==General fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Ken McClure
|title=Dust to Dust (Steven Dunbar)
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=John Motram is a cell biologist. He's a promising and well-though of academic and his pet subject is - Black Death. Intrigue is high on the agenda right from the beginning. Motram is invited to a meeting along with other high-fliers in their respective fields. This meeting is top secret. Motram is, however, mystified. The situation appears pretty straightforward, so why all this cloak-and-dagger stuff, he wonders. And why has everyone to refer to the patient only as 'Patient X?'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971268</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Ryan
|summary=Set in 1980s America, ''The Girl Who Fell From The Sky'' is a story built around a tragic event in a young girl’s childhood. The opening scene introduces you to Rachel, an elusive young girl, not black, not white but ''light skinned-ed'' as she is packed off to live with her grandma after a devastating family event. Immediately, Durrow highlights race and identity as the primary themes, and we follow blue-eyed Rachel as she struggles between two worlds – the white world of her Danish mother, and the other black world of her African-American G.I. father.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851687459</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Diane Chamberlain
|title=Before the Storm
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=We're first introduced to Laurel's son, Andy. He's a teenager with some sort of mental disorder. He's the pivotal character of the story and he's also the undisputed star. I recently read ''Henry's Sisters'' by Cathy Lamb and decided that every family should have a Henry. Now I'll enlarge on that by saying that every family should have a Henry - or an Andy. Both of these teenagers are 99% innocent and adorable - it's that other 1% that is worrying. Andy's descriptions of people, places and situations are truly unique. He has a language all of his own. So immediately, as a reader, I was drawn right into the world of Andy and therefore right into the heart of the story.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303381</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ninni Holmqvist
|title=The Unit
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Dorrit inhabits a world where society is split into two camps. Not male or female, or young or old, but those who are Necessary and an asset to their communities versus those who are Dispensable and a drain on civilization. It’s not a birth right, nor a class firmly established from childhood, and everyone gets the chance to make a good go of it. But, if you’re a childless woman of 50, or a childless man of 60, and not working in a ‘needed’ industry your time is up, and you are quietly, and without any fuss, transported to a Second Reserve Bank Unit for Biological Material (‘the Unit’) where you will spend the rest of your days. Here you will participate in any number of psychological and physiological experiments, donate cells for research and give up your body parts one by one as Needed people require them, until the day of your final donation when you ultimately and rather ironically become a valuable member of society by losing your life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851687440</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sue Rulliere
|title=Cinema Blue
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Frankie is a twenty nine year old woman living in Paris and working in a supermarket while she tries to put her life back together after a split from her husband. The split, and what led up to it, was clearly distressing, and exactly what happened is revealed through a series of flashbacks to the time when Frankie was Francesca, whose life was controlled by her husband, JP. The news that JP has had an accident throws Frankie into confusion, because it seems that he turned to drink after she left him and she blames herself. In the meantime, Frankie is entering into a relationship with the enigmatic Antoine, who appears to be doing something rather strange in the flat below hers. Will Frankie be able to retain her new identity? Will the relationship with Antoine go anywhere, or is he just as bad for her as JP was?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190452947X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bobbie Darbyshire
|title=Love, Revenge and Buttered Scones
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Three people are travelling on a train heading to Inverness. Their destination is the town's library where the book group meets on the last Friday of each month. They each have their own reasons for going but none of them realise that the weekend is going to have far reaching consequences for them all.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905207379</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Christine Dwyer Hickey
|title=Last Train From Liguria
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The heroine in this novel is Bella. She's a rather unassuming young woman who has had a rather unassuming childhood - save for the fact that she was motherless at an early age and her relationship with the father is a little strained, to say the least. Bella needs to breathe. So she leaves the drizzle of England for the blue skies and heat of Italy. Her father has propelled her into ''gentle'' employment there. She's tentative about the whole thing but warms to it by degrees.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843549883</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Eagleman
|title=Sum: Tales from the Afterlives
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=For some reason I find myself unable to start this review. So I'll mention this book starts with the end, and see where we go from there. Of course, that's the key – this book does just that – starts with the end of our human life here on Earth (or wherever you happen to be reading this) and posits forty possibilities of what happens thereafter, in the hereafter. It's not so much 'Five People You Meet in Heaven' as 'Forty Heavens you Might Meet People In'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847674283</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Buchan
|title=Sick Heart River
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This was a surprise for me. It’s rare for a book to come to my attention from the reviewing gods that’s a rerelease of a 1930s novel, and one that surfaced a couple of years ago now. But when it strikes me as startlingly Conradian, updated for the times, and perfectly able to stand alongside one of literature’s greats, then it’s just a sign those reviewing gods are on the ball.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184697030X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Sartof
|title=River of Judgement
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Finn Jackson is an oilman, an engineer and he's developed a new way of extracting oil which doesn't ravage the countryside in the way of traditional methods. He's set up a company to take advantage of this along with his friend Aaron Philips, who's the money man. He's short of an operations manager – and has been for a while – after the tragic death of Shufang Su in a site accident. She was a geologist but had apparently flouted safety regulations and you know that there are going to be repercussions from her death.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956415202</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Dickinson
|title=The Noise of Strangers
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In a dystopian Brighton where the Council and the Amex company are the only major employers, and council departments have very different purposes to those they have in our own country today - notably the sinister Parks - four couples share dinner parties and discuss as little as possible, due to the problems they have trusting each other. When a Councillor is killed in a car crash, and one of the couples witness it, it triggers a by-election which leads to political manouevring which they're all caught up in.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095625151X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Assaf Gavron
|title=Croc-Attack
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Eitan Enoch is known as Croc to his friends. There's a good reason but it's about to become rather more famous than Croc would like. It's begins on the morning that he takes his regular bus to work – the Little Number 5 – and a fellow passenger worries about the dark-skinned man with a suit bag who's sitting at the front. Just before Croc gets off at his stop he asks why people are so paranoid and wonders whether it's impossible for dark-skinned guys with suit bags to get on buses any more.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007327463</amazonuk>
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