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|author=Tash Aw
|title=Five Star Billionaire
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=China is a booming economy for people in a position to take advantage; people like Gary the pop star who once won a talent show, Yinghui the lingerie magnate or her childhood friend and property developer Justin who feels the weight of his family's expectations. Then there's Phoebe, moving to Shanghai from the country on a promise and a belief that to attract success one must act as if one already has it. Life will bring them into each other's orbit but it won't leave any of them the same as when they started.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007494157</amazonuk>
}}
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|summary=Valerie Pixley and her husband O'D live in Mozambique, amidst its rapidly disappearing forests. Monkeys in my Garden tells the story of what life is like in the Nhamacoa Forest and how they came to be there. It opens with a terrifying scene: armed bandits in their bedroom in the middle of the night.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00DUF1LXM</amazonuk>
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