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|author=Catherine Chanter

|title=The Well

|rating=3.5

|genre=Dystopian Fiction

|summary=The subject and title of Catherine Chanter's debut novel is a country idyll of which dreams are made: charmingly ramshackle, disarmingly verdant and heaving with fertile acreage. Ruth and Mark can barely believe their luck at finding this perfect retreat, an oasis from their tired and overwrought City existence. Several months down the road and with the entire nation brought to its knees by an almost apocalyptic drought, Ruth and Mark are beginning to question their good fortune in their ownership of The Well.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782113606</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=Teri Terry

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334259</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=Antonia Honeywell

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751557951</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=Karen Thompson Walker

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=Peyton Marshall

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085752190X</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=Leanne Hall

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=The Remaining: Aftermath

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650347X</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=Mark Lingane

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=Sand

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893183</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=Seven Second Delay

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440341</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=Mutant City

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140884303X</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=Riot

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444910108</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=The Giver

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007263511</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=Goddess

|summary=After an economic collapse, Britain is close to breaking point. Citizens are going hungry and there are riots. But Aura is shielded from it all by her position as a handmaiden in the Cult of Artemis. In this Britain, the beliefs of the Ancient Greeks persevere and are followed by millions - the cult sits side by side with Christianity as a mainstream religion. Aura's thoughts aren't taken up by the suffering outside the sanctuary though - they're taken up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite to take over the position of head priestess when Opis retires. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=ZOM-B Mission

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077767</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=Snowpiercer Vol.2 - The Explorers

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761365</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=Shattered (Slated Trilogy)

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408319500</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The Escape

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=The One Safe Place

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010239</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=Warm Bodies

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583828</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm Bodies

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=Sky on Fire (Monument 14)

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444914723</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=The Trap

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BORD2RG</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=Shadowlark

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552565571</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=Resist (Breathe)

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408827204</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=The Waking World (The Future King)

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085756045X</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=Jonathan Maberry

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117952</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=Last Man Standing

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051229</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=More Than This

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331155</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=The 100

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444766880</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=Split Second

|summary=Nat and Charlie are connected long before they meet. They were both there the day a terrorist bomb decimated the marketplace. Nat was trying to find his brother and stop him because he's pretty sure Lucas is the bomber. Charlie was sulking because her mother wouldn't let her get a tattoo. And the bomb went off. Charlie's mother died. Nat's brother was left in a coma. In this Britain of the near-future, beset by an endless cycle of more and more austerity, where people queue for free food handouts and racist extremist groups are increasingly dominating the public conversation, neither Charlie nor Nat had thought anything could get any worse. But it did.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115976</amazonuk>

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~~|title=1Q84: The Complete Trilogy~~

~~|author=Haruki Murakami~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=Literary Fiction~~

|summary=The ''1Q84'' trilogy is, without doubt, an impressive book. In many ways, the trilogy almost has to be read in this way as the three component books make little sense on their own. The first book in the series in particular is almost completely baffling if taken in isolation. It does, though, demand a degree of dedication, and if the prospect of a 1300 page novel in which not a huge amount happens in terms of plot and in which there is a significant level of repetition leaves you cold, then this might not be the best entry point into the wonderful world of Haruki Murakami. As often with Murakami though, it's possible to read this book at a number of levels. On the surface it's a love story set in a slightly fantastical setting with a little bit of crime thrown in. At a deeper level, he explores the thin lines between imagination and reality, life and death and what you might call yin and yang. It's a novel where balance and vacuums play a big part. It seems counter-intuitive to call a book of this magnitude 'delicate', but that's just how the story appears.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578077</amazonuk>~~

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