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Book review: <i>The Giddy Death of the Gays and Strange Demise of Straights</i> by Redfern Jon Barrett

Fri, 02/10/2015 - 02:45 — brid


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In Swansea, Wales, a nightclub burns down. A seemingly small incident, but inflaming a section of the community keen on white pride and general bigotry. Word flies while the club burns and Dom, his girlfriend Caroline and flatmate Richard, Richard's sort-of-friend Rutti, and their friends are all drawn to the flames. To each of them, the destruction seems to portent a significant shift in their lives. Can each of these friends weather the coming storm?

Genre: 
Contemporary literature
Publisher: 
Lethe Press
Rating: 
8
Review Type: 
Book Review
Author: 
Redfern Jon Barrett

Book review: <i>Somebody I Used To Know</i> by David Bell

Sun, 13/09/2015 - 03:00 — brid


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Nick is a man who has never managed to properly escape from his college years, and the spectre of his first and only true love. When he encounters what seems like an impossible blast from his past, he's set on a path that might end in disappointment – or revelation. But has in unwittingly put himself in danger, or has his past placed him there?

Genre: 
Thriller
Publisher: 
Penguin
Rating: 
7
Review Type: 
Book Review
Author: 
David Bell

Book review: <i>The Appetites Of Girls</i> by Pamela Moses

Sun, 06/09/2015 - 05:58 — brid


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Fran, Opal, Ruth, and Setsu all have one thing in common – they share the same rooms at Brown University. But scratch the surface and each of their vastly different stories gives them unlikely common ground. Can these girls succeed against the odds of growing up damaged?

Genre: 
Fiction
Publisher: 
Penguin
Rating: 
7
Review Type: 
Book Review
Author: 
Pamela Moses

Book review: <i>The Violet Crow</i> by Michael Sheldon

Sat, 29/08/2015 - 01:09 — brid


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The body of a little girl turns up in a Quaker meeting house in South Jersey. Nobody claims her. The media runs wild. Who can Chief Black turn to to help bring this crime to justice, and a speedy resolution for all?

Genre: 
Thriller
Publisher: 
Liberty Island Media
Rating: 
7
Review Type: 
Book Review
Author: 
Michael Sheldon

Book review: <i>How To Live Life</i> by John Vorhaus

Sun, 16/08/2015 - 02:08 — brid


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Living, right? We all wonder, from time to time, if we could be doing it better, making more of it. Let John Vorhaus, who has successfully been living life for years, give you a few pointers.

Genre: 
Non-fiction
Publisher: 
CreateSpace
Rating: 
9
Review Type: 
Book Review
Author: 
John Vorhaus

Book review: <i>Eeny Meeny</i> by M J Arlidge

Sat, 08/08/2015 - 05:26 — brid


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A killer is kidnapping people in pairs. There is only one way to escape, ever. Can detective Helen Grace find the killer and stop the carnage in time? And why is the killer trying to get Helen's attention?

Genre: 
Thriller
Publisher: 
Penguin
Rating: 
7
Review Type: 
Book Review
Author: 
M J Arlidge

Book review: <i>South Of Everything</i> by Audrey Taylor Gonzalez

Sat, 08/08/2015 - 05:19 — brid


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Germanville in the 1940s is rife with segregation and inequality. For Missy Sara, daughter of wealthy plantation owners, this inequality is incomprehensible, and her coming of age story is her struggle to understand the world around her through her own kind of magic.

Genre: 
Contemporary literature
Publisher: 
She Writes Press
Rating: 
7
Review Type: 
Book Review
Author: 
Audrey Taylor Gonzalez

Book Review: <i>The Stray American</i> by Wendy Brandmark

Wed, 05/08/2015 - 09:48 — brid


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Larry doesn’t know what he wants, but it wasn’t corporate law in Boston and it doesn’t seem like it’s lecturing in an American college in London either. He’s chasing his truth, and looking for it in all the wrong girls. But is a relationship what he needs to make himself whole?

Genre: 
Contemporary literature
Publisher: 
Holland Park Press
Rating: 
7
Review Type: 
Book Review
Author: 
Wendy Brandmark

Book review: <i>The Lost Swimmer</i> by Ann Turner

Sat, 01/08/2015 - 02:43 — brid


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Rebecca Wilding has it all – a great job, a handsome husband, and two successfully grown up kids. Her husband, Stephen, has been acting a little odd, but hopefully their holiday to Europe will cure any small ills in the relationship. However, Rebecca's problems can't be written off as small ills, and by the time she figures out how deep they are it might be too late...

Genre: 
Contemporary literature
Publisher: 
Simon & Schuster
Rating: 
9
Review Type: 
Book Review
Author: 
Ann Turner

Book review: <i>The Dwarf And The Twins</i> by Katharina Gerlach

Thu, 09/07/2015 - 07:23 — brid




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Snow White and Rose Red is one of the Grimms’ most popular stories. But what if the Grimms brothers version is misguided? Katharina Gerlach turns this tale on its head.

Genre: 
Fairy tale
Publisher: 
Independent Bookworm
Rating: 
8
Review Type: 
Book Review
Author: 
Katharina Gerlach

Book review: <i>Dry Bones</i> by Craig Johnson

Wed, 10/06/2015 - 07:37 — brid


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When the tiny county of Abrasoka erupts in a storm over a t-rex, Sherif Walt Longmire knows he's going to have a fight on his hands. With one suspicious death already muddying the waters, can Walt work out a tangled situation without further casualties?

Genre: 
Crime fiction
Publisher: 
Viking
Rating: 
8
Review Type: 
Book Review
Author: 
Craig Johnson

Book review: <i>Season Of Shadow and Light</i> by Jenn J McLeod

Fri, 22/05/2015 - 23:37 — brid


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Paige Turner is at a crossroads in her life. She packs up her daughter Mati and her step-mother Alice and takes a trip to the country, leaving her husband behind. She's hoping to find something about her past, about the mother she lost as a young girl. But has she bitten off more than she can chew?

Genre: 
Fiction
Publisher: 
Simon & Schuster
Rating: 
6
Review Type: 
Book Review
Author: 
Jenn J McLeod

Book review: <i>Gathering Prey</i> by John Sandford

Sun, 03/05/2015 - 08:50 — brid


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Pilate and his gang of disciples have been wreaking havoc across California, and nobody’s noticed except a traveller named Skye. While rumours about Pilate fly thick and fast, Skye knows he’s genuinely bad news – can she get someone to take notice before Pilate goes on a cross-country rampage?

Author: 
John Sandford
Rating: 
7
Review Type: 
Book Review
Publisher: 
G P Putmans Sons

Book review: <i>The Liar</i> by Nora Roberts

Wed, 29/04/2015 - 07:58 — Bridget


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When Shelby Pomeroy’s husband dies unexpectedly, she heads home to Tennessee, a young widow with a young daughter and a lot of debt. Hoping to put the past behind her, she settles in with the family she left five years ago, but it turns out trouble has followed her home…

Genre: 
Fiction
Publisher: 
G P Putmans Sons
Rating: 
6
Review Type: 
Book Review
Author: 
Nora Roberts

Book review: <i>Phoenix: The Radio Play</i> by Scott Fivelson

Sat, 25/04/2015 - 06:45 — Bridget


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In an underground laboratory, a selection of specialised scientists work to cure a killer virus sweeping the world. Can they come up with an antidote before it's too late?

Genre: 
Horror
Publisher: 
Cleveland Radio Players
Rating: 
8
Review Type: 
Book Review
Author: 
Scott Fivelson

Book review: <i>Double Vision</i> by Colby Marshall

Sat, 18/04/2015 - 07:34 — Bridget


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Jenna Ramey has a corker of a case on her hands: a clearly disturbed shooter with no discernible motives had a rampage in a Lowmans, and Jenna’s only witness is a six year old girl. Can Jenna get to the bottom of this senseless crime before others lose their lives?

Genre: 
Crime fiction
Publisher: 
Berkley
Review Type: 
Book Review
Author: 
Colby Marshall

Book review: <i>Girl Underwater</i> by Claire Kells

Fri, 03/04/2015 - 04:40 — Bridget


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Avery Delacorte is on her way home to Brookline for a college break when her plane goes down over the Rocky Mountains. Survival seems tough, but Avery's return to civilisation, and school, is unexpectedly more challenging by a long shot.

Genre: 
Fiction
Publisher: 
Dutton
Rating: 
7
Review Type: 
Book Review
Author: 
Claire Kells

Book review: <i>The Stranger</i> by Harlan Coben

Sat, 28/03/2015 - 07:04 — Bridget


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Adam Price's calm is shattered by a stranger, who approaches him at the American Legion Hall and tells him one of his wife's big secrets. Can Adam put aside his feelings about his wife and try and uncover why the stranger approached him in the first place before irrevocable damage is done?

Genre: 
Thriller
Publisher: 
Dutton
Rating: 
8
Review Type: 
Book Review
Author: 
Harlan Coben

Book review: <i>Mother Night</i> by Kurt Vonnegut

Sun, 15/03/2015 - 05:02 — Bridget


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Howard W Campbell Jr. sits in an Israeli jail, an American-born German national waiting to be tried as a Nazi war criminal in 1961. This is his story.

Genre: 
Contemporary literature
Publisher: 
Dial Press Trade
Rating: 
10
Review Type: 
Book Review
Author: 
Kurt Vonnegut

Book review: <i>Faithful Place</i> by Tana French

Sun, 08/03/2015 - 02:34 — Bridget


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Frank Mackey runs undercover in Dublin, and runs it well. He’s firmly focussed on his present; his job, and his daughter. But his past is about to catch up with him.

Genre: 
Crime fiction
Publisher: 
Penguin
Rating: 
9
Review Type: 
Book Review
Author: 
Tana French

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