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        Where There's Smoke: A Novella by Jodi Picoult. "I might as well be a ghost. Last week, I was famous. This week, if I speak, no one will listen." If you're into psychics and the supernatural you'll like this. It's available as an ereader, a prequel to promote "Leaving Time" which will be available this autumn and is expected to be another best-seller from the popular American writer. Serendipity Jones experienced visions from a young age. When she indicated to her mother that a little boy dressed in knee-length black velvet trousers with a lacy collar around his neck was stealing things from their home, she thought her daughter was telling tales. "That boy's not real." This was back in the seventies. "If this had been today I would probably have been shuttled off to a child psychiatrist and given some kick-ass medication." Serendipity's great-great grandma had been an Iroquois healer. The story mov

                    Life With No Breaks by Nick Spalding. "There's got to be a point to a book hasn't there? Even one written totally off the cuff like this is." "Life With No Breaks" was Spalding's first self-published ebook in April 2012-stories so fabricated and embellished that they made politicians' expenses' claims look trivial. He worked as a media officer until he signed a contract with Hodder and Stoughton. He is considered the best-selling self-published author in the UK, having recently signed a six-figure deal. Two of his other comedies " Love..from Both Sides" and " Love..And Sleepless Nights" were the first and third best-selling self-published ebooks in 2012. "Life With No Breaks" was meant as a 24 hour non-stop project but in fact took no more than 30 hours before he had accomplished 54,873 words, dare I say gems? Presented as a monologue, he refers to his muse, the reader as h

      From Sequins to Sunshine by Lorna Penfold. "We were like two expectant parents waiting for all our babies to arrive." Lorna qualified as a dance teacher when she was 17 and she soon became the owner and principal of an extremely successful dance school in Brighton with classes as diverse as Latin American, freestyle disco, country and western as well as the more traditional ballroom dancing. " I ate, slept and dreamt dancing." Once she was diagnosed with sarcoidosis in 2007 she was forced into giving up dancing so Lorna and partner, Alan had to consider other options. Alan was happy to emigrate to Florida. " I think Alan would have been perfectly happy to sell Coco-Cola in Sea World." And the second choice? Spain of course. Andalucia to be exact, a popular home for budding expat writers and farmers. Breeding alpacas was seen as a lucrative business. You might remember Alan Parks' book which also documented their move to The Olive