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===[[The Island Department of Sensitive Crimes by M A BennettAlexander McCall Smith]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensGeneral Fiction|TeensGeneral Fiction]] 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]] <!-- Kennedy -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0993202349.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0993202349/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
A contemporary take on 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 savage classic Germans would provide. And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''Lord of the Fliesthat'': a group disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of mismatchedthe disinformation campaign, modern-day teenagers must fight and returned to survive on a deserted islandfind her missing. Link A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is a fish quite another. Alex can't get Justine out of waterhis head. Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to settle into Has she left the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understandservice? Does she know too much? And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad - however ancient that quad may beIs she even still alive? When Link runs the slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others... [[The Island Things That are Lost by M A BennettAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf A Danger to Herself and Others by Helen CullenAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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William Woolf is a letter detective''They needed someone to blame, working in and I was the only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the Dead Letters Depot circumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. She has dined in East London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addressesfancy restaurants, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters explored the most sophisticated corners of love, guilt, death, hope, the globe and everyday lived a lifeof luxury. [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf A Danger to Herself and Others by Helen CullenAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Marsha's Deal Louis and Louise by Laura SolomonJulie Cohen]]===
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Marsha didnWhat would you be like, right now, if you't d been born a different gender? Would it simply be a matter of genetics, and your life would still have an easy ride unfolded in life the first time around. same way? She'd Or would the way you had been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva]raised affect who you became in life? This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all of the above, a rare disease which turned parts covering the stories of her body to bone when they were damaged. Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer Louis and went to DignitasLouise, born on the Swiss euthanasia clinic. She'd thought that would be same day, to the endsame parents, but after cremation her body went straight to hell in one storyline Lou is a boy, and she found herself face-to-face with in the devilother a girl. And Does it really make a difference, the gender box that was is ticked when she made the pact. we arrive in this world? In exchange for details about some of those who had We all know that men and women are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been close in the past, how they still are, and prompts you to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would think about how they could be reborn on the same day to the same parents, but would live her life free of disease... [[Marsha's Deal Louis and Louise by Laura SolomonJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver M for Mammy by Naomi NovikEleanor O'Reilly]]===
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Miryem comes from The Augustts are, like all families, a long line of moneylenders bit complicated. A loving irish family, their love binds them together – but her Father isn't all express that in very good at it at alldifferent ways. Lending freely and rarely collectingHowever, he leaves when misfortune strikes the family on they are forced to work together in order to understand each other again, as with a family as complicated as the edge of poverty, until Miryem must step Augustts it's not always what is spoken that makes the most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves inand takes charge. Hardening her heart Full of stern words and collecting what is owed from local villagerscommon sense, she becomes 's a person force of great interest when she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from nature who must try her Grandfather and returns it full of gold, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creatures, from hardest to hold the dark beings that haunt the wood through to a King who's eager to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… family together. [[Spinning Silver M for Mammy by Naomi NovikEleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]]
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===[[Four Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Andy JonesRuth Hogan]]===
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Friends are niceTilda returns to Brighton, and couple friends are doubly niceto tidy away the remains of her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, giving you like minded people she returns to spend time withthe Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A pair of pairsplace where people can be themselves, or a couple and let go of couplesthoughts that torment them elsewhere. Married couple Sally and Al have known Mike Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for ages – Sally banishing her as a child, from universitythis place of wonder. With the help of Queenie Malone, caring, Al through work. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome and though she doesn't have their shared historygregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she's a lot of fun – a bit younger than the rest of them, an actress had with her sometimes cruel and so ondistant mother. [[Four Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Andy JonesRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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 ===[[The Man Who Came to London by A Child Called Happiness by Stephan CollishawS Cookson]]===
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Mazowe Valley''In 1948, 2011 – Natalie hears a sharp cry that she thinks at the first might be set of Caribbean nationals arrived in Great Britain on a birdship called "Empire Windrush". They struggled to find housing. They worked as labourers. They faced open discrimination, but turns out forcing them to be a babyquickly form their own community. Decades later, abandoned to the birds on Freddy makes the kopjesame journey. She is there with her uncle and they take the child, back to his farm initially and then to '' ''Does he find a local village where it is taken in. They do not report it place to the police. [[A Child Called Happiness by Stephan Collishaw|Full Review]]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]] <!-- Syson Rubin -->
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions Liberation Square by Lydia SysonGareth Rubin]]===
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On In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the west. Dividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a remote volcanic island off wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the coast murder of New Zealandhis former wife, a family of settlers struggle Jane is determined to make such an unforgiving place a homeclear his name. When In doing so, Jane follows a ship appears, they feel trail of corruption that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers and newcomers come together in leads her right to the search for highest levels of the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for state – discovering dark secrets about both and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the island and those who inhabit it. murderous secret police… [[Mr Peacock's Possessions Liberation Square by Lydia SysonGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing When You Read This by Cassandra ParkinMary Adkins]]===
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A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down the mud cliffs Smith Simonyi and away into Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the sea is where we meet Jacob and Ellaaltar on their wedding day. They share a bathroom in the turretSmith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, old and cold and not really supposed but his attention was on making enough money to be used…but this is where they hide away from the shouts of their parentscover his mother' arguments. Here they play s nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the Underwater Breathing game, submerging themselves branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the water holding their breath pressures got too much for as long as they canhim. For sixteen year old Jacob it's just He was devastated when Iris developed a way terminal cancer and died at the age of drowning out the arguments…but for Ella it is more than thatthirty three. She is terrified of He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the sea, last six months of the fact that it will come her life and swallow their house. She needs to know her final request of Smith is that she can survive under water. She has to practicehe gets the blog published as a book. [[Underwater Breathing When You Read This by Cassandra ParkinMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Believers Vera Magpie by Rebecca MakkaiLaura Solomon]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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As an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera''s telling us the truth. The Great Believersfirst 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' follows s in prison with a group of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis in Chicago during the late 1980’smandatory life sentence. Beginning in 1985 Her only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, the reader follows Yale and his friends as they come but Vera's not one to terms let herself be a victim. She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at security of her life in prison for the hands sake of a conservative America. Thirty years later Fiona, a devoted friend to Yalefling), but she is searching keen on getting an education and she's studying for her estranged daughter on the streets of Paris, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurtdegree in English Literature. [[The Great Believers Vera Magpie by Rebecca MakkaiLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid Black Light by Dorothy KoomsonLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:43.5star.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]]
In 1993, two teenagers stumble across a horrific scene on the beach as they're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: a body of a young woman, partially stripped, totally deceased. The find hits the girls in different ways. Nell becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the girl – who she calls ''the Brighton Mermaid'' because of a distinguishing tattoo – whereas Jude just wants to forget it ever happened. Fast forward 25 years and Nell is still haunted by what happened that night. With few leads to go on, the Police closed the case without cracking it, and so it remains one of those unsolved mysteries that become part of local folklore, but Nell struggles to let sleeping dogs, or even sleeping mermaids, lie. 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 to Brighton than Stag Dos and Gay Pride, it seems. [[The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short Redemptor Domus by Lex CoultonGamelyn Chase]]===
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Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakesA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, failures, and relationshipssent far from his family in the Far East. The main protagonistAs the boy travels to the school, Frances Pilgrima family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, an uncertain future. Plunged into a work colleagueschool full of danger and betrayal, and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship boy is complicated seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. With them locked into their scheming and plotting, it comes to the fact boy to attempt to clean up the pit of filth that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years oldthe school has become. [[Falling Short Redemptor Domus by Lex CoultonGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer The Long Path To Wisdom by Elisabeth HydeJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for On my travels around the best when he waited for his three children to arrive one Friday night. He might be a retired lawyerworld, I have a state legislator, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew tendency to end up in any bookshop that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrived. Ruthis selling English-language books, a corporate lawyer, would find fault and want to talk about him going into a retirement home. Georgewhile I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next person, a nursewhat I'm really looking for is the 'local' – the cookbook maybe, would argue and Lizziethe maps definitely, a professor of English Literature, who lived locally and kept and visited him regularly, would be unpredictablebut above all: the folk tales. Murray hoped that all would go smoothlyIf I ever get to Burma, but that simply wasnI won't going need to happenhunt, I can read before I go. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer The Long Path To Wisdom by Elisabeth HydeJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Katalin Street by Ruth HoganMagda Szabo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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Masha's son Gabriel died some years ago. She'd been a single parent with help from her friend, Edward, who had grieved as much as Masha and whilst Edward has moved on (his boyfriend moved out in the immediate aftermath of the drowning, but there's now a new love interest) Masha is still stricken, feeling that it would somehow be disloyal to Gabriel if she was to be happy. An independent, rebellious woman has somehow been diminished. [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes by Ruth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
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Jane Ashland is dying[[image:4star. That's a description of a very early scene here – but also, of course, a platitude that can apply to all of us. Jane's life, if anything, is going up and down in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down place. Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we 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 from rural America to Norway – and a trip there with a new-found friend to watch the musk oxen, of all things. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator):Category:For Sharing|Full ReviewFor Sharing]]
 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]]<!-- Rogers Mandeville -->
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===[[Tale Every Colour of a Tooth You by Allie RogersAmelia Mandeville]]===
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Danny lives Zoe believes in a small Sussex town with his mother, Natalieadding life to years as well as years to life. Life is poorHer world, but they manage - until they're threatened by a benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - but like her impact on the family goes far beyond what they first expectname, is bursting with life and colour. She is the resulting changes are described to sort of girl who would sing a rainbow is she could. Tristan (or ''Tree'' as she calls him) is the reader through the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes opposite. Fresh out of four-year-old Dannyhospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unit, he sees a world as a grey place. [[Tale Every Colour of a Tooth You by Allie RogersAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia A Spark of Light by Anthony TrevelyanJodi Picoult]]===
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When Claudia The Center is the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi and is called to the reception source of her Manchester Office block great controversy when it comes to meet a visitorthe Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate. It is at The Center where one man, George Goddard, she doesn't expect takes it upon himself to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen get revenge for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samsonthe loss of his grandchild, The Aztec and The Sun King, walked out in the form of Claudia's life and into a world mass-shooting. What arises is a novel that details the lives of success the remaining hostages, as a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's helpwell as other characters central to the story. ReggieOne of these characters is Hugh McElroy, Samson's son, has joined a mysterious cult hostage negotiator called ''Tarantula''in to help deflate the situation, a group who prepare for the end of the world soon discovers that his sister and encourage humanity daughter, Wren, happened to embrace their impending doombe at the clinic that day. Claudia's journey takes her far from her home in Manchester to the end of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[Claudia A Spark of Light by Anthony TrevelyanJodi Picoult|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Mike GayleM 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]]
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Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and just as she was edging closer Hugh Mullion goes away to death she finally, finally got Dorset for the call that she neededweekend and, that a heart was available while waiting for her his wife to have arrive, finds a transplantmysterious key down the back of an antique chair. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog The grubby and torn label to make decisions for her, running polls amongst her readers to decide on her actionswhich is attached reads.. But with her new heart, she has been given a new life. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Amber Maze by Stephanie ButlandChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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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 Nick is in your life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. When the middle of wedding preparations when he reappears, she's shocked not only by decides to leave his presence back fiancée behind in her life, but also by the fact that he hasn't aged London and take up a day – post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support 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 cravesbuilding of a children's hospital. But He has no idea what's waiting for them he is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… getting himself into. [[Falling Leaves The Water Thief by Stefan MohamedClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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