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===[[American Royals by Katharine McGee]]===
 
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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]]
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Sasha has a lot on her plate| style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Train Man by Andrew Mulligan]]=== [[image:2.5star. Husband Jeremy 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 distant and absent and [[:Category:Andy Mulligan|the marriage needs work. Son Zac is entering a rebellious adolescent phase and itauthor's hard ]] debut in the adult novel market (hence the more mature name – he used to know how be an Andy). I thought it simple to redirect him. Mother Annie, an alcoholicsum up, is beginning the journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at tale of a middle-aged man who knows too much about train travel having his life turned around in the best of timesmost pleasant way. Thank heavens for her lovely dog I hadn't opened it when I'd shelved it alongside [[:Category:Chris Cleave|Chris Cleave]], Sebastianand [[:Category:David Nicholls|David Nicholls]]. I expected some whimsy, some warmth and his unconditional lovesome affirmative loveliness. More fool me. [[What's Left Unsaid Train Man by Deborah StoneAndrew Mulligan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman]]===
 
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Trudy Heaton is going home, to a house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and to a mother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen years. Home, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with the traumatic loss of her husband. She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son that his father is dead. Where better than the house full of light and shadow, that nurtured her throughout her childhood? [[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman|Full Review]]
 
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===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]===
[[image| style="vertical-align: top; text-align:4star.jpgleft;"|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionWe Are Not Okay by Natalia Gomes]] ===
''Edward is six weeks old and I’ve had no sleep[[image:4star. I had thirty stitches in my perineumjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], 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?''[[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
I think most women have felt like this shortly after having Set in a typical American town, ''We Are Not Okay'' tells the story of four teenage girls facing the difficulties brought on by high school and growing up as a babygirl in today's society. Many The novel is told from four different perspectives, those of them simply managed Lucy, Ulana, Trina and Sophia, whose friendship statuses vary from BFFs to put one foot in front sworn enemies. The reader is presented with a glimpse into each of their lives, but more importantly their minds, and at times the other until things calmed down but some will thoughts of those characters could have found it harder been taken directly from my own. Gomes has created a heartbreakingly real and developed post-natal depressionrelevant novel that focuses on prominent topic areas which are becoming ingrained in our society, particularly in relation to the ''Me Too Movement''. ''We Are Not Okay'' reminds the reader of the importance of phrases like ''I'm With Her''. [[The Place Where Love Should Be We Are Not Okay by Elizabeth EllisNatalia Gomes|Full Review]]
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===[[Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Kate Tough]]===
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[[imageLife has just hidden behind a 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 way it worked out and Rhona was left on her own. Well, she wasn't completely on her own:4starshe had friends and family, but it's not the same as having that special someone in your life, that 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 the middle of your thirties.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionKeep Walking Rhona Beech by Kate Tough|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]] <!-- Hajaj Varenne -->
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===[[The Water Thief Equator by Claire HajajAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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Nick It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is in Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the middle indignity of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in London a buffalo hunt, and who hates the way man – and take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the building bat of a childrenan eyelid. But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, and the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to find this book's hospitalversion of Utopia, namely the Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be better. He has no idea what he But that equator is getting himself into. a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[The Water Thief Equator by Claire HajajAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Landslide Needlemouse by Melissa LeetJane O'Connor]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]]The area where Jill and Susie lived wasn't highly populated so it was fortunate that they became such good friends, despite the fact that Susie was a year older than Jill. Susie lived with her mother, an alcoholic, and Jill lived with ''her'' mother, who dedicated herself to her garden. Jill's father was Jay Tutle, the photographer, but he spent much of his time working away - often for months on end. In reality there was little difference between the two families: Mrs Smith's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still young. Joy and tragedy would visit Jill's home. ''Landslide'' is the story of how what happened determined the course of Jill's life and how great tragedy can breed resilience and hope. [[Landslide by Melissa Leet|Full Review]]
We first meet Sylvia Penton on her birthday and her boss, the Prof, is taking her out to lunch. This is her favourite day of the year, not because it's her birthday but because of the special time she gets to spend with the man she loves. He's told her that he and 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 as romantic, but 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. [[Needlemouse by Jane O'Connor|Full Review]] <!-- Wilson Laurain -->
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===[[Aftershocks Vintage 1954 by A N WilsonAntoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)]]===
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In Vintage 1954 starts by thrusting several completely different characters upon us, before deciding to run with them and formulate a country very much like New Zealandplot. So we have an American biker, just landing in Paris but at unfortunately not with the wife who shared his dream of visiting the same time most avowedly notcity together. We have a goth girl who everyone recognises from an American crime show, two women will find lovebut actually is a humble restorer of antiques. Strong love tooWe have a cocktail barman, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was infatuated with the goth girl. We also have a man ruling the roost over a whole suite of individual apartments fabricated from the only thing Haussmann-era mansion his family once owned. Finally something conspires to make sense of all those exaggerated songs she'd heardget them together, and books and poems she'd readdrinking from the same bottle of a rare 1954 red wine. Only, and plays she'd acted one of them has a bizarre incidence in – works of art his family history that had until then seemed sheer hyperbole. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some time, but it does burgeon, or so we're promised from also features the off, because of something quite drastic same plonk – where a major earthquake very much like grandfather imbibed, and walked out the door one that hit Christchurchrainy morning, but at the same time most avowedly notnever to be seen again. This book then is the combined exploration But of the lovers and the story of the quake. course nobody will be doing any disappearing now, though – will they? [[Aftershocks Vintage 1954 by A N WilsonAntoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Hell's Unveiling The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Laura SolomonFelicity McLean]]===
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A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] When Tikka Molloy was eleven and I was delighted by one-sixth years old, the opportunity to read Van Apfel sisters disappeared. In the sequellong hot summer of 1992, ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much in an isolated suburb of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested Australia surrounded by Bushland, the girls vanished during the devil in ''Marshaschool's Deal'', but Showstopper concert at the devil is not one to take defeat lying downriverside amphitheatre. 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 personDid they run away? Were they taken? While the search for the sisters united the small community, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concernedthey were never found. Daniel is framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. ThenReturning home years later, Tikka must make sense of that strange moment in time – of course there are all the other children who are not only targetedsummer that shaped her, 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 Hellgirls she never forgot. [[Hell's Unveiling The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Laura SolomonFelicity McLean|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On The Department of Sensitive Crimes by C M TaylorAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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Tony Metcalfe is Long-time followers of The Bookbag will know I'm a die-hard fan of AMS. So you can imagine my excitement at reading a brand new book in a Yorkshireman through and through and being honestbrand new series, Yorkshire's where he'd really like described by the author himself as Scandi Blanc (as opposed to be. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfectScandi Noir)! Here we meet a new detective named Ulf Varg, but he's living who works in a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde and running a pubDepartment for Sensitive Crimes, solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the usual police parameters. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return to This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed in the UKknee, what with the uncertainty disappearance of Brexit an imaginary boyfriend, and everything, but there are a couple case of problemspotential werewolves. First off They're the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal with, and I rather enjoyed them, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to especially the UK. She'd have stabbing where you believe find that she's not wellactually, but there's a backstory there that's not being talked about. Then there's you identify with the person who committed the pubcrime, which isn't doing well enough to sell. In fact Tony's cleaning rather than the swimming pools of expats who have left Spain 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 meetvictim. [[Staying On The Department of Sensitive Crimes by C M TaylorAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of the Orphan by Dr Nat Tanoh]]===
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Saga is eighteen The final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty andbanished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening a prison to Alex as anything the Germans would provide. And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to what his mum calls ''hop-hipthat''disastrous meeting with John Cabot, eating copious amounts instigator of foodthe disinformation campaign, and learning about girls. Living in an affluent, liberal and protected suburb, he has a good lifereturned to find her missing. However, the suburb A failed mission is in Africa, where childhoods 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 one thing but no Justine is forced to become an unlikely revolutionaryquite another. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And Alex can he stay one step ahead 't get Justine out of his head. Has she left the soldiers desperate to stop himservice? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[The Day of the Orphan Things That are Lost by Dr Nat TanohAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Murmuration A Danger to Herself and Others by Robert LockAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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''Murmuration'' follows the lives of a host of characters from 1863 They needed someone to blame, and I was the present dayonly available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. From a risqué comic to a fortune teller, we see Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamourcircumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. There is a hint of mysticism to the taleShe has dined in fancy restaurants, with explored the mesmerising dance most sophisticated corners of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories globe and lived a life of lives captivated by the sealuxury. [[Murmuration A Danger to Herself and Others by Robert LockAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain Louis and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)by Julie Cohen]]===
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Meet Fabrice Valantine. HeWhat would you be like, right now, if you's d been born a different gender? Would it simply be a headhuntermatter of genetics, and a successful one too, your life would still have unfolded in an office the same way? Or would the way you had been raised affect who you became in Paris. All around him however his world is changing – yeslife? This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all of the above, covering the stories of Louis and Louise, there is a new ban born on smoking in all workplaces. Goaded by his non-smoking wifethe same day, even though they met over an ashtrayto the same parents, of sortsbut in one storyline Lou is a boy, he sees and in the other a hypnotist who had success with girl. Does it really make a mutual friend difference, the gender box that is ticked when we arrive in stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to this world? We all know that men and women are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been successfulin the past, however he faces the prospect of having such a change to his own personalityhow they still are, his imbued habits and lifestyle, with fear, when he realises it will never again grant him any pleasureprompts you to think about how they could be.. He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it's what he replaces the habit with that will surprise the most. [[Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain Louis and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)by Julie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[The Island M for Mammy by M A BennettEleanor O'Reilly]]===
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A contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'': a group of mismatchedThe Augustts are, like all families, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted islandbit complicated. Link is a fish out of waterA loving irish family, their love binds them together – but all express that in very different ways. Newly arrived from AmericaHowever, he is finding it hard when misfortune strikes the family they are forced to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions work together in order to understand? And each other again, as with a family as complicated as the Augustts it's not always what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round is spoken that makes the school quad most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae- however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time Anne moves in yearsand takes charge. Full of stern words and common sense, he immediately becomes the butt she's a force of every school joke. And some students are determined nature who must try her hardest to make his life more miserable than others..hold the family together. [[The Island M for Mammy by M A BennettEleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Helen CullenRuth Hogan]]===
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William Woolf is a letter detectiveTilda returns to Brighton, working in to tidy away the Dead Letters Depot in East Londonremains of her mother's life after her death. He spends his days deciphering smudged addressesWhilst there, tracking down mysterious she returns to the Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and reading endless letters let go of lovethoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, guiltfrom this place of wonder. With the help of Queenie Malone, deathcaring, hopeand gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and everyday lifeuncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Helen CullenRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon]]===
===[[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''In 1948, [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]the first set of Caribbean nationals arrived in Great Britain on a ship called "Empire Windrush". They struggled to find housing. They worked as labourers. They faced open discrimination, forcing them to quickly form their own community. Decades later, Freddy makes the same journey.''
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], Does he find a rare disease which turned parts of her body place to bone when they were damaged. Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer and went to Dignitas, the Swiss euthanasia clinic. Shelive? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?'d thought that would be the end, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-to-face with the devil. And that was when she made the pact. In exchange for details about some of those who had been close to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the same day to the same parents, but would live her life free of disease. [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
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]] <!-- Novik Rubin -->
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===[[Spinning Silver Liberation Square by Naomi NovikGareth Rubin]]===
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Miryem comes In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the west. Dividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at wall running through it at alllike a scar. Lending freely and rarely collecting, he leaves When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the family on the edge murder of povertyhis former wife, until Miryem must step inJane is determined to clear his name. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagersIn doing so, she becomes Jane follows a person trail of great interest when she borrows a pouch corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of silver pennies from her Grandfather the state – and returns it full of gold, soon becoming entangled with an array finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of strange creatures, from the dark beings that haunt the wood through to a King who's eager to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… murderous secret police… [[Spinning Silver Liberation Square by Naomi NovikGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Four When You Read This by Andy JonesMary Adkins]]===
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Friends are nice, Smith Simonyi and couple friends are doubly niceIris Massey worked together for four years, giving you like minded people to spend during which time withIris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. A pair of pairs Smith, or a couple of couples. Married couple Sally and Al have known Mike for ages – Sally from universitymeanwhile, Al through work. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome and though she doesn't have their shared historyrelied on Iris, shebut his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. He was devastated when Iris developed a lot terminal cancer and died at the age of fun – thirty three. He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a bit younger than blog in the rest last six months of them, an actress her life and so onher final request of Smith is that he gets the blog published as a book. [[Four When You Read This by Andy JonesMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness Vera Magpie by Stephan CollishawLaura Solomon]]===
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Mazowe Valley, 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''I have murdered three husbands. She is there with her uncle and they take the child, back to his farm initially and then to a local village where it is taken in. They do not report it to the police. [[A Child Called Happiness by Stephan Collishaw|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]] <!-- Syson Laura Solomon -->
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions Black Light by Lydia SysonLaura Solomon]]===
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On Jim is a remote volcanic island off university student and, as the coast of New Zealandsaying goes, a family of settlers struggle he hasn't got his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's never really managed to make such an unforgiving place a homeconnect with his step-father. His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him. When Jim's in love with a ship appearswoman, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers she finds him repulsive and newcomers come together in you can understand why: the search for looks, the childattitude, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desired. Despite all that's he's not about both to sit back and allow his life to drift: he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the island and those who inhabit itpub. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions Black Light by Lydia SysonLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing Redemptor Domus by Cassandra ParkinGamelyn Chase]]===
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A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the mud cliffs and away into scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the sea is where we meet Jacob and EllaFar East. They share As the boy travels to the school, a bathroom in family tragedy causes the turret, old and cold and not really supposed boy to be used…but this is where they hide away from arrive at the shouts of their parents' arguments. Here they play the Underwater Breathing gameschool a vulnerable orphan, submerging themselves in the water holding their breath for as long as they canwith an uncertain future. For sixteen year old Jacob it's just Plunged into a way school full of drowning out danger and betrayal, the arguments…but for Ella it boy is more than thatseen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. She is terrified of the seaWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, of it comes to the fact that it will come and swallow their house. She needs boy to attempt to know clean up the pit of filth that she can survive under water. She the school has to practicebecome. [[Underwater Breathing Redemptor Domus by Cassandra ParkinGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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