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What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
Catherin O'Flynn's debut novel 'What Was Lost' is a compelling mystery about a missing girl.
Set in a Birmingham shopping centre, a security guard recognises a child on CCTV 20years after her disappearance!
Green Oaks Shopping Centre seems to have a life of its own in this novel and the author succeeds in giving a real flavour of the place through some of the people who work there and are tied up in Kate Meaney's story whether in the early 80s or 20 years later.
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'An exceptional, polyphonic novel of urban disaffection, written with humour and pathos' Guardian
'A superb, haunting novel from a new literary talent' Daily Mail
Whispers in the walls - edited by Leone Ross and Yvonne Brissett
17 stories from the pens and hearts of black and Asian writers in Birmingham.
Refreshingly candid, funny and alive these talented writers speak out with diversity and intensity.
Whispers in the Walls not only illuminates the lives of black and Asian people in Birmingham but addresses all communities.
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'Fresh talent from the Midlands comes as no surprise, but the strength and variety of these writers certainly does' Meera Syal
Hidden Power a DS Kate Power crime novel by Judith Cutler
Things are looking good for Kate: she's passed her promotion exams, her relationship is going well and she wins a holiday in a prize draw - which is where her problems begin.
What is going on at the south coast holiday complex, run down but with strange touches of luxury?
Wednesday's Child by Eloise Millar
In the course of one summer on their Oxford council estate, everything changes for Janet and her brother James.
A young girl is found murdered in the park near their house. James disappears, Aunt Net goes off the rails and Janet's mother is hospitalised. Janet is left to fight her battles alone, with only her quick wits and vivid imagination to help her through.
Kanthapura by Raja Rao
Kanthapura has been described as one of the most satisfying of all modern Indian novels.
Recognized as a major landmark of Indian fiction, it is the story of how the Gandhian struggle for independence comes to one small village in south India.