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|isbnauthor=0241295955Andrew Sharp|title=Trio|author=William BoydThe Chef, the Bird and the Blessing|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It was 1968: Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - is, in his mind, the year when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinated. It's also the year when YSK Films are making head chef of a movie safari business catering to VIP guests in Brightonan unnamed African country. It's called ''Emily Bracegirdle's Extremely Useful Ladder Mozzy is earnest and dedicated to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the Moon'', or ''Ladder the Moon'' as it's known on set. Anny Viklund guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become the female star head chef of a restaurant in London or a production which is proving big American city. Even to be just win a little bit racketyMichelin star. There are odd pressures on the producer, Talbot KyddHe is thwarted in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to employ this old actor friend you and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for a couple of days because he needs the moneyhis scruffy ways, allow a fading star to use his catchphraseuninterest in his guests and - shock, or include a song from horror - his allowing of bush animals into the leading man, whose musical star is fadinghouse.|isbn=B09926MK8H
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|authorisbn=Anna Bruno1901514978|title=Ordinary HazardsThere's a Problem With Dad|author=Carlos Alba|rating=24.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Some books either grab you or bore youLife is different for George Lovelace and he can't really understand why. And this He's always done everything he ought to: steady worker, husband and father - and a father who was one that I wanted always there for school plays and sports days. So why is he never quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why is someone with such a ''good'' mind unable to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so badly many breath-taking gaffes? It's almost become a cliche these days to like suggest that someone who is a little different is 'on the spectrum', but unfortunately, I just wasnGeorge Lovelace has all the symptoms of Asperger't hookeds Syndrome: high-functioning autism.|isbn=1471184862
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|isbnauthor=1712435728Freya Sampson|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherThe Last Library|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahI am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, he's just being released from the Southern General Hospitalsince I am a librarian. The nurse thinks he'll come back to visit I always grit my teeth slightly at the other patients but Alex has no intention thought of doing that: he's been there for the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a yearbun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the same ward where his brother died and nowmain character, June, with his does put her hair all shorn offin a bun, and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), heand she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn's going home t immediately throw the book out of the window, because I found I was interested in his dead brother's clothesJune, and why she lived as she did. He wants Her mum used to be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to get outside University and back with his friends: his brotherstayed at home to take care of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at the local library. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, Forbesstill eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, says that the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that hestill reading her mum's not to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitisold books. Good luck with that oneJune is stuck, but little does she know, Alexeverything in her life is about the change.|isbn=183877369X
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|author=Helen FisherEmily Critchley|title=Space HopperThe 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's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising.5So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B093VPBL5L|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker Bittick|rating=4
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|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worseMeet Bosner, or, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormouslygive him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosner. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) hint that takes her back to he had the 70nickname 'Secretary' at one point. He's and her mum, she revels in the chance simply Bosner to create some memories one and get to know the woman who meant so much to herall. The time travelling, however, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe whatWhen we first encounter him he's happening and so lies to him insteadexploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helos, as they were called) at a naval establishment. The lies grow more tangled, hours could be long and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to he was often working nights but at the past. Should she try to see her mum age of twenty-one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever there was always a way to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his day.
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|authorisbn= Claire McGowanB095CY7NBN|title=The PushAutumn Camp|author=Barry Fowler|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-It was to-be meet at a prenatal class. ItBrian's NCT last camp. He''style'', d founded the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since but not he was leaving school and the proper NCT. This bit is important, but you have time had come to wait a little hand the reins to see whysomeone else. This being London The obvious person was Gary, such a class attracts a wide variety who'd always been the fun element of peoplethe camps and Brian had said that on this camp, from all sorts of backgroundsGary should act as the leader and he'd just be there to observe. The problem with this was that Gary wasn't really an organiser, an administrator if you like. He was the entertainer, but for most of the ladies person who basked in the thing they have spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in common is and did the organising. He handed the camp over - and then took itback. And Gary determined to have his revenge. This should have been 's their first baby. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think youhis''ve got child-rearing down patcamp.|isbn=1542019990
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|isbn=0008378363
|title=One Perfect Morning
|author=Pamela Crane
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=A husband is about to have 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 all went to the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best of friends. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as a nod to the famous girl band of the day. Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own life. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-old.
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|isbnauthor=B07WWSCGVSJohn Boyne|title=The Lies You Told|author=Harriet TyceEcho Chamber
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a new schoolcriminal record". SheHe starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's left carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the school she loved in New York and now she's going to Ashams in North LondonUkrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. It's very upmarket; places They have three children, who are rare as hens' teeth and as 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 pupils have all been there ''forever'', they have their established groups. Robinworld's going to be an outsider. And why is this happening? Wellhomeless with out-of-date food, over and a matter of a few days her parents' marriage fell apartfit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Andrew Spence is staying Add in New York - he works for a securities firm - and her motherfew other characters – therapists, Sadie Roperlawyers, has come back random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to London his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to pick up her practice as a criminal barristerthe modern world. That's easier said than done when you've been out of What suggests the market place - and farcical approach even more, however, is the country - for more than ten yearsfact this is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219
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|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain0008444501|title=The Readers RoomAnswer to Everything|author=Luke Kennard|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|ratingsummary=3Life should have been good for Emily.5|summary=Violaine's publishing house has She had a great successlovely husband, Steven, and it who was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscriptsa speech therapist. The three people who work We'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other and don't even sleep in the Readerssame bed. It isn' Room to sift through what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus t so much that Emily has left the fourth advisor in marital bed as that she's sharing a bed with one of her rarefied mansion up children as it's the road – all agreed only way to get him to sleep during the book would be night. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are a huge smash, handful and so it Emily has provena job to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a week. But there are several They'howeversve not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: it' to s a trendy area that. As in, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own way, for she has been involved in a neargentrified and it's run on semi-fatal accident, and starts this book coming round from a comacommunal lines. And, however – despite all urging, the author of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in person, and in fact, offered up a most peculiar statementThe residents even share eco-come-threat in friendly electric cars rather than owning their last emailown. What is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?|isbn=1910477974
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|isbnauthor=085752612XLouise Beech|title=Rodham: What if Hillary hadn't Married Bill?|author=Curtis SittenfeldThis Is How We Are Human
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I was tempted Veronica is a devoted single mother to read her son, Sebastian - but she can''Rodham'' by the success of Curtis Sittenfeldt give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that it's ''American Wife''time for him to have sex. That book wasn't marketed But as being a portrait of Laura Bush, but the word ''thinlyan autistic 20 year-veiled'' seemed to occur very regularly in reviews. How would ''Rodham'' compare? Unfortunately, there is a difference: relatively little was known about Laura Bushold, which gave the book a freshness which the first third of that''Rodham'' lacks. We've all heard the stories, read the books - about Hillary and particularly about Bills easier said than done. ItAnd it's still an interesting concept, though: how would Hillary have fared if she hadn't subsumed her own ambitions into Bill's career, if she hadn't had starting to carry the burden of all Bill's baggage and if she hadn't left her own run at the presidency so late? Could she have done better without the Clinton surname?cause them both problems. |isbn=1913193713}}
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|author=Anstey HarrisAnanda Devi|title=Where We BelongEve Out of Her Ruins|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins is one of the shortest books 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 sacred space is sacred. Cate Morris believes read in a similar thinglong while, she believes that but it''A house absorbs happiness, it blooms into the wallpaper, the wood s one of the window frames, the bricks: thatmost dramatic. It's how it becomes also told in a home.'' She is having these thoughts as she packs up her home. She has to leave. A combination of circumstances means way that is not I can only redundant but also homeless. With nowhere else to godescribe as brutal: it spares nothing and pulls very few punches, she has called on her late husband's family for help. Just for a few weeksthe descriptions stark and unromantic.|isbn=14711738360993009344}}
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|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)C J Carey|title=A Life Without EndWidowland
|rating=4
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=I looked at It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the calendar the other weekstate funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I knowwatching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, yet another oneQueen Wallis. It wonFor yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't be one happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number blood as Heinz varieties looms the Germanic peoples on ''the horizonmainland''. And then But this is most certainly a few of the big 0different Britain, for Nazi-numbersstyled phrenology, and if ideas of female purpose, has put all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the extent of my mid-life crisisdrudges, and beyond those, I guess I have right on down to be happythe childless, the husbandless and the widows. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living oneFemale literacy is actively discouraged. Determined And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to find take all encouragement for female emancipation out how to prolong life for as long as he wants of it he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviewsafter all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they end up with just get a childhefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, which is at least a way of continuing , until the life first emerging signs of his genesfemale protest come to light, and a motive with their potential to keep ongoingspoil Hitler's visit. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670152941198X
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|isbn=B08774SJYN0857527231|title=The Greenbecker GambitDog Days|author=Ben GraffEricka Waller
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angry. It's eight days since his wife, Ellen, died and it'I suppose s the odd fleeting sense of loneliness is a price all truly successful people must pay for our gifts. I tell myself first time that I do so willinglyshe's let him down. He's lost, bereft without her ( he Tennessee Greenbecker. Isn't that needs his wife, like a name snail needs its shell''). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to conjure with? There are hints that it might not have been leave on the name doorstep, he was given at birth, but many of us 'd much rather have moved on, so far as names go, from the one we were originally saddled a good row withsomeone. Greenbecker's life is one of constant reinvention. He tells us that he's particularly angry about the foremost chess player never dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared to have been world champion, and it does seem contradict him when he told her that the dog wasn't staying. Now he has some considerable talent as far as chess goes. He's determined that lumbered with a dog hedoesn's going t want and a load of busybodies who are trying to fulfil what he sees as interfere in his destinylife. Worst of all is Betty, who won't take no for an answer. He just needs Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying to do some study to be able to beat the current players ranked at numbers one escape from and two in the world. Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana will not stand in his waydestroy them.}}
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|author=J Paul HendersonMartin Venning|title=DaisyThe Primary Objective|rating=42
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This is Sometimes a book starts off slowly, but eventually draws you in to caring about the story of Herod Scharacters or simply wanting to know what happens next. Sometimes it doesn't. Pinkney The basic premise is a good one – a clandestine organisation, operating as a rather unusual charity, but funded by various governments around the world and partially (yet somehow charmingmaybe, I'm not sure) man who is in search under the auspices of a woman called Daisythe UN, whom he first sees in an episode of Judge Judy on television and instantly falls in love with her! Rod is writing the novel primary objective of his questkeeping the peace, guided by an embittered ex-literary agent who any means possible. Diplomacy is now clearing glasses in a pub for a living. Determined to find always the first option and meet Daisy, the book takes us through Rod's life, introduces us sometimes one that needs to his friendsbe carried out by third parties, and tells us of what happens in his quest but 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, situations when that looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains a call-on the other handlist of field operatives, has just taken some pills ex- eight of themmilitary, medics, in fact - and before long she will collapse. When Frank rings the emergency services in Oxford he has scientists or anyone else with a bit of a problem. He has to admit that he and Maggie haven't actually spoken taste for a while. How long? Well, it's about six months since he spoke to Maggie adventure and he can't really say if it's likely that Maggie has tried willing to take her own risk their lifefor the sake of it.|isbn=1800461100
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|author=Camilla BruceKaren M McManus|title=You Let Me InThe Cousins|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= EccentricThe rich and famous Story family led a life of luxury on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago when each of the Story children - Anders, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has been missing for Archer, Adam and Allison - received a year mysterious letter from their mother and has were cut off completely. But now, a quarter of a century later, their children have been pronounced legally dead called to return to the island for the summer by her lawyerstheir grandmother. Her will instructs What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her niece children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted lies, secrets and nephew to enter her home tragedy that has held the Story family up - and find the key held them apart - for a quarter of a century is about to their inheritance in an old manuscript left in her office: the last story she'll ever tellcome crashing down.|isbn=17876331790241376947
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|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha SaeedRuth Hogan|title= Yes No Maybe So Madame Burova|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= ''We might give it our This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all and crash and burnvaguely connected. But So we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going forhave a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), don't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning a girl in time for a special election. When his mother encourages him humdrum job wanting to go canvassingbecome a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, he canthe third generation of Madame Burova, ''t think of anything worse. HoweverTarot-Reader, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician Palmist and decides there is no time like the present to conquer his fear of speaking Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, the public. Maya is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having scryer and the worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through sufferer's mother will all become staff at a separationrevamped holiday camp, she has zero plans but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the summer to help take first time in the family stall. We also see her mind off things and her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy on herlast day, fifty years later, her parents offer to buy her in possession of a car if she agrees to go canvassing. The pair could possibly be the worst canvassing duo in history, as neither of them really want to be there, but as the campaign goes on they discover letters that they care, will change everything for a lotwoman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about the election - her to Imelda, and maybe even about each otherwhy did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=1471184668152937331X
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|author=Elliot ReedStephen Clarke|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingThe Spy Who Inspired Me
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This is the a spoof spy story of , that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a young boy, William Tyceman called Ian Lemming, who is being raised by his uncle after dresses well and 'likes the death of his mother ladies' and his father's abandonment. Howeverwho works for the secret service, it isn't told but in the usual narrative wayplanning side of things more than the active service. InsteadLemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and the book is made pair end up of glossary entries, written by William, as a way of describing certain events, situations and emotions. It runs alphabeticallystranded in Normandy, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'what Margaux on earth?!' but I soon grew used a desperate mission to unearth traitors in the styleresistance network, and was instead caught Lemming desperately trying to keep up in William's story.with her!|isbn=19115454182952163855
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|author= T R HendrickAndrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)|title= What if They KnewIf You Kept a Record of Sins|rating= 4.5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= It's 2025. Underneath a lodge in the Blue Mountain resort in PennsylvaniaThis was an incredibly readable novella, is but one that left me a secret facilitylittle conflicted. HereWe start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, Dr Benton and before we even know his team are making some critical scientific advances on behalf gender or the nature of the Benefactorperson he's addressing in his second person monologue of a narration, their anonymous funder. Alreadywe see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the team have succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place to anotherfollowing day. ButThe mother was a businesswoman, unbeknownst to the Benefactorwho clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, Dr Benton has also coded for another type and feelings of teleportation altogether - travel through timeabandonment are still strong. And heso we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the lad's ready to test. If successfulchildhood, Benton and see just what he has to tell her as a very specific use for his technology in mindprivate farewell address.|isbn=17342772111939810965
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|author=H G Parry David F Ross|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepThere'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
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|summary=Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30. She lives in Glasgow, alone. And she likes it that way. She works 9- Rob 5, 5 days a sensible lawyer who exists in week, and spends the "normal" world - weekend not drunk, but not sober. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives by a routine, and Charley 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 who she is blessed with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins a journey to bring literary characters into make herself the real world. After years best version of protecting Charleyherself that she can, Rob wants in order to discharge his duties 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 leave Charley stay close to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their handshim in hospital. As literary characters begin to appear everywhereThen, before she knows it soon , her once quiet life becomes clear that someone out there shares Charleya hubbub of social engagements with the man's powers family and friends, with Raymond from IT and intends of course her side project of falling in love with Johnnie Lomond. But just as her life seems to use them be looking up, things take a turn for nefarious gainsthe worse. Rob 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 Charley must team up she has to stop fight her way out of the madness shadows - in a battle but maybe she doesn't have to win before they, the characters and the world reach The End…do it alone.|isbn=03565137770008172145
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|isbn=1643785036B08GFSK2WZ|title=The Wondrous ApothecaryKarma Trap|author=Mary E MartinLisette Boyd
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|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=Those who have known Alexander WainwrightGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, the landscape artist famous for his Turner prizeabsolutely gorgeous to look at -winning and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she'The Hay Wagon'', and Rinaldo, s stuck in the renowned conceptual artist would say that they're chalk karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and cheese, if not sworn enemiesshe has a real talent for attracting drama. If youHer life've watched s chaotic: she dealt with the relationship, as has our narrator, art dealer Jamie Helmsworth, you'd have said that they were magnets, drawing and repulsing each other in equal measure. Wainwright was leak from the shower by putting something down at the socially acceptable end bottom of the artistic continuumstairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, but with Rinaldostark naked, it was all too obvious that there was but a fine dividing line between conceptual art and public nuisancestaring at the pervy postman. As time She only has worn on, heto take her mother's frequently been brought dog out for a walk for her to the attention of the police. On this latest occasion, we see him charged end up with arson dog poo spattered across her face - and theft of ''The Hay Wagon''a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.
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|author=Mary H.K. ChoiMatt Haig|title=Permanent RecordThe Midnight Library|rating=45|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=PabloBetween life and death there is a library. And so, a college drop-out38 minutes after Nora decided to die, is working at a New York bodegashe finds herself in the Midnight Library. HeEverything that could's massively ve gone wrong in debt, heNora's avoiding his motherlife has. Her cat died, and he finds his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! Whilst working one eveningshe lost her job, heher brother won's surprised t speak to discover that her, her parents are dead, the girl he is chatting with as he serves is a super-famous pop star andboy she teaches piano to no longer cares about piano, as unlikely as it may seemshe called off her wedding, they start a relationshipand old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her help. With one character who is trying very hard not to be seen or noticed by anyone and She gave up on all the other who is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over things that would've let her escape the worldwet, it's an interesting clash as they come togethercold town of Bedford and given her life some purposeful direction. This So at 23:22, she realises that she isn't just made for life and decides to die. But instead of death, she finds the library. Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each book providing a chance to try another life she could have lived, in a love story thoughparallel time. And so, and actually it's really just Pab's storyafter midnight on Tuesday the 18th of April, about the journey he takes in his Nora Seed begins to live every life via his meet-up with Leanna Smartshe could've.|isbn=03490034591786892731
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