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|genre= General Fiction|summary= I love it when I get a book so very few have read yetAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, but itwhere she posted every step of Anuri's hard childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to say what needs regain her confidence and to be saidget her life back, when you're not allowed suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to quotestart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. ''All good secrets have a taste before you tell them…' Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0399184511</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Graham Norton1529153298|title= HoldingThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary=The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little dramaIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, and yet the inhabitants are troubledhonestly... Sergeant PJ Collins hasn) She's not what't always s worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been this overweightdisappearing. Well, mother-of-two Brid Riordan hasnthey't always ve been an alcoholicmurdered, and elegant Evelyn Ross hasnbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't always felt sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her life a total wastefather wants to move the family 'Down South'. When human remains are discovered on you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a farmfrightening, thought to be those of Tommy Burkeforeign place, an ex lover of both Brid and Evelynbest avoided. For Miv, the villagemove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she's dark past begins ll do anything to unravelprevent that. As She's not worried about the frustrated PJ struggles to solve a case for the first time in his life, he unearths a communitydangers or that her Mum's worth of anger, resentment, secrets, and regretstopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444792008</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ian McEwanAlexander McCall Smith|title=NutshellThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=Meet Trudy. Successfully living The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a large and valuable London homemore personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she is heavily pregnant, could come and in between two men – she has swapped look after the homeowner, poet and publisher Johnbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for someone completely different, namely Claude, a nasty, brutish and short typewhile. Some people cannot work Katie is coming out why on earth she has made that decisionof a break up with a bad boyfriend, including our narratorand so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. OhAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and he himselfthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, our narrator, is the child she's pregnant but withsome new characters who quickly begin to charm. He is Katie has no experience in running a very alert young thingbusiness, or in match-making, with nothing else to do but kick here Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there, 's always her very helpful (and practice what you might well call mindfulnessrather handsome) neighbour, and listen in on Claude and TrudyWilliam, as they calmly talk their way to plotting and carrying out murder…lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton (translator)Dean Koontz|title=CrushThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=General Fiction Paranormal|summary=In this story of Thelma and Louise, it's Louise we meet first, through her narrationBenny is having a terrifically bad day. She's a seventeen year oldHe loses his job, telling us of a quite awful and smelly satellite town of Paris she lives inhe loses his fiancee, with the sight of factories and stench of food processing plants keeping her companyhis house gets trashed. She lives at home with her motherOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, complete with haredisturbing coffin-lipsized object to his home, and abusive step-fatherit's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, and Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is working at one of those factories until she sees a paradise in their midst – nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the ever-sunnydelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, sexy and sophisticated life of an American NATO worker and his wifewho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. ImpulsivelySpike is going to take care of Benny, she asks to be their maid – and indeed moves into the couplewill certainly take care of Benny's largeenemies, messy home. But little does she know what lurks in the shadows in that buildingif he, behind their gigantic car and their cute porch swing and al-fresco dining – the unhappinessBenny, and even the tragedy…Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271988</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma BurstallKatherine Howe|title= The Cornish Guest House (Tremarnock)A True Account|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''The Cornish Guest House'' Hannah Masury is the sequel living in Boston, having been sent to the best-selling ''Tremarnock'' which introduced us to hard-working Liz live with a family who run an inn, and her disabled daughter Rosie who were adjusting being made to life in work there from a small Cornish village by the seayoung age. The sequel begins six months after When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the first booktown, she decides to go and Liz watch. Enthralled and Rosie are happily settled horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in their new lives and enjoying a young boy's death at the warmth hands of the close-knit communitytwo vicious pirates. The village is soon abuzz with gossip She hides away, howeverso that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a new couple have just moved in boy and are planning to open joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a guest housecabin boy. The affable and good-looking Luke She soon charms finds herself in the neighbours by immersing himself into village thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life. His wife Tabitha, on the other hand, seems aloof and reservedocean waves. Could she be hiding a secret?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784972495</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jean McNeil1471180158|title= The Dhow HouseMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Rebecca Laurelson is an English doctor working Jamie Matson works in an African field hospital in upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the midst subtlety of a political conflict when she is suddenly and inexplicitly forced to leave her posthalf brick. She goes to stay with her estranged Aunt Julia and her family on Africa Jamie's east coast away from the violence and daily blood shed of warson, Bo, however their lives are full of beach and cocktail parties which contrast greatly to Rebecca's way of livinghas his problems'. But the threat of war is on the horizon for Julia He's family asthmatic and their fellow white Africans – terror attacks are on the rise all along more you read, the coast and Rebecca knows more about it than you'll suspect that he's on the rest of her familyautistic spectrum. With unrest brewing will Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the true reason for Rebeccalocal A&E and sometimes Bo's hasty departure not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from her post school are occasions when Jamie can be revealed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079441</amazonuk>controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=The Purple ShadowRadio Free Olympia|author=Christopher BowdenJeffrey Dunn

|summary=Colin Mallory Petr is a young actor in Parisan orphan. Colin had been working with a theatre company putting on English language Shakespeare productions. They were popular but unprofitable so Colin is now at a loose end while his partnerRescued by the strange, Bryonyreclusive Bear, he is off shooting a film. Before returning to London, Colin meets brought up with Paul Barnardfar from bustling cities and busy human society, an art gallery director and his sisterin the forests of Washington's partnerOlympic Peninsula. At the Galerie Marion Ducasse After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, Colin and Paul come across armed with only a painting. The portrait of pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a young woman turns out to be Sylvie Ducassejourney through the forest, broadcasting the great-aunt of the gallery's ownerstrange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955506743</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandra IrelandSarah Marsh|title=Beneath The SkinA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=General Fiction |summary= Robert Walton After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is ex-military – sent to a soldier suffering school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from combat stress and what he now realises is clearly PTSDsigning. He prefers to be From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Walt; it's short and simple and Walt likes things that are not complicatedVisible Speech. Alys At the same time, Bell is fragileworking on other inventions and ideas, damaged and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated and not the kind tangle of woman Walt espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''This story is looking not foreveryone. A taxidermist by trade – a rather macabre one at that – Alys enjoys creating Walter Potter style tableaus in a slightly horrifying tribute to '' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her sole career influencefifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. Alys runs her business from her homeShe was a very bright student, which she shares with her sistera bit too nerdy if truth be told, Mouse and Mousesuffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's son Williamcontagious. It's not easy being a strange set up black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and though Walt needs the job – of handyman/gopher/taxidermy assistant ''must not be squeamish – room Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house and board included''he raped her. In shock, he wonders what he has let himself in forshe even allowed him to give her a lift home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973619</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The Figurine

|summary=Postcards from It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece keep arriving at Ellie's flat addressed to former occupant Sarah Ibbotsen by a man signing himself as 'A'. They may not be for Ellie but she keeps them anyway She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and displays the pictures of blue searefused to return, beaches but Mary and countryside until she canHamish (Helena't resist s parents) felt that it any longer; Ellie's off to Greece for would be a breakpity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Just before she leaves home a package arrives from AHer trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. Something very different from She grew to love her grandmother and the fragmented comments on the cardsfamily's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. This is a journal full He was proud of his close connections to the stories told by people he's met while travelling Junta and coming expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to terms with a love affair that ended almost before it beganaccommodate them. So for Ellie the journal becomes His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her guide book and the journey beginsfather's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472223209</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithDean Koontz|title=Precious After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and Gracelooks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated. }} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=Semi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=54

|summary=Friendships can be funny things''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and that is often the case with Precious Fiona – glamorous, successful and Gracevery much in love – move in next door. This is Despite their seventeenth book nowdifferent outlooks on life, and so we have seen their friendship grow and develop a great deal over the years. Both women have grown to understand, respect and love couples befriend each other, through business hardships, personal difficulties and all their many and varied caseslife appears to improve for both pairs. In their current case the pair have a strong difference of opinions, and yet But all is not quite what it seems with their investigation, and so perhaps it is a case of neither one of them being right, and the situation being something else entirely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408708124</amazonuk>their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Fiona DavisShalini Boland|title= The Doll HouseSilent Bride|rating= 43|genre= General Fiction|summary= New York CityAlice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, 2016: Rose has quit her job as clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a newscaster wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and investigative journalist – not entirely voluntarily – the wedding is planned and now works for an onset. When the much-line outfit anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the self-mockingly clumsy name of Wordmergecongregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1101984996</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gayle Forman1787636003|title=Leave MeThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary= When you've had a heart attack It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and frightened arrived on the hell out of not just yourself, but your husband, your children – if they had known - your mother and your best friend, you imagine that some long overdue TLC is about to come your wayisland. YouRachel wasn're thinking cardst exactly innocent but she was, flowersperhaps, being waited on handnaive, foot and finger and even though the imminent influx of culinary gifts are likely so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to be low fat, low sugar and taste like the box they came take an interest inher, they're coming, right? she was flattered rather than wary. And you'll probably get It was quite a couple while before he made any sort of months off work physical approach to her and not even have to think about the laundryby that time she was obsessed by him. Or Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the housework? Or taking bar where all the twins to school? Right? Right???? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115677X</amazonuk>girls either worked or partied.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa UngerAmanda Craig|title=Ink and BoneThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary= Finlay Montgomery, Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like her grandmother Eloise before her is a very powerful and gifted psychicthe state-of-the-nation novel. Sensitive to There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the unseen, unheard and unknowable, she spends her days among atmosphere of the dead. Visited, bothered, harassed day and sometimes tauntedcapture it, Finlay does her best to manage crafting an image of the gifts that Mother Nature has sought to bestowcountry as it stands in one particular moment. But life is not To say that simple and studying for your degree Amanda Craig is testing skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with five other visitors in the room who are all trying to get your attention genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in the loudest a way that feels natural and most distracting way possiblelived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Annelies Verbeke 152915118X|title= Thirty DaysPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 24.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Thirty Days doesn’t seem to know what it ''Pineapple Street'' is about. The novel follows Alphonse, a Senegalese painter decorator living in the Flanders region story of Belgium with his girlfriend three women: Sasha, Darley and childhood friend Cat, who Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is recovering from cancermarried to their brother Cord. Verbeke puts They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a major emphasis on their intimate but often volatile Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and unsteady relationship, as Sasha if they try 'd like to navigate a new lifestyle in a small town, away from move into the cityPineapple Street property. However Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, there are several other storylines which vie for our attention: Alphonse’s troubled clients who treat him as a sounding board and therapiststreet or so away, his experiences which they own. They won't need any of racism as a black man the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in . Nominally, they had a rural area, Cat’s difficult, warring parents, choice but that wasn't the couple’s elderly neighbour Willem who is obsessed with war graves reality. Darley and has a knack for appearing at precisely Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the wrong moment, and an illegal refugee camp gold digger'. She's living in field trenches a few miles away''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380899</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Oldest GameEmily Critchley|authortitle=Sue LegerOne Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Moving and eye-opening story of 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a Romanian woman trafficked into Amsterdam move as her son wants to move to another house and forced bring Edie to work live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a prostitutesecret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. Sue Leger gives us all pause for thought here And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524635014</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom ConnollyMadelaine Lucas|title= Men Like AirThirst for Salt|rating= 5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= One April in Manhattan''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the destinies of four very different men are about to collideyear-long relationship that once defined her. Nineteen year old Finn has just arrived in the city along Overlaid with his volatile girlfriend Dillylater wisdom, determined to even the score narrator relives the affair with his older brother Jack for abandoning him in a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the UK in summer after. Set against the aftermath backdrop of their parentsan isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator' deaths. Across towns deepening relationship with her older lover, successful gallery owner Leo Emerson is haunted by loneliness, unsettled by the contrast between his life and that of his brother in law and oldest friend Williamdepicting its all-consuming nature, who is content in how it changed her perspective on both his faith romantic and his marriage. When Finn wanders in to Leo's gallery, a series of unexpected familial relationships and interconnected events unfold, changing the lives of all four men togetherhow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434880</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=How I Became a DrifterThe Garnett Girls|author=Christmas PhilipGeorgina Moore|reviewerrating=Jill Murphy5

|summary=Fictionalised autobiography told The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a stream-glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle ofWight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-consciousness stylerespected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. An unconventional voice speaking Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the universal search for love and acceptancedoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|rating=3Then Richard left them.5 |amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463588X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Corry1914585402|title= My Husband's WifeDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Autumn 2000I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. Newly married lawyer Lily and her artist husband Ed have It was a small apartment in London. Fresh from the honeymoongripping, they're still settling in to their new rolesemotionally wounding read, and their neighbour Francesca and her 9 year old daughter Carla help to take the pressure off a little bitrereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241256488</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Peter Ho DaviesLucy Ashe|title= The FortunesClara and Olivia|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Clashes of cultures or cultural enrichmentThe year is 1933. The place? Xenophobia or embracing diversity?TodaySadler's hot topics focus much Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on cultures meeting and notions of foreignnessthe outside but not, we learn, especially in on the context of migrationinside. As suchAnd not on stage, Peter Ho Davies could not have chosen either. Because there's a lot that builds a more current dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and thought-provoking theme for some things, that ''The Fortunesje ne sais quoi'': through four different stories, that don't come from the novel documents some of the history of Chinese people in America over more than centuryclassroom. From railroad workersA stage presence, laundry owners, and prostitutes to film stars and adoptive parentsa charm, a ''The Fortunesjoie de vivre'' tells tales of searching for identity on both national . The difference between a hard-worker, and personal levelsa star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340980230</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul ReadHeather Fawcett|title= The Art Teacher|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers |summary=Patrick Owen managed seven years at Highfields Secondary School without punching a pupil in the face. A mediocre teacher, stuck in a struggling school ruled by violent pupils, Patrick goes home every night to an empty flat, and an existence filled with reminders of his life as a faded rock star. When one pupil over steps the mark, a brief mistake plunges Patrick into a world Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of danger, violence, and the glare of the media. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079573</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Bertie Project: A 44 Scotland Street NovelFaeries

|summary=Catching up with old friends Emily Wilde is a pleasurean expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and itresearched meticulously, to write her life's good work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to be back on Scotland Streetfaeries, finding out what everyone she is getting up tonot so good with people. Irene is backSo when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of courseHrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, from nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her travels to book back on the middle-eastright track. Bruce has fallen in loveEnter Wendell Bambleby, Matthew her dashingly handsome and Elspeth have triplet troublesinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and somebody has an extremely unfortunate accident…delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973597</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rowan Hisayo Buchanan1398515388|title= Harmless Like YouThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5

|summary= This is the debut novel from Rowan Hisayo BuchananFirst of all, but you would never know it. It is an accomplishedwas the earthquake, unusualdeep in the ocean floor, poetically written story about a young Japanese girlwhich created the tsunami and this, Yuki Oyamain turn, who has lived most of her life in New Yorkcaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. As suchThe deaths were uncountable, she feels an outsider: the American girls at school ignore her and she finds the rituals loss of her parents' home suffocatinglivelihoods was widespread. Her father has hopes The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of her studying medicine, priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the only thing Yuki enjoys is artconvenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638321</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma Claire SweeneyChristopher Bowden|title=Owl Song at DawnMr Magenta|rating=54

|summary=Maeve Maloney runs the Sea View Lodge guest house that her parents ran before her. The house has harboured many memories for Maeve over the past 80-years-plus, most Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of which shea seemingly ordinary woman's managed to keep at bay. Howeverlife, carried out by her suppression is endangered when Vincent comes to callnephew after she has died. Far from being an ordinary guest, Vincent is The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a link little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that past Maeve thought she'd outrun but now has nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to relive. Add that him an obligation to trying to teach Steph and Len to fib effectively and life becomes very difficult indeedfind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079670</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karin SlaughterJennifer Mason|title=The Kept WomanPartitions of Unity|rating=54

|summary=Special Agent Will Trent is back. Collected by his partnerHere at Bookbag Towers, Faithwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, to attend the scene of a rather brutal murder, Trent queries why the GBI has been called dominatrix and unintentional detective in to what would usually be a standard homicide investigation for Atlanta PD. Arriving at the scene, their boss[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], Deputy Director Amanda Wagner is somewhat characteristically pacing when she investigated and barking orders; the victim is none other than ex-cop and all round bad egg, Dale Hardingunravelled a series of disappearances. There is a lot In ''Partitions of bloodUnity'', presumably due she sets her mind to the door-knob and spindle sticking out of Harding's necksolving a murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780893574</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eowyn IveyWill Carver|title=To the Bright Edge of the WorldThe Daves Next Door

|summary=If you're going to go pioneering across unexplored lands, at least be prepared to accept what you seek – namely, what you've never seen before. That lesson seems quite obvious, but back Five strangers come together in the time of 1885 Allen Forrester is one moment as a little too naïve suicide bomber prepares to heed itdetonate his vest on a London tube line. A career soldierAs their fates overlap, he the story is tasked with scouring the potential of the Wolverine River that threads south to the shores of Alaskatold in backwards order, even though the Russians (who of course used leading up to own the Territory) have had all manner of lethal encounters with those already living there, and even though a major stretch of the river has to be traversed in winter when entirely frozen over, as the cliffs either side are too impenetrable. Allen leaves a much younger, new bride behind – and right from the get-go his journals force him to pen words about strange happenings, strange encounters and things of legend coming to lifefateful moment. Like I say, what he's never seen before…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472208609</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gerald WeaverJennifer Mason|title=The First First Gentleman|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Anyone picking up ''The First First Gentleman'' might be forgiven for snorting with laughter and making a sarcastic comment about how timely and potentially satirical it sounds. In a way they’d be right – but probably for different reasons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993291759</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Liam Brown|title=Wild LifePreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4.5

|summary=Adam Britman goes from ''A struggling poetry zine, a man with it all to homeless mom-and-pop mobile diner in the sniff Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of -the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a line. While looking for somewhere to sleep Adam comes across cheap oil painting, an alternative community erotic art dealer in the local parkGeorgia... They've come together and created structure (including an unofficial allotment) out ' This is just a sample of the disorder that's normally equated with living on the streetscast of characters and settings in Preposterous. It seems perfect so Adam joins themAs you can see, but perfection can sometimes some keeping up will be an illusionrequired! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this.. As for walking away… that's not going to be easy.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079700</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sabine DurrantB0B2N7MVYM|title= Lie with MeThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey

|summary= Paul is lots It's the 10th of thingsDecember 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. A writer. A famous name (or at least he was a few years ago). A bit of a snob. A cheapskate. A ladies Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people' mans minds. And The world has barely had a liarchance to breathe out. Oh boy But for Joe Marr, is he a liarit's not the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. He fibs, he exaggerates, he omits, he tells porkies's been convicted of murder. Not about With the really big stuffcurrent state of medical knowledge, nothing it's hard to think otherwise than that will hurt anyone, just a the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few mistruths to see him through. Itdays in HMP Queen's for keeping up appearances, really.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473608333</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Andy Jones|title=The Trouble with Henry and Zoe|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Stop for a moment and look down at your bellyBench, in the centre you should have something that looks a little bit like a buttonrelatively new prison. It may be an innie, or an outie, but He's just consider it for a few moments. Do you feel better? Nopegetting used to his roommate, you shouldn't do as all that navel-gazing does is make you over think things. HoweverMervyn, without the concept a million romantic books would never and learning to be written as without wary of the human compulsion to destroy things around them, how can any tension arise?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471142469</amazonuk>McArthur brothers.