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Addition: Review e-book Rating: 2/5 Synopsis: Emily is a lonely, disillusioned, teaching assistant at a college of Further Education. Jamie is a neglected, unpredictable student. Trapped together in a falling lift, wherever will this lead? Told from Emily’s point of view, this story explores the ambiguity of relationships between staff and students, and reflects on [...]

As promised: the interview with author Andrew Oberg and the review of his superb book Randolph’s One Bedroom. Interview: 1.       Tell us a bit about yourself I’m originally from the state of Minnesota in the U.S., but have been living in Japan since 2001 (with a short break in 2003). I teach at two universities [...]

Synopsis: A fast-paced, wickedly funny tale of office back-stabbing and corporate intrigue that unfolds in a succession of escalating e-mails. Carla Browne-1/5/00, 3:05 pm to: All Departments re: I’m leaving now . . . but before I go there are some things you should know . . . !!!! Set in a London ad agency [...]

The sun is shining, it is warm, the World Cup is on and the cricket season is underway – its Summer! So of course, the summer reading lists are out. The first is the Richard and Judy list. I often enjoy the books on their list, so I am eager to try some! Past Imperfect [...]

Amazon.com and Penguin Group came together to provide authors with the chance to win the Breakthrough Novel award. There are two winners – one for general fiction and one for young adult fiction. And the 2010 winners have been announced: General Fiction Patricia McArdle: Farishta Synopsis: Patricia McArdle, a resident of Arlington, Va., is a [...]

This is the reading circle book on the Book Club Forum so this review will be a bit different. Waterstone’s Synopsis: Former tiffinboy Ram Mohammad Thomas has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz-show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in prison on suspicion of cheating. Because [...]

Waterstones Synopsis: Her uncle, known as The Mouth, is head of the church, responsible for the harsh laws and cruel ‘shunning’, yet that doesn’t stop Nomi falling for the town’s most unsuitable boy – Travis. In such a secretive and god-fearing community, Nomi finds it impossible to find ways to express her many and growing [...]

Waterstones Synopsis: The temperature is over 100. The rapids are some of the largest in North America. Water levels are rising. And JT Maroney, veteran river guide, is leading his 125th trip down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. For the next two weeks, his 13 passengers – strangers, mostly – will paddle, row, [...]

This review is different to the others. It is a series of answered questions because it was www.bookclubforum.co.uk’s reading book of the month. Waterstone’s Synopsis Meet the Troutmans. Hattie is living in Paris, city of romance, but has just been dumped by her boyfriend. Min, her sister back in Canada, is going through a particularly [...]

Synopsis from Myriad Publishers: West Africa in the early 1990s. Isabel Redmond is tiring of her iconoclastic husband’s penchant for pendulous black breasts; the High Commissioner and his wife Fenella are both enjoying illicit affairs; an old English judge is wandering through the scrub following a tribe of Fulani herdsmen; Bob Newpin is about to [...]