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|title=Wake
|author=Anna Hope
|rating=3.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Wake:
1 Emerge or cause to emerge from sleep<br>
2 Ritual for the dead<br>
3 Consequence or aftermath
We often hear the term ''Broken Britain'' in reference to modern society, but the Britain presented in ''Wake'' epitomises the term completely. This is a country reeling from the aftermath of the Great War. Unemployment is rife, food scarce and every family has been touched and scarred forever by the events of the preceding years.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857521942</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Crystal Chan
|summary=On the first page of this book, we are given a summary of events from August 2014. Queen Elizabeth is hosting a reception for Prince Harry and his bride, a niece of the German Kaiser at Balmoral, while the governor-general of India is involved in preparations for the next Commonwealth Games. This brief glimpse of a fantasy world is followed by a swift resumé of the twentieth century, as everything actually happened, and of changes in the world order wrought by both world wars. Chapter two tells of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie at Sarajevo in June 1914, the final catalyst which precipitated the First World War.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137278536</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Wrong Quarry
|author=Max Allan Collins
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To create a true anti-hero is no easy task. I have read plenty of crime fiction that reports to have an unlikable son of a gun at the centre of the story, but rarely are they actually that bad. You might get a detective with a gruff exterior, but a kind heart. Or perhaps a career criminal whose sense of morals are actually better than the cops. Thank goodness then for Max Allan Collin’s ''Quarry'' novels. Old school murder mysteries that have a hitman at their heart (usually pointing his gun at it).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781162662</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ashley Hay
|title=The Railwayman's Wife
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Mackenzie and Anikka Lachlan have all they could possibly want. They live in Thirroul, a close New South Wales coastal community, are parents to a lovely little girl and now, in 1948, Mac has come through the war years unscathed due to his job at home on the railways. However in a single moment all their luck changes and Anikka becomes a widow, another grieving shadow. Alongside her neighbours (a war poet who can't write now he's home and the local GP who experienced hell while not being able to bring anyone back from its grasp) Anikka must learn the most difficult lesson: how to go on living.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743318014</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sue Monk Kidd
|title=The Invention of Wings
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=On her 11th birthday Sarah Grimké is given a special present. It walks towards her decorated with a purple ribbon for 'it' is Hetty, Sarah's new personal slave. They grow up together on the Grimkés' Charleston plantation separated by conventions thought to be set in stone. However each in their own way will rebel; Hetty empowered by her seamstress mother's ancient African tales of resistance and Sarah (alongside her sister Angelina) empowered by defiant dreams.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472212754</amazonuk>
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