? Or would the way you had been raised affect who you became in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to go. At an life? This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all time low time for both of themthe above, covering the stories of Louis and Louise, born on the same day, to the two men reconnect same parents, but in one storyline Lou is a boy, and slowly find they're exactly what in the other needsa girl. Together Does it really make a difference, they help each other put their lives back together. This the gender box that is a beautiful ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that men and women are treated differently, but this story about friendship really highlights how things have been in the past, how they still are, and what it really means prompts you to help another personthink about how they could be... [[The Man I Think I Know Louis and Louise by Mike GayleJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae M for Mammy by Stephanie ButlandEleanor O'Reilly]]===
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Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole lifeThe Augustts are, like all families, and just as she was edging closer to death she finallya bit complicated. A loving irish family, finally got the call their love binds them together – but all express that she neededin very different ways. However, that a heart was available for her when misfortune strikes the family they are forced to work together in order to have understand each other again, as with a transplantfamily as complicated as the Augustts it's not always what is spoken that makes the most sense. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to make decisions for her, running polls amongst her readers to decide on her actionsThings are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and takes charge. But with her new heartFull of stern words and common sense, she has been given 's a new lifeforce of nature who must try her hardest to hold the family together. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae M for Mammy by Stephanie ButlandEleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]]
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===[[My Turn Will Come Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by E G SmartRuth Hogan]]===
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Things are changing in Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the pharmaceutical research companyremains of her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, CooksonPalmer. With she returns to the retiring boss on his way outParadise hotel, a new CEO is on his way up the ladder to haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of thoughts that posttorment them elsewhere. But bad man Steven Langham knowsLittle wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, because he bugs from this place of wonder. With the offices in his path to gloryhelp of Queenie Malone, that good guy and ex-researcher James Truman has got the job. That decisioncaring, as the prologue (and the blurb) provesgregarious, can lead Tilda begins to a lethal amount of jealousy – but can nice-guy James get revenge, even from pick apart the other side? tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[My Turn Will Come Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by E G SmartRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Leaves by Stefan Mohamed]]===
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When your best friend vanishes[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''In 1948, how can you begin the first set of Caribbean nationals arrived in Great Britain on a ship called "Empire Windrush". They struggled 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? – all questions that Vanessa faces every dayfind housing. They worked as labourers. They faced open discrimination, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanishedforcing them to quickly form their own community. When he reappearsDecades later, sheFreddy makes the same journey.'' ''s shocked not only by his presence back in her life, but also by the fact that Does he hasn't aged find a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearance. Shocked, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return place to her home town in order to help Mark find the answers live? Does he so desperately craves. But whatface stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?''s waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Falling Leaves by Stefan Mohamed|Full Review]]
Freddie arrives in London in the early 2000s, answering the call for teachers. He thinks about his own Jamaican education, based on the British system, and the way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the River Thames. He thinks about the love of cricket and football, shared by both countries. And 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! [[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson|Full Review]] <!-- Santorella Rubin -->
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===[[Dyed Souls Liberation Square by Gary SantorellaGareth Rubin]]===
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The USAIn an alternate 1952, early 1980sSoviet Troops control British Streets. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerentAfter D-Day goes horribly wrong, and he often Britain is) is being taken back first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to his home be rescued by his drop-outRussian soldiers from the East, slutty motherand Americans from the west. The home is called a Cottage, and while Dividing the book doesn't guide us to understand it perfectlynation between them, it seems to mean he has a private room London soon finds itself split in two, a large self-contained bungalow, on wall running through it like a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervisionscar. ThereWhen Jane Cawson's a paddock with horses husband is arrested for the kids to ride, their own school – and all the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm the kids down. Charlie, despite murder of his obvious bookish intelligenceformer wife, Jane is struggling determined to get to grips with why and how he's ended up where he isclear his name. In doing so, but it must have something Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to do with his single parent mother being violent, the highest levels of the state – and the fact he is no longer allowed soon finds herself desperate to stay with his grandfather. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughts, as he tries to build a relationship with a girl in a different Cottage, and work out his lot. He certainly has a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-old. one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Dyed Souls Liberation Square by Gary SantorellaGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Two Steps Forward When You Read This by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistMary Adkins]]===
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When I read Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the blurb for this bookaltar on their wedding day. Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, I found myself instantly interested running the branding agency in its premise New York and losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the age of two people trying to start their lives again following serious life changesthirty three. The He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the last six months of her life and her final request of Smith is that he gets the blog published as a book did not disappoint. [[Two Steps Forward When You Read This by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[I Have Lost My Way Vera Magpie by Gayle FormanLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''I have murdered three husbands.''
As an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera's telling us the truth. The first two husbands, Gary and Harry were abusive, but Larry was a treasure, a keeper, and it'I Have Lost My Way'' tells the story of three individuals who s difficult to understand why Vera would have each lost something important killed him, particularly when she was likely to them leading to them losing their wayget found out very quickly and now she's in prison with a mandatory life sentence. Freya has lost her voice Her only friend is Shirley, Harun has lost his love and Nathaniel has lost everything. Howevera lesbian, these three elements do but Vera's not give justice one to let herself be a victim. She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the extent security of what each character has lost. In this expertly written novelher life in prison for the sake of a fling), Gayle Forman writes about how these three dissimilar individuals each came to lose what was most important to them, causing them to all meet one fateful day but she is keen on getting an education and she's studying for a degree in New York CityEnglish Literature. [[I Have Lost My Way Vera Magpie by Gayle FormanLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Black Light by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (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]]
First, forgive me if I don't refer to this book with its full title often. It's pointedly precise, accurate, and rather ungainly – when in fact the book it describes has only the former two attributes in any quantity. What happens in January is that a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland and eastern Germany. Which means that, when the book starts properly, mid-February, it has had time to get a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precise, for that is the road marker where one of our main characters sees it. He 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 he was away. Also fancying the bright lights and big city are 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 one. 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…
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===[[W Redemptor Domus by John BanksGamelyn Chase]]===
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On A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the slopes of Mt Hood scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in Oregonthe Far East. As the boy travels to the school, a family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, with an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationuncertain future. Josh Kinninger Plunged into a school full of danger and betrayal, the boy is inspired seen as a trophy by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored friends and with his world in turmoilenemies alike. Beginning a journey westwardWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, he's filled with a desire it comes to the boy to attempt to wreak vengeance on clean up the pit of filth that the individuals he finds morally corruptschool has become. [[W Redemptor Domus by John BanksGamelyn Chase|Full Review]] <!-- Sendker -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1846974658.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1846974658/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Long Path To Wisdom by Jan-Philipp Sendker]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] On my travels around the world, I have a 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 next person, what I'm really looking for is the 'local' – the cookbook maybe, the maps definitely, but above all: the folk tales. If I ever get to Burma, I won't need to hunt, I can read before I go. [[The Long Path To Wisdom by Jan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]] <!-- Hepworth Szabo -->
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===[[The Family Next Door Katalin Street by Sally HepworthMagda Szabo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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Pleasant Court is a cul-de-sac a few minutes from the beach in Melbourne. Kids play in the street and it's the sort of place people aspire to. Certainly that's how the families who live there feel and there's a good sense of community. Ben and Essie are glad that Essie's mother is living next door as Essie had a mental breakdown three years ago when her first daughter was having difficulty sleeping. Mia's come through that stage, but now there's Poppy, who's been the perfect baby for the first six months of her life, but is just starting to be difficult. Ben, in particular, is pleased that he can rely on Barbara to keep an eye on the situation whilst he's out at work. [[The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth|Full Review]]
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===[[Ask For Blues by Malcolm Walton]]===
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Malcolm Walton[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]]  Something's book is clearly a memoir about his introduction to the Trad Jazz scene of the late 1950gone horribly wrong. It's Christmas Eve and early 1960everything is very busy in Santa's, but he has chosen grotto. The presents are all ready and waiting to write it in be loaded onto the form of a novel, claiming in his prologue that this would give sleigh and the book a different approach reindeer are itching to get going. But Santa? Santa is just not in the music memoirmood. His protagonist 'Martin' takes on Malcolm's mantle, and begins with his first discovery He is tired of delivering the Salvation Army band latest toys to children who only play with his grandfatherthem for five minutes. This catapults him into He wishes people would remember what Christmas is really about - a time for families to come together for love of music, initially taking piano lessons, and later delving into his true love – the trumpetfriendship and goodwill to one another. [[Ask For Blues Santa Goes on Strike by Malcolm WaltonJem Vanston|Full Review]]<br><!-- Bala Mandeville -->
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===[[The Boat People Every Colour of You by Sharon BalaAmelia Mandeville]]===
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Among the 500 Sri Lankans Zoe believes in a rickety boat making its way adding life to years as well as years to Vancouver Island are Mahindan life. Her world, like her name, is bursting with life and his six-year-old son Selliancolour. When She is the boat arrives the Canadian authorities take all the passengers into custody, placing the women and children in sort of girl who would sing a separate facility from rainbow is she could. Tristan (or ''Tree'' as she calls him) is the menopposite. A gruelling series Fresh out of hearings will decide on the fate of each individual or family: whether they will be allowed to hospital following a prolonged 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 Tigersa psychiatric unit, he sees a terrorist group, so judges are instructed to have world as a firm handgrey place. [[The Boat People Every Colour of You by Sharon BalaAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[The Hoarder A Spark of Light by Jess KiddJodi Picoult]]===
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Cathal Flood The Center is an old, belligerent man, living the last remaining abortion clinic in a filthy, crowded house that was once a family home. When Maud Drennan – underpaid carer the state of Mississippi and unintentional psychic is employed the source of great controversy when it comes to look after the ancient CathalPro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate. It is at The Center where one man, she assumes she'll just be George Goddard, takes it upon himself to get revenge for the next loss of his grandchild, in the form of a long line mass-shooting. What arises is a novel that details the lives of short-term dogsbodies for the old man. Insteadremaining hostages, Maud finds herself drawn into the mysteries concealed within Cathal's once great house – and as Maud begins well as other characters central to clean and sort the rooms she uncovers secrets about story. One of these characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in to help deflate the old man situation, who soon discovers that awaken long-hidden memories within Maud herself. With the aid of her highly glamourous yet utterly agoraphobic landlady his sister and a troop of holy ghostsdaughter, Wren, Maud must uncover the secrets happened to be at the heart of the house – and exactly why they were buried… clinic that day. [[The Hoarder A Spark of Light by Jess KiddJodi Picoult|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Kintu Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiM B Vincent]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''Kintu'' opens with unbridled authority and mercilessness. In just a few pages a man has been hunted down by an angry mob in Uganda. He is then brained with a concrete slab; his woman is left in widowhood and has the hard task of dealing with her man's debt. Blood flows easily, and quickly, when your family's steps are haunted by a curse that spans generations. [[Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi:Category:Crime|Full ReviewCrime]]<br>
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]]<!-- Vaughan Stone -->
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===[[Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Sophie had been married to James for twelve years and two children: to be honest she was more than Sasha has a little bit in awe of himlot on her plate. James Whitehouse was an MP Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and junior minister: perhaps most importantly he was a friend of the prime minister, so when he had to admit that he'd been having an affair he was confident that some contrition, marriage needs work. Son Zac is entering a public admission that he'd been wrong, that he was not perfect, would soon have his career back on track. And it seemed as though that was the way rebellious adolescent phase and it was going, until a friend of the 'other woman', parliamentary researcher Olivia Lytton, persuaded her s hard to go know how to the policeredirect him. There was no dispute that the relationship had been consensualMother Annie, but after James had finished the affair there was an incident in a lift in House of Commons and alcoholic, is beginning the police journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the Crown Prosecution Service were both best of the opinion that this amounted to rapetimes. The prosecuting counsel is Kate Woodcroft Thank heavens for her lovely dog, Sebastian, and she's very determined that Whitehouse is going to be brought to bookhis unconditional love. [[Anatomy of a Scandal What's Left Unsaid by Sarah VaughanDeborah Stone|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Dark Pines by Will Dean]]===
===[[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?''
Tuva Moodyson works for I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a local paper baby. Many of them simply managed to put one foot in small town Sweden - there to be near an ailing Mother, front of the other until things calmed down but desperate for the big break that some will have her moving on to pastures new. Just outside of her town, Gavrik, two bodies lie deep in the forest - brutally murdered and their eyes ripped out. They bring back dark memories for a town that has seen this crime before - found it harder and Tuva is desperate to find the killer. At first, she's just out to write a good story developed post- but as the crimes continue she finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into the forests outside of Gavrik, filled with stranger characters and dark secrets. Will she find the killer before they find her? natal depression[[Dark Pines The Place Where Love Should Be by Will DeanElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]
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===[[Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece by Stephen Fry]]===
===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
The Greek Myths are, arguably, Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the greatest stories ever told. So old and influential they cast a shadow over western tales weekend and traditions, yet remain relatable and readable millennia later. Here comedian, actor, television presenter, actor and author Stephen Fry brings while waiting for his considerable talent wife to these special stories and recreates them with arrive, finds a wit, warmth and humanity that brings them into mysterious key down the modern age whilst still giving the honour back of an antique chair. The grubby and respect that such ancient and influential stories deservetorn label to which is attached reads... [[Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece The Amber Maze by Stephen FryChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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It Nick is difficult to properly review this book without giving too much away. There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from in the start but I will try middle of wedding preparations when he decides to avoid leave his fiancée behind in London and take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the main onesbuilding of a children's hospital. He has no idea what he is getting himself into. [[The Water & Glass Thief by Abi CurtisClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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