|summary=Dora and Luka meet and become firm friends. In normal situations one might add ''and a whole lot more'' to that sentence, but Dora and Luka are in Kindergarten, which makes their intense relationship hard to define. As they grow into adults, however, it becomes obvious that there is something between them and no matter how much they, or their circumstances, try to fight this it is there and is not going to fade away. Dora’s parents move her across the continent, careers develop and flourish, out of nowhere they are enveloped by family lives, but still there is an invisible bond that draws them back to one another.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186941</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gerry Wells
|title=Kicking the Hornets' Nest
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=WWII books about the RAF and the Navy are quite common. Books about Special Operations Executive and similar organisations proliferate. Stories about the army are fewer and try as I might I really couldn't think of one which was other than incidentally about tank crew, so when the opportunity came I ''had'' to read 'Kicking the Hornets' Nest' particularly as it's written by an author who crewed a Sherman tank in Operation Overlord, back in June 1944. I had just a couple of nagging doubts. It's a book of short stories. Would I find it easy to pick up - and out down again? The big worry was whether or not this was going to be a macho action story, which wouldn't really be my cup of tea at all.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780881568</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Laura Solomon
|title=Hilary and David
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Hilary, a single mother of two troublesome boys meets David, an elderly writer with problems of his own, through Facebook. It’s an odd beginning – they have a mutual friend, so one adds the other, and then they start chatting quite spontaneously – but sets the scene well for their atypical relationship. Hilary’s in New Zealand, David’s in London. They are many decades apart in age but are clearly both quite lonely and looking for someone to talk to. So, with the vague anonymity of social networking on their side, they reach out to one another.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9881993296</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lionel Shriver
|title=The New Republic
|rating=3
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=
Lionel Shriver adds a beard-shaped appendage to Southern Portugal in The New Republic and immediately has it fighting for independence, taking a wry look at terrorism as well as the ethics of the international press corps. After a series of international terrorism acts, the Os Soldados Ousados De Barba, or the SOB for short, have gone quiet at the same time as charismatic journalist Barrington Sadler has vanished without a trace. Insecure former lawyer Edgar Kellogg steps into Barrington's post: Kellogg on the hunt for serial killers, as it were.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007459807</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anne Sward
|title=Breathless
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=There are those who say that, on an individual level, books are like Marmite: you love it or you hate it. Oh, if only it were so easy.
''Breathless'' is one of those that I neither love nor hate, and yet am not totally uninspired by either.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051032</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Chris Cleave
|title=Gold
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Novels that feature sport often put people off reading them, particularly if you are not au fait with the sport in question. However, while the characters in Chris Cleave's ''Gold'' are athletes, specifically cyclists aiming for the 2012 London Olympics, it's more about the characters themselves. In fact, if you are looking for a book to read to avoid the brouhaha of the Olympics this year but still want to get a taste of what all the fuss is about, this would be a superb choice.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340963433</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jonathan Lee
|title=Joy
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Very stylish, observant and oh so spiky, this is an incredible, often uncomfortable novel that you just can't put down.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434020427</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Miranda France
|title=That Summer at Hill Farm
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=If you were to pass Hill Farm you would think it the perfect country idyll with lambs in the fields, children playing and the farmhouse nestled in the folds of the hills. The truth though is different. Farmer Hayes loves the land, but he's no farmer. His wife is neglected and it's not that long since Isabel miscarried her fourth child. She loves her children but she's not a particularly good housewife - or wife. She and Hayes were rather bounced into marriage by her aging and doting parents. Now she's trapped in a house with death-watch beetle and a husband who is struggling to keep the farm going.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555131</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sylvie Nickels
|title=The Other Side of Silence
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Pippa Eastman went to Australia to get away from her domineering father, the historian Joseph Eastman and it was there that she met Jude, the son of two Ten Pound Poms. Their relationship was good, but not exactly committed on either side. It was about having fun. Familial ties were surprisingly strong though and when Joseph Eastman developed Alzheimer's Disease Pippa returned to the UK to care for him. Slightly to her surprise, Jude followed her - determined to track down the alcoholic father who had left him and his mother in Australia. It's only after her father's death that Pippa finds herself in search of her father's life - and trying to establish that he wasn't a murderer.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781762686</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=William Nicholson
|title=The Golden Hour
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Maggie is nervous about committing to a live-in relationship, terrified by the idea that there must be something better out there. Dean is terrified of losing the love of his life and old Mrs Dickinson is just, well, terrified. Henry is frustrated by rabbits in his garden, Alan is frustrated by work, and Liz is frustrated by old Mrs Dickinson, who is her mother...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849163936</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daniel Glattauer
|title=Love Virtually
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When Emmi sends and email to cancel a magazine subscription, she has no idea what a slight typo in the email address will lead to – a life-changing, potentially marriage-wrecking, all-consuming online love affair with the man whom she emails in error. What starts as an insignificant, casual message quickly becomes something much more important to both her and Leo as two people who have never met start to share their secrets and wishes, dreams and fears with each other, not just because they can but, it seems, because they have to.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050958</amazonuk>
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