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===[[Redemptor Domus American Royals by Gamelyn ChaseKatharine McGee]]===
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A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on Two and a half centuries ago, America won the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his father in Revolutionary War and General George Washington was offered the Far Eastcrown. As the boy travels to the schoolToday, he discovers that his father has been killed in an air crash while fleeing from the Chinese communist army in Manchuria. The boy then arrives at House of Washington still sit on the school a vulnerable orphan, thrown with an uncertain futurePrincess Beatrice next in line. Plunged into a school that has changed little since his fatherBeatrice's time, whole life has been building up to her ruling the boy is seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. With them locked into their scheming United States and plotting, it comes to the boy to attempt to clean up the pit of filth that the school has becometime for her reign is imminent. [[Redemptor Domus American Royals by Gamelyn ChaseKatharine McGee|Full Review]]
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===[[Train Man by Andrew Mulligan]]===
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I came to this book thinking I knew just what to expect, even though it is [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star ReviewsAndy 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:Short StoriesChris Cleave|Short StoriesChris Cleave]], and [[:Category:General FictionDavid Nicholls|General FictionDavid Nicholls]]. I expected some whimsy, some warmth and some affirmative loveliness.
On my travels around the world, I have a tendency to end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next person, what I'm really looking for is the 'local' – the cookbook maybe, the maps definitely, but above all: the folk tales. If I ever get to Burma, I won't need to hunt, I can read before I goMore fool me. [[The Long Path To Wisdom Train Man by Jan-Philipp SendkerAndrew Mulligan|Full Review]]
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===[[Katalin Street The Girl at the Window by Magda SzaboRowan Coleman]]===
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This Trudy Heaton is going home, to a story about house where her roots burrow back through the pastcenturies and to a mother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen years. A specific past Home, certainlyher refuge, in the form of pre-war BudapestPonden Hall, but also a story about how that past where she can impact on the present heal herself and try to come to terms with the futuretraumatic loss of her husband. In this book, the first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the 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 She needs to long-gone times, feelings build bridges with her mother and experiences which mark convince her grieving son that his father is dead. Where better than the here house full of light and nowshadow, staining and warping it into another, subtler misery. that nurtured her throughout her childhood? [[Katalin Street The Girl at the Window by Magda SzaboRowan Coleman|Full Review]]
 
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===[[We Are Not Okay by Natalia Gomes]]===
===[[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingTeens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|For SharingGeneral Fiction]]
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 girl in today's society. The novel is told from four different perspectives, those of Lucy, Ulana, Trina and Sophia, whose friendship statuses vary from BFFs to sworn enemies. The reader is presented with a glimpse into each of their lives, but more importantly their minds, and at times the thoughts of those characters could have been taken directly from my own. Gomes has created a heartbreakingly real and relevant 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''. [[We Are Not Okay by Natalia Gomes|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 Kate Tough -->
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===[[Every Colour of You Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Amelia MandevilleKate Tough]]===
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Zoe believes in adding life to years as well Life 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 lifefeel ''settled''. Her world, like her name, is bursting Then Mark announced that he'd got a job in Canada and he was going whether Rhona wanted to come with life and colourhim or not. She is the sort of girl who would sing a rainbow is she could. Tristan (or The ''Treenot'' as 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: she calls him) is had friends and family, but it's not the opposite. Fresh out same as having that special someone in your life, that someone who makes you part of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unitcouple. So Rhona had to start again, he sees rejoining a world as that bore little resemblance to the one she'd left nine years ago - and there's a grey placelot of difference between being in the middle of your twenties and the middle of your thirties. [[Every Colour of You Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Amelia MandevilleKate Tough|Full Review]]
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===[[A Spark of Light Equator by Jodi PicoultAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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The Center is It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the last remaining abortion clinic in Wild West outside the state walls of Mississippi and a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the source indignity of great controversy when it comes to the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate. It is at The Center where one white managainst Native 'Indian', George Goddardwho spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, takes it upon himself to get revenge for and who hates the loss way man – and woman, of his grandchild, in course – can turn against fellow man at the form bat of a mass-shootingan eyelid. What arises But this book is a novel that details about so much more than the lives of 1870s USA, and the remaining hostagesattendant problems with gold rushes, as well as other characters central pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to find this book's version of Utopia, namely the story. One of these characters Equator, where everything is Hugh McElroyupside down, a hostage negotiator called people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to help deflate keep them on the situationground to counter the anti-gravity, who soon discovers that his sister and daughterwhere, Wrenwho knows, happened to things might actually be at the clinic better. But that day. equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[A Spark of Light Equator by Jodi PicoultAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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[[image:4starWe 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] 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. [[:Category:CrimeNeedlemouse by Jane O'Connor|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 Laurain -->
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===[[Vintage 1954 by Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]===
[[image:4starVintage 1954 starts by thrusting several completely different characters upon us, before deciding to run with them and formulate a plot. So we have an American biker, just landing in Paris but unfortunately not with the wife who shared his dream of visiting the city together. 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 the goth girl. We also have a 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, and drinking from the same bottle of a rare 1954 red wine. Only, one of them has a bizarre incidence in his family history that also features the same plonk – where a grandfather imbibed, and walked out the door one rainy morning, never to be seen again.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] But of course nobody will be doing any disappearing now, though – will they? [[:Category:General FictionVintage 1954 by Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)|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 McLean -->
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===[[The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Felicity McLean]]===
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[[image:4starWhen Tikka Molloy was eleven and one-sixth years old, the Van Apfel sisters disappeared. In the long hot summer of 1992, in an isolated suburb of Australia surrounded by Bushland, the girls vanished during the school's 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 – of the summer that shaped her, and the girls she never forgot.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionThe Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Felicity McLean|General FictionFull Review]]
''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?'' I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a baby. Many of them simply managed to put one foot in front of the other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder and developed post-natal depression[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis|Full Review]] <!-- Bowden AMS -->
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===[[The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith]]===
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[[image:4starLong-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 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 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 an imaginary boyfriend, and a case of potential werewolves. They're the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal with, and I rather enjoyed them, especially the stabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the person who committed the crime, rather than the victim.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionThe Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith|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 Kennedy -->
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===[[The Water Thief by Claire Hajaj]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]
Nick is The final novel in the middle of wedding preparations when he decides Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to leave his fiancée behind in London Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and take up feels as much like a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for prison to Alex as anything the building Germans would provide. And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of a children's hospitalthe disinformation campaign, and returned to find her missing. He has A failed mission is one thing but no idea what he Justine is getting himself intoquite another. Alex can't get Justine out of his head. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[The Water Thief Things That are Lost by Claire HajajAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Landslide A Danger to Herself and Others by Melissa LeetAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionTeens|General FictionTeens]], [[:Category:Women's General Fiction|Women's General 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]]
''They needed someone to blame, and I was the only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the circumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the most sophisticated corners of the globe and lived a life of luxury. [[A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]] <!-- Wilson Cohen -->
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===[[Aftershocks Louis and Louise by A N WilsonJulie Cohen]]===
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In a country very much What would you be like New Zealand, but at the same time most avowedly not, two women will find love. Strong love tooright now, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was the only thing to make sense of all those exaggerated songs sheif you'd heardbeen born a different gender? Would it simply be a matter of genetics, and books and poems she'd read, and plays she'd acted your life would still have unfolded in the same way? Or would the way you had been raised affect who you became in – works life? This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbole. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some timethe above, but it does burgeoncovering the stories of Louis and Louise, or so we're promised from born on the offsame day, because of something quite drastic – a major earthquake very much like to the same parents, but in one that hit Christchurchstoryline Lou is a boy, but at and in the same time most avowedly notother a girl. This book then Does it really make a difference, the gender box that is the combined exploration of the lovers ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that men and the women are treated differently, but this story of really highlights how things have been in the quakepast, how they still are, and prompts you to think about how they could be... [[Aftershocks Louis and Louise by A N WilsonJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[HellM for Mammy by Eleanor O's Unveiling by Laura SolomonReilly]]===
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The Augustts are, like all families, a bit complicated. A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to read the sequelloving irish family, ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say their love binds them together – but all express that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal''very different ways. However, but when misfortune strikes the devil is not one family they are forced to take defeat lying down. He's out work together in order to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of understand each other again, as with a family as complicated as the Augustts it'goody two shoes' s not always what is spoken that makes the most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in Hell)and takes charge. Although a strong personFull of stern words and common sense, 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, force of course there are all the other children nature who are not only targeted, but - worst of all - subverted must try her hardest to hold 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 Hellfamily together. [[HellM for Mammy by Eleanor O's Unveiling by Laura SolomonReilly|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by C M TaylorRuth Hogan]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]]
Tony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honestTilda returns to Brighton, Yorkshireto tidy away the remains of her mother's where he'd really like to belife after her death. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfectWhilst there, 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 she returns to the UKParadise hotel, what with the uncertainty of Brexit a haven for eccentrics and everything, but there are a couple of problemsmisfits. First offA place where people can be themselves, his wife - Laney - refuses to and let go back to the UKof thoughts that torment them elsewhere. She'd have you believe Little wonder that she's not well, but there's Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a backstory there that's not being talked about. Then there's the pubchild, which isn't doing well enough to sellfrom this place of wonder. In fact Tony's cleaning With the swimming pools help of expats who have left Spain Queenie Malone, caring, and returned homegregarious, in order Tilda begins to make a bit of money to try pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and make ends at least come in sight of each other, even if they never meetdistant mother. [[Staying On Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by C M TaylorRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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 ===[[The Day of the Orphan Man Who Came to London by Dr Nat TanohA S Cookson]]===
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Saga is eighteen and, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls ''hop-hip''In 1948, eating copious amounts the first set of food, and learning about girlsCaribbean nationals arrived in Great Britain on a ship called "Empire Windrush". They struggled to find housing. They worked as labourers. Living in an affluentThey faced open discrimination, liberal and protected suburb, he has a good lifeforcing them to quickly form their own community. HoweverDecades later, Freddy makes the suburb is in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched in an instantsame journey. When his friends and family are dragged into the conflict raging around the dictatorship that Saga lives under, '' ''Does he is forced find a place to become an unlikely revolutionary. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regimelive? And can Does he stay one step ahead of the soldiers desperate to stop himface stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward? [[The Day of the Orphan by Dr Nat Tanoh|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]] <!-- Lock Rubin -->
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===[[Murmuration Liberation Square by Robert LockGareth Rubin]]===
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''Murmuration'' follows 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 lives of a host of characters East, and Americans from 1863 to the present daywest. From Dividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a risqué comic to wall running through it like a fortune teller, we see scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the birth murder of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamourhis former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. There is In doing so, Jane follows a hint trail of mysticism corruption that leads her right to the tale, with the mesmerising dance highest levels of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of lives captivated by the sea. murderous secret police… [[Murmuration Liberation Square by Robert LockGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Smoking Kills When You Read This by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Mary Adkins]]===
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Meet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, Smith Simonyi and a successful one tooIris Massey worked together for four years, in an office in Paris. All around him however his world is changing – yes, there is a new ban during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on smoking in all workplacestheir wedding day. Goaded by his non-smoking wife Smith, even though they met over an ashtraymeanwhile, of sortsrelied on Iris, he sees a hypnotist who had success with a mutual friend but his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's nursing home fees in stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to have been successfulWisconsin, however he faces running the prospect of having such a change to his own personality, his imbued habits branding agency in New York and lifestyle, with fear, losing money gambling when he realises it will never again grant the pressures got too much for him any pleasure. He needs this pleasure was devastated when further changes Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at work come about – but it's what the age of thirty three. He was surprised too when he replaces discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the habit with last six months of her life and her final request of Smith is that will surprise he gets the mostblog published as a book. [[Smoking Kills When You Read This by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Mary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[The Island Vera Magpie by M A BennettLaura Solomon]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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A contemporary As an opening line that must take on the savage classic 'some beating, but Vera'Lord of s telling us the Fliestruth. The first two husbands, Gary and Harry were abusive, but Larry was a treasure, a keeper, and it'': a group of mismatcheds difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, modern-day teenagers must fight particularly when she was likely to survive on get found out very quickly and now she's in prison with a deserted islandmandatory life sentence. Link Her only friend is Shirley, a fish out of water. Newly arrived from Americalesbian, he is finding it hard but Vera's not one to settle into let herself be a victim. She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind security 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 her life in years, he immediately becomes prison for the butt sake of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others..a fling), but she is keen on getting an education and she's studying for a degree in English Literature. [[The Island Vera Magpie by M A BennettLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Black Light by Helen CullenLaura Solomon]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[: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:5starif you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him.jpg|link=Category Jim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[the looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desired. Despite all that's he's not about to sit back and allow his life to drift:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[:Category:Literary FictionBlack Light by Laura Solomon|Literary FictionFull Review]]
William Woolf is a letter detective, working in the Dead Letters Depot in East London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of love, guilt, death, hope, and everyday life. [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen|Full Review]]
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===[[Marsha's Deal Redemptor Domus by Laura SolomonGamelyn Chase]]===
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Marsha didn't have A young boy arrives at an easy ride exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in life the first time aroundFar East. She'd been afflicted As the boy travels to the school, a family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, with [https://enan uncertain future.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], Plunged into a rare disease which turned parts school full of her body to bone when they were damaged. Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer danger and went to Dignitasbetrayal, the Swiss euthanasia clinicboy is seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. She'd thought that would be the endWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, but after cremation her body went straight it comes 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 boy to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the same day attempt to clean up the same parents, but would live her life free pit of diseasefilth that the school has become. [[Marsha's Deal Redemptor Domus by Laura SolomonGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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