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|author=Stephen ClarkeAndrew Sharp|title=The Spy Who Inspired MeChef, the Bird and the Blessing

|summary=This Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - is , in his mind, the head chef of a spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bondsafari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well Mozzy is earnest and 'likes the ladies' dedicated to his task and who works he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the secret service, guests at BOD-W safaris but in his dream is to become the planning side head chef of things more than the active servicea restaurant in London or a big American city. Lemming finds himself put on Even to win a mission with a female spy called MargauxMichelin star. He is thwarted in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to you and the pair end up stranded me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest in Normandyhis guests and - shock, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in horror - his allowing of bush animals into the resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!house.|isbn=2952163855B09926MK8H

|authorisbn=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)1901514978|title=If You Kept There's a Record of SinsProblem With Dad|author=Carlos Alba

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=This was an incredibly readable novellaLife is different for George Lovelace and he can't really understand why. He's always done everything he ought to: steady worker, but one that left me husband and father - and a little conflictedfather who was always there for school plays and sports days. We start as our hero arrives 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 Bucharest airport, and before we even know work or to relate to his gender or the nature of the person colleagues? Why does hemake so many breath-taking gaffes? It's addressing in his second person monologue of almost become a cliche these days to suggest that someone who is a narration, we see him picked up by his motherlittle different is 'on the spectrum's chauffeur, and carted off to do but George Lovelace has all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following daysymptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: high-functioning autism. }}{{Frontpage|author=Freya Sampson|title=The mother was Last Library|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=I am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, since I am a businesswomanlibrarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought of the incoming cardigan-wearing, who clearly left northern Italy and settled hair in Romania with a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main character, June, does put her hair in a bun, and she does own a cat (night-time and businesscalled Alan Bennett) partner, and feelings 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't immediately throw the book out of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (wellthe window, this came out because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used to be a librarian at the original Italian in 2007village library, so moderately current) Bucharestbut when she got sick, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home to take care of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at the ladlocal library. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mum's childhoodfavourite takeaway meal, and see just what he has to tell still reading her mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her as a private farewell addresslife is about the change.|isbn=1939810965183877369X

|author=David F RossEmily Critchley|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyThe Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=4.53

|summary= Years ago, Danny Garvey The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I 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 intrigued by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying motherthe plot, Danny takes over liked the shambolic design of the book, and once-great team he used to play for and tries to reform themthought the author's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising.So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 19131935001911427091

|isbn=B093VPBL5L|title=Cape Henry House|author=Gail HoneymanJolly Walker Bittick|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet Bosner, or, to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosner. We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely a hint that he had the nickname 'Secretary' at one point. He's simply Bosner to 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 at the age of twenty-one, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his day.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B095CY7NBN|title=Autumn Camp|author=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineBarry Fowler

|summary= Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30It was to be Brian's last camp. She lives in Glasgow, alone. And she likes it that way. She works 9-5, 5 days a week, He'd founded the organisation some four years ago and spends had done all the weekend not drunk, organisation since but not sober. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives by a routine, he was leaving school and that's fine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing is missing from her life. Except everything is. Until one day, at a concert she won tickets for in an office raffle, she sees the man she is sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins a journey time had come to make herself hand the best version of herself that she can, in order reins to secure this beautiful musiciansomeone else. Then The obvious person was Gary, as shewho's d always been the fun element of the camps and Brian had said that on her way home one Fridaythis camp, she and the new IT guy at her office see a man collapse in Gary should act as the street leader and stay close he'd just be there to him in hospitalobserve. Then The problem with this was that Gary wasn't really an organiser, before she knows itan administrator if you like. He was the entertainer, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with the man's family person who basked in the spotlight and friends, with Raymond from IT made things fun - so Brian stepped in and of course her side project of falling in love with Johnnie Lomonddid the organising. But just as her life seems to be looking up, things take a turn for He handed the worsecamp over - and then took it back. Is Johnnie all he's cracked up And Gary determined to be? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanor's walls his revenge. This should have been broken down and she has to fight her way out of the shadows - but maybe she doesn't have to do it alone'his'' camp.|isbn=0008172145

|isbnauthor=B08GFSK2WZJohn Boyne|title=The Karma Trap|author=Lisette BoydEcho Chamber|rating=45|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Meet George Jackson Cleverley. He is thirtyself-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and singledefined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". She's not had sex for eight months and He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's stuck in carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her and she has a real talent for attracting dramawith. Her lifeThey have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world's chaotic: she dealt homeless with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom out-of the stairs to absorb the water - then date food, and a fit young lad doing the shower fell through the roof whilst she was gay hustle thing. Add in it and left hera few other characters – therapists, stark nakedlawyers, staring at random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the pervy postmanmodern world. She only has to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the officefact this is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219

|authorisbn=Matt Haig0008444501|title=The Midnight LibraryAnswer to Everything|author=Luke Kennard|rating=54

|summary= Between life and death there is Life should have been good for Emily. She had a library. And solovely husband, 38 minutes after Nora decided to dieSteven, she finds herself in who was a speech therapist. We'll pass over the Midnight Library. Everything fact that couldthey rarely speak to each other and don've gone wrong t even sleep in Nora's life hasthe same bed. Her cat died, she lost her job, her brother won It isn't speak to her, her parents are dead, so much that Emily has left the boy marital bed as that she teaches piano to no longer cares about piano, she called off her wedding, and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her help. She gave up on all the things that would've let her escape the wet, cold town s sharing a bed with one of Bedford and given her life some purposeful direction. So at 23:22, she realises that she isnchildren as it't made for life and decides s the only way to get him to die. But instead of death, she finds sleep during the librarynight. Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each book providing Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and Emily has a chance job to try another life cope with too - she could have lived, in teaches drama two days a parallel timeweek. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday the 18th of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life she could They'venot long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: it's a trendy area that has been gentrified and it's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.|isbn=1786892731

|author=Vincent PanettiereLouise Beech|title=These Thy GiftsThis Is How We Are Human

|summary=''2006 Veronica is a tumultuous year for the Catholic Church. Reports of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled. He worries for the future of the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church and hit closer devoted single mother to home than her son, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he ever imaginedwants.Sebastian has decided that it'' As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins s time for him to try to make sense of the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking his beloved Catholic churchhave sex. But as an autistic 20 year-old, he discovers that one child in his own parish has been abused by a priest sent by his bishop's easier said than done. And this isn't just any boy: this is Steveit'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 starting to his breaking of the celibacy vowscause them both problems.|isbn=15031998861913193713

|author=Delia OwensAnanda Devi|title=Where The Crawdads SingEve Out of Her Ruins|rating=54

|summary= In 1952At not even 200 pages, KyaEve Out of Her Ruins is one of the shortest books I've read in a long while, but it's mother disappeared up the dirt track to town, wearing her alligator heels, and never came home. Then one by one her siblings left, ran from of the shack on the North Carolina marsh that served as home and the life that would lead to nothing but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken fathermost dramatic. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed It'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for s also told in a mother way that would never return and grew up far too fast for a girl who I can neither read nor write. Finally, one night her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone to survive on the marsh. Eventually, only describe as the years drift painfully by, the time comes when Kya, now an emotional brutal: it spares nothing and vastly intelligent young womanpulls very few punches, yearns for company besides the gulls descriptions stark and the land, yearning to be loved and to be heldunromantic. So, when 2 boys from the town of Barkley Cove find their way to her, she finds a new way of life. But in 1969, the body of former star quarterback and new husband Chase Andrews is found lying in the mud of the marsh, and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysterious, run-down Marsh-Girl. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=14721546650993009344}}

|isbnauthor=1473692407C J Carey|title=The Book of Two Ways|author=Jodi PicoultWidowland

|summary=Dawn Edelstein is a death doula: thatIt's someone who is there for the person who is dyingApril 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to make their passage attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to whatever they believe in as easy as possible London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to support their carersthe throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. ItFor yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn's t happen as we know it, and we are now a rewardingprotectorate – well, caring occupation and Dawn puts her heart and soul into it but this wasnwe share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''t always her life. Some fifteen years ago she was But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an Egyptologistcaste system, she was working with her supervisorranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, Professor Ian Dumphriesand beyond those, right on down to the childless, the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on husbandless and the Nile widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in Middle Egyptthis 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, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. Then she was Dawn McDowell: that was That is her maiden namejob, at least, until the name she published underfirst emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198X

|isbn=02412959550857527231|title=TrioDog Days|author=William BoydEricka Waller

|summary=It was 1968: the year when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinatedGeorge Dempsey is exceedingly angry. It's also eight days since his wife, Ellen, died and it's the year when YSK Films are making a movie in Brightonfirst time that she's let him down. ItHe's called lost, bereft without her ( he ''Emily Bracegirdleneeds his wife, like a snail needs its shell''s Extremely Useful Ladder ). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the Moon''doorstep, or he''Ladder the Moon'' as itd much rather have a good row with someone. He's known on set. Anny Viklund is particularly angry about the female star in a production dachshund puppy which is proving to be Helen brought home just a little bit racketythree weeks before she died. There are odd pressures on She even dared to contradict him when he told her that the producer, Talbot Kydd, to employ this old actor friend for dog wasn't staying. Now he's lumbered with a couple of days because dog he needs the money, allow doesn't want and a fading star load of busybodies who are trying to use interfere in his catchphraselife. Worst of all is Betty, who won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, or include her greyhound. Lucky spends a song lot of time trying to escape from the leading man, whose musical star is fadingand destroy them.

|author=Anna BrunoMartin Venning|title=Ordinary HazardsThe Primary Objective

|summary= Some books either grab Sometimes a book starts off slowly, but eventually draws you in to caring about the characters or bore yousimply wanting to know what happens next. Sometimes it doesn't. The basic premise is a good one – a clandestine organisation, operating as a charity, but funded by various governments around the world and partially (maybe, I'm not sure) under the auspices of the UN, with the primary objective of keeping the peace, by any means possible. And this was Diplomacy is always the first option and sometimes one that I wanted so badly needs to like be carried out by third parties, but unfortunatelyfor situations when that looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains a call-on list of field operatives, ex-military, medics, I just wasn't hookedscientists or anyone else with a taste for adventure and willing to risk their life for the sake of it.|isbn=14711848621800461100

|isbnauthor=1712435728Karen M McManus|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherThe Cousins|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahThe rich and famous Story family led a life of luxury on Gull Cove Island, he's just being released until 25 years ago when each of the Story children - Anders, Archer, Adam and Allison - received a mysterious letter from the Southern General Hospitaltheir mother and were cut off completely. The nurse thinks he'll come back But now, a quarter of a century later, their children have been called to return to visit the other patients but Alex has no intention of doing that: he's been there island for a year, on the same ward where his brother died and now, summer by their grandmother. What does she want with his hair the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all shorn offthose years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted lies, he's going home in his dead brother's clothes. He wants to get outside secrets and back with his friends: his brother, Forbes, says tragedy that has held the fresh air will do him good Story family up - and his mother tells him that he's not held them apart - for a quarter of a century is about to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, Alexcome crashing down.|isbn=0241376947

|author=Helen FisherRuth Hogan|title=Space HopperMadame Burova|rating=34.5

|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 worseThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormouslyall vaguely connected. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers we have a time travel conduit bullied half-cast boy (via an old space hopper box in her atticas he would have been called then) that takes her back to the 70's and her mum, she revels a girl in the chance a humdrum job wanting to create some memories become a singer, and get to know chiefly, Imelda, the woman who meant so much to her. The time travellingthird generation of Madame Burova, however''Tarot-Reader, is neither easy nor safePalmist and Clairvoyant'', and Faye fears that to use her husband won't believe whatfamily's happening and so lies to him insteadsea-front booth. The lies grow more tangledsinger, the scryer and Faye begins to wonder if itthe sufferer's safe mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for her to return one last the first time to in the pastfamily stall. Should she try to We also see her mum one on her last time before her mum's deathday, fifty years later, or in possession of a pair of letters that will it change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her own future forever to attempt Imelda, and why did ithave to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=1471188663152937331X

|author= Claire McGowanStephen Clarke|title=The PushSpy Who Inspired Me|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at This is a prenatal classspoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. It's NCT ''style But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the ladies'and who works for the secret service, but not in the proper NCTplanning side of things more than the active service. This bit is important, but you have to wait Lemming finds himself put on a little to see why. This being London, such a class attracts mission with a wide variety of peoplefemale spy called Margaux, from all sorts of backgroundsand the pair end up stranded in Normandy, but for most of the ladies the thing they have with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in common is it's their first baby. Probably after the first oneresistance network, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|isbn=15420199902952163855

|isbnauthor=0008378363Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneIf You Kept a Record of Sins|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=A husband is about to have his throat cut in his own bedThis was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me a little conflicted. To find out who - We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and why - before we need to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to even know his gender or the nature of the same college person he's addressing in Monroevillehis second person monologue of a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, 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 carted off to do all the famous girl band of necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following day. Lily would be Adventure SpiceThe mother was a businesswoman, Robin the Homemaker who clearly left northern Italy and Mackenzie settled in Romania with her (night- time and business) partner, and feelings of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (well, Mackenzie would be this came out in the supporting actress original Italian in her own life. She married Owen2007, her college sweetheart and they have a daughterso moderately current) Bucharest, Aria, whoto the lad's now fifteen-year-oldchildhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell address.|isbn=1939810965

|isbnauthor=B07WWSCGVSDavid F Ross|title=The Lies You Told|author=Harriet TyceThere's Only One Danny Garvey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start Years ago, Danny Garvey was a new schoolfootballing prodigy playing for his local club. She's left the school she loved Everyone predicted a bright future – but his career in New York and now she's going to Ashams in North Londonprofessional football never quite worked out. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as the pupils have all been there ''forever''Thirteen years on, they have their established groups. Robin's going convinced to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to be an outsider. And why is this happening? Wellvisit his dying mother, Danny takes over a matter of a few days her parents' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying in New York the shambolic and once- great team he works used to play for a securities firm - and her mother, Sadie Roper, has come back tries to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearsreform them.|isbn= 1913193500}}

|author=Antoine LaurainGail Honeyman|title=The Readers RoomEleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine|rating=4.5

|ratingsummary=3Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30. She lives in Glasgow, alone. And she likes it that way.She works 9-5|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had , 5 days a great successweek, and spends the weekend not drunk, but not sober. alone. And she likes it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscriptsthat way. The three people who work in the ReadersShe lives by a routine, and that' Room to sift through what s fine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing is missing from her life. Except everything is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor . Until one day, at a concert she won tickets for in her rarefied mansion up an office raffle, she sees the road – all agreed the book would man she is sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins a huge smashjourney to make herself the best version of herself that she can, and so it has proven. But there are several 'howevers' in order to thatsecure this beautiful musician. As inThen, however – Violaine herself is not having life all as she's on her own wayhome one Friday, for she has been involved and the new IT guy at her office see a man collapse in a near-fatal accident, the street and starts this book coming round from a comastay close to him in hospital. AndThen, however – despite all urgingbefore she knows it, the author her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in personman's family and friends, with Raymond from IT and of course her side project of falling in factlove with Johnnie Lomond. But just as her life seems to be looking up, offered up things take a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailturn for the worse. Is Johnnie all he's cracked up to be? What is going secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanor's walls have been broken down and she has to befall Violaine, fight her memory, her staff – and how much is any way out of the shadows - but maybe she doesn't have to do it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?alone.|isbn=19104779740008172145

|isbn=085752612XB08GFSK2WZ|title=Rodham: What if Hillary hadn't Married Bill?The Karma Trap|author=Curtis SittenfeldLisette Boyd

|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=I was tempted George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to read look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she'Rodham'' by s stuck in the success karma trap: an awful lot of Curtis Sittenfeld's ''American Wife''. That book wasn't marketed as bad luck is being visited on her and she has a portrait of Laura Bush, but the word ''thinly-veiled'' seemed to occur very regularly in reviewsreal talent for attracting drama. How would Her life''Rodham'' compare? Unfortunately, there is a differences chaotic: relatively little was known about Laura Bush, which gave she dealt with the leak from the book a freshness which shower by putting something down at the first third bottom of ''Rodham'' lacks. We've all heard the stories, read stairs to absorb the books water - about Hillary then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and particularly about Billleft her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. ItShe only has to take her mother's still an interesting concept, though: how would Hillary have fared if she hadn't subsumed dog out for a walk for her own ambitions into Bill's career, if she hadn't had to carry the burden of all Bill's baggage end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and if she hadn't left her own run at a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the presidency so late? Could she have done better without the Clinton surname?office.

|author=Anstey HarrisMatt Haig|title=Where We BelongThe Midnight Library

|summary= I've always believed that places Between life and buildings absorb what happens within them and reflect it back; this death there is how we can tell that a sacred space is sacredlibrary. Cate Morris believes a similar thingAnd so, 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, she believes finds herself in the Midnight Library. Everything that could've gone wrong in Nora'A house absorbs happinesss life has. Her cat died, she lost her job, it blooms into the wallpaperher brother won't speak to her, the wood of the window framesher parents are dead, the bricks: that's how it becomes a home.'' She is having these thoughts as boy 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 teaches piano to gono longer cares about piano, she has called on off her wedding, and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs 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 End|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=I looked at She gave up on all the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It wonthings that would't be one of ve let her escape the major numberswet, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a few cold town of the big 0-numbers, Bedford and if all goes wellgiven her life some purposeful direction. So at 23:22, Ishe realises that she isn'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands t made for Over Bloody Eightylife and decides to die.) Now if that's the extent But instead of my mid-life crisisdeath, I guess I have to be happyshe finds the library. Our author here doesn't use that exact phraseEach infinite shelf is filled with books, but he might be said each book providing a chance to be living one. Determined to find out how to prolong try another life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviewsshe could have lived, and they end up with in a childparallel time. And so, which is at least a way of continuing just after midnight on Tuesday the life 18th of his genesApril, and a motive Nora Seed begins to keep ongoinglive every life she could've. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=16428606701786892731