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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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===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]===
 
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The final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken 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 is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the disinformation campaign, and returned to find her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. 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 Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland A Danger to Herself and Others by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Alyssa Sheinmel]]===
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Jane Ashland is dying. That's a description of a very early scene here – but also'They needed someone to blame, of course, a platitude that can apply to all of usand I was the only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the circumstances. Jane's life, if anything, is going up and down in levels of pleasure, energy ' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down placeor so her parents tell her. Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student She has dined in New Yorkfancy restaurants, glimpses explored the most sophisticated corners of therapy, a drive to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway – the globe and lived a trip there with a new-found friend to watch the musk oxen, life of all thingsluxury. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland A Danger to Herself and Others by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Alyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale of a Tooth Louis and Louise by Allie RogersJulie Cohen]]===
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Danny lives in a small Sussex town with his motherWhat would you be like, Natalie. Life is poorright now, but they manage - until theyif you're threatened 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 a benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee Julie Cohen looks at all of the above, covering the stories of Louis and Louise, born on the same day, to be their salvation - the same parents, but her impact on in one storyline Lou is a boy, and in the family goes far beyond what they first expectother a girl. Does it really make a difference, the 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 resulting changes past, how they still are described , and prompts you to the reader through the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of four-year-old Dannythink about how they could be... [[Tale of a Tooth Louis and Louise by Allie RogersJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia M for Mammy by Anthony TrevelyanEleanor O'Reilly]]===
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When Claudia is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet The Augustts are, like all families, a visitorbit complicated. A loving irish family, she doesn't expect it to be her father figure their love binds them together – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen yearsbut all express that in very different ways. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild SamsonHowever, The Aztec and The Sun Kingwhen misfortune strikes the family they are forced to work together in order to understand each other again, walked out of Claudia's life and into as with a world of success family as complicated as a solar panel salesman – but now hethe Augustts it's returned not always what is spoken that makes the most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and he needs Claudia's helptakes charge. ReggieFull of stern words and common sense, Samsonshe's son, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group force of nature who prepare for the end of the world and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doom. Claudia's journey takes must try her far from her home in Manchester hardest to hold the end of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… family together. [[Claudia M for Mammy by Anthony TrevelyanEleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Mike GayleRuth Hogan]]===
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James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives havenTilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother't taken them where they were supposed to gos life after her death. At an all time low time for both of themWhilst there, she returns to the two men reconnect Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and slowly find they're exactly what the other needsmisfits. TogetherA place where people can be themselves, they help each other put their lives back togetherand let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. This is Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a beautiful story about friendship child, from this place of wonder. With the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and what it really means gregarious, Tilda begins to help another personpick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[The Man I Think I Know Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Mike GayleRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland]]===
===[[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''In 1948, [[:Category:Womenthe 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.'s Fiction|Women's Fiction]]
Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and just as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the call that she needed, that ''Does he find a heart was available for her to have a transplant. 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 actions. But with her new heart, she has been given a new life. Can Ailsa manage to start place to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland|Full Review]]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]] <!-- Mohamed Rubin -->
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===[[Falling Leaves Liberation Square by Stefan MohamedGareth Rubin]]===
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When your best friend vanishesIn an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, how can you begin Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they're okay? And what would you do if they reappeared be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the west. Dividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in your life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every daytwo, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanisheda wall running through it like a scar. When he reappears, sheJane Cawson's shocked not only by husband is arrested for the murder of his presence back in her lifeformer wife, but also by the fact that he hasn't aged a day – for him, no time has passed since Jane is determined to clear his disappearancename. ShockedIn doing so, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her home town in order right to help Mark find the answers he so desperately craves. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of them could ever have dreamt… the murderous secret police… [[Falling Leaves Liberation Square by Stefan MohamedGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls When You Read This by Gary SantorellaMary Adkins]]===
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The USA, early 1980s. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerent, Smith Simonyi and he often is) is being taken back to his home by his drop-outIris Massey worked together for four years, slutty mother. The home is called a Cottage, and while during which time Iris left her husband at 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, altar 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 downwedding day. Charlie Smith, despite his obvious bookish intelligencemeanwhile, is struggling to get to grips with why and how he's ended up where he isrelied on Iris, but it must have something his attention was on making enough money to do with cover his single parent mother being violent's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the fact he is no longer allowed to stay with his grandfatherpressures got too much for him. This book is He was devastated when Iris developed a slightly woozy look terminal cancer and died at his thoughts, as the age of thirty three. He was surprised too when he tries to build discovered that Iris had been writing a relationship with a girl blog in a different Cottage, the last six months of her life and work out his lot. He certainly has her final request of Smith is that he gets the blog published as a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-oldbook. [[Dyed Souls When You Read This by Gary SantorellaMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[Two Steps Forward Vera Magpie by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistLaura Solomon]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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When I read As an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera's telling us the blurb for this booktruth. 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, I particularly when she was likely to get found myself instantly interested out very quickly and now she's in its premise of two people trying prison with a mandatory life sentence. Her only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, but Vera's not one to start their lives again following serious life changeslet herself be a victim. The book did She's not disappointkeen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the security of her life in prison for the sake of a fling), but she is keen on getting an education and she's studying for a degree in English Literature. [[Two Steps Forward Vera Magpie by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[I Have Lost My Way Black Light by Gayle FormanLaura 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]]
''I Have Lost My Way'' tells the story of three individuals who have each lost something important to them leading to them losing their way. Freya has lost her voice, Harun has lost his love and Nathaniel has lost everything. However, these three elements do not give justice to the extent of what each character has lost. In this expertly written novel, 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 in New York City. [[I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman|Full Review]]
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Redemptor Domus by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Gamelyn Chase]]===
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FirstA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, forgive me if I don't refer to this book with its full title often. It's pointedly precise, accurate, and rather ungainly – when sent far from his family in fact the book it describes has only the former two attributes in any quantityFar East. What happens in January is that a wild wolf walks across As the frozen river separating Poland and eastern Germany. Which means that, when boy travels to the book starts properlyschool, mid-February, it has had time to get a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precise, for that is family tragedy causes the road marker where one of our main characters sees it. He is trying boy to get back to work in Berlin for arrive at the first time in school a monthvulnerable orphan, and to be with his girlfriend, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was awayuncertain future. Also fancying the bright lights and big city are Plunged into a teenaged pair school full of love-birdsdanger and betrayal, 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 seen as a chance that these characters – human trophy by friends and lupine enemies alike – are sucked . With them locked into one combined narrativetheir scheming and plotting, but you won't know quite what it comes to the boy to attempt to clean up the pit of filth that will entail…the school has become. [[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Redemptor Domus by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Gamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[W The Long Path To Wisdom by John BanksJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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On my travels around the slopes of Mt Hood world, I have a tendency to end up in Oregonany bookshop that is selling English-language books, an 1000and while I buy as many second-year old Viking hand escapist tales as the next person, what I'm really looking for 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'local' – the cookbook maybe, the maps definitely, unmoored and with his world in turmoilbut above all: the folk tales. Beginning a journey westward If I ever get to Burma, heI won's filled with a desire t need to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupthunt, I can read before I go. [[W The Long Path To Wisdom by John BanksJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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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]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Entertainment|Entertainment]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionSanta Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]===
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:44star.5starjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] 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]]<!-- 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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
''Kintu'' opens with unbridled authority Sasha has a lot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and mercilessnessthe marriage needs work. In just Son Zac is entering a few pages a man has been hunted down by rebellious adolescent phase and it's hard to know how to redirect him. Mother Annie, an angry mob in Uganda. He alcoholic, is then brained with a concrete slab; his woman is left in widowhood beginning the journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the hard task best of dealing with times. Thank heavens for her man's debt. Blood flows easilylovely dog, Sebastian, and quickly, when your family's steps are haunted by a curse that spans generationshis unconditional love. [[Kintu What's Left Unsaid by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiDeborah Stone|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan]]===
===[[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?''
Sophie had been married to James for twelve years and two children: to be honest she was more than a little bit in awe of him. James Whitehouse was an MP and junior minister: perhaps I think most importantly he was a friend of the prime minister, so when he had to admit that he'd been women have felt like this shortly after 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 trackbaby. And it seemed as though that was the way it was going, until a friend Many of the 'other woman', parliamentary researcher Olivia Lytton, persuaded her them simply managed 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 put one foot in a lift in House front of Commons and the police other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder 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. developed post-natal depression[[Anatomy of a Scandal The Place Where Love Should Be by Sarah VaughanElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Dark Pines by Will Dean]]===
===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Tuva Moodyson works for a local paper in small town Sweden - there Hugh Mullion goes away to be near an ailing Mother, but desperate Dorset for the big break that will have her moving on to pastures new. Just outside of her town, Gavrikweekend and, two bodies lie deep in the forest - brutally murdered and their eyes ripped out. They bring back dark memories while waiting for a town that has seen this crime before - and Tuva is desperate his wife to find the killer. At firstarrive, she's just out to write finds a good story - but as mysterious key down the crimes continue she finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into the forests outside back of Gavrik, filled with stranger characters an antique chair. The grubby and dark secretstorn label to which is attached reads... Will she find the killer before they find her? [[Dark Pines The Amber Maze by Will DeanChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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===[[Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece The Water Thief by Stephen FryClaire Hajaj]]===
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The Greek Myths are, arguably, Nick is in the greatest stories ever told. So old middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and influential they cast take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the building of a shadow over western tales and traditions, yet remain relatable and readable millennia laterchildren's hospital. Here comedian, actor, television presenter, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent to these special stories and recreates them with a wit, warmth and humanity that brings them He has no idea what he is getting himself into the modern age whilst still giving the honour and respect that such ancient and influential stories deserve. [[Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece The Water Thief by Stephen FryClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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