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===[[When You Read This American Royals by Mary AdkinsKatharine McGee]]===
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Smith Simonyi Two and Iris Massey worked together for four yearsa half centuries ago, during which time Iris left her husband at America won the Revolutionary War and General George Washington was offered the altar on their wedding daycrown. SmithToday, meanwhile, relied the House of Washington still sit on Iris, but his attention was on making enough money to cover his motherthe thrown with Princess Beatrice next in line. Beatrice's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running whole life has been building up to her ruling the branding agency in New York United States and losing money gambling when the pressures got too much time for him. He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the age of thirty three. He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the last six months of her life and her final request of Smith reign is that he gets the blog published as a bookimminent. [[When You Read This American Royals by Mary AdkinsKatharine McGee|Full Review]]
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I came to this book thinking I knew just what to expect, even though it is [[:Category:Andy Mulligan|the author''s]] debut in the adult novel market (hence the more mature name – he used to be an Andy). I have murdered three husbandsthought it simple to sum up, the tale of a middle-aged man who knows too much about train travel having his life turned around in the most pleasant way. I hadn't opened it when I'd shelved it alongside [[:Category:Chris Cleave|Chris Cleave]], and [[:Category:David Nicholls|David Nicholls]]. I expected some whimsy, some warmth and some affirmative loveliness.
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 LiteratureMore fool me. [[Vera Magpie Train Man by Laura SolomonAndrew Mulligan|Full Review]]
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===[[Black Light The Girl at the Window by Laura SolomonRowan Coleman]]===
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Jim Trudy Heaton is going home, to a university student house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and, as the saying goes, he to a mother she hasn't got his troubles spoken to seekfor sixteen years. His father committed suicide when he was young Home, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and somehow he's never really managed try to come to connect terms with his step-fatherthe traumatic loss of her husband. His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you'd just say She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for himfather is dead. Jim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the looks, Where better than the attitude, the (lack house full of) conversational ability light and the clothing all leave a lot to be desired. Despite all shadow, that's he's not about to sit back and allow his life to drift: he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. nurtured her throughout her childhood? [[Black Light The Girl at the Window by Laura SolomonRowan Coleman|Full Review]]
 
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===[[Redemptor Domus We Are Not Okay by Gamelyn ChaseNatalia Gomes]]===
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A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family Set in the Far East. As the boy travels to the schoola typical American town, a family tragedy causes ''We Are Not Okay'' tells the boy to arrive at story of four teenage girls facing the difficulties brought on by high school and growing up as a vulnerable orphangirl in today's society. The novel is told from four different perspectives, with an uncertain future. Plunged into a school full those of danger Lucy, Ulana, Trina and betrayalSophia, the boy whose friendship statuses vary from BFFs to sworn enemies. The reader is seen as presented with a trophy by friends glimpse into each of their lives, but more importantly their minds, and enemies alikeat times the thoughts of those characters could have been taken directly from my own. With them locked into their scheming Gomes has created a heartbreakingly real and plottingrelevant novel that focuses on prominent topic areas which are becoming ingrained in our society, it comes particularly in relation to the boy to attempt to clean up ''Me Too Movement''. ''We Are Not Okay'' reminds the pit reader of filth that the school has becomeimportance of phrases like ''I'm With Her''. [[Redemptor Domus We Are Not Okay by Gamelyn ChaseNatalia Gomes|Full Review]]
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===[[The Long Path To Wisdom Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Jan-Philipp SendkerKate Tough]]===
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On my travels around the world, I have Life has just hidden behind a corner and stuck a tendency foot out as Rhona Beech came past. She and Mark had been together for nine years and it was beginning to end up feel ''settled''. Then Mark announced that he'd got a job in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, Canada and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next person, what Ihe was going whether Rhona wanted to come with him or not. The ''m really looking for is the not'local' – bit of the sentence was the cookbook maybeway it worked out and Rhona was left on her own. Well, the maps definitelyshe wasn't completely on her own: she had friends and family, but above all: it's not the folk talessame as having that special someone in your life, that someone who makes you part of a couple. If I ever get So Rhona had to Burmastart again, I wonrejoining a world that bore little resemblance to the one she't need to hunt, I can read before I god 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. [[The Long Path To Wisdom Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Jan-Philipp SendkerKate Tough|Full Review]]
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===[[Katalin Street Equator by Magda SzaboAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
This is a story about the past[[image:3. A specific past, certainly, in the form of pre-war Budapest, but also a story about how that past can impact on the present and the future5star. In this bookjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], the first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated and reissued[[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], we witness a heart-rending nostalgia for happier days, guilt about those who did not survive, and a dogged but doomed determination to cling to long-gone times, feelings and experiences which mark the here and now, staining and warping it into another, subtler misery. [[Katalin Street by Magda Szabo:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral Fiction]]
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 Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and who hates the way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an 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 version 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. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[Equator by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Needlemouse by Jane O'Connor]]===
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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. 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingNeedlemouse by Jane O'Connor|For SharingFull 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 Laurain -->
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===[[Every Colour of You Vintage 1954 by Amelia MandevilleAntoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)]]===
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Zoe believes in adding life Vintage 1954 starts by thrusting several completely different characters upon us, before deciding to years as well as years to liferun with them and formulate a plot. Her worldSo we have an American biker, like her namejust 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 bursting a humble restorer of antiques. We have a cocktail barman, infatuated with life and colourthe goth girl. She is We also have a man ruling the sort roost over a whole suite of girl who would sing a rainbow is she couldindividual apartments fabricated from the Haussmann-era mansion his family once owned. Tristan (or ''Tree'' as she calls him) is Finally something conspires to get them together, and drinking from the oppositesame bottle of a rare 1954 red wine. Fresh out Only, one of hospital following them has a prolonged stay bizarre incidence in his family history that also features the same plonk – where a psychiatric unitgrandfather imbibed, and walked out the door one rainy morning, he sees a world as a grey placenever to be seen again. But of course nobody will be doing any disappearing now, though – will they? [[Every Colour of You Vintage 1954 by Amelia MandevilleAntoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[A Spark of Light The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Jodi PicoultFelicity McLean]]===
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The Center is the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi When Tikka Molloy was eleven and is one-sixth years old, the source of great controversy when it comes to the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debateVan Apfel sisters disappeared. It is at The Center where one man, George Goddard, takes it upon himself to get revenge for In the loss long hot summer of his grandchild1992, in an isolated suburb of Australia surrounded by Bushland, the form of a mass-shootinggirls vanished during the school's Showstopper concert at the riverside amphitheatre. What arises is a novel that details Did they run away? Were they taken? While the search for the lives of sisters united the remaining hostagessmall community, as well as other characters central to the storythey were never found. One Returning home years later, Tikka must make sense of these characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called that strange moment in to help deflate time – of the situationsummer that shaped her, who soon discovers that his sister and daughter, Wren, happened to be at the clinic that daygirls she never forgot. [[A Spark of Light The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Jodi PicoultFelicity McLean|Full Review]]
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===[[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs The Department of Death Sensitive Crimes by M B VincentAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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Dr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure Long-time followers of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to the sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town The Bookbag will know I'm a die-hard fan of Castle KidburyAMS. Rather than being delighted So you can imagine my excitement at reading a brand new book in a brand new series, her family are suspicious, especially her fatherdescribed 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 judge. Luckily Department for JessSensitive Crimes, 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 solving those crimes that's all anyone perhaps fall outside the usual police parameters. This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself stabbed in the thick knee, the disappearance of an imaginary boyfriend, and a case of potential werewolves. They're the investigationcrimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal with, and to her delight finds I rather enjoyed them, especially the stabbing where you find that she can actually be useful. But , you identify with the small population dwindling and person who committed the sense of danger moving ever closer to homecrime, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? rather than the victim. [[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs The Department of Death Sensitive Crimes by M B VincentAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]] <!-- Stone Kennedy -->
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===[[What's Left Unsaid The Things That are Lost by Deborah StoneAlan Kennedy]]===
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Sasha has a lot on her plateThe final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. Husband Jeremy is distant It's stifling and absent suffocating and feels as much like a prison to Alex as anything the marriage needs workGermans would provide. Son Zac And where is entering a rebellious adolescent phase and itJustine? Alex hasn's hard t seen her since he went to know how ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the disinformation campaign, and returned to redirect himfind her missing. Mother Annie, an alcoholic, A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is beginning the journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the best quite another. Alex can't get Justine out of times. Thank heavens for her lovely dog, Sebastian, and his unconditional lovehead. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[What's Left Unsaid The Things That are Lost by Deborah StoneAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel]]===
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[[image:4star''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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionA Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel|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 Cohen -->
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===[[Louis and Louise by Julie Cohen]]===
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Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for What would you be like, right now, if you'd been born a different gender? Would it simply be a matter of genetics, and your life would still have unfolded in the same way? Or would the way you had been raised affect who you became in life? This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all of the above, covering the weekend stories of Louis andLouise, born on the same day, while waiting for his wife to arrivethe same parents, finds but in one storyline Lou is a mysterious key down boy, and in the back of an antique chairother a girl. The grubby Does it really make a difference, the gender box that is ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that men and torn label women are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been in the past, how they still are, and prompts you to which is attached readsthink about how they could be... [[The Amber Maze Louis and Louise by Christopher BowdenJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[The Water Thief M for Mammy by Claire HajajEleanor O'Reilly]]===
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Nick is The Augustts are, like all families, a bit complicated. A loving irish family, their love binds them together – but all express that in very different ways. However, when misfortune strikes the middle of wedding preparations when he decides family they are forced to leave his fiancée behind work together in London and take up order to understand each other again, as with a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for family as complicated as the building of a childrenAugustts it's hospital. He has no idea not always what he is getting himself intospoken that makes the most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and takes charge. Full of stern words and common sense, she's a force of nature who must try her hardest to hold the family together. [[The Water Thief M for Mammy by Claire HajajEleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]]
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===[[Landslide Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Melissa LeetRuth Hogan]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's FictionHumour|Women's FictionHumour]]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:Category:Paranormal|Full ReviewParanormal]]
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. With 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]] <!-- Wilson Cookson -->
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===[[Aftershocks by A N Wilson]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] In a country very much like New Zealand, but at the same time most avowedly not, two women will find love. Strong love too, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was the only thing The Man Who Came to make sense of all those exaggerated songs she'd heard, and books and poems she'd read, and plays she'd acted in – works of art 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 the off, because of something quite drastic – a major earthquake very much like the one that hit Christchurch, but at the same time most avowedly not. This book then is the combined exploration of the lovers and the story of the quake. [[Aftershocks London by A N Wilson|Full ReviewS Cookson]] <!-- Laura Solomon -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:9386897296.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/9386897296/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]''Does he find a place to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?''
A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by Freddie arrives in London in the opportunity to read early 2000s, answering the sequelcall for teachers. He thinks about his own Jamaican education, ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested based on the devil in ''Marsha's Deal''British system, but and the way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the devil is not one to take defeat lying downRiver Thames. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth thinks about the love of cricket and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell). Although a strong personfootball, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concernedshared by both countries. Daniel is framed for a crime And he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, thinks of course there are all the other children who are not only targeted, but - worst generations of all - subverted to the devil's evil endsdiaspora who came before him. He's out Freddy does well in his job in East London but he does have to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self esteem is very fragile. This is no smallface down some stereotypical attitudes from his pupils -scale operationall Jamaicans smoke weed, either - the devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hell. don't they? Everybody knows that! [[Hell's Unveiling The Man Who Came to London by Laura SolomonA S Cookson|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On Liberation Square by C M TaylorGareth Rubin]]===
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Tony Metcalfe In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honest, Yorkshire's where he'd really like first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to berescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the west. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfectDividing the nation between them, but he's living London soon finds itself split in two, a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde and wall running through it like a pubscar. The Viva Espagñe isnWhen Jane Cawson't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return to s husband is arrested for the UK, what with the uncertainty murder of Brexit and everything, but there are a couple of problems. First off, his former wife - Laney - refuses , Jane is determined to go back to the UKclear his name. She'd have you believe that she's not wellIn doing so, but there's Jane follows a backstory there trail of corruption that's not being talked about. Then there's the pub, which isn't doing well enough leads her right to sell. In fact Tony's cleaning the swimming pools highest levels of expats who have left Spain the state – and returned home, in order soon finds herself desperate to make a bit stay one step ahead of money to try and make ends at least come in sight of each other, even if they never meet. the murderous secret police… [[Staying On Liberation Square by C M TaylorGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of the Orphan When You Read This by Dr Nat TanohMary Adkins]]===
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Saga is eighteen Smith Simonyi andIris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. Smith, like many eighteen-year oldsmeanwhile, relied on Iris, but his prime concerns are listening attention was on making enough money to what cover his mum calls ''hop-hip'mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, eating copious amounts of food, running the branding agency in New York and learning about girlslosing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. Living in an affluent, liberal He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and protected suburb, died at the age of thirty three. He was surprised too when he has discovered that Iris had been writing a good blog in the last six months of her life. However, the suburb and her final request of Smith 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 is forced to become an unlikely revolutionarygets the blog published as a book. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of the soldiers desperate to stop him? [[The Day of the Orphan When You Read This by Dr Nat TanohMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[Murmuration Vera Magpie by Robert LockLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:3star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''I have murdered three husbands.''
As an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera''Murmuration'' follows s telling us the lives of truth. The first two husbands, Gary and Harry were abusive, but Larry was a host of characters from 1863 to the present day. From treasure, a risqué comic keeper, and it's difficult to a fortune tellerunderstand why Vera would have killed him, we see the birth of Blackpool particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and its steadily fading glamournow she's in prison with a mandatory life sentence. There Her only friend is Shirley, a hint of mysticism lesbian, but Vera's not one to the tale, let herself be a victim. She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the mesmerising dance security of starlings over her life in prison for the pier acting as sake of a fling), but she is keen on getting an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the seaeducation and she's studying for a degree in English Literature. [[Murmuration Vera Magpie by Robert LockLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Smoking Kills Black Light by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Laura Solomon]]===
[[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Jim is a university student and, as the saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's never really managed to connect with his step-father. His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him. Jim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desired. Despite all that's he's not about to sit back and allow his life to drift: he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[Black Light by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
Meet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, and a successful one too, in an office in Paris. All around him however his world is changing – yes, there is a new ban on smoking in all workplaces. Goaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, of sorts, he sees a hypnotist who had success with a mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to have been successful, however he faces the prospect of having such a change to his own personality, his imbued habits and lifestyle, with fear, when he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it's what he replaces the habit with that will surprise the most. [[Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Island Redemptor Domus by M A BennettGamelyn Chase]]===
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A contemporary take young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the savage classic ''Lord of scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the Far East. As the boy travels to the Flies'': school, a group of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight family tragedy causes the boy to survive on arrive at the school a deserted islandvulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. Link Plunged into a school full of danger and betrayal, the boy is seen as a fish out of watertrophy by friends and enemies alike. Newly arrived from AmericaWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, he is finding it hard comes to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions boy to attempt to understand? And what kind clean up the pit of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad - however ancient filth that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others..has become. [[The Island Redemptor Domus by M A BennettGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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