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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]] <!-- Rogers Kennedy -->
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===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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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===[[Falling Leaves Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Stefan MohamedRuth Hogan]]===
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When your best friend vanishesTilda returns to Brighton, how can you begin to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether theytidy away the remains of her mother're okay? And what would you do if they reappeared in your s life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanisheddeath. When he reappearsWhilst there, she's shocked not only by his presence back in her lifereturns to the Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, but also by the fact and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that he hasn't aged Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a day – for himchild, no time has passed since his disappearancefrom this place of wonder. ShockedWith the help of Queenie Malone, caring, confused and emotionally reelinggregarious, Vanessa must return Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her home town in order to help Mark find the answers he so desperately cravessometimes cruel and distant mother. But what[[Queenie Malone's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Falling Leaves Paradise Hotel by Stefan MohamedRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls by Gary Santorella]]===
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The USA, early 1980s. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerent, and he often is) is being taken back to his home by his drop-out, slutty mother. The home is called a Cottage, and while the book doesn't guide us to understand it perfectly, it seems to mean he has a private room in a large self-contained bungalow, on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervision. There's a paddock with horses for the kids to ride, their own school – and all the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm the kids down. Charlie, despite his obvious bookish intelligence, is struggling to get to grips with why and how he's ended up where he is, but it must have something to do with his single parent mother being violent, 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 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[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Dyed Souls by Gary Santorella:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral 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?'' 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]] <!-- Simsion Rubin -->
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===[[Two Steps Forward Liberation Square by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistGareth Rubin]]===
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When I read 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 East, and Americans from the west. Dividing the blurb for this booknation between them, I found myself instantly interested London soon finds itself split in its premise two, a wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the murder of two people trying his former wife, Jane is determined to start their lives again following serious life changes. The book did not disappointclear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Two Steps Forward Liberation Square by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[I Have Lost My Way When You Read This by Gayle FormanMary Adkins]]===
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''I Have Lost My Way'' tells Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the story of three individuals who have each lost something important to them leading to them losing altar on their waywedding day. Freya has lost her voice Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, Harun has lost but his attention was on making enough money to cover his love mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York and Nathaniel has lost everythinglosing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. However, these three elements do not give justice to He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the extent age of what each character has lostthirty three. In this expertly written novel, Gayle Forman writes about how these three dissimilar individuals each came to lose what He was most important to them, causing them to all meet one fateful day surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in New York Citythe last six months of her life and her final request of Smith is that he gets the blog published as a book. [[I Have Lost My Way When You Read This by Gayle FormanMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Vera Magpie by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Laura Solomon]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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FirstAs an opening line that must take some beating, forgive me if I don't refer to this book with its full title often. Itbut Vera's pointedly precise, accurate, and rather ungainly – when in fact telling us the book it describes has only the former truth. The first two attributes in any quantity. What happens in January is that a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland husbands, Gary and eastern Germany. Which means thatHarry were abusive, when the book starts properlybut Larry was a treasure, mid-Februarya keeper, and it has had time 's difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and now she's in prison with a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precise, for that is the road marker where one of our main characters sees itmandatory life sentence. He Her only friend is trying to get back to work in Berlin for the first time in Shirley, a monthlesbian, and but Vera's not one to let herself be a victim. She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with his girlfriend, not knowing Shirley (she has had an infidelity while he was away. Also fancying wouldn't risk the bright lights and big city are a teenaged pair security of love-birds, the boy and girl next door to each other her life in an eastern village, who flee an unhappy lot on prison for the off-chance sake of a better one. You just know there fling), but she is a chance that these characters – human keen on getting an education and lupine alike – are sucked into one combined narrative, but you wonshe't know quite what that will entail…s studying for a degree in English Literature. [[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Vera Magpie by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[W Black Light by John BanksLaura 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]]
On the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored and with his world in turmoil. Beginning a journey westward, he's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupt. [[W by John Banks|Full Review]]
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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]]
[[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]]
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]]===
===[[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionFor Sharing|General FictionFor Sharing]]
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 a Scandal Light by Sarah VaughanJodi 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]]
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Sophie had been married to James for twelve years and two children[[image: to be honest she was more than a little bit in awe of him4star. James Whitehouse was an MP and junior ministerjpg|link=Category: perhaps most importantly he was a friend of the prime minister{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], so when he had to admit that he'd been having an affair he was confident that some contrition, 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 it was going, until a friend of the 'other woman', parliamentary researcher Olivia Lytton, persuaded her to go to the police. There was no dispute that the relationship had been consensual, but after James had finished the affair there was an incident in a lift in House of Commons and the police and the Crown Prosecution Service were both of the opinion that this amounted to rape. The prosecuting counsel is Kate Woodcroft and she's very determined that Whitehouse is going to be brought to book. [[Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan: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]]<!-- Dean Stone -->
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===[[Dark Pines by Will Dean]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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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===[[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis]]===
===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the weekend and, while waiting for his wife to arrive, finds a mysterious key down the back of an antique chair. The grubby and torn label to which is attached reads... [[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden|Full Review]] <!-- Hajaj -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align:Categorycenter;"|[[image:Dystopian Fiction1786073943.jpg|Dystopian Fictionlink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786073943/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]], [[  | style="vertical-align:Categorytop; text-align:Science Fictionleft;"|Science Fiction===[[The Water Thief by Claire Hajaj]]===
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[[image:4star. We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent eventsjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], looks after the animals and falls into a world of intrigue.[[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]
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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