Lead Review (Ask Not)

• Book: Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
• Location: United States (USA)
• Author: Maureen Callahan

"This is a very readable account and interpretation of the lives of many of the women in the American Kennedy clan...."

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Lead Review (After He Died)

• Book: After He Died
• Location: Argyll and Bute, Glasgow
• Author: Michael J Malone

"  #fromourbookshelves After He Died by Michael J Malone is a psychological thriller and another entertaining read from this clever and..."

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Lead Review (Swallows)

• Book: Swallows
• Location: Japan
• Author: Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (Translator), Natsuo Kirino

"  Natsuo Kirino’s novel, Swallows, translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, is a provocative and emotionally layered exploration of surrogacy, class and independence in..."

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Lead Review (Cairo Gambit)

• Book: Cairo Gambit
• Location: Egypt, Palestine
• Author: S W Perry

"Archie Nevenden, a successful businessman working in oil and as a part time theatre impresario, goes missing in Cairo. His daughter..."

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Lead Review (I Would Die For You)

• Book: I Would Die For You
• Location: Coronado Island, La Jolla
• Author:

"In 2011 Nicole Forbes is well settled in family life. She is a great defender of the local seal colony and..."

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Lead Review (Fundamentally)

• Book: Fundamentally
• Location: Iraq
• Author: Nussaibah Younis

"Dr Nadia Amin has taken a job based in Iraq, working for the UN on a programme of deradicalisation and rehabilitation..."

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Lead Review (The House of Ashes)

• Book: The House of Ashes
• Location: Belfast, County Antrim
• Author: Stuart Neville

"#fromourbookshelves At the heart of the story is a house called The Ashes. It has derived its name from the trees..."

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Lead Review (The Viper)

• Book: The Viper
• Location: Tuscany
• Author: Christobel Kent

"This is no. 6 in the Sandro Cellini series, his final outing. Just outside Florence is a derelict farmhouse, la Vipera...."

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Lead review (The Heirloom)

• Book: The Heirloom
• Location: Brisbane, Sussex
• Author: Julie Brooks

"The Heirloom by Julie Brooks is a difficult book to classify – it is a little bit romance, a little bit..."

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Lead Review (Cursed Daughters)

• Book: Cursed Daughters
• Location: Lagos
• Author: Oyinkan Braithwaite

"Long-standing curses – a tale of modernity versus tradition Oyinkan Braithwaite’s new novel, Cursed Daughters, is set in Lagos, Nigeria and is..."

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