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This was a different kind of book. I enjoyed it even thought it is not the genre I usually read,...
I had rather mixed feelings about this book, winner of various prizes for fiction. I liked it -...
This book is written through a mix of Michael's letters to his therapist and his first-person...
This is a book I would never normally have picked up (I didn't like the cover for starters) but I...
I quite enjoyed this book, set in an exclusive and very weird boarding school. I also liked...
This book starts with a seemingly insoluble conundrum - how can two children not have aged during...
Having read the first book in the series, I was looking forward to this one. Having said that, it...
Wow! I never considered transplantation as an interesting topic, or thought much about it at all,...
I loved this book. I had previously read and loved one of the others in the series (this is...
I loved the premise of this book - a nerdy restless girl in the UK, a boy growing up in Burundi,...
I found this to be a very peculiar book. It is clearly a fantasy (creatures that may be animal...
A very unusual book. The characters were sensitively portrayed, and we saw events from multiple...
I was attracted by the premise of this book, and thought I would enjoy it. I didn't. Although it...
I enjoyed this Scottish crime thriller. I liked the bleak and cold but beautiful landscape, the...
This was a complex plot, centred around two London gangs and their periphery, and it was...
Overall this was quite a good story, and the plot did throw in a few interesting surprises....
I loved this. The characters were diverse but believable, and varied between being the kind of...
I thought the basic premise of the book was a really interesting idea, and was looking forward to...
This is a story about many things: work and family, hopes, dreams and aspirations, illness,...
I found this curious, compelling and unusual. I enjoyed it very much. The book explores and...
This is a nostalgic historical drama, about a girl called Nessie and her family and wider circle...
Set in the fourteenth century, this novel about the lives of the people of Develish - nobles and...
Set in sixteenth century London, with all its squalor, superstition and rigid class structure,...
The novel starts with the return of a dead matriarch, but told in an everyday tone, as if this is...
This is about a wronged woman taking the chance to get revenge on her awful ex-husband - and as...
This is part two of a space trilogy about twelve young volunteers who give up life on earth to...
Set just after the second world war, this is the story of a woman secretly assuming her dead...
This is about bullying, about privilege, and about what happens when people find themselves in a...
I enjoyed this book - I liked all the different threads that pulled together as the various...
I finished this book with rather mixed feelings. It's not the sort of thing I would usually pick...
Tom is under witness protection, Lila has fallen in with some bad people, there is a sinister...
I was quite interested in this book initially - not so much in the plot, which is like a reversal...
I was pleasantly surprised by this book as soon as (and all the time) I was reading it. I thought...
Part love story, part space adventure, part reality show... what an imaginative book! Twelve...
This is a great read. We encounter a family in the nineteenth century who are always on the move...
A group of friends comes back together because one of their number has committed suicide. Some of...
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