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Lead Review (Isolation Island)

  • Book: Isolation Island
  • Location: Scotland
  • Author: Louise Minchin

"3.5* #Audiobook – narrated by Daphne Kouma. Welcome to Monk Island, the latest venue for a no-holds-barred reality TV series featuring..."

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Lead Review (The Book of Manchester)

  • Book: The Book of Manchester
  • Location: Manchester
  • Author: David Sue (editor)

"  The Book of Manchester features stories by David Constantine, Tom Benn, Pete Kalu, Brontë Schiltz , Sophie Parkes, Ian Carrington,..."

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Lead Review (Gatsby)

  • Book: Gatsby
  • Location: Long Island
  • Author: Jane Crowther

"4.5* It is a century since The Great Gatsby was published and now, this author turns her attention to a modern-day..."

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Lead Review (The War Widow)

  • Book: The War Widow
  • Location: Sydney
  • Author: Tara Moss

"In The War Widow, by Tara Moss, the main character, Billie Walker, is a Private Investigator in post-world-war-two Australia. She is..."

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Lead Review (Son)

  • Book: Son
  • Location: Oslo
  • Author: Johana Gustawsson, Thomas Enger

"4.5* (The Kari Voss Mysteries Book 1) Son is a great and macabre thriller set near Oslo. It has co-authors –..."

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Lead Review (Dead Ground)

  • Book: Dead Ground
  • Location: Spain
  • Author: Graham Hurley

"Dead Ground is the 9th book in Graham Hurley’s acclaimed The Spoils of War historical fiction series set around WW2. As..."

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Lead Review (Burma Sahib)

  • Book: Burma Sahib
  • Location: Burma (Myanmar)
  • Author: Paul Theroux

"3.75* The novel opens on a ship carrying 19 year old Eric Blair to his posting with the Indian Imperial Police..."

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Lead Review (We Do Not Part)

  • Book: We Do Not Part
  • Location: Jeju, Seoul
  • Author: Han Kang

"3.75*   The author wrote The Vegetarian, which was the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize (2016)...."

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Lead Review (Every Time We Say Goodbye)

  • Book: Every Time We Say Goodbye
  • Location: Italy, London, Rome
  • Author: Natalie Jenner

"Every Time We Say Goodbye by Natalie Jenner starts in London’s West End but quickly moves to Rome and the Italian..."

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Lead Review (The Second Chance Book Club)

  • Book: The Second Chance Book Club
  • Location: Harrogate
  • Author: Stephanie Butland

"September is plodding along in her supermarket job, she is with Shaun who is running up debts and generally life is..."

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