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|title=Here and Now: Letters

|author=[[Category:Authors|Auster, Paul]]

|rating=4.5

|genre=Autobiography

|summary=Reading letters by writers affords a particular pleasure. They give us access to the functioning of a writer’s mind when it’s somewhere between work and rest. Sometimes they reveal secrets, offer startling revelations about their writers and insights about the times they lived in. ''Here and Now,'' an exchange of letters between J M Coetzee and Paul Auster between 2008 and 2011, describes itself as ‘an epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends.’

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584220</amazonuk>

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|title=Half Bad

|summary=Hannah is 15 and pregnant. She can't tell anyone who the father is - but new boy at school Aaron steps up to offer his services as a fake father. Hannah accepts, and the pair start their journey to parenthood. But who really is the dad, and why is Aaron willing to make such a massive commitment to a girl he doesn't even know that well?

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406347698</amazonuk>

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~~|title=The Darling Girls~~

~~|author=Emma Burstall~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=Women's Fiction~~

|summary=Leo Bruck, a world famous conductor, died suddenly of a heart attack. Amongst many mourners at his funeral are three women for whom Leo was much more than an acquaintance. Victoria was his long term partner and mother of his two children, Ralph and Salome. However, Maddy has also shared much of her life with Leo and he is father to her daughter Pheobe. Then there is Cat, who met Leo about eighteen months ago and they also formed a relationship. All three were aware of the others and, for whatever reasons, had tolerated the parallel lives that Leo was leading. However, they had never met before the funeral and there is instant dislike particularly between Victoria and Maddy.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857865</amazonuk>~~

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