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===[[The Particular Wisdom Department of Sally Red Shoes Sensitive Crimes by Ruth HoganAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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MashaLong-time followers of The Bookbag will know I's son Gabriel died some years agom a die-hard fan of AMS. She'd been 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 single parent with help from her friendnew detective named Ulf Varg, Edwardwho 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 had grieved as much as Masha and whilst Edward has moved on (his boyfriend moved out is stabbed in the immediate aftermath knee, the disappearance of the drowningan imaginary boyfriend, but thereand a case of potential werewolves. They's now a new love interest) Masha is still stricken, feeling re the crimes that it perhaps nobody else would somehow be disloyal bother to Gabriel if she was to be happy. An independentdeal with, and I rather enjoyed them, especially the stabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the person who committed the crime, rebellious woman has somehow been diminishedrather than the victim. [[The Particular Wisdom Department of Sally Red Shoes Sensitive Crimes by Ruth HoganAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]
Jane Ashland is dying. ThatThe final novel in Alan Kennedy's a description of a very early scene here – but alsoWW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, of course, a platitude that can apply to all of usproviding trade craft spy training. JaneIt's life, if anything, is going up stifling and suffocating and down in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found feels as much like a very deeply dark down placeprison to Alex as anything the Germans would provide. Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New Yorksince he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, glimpses instigator of therapythe disinformation campaign, a drive and returned to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway – and a trip there with a new-found friend to watch the musk oxen, missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. Alex can't get Justine out of all thingshis head. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Things That are Lost by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Alan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''They needed someone to blame, and I was the only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the circumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the most sophisticated corners of the globe and lived a Tooth life of luxury. [[A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]] <!-- Cohen -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1409179826.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1409179826/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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 The Augustts are, like all families, a bit complicated. A loving irish family, their love binds them together – but all express that in very different ways. However, when misfortune strikes the family they are forced to the reception of her Manchester Office block work together in order to meet understand each other again, as with a visitor, she doesn't expect family as complicated as the Augustts it to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen yearss not always what is spoken that makes the most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and takes charge. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, The Aztec Full of stern words and The Sun Kingcommon sense, walked out of Claudiashe's life and into a world force of success as a solar panel salesman – but now henature who must try her hardest to hold the family together. [[M for Mammy by Eleanor O's returned and he needs ClaudiaReilly|Full Review]] <!-- Hogan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669065.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473669065/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Queenie Malone's helpParadise Hotel by Ruth Hogan]]=== [[image:5star. Reggiejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], Samson[[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's sonlife after her death. Whilst there, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula''she returns to the Paradise hotel, a group who prepare haven for the end eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of the world and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doomthoughts that torment them elsewhere. Claudia's journey takes Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her far as a child, from her home in Manchester to this place of wonder. With the end help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the world – where encounters tricky and uncertain relationship she had with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[Claudia Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Anthony TrevelyanRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know by Mike Gayle]]===
===[[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?''
James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men Freddie arrives in London in their the early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to go2000s, answering the call for teachers. At an all time low time for both of themHe thinks about his own Jamaican education, based on the two men reconnect British system, and slowly find they're exactly what the other needsway he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the River Thames. TogetherHe thinks about the love of cricket and football, they help each other put their lives back togethershared by both countries. And he thinks of the generations of the diaspora who came before him. This is a beautiful story about friendship and what it really means Freddy does well in his job in East London but he does have to help another person. face down some stereotypical attitudes from his pupils - all Jamaicans smoke weed, don't they? Everybody knows that! [[The Man I Think I Know Who Came to London by Mike GayleA S Cookson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Liberation Square by Stephanie ButlandGareth Rubin]]===
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Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole lifeIn an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, and just as she was edging closer Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to death she finallybe rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, finally got and Americans from the west. Dividing the call that she needednation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, that a heart was available for her to have wall running through it like a transplantscar. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to make decisions When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for herthe murder of his former wife, running polls amongst her readers Jane is determined to decide on her actionsclear his name. But with her new heartIn doing so, she has been given Jane follows a new life. Can Ailsa manage trail of corruption that leads her right to start the highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Liberation Square by Stephanie ButlandGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Leaves When You Read This by Stefan MohamedMary Adkins]]===
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When your best friend vanishesSmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, how can you begin to move during which time Iris left her husband at the altar 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 their wedding day. Smith, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. When he reappearsmeanwhile, relied on Iris, shebut his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's shocked not only by his presence back nursing home fees in her lifeWisconsin, but also by running the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the fact that he hasn't aged a day – pressures got too much for him, no time has passed since his disappearance. Shocked, confused He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to her home town died at the age of thirty three. He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in order to help Mark find the answers last six months of her life and her final request of Smith is that he so desperately cravesgets the blog published as a book. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Falling Leaves When You Read This by Stefan MohamedMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls Vera Magpie by Gary SantorellaLaura Solomon]]===
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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 supervisionI have murdered three husbands. 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. [[Dyed Souls by Gary Santorella|Full Review]]
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'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 mandatory life sentence. Her only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, but Vera's not one to let herself be a victim. She's 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 fling), but she is keen on getting an education and she's studying for a degree in English Literature. [[Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon|Full Review]] <!-- Simsion Laura Solomon -->
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===[[Two Steps Forward Black Light by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistLaura 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:5starthe 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]]
When I read the blurb for this book, I found myself instantly interested in its premise of two people trying to start their lives again following serious life changes. The book did not disappoint. [[Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist|Full Review]]
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===[[I Have Lost My Way Redemptor Domus by Gayle FormanGamelyn Chase]]===
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''I Have Lost My Way'' tells A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the story of three individuals who have each lost something important to them leading to them losing their way. Freya has lost her voicescenic North Wales coast, Harun has lost sent far from his love and Nathaniel has lost everythingfamily in the Far East. HoweverAs the boy travels to the school, these three elements do not give justice a family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the extent school a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. Plunged into a school full of what each character has lostdanger and betrayal, the boy is seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. In this expertly written novelWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, Gayle Forman writes about how these three dissimilar individuals each came it comes to lose what was most important the boy to them, causing them attempt to all meet one fateful day in New York Cityclean up the pit of filth that the school has become. [[I Have Lost My Way Redemptor Domus by Gayle FormanGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[One Clear IceThe Long Path To Wisdom by Jan-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Philipp Sendker]]===
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FirstOn my travels around the world, forgive me if I don't refer have a tendency 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 end up in any quantity. What happens in January bookshop that is that a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland selling English-language books, and eastern Germany. Which means that, when while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the book starts properly, mid-February, it has had time to get a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precisenext person, what I'm really looking 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 'local' – the first time in a month, and to be with his girlfriendcookbook maybe, 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-birdsmaps definitely, but above all: the boy and girl next door folk tales. If I ever get to each other in an eastern villageBurma, 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 I won't know quite what that will entail…need to hunt, I can read before I go. [[One Clear IceThe Long Path To Wisdom by Jan-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[W Katalin Street by John BanksMagda 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]]
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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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]]
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]]<!-- Walton Mandeville -->
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===[[Ask For Blues Every Colour of You by Malcolm WaltonAmelia Mandeville]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:3Zoe believes in adding life to years as well as years to life. Her world, like her name, is bursting with life and colour. She is the sort of girl who would sing a rainbow is she could.5starTristan (or ''Tree'' as she calls him) is the opposite.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Entertainment|Entertainment]]Fresh out of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unit, he sees a world as a grey place. [[:Category:General FictionEvery Colour of You by Amelia Mandeville|General FictionFull Review]]
Malcolm Walton's book is clearly a memoir about his introduction to the Trad Jazz scene of the late 1950's and early 1960's, but he has chosen to write it in the form of a novel, claiming in his prologue that this would give the book a different approach to the music memoir. His protagonist 'Martin' takes on Malcolm's mantle, and begins with his first discovery of the Salvation Army band with his grandfather. This catapults him into a love of music, initially taking piano lessons, and later delving into his true love – the trumpet. [[Ask For Blues by Malcolm Walton|Full Review]]<br><!-- Bala Picoult -->
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===[[The Boat People A Spark of Light by Sharon BalaJodi Picoult]]===
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Among The Center is the 500 Sri Lankans last remaining abortion clinic in a rickety boat making its way the state of Mississippi and is the source of great controversy when it comes to Vancouver Island are Mahindan and his sixthe Pro-yearLife versus Pro-old son SellianChoice debate. When It is at The Center where one man, George Goddard, takes it upon himself to get revenge for the boat arrives the Canadian authorities take all the passengers into custodyloss of his grandchild, placing in the women and children in form of a mass-shooting. What arises is a separate facility from novel that details the men. A gruelling series lives of hearings will decide on the fate of each individual or family: whether they will be allowed to stay in Canadaremaining hostages, or deported back as well as other characters central to Sri Lankathe story. The government fears that up to half One of these asylum-seekers may have links characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in to help deflate the Tamil Tigerssituation, who soon discovers that his sister and daughter, a terrorist groupWren, so judges are instructed happened to have a firm handbe at the clinic that day. [[The Boat People A Spark of Light by Sharon BalaJodi Picoult|Full Review]] <br!-- 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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M B Vincent]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|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]]<!-- Kidd Stone -->
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===[[The Hoarder by Jess Kidd]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Cathal Flood is an old, belligerent man, living in Sasha has a filthy, crowded house that was once a family homelot on her plate. When Maud Drennan – underpaid carer Husband Jeremy is distant and unintentional psychic absent and the marriage needs work. Son Zac is employed to look after the ancient Cathal, she assumes she'll just be the next in entering a long line of short-term dogsbodies for the old man. Instead, Maud finds herself drawn into the mysteries concealed within Cathalrebellious adolescent phase and it's once great house – and as Maud begins hard to know how to clean and sort the rooms she uncovers secrets about the old man that awaken long-hidden memories within Maud herselfredirect him. With Mother Annie, an alcoholic, is beginning the aid of her highly glamourous yet utterly agoraphobic landlady journey into dementia and a troop of holy ghosts, Maud must uncover the secrets has never been an easy person at the heart best of the house – times. Thank heavens for her lovely dog, Sebastian, and exactly why they were buried… his unconditional love. [[The Hoarder What's Left Unsaid by Jess KiddDeborah Stone|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi]]===
===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''Edward is six weeks old and I’ve had no sleep. I had thirty stitches in my perineum, the wounds still tug and itch. They had to do the stitches twice because the first lot became infected. The old-school midwife told me I wasn’t paying enough attention to personal hygiene. I must shower twice a day, or better still, take a salt bath. Do they really expect me to do that? Have they ever tried to shower when a baby is crying and you’re so tired you can barely stand and your partner is banging around downstairs because he’s late for work again?''
''Kintu'' opens with unbridled authority and mercilessness. In just I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a few pages a man has been hunted down by an angry mob in Ugandababy. He is then brained with a concrete slab; his woman is left Many of them simply managed to put one foot in widowhood and has front of the hard task of dealing with her man's debt. Blood flows easily, other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder and quickly, when your family's steps are haunted by a curse that spans generations. developed post-natal depression[[Kintu The Place Where Love Should Be by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Sophie had been married Hugh Mullion goes away to James Dorset for twelve years the weekend 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 most importantly he was a friend of the prime minister, so when he had while waiting for his wife to admit that he'd been having an affair he was confident that some contritionarrive, finds a public admission that he'd been wrong, that he was not perfect, would soon have his career mysterious key down the 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 rapeantique chair. The prosecuting counsel is Kate Woodcroft grubby and she's very determined that Whitehouse torn label to which is going to be brought to bookattached reads... [[Anatomy of a Scandal The Amber Maze by Sarah VaughanChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Dark Pines The Water Thief by Will DeanClaire Hajaj]]===
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Tuva Moodyson works for a local paper Nick is in small town Sweden - there to be near an ailing Mother, but desperate for the big break that will have her moving on middle of wedding preparations when he decides to pastures new. Just outside of her town, Gavrik, two bodies lie deep leave his fiancée behind in the forest - brutally murdered London and their eyes ripped out. They bring back dark memories for take up a town that has seen this crime before post in some un- and Tuva is desperate to find named west African country providing engineering support for the killer. At first, shebuilding of a children's just out to write a good story - but as the crimes continue she finds herself drawn deeper and deeper hospital. He has no idea what he is getting himself into the forests outside of Gavrik, filled with stranger characters and dark secrets. Will she find the killer before they find her? [[Dark Pines The Water Thief by Will DeanClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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