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===[[The Great Believers Department of Sensitive Crimes by Rebecca MakkaiAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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''Long-time followers of The Great Believers'Bookbag will know I' follows m a group die-hard fan of friends whose lives are devastated AMS. So you can imagine my excitement at reading a brand new book in a brand new series, described by the AIDS crisis author himself as Scandi Blanc (as opposed to Scandi Noir)! Here we meet a new detective named Ulf Varg, who works in Chicago during the late 1980’s. Beginning in 1985Department for Sensitive Crimes, solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the reader follows Yale and his friends as they come to terms usual police parameters. This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed in the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their communityknee, alongside their demonisation at the hands disappearance of an imaginary boyfriend, and a conservative Americacase of potential werewolves. Thirty years later Fiona They're the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal with, and I rather enjoyed them, a devoted friend to Yaleespecially the stabbing where you find that actually, is searching for her estranged daughter on you identify with the person who committed the streets of Pariscrime, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurtrather than the victim. [[The Great Believers Department of Sensitive Crimes by Rebecca MakkaiAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]  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]] <!-- Schienmel -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:40349003289.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.5starco.uk/dp/1492667242/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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]]
In 1993''They needed someone to blame, two teenagers stumble across a horrific scene on and I was the beach as they're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: a body of a young woman, partially stripped, totally deceasedonly available scapegoat. The find hits the girls in different waysTheir daughter was my best friend. Nell becomes obsessed with finding Playing the identity of scapegoat was the girl – who she calls ''least I could do under the Brighton Mermaidcircumstances.'' because of a distinguishing tattoo Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – whereas Jude just wants to forget it ever happenedor so her parents tell her. Fast forward 25 years and Nell is still haunted by what happened that night. With few leads to go onShe has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the Police closed most sophisticated corners of the case without cracking it, globe and so it remains one of those unsolved mysteries that become part lived a life of local folklore, but Nell struggles to let sleeping dogs, or even sleeping mermaids, lieluxury. As for Jude, well no one knows if the discovery still haunts her because no one knows where she is. Shortly after that fateful night, she too disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. There's more [[A Danger to Brighton than Stag Dos Herself and Gay Pride, it seems. [[The Brighton Mermaid Others by Dorothy KoomsonAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short Louis and Louise by Lex CoultonJulie Cohen]]===
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Lex CoultonWhat would you be like, right now, if you's debut novel is d been born a different gender? Would it simply be a story about mistakesmatter of genetics, failuresand your life would still have unfolded in the same way? Or would the way you had been raised affect who you became in life? This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all of the above, covering the stories of Louis and relationships. The main protagonistLouise, born on the same day, Frances Pilgrimto the same parents, but in one storyline Lou is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleagueboy, and is grappling with in the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her motherother a girl. This relationship is complicated by Does it really make a difference, the fact gender box that Frances's father disappeared at sea is ticked when she was five years oldwe 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 past, how they still are, and prompts you to think about how they could be... [[Falling Short Louis and Louise by Lex CoultonJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer M for Mammy by Elisabeth HydeEleanor O'Reilly]]===
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Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when he waited for his three children to arrive one Friday night. He might be a retired lawyerThe Augustts are, like all families, a state legislatorbit complicated. A loving irish family, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer their love binds them together – but he knew all express that there could be trouble in very different ways. However, when Ruth and George arrived. Ruthmisfortune strikes the family they are forced to work together in order to understand each other again, as with a corporate lawyer, would find fault family as complicated as the Augustts it's not always what is spoken that makes the most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and want to talk about him going into a retirement hometakes charge. George, a nurse, would argue Full of stern words and Lizziecommon sense, she's a professor force of English Literature, nature who lived locally and kept and visited him regularly, would be unpredictable. Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, but that simply wasn't going must try her hardest to happenhold the family together. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer M for Mammy by Elisabeth HydeEleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]]
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===[[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan]]===
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MashaTilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's son Gabriel died some years agolife after her death. She'd been Whilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, a single parent with help from haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her friendas a child, Edward, who had grieved as much as Masha and whilst Edward has moved on (his boyfriend moved out in from this place of wonder. With the immediate aftermath help of the drowningQueenie Malone, caring, but there's now a new love interest) Masha is still strickenand gregarious, feeling that it would somehow be disloyal Tilda begins to Gabriel if pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she was to be happy. An independent, rebellious woman has somehow been diminishedhad with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
===[[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.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, [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]Freddy makes the same journey.'' ''Does he find a place to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?''
Jane Ashland is dying. That's a description of a very Freddie arrives in London in the early scene here – but also2000s, of course, a platitude that can apply to all of usanswering the call for teachers. Jane's lifeHe thinks about his own Jamaican education, if anythingbased on the British system, is going up and down in levels the way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the River Thames. He thinks about the love of pleasurecricket and football, energy – sobriety – shared by both countries. And he thinks of the generations of the diaspora who came before him. Freddy does well in his job in these pages, East London but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down place. Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we he does have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New York, glimpses of therapy, a drive to find her ancestors that takes her face down some stereotypical attitudes from rural America to Norway – and a trip there with a newhis pupils -found friend to watch the musk oxenall Jamaicans smoke weed, of all things. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… don't they? Everybody knows that! [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Man Who Came to London by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)A S Cookson|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale of a Tooth Liberation Square by Allie RogersGareth Rubin]]===
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Danny lives in a small Sussex town with his motherIn an alternate 1952, NatalieSoviet Troops control British Streets. Life After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is poor, but they manage - until they're threatened first occupied by a benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee looks Nazi Germany – only to be their salvation - but her impact on rescued by Russian soldiers from the family goes far beyond what they first expectEast, and Americans from the west. Dividing the resulting changes are described nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the reader through highest levels of the naive yet perceptive state – and wholly original eyes soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of four-year-old Danny. the murderous secret police… [[Tale of a Tooth Liberation Square by Allie RogersGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia When You Read This by Anthony TrevelyanMary Adkins]]===
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When Claudia is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitorSmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, she doesn't expect it to be during which time Iris left her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen yearshusband at the altar on their wedding day. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson Smith, meanwhile, The Aztec and The Sun Kingrelied on Iris, walked out of Claudiabut his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's life nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York and into losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. He was devastated when Iris developed a world terminal cancer and died at the age of success as a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and thirty three. He was surprised too when he needs Claudia's help. Reggie, Samson's son, has joined discovered that Iris had been writing a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group who prepare for blog in the end last six months of the world her life and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doom. Claudia's journey takes her far from her home in Manchester to the end final request of Smith is that he gets the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… blog published as a book. [[Claudia When You Read This by Anthony TrevelyanMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know Vera Magpie by Mike GayleLaura Solomon]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to go. At As an all time low time for both of themopening line that must take some beating, but Vera's telling us the truth. The first two men reconnect husbands, Gary and slowly find theyHarry were abusive, but Larry was a treasure, a keeper, and it're exactly what the other needs. Togethers difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, they help each other put their lives back togetherparticularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and now she's in prison with a mandatory life sentence. This Her only friend is Shirley, a beautiful story about friendship and what it really means lesbian, but Vera's not one to help another personlet 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. [[The Man I Think I Know Vera Magpie by Mike GayleLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Black Light by Stephanie ButlandLaura Solomon]]===
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Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole lifeJim is a university student and, and just as she was edging closer to death she finallythe saying goes, finally he hasn't got the call that she needed, that a heart his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when he was available for her young and somehow he's never really managed to have a transplantconnect with his step-father. Previously she had felt so helpless His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you'd just say that she had used her blog to make decisions he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for her, running polls amongst her readers to decide on her actionshim. But Jim's in love with her new hearta woman, but she has been given finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a new lifelot to be desired. Can Ailsa manage Despite all that's he's not about to start sit back and allow his life to live on her own, drift: he's actually writing ''two'' novels and will her mother let her do that? he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Black Light by Stephanie ButlandLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Leaves Redemptor Domus by Stefan MohamedGamelyn Chase]]===
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When your best friend vanishes, how can you begin to move A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school 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 daythe scenic North Wales coast, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. When he reappears, she's shocked not only by sent far from his presence back family in her lifethe Far East. As the boy travels to the school, but also by a family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the fact that he hasn't aged school a day – for himvulnerable orphan, no time has passed since his disappearancewith an uncertain future. ShockedPlunged into a school full of danger and betrayal, confused the boy is seen as a trophy by friends and emotionally reelingenemies alike. With them locked into their scheming and plotting, Vanessa must return it comes to her home town in order the boy to attempt to help Mark find clean up the answers he so desperately cravespit of filth that the school has become. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Falling Leaves Redemptor Domus by Stefan MohamedGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls The Long Path To Wisdom by Gary SantorellaJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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The USAOn my travels around the world, early 1980s. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerent, and he often I have a tendency to end up in any bookshop that is) is being taken back to his home by his dropselling English-out, slutty mother. The home is called a Cottagelanguage books, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the book doesn't guide us to understand it perfectlynext person, 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. Therewhat I's a paddock with horses m really looking for is the kids to ride, their own school 'local' – and all the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm cookbook maybe, 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 ismaps definitely, but it must have something to do with his single parent mother being violent, and above all: the fact he is no longer allowed folk tales. If I ever get to stay with his grandfather. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughtsBurma, as he tries I won't need to build a relationship with a girl in a different Cottagehunt, and work out his lot. He certainly has a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-oldI can read before I go. [[Dyed Souls The Long Path To Wisdom by Gary SantorellaJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Two Steps Forward Katalin Street by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistMagda Szabo]]===
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When I read This is a story about the blurb for this bookpast. A specific past, certainly, I found myself instantly interested in its premise the form of two people trying to start their lives again following serious life changespre-war Budapest, but also a story about how that past can impact on the present and the future. The 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 disappointsurvive, 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. [[Two Steps Forward Katalin Street by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistMagda Szabo|Full Review]]
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===[[I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman]]===
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''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]]
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]]<!-- Schimmelpfennig Mandeville -->
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning Every Colour of the Twenty-First Century You by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Amelia Mandeville]]===
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First, forgive me if I don't refer Zoe believes in adding life to years as well as years to this book with its full title oftenlife. It's pointedly preciseHer world, accuratelike her name, is bursting with life and rather ungainly – when in fact the book it describes has only the former two attributes in any quantitycolour. What happens in January She is that a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland and eastern Germany. Which means that, when the book starts properly, mid-February, it has had time to get sort of girl who would sing a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precise, for that rainbow is the road marker where one of our main characters sees itshe could. He Tristan (or ''Tree'' as she calls him) is trying to get back to work in Berlin for the first time opposite. Fresh out of hospital following a prolonged stay in a monthpsychiatric unit, and to be with his girlfriend, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was away. Also fancying the bright lights and big city are sees a teenaged pair of love-birds, the boy and girl next door to each other in an eastern village, who flee an unhappy lot on the off-chance of world as a better onegrey place. You just know there is a chance that these characters – human and lupine alike – are sucked into one combined narrative, but you won't know quite what that will entail…[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning Every Colour of the Twenty-First Century You by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Amelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[W A Spark of Light by John BanksJodi Picoult]]===
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On The Center is the last remaining abortion clinic in the slopes state of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000Mississippi and is the source of great controversy when it comes to the Pro-year old Viking is discovered frozen Life versus Pro- three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationChoice debate. Josh Kinninger It is inspired by at The Center where one man, George Goddard, takes it upon himself to get revenge for the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angryloss of his grandchild, unmoored and with his world in turmoilthe form of a mass-shooting. Beginning What arises is a journey westwardnovel that details the lives of the remaining hostages, as well as other characters central to the story. One of these characters is Hugh McElroy, he's filled with a desire hostage negotiator called in to wreak vengeance on help deflate the individuals he finds morally corruptsituation, who soon discovers that his sister and daughter, Wren, happened to be at the clinic that day. [[W A Spark of Light by John BanksJodi Picoult|Full Review]]
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===[[The Family Next Door Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Sally HepworthM 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]]<!-- 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]]
Pleasant Court Sasha has a lot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is a cul-de-sac a few minutes from distant and absent and the beach in Melbournemarriage needs work. Kids play in the street Son Zac is entering a rebellious adolescent phase and it's the sort of place people aspire hard to. Certainly that's know 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 sleepingto redirect him. Mia's come through that stageMother Annie, but now there's Poppyan alcoholic, who's is beginning the journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the perfect baby best of times. Thank heavens for the first six months of her life, but is just starting to be difficult. Benlovely dog, in particularSebastian, is pleased that he can rely on Barbara to keep an eye on the situation whilst he's out at workand his unconditional love. [[The Family Next Door What's Left Unsaid by Sally HepworthDeborah Stone|Full Review]]
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===[[Ask For Blues by Malcolm Walton]]===
===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Entertainment|Entertainment]], [[: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?''
Malcolm Walton's book is clearly I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a memoir about his introduction baby. Many of them simply managed to the Trad Jazz scene put one foot in front of the late 1950's and early 1960's, other until things calmed down but he has chosen to write some will have found 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, harder 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. developed post-natal depression[[Ask For Blues The Place Where Love Should Be by Malcolm WaltonElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]<br><!-- Bala Bowden -->
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===[[The Boat People by Sharon Bala]]===
===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:4star.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: center;"|[[image:1786073943.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786073943/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Water Thief by Claire Hajaj]]===
Among the 500 Sri Lankans in a rickety boat making its way to Vancouver Island are Mahindan and his six-year-old son Sellian[[image:4star. 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 familyjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: 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 TigersGeneral Fiction|General Fiction]], a terrorist group, so judges are instructed to have a firm hand. [[The Boat People by Sharon Bala:Category:Literary Fiction|Full ReviewLiterary Fiction]]<br>
Nick is in the middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the building of a children's hospital. He has no idea what he is getting himself into. [[The Water Thief by Claire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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