You got me in the end! Well done and congratulations on making number one. Karen.

Many congratulations to the Top Ten, and thank you to everyone for their stories. We will be posting some new Random House reviews during this week.


1. The Trouble With Fitz
by Chris Pitt Literary Fiction, Mystery, Novel, General Fiction 12 May 2010
Can having the wrong role models excuse our actions? Siôn Roberts must face the past and confront the horrors of his repressed memories if he is to survive. A dark, edgy tale of redemption.
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2. Cut and Run (Chapters1-5)
by Karen Snape-Williams Action, Adventure, Historical, General Fiction 17 Jul 2010
My name is Jeremiah Jones. I ain't seeking redemption and not asking for sympathy. This is my story.
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3. TROBAIRITZ (revised)
by Celia Micklefield Literary Fiction, Novel, General Fiction 08 Jun 2010
A new voice follows an ancient tradition . . .
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4. My House Eats People - new edit
by Katherine McKay Children's Fiction, Science Fiction 15 Jul 2010
Jake's mum walks upstairs one Monday morning and doesn't come back down...next day his dad vanishes too.
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5. Godiva Bay
by Paula Daly Novel, Thriller, General Fiction 19 Jul 2010
After Kim gets away with killing her own mother, she finds herself at an elitist boarding school where she’s framed for the murder of another pupil.
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6. Helping Helen
by Keith Jackson Short Story, General Fiction 21 Jul 2010
Dan offers shelter to a girl during a storm and learns of her predicament... He offers to help her.
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7. Things Lost
by David Pickering Short Story, Literary Fiction, Womens Fiction, General Fiction 06 Jul 2010
This short story is about landscape and memory, and growing up in the countryside. Oh, and someone gets kissed. It’s fictional, although it does draw upon places and people I once knew. I’ve renamed the cow.
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8. 1513 (revised)
by Harry Nicholson Action, Historical, Novel, Romance 31 Jul 2010
A young farm labourer flees his masters. It is 1513 and the fourth year of Henry VIII, the year of Scotland's greatest defeat. In his flight he finds love across the barriers of race and culture but is wrenched away to stand as an archer in the midst of the battle of Flodden.
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9. Summer Sweet Summer (Revised)
by K.B Mikals Children's Fiction 31 Mar 2010
Two girls from opposite sides of the tracks. Two worlds about to collide during one perfect summer.
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10. The Baptist
by Ruby Barnes Crime, Horror, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, General Fiction 24 May 2010
A teenage boy murders his brother and spends eight years institutionalised. On community release he reoffends and then disappears. Eight years later a stable family man goes off the rails when he meets a 'missing person'. Who is hunter, who is hunted? Contains moderate peril, not for the faint hearted.
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After holding on so long, I'd have kicked myself if I'd removed the wrong one, lost my rating of 4.8 and dropped out. Knew it'd keep me in the top 5 and in the end, happy for a fellow Welshman to take top slot. We showed 'em, didn't we!!! Karen.

Thanks, Marita. I removed one on the final day, but felt fairly confident because the same review dropped me from 1st to 2nd when I received it. But we both had other reviews after that, so wasn't quite sure what to expect.

I didn't know you were Welsh, Karen. I've run into what seems a disproportionately large number of Welsh writers on this site and others - must be something in the dwr!

Are you a Taff or a Gog? lamb with attitude