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===[[Black Light The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Laura SolomonAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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Jim is Long-time followers of The Bookbag will know I'm 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 stepdie-fatherhard fan of AMS. His younger brother would be kindly So you can imagine my excitement at reading a brand new book in a brand new series, described by the author himself as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficultScandi Blanc (as opposed to Scandi Noir)! Here we meet a new detective named Ulf Varg, but Jim does his best with and who works in the Department for himSensitive Crimes, solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the usual police parameters. Jim's This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the looksknee, the attitudedisappearance of an imaginary boyfriend, the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desiredcase of potential werewolves. Despite all They're the crimes that's he's not about perhaps nobody else would bother to sit back deal with, and allow his life to drift: he's I rather enjoyed them, especially the stabbing where you find that actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in , you identify with the person who committed the crime, rather than the pubvictim. [[Black Light The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Laura SolomonAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[Redemptor Domus by Gamelyn Chase]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[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 The final novel in the Far East. As the boy travels Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to the schoolScotland, providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a family tragedy causes the boy prison to arrive at Alex as anything the school a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain futureGermans would provide. Plunged into a school full of danger and betrayal, the boy And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. With them locked into their scheming and plottingher since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, it comes to instigator of the boy disinformation campaign, and returned to attempt to clean up the pit find her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. Alex can't get Justine out of filth that his head. Has she left the school has become. service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[Redemptor Domus The Things That are Lost by Gamelyn ChaseAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[The Long Path To Wisdom A Danger to Herself and Others by Jan-Philipp SendkerAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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On my travels around the world, I have a tendency ''They needed someone to end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language booksblame, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as was the next person, what only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I'm really looking for is could do under the circumstances.'local' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – the cookbook maybeor so her parents tell her. She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the maps definitely, but above all: most sophisticated corners of the folk tales. If I ever get to Burma, I won't need to hunt, I can read before I goglobe and lived a life of luxury. [[The Long Path To Wisdom A Danger to Herself and Others by Jan-Philipp SendkerAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Katalin Street Louis and Louise by Magda SzaboJulie Cohen]]===
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This is What would you be like, right now, if you'd been born a different gender? Would it simply be a story about the past. A specific past, certainlymatter of genetics, and your life would still have unfolded in the form 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 pre-war Budapestthe above, but also a story about how that past can impact on covering the present stories of Louis and Louise, born on the future. In this booksame day, the first of three Magda Szabó wrote on to the same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated and reissuedparents, we witness but in one storyline Lou is a heart-rending nostalgia for happier days, guilt about those who did not surviveboy, and in the other a girl. Does it really make a dogged but doomed determination to cling to long-gone timesdifference, feelings the gender box that is ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that men and experiences which mark women are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been in the here and nowpast, how they still are, staining and warping it into another, subtler miseryprompts you to think about how they could be... [[Katalin Street Louis and Louise by Magda SzaboJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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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]]
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]]<!-- Mandeville Hogan -->
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===[[Every Colour of You Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Amelia MandevilleRuth Hogan]]===
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Zoe believes in adding life Tilda returns to years as well as years Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's lifeafter her death. Her worldWhilst there, like her nameshe returns to the Paradise hotel, is bursting with life a haven for eccentrics and colourmisfits. She is the sort A place where people can be themselves, and let go of girl who would sing thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a rainbow is she couldchild, from this place of wonder. Tristan (or ''Tree'' as she calls him) is With the opposite. Fresh out help of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unitQueenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, he sees a world as a grey placeTilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[Every Colour of You Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Amelia MandevilleRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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 ===[[The Man Who Came to London by A Spark of Light by Jodi PicoultS Cookson]]===
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The Center is ''In 1948, the last remaining abortion clinic first set of Caribbean nationals arrived in the state of Mississippi and is the source of great controversy when it comes Great Britain on a ship called "Empire Windrush". They struggled to the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debatefind housing. They worked as labourers. It is at The Center where one manThey faced open discrimination, George Goddardforcing them to quickly form their own community. Decades later, takes it upon himself Freddy makes the same journey.'' ''Does he find a place to get revenge 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 loss of his grandchildBritish system, in and the way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the River Thames. He thinks about the form love of a mass-shootingcricket and football, shared by both countries. What arises is a novel that details And he thinks of the lives generations of the remaining hostages, as diaspora who came before him. Freddy does well as other characters central to the story. One of these characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in his job in East London but he does have to help deflate the situation, who soon discovers that face down some stereotypical attitudes from his sister and daughterpupils - all Jamaicans smoke weed, Wren, happened to be at the clinic don't they? Everybody knows that day. ! [[The Man Who Came to London by A Spark of Light by Jodi PicoultS Cookson|Full Review]]
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[[image:4starIn 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 wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]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… [[:Category:CrimeLiberation Square by Gareth Rubin|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 Mary Adkins -->
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===[[When You Read This by Mary Adkins]]===
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[[image:4starSmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but 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 terminal cancer and died at the age of thirty three. He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the last six months of her life and her final request of Smith is that he gets the blog published as a book.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionWhen You Read This by Mary Adkins|General FictionFull Review]]
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]] <!-- Ellis Laura Solomon -->
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===[[Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon]]===
===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]=== [[image:4star.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 bathhave murdered three husbands. 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?''
I think most women 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, a keeper, and it's difficult to understand why Vera would have felt like this shortly after killed him, particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and now she's in prison with a mandatory life sentence. Her only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, but Vera's not one to let herself be a victim. She's not keen on having a baby. Many sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the security of them simply managed to put one foot her life in front prison for the sake of the other until things calmed down a fling), but some will have found it harder she is keen on getting an education and developed post-natal depressionshe's studying for a degree in English Literature. [[The Place Where Love Should Be Vera Magpie by Elizabeth EllisLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Black Light by Laura Solomon]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]===
[[imageJim 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:4starthe looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desired.jpg|link=Category Despite all that's he's not about to sit back and allow his life to drift:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[:Category:General FictionBlack Light by Laura Solomon|General FictionFull Review]]
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]]
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===[[The Water Thief Redemptor Domus by Claire HajajGamelyn Chase]]===
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Nick is A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the middle of wedding preparations when he decides Far East. As the boy travels to leave his fiancée behind in London and take up the school, a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the building school a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. Plunged into a school full of danger and betrayal, the boy is seen as a children's hospitaltrophy by friends and enemies alike. He With them locked into their scheming and plotting, it comes to the boy to attempt to clean up the pit of filth that the school has no idea what he is getting himself intobecome. [[The Water Thief Redemptor Domus by Claire HajajGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[Landslide The Long Path To Wisdom by Melissa LeetJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionShort Stories|General FictionShort Stories]], [[:Category:Women's General Fiction|Women's General Fiction]]The area where Jill and Susie lived wasn't highly populated so it was fortunate On my travels around the world, I have a tendency to end up in any bookshop that they became such good friendsis selling English-language books, despite and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the fact that Susie was a year older than Jill. Susie lived with her mothernext person, an alcoholic, and Jill lived with what I'm really looking for is the 'herlocal'' mother, who dedicated herself to her garden. Jill's father was Jay Tutle– the cookbook maybe, the photographermaps definitely, but he spent much of his time working away - often for months on end. In reality there was little difference between above all: the two families: Mrs Smith's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still youngfolk tales. Joy and tragedy would visit JillIf I ever get to Burma, I won's home. ''Landslide'' is the story of how what happened determined the course of Jill's life and how great tragedy t need to hunt, I can breed resilience and hoperead before I go. [[Landslide The Long Path To Wisdom by Melissa LeetJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Aftershocks Katalin Street by A N WilsonMagda Szabo]]===
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In This is a country very much like New Zealand, but at story about the same time most avowedly not, two women will find lovepast. Strong love too, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was the only thing to make sense of all those exaggerated songs she'd heardA specific past, and books and poems she'd readcertainly, and plays she'd acted in – works the form of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbole. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some timepre-war Budapest, but it does burgeon, or so we're promised from the off, because of something quite drastic – also a major earthquake very much like story about how that past can impact on the one that hit Christchurch, but at present and the same time most avowedly notfuture. This In this book then is , the combined exploration first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the lovers 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 story of the quakehere and now, staining and warping it into another, subtler misery. [[Aftershocks Katalin Street by A N WilsonMagda Szabo|Full Review]]
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===[[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|FantasySanta Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]===
A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomonimage:4star.jpg|Marsha's Deallink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] 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: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]]<!-- C M Taylor Mandeville -->
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===[[Staying On Every Colour of You by C M TaylorAmelia Mandeville]]===
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Tony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honest, Yorkshire's where he'd really like Zoe believes in adding life to years as well as years to belife. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfectHer world, but he's living in a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde and running a pub. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return to the UKher name, what is bursting with life and colour. She is the uncertainty sort of Brexit and everything, but there are girl who would sing a couple of problems. First off, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to the UKrainbow is she could. SheTristan (or 'd have you believe that she's not well, but thereTree's a backstory there that's not being talked about. Then there's as she calls him) is the pub, which isn't doing well enough to sellopposite. In fact Tony's cleaning the swimming pools Fresh out of expats who have left Spain and returned home, hospital following a prolonged stay in order to make a bit of money to try and make ends at least come in sight of each otherpsychiatric unit, even if they never meethe sees a world as a grey place. [[Staying On Every Colour of You by C M TaylorAmelia Mandeville|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day A Spark of the Orphan Light by Dr Nat TanohJodi Picoult]]===
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Saga The Center is eighteen the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi andis the source of great controversy when it comes to the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate. It is at The Center where one man, like many eighteen-year oldsGeorge Goddard, his prime concerns are listening takes it upon himself to what get revenge for the loss of his mum calls ''hop-hip''grandchild, eating copious amounts in the form of food, and learning about girlsa mass-shooting. Living in an affluent, liberal and protected suburb, he has What arises is a good life. Howevernovel that details the lives of the remaining hostages, as well as other characters central to the suburb story. One of these characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in Africato help deflate the situation, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When who soon discovers that his friends sister and family are dragged into the conflict raging around daughter, Wren, happened to be at the dictatorship clinic that Saga lives under, he is forced to become an unlikely revolutionaryday. 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 A Spark of the Orphan Light by Dr Nat TanohJodi 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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===[[Murmuration by Robert Lock]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:3star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
''Murmuration'' follows the lives of Sasha has a host of characters from 1863 to the present daylot on her plate. From a risqué comic to a fortune teller, we see Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamourmarriage needs work. There Son Zac is entering a hint of mysticism rebellious adolescent phase and it's hard to know how to the taleredirect him. Mother Annie, an alcoholic, with is beginning the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as journey into dementia and has never been an anchor throughout easy person at the distinct narratives herebest of times. Thank heavens for her lovely dog, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the seaSebastian, and his unconditional love. [[Murmuration What's Left Unsaid by Robert LockDeborah Stone|Full Review]]
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===[[Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]=== [[image:4star.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?''
Meet Fabrice ValantineI think most women have felt like this shortly after having a baby. He's a headhunter, and a successful Many of them simply managed to put one too, foot 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, front 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 other until things calmed down but some will never again grant him any pleasure. He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but have found it's what he replaces the habit with that will surprise the most. harder and developed post-natal depression[[Smoking Kills The Place Where Love Should Be by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Elizabeth Ellis|Full Review]]
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===[[The Island by M A Bennett]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionThe Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]===
A contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies''[[image: a group of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island4star. Link is a fish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]  Hugh Mullion goes away to settle into Dorset for the venerable weekend and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions , while waiting for his wife to understand? And what kind 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 in yearsarrive, he immediately becomes finds a mysterious key down the butt back of every school jokean antique chair. And some students are determined The grubby and torn label to make his life more miserable than otherswhich is attached reads... [[The Island Amber Maze by M A BennettChristopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Water Thief by Helen CullenClaire Hajaj]]===
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William Woolf Nick is a letter detective, working in the Dead Letters Depot middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in East Londonand take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the building of a children's hospital. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of love, guilt, death, hope, and everyday lifehas no idea what he is getting himself into. [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Water Thief by Helen CullenClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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