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Six Word Story: Stories, Memoirs, Poems and Jokes all written in only six words. is the second book of clever, quirky "stories" by Doug Weller. There's a competition you can enter, too. Fun to try making them up.
4★ Link to my Six Word Story review with a few stories included
Hello Friend We Missed You won The Guardian's 2020 Not the Booker Prize competition. I liked the real Booker winner better this year - Shuggie Bain - but Richard Owain Roberts IS a good writer, and it's nice to see Wales represented.
3.4★ Link to my Hello Friend review
The List is a short story in Gregg Andrew Hurwitz's Orphan X series that stars Joey Morales. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would like to see her with her own series. Worth every cent.5★s
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Olivia Poulet does a great job of reading The Lying Room, a stand-alone by writing duo, Nicci French.5★s
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A foodie memoir I've been reading recently, The Temporary Bride: A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran, has sparked my interest in Persian food. Mouthwatering!https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel is a book that I would have loved to quote from extensively to illustrate what I got out of it, but alas as an eARC I was not able to. There was a lot to like.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The blurb sounded OK, and the start was promising, but ultimately, I was disappointed in A Dog Called Boris, the debut by British author, P. D. Innes. Might appeal to Scots or dog lovers?3★s
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My 5 Stars review for Spring Clean for the Peach Queen by Sasha Wasley
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I love mysteries based in Ireland. Strange Flowers is a curious, intriguing story by the talented Donal Ryan.
4.5★ Link to my Strange Flowers review
My review of The Glorious Guinness Girlsby Emily Hourican
2 stars
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My review of To Tell You the Truth by Gilly Macmillan
4 stars
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My review of Claire Thomas's extraordinary new release, The Performance. My best read of 2021 so far! https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This was a wonderful read about a small town and its sheriff in the 1950s.
The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrichreview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Prodigal Son, the 6th book in Gregg Andrew Hurwitz's Orphan X series, has lots of fancy tech and a huge cliff-hanger ending. 5★s
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I very much enjoyed the print version of Barbara Kingsolver's Unsheltered, so I was pleased to see the library had the audio version. And the advantage of having the novel read to you by the author is that you know the pronunciation and emphasis will be exactly as she intended.5★s
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4.5 stars for this domestic drama/contemporary fiction/historical fiction by an Aussie Author
All We Dream by Pamela Cookhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Second Sight
by AA Aoife Clifford was a pretty good show. 4★. My review here.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The House on Jindalee Lane by Jennie Jones
3 stars
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As a neuroscientist, Lisa Genova is eminently qualified to write about memory, and I can assure you that Remember is an absolutely fascinating read. This is one of those books where you're going to annoy all the people around you by insisting on reading out bits...5★s
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I think that Casey Withoos has quite the perfect voice and cadence for the first book in Katherine Kovacic's Alex Clayton Art Mysteries series, The Portrait of Molly Dean. 4.5★s
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I just enjoyed Aussie author B Michael Radburn's second Taylor Bridges mystery, The Falls. Creepy murders in the Victorian bush. 
4★ Link to my review of The Falls
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot is a brand new favourite! It's hard to believe this is Marianne Cronin's first novel. Wonderful characters and story.
5★ Link to my review of One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
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