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===[[Every Colour The Department of You Sensitive Crimes by Amelia MandevilleAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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Zoe believes 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 adding life to years a brand new series, described by the author himself as well Scandi Blanc (as years opposed to life. Her worldScandi Noir)! Here we meet a new detective named Ulf Varg, like her namewho works in the Department for Sensitive Crimes, is bursting solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the usual police parameters. This particular book deals with life and colour. She crimes including someone who is stabbed in the knee, the sort disappearance of girl who would sing an imaginary boyfriend, and a rainbow is she couldcase of potential werewolves. Tristan (or They''Tree'' as she calls him) is 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 opposite. Fresh out of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unitcrime, he sees a world as a grey placerather than the victim. [[Every Colour The Department of You Sensitive Crimes by Amelia MandevilleAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
The Center is the last remaining abortion clinic final novel in the state of Mississippi Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and is the source of great controversy when it comes banished to the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debateScotland, providing trade craft spy training. It is at The Center where one man, George Goddard, takes it upon himself 's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to get revenge for the loss of his grandchild, in Alex as anything the form of a mass-shootingGermans would provide. What arises And where is a novel Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''that details the lives '' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the remaining hostagesdisinformation campaign, as well as other characters central and returned to the storyfind her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. One Alex can't get Justine out of these characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in to help deflate the situation, who soon discovers that his sister and daughter, Wren, happened to be at head. Has she left the clinic that day. service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[A Spark of Light The Things That are Lost by Jodi PicoultAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Jess Castle A Danger to Herself and the Eyeballs of Death Others by M B VincentAlyssa Sheinmel]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:4star''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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the most sophisticated corners of the globe and lived a life of luxury. [[:Category:CrimeA Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel|CrimeFull Review]]
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 Cohen -->
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===[[Louis and Louise by Julie Cohen]]===
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Sasha has What would you be like, right now, if you'd been born a different gender? Would it simply be a lot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is distant matter of genetics, and absent 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 Louise, born on the marriage needs work. Son Zac same day, to the same parents, but in one storyline Lou is entering a rebellious adolescent phase boy, and in the other a girl. Does it's hard to know how to redirect him. Mother Annie, an alcoholicreally make a difference, the gender box that is beginning the journey into dementia ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that men and has never women are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been an easy person at in the best of times. Thank heavens for her lovely dogpast, Sebastianhow they still are, and his unconditional loveprompts you to think about how they could be... [[What's Left Unsaid Louis and Louise by Deborah StoneJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[M for Mammy by Eleanor O'Reilly]]===
 
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The Augustts are, like all families, a bit complicated. A loving irish family, their love binds them together – but all express that in very different ways. However, when misfortune strikes the family they are forced to work together in order to understand each other again, as with a 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 takes charge. Full of stern words and common sense, she's a force of nature who must try her hardest to hold the family together. [[M for Mammy by Eleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]]
 
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===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]===
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I think most women have felt like this shortly Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's life after having her death. Whilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, a babyhaven for eccentrics and misfits. Many A place where people can be themselves, and let go of thoughts that torment them simply managed elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of wonder. With the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to put one foot in front of pick apart the other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder tricky and developed post-natal depressionuncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[The Place Where Love Should Be Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Elizabeth EllisRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Amber Maze Man Who Came to London by Christopher BowdenA S Cookson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''In 1948, the first set of Caribbean nationals arrived in Great Britain on a ship called "Empire Windrush". They struggled to find housing. They worked as labourers. They faced open discrimination, forcing them to quickly form their own community. Decades later, Freddy makes the same journey.''
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''Does he find a place to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?''
Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for Freddie arrives in London in the weekend andearly 2000s, while waiting answering the call for teachers. He thinks about his wife to arriveown Jamaican education, based on the British system, finds a mysterious key down and the way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the River Thames. He thinks about the back love of an antique chair. The grubby cricket and torn label to which is attached reads.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 Amber Maze Man Who Came to London by Christopher BowdenA S Cookson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Water Thief Liberation Square by Claire HajajGareth Rubin]]===
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Nick In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is in first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London East, and take up a post in some un-named Americans from the west African country providing engineering support for . Dividing the building of nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a wall running through it like a childrenscar. When Jane Cawson's hospital. He has no idea what he husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, Jane is getting himself intodetermined to clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[The Water Thief Liberation Square by Claire HajajGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Landslide When You Read This by Melissa LeetMary Adkins]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]]The area where Jill Smith Simonyi and Susie lived wasn't highly populated so it was fortunate that they became such good friendsIris Massey worked together for four years, despite during which time Iris left her husband at the fact that Susie was a year older than Jillaltar on their wedding day. Susie lived with her motherSmith, an alcoholicmeanwhile, and Jill lived with ''her'' motherrelied on Iris, who dedicated herself but his attention was on making enough money to her garden. Jillcover his mother's father was Jay Tutlenursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the photographer, but he spent pressures got too much of his time working away - often for months on endhim. In reality there He was little difference between devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the two families: Mrs Smith's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still youngage of thirty three. Joy and tragedy would visit Jill's home. ''Landslide'' is He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the story last six months of how what happened determined the course of Jill's her life and how great tragedy can breed resilience and hopeher final request of Smith is that he gets the blog published as a book. [[Landslide When You Read This by Melissa LeetMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[Aftershocks Vera Magpie by A N WilsonLaura Solomon]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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In a country very much like New ZealandAs an opening line that must take some beating, but at Vera's telling us the same time most avowedly nottruth. The first two husbands, two women will find love. Strong love tooGary and Harry were abusive, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner but Larry was the only thing to make sense of all those exaggerated songs she'd hearda treasure, a keeper, and books and poems sheit'd reads difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and plays now she'd acted s in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperboleprison with a mandatory life sentence. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some time Her only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, but it does burgeon, or so weVera's not one to let herself be a victim. She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn're promised from t risk the off, because security of her life in prison for the sake of something quite drastic – a major earthquake very much like the one that hit Christchurchfling), but at the same time most avowedly not. This book then she is the combined exploration of the lovers keen on getting an education and the story of the quakeshe's studying for a degree in English Literature. [[Aftershocks Vera Magpie by A N WilsonLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Hell's Unveiling Black Light by Laura Solomon]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:3Jim is a university student and, as the saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek.5star His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's never really managed to connect with his step-father.jpg|link=Category His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[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:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]]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:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[:Category:FantasyBlack Light by Laura Solomon|FantasyFull Review]]
A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to read the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', but the devil is not one to take defeat lying down. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell). Although a strong person, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, of course there are all the other children who are not only targeted, but - worst of all - subverted to the devil's evil ends. He's out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self esteem is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, either - the devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hell. [[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On Redemptor Domus by C M TaylorGamelyn Chase]]===
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Tony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honestA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, Yorkshire's where he'd really like sent far from his family in the Far East. As the boy travels to be. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfectthe school, but he's living in a mountain village just beyond family tragedy causes the Costa Verde and running a pub. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return boy to arrive at the UKschool a vulnerable orphan, what with the uncertainty an uncertain future. Plunged into a school full of Brexit danger and everythingbetrayal, but there are a couple of problems. First off, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to the UK. She'd have you believe that she's not well, but there's boy is seen as a backstory there that's not being talked abouttrophy by friends and enemies alike. Then there's the pubWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, which isn't doing well enough it comes to sell. In fact Tony's cleaning the swimming pools of expats who have left Spain and returned home, in order boy to make a bit of money attempt to try and make ends at least come in sight clean up the pit of each other, even if they never meetfilth that the school has become. [[Staying On Redemptor Domus by C M TaylorGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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Saga On my travels around the world, I have a tendency to end up in any bookshop that is eighteen selling English-language books, and, like while I buy as many eighteensecond-year oldshand escapist tales as the next person, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls I'm really looking for is the 'hop-hip'local'– the cookbook maybe, eating copious amounts of foodthe maps definitely, and learning about girlsbut above all: the folk tales. Living in an affluent If I ever get to Burma, liberal and protected suburbI won't need to hunt, he has a good life. However, the suburb is in Africa, where childhoods I can be snatched in an instant. When his friends and family are dragged into the conflict raging around the dictatorship that Saga lives under, he is forced to become an unlikely revolutionaryread before I go. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of the soldiers desperate to stop him? [[The Day of the Orphan Long Path To Wisdom by Dr Nat TanohJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Murmuration Katalin Street by Robert LockMagda Szabo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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''Murmuration'' follows the lives of a host of characters from 1863 to the present day. From a risqué comic to a fortune teller, 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|Full Review]]
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Meet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, and a successful one too, in an office in Paris. All around him however his world is changing – yes, there is a new ban on smoking in all workplaces. Goaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, of sorts, he sees a hypnotist who had success with a mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to have been successful, however he faces the prospect of having such a change to his own personality, his imbued habits and lifestyle, with fear, when he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. 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 and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|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]]<!-- Bennett Mandeville -->
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===[[The Island Every Colour of You by M A BennettAmelia Mandeville]]===
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A contemporary take on Zoe believes in adding life to years as well as years to life. Her world, like her name, is bursting with life and colour. She is the savage classic sort of girl who would sing a rainbow is she could. Tristan (or ''Lord of the FliesTree'': a group of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. Link is a fish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he as she calls him) is finding it hard to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney Schoolopposite. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind Fresh out of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time hospital following a prolonged stay in yearsa psychiatric unit, he immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others..sees a world as a grey place. [[The Island Every Colour of You by M A BennettAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Letters A Spark of William Woolf Light by Helen CullenJodi Picoult]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] The 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. It is at The Center where one man, George Goddard, takes it upon himself to get revenge for the loss of his grandchild, in the form of a mass-shooting. What arises is a novel that details the lives of the remaining hostages, as well as other characters central to the story. One of these characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in to help deflate the situation, who soon discovers that his sister and daughter, Wren, happened to be at the clinic that day. [[A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult|Full Review]]
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William Woolf is a letter detective, working in the Dead Letters Depot in East London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of love, guilt, death, hope, and everyday life. [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen|Full Review]]
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===[[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]
Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life the first time around. She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], Sasha has a rare disease which turned parts of lot on her body to bone when they were damagedplate. Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and went to Dignitas, the Swiss euthanasia clinicmarriage needs work. SheSon Zac is entering a rebellious adolescent phase and it'd thought that would be the end, but after cremation her body went straight s hard to hell and she found herself face-know how to-face with redirect him. Mother Annie, an alcoholic, is beginning the devil. And that was when she made journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the pactbest of times. In exchange Thank heavens for details about some of those who had been close to her - their strengths lovely dog, Sebastian, and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the same day to the same parents, but would live her life free of diseasehis unconditional love. [[MarshaWhat's Deal Left Unsaid by Laura SolomonDeborah Stone|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik]]===
===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
Miryem comes from a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at it at all'Edward is six weeks old and I’ve had no sleep. Lending freely I had thirty stitches in my perineum, the wounds still tug and rarely collecting, he leaves itch. They had to do the family on stitches twice because the edge of povertyfirst lot became infected. The old-school midwife told me I wasn’t paying enough attention to personal hygiene. I must shower twice a day, until Miryem must step in. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagersor better still, she becomes take a person of great interest salt bath. Do they really expect me to do that? Have they ever tried to shower when she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from her Grandfather baby is crying and you’re so tired you can barely stand and returns it full your partner is banging around downstairs because he’s late for work again?'' I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a baby. Many of gold, soon becoming entangled with an array them simply managed to put one foot in front 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… other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder and developed post-natal depression[[Spinning Silver The Place Where Love Should Be by Naomi NovikElizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]
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===[[Four by Andy Jones]]===
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Friends are nice, and couple friends are doubly nice, giving you like minded people to spend time with. A pair of pairs, or a couple of couples. Married couple Sally and Al have known Mike for ages – Sally from university, Al through work. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome and though she doesn't have their shared history, she's a lot of fun – a bit younger than the rest of them, an actress and so on[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Four by Andy Jones:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral 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]] <!-- Collishaw Hajaj -->
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===[[A Child Called Happiness The Water Thief by Stephan CollishawClaire Hajaj]]===
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Mazowe Valley, 2011 – Natalie hears a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be a bird, but turns out to be a baby, abandoned to the birds on the kopje. She Nick is there with her uncle and they take in the child, back middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his farm initially fiancée behind in London and then to take up a local village where it is taken post insome un-named west African country providing engineering support for the building of a children's hospital. They do not report it to the policeHe has no idea what he is getting himself into. [[A Child Called Happiness The Water Thief by Stephan CollishawClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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