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|author=Judy Chicurel
|title=If I Knew You Were Going To Be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You Go
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Katie and her friends in Elephant Beach, Long Island are going to make the most of summer 1972. High school is behind them, there's booze to be drunk and weed to be smoked. There's also a lot to contend with. This is a working class community, ignored and disenfranchised by those with the money and influence to help. Also the Vietnam War rages on, producing local heroes like Luke and Mitch. For some of the young people the future is a blank canvas, for others their future is foreseen or foreshortened. As for Katie's hopes and dreams, they all revolve around the hope of a date with Luke.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472221656</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
|summary=1980s Melbourne. A triple zero (=999) call has been received from a house on a notorious estate. A child is unresponsive. The story of how it happened is sketchy to say the least. And pretty soon, as it turns into a murder enquiry, people want answers. Need answers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584751</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Maggie
|author=James Dillon White
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Once upon a time, a Puffer in Scotland was not someone with too many deep-fried Mars bars and too much Bucky under his belt, but instead a small steamer, running errant cargo routes in and out of the great port of Glasgow, and taking small industrial output from one place to another – especially lesser, shallow-drafted harbours the bigger ships couldn't ply their trade in. McTaggart is Skipper to one Puffer, and a particularly rundown one at that. He and his three crewmates are in need of drinking money, as well, so when the rare chance comes of a job, he leaps at it. The job in hand, taking a special consignment to a remote island for a visiting American magnate, should be easy – but all of them, from Marshall the businessman down to the cabin boy, are surprisingly great at conspiring to make it the most drawn-out voyage ''The Maggie'' has yet to face…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780272499</amazonuk>
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