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|author=Gail HoneymanAndrew Sharp|title=Eleanor Oliphant The Chef, the Bird and the Blessing|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - is, in his mind, the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. Mozzy is Completely Fineearnest and dedicated to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American city. Even to win a Michelin star. He is thwarted in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the house.|isbn=B09926MK8H}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1901514978|title=There's a Problem With Dad|author=Carlos Alba
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|summary= Eleanor Oliphant Life is almost 30different for George Lovelace and he can't really understand why. She lives in Glasgow He's always done everything he ought to: steady worker, alone. And she likes it that way. She works 9husband and father -5, 5 days a week, and spends the weekend not drunk, but not sober. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives by a routine, father who was always there for school plays and that's fine, thankyouverymuchsports days. Nothing So why is missing from her life. Except everything is. Until one day, at a concert she won tickets for he never quite in an office raffle, she sees the man she tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why is sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins someone with such a journey ''good'' mind unable to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make herself the best version of herself that she can, in order to secure this beautiful musician. Then, as sheso many breath-taking gaffes? It's on her way home one Friday, she and the new IT guy at her office see almost become a man collapse in the street and stay close cliche these days to him in hospital. Then, before she knows it, her once quiet life becomes suggest that someone who is a hubbub of social engagements with little different is 'on the manspectrum's family and friends, with Raymond from IT and of course her side project but George Lovelace has all the symptoms of falling in love with Johnnie Lomond. But just as her life seems to be looking up, things take a turn for the worse. Is Johnnie all he's cracked up to be? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? EleanorAsperger's walls have been broken down and she has to fight her way out of the shadows Syndrome: high- but maybe she doesn't have to do it alonefunctioning autism.|isbn=0008172145
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|isbnauthor=B08GFSK2WZFreya Sampson|title=The Karma Trap|author=Lisette BoydLast Library
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|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=George Jackson is thirty-three years oldI am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, absolutely gorgeous to look since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought of the incoming cardigan- and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on main character, June, does put her hair in a bun, and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a real talent for attracting drama. Her lifeweek whilst reading books alone! But I didn's chaotic: she dealt with t immediately throw the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom book out of the stairs window, because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used to absorb be a librarian at the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst village library, but when she was in it got sick, June gave up on going to University and left stayed at home to take care of hermum, stark naked, staring as well as taking on a job as library assistant at the pervy postmanlocal library. She only has to take And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mothermum's dog out for a walk for favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her to end up with dog poo spattered across mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around life is about the officechange.|isbn=183877369X
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|author=Matt HaigEmily Critchley|title=The Midnight LibraryTiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=53|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. So 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= Between life and death there is a library. And soMeet Bosner, or, 38 minutes after Nora decided to diegive him his full title, she finds herself in the Midnight LibraryPetty Officer Third Class Bosner. Everything We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely a hint that couldhe had the nickname 've gone wrong in NoraSecretary's life hasat one point. Her cat died, she lost her job, her brother won He't speak to her, her parents are dead, the boy she teaches piano s simply Bosner to no longer cares about piano, she called off her wedding, one and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her help. She gave up on all the things that would've let her escape the wet, cold town of Bedford and given her life some purposeful direction. So at 23:22, she realises that she isn When we first encounter him he't made for life and decides to die. But instead s exploring his memories of death, she finds the library. Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each book providing 2008 when he was a chance to try another life she could have livedgreaser on helicopters (or helos, in as they were called) at a parallel timenaval establishment. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday The hours could be long and he was often working nights but at the 18th age of Apriltwenty-one, Nora Seed begins there was always a way to live every life she could'vework some fun (think drinking and eating) into his day.|isbn=1786892731
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|authorisbn=Vincent PanettiereB095CY7NBN|title=These Thy GiftsAutumn Camp|author=Barry Fowler|rating=4.5
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|summary=It was to be Brian's last camp. He'2006 is a tumultuous year for 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 Catholic Churchreins to someone else. Reports The obvious person was Gary, who'd always been the fun element of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespreadthe camps and Brian had said that on this camp, Gary should act as the leader and he'd just be there to observe. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled The problem with this was that Gary wasn't really an organiser, an administrator if you like. He worries for was the future of entertainer, the person who basked in the church—and rightly spotlight and made things fun - soBrian stepped in and did the organising. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church He handed the camp over - and hit closer then took it back. And Gary determined to home than he ever imaginedhave his revenge. This should have been ''his'' camp.}}
As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense of the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking his beloved Catholic church, he discovers that one child in his own parish has been abused by a priest sent by his bishop. And this isn't just any boy: this is Steve's grandson whose mother is the offspring of a long past relationship between Steve and a gangster's widow. Steve is determined to seek justice for this boy and all children victimised by priests who have been protected by his church. But he must also face up to his own failings, going right back to his breaking of the celibacy vows.
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|author=Delia OwensJohn Boyne|title=Where The Crawdads SingEcho Chamber
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= In 1952, Kya's mother disappeared up the dirt track to town, wearing her alligator heels, and never came homeMeet George Cleverley. Then He is self-defined as "one by one her siblings left, ran from of the shack on few television personalities over the North Carolina marsh that served as home and the life that would lead to nothing age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her drunken fatherwith. Years pass and Kya They have three children, who are a sad- now nicknamed 'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for a mother that would never return and grew up far too fast for sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who can neither read nor write. Finallyhangs around with a virtue-signalling, one night her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to survive on save the marsh. Eventually, as the years drift painfully by, the time comes when Kyaworld's homeless with out-of-date food, now an emotional and vastly intelligent a fit young womanlad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in a few other characters – therapists, yearns for company besides the gulls and the landlawyers, yearning random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to be loved his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to be heldthe modern world. So, when 2 boys from What suggests the town of Barkley Cove find their way to herfarcical approach even more, she finds a new way of life. But in 1969however, is the body of former star quarterback and new husband Chase Andrews fact this is found lying in the mud of the marsh, and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysterious, run-down Marsh-Girlbloody funny. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=14721546650857526219
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|isbn=14736924070008444501|title=The Book of Two WaysAnswer to Everything|author=Jodi PicoultLuke Kennard
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Dawn Edelstein is Life should have been good for Emily. She had a death doula: thatlovely husband, Steven, who was a speech therapist. We's someone who is there for ll pass over the person who is dying, fact that they rarely speak to make their passage to whatever they believe each other and don't even sleep in as easy as possible and to support their carersthe same bed. Itisn't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that she's sharing a rewarding, caring occupation and Dawn puts bed with one of her heart and soul into children as it but this wasn't always her lifes the only way to get him to sleep during the night. Some fifteen years ago Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and Emily has a job to cope with too - she was teaches drama two days a week. They've not long moved into a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctoratenew home in Criterion Gardens: as an Egyptologist, she was working with her supervisor, Professor Ian Dumphries, it's a trendy area that has been gentrified and it's run on the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir elsemi-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egyptcommunal lines. Then she was Dawn McDowell: that was her maiden name, the name she published underThe residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.
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|isbnauthor=0241295955Louise Beech|title=Trio|author=William BoydThis Is How We Are Human|rating=54
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|summary=It was 1968: the year when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinated. It's also the year when YSK Films are making Veronica is a movie in Brighton. It's called ''Emily Bracegirdle's Extremely Useful Ladder devoted single mother to the Moon''her son, or Sebastian - but she can''Ladder the Moon'' as t give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that it's known on set. Anny Viklund is the female star in a production which is proving time for him to be just a little bit racketyhave sex. There are odd pressures on the producer, Talbot Kydd, to employ this But as an autistic 20 year-old actor friend for a couple of days because he needs the money, allow a fading star that's easier said than done. And it's starting to use his catchphrase, or include a song from the leading man, whose musical star is fadingcause them both problems.|isbn=1913193713}} 
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|author=Anna BrunoAnanda Devi|title=Ordinary HazardsEve Out of Her Ruins|rating=24
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Some At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins is one of the shortest books either grab you or bore youI've read in a long while, but it's one of the most dramatic. And this was one It's also told in a way that I wanted so badly to like but unfortunatelycan only describe as brutal: it spares nothing and pulls very few punches, I just wasn't hookedthe descriptions stark and unromantic.|isbn=14711848620993009344}}
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|isbnauthor=1712435728C J Carey|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherWidowland|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahIt's April 1953, heand Adolf Hitler's just being released from 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 Southern General Hospitalthrone of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. The nurse thinks he'll come back For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to visit the other patients but Alex has no intention of doing World War Two that: hecertainly didn's been there for t happen as we know it, and we are now a yearprotectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the same ward where his brother died and now, with his hair all shorn off, hemainland's going home in his dead brother's clothes. He wants to get outside But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and back with his friends: his brotherideas of female purpose, Forbeshas put all of that gender into a caste system, says that ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the fresh air will do him good drudges, and his mother tells him that he's not beyond those, right on down to mention TB the childless, the husbandless and the 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 say take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it was tonsillitis– 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. Good luck That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with that one, Alextheir potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198X
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|authorisbn=Helen Fisher0857527231|title=Space HopperDog Days|author=Ericka Waller|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very youngGeorge Dempsey is exceedingly angry. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum It's eight days since his wife, Ellen, died from a cold and it's the first time that got worse, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormously's let him down. So whenHe's lost, unexpectedlybereft without her ( he ''needs his wife, she discovers like a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her atticsnail needs its shell'') that takes her back . He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the 70doorstep, he'd much rather have a good row with someone. He's and particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared to contradict him when he told her mum, she revels in that the chance to create some memories dog wasn't staying. Now he's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want and get to know the woman a load of busybodies who meant so much are trying to herinterfere in his life. The time travelling, however, Worst of all is neither easy nor safeBetty, and Faye fears that her husband who won't believe what's happening and so lies to him insteadtake no for an answer. The lies grow more tangledBetty knits jumpers for Lucky, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to the pastgreyhound. Should she try to see her mum one last Lucky spends a lot of time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever trying to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663escape from and destroy them.
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|author= Claire McGowanMartin Venning|title=The PushPrimary Objective|rating= 52|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at Sometimes a prenatal class. It's NCT ''style'', but not the proper NCT. This bit is importantbook starts off slowly, but eventually draws you have in to wait a little caring about the characters or simply wanting to see whyknow what happens next. Sometimes it doesn't. This being London, such The basic premise is a class attracts good one – a wide variety of peopleclandestine organisation, from all sorts of backgroundsoperating as a charity, but for most funded by various governments around the world and partially (maybe, I'm not sure) under the auspices of the ladies UN, with the primary objective of keeping the thing they have in common peace, by any means possible. Diplomacy is it's their first baby. Probably after always the first option and sometimes one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.|isbn=1542019990}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008378363|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela Crane|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=A husband is about that needs to have his throat cut in his own bed. To find be carried out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenzieby third parties, Robin and Lily met but for situations when they all went that looks unlikely 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 yield results Peace International maintains a nod to the famous girl band call-on list of the day. Lily would be Adventure Spicefield operatives, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie ex- wellmilitary, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own life. She married Owenmedics, her college sweetheart scientists or anyone else with a taste for adventure and they have a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-oldwilling to risk their life for the sake of it.|isbn=1800461100
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|isbnauthor=B07WWSCGVSKaren M McManus|title=The Lies You Told|author=Harriet TyceCousins
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start The rich and famous Story family led a new school. She's left life of luxury on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago when each of the school she loved in New York Story children - Anders, Archer, Adam and now she's going to Ashams in North London. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth Allison - received a mysterious letter from their mother and as the pupils have all been there ''forever'', they have their established groupswere cut off completely. Robin's going to be an outsider. And why is this happening? WellBut now, over a matter quarter of a few days her parents' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - and her mothercentury later, Sadie Roper, has come back their children have been called to London return to pick up the island for the summer by their grandmother. What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her practice as a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted lies, secrets and tragedy that has held the market place Story family up - and the country held them apart - for more than ten yearsa quarter of a century is about to come crashing down.|isbn=0241376947
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|author=Antoine LaurainRuth Hogan|title=The Readers RoomMadame Burova|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|ratingsummary=3This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected.5|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a great successsinger, and it was through chiefly, Imelda, the slush pile third generation of unsolicited manuscripts. The three people who work in the ReadersMadame Burova, '' Room to sift through what is ninetyTarot-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smashReader, Palmist and so it has proven. But there are several Clairvoyant'howevers' , to thatuse her family's sea-front booth. As inThe singer, however – Violaine herself is not having life the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all her own waybecome staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for she has been involved the first time in a near-fatal accident, and starts this book coming round from a comathe family stall. AndWe also see her on her last day, however – despite all urgingfifty years later, the author in possession of a pair of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in person, and in fact, offered up letters that will change everything for a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailwoman called Billie. What Just who is going to befall Violaineshe, and who delivered the secrets about her memoryto Imelda, her staff – and how much is any of why did it due have to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come fromremain a secret all this time?|isbn=1910477974152937331X
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|isbnauthor=085752612XStephen Clarke|title=Rodham: What if Hillary hadn't Married Bill?|author=Curtis SittenfeldThe Spy Who Inspired Me
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|summary=I was tempted to read ''Rodham'' by the success of Curtis Sittenfeld's ''American Wife''. That book wasn't marketed as being This is a portrait of Laura Bushspoof spy story, but the word that isn''thinly-veiled'' seemed to occur very regularly in reviewst about James Bond. How would ''Rodham'' compare? Or Ian Fleming. Unfortunately, there is But it features a difference: relatively little was known about Laura Bushman called Ian Lemming, which gave the book a freshness which who dresses well and 'likes the first third of ladies''Rodham'' lacks. We've all heard and who works for the storiessecret service, read but in the books - about Hillary and particularly about Billplanning side of things more than the active service. It's still an interesting conceptLemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, though: how would Hillary have fared if she hadn't subsumed her own ambitions into Bill's careerand the pair end up stranded in Normandy, if she hadn't had with Margaux on a desperate mission to carry unearth traitors in the burden of all Bill's baggage resistance network, and if she hadn't left Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her own run at the presidency so late? Could she have done better without the Clinton surname?!|isbn=2952163855
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|author=Anstey Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris|title=Where We Belong|rating=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 we can tell that a sacred space is sacred. Cate Morris believes a similar thing, she believes that ''A house absorbs happiness, it blooms into the wallpaper, the wood of the window frames, the bricks: that's how it becomes a home.'' She is having these thoughts as she packs up her home. She has to leave. A combination of circumstances means that is not only redundant but also homeless. With nowhere else to go, she has called on her late husband's family for help. Just for a few weeks.|isbn=1471173836}}{{Frontpage|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=A Life Without EndIf You Kept a Record of Sins|rating=4.5
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|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 almost 30. She lives in Glasgow, alone. And she likes it that way. She works 9-5, 5 days a week, and spends the story of Herod Sweekend not drunk, but not sober. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives by a routine, and that's fine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing is missing from her life. Except everything is. PinkneyUntil one day, at a rather unusual (yet somehow charming) concert she won tickets for in an office raffle, she sees the man who she is in search sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself the best version of a woman called Daisyherself that she can, whom he first sees in an episode of Judge Judy order to secure this beautiful musician. Then, as she's on television her way home one Friday, she and instantly falls the new IT guy at her office see a man collapse in love the street and stay close to him in hospital. Then, before she knows it, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with the man's family and friends, with Raymond from IT and of course her! Rod is writing the novel side project of his quest, guided by an embittered ex-literary agent who is now clearing glasses falling in a pub for a livinglove with Johnnie Lomond. Determined But just as her life seems to find and meet Daisybe looking up, things take a turn for the book takes us through Rodworse. Is Johnnie all he's life, introduces us cracked up to his friends, be? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanor's walls have been broken down and tells us she has to fight her way out of what happens in his quest for lovethe shadows - but maybe she doesn't have to do it alone.|isbn=08573033090008172145
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{{Frontpage |isbn=1529123941 B08GFSK2WZ|title=The Silent Treatment Karma Trap|author=Abbie Greaves Lisette Boyd|rating=4.5 |genre=General Women's Fiction |summary= When we meet Professor Frank Hobbs and his wife, Maggie, Frank George Jackson is playing chess against his computerthirty-three years old, although not very successfullyabsolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. Maggie, on She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the other hand, has just taken some pills - eight karma trap: an awful lot of them, in fact - bad luck is being visited on her and before long she will collapsehas a real talent for attracting drama. When Frank rings Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the emergency services 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 Oxford he has a bit of a problemit and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. He She only has to admit that he and Maggie haventake her mother't actually spoken s dog out for a while. How long? Well, it's about six months since he spoke walk for her to Maggie end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and he can't really say if a photo being taken by someone who shares it's likely that Maggie has tried to take her own lifearound the office.
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|author=Camilla BruceMatt Haig|title=You Let Me InThe Midnight Library|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= EccentricBetween life and death there is a library. And so, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, she finds herself in the Midnight Library. Everything that could've gone wrong in Nora's life has been missing for a year . Her cat died, she lost her job, her brother won't speak to her, her parents are dead, the boy she teaches piano to no longer cares about piano, she called off her wedding, and has been pronounced legally dead by old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her lawyershelp. Her will instructs She gave up on all the things that would've let her niece escape the wet, cold town of Bedford and nephew to enter given her home life some purposeful direction. So at 23:22, she realises that she isn't made for life and find decides to die. But instead of death, she finds the key library. Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each book providing a chance to their inheritance try another life she could have lived, in an old manuscript left in her office: a parallel time. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday the last story 18th of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life shecould'll ever tellve.|isbn=17876331791786892731
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