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===[[Staying On American Royals by C M TaylorKatharine McGee]]===
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Tony Metcalfe is Two and a Yorkshireman through and through and being honest, Yorkshire's where he'd really like to be. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfecthalf centuries ago, but he's living in a mountain village just beyond America won the Costa Verde Revolutionary War and running a pubGeneral George Washington was offered the crown. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return to the UKToday, what with the uncertainty House of Brexit and everything, but there are a couple of problems. First off, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to Washington still sit on the UKthrown with Princess Beatrice next in line. She'd have you believe that she's not well, but there's a backstory there thatBeatrice's not being talked about. Then there's the pub, which isn't doing well enough whole life has been building up to sell. In fact Tony's cleaning her ruling the swimming pools of expats who have left Spain United States and returned home, in order to make a bit of money to try and make ends at least come in sight of each other, even if they never meetthe time for her reign is imminent. [[Staying On American Royals by C M TaylorKatharine McGee|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of Girl at the Orphan Window by Dr Nat TanohRowan Coleman]]===
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Saga Trudy Heaton is eighteen going home, to a house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls a mother she hasn''hop-hip'', eating copious amounts of food, and learning about girlst spoken to for sixteen years. Living in an affluent, liberal and protected suburb Home, he has a good life. Howeverher refuge, the suburb is in AfricaPonden Hall, where childhoods she can be snatched in an instantheal herself and try to come to terms with the traumatic loss of her husband. When his friends She needs to build bridges with her mother and family are dragged into the conflict raging around the dictatorship convince her grieving son that Saga lives under, he his father is forced to become an unlikely revolutionarydead. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead Where better than the house full of the soldiers desperate to stop himlight and shadow, that nurtured her throughout her childhood? [[The Day of Girl at the Orphan Window by Dr Nat TanohRowan Coleman|Full Review]]
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===[[Murmuration We Are Not Okay by Robert LockNatalia Gomes]]===
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Set in a typical American town, ''MurmurationWe Are Not Okay'' follows tells the lives story of four teenage girls facing the difficulties brought on by high school and growing up as a host girl in today's society. The novel is told from four different perspectives, those of characters Lucy, Ulana, Trina and Sophia, whose friendship statuses vary from 1863 BFFs to the present daysworn enemies. From The reader is presented with a risqué comic to a fortune tellerglimpse into each of their lives, but more importantly their minds, we see and at times the birth thoughts of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamourthose characters could have been taken directly from my own. There is Gomes has created a hint of mysticism heartbreakingly real and relevant novel that focuses on prominent topic areas which are becoming ingrained in our society, particularly in relation to the tale, with ''Me Too Movement''. ''We Are Not Okay'' reminds the mesmerising dance reader of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories importance of lives captivated by the seaphrases like ''I'm With Her''. [[Murmuration We Are Not Okay by Robert LockNatalia Gomes|Full Review]]
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===[[Smoking Kills Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Kate Tough]]===
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Meet Fabrice ValantineLife has just hidden behind a corner and stuck a foot out as Rhona Beech came past. He She and Mark had been together for nine years and it was beginning to feel ''s settled''. Then Mark announced that he'd got a headhunter, job in Canada and a successful one too, in an office in Parishe was going whether Rhona wanted to come with him or not. All around him however his world is changing – yes, there is a new ban The ''not'' bit of the sentence was the way it worked out and Rhona was left on smoking in all workplacesher own. Goaded by his non-smoking wife Well, even though they met over an ashtrayshe wasn't completely on her own: she had friends and family, of sortsbut it's not the same as having that special someone in your life, he sees a hypnotist that someone who had success with makes you part of a mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habitcouple. The session seems So Rhona had to have been successfulstart again, however he faces the prospect of having such rejoining a change world that bore little resemblance to his own personality, his imbued habits the one she'd left nine years ago - 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 itthere's what he replaces a lot of difference between being in the habit with that will surprise middle of your twenties and the mostmiddle of your thirties. [[Smoking Kills Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Kate Tough|Full Review]]
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===[[The Island Equator by M A BennettAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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A contemporary take on It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the savage classic ''Lord walls of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the Fliesindignity of white man against Native 'Indian': , who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a group buffalo hunt, and who hates the way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted islandan eyelid. Link But this book is a fish out of water. Newly arrived from Americaabout so much more than the 1870s USA, he is finding it hard to settle into and the venerable attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and prestigious Osney Schoolracial genocide. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions He finds himself trying to understand? And what kind find this book's version of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round Utopia, namely the school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in years, he immediately becomes their pockets to keep them on the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined ground to make his life more miserable than others..counter the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[The Island Equator by M A BennettAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Needlemouse by Helen CullenJane O'Connor]]===
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William Woolf We first meet Sylvia Penton on her birthday and her boss, the Prof, is a letter detectivetaking her out to lunch. This is her favourite day of the year, working in not because it's her birthday but because of the special time she gets to spend with the Dead Letters Depot in East Londonman she loves. He spends 's told her that he and his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people wife are going to divorce - Martha is apparently having an affair - and reading endless letters of Sylvia is convinced that the Prof will then declare his loveand they can be together. She hasn't fully constructed 'together' in her own mind - she envisages it as romantic, guilt, death, hope, and everyday lifebut her imagination hasn't yet progressed to the sexual part of the relationship. There's time though - she's only been the prof's PA for fifteen years. [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Needlemouse by Helen CullenJane O'Connor|Full Review]]
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===[[Marsha's Deal Vintage 1954 by Laura SolomonAntoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]
Marsha didn't Vintage 1954 starts by thrusting several completely different characters upon us, before deciding to run with them and formulate a plot. So we have an easy ride American biker, just landing in life Paris but unfortunately not with the first time aroundwife who shared his dream of visiting the city together. She'd been afflicted We have a goth girl who everyone recognises from an American crime show, but actually is a humble restorer of antiques. We have a cocktail barman, infatuated with [https://enthe goth girl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], We also have a man ruling the roost over a rare disease which turned parts whole suite of her body to bone when they were damagedindividual apartments fabricated from the Haussmann-era mansion his family once owned. Finally she was unable something conspires to stand her life any longer get them together, and went to Dignitas, drinking from the Swiss euthanasia clinicsame bottle of a rare 1954 red wine. She'd thought Only, one of them has a bizarre incidence in his family history that would be also features the endsame plonk – where a grandfather imbibed, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-walked out the door one rainy morning, never to-face with the devilbe seen again. And that was when she made the pact. In exchange for details about some But of those who had been close to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would course nobody will be reborn on the same day to the same parentsdoing any disappearing now, but would live her life free of disease. though – will they? [[Marsha's Deal Vintage 1954 by Laura SolomonAntoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Naomi NovikFelicity McLean]]===
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Miryem comes from a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at it at all. Lending freely When Tikka Molloy was eleven and rarely collectingone-sixth years old, he leaves the family on Van Apfel sisters disappeared. In the edge long hot summer of poverty1992, until Miryem must step in. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagers, she becomes a person of great interest when she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from her Grandfather and returns it full of gold, soon becoming entangled with an array isolated suburb of strange creaturesAustralia surrounded by Bushland, from the dark beings that haunt girls vanished during the wood through to a King whoschool's eager to exploit Miryem's talents Showstopper concert at the riverside amphitheatre. Did they run away? Were they taken? While the search for the sisters united the small community, they were never found. Returning home years later, Tikka must make sense of that strange moment in time – she soon becomes aware of the summer that shaped her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… , and the girls she never forgot. [[Spinning Silver The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Naomi NovikFelicity McLean|Full Review]]
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===[[Four The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Andy JonesAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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Friends are nice, and couple friends are doubly nice, giving you like minded people to spend Long-time with. A pair followers of pairs, or The Bookbag will know I'm a couple die-hard fan of couplesAMS. Married couple Sally and Al have known Mike 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 ages – Sally from universitySensitive Crimes, Al through worksolving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the usual police parameters. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed in the knee, the disappearance of an imaginary boyfriend, and though she doesn't have their shared history, she's a lot case of fun – a bit younger than potential werewolves. They're the rest of crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal with, and I rather enjoyed them, an actress and so onespecially the stabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the person who committed the crime, rather than the victim. [[Four The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Andy JonesAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness by Stephan Collishaw]]===
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Mazowe ValleyThe final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, 2011 – Natalie hears a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be a bird, but turns out to be providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a baby, abandoned prison to Alex as anything the birds on the kopjeGermans would provide. She And where is there Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with her uncle and they take John Cabot, instigator of the childdisinformation campaign, back to his farm initially and then returned to a local village where it find her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is taken inquite another. Alex can't get Justine out of his head. They do not report it to Has she left the police. service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[A Child Called Happiness The Things That are Lost by Stephan CollishawAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions A Danger to Herself and Others by Lydia SysonAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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On a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, a family of settlers struggle ''They needed someone to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appearsblame, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated 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 – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappearsor so her parents tell her. As both settlers and newcomers come together She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the search for the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both most sophisticated corners of the island globe and those who inhabit itlived a life of luxury. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions A Danger to Herself and Others by Lydia SysonAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing Louis and Louise by Cassandra ParkinJulie Cohen]]===
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A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down the mud cliffs What would you be like, right now, if you'd been born a different gender? Would it simply be a matter of genetics, and away into your life would still have unfolded in the sea is where we meet Jacob and Ella. same way? They share a bathroom 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 turretabove, old covering the stories of Louis and cold and not really supposed Louise, born on the same day, to be used…but this is where they hide away from the shouts of their same parents' arguments. Here they play the Underwater Breathing game, submerging themselves but in one storyline Lou is a boy, and in the water holding their breath for as long as they canother a girl. For sixteen year old Jacob Does it's just really make a way of drowning out difference, the arguments…but for Ella it gender box that is more than ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that. She is terrified of men and women are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been in the seapast, how they still are, of the fact that it will come and swallow their houseprompts you to think about how they could be. She needs to know that she can survive under water. She has to practice. [[Underwater Breathing Louis and Louise by Cassandra ParkinJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Believers M for Mammy by Rebecca MakkaiEleanor O'Reilly]]===
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''The Great Believers'' follows Augustts are, like all families, a group of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis bit complicated. A loving irish family, their love binds them together – but all express that in Chicago during the late 1980’svery different ways. Beginning in 1985However, when misfortune strikes the reader follows Yale and his friends as family they come are forced to work together in order to terms understand each other again, as with a family as complicated as the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at Augustts it's not always what is spoken that makes the hands most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and takes charge. Full of a conservative America. Thirty years later Fionastern words and common sense, she's a devoted friend force of nature who must try her hardest to Yale, is searching for her estranged daughter on hold the streets of Paris, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurtfamily together. [[The Great Believers M for Mammy by Rebecca MakkaiEleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Dorothy KoomsonRuth Hogan]]===
[[image:45star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of wonder.5starWith the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan|Full Review]] <!-- Cookson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0955489059.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0955489059/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Man Who Came to London by A 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.'' ''Does he find a place to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?''
In 1993Freddie arrives in London in the early 2000s, two teenagers stumble across a horrific scene answering the call for teachers. He thinks about his own Jamaican education, based on the beach as they're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: a body of a young womanBritish system, partially stripped, totally deceased. The find hits and the way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the girls in different waysRiver Thames. Nell becomes obsessed with finding He thinks about the identity love 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 cricket and Nell is still haunted football, shared by what happened that nightboth countries. With few leads to go on, And he thinks of the Police closed generations of the case without cracking it, and so it remains one of those unsolved mysteries that become part of local folklore, diaspora who came before him. Freddy does well in his job in East London but Nell struggles he does have to let sleeping dogsface down some stereotypical attitudes from his pupils - all Jamaicans smoke weed, or even sleeping mermaids, lie. As for Jude, well no one don't they? Everybody 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 Man Who Came to London by Dorothy KoomsonA S Cookson|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short Liberation Square by Lex CoultonGareth Rubin]]===
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Lex Coulton's debut novel In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is a story about mistakes, failuresfirst occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and relationshipsAmericans from the west. The main protagonistDividing the nation between them, Frances PilgrimLondon soon finds itself split in two, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, wall running through it like a work colleaguescar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, and Jane is grappling with determined to clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the increasingly eccentric behaviour highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. murderous secret police… [[Falling Short Liberation Square by Lex CoultonGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer When You Read This by Elisabeth HydeMary Adkins]]===
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Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the best when he waited for his three children to arrive one Friday nightaltar on their wedding day. He might be a retired lawyerSmith, meanwhile, a state legislatorrelied on Iris, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrived. Ruthhis attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, a corporate lawyer, would find fault running the branding agency in New York and want to talk about losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him going into a retirement home. George, He was devastated when Iris developed a nurse, would argue terminal cancer and Lizzie, a professor died at the age of English Literature, who lived locally and kept and visited him regularly, would be unpredictablethirty three. Murray hoped He was surprised too when he discovered that all would go smoothly, but Iris had been writing a blog in the last six months of her life and her final request of Smith is that simply wasn't going to happenhe gets the blog published as a book. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer When You Read This by Elisabeth HydeMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Vera Magpie by Ruth HoganLaura Solomon]]===
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Masha's son Gabriel died some years ago'I have murdered three husbands. She'd been a single parent with help from her friend, Edward, who had grieved as much as Masha and whilst Edward has moved on (his boyfriend moved out in the immediate aftermath of the drowning, but there's now a new love interest) Masha is still stricken, feeling that it would somehow be disloyal to Gabriel if she was to be happy. An independent, rebellious woman has somehow been diminished. [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes by Ruth Hogan|Full Review]]
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 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 sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the security of her life in prison for the sake of a fling), but she is keen on getting an education and she's studying for a degree in English Literature. [[Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon|Full Review]] <!-- Houm Laura Solomon -->
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Black Light by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Laura Solomon]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:4Jim 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:Categorythe 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:General Fiction|General Fiction]], he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[:Category:Literary FictionBlack Light by Laura Solomon|Literary FictionFull Review]]
Jane Ashland is dying. 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… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale of a Tooth Redemptor Domus by Allie RogersGamelyn Chase]]===
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Danny lives A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the Far East. As the boy travels to the school, a family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a small Sussex town vulnerable orphan, with his motheran uncertain future. Plunged into a school full of danger and betrayal, Natalie. Life the boy is poor, but they manage - until they're threatened seen as a trophy by a benefits sanctionfriends and enemies alike. A Job Centre employee looks to be With them locked into their salvation - but her impact on the family goes far beyond what they first expectscheming and plotting, and it comes to the resulting changes are described boy to attempt to clean up the reader through pit of filth that the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of four-year-old Dannyschool has become. [[Tale of a Tooth Redemptor Domus by Allie RogersGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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