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|isbnauthor=0008378363Andrew Sharp|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneThe Chef, the Bird and the Blessing|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=A husband is about Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to have his throat cut employer - is, in his own bedmind, the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. To find out who - Mozzy is earnest and why - we need dedicated to go back nine days his task and twenty years. Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they he puts all went of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become the same college head chef of a restaurant in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best of friendsLondon or a big American city. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as Even to win a nod to the famous girl band of the dayMichelin star. Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress He is thwarted in her own life. She married Owenthis ambition by his boss, her college sweetheart Mr Bin (Ben to you and they have a daughter, Aria, me) whoincurs Mozzy's now fifteendisapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests and -yearshock, horror -oldhis allowing of bush animals into the house.|isbn=B09926MK8H

|isbn=B07WWSCGVS1901514978|title=The Lies You ToldThere's a Problem With Dad|author=Harriet TyceCarlos Alba|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isnLife is different for George Lovelace and he can't happy about having to start a new schoolreally understand why. SheHe's left the always done everything he ought to: steady worker, husband and father - and a father who was always there for school she loved in New York plays and now she's going to Ashams sports days. So why is he never quite in North London. tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? It's very upmarket; places are rare as hensWhy is someone with such a ' teeth and as the pupils have all been there 'good'forever'', they have their established groups. Robin's going mind unable to progress at work or to relate to be an outsider. his colleagues? And why is this happeningWhy does he make so many breath-taking gaffes? Well, over a matter of It's almost become a few cliche these days her parents' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence to suggest that someone who is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - and her mother, Sadie Roperlittle different is 'on the spectrum', but George Lovelace has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. Thatall the symptoms of Asperger's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country Syndrome: high- for more than ten yearsfunctioning autism.

|author=Antoine LaurainFreya Sampson|title=The Readers RoomLast Library|rating=4

|rating=3.5|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had I am always a little nervous to start a story about a great successlibrary, and it was through since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at the slush pile thought of unsolicited manuscripts. The three people who work in the Readers' Room to sift through what is ninetyincoming cardigan-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor wearing, hair in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the book would be a huge smashmain character, and so it has proven. But there are several 'howevers' to that. As inJune, however – Violaine herself is not having life all does put her own way, for she has been involved hair in a near-fatal accidentbun, and starts this book coming round from she does own a coma. And, however – despite all urgingcat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the author of same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the book has never once made themselves known to out of the publishers window, because I found I was interested in personJune, and in factwhy she lived as she did. Her mum used to be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, offered June gave up on going to University and stayed at home to take care of her mum, as well as taking on a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailjob as library assistant at the local library. What And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is going to befall Violainestill working there, still eating her memorymum's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her staff – and how much mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is any of it due to about the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?change.|isbn=1910477974183877369X

|isbnauthor=085752612XEmily Critchley|title=Rodham: What if Hillary hadnThe Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I was intrigued by the plot, liked the design of the book, and thought the author't Married Bills work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B093VPBL5L|title=Cape Henry House|author=Curtis SittenfeldJolly Walker Bittick

|summary=I was tempted Meet Bosner, or, to read give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosner. We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely a hint that he had the nickname 'RodhamSecretary'' by the success of Curtis Sittenfeldat one point. He's ''American Wife''simply Bosner to one and all. That book wasnWhen we first encounter him he't marketed s exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helos, as being they were called) at a portrait of Laura Bush, naval establishment. The hours could be long and he was often working nights but at the word ''thinlyage of twenty-veiledone, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his day.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B095CY7NBN|title=Autumn Camp|author=Barry Fowler|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was to be Brian'' seemed to occur very regularly in reviewss last camp. How would He''Rodham'' compare? Unfortunately, there is a difference: relatively little d founded the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since but he was known about Laura Bush, which gave leaving school and the book a freshness which time had come to hand the first third of ''Rodham'' lacksreins to someone else. WeThe obvious person was Gary, who've all heard d always been the fun element of the storiescamps and Brian had said that on this camp, read Gary should act as the books - about Hillary leader and particularly about Billhe'd just be there to observe. ItThe problem with this was that Gary wasn's still t really an interesting conceptorganiser, though: how would Hillary have fared an administrator if she hadn't subsumed her own ambitions into Bill's careeryou like. He was the entertainer, if she hadn't had to carry the burden of all Bill's baggage person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and if she hadn't left her own run at did the organising. He handed the presidency so late? camp over - and then took it back. And Gary determined to have his revenge. Could she This should have done better without the Clinton surname?been ''his'' camp.

|author=Anstey HarrisJohn Boyne|title=Where We BelongThe Echo Chamber

|summary= I've always believed that places and buildings absorb what happens within them and reflect it back; this Meet George Cleverley. He is how we can tell that self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a sacred space is sacredcriminal record". Cate Morris believes He starts this book a similar thing, bit worried when his mistress tells him she believes that ''A house absorbs happinesss carrying his child, it blooms into but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the wallpaperUkrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, the wood of the window frameswho are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the bricks: thatworld's how it becomes homeless with out-of-date food, and a home.'' She is having these thoughts as she packs up her homefit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. She has Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to leave. A combination of circumstances means his life, and you have something that is not only redundant but also homeless. With nowhere else suggests an almost farcical approach to go, she has called on her late husband's family for helpthe modern world. Just for a few weeksWhat suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.|isbn=14711738360857526219

|authorisbn=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)0008444501|title=A Life Without EndThe Answer to Everything|author=Luke Kennard

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I Life should have been good for Emily. She had a birthday this year – I knowlovely husband, yet another one. It won't be one of the major numbersSteven, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizonwho was a speech therapist. And then a few of the big 0-numbers, and if all goes well, IWe'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if pass over the fact thatthey rarely speak to each other and don's t even sleep in the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happysame bed. Our author here doesnIt isn't use so much that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one. Determined to find out how to prolong life for Emily has left the marital bed as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into that she's sharing a bed with one of her children as it's the assistant only way to get him to sleep during the first geneticist he interviews, night. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they end up with a child, which is at least are a way of continuing the life of his genes, handful and Emily has a motive job to keep ongoingcope with too - she teaches drama two days a week. But how can he get to They've not flick the long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: it'final way outs a trendy area that has been gentrified and it' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670s run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.

|isbnauthor=B08774SJYNLouise Beech|title=The Greenbecker Gambit|author=Ben GraffThis Is How We Are Human|rating=54

|summary=''I suppose the odd fleeting sense of loneliness Veronica is a price all truly successful people must pay for our gifts. I tell myself that I do so willingly.'' Tennessee Greenbecker. Isn't that a name devoted single mother to conjure with? There are hints that it might not have been the name he was given at birthher son, Sebastian - but many of us have moved on, so far as names go, from the one we were originally saddled with. Greenbeckershe can's life is one of constant reinventiont give him everything he wants. He tells us Sebastian has decided that heit's the foremost chess player never time for him to have been world championsex. But as an autistic 20 year-old, and it does seem that he has some considerable talent as far as chess goes. He's determined that heeasier said than done. And it's going starting to fulfil what he sees as his destiny. He just needs to do some study to be able to beat the current players ranked at numbers one and two in the world. Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana will not stand in his waycause them both problems.|isbn=1913193713

|author=J Paul HendersonAnanda Devi|title=DaisyEve Out of Her Ruins

|summary=This is the story At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Herod S. Pinkney, a rather unusual (yet somehow charming) man who Her Ruins is in search of a woman called Daisy, whom he first sees in an episode one of Judge Judy on television and instantly falls in love with her! Rod is writing the novel of his quest, guided by an embittered ex-literary agent who is now clearing glasses shortest books I've read in a pub for a living. Determined to find and meet Daisylong while, the book takes us through Rodbut it's life, introduces us to his friends, and tells us one of what happens in his quest for love.|isbn=0857303309}}{{Frontpage |isbn=1529123941 |title=The Silent Treatment |author=Abbie Greaves |rating=4.5 |genre=General Fiction |summary= When we meet Professor Frank Hobbs and his wife, Maggie, Frank is playing chess against his computer, although not very successfully. Maggie, on the other hand, has just taken some pills - eight of them, in fact - and before long she will collapsemost dramatic. When Frank rings the emergency services It's also told in Oxford he has a bit of a problem. He has to admit way that he I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing and Maggie haven't actually spoken for a while. How long? Wellpulls very few punches, it's about six months since he spoke to Maggie the descriptions stark and he can't really say if it's likely that Maggie has tried to take her own lifeunromantic.|isbn=0993009344}}

|author=Camilla BruceC J Carey|title=You Let Me InWidowland

|summary= EccentricIt's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has been missing for a year Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has been pronounced legally dead by her lawyers. Her will instructs her niece put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and nephew beyond those, right on down to enter her home the childless, the husbandless and find the key widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to their inheritance in an old manuscript left in take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her office: job, at least, until the last story shefirst emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler'll ever tells visit.|isbn=1787633179152941198X

|authorisbn= Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed0857527231|title= Yes No Maybe So Dog Days|author=Ericka Waller|rating= 45|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= George Dempsey is exceedingly angry. It's eight days since his wife, Ellen, died and it'We might give it our all and crash and burns the first time that she's let him down. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for He's lost, donbereft without her ( he 't you think?''Jaime has been spending needs his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for wife, like a special electionsnail needs its shell''). When his mother encourages He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to go canvassingleave on the doorstep, he can't think of anything worsed much rather have a good row with someone. However, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician and decides there is no time like He's particularly angry about the present to conquer his fear of speaking dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared to contradict him when he told her that the publicdog wasn't staying. Maya is Now he's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want and a Pakistani-American Muslim girl load of busybodies who is having the worst summer of her are trying to interfere in his life. Her parents are going through a separation Worst of all is Betty, she has zero plans who won't take no for the summer to help take her mind off things and her only close friend is permanently busyan answer. To help occupy her Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her parents offer to buy her greyhound. Lucky spends a car if she agrees to go canvassing. The pair could possibly be the worst canvassing duo in history, as neither lot of them really want time trying to be there, but as the campaign goes on they discover that they care, a lot, about the election - escape from and maybe even about each other?|isbn=1471184668destroy them.

|author=Elliot ReedMartin Venning|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingThe Primary Objective|rating=42

|summary=This is the story of Sometimes a young boybook starts off slowly, William Tyce, who is being raised by his uncle after but eventually draws you in to caring about the death of his mother and his father's abandonmentcharacters or simply wanting to know what happens next. However, Sometimes it isndoesn't told in the usual narrative way. Instead, the book The basic premise is made up of glossary entries, written by Williama good one – a clandestine organisation, operating as a way of describing certain eventscharity, situations but funded by various governments around the world and emotions. It runs alphabeticallypartially (maybe, I'm not sure) under the auspices of the UN, starting with ABSENCEthe primary objective of keeping the peace, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDERby any means possible. As I began Diplomacy is always the first option and sometimes one that needs to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!' be carried out by third parties, but I soon grew used for situations when that looks unlikely to the styleyield results Peace International maintains a call-on list of field operatives, ex-military, medics, scientists or anyone else with a taste for adventure and was instead caught up in William's storywilling to risk their life for the sake of it.|isbn=19115454181800461100

|author= T R HendrickKaren M McManus|title= What if They KnewThe Cousins|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary= It's 2025. Underneath The rich and famous Story family led a lodge in life of luxury on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago when each of the Blue Mountain resort in PennsylvaniaStory children - Anders, is Archer, Adam and Allison - received a secret facilitymysterious letter from their mother and were cut off completely. HereBut now, Dr Benton and his team are making some critical scientific advances on behalf a quarter of the Benefactora century later, their anonymous funder. Already, the team children have succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place been called to return to anotherthe island for the summer by their grandmother. But, unbeknownst to What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the Benefactordeaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted lies, Dr Benton secrets and tragedy that has also coded held the Story family up - and held them apart - for another type a quarter of teleportation altogether - travel through time. And he's ready a century is about to testcome crashing down. If successful, Benton has a very specific use for his technology in mind|isbn=17342772110241376947

|author=H G Parry Ruth Hogan|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepMadame Burova|rating=4.5

|summary=Brothers Rob and Charley This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have struggled to see eye to eye for years a bullied half- Rob cast boy (as he would have been called then), a sensible lawyer who exists girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the "normal" world third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot- Reader, Palmist and Charley a man who is blessed with an ability he canClairvoyant'', to use her family't fully control s sea- one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real worldfront booth. After years of protecting Charley The singer, Rob wants to discharge his duties the scryer and leave Charley to his own devices - the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but circumstances soon take choices out of both their handsjust before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. As literary characters begin to appear everywhere We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, it soon becomes clear in possession of a pair of letters that someone out there shares Charley's powers and intends to use them will change everything for nefarious gainsa woman called Billie. Rob Just who is she, and Charley must team up to stop who delivered the madness - in a battle secrets about her to win before theyImelda, the characters and the world reach The End…why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=0356513777152937331X

|isbnauthor=1643785036Stephen Clarke|title=The Wondrous Apothecary|author=Mary E MartinSpy Who Inspired Me

|summary=Those who have known Alexander WainwrightThis is a spoof spy story, the landscape artist famous for his Turner prize-winning ''The Hay Wagon'that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and Rinaldo, 'likes the renowned conceptual artist would say that theyladies're chalk and cheesewho works for the secret service, if not sworn enemiesbut in the planning side of things more than the active service. If you've watched the relationship, as has our narrator, art dealer Jamie HelmsworthLemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, you'd have said that they were magnets, drawing and repulsing each other in equal measure. Wainwright was at the socially acceptable pair end of the artistic continuumup stranded in Normandy, but with Rinaldo, it was all too obvious that there was but Margaux on a fine dividing line between conceptual art and public nuisance. As time has worn on, he's frequently been brought desperate mission to unearth traitors in the attention of the police. On this latest occasionresistance network, we see him charged and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with arson and theft of ''The Hay Wagon''.her!|isbn=2952163855

|author=Mary H.K. ChoiAndrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)|title=Permanent If You Kept a Recordof Sins|rating=4.5|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=PabloThis was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me a college drop-out, is working little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at a New York bodega. He's massively in debtBucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person he's avoiding addressing in his mothersecond person monologue of a narration, and he finds we see him picked up by his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! Whilst working one evening, hemother's surprised chauffeur, and carted off to discover that do all the girl he is chatting with as he serves necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following day. The mother was a super-famous pop star andbusinesswoman, as unlikely as it may seem, they start a relationship. With one character who is trying very hard not to be seen or noticed by anyone clearly left northern Italy and the other who is seen settled in Romania with her (night-time and followed business) partner, and hounded by everyone all over feelings of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in the worldoriginal Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, itto the lad's an interesting clash as they come together. This isn't just a love story thoughchildhood, and actually it's really see just Pab's story, about the journey what he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smarthas to tell her as a private farewell address.|isbn=03490034591939810965

|author=Daniel KrausDavid F Ross|title=Blood SugarThere'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

|summary=This Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30. She lives in Glasgow, alone. And she likes it that way. She works 9-5, 5 days a difficult readweek, and spends the weekend not drunk, but not sober. alone. And not because of the dark subject matter – she likes it that'll come later – but because of the way in which it's told. This might put She lives by a lot of readers offroutine, and to be honest itthat'd be hard to blame thems fine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing is missing from her life. Except everything is. Kraus tells the story Until one day, at a concert she won tickets for in a distinctive voice unlike any other I've read; an erratic dialect with heavy and frequent slangoffice raffle, she sees the man she is sure will be her husband. The immediate effect is disorientating and distractingEleanor begins a journey to make herself the best version of herself that she can, and it takes some time in order to feel naturalsecure this beautiful musician. ItThen, as she's on her way home one Friday, she and the new IT guy at her office see a struggle man collapse in the street and stay close to acclimatise to Jodyhim in hospital. Then, before she knows it, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with the man's voicefamily 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 get acquainted with his mannerismsbe looking up, but things take a turn for the story wouldnworse. Is Johnnie all he't 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 same without it, and somehow it works. It shouldnshadows - but maybe she doesn't, but have to do it doesalone.|isbn=17890919340008172145

|isbn=B07W4MNBSGB08GFSK2WZ|title=Be Careful Who You MarryThe Karma Trap|author=Lizzy MumfreyLisette Boyd

|summary=It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 Between life and death there is a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fiftylibrary. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancientAnd so, 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, but Liz was convinced she finds herself in the Midnight Library. Everything that could've gone wrong in Nora'your entire s life depends on who you marry'has. 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 old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her help. The only eligible boys were She gave up on all the Young Farmers and things that would've let her escape the idea wet, cold town of living in a farmhouse Bedford and having a couple of children called Will given her life some purposeful direction. So at 23:22, she realises that she isn't made for life and Olly appealed decides to Charlottedie. But instead of death, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry she finds the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Bothamlibrary. The place Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each book providing a chance to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekendtry another life she could have lived, in a parallel time. There was And so, just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in after midnight on Tuesday the class18th of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life she could've.|isbn=1786892731

{|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 Move on 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 Newest Graphic Novels 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]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}