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The Source Book Review

Title: The Source Author: Sarah Sultoon ISBN: 9781913193591 Publisher: Orenda Books Pages: 320 Source: ARC from Publisher for Blog Tour Blog Tour: Organised by Anne Cater from Random Things Tours 1996 Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum

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Vanished Book Review

Title: Vanished Author: James Delargy ISBN: 9781471177569 Publisher:  SIMON & SCHUSTER Pages: 496 Source: ARC from Publisher for Blog Tour Blog Tour: Organised by Anne Cater from Random Things Tours The Kane family, Lorcan, Naiyana and their young son are desperate to move their young family far away from the hustle and bustle of modern

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Duma Key

Author: Stephen King Date Read: 26 February 2011 Official Summary After a construction accident in which he loses his right arm and his divorce, Edgar Freemantle moves from Minnesota to Florida to begin what his psychiatrist describes as a “geographic cure”. He rediscovers his love of painting and finds that he is good at it but

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Dolores Claiborne

Author: Stephen King Date Read: 14 May 2011 Official Summary Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of her violent husband, Joe St. George, thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera’s physical and mental decline

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Tall Bones Book Review

Title: Tall Bones (Published in the US as Where The Truth Lies) Author: Anna Bailey ISBN: 9780857527394 Publisher: Transworld Publishers / Penguin Random House Pages: 340 Source: Review copy from Penguin Random House South Africa When seventeen-year-old Emma leaves her best friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes, like most girls her

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Deception

Author: Jonathan Kellerman Date read: 15 March 2011 Official Summary Her name is Elise Freeman, and her chilling cry for help comes too late to save her. On a DVD found near her lifeless body, the emotionally and physically battered woman chronicles a long ordeal of abuse at the hands of three sadistic tormentors. But even

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Carrie

Author: Stephen King Date read: 19 July 2011 (The second time) Official Summary A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction — Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels

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Bad Day in Minsk Book Review

Title: Bad Day in Minsk Author: Jonathan Pinnock ISBN:  9781788423038 Publisher: Farrago / Duckworth Books Pages: 304 Source: ARC from Publisher for Blog Tour Blog Tour: Organised by Anne Cater from Random Things Tours Tom Winscombe is having a bad day. Trapped at the top of the tallest building in Minsk while a lethal battle

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