Lead Review (Yeonnam-Dong’s Smiley Laundromat)

• Book: Yeonnam-dong’s Smiley Laundromat
• Location: Seoul, Yeonnam-dong
• Author: Kim Jiyun, Shanna Tan (Translator)

"Yeonnam-Dong’s Smiley Laundromat is a debut novel for Korean writer Kim Jiyun and translated by Shanna Tan. It is an endearing..."

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Lead Review (When We Were Killers)

• Book: When We Were Killers
• Location: Dundee/St Andrews
• Author: C F Barrington

"Finn Nethercott is enrolled in an MA in Bible Studies and Early Christian Culture and commences his studies in 1992. He..."

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Lead Review (Old Soul)

• Book: Old Soul
• Location: World
• Author: Susan Barker

"One of the joys of book reviewing is receiving a book that you wouldn’t ordinarily have chosen and finding that it’s..."

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Lead Review (The Sixpenny Orphan)

• Book: The Sixpenny Orphan
• Location: Ryhope
• Author: Glenda Young

"As the novel opens, Poppy and Rose, aged 10 and 9 respectively, are orphans under the care of Nellie Harper. They..."

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Lead Review (The Convenience Story By The Sea)

• Book: The Convenience Store by the Sea
• Location: Kitakyushu
• Author: Bruno Navasky (Translator), Sonoko Machida

"“Tenderness” is a convenience store chain that operates only on Kyūshū. Their motto: ‘Caring For People, Caring For You’. This is..."

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Lead Review (Witchcraft for Wayward Girls)

• Book: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
• Location: Florida
• Author: Grady Hendrix

"  Wellwood House in St Augustine, Florida was a Maternity Home – one of many across the United States. Unmarried teenage..."

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Lead Review (Death Flight)

• Book: Death Flight
• Location: Argentina
• Author: Sarah Sultoon

"The backdrop to this novel is Argentina’s Dirty War, which I first read about in Rodolfo Walsh’s Last Case by Elsa..."

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Lead Review (The Doorman)

• Book: The Doorman
• Location: Manhattan
• Author: Chris Pavone

"Central to this story is the Bohemia, a unit of 94 apartments on the Upper West Side: ‘..luxurious and famous, but..."

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Lead Review (Resilience)

• Book: Resilience
• Location: Bucharest, Iasi, London, South Shields
• Author: Bogdan Hrib, Marina Sofia (Translator)

"Resilience by Bogdan Hrib is a great read which is described as Romanian noir, but which in truth defies the usual..."

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Lead Review (Beautiful Ugly)

• Book: Beautiful Ugly
• Location: The Hebrides
• Author: Alice Feeney

"4.5* Grady Green is now a successful author, featuring in the New York Times Bestseller List. It has been a long..."

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