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===[[Underwater Breathing The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Cassandra ParkinAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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A tumbleLong-down Edwardian house that time followers of The Bookbag will sooner rather than later tumble down the mud cliffs and away into the sea is where we meet Jacob and Ellaknow I'm a die-hard fan of AMS. They share So you can imagine my excitement at reading a bathroom brand new book in a brand new series, described by the turret, old and cold and not really supposed author himself as Scandi Blanc (as opposed to be used…but this is where they hide away from the shouts of their parents' arguments. Scandi Noir)! Here they play the Underwater Breathing gamewe meet a new detective named Ulf Varg, submerging themselves who works in the water holding their breath Department for as long as they can. For sixteen year old Jacob it's just a way of drowning out Sensitive Crimes, solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the arguments…but for Ella it is more than thatusual police parameters. She This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is terrified of stabbed in the seaknee, the disappearance of the fact that it will come an imaginary boyfriend, and swallow their housea case of potential werewolves. She needs They're the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to know deal with, and I rather enjoyed them, especially the stabbing where you find that she can survive under water. She has to practiceactually, you identify with the person who committed the crime, rather than the victim. [[Underwater Breathing The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Cassandra ParkinAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LGBT General Fiction|LGBT General Fiction]]
''The Great Believersfinal 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' follows s stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a group of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis in Chicago during prison to Alex as anything the late 1980’sGermans would provide. Beginning in 1985, the reader follows Yale and his friends as they come And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to terms ''that'' disastrous meeting with the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their communityJohn Cabot, alongside their demonisation at instigator of the hands of a conservative America. Thirty years later Fionadisinformation campaign, a devoted friend and returned to Yale, find her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is searching for her estranged daughter on the streets quite another. Alex can't get Justine out of Paris, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurthis head. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[The Great Believers Things That are Lost by Rebecca MakkaiAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid A Danger to Herself and Others by Dorothy KoomsonAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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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 Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, a 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 as a child, from this place of wonder. With the help of Sally Red Shoes Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan|Full Review]] <!-- Cookson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0955489059.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0955489059/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson]]===
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Masha's son Gabriel died some years ago. She'd been a single parent with help from her friend, EdwardIn 1948, who had grieved as much as Masha and whilst Edward has moved on (his boyfriend moved out in the immediate aftermath first set of the drowning, but there's now Caribbean nationals arrived in Great Britain on a new love interest) Masha is still strickenship called "Empire Windrush". They struggled to find housing. They worked as labourers. They faced open discrimination, feeling that it would somehow be disloyal forcing them to Gabriel if she was to be happyquickly form their own community. An independentDecades later, rebellious woman has somehow been diminishedFreddy makes the same journey. [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes by Ruth Hogan|Full Review]]''
''Does he find a place to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?'' Freddie arrives in London in the early 2000s, answering the call for teachers. He thinks about his own Jamaican education, based on the British system, and the way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the River Thames. He thinks about the love of cricket and football, shared by both countries. And he thinks of the generations of the diaspora who came before him. Freddy does well in his job in East London but he does have to face down some stereotypical attitudes from his pupils - all Jamaicans smoke weed, don't they? Everybody knows that! [[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson|Full Review]] <!-- Houm Rubin -->
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Liberation Square by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Gareth Rubin]]===
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Jane Ashland In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is dyingfirst occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the west. That's a description of a very early scene here – but alsoDividing the nation between them, of courseLondon soon finds itself split in two, a platitude that can apply to all of uswall running through it like a scar. When JaneCawson's life, if anything, husband is going up and down in levels arrested for the murder of pleasurehis former wife, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down placeJane is determined to clear his name. Here thenIn doing so, scattered through Jane follows a timeline-bending narrative, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New York, glimpses trail of therapy, a drive to find her ancestors corruption that takes leads her from rural America right to Norway the highest levels of the state – and a trip there with a new-found friend soon finds herself desperate to watch stay one step ahead of the musk oxen, of all things. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… murderous secret police… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Liberation Square by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Gareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale of a Tooth When You Read This by Allie RogersMary Adkins]]===
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Danny lives in a small Sussex town with his motherSmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, Natalieduring which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. Life is poor Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but they manage - until theyhis attention was on making enough money to cover his mother're threatened by a benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - but her impact on s nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the family goes far beyond what they first expect, branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the resulting changes are described to pressures got too much for him. He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the reader through age of thirty three. He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the naive yet perceptive last six months of her life and wholly original eyes her final request of four-year-old DannySmith is that he gets the blog published as a book. [[Tale of a Tooth When You Read This by Allie RogersMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia Vera Magpie by Anthony TrevelyanLaura Solomon]]===
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When Claudia is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitor, she doesn't expect it to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen yearsI have murdered three husbands. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson'' As an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera's telling us the truth. The Aztec first two husbands, Gary and The Sun KingHarry were abusive, walked out of Claudia's life and into but Larry was a world of success as treasure, a solar panel salesman – but now hekeeper, and it's returned difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and he needs Claudianow she's helpin prison with a mandatory life sentence. Reggie Her only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, Samsonbut Vera's son, has joined not one to let herself be a mysterious cult called victim. She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn'Tarantula'', a group who prepare t risk the security of her life in prison for the end sake of the world a fling), but she is keen on getting an education and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doom. Claudiashe's journey takes her far from her home studying for a degree in Manchester to the end of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… English Literature. [[Claudia Vera Magpie by Anthony TrevelyanLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know Black Light by Mike GayleLaura 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]]
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James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men <!-- Chase -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1789010098.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789010098/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Redemptor Domus by Gamelyn Chase]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed the Far East. As the boy travels to the school, a family tragedy causes the boy to goarrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. At an all time low time for both Plunged into a school full of themdanger and betrayal, the two men reconnect boy is seen as a trophy by friends and slowly find they're exactly what the other needsenemies alike. Together, they help each other put With them locked into their lives back together. This is a beautiful story about friendship scheming and what plotting, it really means comes to help another personthe boy to attempt to clean up the pit of filth that the school has become. [[The Man I Think I Know Redemptor Domus by Mike GayleGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Long Path To Wisdom by Stephanie ButlandJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole lifeOn my travels around the world, I have a tendency to end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, and just while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as she was edging closer to death she finallythe next person, what I'm really looking for is the 'local' – the cookbook maybe, finally got the call that she neededmaps definitely, that a heart was available for her to have a transplantbut above all: the folk tales. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog If I ever get to make decisions for herBurma, running polls amongst her readers I won't need to decide on her actions. But with her new hearthunt, she has been given a new lifeI can read before I go. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Long Path To Wisdom by Stephanie ButlandJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Leaves Katalin Street by Stefan MohamedMagda Szabo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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When your best friend vanishes, how can you begin to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they're okay? And what would you do if they reappeared in your life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. When he reappears, she's shocked not only by his presence back in her life, but also by the fact that he hasn't aged a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearance. Shocked, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to her home town in order to help Mark find the answers he so desperately craves. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Falling Leaves by Stefan Mohamed|Full Review]]
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The USA, early 1980s. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerent, and he often is) is being taken back to his home by his drop-out, slutty mother. The home is called a Cottage, and while the book doesn't guide us to understand it perfectly, it seems to mean he has a private room in a large self-contained bungalow, on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervision. There's a paddock with horses for the kids to ride, their own school – and all the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm the kids down. Charlie, despite his obvious bookish intelligence, is struggling to get to grips with why and how he's ended up where he is, but it must have something to do with his single parent mother being violent, and the fact he is no longer allowed to stay with his grandfather. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughts, as he tries to build a relationship with a girl in a different Cottage, and work out his lot. He certainly has a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-old. [[Dyed Souls by Gary Santorella|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]]<!-- Simsion Mandeville -->
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===[[Two Steps Forward Every Colour of You by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistAmelia Mandeville]]===
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When I read the blurb for this book, I found myself instantly interested Zoe believes in its premise of two people trying adding life to years as well as years to start their lives again following serious life changes. The book did not disappointHer world, like her name, is bursting with life and colour. She is the sort of girl who would sing a rainbow is she could. Tristan (or ''Tree'' as she calls him) is the opposite. Fresh out of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unit, he sees a world as a grey place. [[Two Steps Forward Every Colour of You by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[I Have Lost My Way A Spark of Light by Gayle FormanJodi Picoult]]===
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''I Have Lost My Way'' tells The Center is the story last remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi and is the source of three individuals who have each lost something important great controversy when it comes to them leading to them losing their waythe Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate. Freya has lost her voiceIt is at The Center where one man, George Goddard, Harun has lost takes it upon himself to get revenge for the loss of his love and Nathaniel has lost everything. Howevergrandchild, these three elements do not give justice to in the extent form of what each character has losta mass-shooting. In this expertly written What arises is a novelthat details the lives of the remaining hostages, Gayle Forman writes about how as well as other characters central to the story. One of these three dissimilar individuals each came characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in to lose what was most important to themhelp deflate the situation, who soon discovers that his sister and daughter, Wren, causing them happened to all meet one fateful be at the clinic that day in New York City. [[I Have Lost My Way A Spark of Light by Gayle FormanJodi Picoult|Full Review]]
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at Jess Castle and the Beginning Eyeballs of the Twenty-First Century Death by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)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]]<!-- Stone -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:4star1789014921.jpg|link=Categoryhttp:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction//www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789014921/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21
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First, forgive me if I don't refer to this book with its full title often. It's pointedly precise, accurate, and rather ungainly – when in fact the book it describes has only the former two attributes in any quantity. What happens in January is that a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland and eastern Germany. Which means that, when the book starts properly, mid-February, it has had time to get a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precise, for that is the road marker where one of our main characters sees it. He is trying to get back to work in Berlin for the first time in a month, and to be with his girlfriend, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was away. Also fancying the bright lights and big city are a teenaged pair of love-birds, the boy and girl next door to each other in an eastern village, who flee an unhappy lot on the off-chance of a better one. You just know there is a chance that these characters – human and lupine alike – are sucked into one combined narrative, but you won't know quite what that will entail…
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On the slopes I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a baby. Many of Mt Hood them simply managed to put one foot 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 front of the Viking discovery other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder and developed post- 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. natal depression[[W The Place Where Love Should Be by John BanksElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]
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Pleasant Court is a cul-de-sac a few minutes from Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the beach in Melbourne. Kids play in the street weekend and it's the sort of place people aspire , while waiting for his wife to. Certainly that's how arrive, finds a mysterious key down the families who live there feel and there's a good sense back of communityan antique chair. Ben The grubby and Essie are glad that Essie's mother torn label to which is living next door as Essie had a mental breakdown three years ago when her first daughter was having difficulty sleepingattached reads. 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 Amber Maze by Sally HepworthChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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Malcolm Walton's book Nick is clearly a memoir about his introduction to in the Trad Jazz scene middle of the late 1950's and early 1960's, but wedding preparations when he has chosen decides to write it leave his fiancée behind in the form of London and take up a novel, claiming post in his prologue that this would give some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the book building of a different approach to the music memoir. His protagonist 'Martin' takes on Malcolmchildren's mantle, and begins with his first discovery of the Salvation Army band with his grandfatherhospital. This catapults him He has no idea what he is getting himself into a love of music, initially taking piano lessons, and later delving into his true love – the trumpet. [[Ask For Blues The Water Thief by Malcolm WaltonClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]<br>
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