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|isbnauthor=B08774SJYNKaren M McManus|title=The Greenbacker Gambit|author=Ben GraffCousins

|summary=''I suppose The rich and famous Story family led a life of luxury on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago when each of the odd fleeting sense Story children - Anders, Archer, Adam and Allison - received a mysterious letter from their mother and were cut off completely. But now, a quarter of loneliness is a price century later, their children have been called to return to the island for the summer by their grandmother. What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all truly successful people must pay those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted lies, secrets and tragedy that has held the Story family up - and held them apart - for our giftsa quarter of a century is about to come crashing down. I tell myself that I do so willingly|isbn=0241376947}}{{Frontpage|author=Ruth Hogan|title=Madame Burova|rating=4.''5|genre=General FictionTennessee Greenbecker|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. Isn't that So we have a name to conjure with? There are hints that it might not bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been the name he was given at birthcalled then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, but many of us have moved onand chiefly, so far as names goImelda, from the one we were originally saddled with. Greenbeckerthird generation of Madame Burova, 's life is one of constant reinvention. He tells us that he's the foremost chess player never to have been world championTarot-Reader, Palmist and it does seem that he has some considerable talent as far as chess goes. HeClairvoyant'', to use her family's determined that hesea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's going to fulfil what he sees as his destiny. He mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just needs to do some study to be able to beat before then we see Imelda fly solo for the current players ranked at numbers one and two first time in the worldfamily stall. Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will not stand in his waychange everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}}

|author=J Paul HendersonStephen Clarke|title=DaisyThe Spy Who Inspired Me

|summary=This is the a spoof spy story of Herod S, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. Pinkney, But it features a rather unusual (yet somehow charming) man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the ladies' and who is works for the secret service, but in search the planning side of things more than the active service. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a woman female spy called DaisyMargaux, whom he first sees in an episode of Judge Judy on television and instantly falls the pair end up stranded in love Normandy, with her! Rod is writing the novel of his quest, guided by an embittered ex-literary agent who is now clearing glasses in Margaux on a pub for a living. Determined desperate mission to find and meet Daisy, unearth traitors in the book takes us through Rod's liferesistance network, introduces us and Lemming desperately trying to his friends, and tells us of what happens in his quest for love.keep up with her!|isbn=08573033092952163855

{{Frontpage |isbnauthor=1529123941 Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)|title=The Silent Treatment |author=Abbie Greaves If You Kept a Record of Sins|rating=4.5 |genre=General Literary Fiction |summary= When This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we meet Professor Frank Hobbs and even know his gender or the nature of the person he's addressing in his wifesecond person monologue of a narration, Maggiewe see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, Frank and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is playing chess against his computer, although not very successfullyburied the following day. MaggieThe mother was a businesswoman, on the other handwho clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, has just taken some pills - eight and feelings of themabandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in fact - and before long she will collapse. When Frank rings the emergency services original Italian in Oxford he has a bit of a problem. He has 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to admit that he and Maggie haventhe lad't actually spoken for a while. How long? Wells childhood, it's about six months since he spoke to Maggie and see just what he can't really say if it's likely that Maggie has tried to take tell her own lifeas a private farewell address.|isbn=1939810965

|author=Camilla BruceDavid F Ross|title=You Let Me InThere's Only One Danny Garvey|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Years ago, Danny Garvey was a footballing prodigy playing for his local club. Everyone predicted a bright future – but his career in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years on, convinced to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying mother, Danny takes over the shambolic and once-great team he used to play for and tries to reform them.|isbn= 1913193500}} {{Frontpage|author=Gail Honeyman|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30. She lives in Glasgow, alone. And she likes it that way. She works 9-5, 5 days a week, and spends the weekend not drunk, but not sober. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives by a routine, and that's fine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing is missing from her life. Except everything is. Until one day, at a concert she won tickets for in an office raffle, she sees the man she is sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself the best version of herself that she can, in order to secure this beautiful musician. Then, as she's on her way home one Friday, she and the new IT guy at her office see a man collapse in the street and stay close to him in hospital. Then, before she knows it, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with the man's family and friends, with Raymond from IT and of course her side project of falling in love with Johnnie Lomond. But just as her life seems to be looking up, things take a turn for the worse. Is Johnnie all he's cracked up to be? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanor's walls have been broken down and she has to fight her way out of the shadows - but maybe she doesn't have to do it alone.|isbn=0008172145}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ|title=The Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary= EccentricBetween life and death there is a library. And so, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, she finds herself in the Midnight Library. Everything that could've gone wrong in Nora's life has been missing for a year . Her cat died, she lost her job, her brother won't speak to her, her parents are dead, the boy she teaches piano to no longer cares about piano, she called off her wedding, and has been pronounced legally dead by old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her lawyershelp. Her will instructs She gave up on all the things that would've let her niece escape the wet, cold town of Bedford and nephew to enter given her home life some purposeful direction. So at 23:22, she realises that she isn't made for life and find decides to die. But instead of death, she finds the key library. Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each book providing a chance to their inheritance try another life she could have lived, in an old manuscript left in her office: a parallel time. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday the last story 18th of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life shecould'll ever tellve.|isbn=17876331791786892731

|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha SaeedVincent Panettiere|title= Yes No Maybe So These Thy Gifts|rating= 4|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= ''We might give it our all and crash and burn2006 is a tumultuous year for the Catholic Church. But we might winReports of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. We might actually change thingsMonsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled. And that maybe makes it still worth going He worries for, don't you think?the future of the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church and hit closer to home than he ever imagined.''Jaime As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense of the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking his beloved Catholic church, he discovers that one child in his own parish has been spending abused by a priest sent by his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for a special electionbishop. When his mother encourages him to go canvassing, he canAnd this isn't think just any boy: this is Steve's grandson whose mother is the offspring of anything worsea long past relationship between Steve and a gangster's widow. However, Jaime has always wanted Steve is determined to be a politician seek justice for this boy and decides there is no time like the present all children victimised by priests who have been protected by his church. But he must also face up to his own failings, going right back to conquer his fear breaking of speaking to the publiccelibacy vows. Maya is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having |isbn=1503199886}} {{Frontpage|author=Delia Owens|title=Where The Crawdads Sing|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary= In 1952, Kya's mother disappeared up the worst summer of dirt track to town, wearing her lifealligator heels, and never came home. Her parents are going through a separationThen one by one her siblings left, she has zero plans for ran from the shack on the North Carolina marsh that served as home and the summer life that would lead to help take nothing but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her mind off things drunken father. Years pass and her only close friend is permanently busyKya - now nicknamed 'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for a mother that would never return and grew up far too fast for a girl who can neither read nor write. To help occupy herFinally, one night her parents offer father never came home leaving Kya completely alone to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassingsurvive on the marsh. The pair could possibly be Eventually, as the years drift painfully by, the time comes when Kya, now an emotional and vastly intelligent young woman, yearns for company besides the gulls and the worst canvassing duo in historyland, as neither of them really want yearning to be loved and to be thereheld. So, but as when 2 boys from the campaign goes on they discover that they caretown of Barkley Cove find their way to her, she finds a lotnew way of life. But in 1969, about the election body of former star quarterback and new husband Chase Andrews is found lying in the mud of the marsh, and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysterious, run- down Marsh-Girl. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and maybe even about each othera broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=14711846681472154665

|authorisbn=Elliot Reed1473692407|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingThe Book of Two Ways|author=Jodi Picoult

|summary=This Dawn Edelstein is the story of a young boy, William Tyce, death doula: that's someone who is being raised by his uncle after there for the death of his mother person who is dying, to make their passage to whatever they believe in as easy as possible and his fatherto support their carers. It's abandonment. Howevera rewarding, caring occupation and Dawn puts her heart and soul into it isnbut this wasn't told in the usual narrative wayalways her life. InsteadSome fifteen years ago she was a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an Egyptologist, the book is made up of glossary entriesshe was working with her supervisor, written by WilliamProfessor Ian Dumphries, as a way of describing certain events, situations and emotionson the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egypt. It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCEThen she was Dawn McDowell: that was her maiden name, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used to the style, and was instead caught up in William's storyname she published under.|isbn=1911545418

|authorisbn= T R Hendrick0241295955|title= What if They KnewTrio|author=William Boyd|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary= It was 1968: the year when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinated. It's 2025. Underneath also the year when YSK Films are making a lodge movie in Brighton. It's called ''Emily Bracegirdle's Extremely Useful Ladder to the Moon'', or ''Ladder the Blue Mountain resort Moon'' as it's known on set. Anny Viklund is the female star in Pennsylvania, a production which is proving to be just a secret facilitylittle bit rackety. Here, Dr Benton and his team There are making some critical scientific advances odd pressures on behalf of the Benefactorproducer, their anonymous funder. AlreadyTalbot Kydd, the team have succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place to another. But, unbeknownst to the Benefactor, Dr Benton has also coded employ this old actor friend for another type a couple of teleportation altogether - travel through time. And days because he's ready to test. If successfulneeds the money, Benton has allow a very specific fading star to use for his technology in mind|isbn=1734277211catchphrase, or include a song from the leading man, whose musical star is fading.

|author=H G Parry Anna Bruno|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepOrdinary Hazards|rating=42

|summary=Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled Some books either grab you or bore you. And this was one that I wanted so badly to see eye like but unfortunately, I just wasn't hooked.|isbn=1471184862}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1712435728|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael Gallagher|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When we first meet Alex Hannah, he's just being released from the Southern General Hospital. The nurse thinks he'll come back to eye visit the other patients but Alex has no intention of doing that: he's been there for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in year, on the "normal" world - same ward where his brother died and Charley a man who is blessed now, with an ability his hair all shorn off, he can't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real worlds going home in his dead brother's clothes. After years of protecting Charley, Rob He wants to discharge get outside and back with his duties friends: his brother, Forbes, says that the fresh air will do him good and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. As literary characters begin to appear everywhere, it soon becomes clear mother tells him that someone out there shares Charleyhe's powers not to mention TB and intends to use them for nefarious gainssay it was tonsillitis. Rob and Charley must team up to stop the madness - in a battle to win before they Good luck with that one, the characters and the world reach The End…|isbn=0356513777Alex.

|isbnauthor=1643785036Helen Fisher|title=The Wondrous Apothecary|author=Mary E MartinSpace Hopper|rating=43.5

|summary=Those who have known Alexander WainwrightFaye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worse, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormously. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the landscape artist famous for his Turner prize winning '70's and her mum, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to her. The Hay Wagontime travelling, however, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and RinaldoFaye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to the past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, renowned conceptual artist would say that theyor will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663}}{{Frontpage|author= Claire McGowan|title=The Push|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at a prenatal class. It's NCT ''style''re chalk and cheese, if but not sworn enemiesthe proper NCT. If This bit is important, but youhave to wait a little to see why. This being London, such a class attracts a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is it've watched s their first baby. Probably after the relationshipfirst one, as has our narrator, art dealer Jamie Helmsworthyou don't have time for classes, or think you'd ve got child-rearing down pat.|isbn=1542019990}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008378363|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela Crane|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=A husband is about to have said that his throat cut in his own bed. To find out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they were magnetsall went to the same college in Monroeville, drawing Pennsylvania and repulsing each other in equal measuretwenty years later they're still the best of friends. Wainwright was at When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as a nod to the socially acceptable end famous girl band of the artistic continuumday. Lily would be Adventure Spice, but with Rinaldo it was all too obvious that there was but a fine dividing line between conceptual art Robin the Homemaker and public nuisanceMackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own life. As time has worn onShe married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, hewho's frequently been brought now fifteen-year-old.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B07WWSCGVS|title=The Lies You Told|author=Harriet Tyce|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start a new school. She's left the attention of school she loved in New York and now she's going to Ashams in North London. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as the policepupils have all been there ''forever'', they have their established groups. On Robin's going to be an outsider. And why is this latest occasion we see him charged with arson and theft happening? Well, over a matter of a few days her parents'marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - and her mother, Sadie Roper, has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. That'The Hay Wagon's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten years.

|author=Mary H.K. ChoiAntoine Laurain|title=Permanent RecordThe Readers Room|ratinggenre=4General Fiction|genrerating=Teens3.5|summary=Pablo, Violaine's publishing house has had a college drop-outgreat success, is working at a New York bodegaand it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscripts. HeThe three people who work in the Readers's massively Room to sift through what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in debt, he's avoiding his motherher rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smash, and he finds his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! so it has proven. Whilst working one evening, heBut there are several 'howevers's surprised to discover that the girl he is chatting with as he serves . As in, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own way, for she has been involved in a supernear-famous pop star fatal accident, and, as unlikely as it may seem, they start starts this book coming round from a relationshipcoma. With one character who is trying very hard not And, however – despite all urging, the author of the book has never once made themselves known to be seen or noticed by anyonethe publishers in person, and the other who is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over the worldin fact, it's an interesting clash as they offered up a most peculiar statement-come together-threat in their last email. This isn't just a love story thoughWhat is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and actually how much is any of it's really due to the hit novel? And just Pab's story, about where the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smart.heck did that come from?|isbn=03490034591910477974

|authorisbn=Daniel Kraus085752612X|title=Blood SugarRodham: What if Hillary hadn't Married Bill?|author=Curtis Sittenfeld

|summary=This is a difficult I was tempted to read. And not because of ''Rodham'' by the dark subject matter – that'll come later – but because success of the way in which itCurtis Sittenfeld's told''American Wife''. This might put That book wasn't marketed as being a lot portrait of readers offLaura Bush, and to be honest itbut the word ''thinly-veiled''d be hard seemed to blame themoccur very regularly in reviews. Kraus tells How would ''Rodham'' compare? Unfortunately, there is a difference: relatively little was known about Laura Bush, which gave the story in book a distinctive voice unlike any other Ifreshness which the first third of ''Rodham'' lacks. We've all heard the stories, read; an erratic dialect with heavy the books - about Hillary and frequent slang. The immediate effect is disorientating and distracting, and it takes some time to feel naturalparticularly about Bill. It's a struggle to acclimatise to Jodystill an interesting concept, though: how would Hillary have fared if she hadn't subsumed her own ambitions into Bill's voicecareer, if she hadn't had to get acquainted with his mannerisms, but carry the story wouldnburden of all Bill's baggage and if she hadn't be left her own run at the same presidency so late? Could she have done better without it, and somehow it works. It shouldn't, but it does.|isbn=1789091934the Clinton surname?

|isbnauthor=B07W4MNBSGAnstey Harris|title=Be Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy MumfreyWhere We Belong|rating=45

|summary=It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 I've always believed that places and buildings absorb what happens within them and reflect it back; this is how we can tell that a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fiftysacred space is sacred. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancientCate Morris believes a similar thing, but Liz was convinced she believes that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''. The only eligible boys were A house absorbs happiness, it blooms into the Young Farmers and wallpaper, the idea wood of living in the window frames, the bricks: that's how it becomes a farmhouse and home.'' She is having a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed these thoughts as she packs up her home. She has to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Bothamleave. The place A combination of circumstances means that is not only redundant but also homeless. With nowhere else to start their search was obviously the Young Farmersgo, she has called on her late husband' Halloween disco that weekends family for help. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the classJust for a few weeks.|isbn=1471173836

{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- Will Carver -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1912374838.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912374838/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Nothing Important Happened Today is a dark, twisted, difficult read. Stories about cults often are, but this is different; it's written with a sense of style that is quite unlike anything I've read before. I can't remember ever having read a novel with such an odd, distinctive narrative voice. While a slim and relatively small book, the slow-moving nature of the plot makes it feel far larger than its 276 pages. [[Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver|Full Review]] <!-- Claire North -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:williamabbey.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0316316849/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]  When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a young boy in 1880's South Africa, he finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns the weight of the curse upon him, as the shadow of the dead boy begins to follow him across the world. Never stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of William. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in others, he also learns that the dark shadow is deadly – and seeks to kill the one he loves the most… [[The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North|Full Review]] <!-- Oates -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785656775.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785656775/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Bobby is an angry, damaged man - damage that came from being abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, and then being thrown from one foster home or detention centre to another, never far from violence or abuse. Eager to succeed as a musician, he arrives in Hollywood to find his dream - but it soon becomes clear that his paranoid delusions and seething rage will enable a capacity for acts of extreme violence. Unpublished for 40 years, this edition of ''The Triumph of the Spider Monkey'' comes combined with a connected novella – ''Love, Careless Love''. [[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates|Full Review]] <!-- Ellory -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1542007232.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1542007232/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Berlin, 1989. Miriam is in the middle of a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and people able to cross at liberty for the first time in decades. She is in the middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps the name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – and she sees for the first time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. One bombshell outside, then, and two inside. And inside her father, Henryk, what is going on, as he has a first person narrative alternating with her story? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to the real Frieda, a young woman that shook him to the core when he was her literature professor? That's right, more bombshells… [[The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory|Full Review]] <!-- McGee -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0241365953.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0241365953/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[American Royals by Katharine McGee]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Two and a half centuries ago, America won the Revolutionary War and General George Washington was offered the crown. Today, the House of Washington still sit on the thrown with Princess Beatrice next in line. Beatrice's whole life has been building up to her ruling the United States and the time for her reign is imminent. [[American Royals by Katharine McGee|Full Review]] <!-- Mulligan -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1784742716.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784742716/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Train Man by Andrew Mulligan]]=== [[image:2.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] I came to this book thinking I knew just what to expect, even though it is [[:Category:Andy 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:Chris Cleave|Chris Cleave]], and [[:Category:David Nicholls|David Nicholls]]. I expected some whimsy, some warmth and some affirmative loveliness. More fool me. [[Train Man by Andrew Mulligan|Full Review]] <!-- Coleman -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785032461.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785032461/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Trudy Heaton is going home, to a house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and to a mother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen years. Home, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with the traumatic loss of her husband. She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son that his father is dead. Where better than the house full of light and shadow, that nurtured her throughout her childhood? [[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman|Full Review]] |-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0008291845.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008291845/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[We Are Not Okay by Natalia Gomes]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General 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]]  <!-- Kate Tough -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:034914365X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/034914365X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Kate Tough]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] 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 feel ''settled''. Then Mark announced that he'd got a job in Canada and he was going whether Rhona wanted to come with him or not. The ''not'' bit of the sentence was the way it worked out and Rhona was left Move on her own. Well, she wasn't completely on her own: she had friends and family, but it's not the same as having that special someone in your life, that someone who makes you part of a couple. So Rhona had to start again, rejoining a world that bore little resemblance to the one she'd left nine years ago - and there's a lot of difference between being in the middle of your twenties and the middle of your thirties. [[Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Kate Tough|Full Review]] <!-- Varenne -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0857058738.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0857058738/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Equator by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Newest Graphic Novels Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General 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]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}