==General fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=D J Taylor
|title=Ask Alice
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The central character Alice, has had a humble start in life but ' ... the silence of the Kansas flat ... and the distant murmur of the freight trains ' is not for her. She dreams of the bright lights of the big cities and although she is naive and unworldly, fancies herself as an actress. Painful and difficult decisions are made as she reaches for her goal. Her talent and resourcefulness see her through; give her a modest roof above her head in this precarious profession.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531984</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rhys Thomas
And, sadly, not in a particularly engaging style.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956003869</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Wayne J Harris
|title=Sins of the Angel
|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Dr Gideon Matthews, a shouty hellfire and damnation preacher, has just delivered a sermon all about the evils of women being allowed into the church hierarchy and, on his way home afterwards, he is murdered. The following day however he wakes up in hospital or, actually, an angel called Gabriel finds himself inside Dr Matthews' body, able to recall Dr Matthews' memories and thoughts and feelings but acting now as himself. Gabriel goes a little bit wild, finding himself overwhelmed by the new feelings and desires he experiences in this body, sinning left, right and centre and causing scandal at his every move. He is also wondering for what purpose he has been brought into this body and finds that he is dreaming about a demon, someone who is persuading an unknown monk to commit murders in God's name and who seems to be getting closer and closer to Dr Matthews in order to kill him too...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1438994699</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stephen M Irwin
|title=The Darkening
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This book has the 'S' word written all over it. No, not sex - supernatural. So, it's got all things a bit spooky, not-quite-right, strange coincidences. They are sprinkled throughout like rock salt. I must admit that when I read the blurb on the back cover with its supernatural theme, I gave an inward groan. Not really my cup of tea. But I'm open-minded and I'll read anything once. I'm glad I did. Irwin is Australian. For some reason I haven't read too many books by Australian authors, so I was keen to get reading.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751543969</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Kaplow
|title=Me and Orson Welles
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Richard Samuels sees everything in terms of a performance, through the rose-tinted lens of the theatrical celebrities he listens to on the radio. So when he stumbles onto the Broadway stage through a chance encounter with Orson Welles, it seems as if all his dreams may be about to come true. He goes from being the guy that all the girls see as a friend, one of the bookish kids at school, to the glamour of mingling with stars of the stage. We follow Richard's struggle to balance this newly discovered wonderland and his school life, not to mention his disapproving mother.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099540193</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Van der Kiste
|title=The Man on the Moor
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In the summer of 1913 relations with Germany were deteriorating steadily, but there didn't seem to be any connection with the international situation when a London clerk, George Stephens, was found dead in a country lane on the edge of Dartmoor. The moor had been his passion and he'd always been keen to escape London and return to Devon. It was an odd death but in all probability it would have been put down as an accident if George's mother had not announced that George was the son of the Kaiser. Despite her fondness for gin the story she told was oddly compelling and when it was linked up with the fact that two German officers had been staying at a nearby farm George's death seemed less and less like an accident.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904744230</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Frances Day
|title=Dead Cat With Firelighter
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=We're in the world of modern art. A couple who met at art college are on the verge of breaking up, as her success at fine arts is only bettered by his sudden rise to fame in the world of his conceptual, pompous bits of (almost literally) rubbish and nothing. We're also in the world of the wannabe stars and starlets, trying to make the jump from well-thought of provincial comedy theatre to Hollywood. And in the background in both instances, are guru-type Svengalis, pulling strings, and aiming to do as much as is morally justifiable - and a lot more - to get their charges to fame. And a bit of contract killing and murder on the side.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954337751</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Billy Hopkins
|title=Tommy's World
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Tommy Hopkins was born in October 1886 in Collyhurst, one of the poorer, inner-city suburbs of Manchester. His father had quite a good job and there wasn't a lot of money to spare but Tommy remembered the home as being filled with love and laughter. He was an only child but thought that he was spoilt in terms of affection rather than in the form of worldly goods. All that was to change when his father died of spinal meningitis and he and his mother had to move into cheaper lodgings. Even that tenuous security wasn't to last for long – his mother died of a heart attack in her thirties, leaving Tommy an orphan before he was eight years old.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755359585</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Diane Chamberlain
|title=The Bay at Midnight
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The story starts properly when a letter is discovered. It will have devastating consequences for several families - and life will never be the same again. Apparently, the wrong person was convicted for a murder. Moreover, the writer of this letter appears to know who did commit this crime. Unfortunately, the writer dies before able to make contact with the police.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303640</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Hazel McHaffie
|title=Right to Die
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It must be hard enough watching your partner die just once, but for Naomi, Adam's death is just the beginning. Coming across his personal, private diary of his time from diagnosis to subsequent demise, she is forced to relive the awful months during which his body began to betray him and his will to live was replaced with a will to die...on his own terms.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906307210</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Morag Joss
|title=The Night Following
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Distracted by the discovery that her husband has been having an affair, a middle-aged woman loses concentration while driving along a quiet lane, killing Ruth Mitchell, an elderly cyclist. The woman doesn't wait for the police to arrive; she goes home and parks her car in the garage where she smashes it almost beyond recognition. When her arrogant husband sees the damage he believes it's been done to punish him and he packs his bags. After a few days the woman goes to the home of the dead woman; she doesn't go to the door, but from a hidden spot nearby she can see the widower, an elderly gentleman who is clearly not coping well. Wracked with guilt, the woman makes a decision: the only way she can atone for her actions is to step into the shoes of the dead woman.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715638815</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Shirley Jackson
|title=The Haunting of Hill House
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=There was a time before Stephen King. There was time before ''The Shining''. There was a time when 'horror' was not rooted in blood, guts and gore. I owe a slight apology to Mr King, because along with the gutsier side of the genre, I will own that he is a master at suspense.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141191449</amazonuk>
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