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|author=Vincent PanettiereAndrew Sharp|title=These Thy GiftsThe Chef, the Bird and the Blessing
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''2006 Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - is a tumultuous year for , in his mind, the Catholic Church. Reports head chef of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespreada safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. Monsignor Steven Trimboli Mozzy is troubled. He worries for the future of the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout earnest and dedicated to his church task and hit closer to home than he ever imagined.'' As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking his beloved Catholic church, he discovers that one child in guests at BOD-W safaris but his own parish has been abused by a priest sent by his bishop. And this isn't just any boy: this is Steve's grandson whose mother dream is to become the offspring head chef of a long past relationship between Steve and restaurant in London or a big American city. Even to win a gangster's widowMichelin star. Steve He is determined thwarted in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to seek justice for this boy you and all children victimised by priests me) who have been protected by incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his church. But he must also face up to uninterest in his own failingsguests and - shock, going right back to horror - his breaking allowing of bush animals into the celibacy vowshouse.|isbn=1503199886B09926MK8H}}
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|authorisbn=Delia Owens1901514978|title=Where The Crawdads SingThere's a Problem With Dad|author=Carlos Alba|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= In 1952, KyaLife is different for George Lovelace and he can't really understand why. He's mother disappeared up the dirt track always done everything he ought to town: steady worker, wearing her alligator heels, and never came home. Then one by one her siblings left, ran from the shack on the North Carolina marsh that served as home husband and the life that would lead to nothing but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken father. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed 'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for a mother that would never return and grew up far too fast for a girl father who can neither read nor writewas always there for school plays and sports days. Finally, one night her father So why is he never came home leaving Kya completely alone quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why is someone with such a ''good'' mind unable to survive on the marsh. 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 land, yearning progress at work or to be loved and relate to be held. So, when 2 boys from the town of Barkley Cove find their way his colleagues? Why does he make so many breath-taking gaffes? It's almost become a cliche these days to her, she finds suggest that someone who is a new way of life. But in 1969, the body of former star quarterback and new husband Chase Andrews little different is found lying in 'on the mud of the marshspectrum', and everyone in town immediately suspects but George Lovelace has all the mysterious, runsymptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: high-down Marsh-Girlfunctioning autism. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=1472154665
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|isbnauthor=1473692407Freya Sampson|title=The Book of Two Ways|author=Jodi PicoultLast Library
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Dawn Edelstein is I am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a death doula: that's someone who is there for chain stereotypes! In this story, the person who is dyingmain character, June, to make their passage to whatever they believe does put her hair in as easy as possible a bun, and to support their carers. It's she does own a rewardingcat (called Alan Bennett), caring occupation and Dawn puts she has barely any friends and spends her heart and soul into it but this wasnevenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't always her lifeimmediately throw the book out of the window, because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she did. Some fifteen years ago she was Her mum used to be a graduate student librarian at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an Egyptologistthe village library, but when she was working with got sick, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home to take care of her supervisor, Professor Ian Dumphriesmum, as well as taking on the Djehutyakht tombs a job as library assistant at Deir el-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egyptlocal library. Then And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she was Dawn McDowell: that was is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her maiden namemum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the name she published underchange.|isbn=183877369X
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|isbnauthor=0241295955Emily Critchley|title=Trio|author=William BoydThe Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=53
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I was 1968: intrigued by the year when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinated. It's also plot, liked the year when YSK Films are making a movie in Brighton. It's called ''Emily Bracegirdle's Extremely Useful Ladder to design of the Moon''book, or ''Ladder and thought the Moon'' as itauthor's known on setwork sounded interesting. Anny Viklund is From the female star in a production which is proving to be just a little bit racketyoutset it all looked incredibly promising. There are odd pressures So what on the producer, Talbot Kydd, to employ this old actor friend for a couple of days because he needs the money, allow a fading star to use his catchphrase, or include a song from the leading man, whose musical star is fading.earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} 
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|authorisbn=Anna BrunoB093VPBL5L|title=Ordinary HazardsCape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker Bittick|rating=24
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Some books either grab you Meet Bosner, or bore you, to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosner. And this was We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely a hint that he had the nickname 'Secretary' at one that I wanted so badly point. He's simply Bosner to like one and all. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helos, as they were called) at a naval establishment. The hours could be long and he was often working nights but unfortunatelyat the age of twenty-one, I just wasn't hookedthere was always a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his day.|isbn=1471184862
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|isbn=1712435728B095CY7NBN|title=Jamie's KeepsakeAutumn Camp|author=Michael GallagherBarry Fowler
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Alex Hannah, heIt was to be Brian's just being released from last camp. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since but he was leaving school and the time had come to hand the Southern General Hospitalreins to someone else. The nurse thinks heobvious person was Gary, who'll come back to visit d always been the other patients but Alex has no intention fun element of doing the camps and Brian had said that: he's been there for a yearon this camp, on Gary should act as the same ward where his brother died leader and now, with his hair all shorn off, he's going home in his dead brotherd just be there to observe. The problem with this was that Gary wasn's clothest really an organiser, an administrator if you like. He wants to get outside and back with his friends: his brotherwas the entertainer, Forbes, says that the fresh air will do him good person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and his mother tells him that he's not to mention TB did the organising. He handed the camp over - and then took it back. And Gary determined to say it was tonsillitishave his revenge. Good luck with that one, AlexThis should have been ''his'' camp.
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|author=Helen FisherJohn Boyne|title=Space HopperThe Echo Chamber|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very youngMeet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from He starts this book a cold that got worsebit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, and although they were kind and very good to but then his author wife is getting her she of course missed kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her mum enormouslywith. So whenThey have three children, unexpectedlywho are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the 70world's and her mumhomeless with out-of-date food, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know a fit young lad doing the woman who meant so much to hergay hustle thing. The time travellingAdd in a few other characters – therapists, howeverlawyers, is neither easy nor saferandom transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and Faye fears you have something that her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies suggests an almost farcical approach to him insteadthe modern world. The lies grow What suggests the farcical approach even more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to however, is the pastfact this is bloody funny. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=14711886630857526219
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|authorisbn= Claire McGowan0008444501|title=The PushAnswer to Everything|author=Luke Kennard|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at Life should have been good for Emily. She had a lovely husband, Steven, who was a prenatal classspeech therapist. It We's NCT ll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other and don't even sleep in the same bed. It isn'stylet so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that she's sharing a bed with one of her children as it', but not s the only way to get him to sleep during the proper NCTnight. This bit is important, Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but you have they are a handful and Emily has a job to wait cope with too - she teaches drama two days a little to see whyweek. This being London, such They've not long moved into a class attracts new home in Criterion Gardens: it's a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is trendy area that has been gentrified and it's their first babyrun on semi-communal lines. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child The residents even share eco-rearing down patfriendly electric cars rather than owning their own.|isbn=1542019990
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|isbnauthor=0008378363Louise Beech|title=One Perfect MorningThis Is How We Are Human|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother to her son, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that it's time for him to have sex. But as an autistic 20 year-old, that's easier said than done. And it's starting to cause them both problems. |isbn=1913193713}} {{Frontpage|author=Pamela CraneAnanda Devi|title=Eve Out of Her Ruins|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=A husband At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins is about to have his throat cut one of the shortest books I've read in his own beda long while, but it's one of the most dramatic. To find out who - It's also told in a way that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing and why - we need to go back nine days pulls very few punches, the descriptions stark and twenty yearsunromantic.|isbn=0993009344Mackenzie}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, Robin and Lily met when they all went Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the same college in Monroevillestate funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still watching over the sanctioned return to the best throne of friendsEdward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. When they first met they called themselves For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the Spicier Girls World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a nod to protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the famous girl band of Germanic peoples on ''the daymainland''. Lily would be Adventure SpiceBut this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, Robin ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the Homemaker drudges, and Mackenzie - wellbeyond those, right on down to the childless, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own lifehusbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. She married OwenAnd in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to 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, her college sweetheart and so they have just get a daughterhefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, Ariaat least, whountil the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's now fifteen-year-oldvisit.|isbn=152941198X
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|isbn=B07WWSCGVS0857527231|title=The Lies You ToldDog Days|author=Harriet TyceEricka Waller
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start a new schoolGeorge Dempsey is exceedingly angry. SheIt's eight days since his wife, Ellen, died and it's left the school she loved in New York and now first time that she's going to Ashams in North Londonlet him down. ItHe's very upmarket; places are rare as henslost, bereft without her ( he ' teeth and as the pupils have all been there 'needs his wife, like a snail needs its shell'forever'). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the doorstep, he', they d much rather have their established groupsa good row with someone. RobinHe's going to be an outsiderparticularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. And why is this happening? Well, over a matter of a few days She even dared to contradict him when he told her parentsthat the dog wasn' marriage fell apartt staying. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - Now he works for 's lumbered with a securities firm - dog he doesn't want and her mothera load of busybodies who are trying to interfere in his life. Worst of all is Betty, Sadie Roperwho won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barristergreyhound. That's easier said than done when you've been out Lucky spends a lot of the market place - time trying to escape from and the country - for more than ten yearsdestroy them.
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|author=Antoine LaurainMartin Venning|title=The Readers RoomPrimary Objective|rating=2
|genre=General Fiction
|rating=3.5|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had Sometimes a great successbook starts off slowly, and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscripts. The three people who work but eventually draws you in to caring about the Readers' Room characters or simply wanting to sift through know what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smash, and so it has provenhappens next. But there are several 'howeversSometimes it doesn' to thatt. As in, however The basic premise is a good one Violaine herself is not having life all her own waya clandestine organisation, for she has been involved in operating as a near-fatal accidentcharity, but funded by various governments around the world and starts this book coming round from a coma. Andpartially (maybe, however – despite all urgingI'm not sure) under the auspices of the UN, with the author primary objective of keeping the book has never once made themselves known to peace, by any means possible. Diplomacy is always the publishers in person, first option and in factsometimes one that needs to be carried out by third parties, offered up but for situations when that looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains a most peculiar statementcall-comeon list of field operatives, ex-threat in their last email. What is going to befall Violainemilitary, her memorymedics, her staff – scientists or anyone else with a taste for adventure and how much is any willing to risk their life for the sake of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?.|isbn=19104779741800461100
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|isbnauthor=085752612XKaren M McManus|title=Rodham: What if Hillary hadn't Married Bill?|author=Curtis SittenfeldThe Cousins|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I was tempted to read ''Rodham'' by the success of Curtis Sittenfeld's ''American Wife''. That book wasn't marketed as being The rich and famous Story family led a portrait life of Laura Bushluxury on Gull Cove Island, but until 25 years ago when each of the word ''thinlyStory children -veiled'' seemed to occur very regularly in reviewsAnders, Archer, Adam and Allison - received a mysterious letter from their mother and were cut off completely. How would ''Rodham'' compare? UnfortunatelyBut now, there is a difference: relatively little was known about Laura Bushquarter of a century later, which gave their children have been called to return to the book a freshness which island for the first third of ''Rodham'' lackssummer by their grandmother. We've What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all heard those years ago? Are the storiesdeaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted lies, read secrets and tragedy that has held the books Story family up - about Hillary and particularly held them apart - for a quarter of a century is about Billto come crashing down. 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 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?|isbn=0241376947
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|author=Anstey HarrisRuth Hogan|title=Where We BelongMadame Burova|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= I've always believed that places and buildings absorb what happens within them and reflect it back; this is how This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we can tell that have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a sacred space is sacred. Cate Morris believes humdrum job wanting to become a similar thingsinger, she believes that ''A house absorbs happinessand chiefly, it blooms into the wallpaperImelda, the wood third generation of the window framesMadame Burova, the bricks: that's how it becomes a home.'Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'' She is having these thoughts as she packs up , to use her homefamily's sea-front booth. She has to leaveThe singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. A combination of circumstances means that is not only redundant but We also homeless. With nowhere else to go, she has called see her on her late husband's family last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for helpa woman called Billie. Just for who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a few weeks.secret all this time?|isbn=1471173836152937331X
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|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)Stephen Clarke|title=A Life Without EndThe Spy Who Inspired Me
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This is a spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the ladies' and who works for the secret service, but in the planning side of things more than the active service. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in the resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!
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|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)
|title=If You Kept a Record of Sins
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I looked 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 even know his gender or the calendar nature of the other week, and disappointedly realised I have person he's addressing in his second person monologue of a birthday this year – I knownarration, yet another one. It wonwe see him picked up by his mother't be one of the major numberss chauffeur, but and carted off to do all the time when I have necessary introductions before said mother is buried the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizonfollowing day. And then The mother was a few of the big 0-numbersbusinesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. settled in Romania with her (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.night-time and business) Now if that's the extent partner, and feelings of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happyabandonment are still strong. Our author here doesn't use that exact phraseAnd so we flit from current (well, but he might be said to be living one. Determined to find this came out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with in the assistant to the first geneticist he interviewsoriginal Italian in 2007, and they end up with a childso moderately current) Bucharest, which is at least a way of continuing to the life of his geneslad's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a motive to keep ongoingprivate farewell address. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=16428606701939810965
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|isbnauthor=B08774SJYNDavid F Ross|title=The Greenbecker Gambit|author=Ben GraffThere's Only One Danny Garvey|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''I suppose the odd fleeting sense of loneliness is Years ago, Danny Garvey was a price all truly successful people must pay footballing prodigy playing for our gifts. I tell myself that I do so willingly.'' Tennessee Greenbeckerhis local club. Isn't that Everyone predicted a name to conjure with? There are hints that it might not have been the name he was given at birth, bright future – but many of us have moved his career in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years on, so far as names goconvinced to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying mother, from Danny takes over the one we were originally saddled with. Greenbecker's life is one of constant reinvention. He tells us that shambolic and once-great team he's the foremost chess player never used to have been world champion, play for and it does seem that he has some considerable talent as far as chess goes. He's determined that he's going tries 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 wayreform them.|isbn= 1913193500
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|author=J Paul HendersonGail Honeyman|title=DaisyEleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This Eleanor Oliphant is the story of Herod Salmost 30. She lives in Glasgow, alone. And she likes it that way. PinkneyShe works 9-5, 5 days a rather unusual (yet somehow charming) man who is in search of a woman called Daisyweek, whom he first sees in an episode of Judge Judy on television and instantly falls in love with her! Rod is writing spends the novel of his questweekend not drunk, guided but not sober. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives by an embittered ex-literary agent who is now clearing glasses in a pub for a living. Determined to find routine, and meet Daisy, the book takes us through Rodthat's fine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing is missing from her life, introduces us to his friends, and tells us of what happens in his quest for love.|isbn=0857303309}}{{Frontpage |isbn=1529123941 |title=The Silent Treatment |author=Abbie Greaves |rating=4Except everything is.5 |genre=General Fiction |summary= When we meet Professor Frank Hobbs and his wifeUntil one day, Maggieat a concert she won tickets for in an office raffle, Frank she sees the man she is playing chess against his computersure will be her husband. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself the best version of herself that she can, although not very successfullyin order to secure this beautiful musician. MaggieThen, as she's on her way home one Friday, she and the other hand, has just taken some pills - eight of them, new IT guy at her office see a man collapse in fact - the street and stay close to him in hospital. Then, before long she will collapse. When Frank rings knows it, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with the emergency services man's family and friends, with Raymond from IT and of course her side project of falling in Oxford he has a bit of a problemlove with Johnnie Lomond. He has But just as her life seems to admit that he and Maggie haven't actually spoken be looking up, things take a turn for a whilethe worse. How long? Well, itIs Johnnie all he's about six months since he spoke cracked up to Maggie and he can't really say if itbe? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanor's likely that Maggie walls have been broken down and she has tried to take fight her own lifeway out of the shadows - but maybe she doesn't have to do it alone.|isbn=0008172145
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|authorisbn=Camilla BruceB08GFSK2WZ|title=You Let Me InThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd
|rating=4
|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary= EccentricGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has been missing absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for a year eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she has been pronounced legally dead a real talent for attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her lawyers, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. Her will instructs She only has to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her niece and nephew to enter end up with dog poo spattered across her home face - and find a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the key to their inheritance in an old manuscript left in her office: the last story she'll ever tell.|isbn=1787633179
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|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha SaeedMatt Haig|title= Yes No Maybe So |rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= ''We might give it our all and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for, don't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for a special election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassing, he can't think of anything worse. However, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician and decides there is no time like the present to conquer his fear of speaking to the public. Maya is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through a separation, she has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things and her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy her, her parents offer to buy her 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 that they care, a lot, about the election - and maybe even about each other?|isbn=1471184668}}{{Frontpage|author=Elliot Reed|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingMidnight Library|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This Between life and death there is the story of a young boylibrary. And so, William Tyce38 minutes after Nora decided to die, who is being raised by his uncle after she finds herself in the death of his mother and his fatherMidnight Library. Everything that could've gone wrong in Nora's abandonmentlife has. HoweverHer cat died, she lost her job, it isnher brother won't told in the usual narrative way. Insteadspeak to her, her parents are dead, the book is made up of glossary entriesboy she teaches piano to no longer cares about piano, written by Williamshe called off her wedding, as a way of describing certain events, situations and emotionsold Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her help. It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'what She gave up on earth?!' but I soon grew used to all the style, and was instead caught up in William's story.|isbn=1911545418}}{{Frontpage|author= T R Hendrick|title= What if They Knew|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Itthings that would's 2025. Underneath a lodge in ve let her escape the Blue Mountain resort in Pennsylvaniawet, is a secret facility. Here, Dr Benton cold town of Bedford and his team are making given her life some critical scientific advances on behalf of the Benefactor, their anonymous funderpurposeful direction. AlreadySo at 23:22, the team have succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place she realises that she isn't made for life and decides to anotherdie. Butinstead of death, unbeknownst to she finds the Benefactorlibrary. Each infinite shelf is filled with books, Dr Benton has also coded for each book providing a chance to try another type of teleportation altogether - travel through life she could have lived, in a parallel time. And heso, just after midnight on Tuesday the 18th of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life she could's ready to testve. If successful, Benton has a very specific use for his technology in mind|isbn=17342772111786892731
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