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===[[Murmuration American Royals by Robert LockKatharine McGee]]===
[[image:3star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Two and a half centuries ago, America won the Revolutionary War and General George Washington was offered the crown. Today, the House of Washington still sit on the thrown with Princess Beatrice next in line. Beatrice's whole life has been building up to her ruling the United States and the time for her reign is imminent. [[American Royals by Katharine McGee|Full Review]] <!-- Mulligan -->|-| style=''width:Category10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:Historical Fiction1784742716.jpg|Historical Fictionlink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784742716/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
''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]]
| style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Train Man by Andrew Mulligan]]=== [[image:2.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] I came to this book thinking I knew just what to expect, even though it is [[:Category:Andy Mulligan|the author's]] debut in the adult novel market (hence the more mature name – he used to be an Andy). I thought it simple to sum up, the tale of a middle-aged man who knows too much about train travel having his life turned around in the most pleasant way. I hadn't opened it when I'd shelved it alongside [[:Category:Chris Cleave|Chris Cleave]], and [[:Category:David Nicholls|David Nicholls]]. I expected some whimsy, some warmth and some affirmative loveliness. More fool me. [[Train Man by Andrew Mulligan|Full Review]] <!-- Laurain Coleman -->
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===[[Smoking Kills The Girl at the Window by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Rowan Coleman]]===
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Meet Fabrice Valantine. He's Trudy Heaton is going home, to a headhunter, house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and to a successful one too, in an office in Parismother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen years. All around him however his world is changing – yes Home, there is a new ban on smoking in all workplaces. Goaded by his non-smoking wifeher refuge, even though they met over an ashtrayPonden Hall, where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with the traumatic loss of sorts, he sees a hypnotist who had success her husband. She needs to build bridges with a mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habither mother and convince her grieving son that his father is dead. The session seems to have been successful, however he faces Where better than the prospect house full of having such a change to his own personality, his imbued habits light and lifestyle, with fearshadow, 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. nurtured her throughout her childhood? [[Smoking Kills The Girl at the Window by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Rowan Coleman|Full Review]]
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===[[The Island We Are Not Okay by M A BennettNatalia Gomes]]===
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A contemporary take on the savage classic Set in a typical American town, ''Lord of the FliesWe Are Not Okay'': a group tells the story of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive four teenage girls facing the difficulties brought on by high school and growing up as a deserted islandgirl in today's society. Link The novel is a fish out told from four different perspectives, those of waterLucy, Ulana, Trina and Sophia, whose friendship statuses vary from BFFs to sworn enemies. Newly arrived from America, he The reader is finding it hard to settle presented with a glimpse into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind each 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 yearstheir lives, but more importantly their minds, he immediately becomes and at times the butt thoughts of every school jokethose characters could have been taken directly from my own. And some students Gomes has created a heartbreakingly real and relevant novel that focuses on prominent topic areas which are determined becoming ingrained in our society, particularly in relation to make his life more miserable than others.the ''Me Too Movement''.''We Are Not Okay'' reminds the reader of the importance of phrases like ''I'm With Her''. [[The Island We Are Not Okay by M A BennettNatalia Gomes|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Helen CullenKate Tough]]===
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William Woolf is Life has just hidden behind a letter detective, working corner and stuck a foot out as Rhona Beech came past. She and Mark had been together for nine years and it was beginning to feel ''settled''. Then Mark announced that he'd got a job in Canada and he was going whether Rhona wanted to come with him or not. The ''not'' bit of the sentence was the Dead Letters Depot in East Londonway it worked out and Rhona was left on her own. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses Well, tracking down mysterious people she wasn't completely on her own: she had friends and reading endless letters of lovefamily, guiltbut it's not the same as having that special someone in your life, death, hopethat someone who makes you part of a couple. So Rhona had to start again, rejoining a world that bore little resemblance to the one she'd left nine years ago - and there's a lot of difference between being in the middle of your twenties and everyday lifethe middle of your thirties. [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Helen CullenKate Tough|Full Review]]
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===[[Marsha's Deal Equator by Laura SolomonAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the first time aroundwalls of a theme park. SheOur agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of white man against Native 'Indian'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a rare disease which turned parts of her body to bone when they were damaged. Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer buffalo hunt, and who hates the way man – and went to Dignitaswoman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the Swiss euthanasia clinicbat of an eyelid. She'd thought that would be But this book is about so much more than the end1870s USA, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-to-face the attendant problems with the devilgold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. And that was when she made He finds himself trying to find this book's version of Utopia, namely the pact. In exchange for details about some of those who had been close Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be reborn keep them on the same day ground to counter the same parentsanti-gravity, and where, but would live her life free who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of disease. Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[Marsha's Deal Equator by Laura SolomonAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver Needlemouse by Naomi NovikJane O'Connor]]===
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Miryem comes from a long line of moneylenders – but We first meet Sylvia Penton on her Father isn't very good at it at all. Lending freely birthday and rarely collectingher boss, he leaves the family on the edge of povertyProf, until Miryem must step inis taking her out to lunch. Hardening This is her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagersfavourite day of the year, not because it's her birthday but because of the special time she becomes a person of great interest when gets to spend with the man she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from loves. He's told her Grandfather that he and returns his wife are going to divorce - Martha is apparently having an affair - and Sylvia is convinced that the Prof will then declare his love and they can be together. She hasn't fully constructed 'together' in her own mind - she envisages it full of goldas romantic, soon becoming entangled with an array but her imagination hasn't yet progressed to the sexual part of strange creatures, from the dark beings that haunt the wood through to a King whorelationship. There's eager to exploit Miryemtime though - she's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than theyonly been the prof're worth… s PA for fifteen years. [[Spinning Silver Needlemouse by Naomi NovikJane O'Connor|Full Review]]
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===[[Four Vintage 1954 by Andy JonesAntoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)]]===
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Friends are niceVintage 1954 starts by thrusting several completely different characters upon us, before deciding to run with them and couple friends are doubly niceformulate a plot. So we have an American biker, giving you like minded people to spend time just landing in Paris but unfortunately not withthe wife who shared his dream of visiting the city together. A pair of pairsWe have a goth girl who everyone recognises from an American crime show, or but actually is a couple humble restorer of couplesantiques. Married couple Sally and Al We have known Mike for ages – Sally from universitya cocktail barman, Al through workinfatuated with the goth girl. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome and though she doesn't We also have their shared historya man ruling the roost over a whole suite of individual apartments fabricated from the Haussmann-era mansion his family once owned. Finally something conspires to get them together, she's and drinking from the same bottle of a lot rare 1954 red wine. Only, one of fun them has a bizarre incidence in his family history that also features the same plonk – where a bit younger than grandfather imbibed, and walked out the rest door one rainy morning, never to be seen again. But of themcourse nobody will be doing any disappearing now, an actress and so on. though – will they? [[Four Vintage 1954 by Andy JonesAntoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Stephan CollishawFelicity McLean]]===
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Mazowe ValleyWhen Tikka Molloy was eleven and one-sixth years old, 2011 – Natalie hears a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be a birdthe Van Apfel sisters disappeared. In the long hot summer of 1992, but turns out to be a babyin an isolated suburb of Australia surrounded by Bushland, abandoned to the birds on girls vanished during the school's Showstopper concert at the kopjeriverside amphitheatre. She is there with her uncle and Did they run away? Were they taken? While the search for the sisters united the small community, they take were never found. Returning home years later, Tikka must make sense of that strange moment in time – of the childsummer that shaped her, back to his farm initially and then to a local village where it is taken in. They do not report it to the policegirls she never forgot. [[A Child Called Happiness The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Stephan CollishawFelicity McLean|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Lydia SysonAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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On Long-time followers of The Bookbag will know I'm a remote volcanic island off the coast die-hard fan of New ZealandAMS. 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 family 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 settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appearsimaginary boyfriend, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappearscase of potential werewolves. As both settlers They're the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal with, and newcomers come together in I rather enjoyed them, especially the stabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the search for person who committed the child, they uncover farcrime, far more rather than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit itvictim. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Lydia SysonAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing by Cassandra Parkin]]===
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A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down the mud cliffs and away into the sea is where we meet Jacob and Ella. They share a bathroom The final novel in the turret, old and cold Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and not really supposed banished to be used…but this is where they hide away from the shouts of their parents' arguments. Here they play the Underwater Breathing gameScotland, submerging themselves in the water holding their breath for as long as they canproviding trade craft spy training. For sixteen year old Jacob itIt's just stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a way of drowning out prison to Alex as anything the arguments…but for Ella it Germans would provide. And where is more than Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''that. She is terrified '' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the seadisinformation 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 fact that it will come and swallow their house. She needs to service? Does she know that too much? Is she can survive under water. She has to practice. even still alive? [[Underwater Breathing The Things That are Lost by Cassandra ParkinAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Believers A Danger to Herself and Others by Rebecca MakkaiAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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''The Great Believers'' follows a group of friends whose lives are devastated by They needed someone to blame, and I was the AIDS crisis in Chicago during the late 1980’sonly available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Beginning in 1985, Playing the reader follows Yale and his friends as they come to terms with scapegoat was the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at least I could do under the hands of a conservative Americacircumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. Thirty years later FionaShe has dined in fancy restaurants, a devoted friend to Yale, is searching for her estranged daughter on explored the streets most sophisticated corners of Paris, trying to rebuild the globe and lived a relationship beset by memories and old hurtlife of luxury. [[The Great Believers A Danger to Herself and Others by Rebecca MakkaiAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid Louis and Louise by Dorothy KoomsonJulie Cohen]]===
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In 1993What would you be like, two teenagers stumble across right now, if you'd been born a horrific scene on the beach as they're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: different gender? Would it simply be a body matter of a young womangenetics, partially stripped, totally deceased. The find hits and your life would still have unfolded in the same way? Or would the girls way you had been raised affect who you became in different ways. Nell becomes obsessed with finding the identity life? This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all of the girl – who she calls ''above, covering the Brighton Mermaid'' because stories of a distinguishing tattoo – whereas Jude just wants to forget it ever happened. Fast forward 25 years Louis and Nell is still haunted by what happened that night. With few leads to go Louise, born onthe same day, to the Police closed the case without cracking itsame parents, and so it remains but in one of those unsolved mysteries that become part of local folklorestoryline Lou is a boy, but Nell struggles to let sleeping dogs, or even sleeping mermaids, lieand in the other a girl. As for Jude Does it really make a difference, well no one knows if the discovery still haunts her because no one knows where she gender box that is. Shortly after ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that fateful nightmen and women are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been in the past, she too disappearedhow they still are, never and prompts you to think about how they could be seen or heard from again. There's more to Brighton than Stag Dos and Gay Pride, it seems.. [[The Brighton Mermaid Louis and Louise by Dorothy KoomsonJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short M for Mammy by Lex CoultonEleanor O'Reilly]]===
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Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakesThe Augustts are, failureslike all families, and relationshipsa bit complicated. The main protagonistA loving irish family, Frances Pilgrimtheir love binds them together – but all express that in very different ways. However, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a when misfortune strikes the family they are forced to work colleaguetogether in order to understand each other again, and is grappling as with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is a family as complicated by as the fact that FrancesAugustts it's father disappeared at sea 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 was five years old's a force of nature who must try her hardest to hold the family together. [[Falling Short M for Mammy by Lex CoultonEleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]]
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Elisabeth HydeRuth Hogan]]===
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Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the best when he waited Paradise hotel, a haven for his three children to arrive one Friday nighteccentrics and misfits. He might A place where people can be a retired lawyerthemselves, a state legislator, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew let go of thoughts that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrivedtorment them elsewhere. Ruth, Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a corporate lawyerchild, would find fault and want to talk about him going into a retirement homefrom this place of wonder. GeorgeWith the help of Queenie Malone, a nursecaring, would argue and Lizziegregarious, a professor of English Literature, who lived locally Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and kept uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and visited him regularly, would be unpredictable. Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, but that simply wasn't going to happendistant mother. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Elisabeth HydeRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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 ===[[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Man Who Came to London by Ruth HoganA S Cookson]]===
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Masha's son Gabriel died some years ago. She'd been a single parent with help from her friend, EdwardIn 1948, who had grieved as much as Masha and whilst Edward has moved on (his boyfriend moved out in the immediate aftermath first set of the drowning, but there's now Caribbean nationals arrived in Great Britain on a new love interest) Masha is still strickenship called "Empire Windrush". They struggled to find housing. They worked as labourers. They faced open discrimination, feeling that it would somehow be disloyal forcing them to Gabriel if she was to be happyquickly form their own community. An independentDecades later, rebellious woman has somehow been diminishedFreddy makes the same journey. [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes by Ruth Hogan|Full Review]]''
''Does he find a place to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?'' Freddie arrives in London in the early 2000s, answering the call for teachers. He thinks about his own Jamaican education, based on the British system, and the way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the River Thames. He thinks about the love of cricket and football, shared by both countries. And he thinks of the generations of the diaspora who came before him. Freddy does well in his job in East London but he does have to face down some stereotypical attitudes from his pupils - all Jamaicans smoke weed, don't they? Everybody knows that! [[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson|Full Review]] <!-- Houm Rubin -->
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Liberation Square by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Gareth Rubin]]===
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Jane Ashland In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is dyingfirst occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the west. That's a description of a very early scene here – but alsoDividing the nation between them, of courseLondon soon finds itself split in two, a platitude that can apply to all of uswall running through it like a scar. When JaneCawson's life, if anything, husband is going up and down in levels arrested for the murder of pleasurehis former wife, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down placeJane is determined to clear his name. Here thenIn doing so, scattered through Jane follows a timeline-bending narrative, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New York, glimpses trail of therapy, a drive to find her ancestors corruption that takes leads her from rural America right to Norway the highest levels of the state – and a trip there with a new-found friend soon finds herself desperate to watch stay one step ahead of the musk oxen, of all things. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… murderous secret police… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Liberation Square by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Gareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale of a Tooth When You Read This by Allie RogersMary Adkins]]===
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Danny lives in a small Sussex town with his motherSmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, Natalieduring which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. Life is poor Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but they manage - until theyhis attention was on making enough money to cover his mother're threatened by a benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - but her impact on s nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the family goes far beyond what they first expect, branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the resulting changes are described to pressures got too much for him. He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the reader through age of thirty three. He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the naive yet perceptive last six months of her life and wholly original eyes her final request of four-year-old DannySmith is that he gets the blog published as a book. [[Tale of a Tooth When You Read This by Allie RogersMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia Vera Magpie by Anthony TrevelyanLaura Solomon]]===
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When Claudia is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitor, she doesn't expect it to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen yearsI have murdered three husbands. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson'' As an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera's telling us the truth. The Aztec first two husbands, Gary and The Sun KingHarry were abusive, walked out of Claudia's life and into but Larry was a world of success as treasure, a solar panel salesman – but now hekeeper, and it's returned difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and he needs Claudianow she's helpin prison with a mandatory life sentence. Reggie Her only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, Samsonbut Vera's son, has joined not one to let herself be a mysterious cult called victim. She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn'Tarantula'', a group who prepare t risk the security of her life in prison for the end sake of the world a fling), but she is keen on getting an education and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doom. Claudiashe's journey takes her far from her home studying for a degree in Manchester to the end of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… English Literature. [[Claudia Vera Magpie by Anthony TrevelyanLaura Solomon|Full Review]] <!-- Laura Solomon -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:938689713X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/938689713X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Black Light by Laura Solomon]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Jim is a university student and, as the saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's never really managed to connect with his step-father. His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him. Jim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desired. Despite all that's he's not about to sit back and allow his life to drift: he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[Black Light by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]  <!-- Gayle Chase -->
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===[[The Man I Think I Know Redemptor Domus by Mike GayleGamelyn Chase]]===
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James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed the Far East. As the boy travels to the school, a family tragedy causes the boy to goarrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. At an all time low time for both Plunged into a school full of themdanger and betrayal, the two men reconnect boy is seen as a trophy by friends and slowly find they're exactly what the other needsenemies alike. Together, they help each other put With them locked into their lives back together. This is a beautiful story about friendship scheming and what plotting, it really means comes to help another personthe boy to attempt to clean up the pit of filth that the school has become. [[The Man I Think I Know Redemptor Domus by Mike GayleGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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