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==General fiction==
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|author=Gill Hornby
|title=The Hive
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=There's an old joke that, for parents, there are only two good days in the school holidays - the first and the last, but in St Ambrose the ''real'' work begins when the children go back to school at the start of the new school year. There's a new head at the school (and he'll have to be knocked into shape) but the real power is Beatrice - 'Bea' to those whom she elects to call friends for the time being - who rules the parents, decides who is in or out and what status they should have in the community. And how does she do it? Well, she's the queen.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704358</amazonuk>
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|author=Jasper Gibson
|summary=Patrick Farrell works for a company that reclaims credit cards from those in debt. He doesn't particularly enjoy the work, but it gives him plenty of opportunity to visit his schizophrenic brother, Mike, which he does regularly. Mike used to be a fairly decent boxer, but now his only fight is against the paranoid delusion that there are people watching him all the time.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434228</amazonuk>
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