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|author=Christopher BowdenOnyi Nwabineli|title=Mr MagentaAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
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|summary= Christopher BowdenAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's latest novel is a patient untangling increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of a seemingly ordinary womanAnuri's lifechildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, carried out by monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her nephew after twenties and she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour is slowly trying to regain her confidence and a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting get her life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems back, suing her step-mother to him an obligation take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to find it all outstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW0861546873
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|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason1529153298|title=Partitions The List of UnitySuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix It's 1979 and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]]Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, when she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearanceshonestly... In ) She's not what'Partitions of Unitys worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she sets 's overheard that her mind father wants to solving move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a murderfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF
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|authorisbn=Will Carver1035906708|title=The Daves Next DoorDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Five strangers come together We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares December 1923 and only moved to detonate his vest on a London tube lineAthens when she was thirteen. As their fates overlap, Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the story is told States. When she was back in backwards orderAthens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, leading up to the fateful momentJackie.|isbn= 1914585186}}
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|author=Jennifer MasonAlexander McCall Smith|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary=''A struggling poetry zineThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, a mom-run by Ness and-pop mobile diner operating as an alternative to all the online apps in the Northern California redwoodsproviding a more personal, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the 2004 Olympicsbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a women's track coach with trip to Canada to get away for a yen for bullwhips, while. Katie is coming out of a billionaire break up with a state-of-bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the-art S&M dungeonIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a man serving a life sentence business, or in Alabamamatch-making, an enigmatic signaturebut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, Kand there's always her very helpful (sand rather handsome) neighbour, x)William, on to lend a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia..hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.''5|genre=ParanormalThis |summary=Benny is just having a sample of the cast of characters terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and settings in Preposteroushis house gets trashed. As you can see Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, some keeping up will be requiredand it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all thisbad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=B09STS96HS1662500491
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|isbnauthor=B0B2N7MVYMKatherine Howe|title=The Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel GodfreyA True Account|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph MarrHannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. Just When she hears there is to put what happens be a hanging of some pirates in contextthe town, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a chance she decides to breathe outgo and watch. But for Joe MarrEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, it's not the missile crisis thatHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the front hands of his mindtwo vicious pirates. HeShe hides away, so that they don's been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledget find and kill her too, it's hard and then to escape them completely she runs away to think otherwise than that sea, dressing as a boy and joining the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queennotorious Ned Low's Bench, pirate ship as a relatively new prisoncabin boy. He's just getting used to his roommate, MervynShe soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and learning to be wary from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the McArthur brothersocean waves.|isbn=0861547438
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|authorisbn=A C Wise1471180158|title=HookedMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It’s been twenty two years since Captain HookJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, now going by just ‘James’, has been in Neverlandfor a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Living a new life in LondonJamie's son, Bo, he 'has never completely escaped his pastproblems'. But now he senses He's asthmatic and the edges of more you read, the beast circling around his life in London, and when suddenly more you'll suspect that he finds himself face 's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to face take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the street with Wendy, he knows that the line between this world local A&E and Neverland is growing thinsometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. The beast is finally coming Missed shifts or the need to get him, be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the process will pull Wendy and her daughter Jane back into their past once againwrong. It was going to come to a head.|isbn=1789096839
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|isbn=B09Y451X9KB0CKD1L5JL|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)Radio Free Olympia|author=Richard F WalkerJeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= ''Anything can happen at a birthday partyPetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, particularly when the birthday boy he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the young Lord forests of the ManorWashington's Olympic Peninsula. But when an eerie signal is picked up After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in the early hourshuman company, George and his new girlfriendarmed with only a pirate radio transmitter, the vivacious Lady Antonia, embark Petr goes on a quest to uncover its incredible message. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets journey through the cat out of the bag and the world goes into a state of panic.'' Could it be? Could it? Have aliens reached out and contacted Earth? George and Antonia find themselves lifted out of their privileged lives of parties and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into forest, broadcasting the world of advanced sciencestrange, secret agents.wild and politicians hungry for powerrarely heard voices he encounters.
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|isbnauthor=0241542405Sarah Marsh|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire AlexanderA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5
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|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her home for 1hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence,214 dayseverything about her life changes. She'd ''like'' to: Living in facta time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes Ellen is sent to wear if a school where she's going is taught to catch her trainlip read, but physically restrained from signing. ThenFrom here, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James deaf and Matilda. Sadie's using a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sensesystem called Visible Speech. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her catAt the same time, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries Bell is working on other inventions and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRLideas, so you can guess what she does and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'scomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614
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|authorisbn=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)B0BC3YTCMR|title=Tasting SunlightGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sally ''This story is a teenager who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinicnot for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She just wants spacewas a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and for suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to stop questioning her, tiptoeing around her, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding hug herin case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She finds herself had a crush on some farmland with a woman called Liss who is in seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her forties . Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and seems to live aloneReggie asked if she would tutor him. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally has ever metShe readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She just accepts Sally as she is, giving her a room went to sleep in, his house and the space to just behe raped her. As they work together on the farm In shock, she even allowed him to give her a closeness develops between them, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendshiplift home.|isbn=1914585143
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|isbn= B09NDJ77LM1472263936|title=Me and My ShadowThe Figurine|author=Deborah StoneVictoria Hislop|rating=45
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|summary= ''What happens when someone is pushed too far It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and they begin refused to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that no one loved you? And how far it would you go be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off the shadows first of several annual visits. She grew to love her past grandmother and attempts to repair decades worth the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of pain.'' Rachel is in a current conversation with her psychiatristgrandfather, who pushes her to recall her life from very young childhood onwardsretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. But Rachel is combative with Doctor Blake, sometimes even contemptuous He was proud of herhis close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. You can see that it His prejudices included Helena's not an easy therapeutic relationship. Rachelred hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's recall of her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute and unforgiving clarityScottish ancestors.
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|author=Dean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B09MSC981WB0BVDC2VWH|title=The Woke IliadGrave Listeners|author=George BoreasWilliam Frank
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Helen The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a popular activistWitching Forest. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anyway, Helen is so popular that And the United States government has made her villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its Ambassador of Wokebread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. Helen runs all sorts The black wood of initiatives the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on behalf homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the government, including the Shaming Conference village and that is the Permissible Entertainment Committee reason Volushka, a drunken, self- ''for indoctrinating and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how to have it''indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated. Ouch!
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|isbn=0008441618B0BYF82CXT|title=Other ParentsSemi-Detached|author=Sarah StovellDeborah Stone|rating=54|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be 'Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house price slump , stuck in that part a depressing rut of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association boredom and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. There was one difficultydisappointment, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two memberswhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in particularnext door. Despite their different outlooks on life, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence couples befriend each other and Kate Monroe objected life appears to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and their real gripe: LGBTQ educationincreasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''
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|author=Giovanna FletcherShalini Boland|title=Walking on SunshineThe Silent Bride|rating=43|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Mike's wifeAlice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, Piaaccomplished, who he was with for seventeen yearsclever, has diedfunny; total and utter husband-material. And whilst She is all he is dealing with his griefcould possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so are their best friends, Vicky the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that she was dying the wedding is planned and that they would need help to carry on livingset. Whilst some of When the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one much-anticipated day encourages him to take one of their trips awayarrives, and Vicky and ZazaAlice is walked down the aisle by her father, struggling beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their grief friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and their own life troubleswhen Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, decide who is waiting for her to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with himbecome his wife.|isbn=140593560X1662507089
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|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)1787636003|title=Red is My HeartThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=3.5|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and white Caroline went backpacking around Greece and read in my housearrived on the island. And so Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one wasperhaps, naive, and isso when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, black she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and white and redby that time she was obsessed by him. Yes Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, he has an artistic collaborator looking after his interests on this piece, the island and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks in particular in the bar where all the influence of some striking visual ideasgirls either worked or partied.|isbn=1913547183
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|author=Andrew SharpAmanda Craig|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingThree Graces|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Chef Mlantushi Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of- Mozzy to his employer the- is, in his mind, nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the head chef atmosphere of a safari business catering to VIP guests in the day and capture it, crafting an unnamed African image of the countryas it stands in one particular moment. Mozzy To say that Amanda Craig is earnest and dedicated to his task and he puts all skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become day into the head chef lives of a restaurant her characters in London or a big American city. Even to win a Michelin star. He is thwarted way that feels natural and lived-in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval never making them ciphers for his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests and - shocksocial commentary but instead fully realised people, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the housegrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn=B09926MK8H140871468X
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|isbn=1901514978152915118X|title=There's a Problem With DadPineapple Street|author=Carlos AlbaJenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Life ''Pineapple Street'' is different for the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George Lovelace are sisters and he canSasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't really understand whyreadily accepted into the tribe. HeThe problem's always done everything he ought exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to: steady worker, husband move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and father - Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a father who was always there for school plays and sports daysstreet or so away, which they own. So why is he never quite They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in tune with those around him? . Why does he upset people? Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Why is someone with such a Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''goodtheir'' mind unable to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make family home. They use it so many breath-taking gaffes? It's almost become a cliche these days often that they abbreviate it to suggest that someone who is a little different is 'on the spectrumGD', but George Lovelace has all the symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: high-functioning autism.
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|author=Freya SampsonEmily Critchley|title=The Last LibraryOne Puzzling Afternoon
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=I am always 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a little nervous move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to start a story about a librarylive with his family, since I am a librarianas Edie is starting to lose her memory. I always grit my teeth slightly at However, Edie is tormented by the thought memory of the incoming cardigan-wearingher childhood friend, hair in a bunLucy, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this storywho went missing over 60 years ago, and the main character, June, does put her hair in worry that there was a bun, and secret she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw thing that reveals the book out truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the window, because I found I was interested in Junehigh street, and why she lived just as she did. Her mum used to be a librarian at was the village librarylast time she saw her, but when she got sick, June gave up on going starts to University and stayed at home find pockets of memories coming back to take care of her mum, . And yet as well as taking on a job as library assistant at she remembers the local library. And even though her mum sadly died some years agopast, she is still working there, still eating forgetting more and more in her mumday to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's favourite takeaway mealdisappearance before her move, and still reading before her mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the change.memories are gone forever?|isbn=183877369X1804181250
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|author=Emily CritchleyMadelaine Lucas|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small FlowersThirst for Salt|rating=35|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had all always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the hallmarks of something goodyear-long relationship that once defined her. I was intrigued by Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the plot, liked summer after. Set against the design backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the book24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and thought the author's work sounded interesting. From the outset how it all looked incredibly promisingaltered her irrevocably. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 19114270910861546490}}
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|isbn=B093VPBL5L0008506337|title=Cape Henry HouseThe Garnett Girls|author=Jolly Walker BittickGeorgina Moore|rating=45
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|summary=Meet BosnerThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, or, to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosnerapparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. We never really find out if he has a first name: thereRichard was twenty-one and described by Margo's merely a hint that he had the nickname mother as 'Secretaryan older man' at one point. HeHer parents worried that Richard's simply Bosner influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to one Oxford and allhaving a glittering career. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of 2008 when he was a greaser Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on helicopters (or helos, as they were called) at to become a naval establishmentwell-respected journalist. The hours could be long couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and he Sasha. Life was often working nights but lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the age Isle of twenty-one, there was always a way Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his dayleave him in charge''. Then Richard left them.
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|isbn=B095CY7NBN1914585402|title=Autumn CampDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Barry FowlerDavid F Ross
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It was to be BrianI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's last camp. HeOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There'd founded the organisation some four s Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years ago back and had done all the organisation since but he remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was leaving school and the time had come to hand the reins to someone else. The obvious person It was Garya gripping, who'd always been the fun element of the camps and Brian had said that on this campemotionally wounding read, Gary should act as the leader and he'd just be there to observe. The problem with this rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that Gary wasn't really an organiser, an administrator if you like. He was the entertainer, the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did the organising. He handed the camp over - and then took I might not have lavished enough praise on it back. And Gary determined to have his revenge. This should have been ''his'' camp.
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|author=John BoyneLucy Ashe|title=The Echo ChamberClara and Olivia|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He The year is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record"1933. He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him sheThe place? Sadler's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withWells. They have three childrenBallerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, who are a sad-sack with absolutely twins no social skills whatsoeverless. Identical on the outside but not, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signallingwe learn, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save on the worldinside. And not on stage, either. Because there's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thinglot that builds a dancer. Add in a few other characters Some things that can be taught or learnt – therapistsdiscipline, lawyersattention to detail – and some things, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life''je ne sais quoi'', and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to don't come from the modern worldclassroom. What suggests the farcical approach even moreA stage presence, a charm, howevera ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, is the fact this is bloody funnyand a star.|isbn=08575262190861544080
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|isbnauthor=0008444501Heather Fawcett|title=The Answer to Everything|author=Luke KennardEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Life should have been good for Emily. She had a lovely husbandWilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, Stevenand researched meticulously, who was a speech therapist. We'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other and donwrite her life't even sleep in s work, the same bedvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. It isn't Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so much that Emily has left good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the marital bed as that she's sharing a bed with one small village of her children as it's Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the only way village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to get him to sleep during redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the nightright track. Arthur Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily has a job to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a week. They've not 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 linesfrustration. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120
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|authorisbn=Louise Beech1398515388|title=This Is How We Are HumanThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother to her sonFirst of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wantscaused the nuclear meltdown. Sebastian has decided that it's time for him to have sex The result was complete and utter devastation. But as an autistic 20 year-old The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact thatmany pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn's easier said than done. And itt a dog person but the convenience store owner's starting comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to cause them both problemsopen his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in. |isbn=1913193713}}
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|author=Ananda DeviChristopher Bowden|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsMr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins Christopher Bowden's latest novel is one a patient untangling of the shortest books I've read in a long while, but itseemingly ordinary woman's one life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of the most dramatic. It's also told in indulgence to a young nephew had had a way much more interesting life than that I can only describe as brutal: nephew Stephen had ever realised and it spares nothing and pulls very few punches, the descriptions stark and unromanticseems to him an obligation to find it all out.|isbn=0993009344B0B6Z9VJDW}}
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|author=C J CareyJennifer Mason|title=WidowlandPartitions of Unity
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's April 1953Here at Bookbag Towers, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bitwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved unintentional detective in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and we are now unravelled a protectorate – well, we share enough series of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on disappearances. In ''the mainlandPartitions of Unity''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into she sets her mind to solving a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widowsmurder. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And 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, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198XB09LQR9FRF
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|isbnauthor=0857527231Will Carver|title=Dog Days|author=Ericka WallerThe Daves Next Door|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angry. It's eight days since Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his wife, Ellen, died and it's the first time that she's let him down. He's lost, bereft without her ( he ''needs his wife, like vest on a snail needs its shell'')London tube line. He misses As their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the doorstepfates overlap, he'd much rather have a good row with someone. He's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared to contradict him when he story is told her that the dog wasn't staying. Now he's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want and a load of busybodies who are trying to interfere in his life. Worst of all is Betty, who won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Luckybackwards order, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying leading up to escape from and destroy themthe fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}}
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|author=Martin VenningJennifer Mason|title=The Primary ObjectivePreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=24
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Sometimes ''A struggling poetry zine, a book starts off slowlymom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, but eventually draws you in to caring about a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the characters or simply wanting to know what happens next. Sometimes it doesn2004 Olympics, a women't. The basic premise is s track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a good one – billionaire with a clandestine organisationstate-of-the-art S&M dungeon, operating as a charityman serving a life sentence in Alabama, but funded by various governments around the world and partially an enigmatic signature, K(maybes, I'm not surex) under the auspices of the UN, with the primary objective of keeping the peaceon a cheap oil painting, by any means possiblean erotic art dealer in Georgia. Diplomacy ..'' This is always just a sample of the first option cast of characters and sometimes one that needs to settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be carried out by third parties, but for situations when that looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains a call-on list required! The basic premise of field operatives, ex-military, medics, scientists or anyone else with a taste for adventure and willing to risk their life for the sake of itthis mystery story goes like this...|isbn=1800461100B09STS96HS
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|authorisbn=Karen M McManusB0B2N7MVYM|title=The CousinsCalculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= The rich and famous Story family led a life It's the 10th of luxury on Gull Cove IslandDecember 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, until 25 years ago when each of the Story children - Anders, Archer, Adam and Allison - received Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a mysterious letter from their mother and were cut off completelychance to breathe out. But nowfor Joe Marr, a quarter it's not the missile crisis that's at the front of a century later, their children have his mind. He's been called to return to the island for the summer by their grandmotherconvicted of murder. What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are With the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web current state of twisted liesmedical knowledge, secrets and tragedy it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has held the Story family up - spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and held them apart - for a quarter learning to be wary of a century is about to come crashing downthe McArthur brothers.|isbn=0241376947
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