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===[[Liberation Square American Royals by Gareth RubinKatharine McGee]]===
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In an alternate 1952Two and a half centuries ago, 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 America won the East, Revolutionary War and Americans from General George Washington was offered the westcrown. Dividing Today, the nation between them, London soon finds itself split House of Washington still sit on the thrown with Princess Beatrice next in two, a wall running through it like a scarline. When Jane CawsonBeatrice's husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, Jane is determined whole life has been building up to clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to ruling the highest levels of the state – United States and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… time for her reign is imminent. [[Liberation Square American Royals by Gareth RubinKatharine 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:4Category:Andy Mulligan|the author's]] debut in the adult novel market (hence the more mature name – he used to be an Andy).5star 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.jpg|link= I hadn't opened it when I'd shelved it alongside [[:Category:{{{rating}}} Star ReviewsChris Cleave|Chris Cleave]] , and [[:Category:General FictionDavid Nicholls|General FictionDavid Nicholls]]. I expected some whimsy, some warmth and some affirmative loveliness.
Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but 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 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 is that he gets the blog published as a bookMore fool me. [[When You Read This Train Man by Mary AdkinsAndrew Mulligan|Full Review]]
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===[[Vera Magpie The Girl at the Window by Laura SolomonRowan 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''I have murdered three husbandst 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]]
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]]
 
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===[[Black Light We Are Not Okay by Laura SolomonNatalia Gomes]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Jim is a university student and, as the saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek[[image:4star. 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 difficultiesjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[: if you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him. Jim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand whyCategory: the looks, the attitudeTeens|Teens]], 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:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral 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]]
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===[[Redemptor Domus Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Gamelyn ChaseKate Tough]]===
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A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the Far EastLife has just hidden behind a corner and stuck a foot out as Rhona Beech came past. As the boy travels She and Mark had been together for nine years and it was beginning to the school, feel ''settled''. Then Mark announced that he'd got a family tragedy causes the boy job in Canada and he was going whether Rhona wanted to arrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, come with an uncertain futurehim or not. Plunged into a school full The ''not'' bit of danger the sentence was the way it worked out and betrayalRhona was left on her own. Well, she wasn't completely on her own: she had friends and family, but it's not the boy is seen same as having that special someone in your life, that someone who makes you part of a trophy by friends and enemies alikecouple. With them locked into their scheming and plotting So Rhona had to start again, it comes rejoining a world that bore little resemblance to the boy to attempt to clean up one she'd left nine years ago - and there's a lot of difference between being in the pit middle of filth that your twenties and the school has becomemiddle of your thirties. [[Redemptor Domus Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Gamelyn ChaseKate Tough|Full Review]]
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===[[The Long Path To Wisdom Equator by Jan-Philipp SendkerAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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On my travels around It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the world, I have walls of a tendency theme park. Our agent to end up 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 any bookshop that is selling English-language booksa buffalo hunt, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as who hates the next personway man – and woman, what I'm really looking for of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelid. But this book is about so much more than the 'local' – the cookbook maybe1870s USA, and the maps definitelyattendant problems with gold rushes, but above all: the folk talespioneer spirits and racial genocide. If I ever get He finds himself trying to Burmafind this book's version of Utopia, namely the Equator, where everything is upside down, I won't need people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to huntcounter the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, I can read before I gothings might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[The Long Path To Wisdom Equator by Jan-Philipp SendkerAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Katalin Street Needlemouse by Magda SzaboJane O'Connor]]===
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We first meet Sylvia Penton on her birthday and her boss, the Prof, is taking her out to lunch. This is a story about her favourite day of the past. A specific pastyear, certainly, in the form not because it's her birthday but because of pre-war Budapest, but also a story about how that past can impact on the present and special time she gets to spend with the futureman she loves. In this book, the first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the same theme between 1969 He's told her that he and 1987 his wife are going to divorce - Martha is apparently having an affair - and now newly translated Sylvia is convinced that the Prof will then declare his love and reissued, we witness a heartthey can be together. She hasn't fully constructed 'together' in her own mind -rending nostalgia for happier days, guilt about those who did not surviveshe envisages it as romantic, and a dogged but doomed determination her imagination hasn't yet progressed to cling to longthe sexual part of the relationship. There's time though -gone times, feelings and experiences which mark she's only been the here and now, staining and warping it into another, subtler miseryprof's PA for fifteen years. [[Katalin Street Needlemouse by Magda SzaboJane O'Connor|Full Review]]
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===[[Vintage 1954 by Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)]]===
===[[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingGeneral Fiction|For SharingGeneral Fiction]]
Vintage 1954 starts by thrusting several completely different characters upon us, before deciding to run with them and formulate a plot. So we have an 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. But of course nobody will be doing any disappearing now, though – will they? [[Vintage 1954 by Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)|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 McLean -->
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===[[Every Colour of You The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Amelia MandevilleFelicity McLean]]===
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Zoe believes in adding life to When Tikka Molloy was eleven and one-sixth years as well as years to lifeold, the Van Apfel sisters disappeared. Her worldIn the long hot summer of 1992, like her namein an isolated suburb of Australia surrounded by Bushland, is bursting with life and colourthe girls vanished during the school's Showstopper concert at the riverside amphitheatre. She is Did they run away? Were they taken? While the search for the sort of girl who would sing a rainbow is she could. Tristan (or ''Tree'' as she calls him) is sisters united the oppositesmall community, they were never found. Fresh out Returning home years later, Tikka must make sense of hospital following a prolonged stay that strange moment in a psychiatric unittime – of the summer that shaped her, he sees a world as a grey placeand the girls she never forgot. [[Every Colour of You The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Amelia MandevilleFelicity McLean|Full Review]]
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===[[A Spark The Department of Light Sensitive Crimes by Jodi PicoultAlexander McCall Smith]]===
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Long-time followers of The Center is the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi and is the source Bookbag will know I'm a die-hard fan of great controversy when it comes to the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debateAMS. It is So you can imagine my excitement at The Center where one manreading a brand new book in a brand new series, George Goddard, takes it upon described by the author himself as Scandi Blanc (as opposed to get revenge Scandi Noir)! Here we meet a new detective named Ulf Varg, who works in the Department for the loss of his grandchildSensitive Crimes, in solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the form of a mass-shootingusual police parameters. What arises This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is a novel that details the lives of stabbed in the remaining hostagesknee, as well as other characters central to the story. One disappearance of these characters is Hugh McElroyan imaginary boyfriend, and a hostage negotiator called in case of potential werewolves. They're the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to help deflate deal with, and I rather enjoyed them, especially the situationstabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the person who soon discovers that his sister and daughter, Wrencommitted the crime, happened to be at rather than the clinic that dayvictim. [[A Spark The Department of Light Sensitive Crimes by Jodi PicoultAlexander McCall Smith|Full Review]]
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===[[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M B Vincent]]===
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Dr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]  The final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to the sleepyScotland, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidburyproviding trade craft spy training. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her father, It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to Alex as anything the judgeGermans would provide. Luckily for Jess, she doesnAnd where is Justine? Alex hasn't have seen her since he went 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 ' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the investigationdisinformation campaign, and returned to find her delight finds that she missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. Alex can actually be useful't get Justine out of his head. But with Has she left the small population dwindling and the sense of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involvedservice? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death The Things That are Lost by M B VincentAlan Kennedy|Full Review]] <!-- Stone Schienmel -->
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===[[A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Sasha has a lot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is distant and absent ''They needed someone to blame, and I was the marriage needs workonly available scapegoat. Son Zac is entering a rebellious adolescent phase and it's hard to know how to redirect himTheir daughter was my best friend. Mother Annie, an alcoholic, is beginning Playing the scapegoat was the journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at least I could do under the best of timescircumstances. Thank heavens for '' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her lovely dog, Sebastian. She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the most sophisticated corners of the globe and his unconditional lovelived a life of luxury. [[What's Left Unsaid A Danger to Herself and Others by Deborah StoneAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Louis and Louise by Julie Cohen]]===
===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]  ''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 What would you be like this shortly after having , right now, if you'd been born a different gender? Would it simply be a baby. Many 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 stories of them simply managed Louis and Louise, born on the same day, to put the same parents, but in one foot storyline Lou is a boy, and in front of the other until a girl. Does it really make a difference, the gender box that is ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that men and women are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things calmed down but some will have found it harder been in the past, how they still are, and developed post-natal depressionprompts you to think about how they could be... [[The Place Where Love Should Be Louis and Louise by Elizabeth EllisJulie Cohen|Full Review]]
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===[[M for Mammy by Eleanor O'Reilly]]===
===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Hugh Mullion goes away 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 family they are forced to Dorset for the weekend and, while waiting for his wife work together in order to arriveunderstand each other again, finds as with a mysterious key down family as complicated as the Augustts it's not always what is spoken that makes the back most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and takes charge. Full of an antique chair. The grubby stern words and torn label common sense, she's a force of nature who must try her hardest to which is attached reads..hold the family together. [[The Amber Maze M for Mammy by Christopher BowdenEleanor O'Reilly|Full Review]]
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===[[The Water Thief Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Claire HajajRuth Hogan]]===
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Nick is in Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the middle remains of wedding preparations when he decides her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to leave his fiancée behind in London and take up the Paradise hotel, a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support haven for the building 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 children's hospitalchild, from this place of wonder. He has no idea what he is getting himself intoWith 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. [[The Water Thief Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Claire HajajRuth Hogan|Full Review]]
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===[[Landslide by Melissa Leet]]===
[[image:4star.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 Man Who Came 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 London by Melissa Leet|Full ReviewA S Cookson]] <!-- Wilson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786496038.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786496038/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]''Does he find a place to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?''
In a country very much like New ZealandFreddie arrives in London in the early 2000s, but at answering the same time most avowedly not, two women will find lovecall for teachers. Strong love tooHe thinks about his own Jamaican education, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was based on the only thing to make sense of all those exaggerated songs she'd heardBritish system, and books the way he was taught English nursery rhymes and poems she'd read, and plays she'd acted in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperboleabout the River Thames. It was entirely unrequited He thinks about the 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 Christchurchcricket and football, but at the same time most avowedly notshared by both countries. This book then is the combined exploration And he thinks of the lovers and the story generations of the quakediaspora 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! [[Aftershocks The Man Who Came to London by A N WilsonS Cookson|Full Review]]
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===[[Hell's Unveiling Liberation Square by Laura SolomonGareth Rubin]]===
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A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the opportunity to read East, and Americans from the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''west. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested Dividing the devil nation between them, London soon finds itself split in ''Marsha's Deal''two, but the devil is not one to take defeat lying downa wall running through it like a scar. HeWhen Jane Cawson's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought husband is arrested for the murder of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell). Although a strong personhis former wife, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel Jane is framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission determined to return to live with Marshaclear his name. ThenIn doing so, Jane follows a trail of course there are all corruption that leads her right to the other children who are not only targeted, but - worst highest levels of all - subverted to the devil's evil ends. He's out state – and soon finds herself desperate 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 - stay one step ahead of the devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hell. murderous secret police… [[Hell's Unveiling Liberation Square by Laura SolomonGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On When You Read This by C M TaylorMary Adkins]]===
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Tony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through Smith Simonyi and being honestIris Massey worked together for four years, Yorkshire's where he'd really like to beduring which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfect Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but hehis attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's living nursing home fees in a mountain village just beyond Wisconsin, running the Costa Verde branding agency in New York and running losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. He was devastated when Iris developed a pub. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it terminal cancer and return to the UK, what with died at the uncertainty age of Brexit and everything, but there are a couple of problemsthirty three. First off, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to the UK. She'd have you believe He was surprised too when he discovered that she's not well, but there's Iris had been writing a backstory there that's not being talked about. Then there's the pub, which isn't doing well enough to sell. In fact Tony's cleaning blog in the swimming pools last six months of expats who have left Spain her life and returned home, in order to make her final request of Smith is that he gets the blog published as a bit of money to try and make ends at least come in sight of each other, even if they never meetbook. [[Staying On When You Read This by C M TaylorMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of the Orphan Vera Magpie by Dr Nat TanohLaura Solomon]]===
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Saga is eighteen and, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls ''hop-hipI have murdered three husbands.'' As an opening line that must take some beating, eating copious amounts of foodbut Vera's telling us the truth. The first two husbands, Gary and learning about girls. Living in an affluentHarry were abusive, but Larry was a treasure, a keeper, liberal and protected suburbit's difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, he has particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and now she's in prison with a good mandatory lifesentence. However Her only friend is Shirley, the suburb is in Africaa lesbian, where childhoods can but Vera's not one to let herself be snatched in an instanta victim. When his friends and family are dragged into She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the conflict raging around security of her life in prison for the dictatorship that Saga lives undersake of a fling), he but she is forced to become keen on getting an unlikely revolutionaryeducation and she's studying for a degree in English Literature. 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 Vera Magpie by Dr Nat TanohLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Murmuration Black Light by Robert LockLaura Solomon]]===
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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'Murmuration'' follows the lives of a host of characters from 1863 s never really managed to the present dayconnect with his step-father. From a risqué comic to a fortune teller 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, we see the birth of Blackpool but Jim does his best with and its steadily fading glamourfor him. There is Jim's in love with a hint of mysticism to woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the looks, the taleattitude, with the mesmerising dance (lack of starlings over ) conversational ability and the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by 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 seapub. [[Murmuration Black Light by Robert LockLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Smoking Kills Redemptor Domus by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Gamelyn Chase]]===
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Meet Fabrice ValantineA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the Far East. He's As the boy travels to the school, a headhunter, and family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a successful one toovulnerable orphan, in with an office in Parisuncertain future. All around him however his world is changing – yesPlunged into a school full of danger and betrayal, there the boy is seen as a new ban on smoking in all workplacestrophy by friends and enemies alike. Goaded by his non-smoking wifeWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, 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 it comes to have been successful, however he faces the prospect of having such a change boy to attempt 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 clean up the habit with pit of filth that will surprise the mostschool has become. [[Smoking Kills Redemptor Domus by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Gamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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