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===[[Murmuration The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Robert LockAlexander McCall Smith]]===
[[image:3star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General 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:Historical {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|Historical 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:0349003289.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1492667242/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel]]===
''Murmuration'' follows the lives of a host of characters from 1863 to the present day[[image:4star. From a risqué comic to a fortune tellerjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], we see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. There is a hint of mysticism to the tale, with the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. [[Murmuration by Robert Lock:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral 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 life of luxury. [[A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]] <!-- Laurain Cohen -->
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===[[Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain Louis and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)by Julie Cohen]]===
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Meet Fabrice Valantine. HeWhat would you be like, right now, if you's d been born a different gender? Would it simply be a headhuntermatter of genetics, and a successful one too, your life would still have unfolded in an office the same way? Or would the way you had been raised affect who you became in Paris. All around him however his world is changing – yeslife? This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all of the above, covering the stories of Louis and Louise, there is a new ban born on smoking in all workplaces. Goaded by his non-smoking wifethe same day, even though they met over an ashtrayto the same parents, of sortsbut in one storyline Lou is a boy, he sees and in the other a hypnotist who had success with girl. Does it really make a mutual friend difference, the gender box that is ticked when we arrive in stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to this world? We all know that men and women are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been successfulin the past, however he faces the prospect of having such a change to his own personalityhow they still are, his imbued habits and lifestyle, with fear, when he realises it will never again grant him any pleasureprompts you to think about how they could be.. He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it's what he replaces the habit with that will surprise the most. [[Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain Louis and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)by Julie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[The Island M for Mammy by M A BennettEleanor O'Reilly]]===
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A contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'': a group of mismatchedThe Augustts are, like all families, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted islandbit complicated. Link is a fish out of waterA loving irish family, their love binds them together – but all express that in very different ways. Newly arrived from AmericaHowever, he is finding it hard when misfortune strikes the family they are forced to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions work together in order to understand? And each other again, as with a family as complicated as the Augustts it's not always what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round is spoken that makes the school quad most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae- however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time Anne moves in yearsand takes charge. Full of stern words and common sense, he immediately becomes the butt she's a force of every school joke. And some students are determined nature who must try her hardest to make his life more miserable than others..hold the family together. [[The Island M for Mammy by M A BennettEleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Helen CullenRuth Hogan]]===
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William Woolf is a letter detectiveTilda returns to Brighton, working in to tidy away the Dead Letters Depot in East Londonremains of her mother's life after her death. He spends his days deciphering smudged addressesWhilst there, tracking down mysterious she returns to the Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and reading endless letters let go of lovethoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, guiltfrom this place of wonder. With the help of Queenie Malone, deathcaring, hopeand gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and everyday lifeuncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Helen CullenRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon]]===
===[[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''In 1948, [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]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?''
Marsha didn't have an easy ride Freddie arrives in London in life the first time aroundearly 2000s, answering the call for teachers. She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva]He thinks about his own Jamaican education, based on the British system, a rare disease which turned parts of her body to bone when they were damaged. Finally she and the way he was unable to stand her life any longer taught English nursery rhymes and went to Dignitas, about the Swiss euthanasia clinicRiver Thames. She'd thought that would be He thinks about the endlove of cricket and football, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-to-face with the devilshared by both countries. And that was when she made he thinks of the pact. In exchange for details about some generations of those the diaspora who had been close came before him. Freddy does well in his job in East London but he does have to her face down some stereotypical attitudes from his pupils - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the same day to the same parentsall Jamaicans smoke weed, but would live her life free of disease. don't they? Everybody knows that! [[Marsha's Deal The Man Who Came to London by Laura SolomonA S Cookson|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver Liberation Square by Naomi NovikGareth Rubin]]===
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Miryem comes 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 long line of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at wall running through it at alllike a scar. Lending freely and rarely collecting, he leaves When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the family on the edge murder of povertyhis former wife, until Miryem must step inJane is determined to clear his name. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagersIn doing so, she becomes Jane follows a person trail of great interest when she borrows a pouch corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of silver pennies from her Grandfather the state – and returns it full of gold, soon becoming entangled with an array finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of strange creatures, from 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… murderous secret police… [[Spinning Silver Liberation Square by Naomi NovikGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Four When You Read This by Andy JonesMary Adkins]]===
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Friends are nice, Smith Simonyi and couple friends are doubly niceIris Massey worked together for four years, giving you like minded people to spend during which time withIris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. A pair of pairs Smith, or a couple of couples. Married couple Sally and Al have known Mike for ages – Sally from universitymeanwhile, Al through work. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome and though she doesn't have their shared historyrelied on Iris, shebut his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. He was devastated when Iris developed a lot terminal cancer and died at the age of fun – thirty three. He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a bit younger than blog in the rest last six months of them, an actress her life and so onher final request of Smith is that he gets the blog published as a book. [[Four When You Read This by Andy JonesMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness Vera Magpie by Stephan CollishawLaura Solomon]]===
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Mazowe Valley''I have murdered three husbands.'' 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, 2011 – Natalie hears a sharp cry that 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 thinks at first might be 's in prison with a mandatory life sentence. Her only friend is Shirley, a birdlesbian, but turns out Vera's not one to let herself be a baby, abandoned to the birds on the kopjevictim. She is there 's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the security of her uncle and they take life in prison for the childsake of a fling), back to his farm initially but she is keen on getting an education and then to she's studying for a local village where it is taken degree in. They do not report it to the policeEnglish Literature. [[A Child Called Happiness Vera Magpie by Stephan CollishawLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions Black Light by Lydia SysonLaura Solomon]]===
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On Jim is a remote volcanic island off university student and, as the coast of New Zealandsaying goes, a family of settlers struggle he hasn't got his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's never really managed to make such an unforgiving place a homeconnect 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. When Jim's in love with a ship appearswoman, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers she finds him repulsive and newcomers come together in you can understand why: the search for looks, the childattitude, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desired. Despite all that's he's not about both 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 island and those who inhabit itpub. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions Black Light by Lydia SysonLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing Redemptor Domus by Cassandra ParkinGamelyn Chase]]===
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A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the mud cliffs and away into scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the sea is where we meet Jacob and EllaFar East. They share As the boy travels to the school, a bathroom in family tragedy causes the turret, old and cold and not really supposed boy to be used…but this is where they hide away from arrive at the shouts of their parents' arguments. Here they play the Underwater Breathing gameschool a vulnerable orphan, submerging themselves in the water holding their breath for as long as they canwith an uncertain future. For sixteen year old Jacob it's just Plunged into a way school full of drowning out danger and betrayal, the arguments…but for Ella it boy is more than thatseen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. She is terrified of the seaWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, of it comes to the fact that it will come and swallow their house. She needs boy to attempt to know clean up the pit of filth that she can survive under water. She the school has to practicebecome. [[Underwater Breathing Redemptor Domus by Cassandra ParkinGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Believers Long Path To Wisdom by Rebecca MakkaiJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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''The Great Believers'' follows On my travels around the world, I have a group of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis tendency to end up in Chicago during the late 1980’s. Beginning in 1985any bookshop that is selling English-language books, the reader follows Yale and his friends while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as they come to terms with the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their communitynext person, alongside their demonisation at what I'm really looking for is the hands of a conservative America. Thirty years later Fiona'local' – the cookbook maybe, a devoted friend to Yalethe maps definitely, is searching for her estranged daughter on but above all: the streets of Parisfolk tales. If I ever get to Burma, trying I won't need to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurthunt, I can read before I go. [[The Great Believers Long Path To Wisdom by Rebecca MakkaiJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid Katalin Street by Dorothy KoomsonMagda Szabo]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] This 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. [[Katalin Street by Magda Szabo|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 by Lex Coulton]]===
===[[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Women's FictionFor Sharing|Women's FictionFor Sharing]]
Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague, and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|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]]<!-- Elisabeth Hyde Mandeville -->
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Every Colour of You by Elisabeth HydeAmelia Mandeville]]===
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Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when he waited for his three children Zoe believes in adding life to years as well as years to arrive one Friday nightlife. He might be a retired lawyerHer world, a state legislatorlike her name, elected congressman is bursting with life and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there colour. She is the sort of girl who would sing a rainbow is she could be trouble when Ruth and George arrived. Ruth, Tristan (or ''Tree'' as she calls him) is the opposite. Fresh out of hospital following a corporate lawyer, would find fault and want to talk about him going into prolonged stay in a retirement home. Georgepsychiatric unit, he sees a nurse, would argue and Lizzie, world as a professor of English Literature, 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 to happengrey place. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Every Colour of You by Elisabeth HydeAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[The Particular Wisdom A Spark of Sally Red Shoes Light by Ruth HoganJodi Picoult]]===
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Masha's son Gabriel died some years agoThe Center is the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi and is the source of great controversy when it comes to the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate. She'd been a single parent with help from her friendIt is at The Center where one man, EdwardGeorge Goddard, who had grieved as much as Masha and whilst Edward has moved on (takes it upon himself to get revenge for the loss of his boyfriend moved out grandchild, in the immediate aftermath form of a mass-shooting. What arises is a novel that details the lives of the drowningremaining hostages, as well as other characters central to the story. One of these characters is Hugh McElroy, but there's now a new love interest) Masha is still strickenhostage negotiator called in to help deflate the situation, feeling who soon discovers that it would somehow be disloyal to Gabriel if she was his sister and daughter, Wren, happened to be happy. An independent, rebellious woman has somehow been diminishedat the clinic that day. [[The Particular Wisdom A Spark of Sally Red Shoes Light by Ruth HoganJodi Picoult|Full Review]] <!-- 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]] 
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary FictionWhat's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]===
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:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral Fiction]]
Sasha has a lot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and the marriage needs work. Son Zac is entering a rebellious adolescent phase and it's hard to know how to redirect him. Mother Annie, an alcoholic, is beginning the journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the best of times. Thank heavens for her lovely dog, Sebastian, and his unconditional love. [[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone|Full Review]] <!-- Rogers Ellis -->
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===[[Tale of a Tooth by Allie Rogers]]===
===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''Edward is six weeks old and I’ve had no sleep. I had thirty stitches in my perineum, the wounds still tug and itch. They had to do the stitches twice because the first lot became infected. The old-school midwife told me I wasn’t paying enough attention to personal hygiene. I must shower twice a day, or better still, take a salt bath. Do they really expect me to do that? Have they ever tried to shower when a baby is crying and you’re so tired you can barely stand and your partner is banging around downstairs because he’s late for work again?''
Danny lives in I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a small Sussex town with his mother, Nataliebaby. Life is poor, but they manage - Many of them simply managed to put one foot in front of the other until they're threatened by a benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - things calmed down but her impact on the family goes far beyond what they first expect, and the resulting changes are described to the reader through the naive yet perceptive some will have found it harder and wholly original eyes of four-yeardeveloped post-old Danny. natal depression[[Tale of a Tooth The Place Where Love Should Be by Allie RogersElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia by Anthony Trevelyan]]===
===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
When Claudia is called Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitorweekend and, she doesn't expect it while waiting for his wife to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samsonarrive, The Aztec and The Sun King, walked out of Claudia's life and into a world of success as a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's help. Reggie, Samson's son, has joined finds a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group who prepare for key down the end back of the world an antique chair. The grubby and encourage humanity torn label to embrace their impending doomwhich is attached reads... 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 The Amber Maze by Anthony TrevelyanChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know Water Thief by Mike GayleClaire Hajaj]]===
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James DeWitt Nick is in the middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and Danny Allen are both men take up a post in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to go. At an all time low time some un-named west African country providing engineering support for both the building of them, the two men reconnect and slowly find theya children're exactly s hospital. He has no idea what the other needs. Together, they help each other put their lives back together. This he is a beautiful story about friendship and what it really means to help another persongetting himself into. [[The Man I Think I Know Water Thief by Mike GayleClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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