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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg GrehanJen Beagin|title=The Space BetweenBig Swiss
|rating=4.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=I found the premise of this book totally original and addictive. Greta possesses the power to know the population of Hudson, New York's darkest secrets, their intimate lives, their fetishes and fears. How? Her job is to transcribe their sex therapy sessions. Sure, there's a confidentiality agreement, as the sex coach who calls himself Om keeps reminding her, but that just makes it more exciting. Like we've all probably wished for at some point in life, Greta can exist passively, placidly, as a fly on the wall. That is, until Greta decides to unglue her fly-feet from the safety of the wall and buzz far too close to the sun. The sun in this analogy is the sex coach's newest patient, who Greta dubs 'Big Swiss', and who, like the sun, is bright, blonde and beautiful - and irresistible to Greta. Suddenly, the confidentiality agreement, the ethics of her professional position, her loyalties to Om, fly out of the window. She's in too deep.
|isbn=0571378579
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{{Frontpage
|author=James Baldwin
|title=Giovanni's Room
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.
|isbn=0141186356
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529077699
|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)
|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''
Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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{{Frontpage
|author=Lex Croucher
|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=''The Space Between'' tells the story of BethWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, over the course of it lifted my spirits in a yearmost delightful way. We In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see Beth dealing with her mental illness, locked away is in her own, personal love with Bridget (the kingdom'safe' world where she feels she can maintain s only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her happiness by remaining isolatedprivate diaries. Mouse And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the dogsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, however, has when really they are enabling their own other ideas about this! romantic attachments. With the entrance of Mouse into her life there comesBut as their impending wedding draws ever closer, alsowill they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, Alice and slowly Alice brings both light and love or are they destined to Beth's world.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411590</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nicole Dennis-Benn Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= Here Comes the Sun Different for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction Teens |summary= You have Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to assume find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team behind , and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the cover sleeve talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for Nicole Dennis-Bennseveral months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1542037239|title=Death in Heels|author=Kitty Murphy|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Set against the backdrop of Dublin's drag scene, ''Death in Heels'' tells the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friend, Robyn, who is about to debut novel Here Comeas drag queen Mae B. What is meant to be a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to the stage to mock Mae B. As if the night could not get any worse, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet the drag community, and the Guards, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeper.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008441618|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=5|genre=Women's 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 a house price slump in that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the Sun have toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.}}{{Frontpage|author=Freya Marske|title=A Marvellous Light|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into a keen sense job in the Civil Service, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of ironyLondon are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the countryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. Either There they uncover a sinister plot that or none threatens the lives of them read beyond all magicians in the first pageBritish Isles.|isbn=1529080886}}{{Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178607124X<1471181405|title=Nighthawking|author=Russ Thomas|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Sheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/amazonuk>Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in what's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the body of a young woman was discovered. It had obviously been buried in one of the beds but who would have started to dig her up? It had been in the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for years. The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left the two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuries.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Stewart0857527231|title=Whilst I Was OutDog Days|author=Ericka Waller|rating=2.5|genre=General Fiction |summary= Sara StewartGeorge Dempsey is exceedingly angry. It's debut noveleight days since his wife, Ellen, died and it's the first time that she'Whilst I Was Outs let him down. He's lost, bereft without her ( he ''needs his wife, opens with all the promise of like a book intent snail needs its shell''). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to delve head-first into invention and oddness. The narrator of leave on the storydoorstep, Alice, is stuck in traffic he'd much rather have a good row with her husband – who someone. He's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she refers died. She even dared to throughout the book as My Dear Husband (or MDH for short) – contradict him when he suddenly jumps out of their car and runs off for seemingly no reasontold her that the dog wasn't staying. The scene opens Now he's lumbered with a mention dog he doesn't want and a load of domestic abuse but seems much more interested busybodies who are trying to interfere in the inherent malfunction his life. Worst of Aliceall is Betty, who won's husband as she describes his fixation with his bicycle and how t take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her and their three children have taken greyhound. Lucky spends a back seat lot of time trying to his 'finding himself' through affairs escape from and cross-country cyclingdestroy them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910903035</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Edmund WhiteEverina Maxwell|title= Our Young ManWinter's Orbit|rating= 45|genre= LGBT Science Fiction|summary= New York City in the eighties, and at its decadent heart Prince Kiem is Guya famous political disappointment. Guy is taking on the fashion world and fast becoming the darling of the Fire IslandHe's gay community. Fredoutgoing, Andre and Pierre-Georges are all fixated on Guycarefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the Dorian Gray like Guy commands their attention, whilst seemingly never agingpast few years. Still modelling at thirty-five, enjoying lavish gifts from these admirers who believe him far younger, Guy lets them believe So when an important political alliance is to be arranged – but then finds this way of life one that is destroying supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the men he lovesrole. Stretching from the disco era to the age Least of AIDS, Edmund White explores beauty, and the power is has to enslave, fascinate and deceiveall him. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858932</amazonuk>0356515885
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