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An Unholy Communion

Donna Fletcher Crow

One in the Monastery Murders series by an American author. Following a strange death in Oxford, Felicity joins her fiancé, a stand-in supervisor, on a ...

Reviewed by Hilary White - Montrose

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The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

Jan Philipp Sendker

The day after she graduated from law school Julia’s Burmese father, Tin Win, a successful New York lawyer, leaves the family home, ostensibly on business ...

Reviewed by Linda Hepworth - Alston

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Behind Closed Doors

Michael Donovan

A fantastic book: I was gripped from beginning to end and I can see why Michael Donovan was winner of the Northern Crime Competition 2012.   Written, ...

Reviewed by Victoria Brown - Holbury

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NW

Zadie Smith

Having enjoyed White Teeth and On Beauty I had high expectations for this book. However I was disappointed. I read the first section with interest and ...

Reviewed by Debbie Start - durham

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What the River Washed Away

Muriel Macleod

A missing child, a buried tin of coins, and a terrible secret; these lie at the heart of Muriel Macleod's powerful first novel. It is a story of a young black ...

Reviewed by Dorothy Flaxman - Bude,Cornwall

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Avalon

Stephen Lawhead

An astonishingly ambitious novel that beautifully blends the past with the present.   Master storyteller Stephen R. Lawhead‘s Avalon captures the ...

Reviewed by Lucinda Fountain - Surrey

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The Supremes at Earl's all-you-can-eat

Edward Kelsey Moore

From the title of this debut novel I expected certain things. I expected humour, I expected strong black women characters, and I expected to feel like I had ...

Reviewed by Claire Lindley - Nottingham

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Tomorrow there will be Apricots

Jessica Soffer

Told from three different alternating points of view, this novel, which is set in New York City, is a celebration of ethnic food; taste, texture and aroma, and ...

Reviewed by Lynne Collinson - southsea

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