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Thinking Of You - The Ultimate Escapist Read
Jill Mansell, unlike other writers in the rom-com arena, seems to get better with every book she writes. Thinking of You is her latest offering and proves that it is possible to get better with age!

Ginny Holland, a best selling author if left rattling around in her house on her own after daughter Jem goes to university. Lonely, she advertises her spare room for rent. Instead of a happy roommate, she gets moaning Laurel who is still hung up on her ex-boyfriend. If that wasn’t enough, Ginny finds herself lusting after two men who can only be bad for her. Will Ginny get the man of her dreams, or will he be the one that gets away?

Mansell has a disarming ability to create characters that you already know and that tends to make her books impossible to put down. This book is no different. It is charmingly written, hopelessly funny and will make you forget all of your own troubles as soon as you read the first page.

(ISBN: 0755328116, ISBN-13: 9780755328116)

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Title: But N Ben A-Go-Go
Author: Matthew Fitt
ISBN: 1905222041
EAN: 9781905222049
207 Pages
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 2005-02-25

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With strong characters and a gripping plot, the well-defined settings create an atmosphere of paranoia and danger.The exciting denouement has a surprising twist and is set on Schiehallion. The introduction includes a section on how to read the Scots in this book, Mathew has made the spelling as straightforward as possible for a population used to English spelling conventions.

2005-04-01 A braw buek!

This is amazing! It's hard to imagine anything that could so clearly prove Scots isn't fossilised in Burns' era. If you can write cyberpunk in it, you can certainly write contemporary in it! The familiar Blade-Runner neologisms take on a whole new life when "translated" into neo-Scots, even something as simple as the standard sf "plastipack" becoming a "plastipoke" makes this feel like a real, Scottish future.

The story itself is pretty good, although the way the disease that propels the plot actually works seems a bit confused. However it acts more as a McGuffin than anything else, so I'll let that go. I also loved the setting: due to global warming future Scotland is a series of floating parishes, with the higher Highland mountains becoming a chain of islands!

I'm also not sure why the police are called the Ceilidh, which is Gaelic for a village dance. I suspect there's a joke there I'm missing.