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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --><!-- Kidd -->{{Frontpage*[[image:Kidd_Hoarder.jpg|leftauthor=Onyi Nwabineli|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782118497?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782118497]] Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating===[[The Hoarder by Jess Kidd]]===4.5 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Cathal Flood is an oldsummary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, belligerent manwhere she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, living in a filthybasically, crowded house that was once a family homemonetary gain. When Maud Drennan – underpaid carer Now Anuri is in her twenties and unintentional psychic she is employed slowly trying to look after the ancient Cathalregain her confidence and to get her life back, she assumes she'll just be the next in a long line of shortsuing her step-term dogsbodies for mother to take down the old mancontent about her. Instead Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, Maud finds herself drawn into the mysteries concealed within Cathal's once great house – undergoing therapy and as Maud begins to clean secretly abusing people online and sort the rooms receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she uncovers secrets is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the old man that awaken long-hidden memories within Maud herselfnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. With the aid of Can she save her highly glamourous yet utterly agoraphobic landlady sister, and perhaps herself and a troop of holy ghosts, Maud must uncover the secrets her relationship with her father at the heart of the house – and exactly why they were buried… [[The Hoarder by Jess Kiddsame time?|Full Review]]isbn=0861546873<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Makumbi -->|isbn=1529153298*[[image:Makumbu_Kintu.jpg|lefttitle=The List of Suspicious Things|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1786073773?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1786073773]]Jennie Godfrey ===[[Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi]]==|rating=5 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'Kintus not what's worrying Miv' opens with unbridled authority and mercilessnesss family, though. Women have been disappearing. In just a few pages a man has Well, they've been hunted down by an angry mob in Ugandamurdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. He When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is then brained with a concrete slab; his woman is left in widowhood and has frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the hard task of dealing with move would mean leaving her manbest friend, Sharon, and she's debtll do anything to prevent that. Blood flows easily, and quickly, when your family She's steps are haunted by a curse not worried about the dangers or that spans generationsher Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. [[Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi|Full Review]]<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Vaughan -->|isbn=1035906708*[[image:Vaughan Scandal.jpg|lefttitle=Diva|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471164993?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471164993]]Daisy Goodwin|rating===[[Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan]]===4.5[[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Sophie had been married summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to James for twelve years Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and two children: only moved to be honest Athens when she was more than a little bit in awe of himthirteen. James Whitehouse Her original surname was an MP and junior minister: perhaps most importantly he was a friend of the prime minister, so when he had Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to admit that he'd been having an affair he was confident that some contrition, a public admission that heCallas'd been wrong, that he to make it more manageable in the States. When she was not perfect, would soon have his career back on track. And it seemed as though in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the way it was going, until Nazi occupation by a friend mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of the 'other woman'her preference for her elder sister, parliamentary researcher Olivia LyttonJackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, persuaded her to go run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the policeonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. There was no dispute that Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the relationship had been consensualbusiness, but after James had finished the affair there was an incident in as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a lift in House while. Katie is coming out of Commons a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the police chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Crown Prosecution Service were both of the opinion that this amounted Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to rapecharm. The prosecuting counsel is Kate Woodcroft Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and shethere's always her very determined that Whitehouse is going to be brought helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to book. [[Anatomy of lend a Scandal by Sarah Vaughanhand…|Full Review]]isbn=1846976596<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- |author=Dean -->Koontz*[[image:Dean Dark.jpg|lefttitle=The Bad Weather Friend|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178607253X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=178607253X]]5|genre===[[Dark Pines by Will Dean]]===Paranormal[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Tuva Moodyson works for Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a local paper in small town Sweden really weird, disturbing coffin- there sized object to be near an ailing Motherhis home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, but desperate Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the big break that will have her moving on delivery to pastures his house is a new. Just outside of her townfriend, Gavrika bad weather friend called Spike, two bodies lie deep in the forest - brutally murdered and their eyes ripped out. They bring back dark memories who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a town that has seen this crime before - and Tuva good person. Spike is desperate going to find the killer. At firsttake care of Benny, sheand will certainly take care of Benny's just out to write enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a good story - but as the crimes continue she waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself drawn deeper and deeper roped into the forests outside of Gavrik, filled with stranger characters and dark secretsBenny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. Will she find the killer before they find her? [[Dark Pines by Will Dean|Full Review]]<br>isbn=1662500491}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle de KretserKatherine Howe|title=The Life to ComeA True Account|rating=34.5

|summary=''The Life Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to Come'' tells the story of several ''interesting'' characters live with a family who are all linked by one person: Pipparun an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. The novel When she hears there is split into five chapters with each one focusing on to be a different personhanging of some pirates in the town, from Cassie she decides to go and her bizarre relationship with Ash to George who has finished his thesis watch. Enthralled and is horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the process hands of writing his first noveltwo vicious pirates. Pippa She hides away, who is also a writerso that they don't find and kill her too, appears in each of these chaptersand then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, in some cases just dressing as a background character. However, what I found most fascinating about this novel was that de Kretser tells boy and joining the story of Pippanotorious Ned Low's life through all these various appearances and leaves pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the reader with a real sense thick of who she things when there is as a person mutiny on board, and having watched from there we are caught up in her development as a characterrip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1760296708</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreview <!-- remove 29/12 -->Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Servants of the UndergroundMaybe Tomorrow|author=David SsembajjoPenny Parkes|rating=34.5

|summary=Having experienced a terrible famine Jamie Matson works in his own countryan upper-class grocery store, Kalamchi leaves to travel and learn. He returns for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a burning desire to feed half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his people - but not only to feed their stomachs but to feed their minds, tooproblems'. Kalamchi wants to raise his people He's consciousness so asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that they can fight against he's on the dictator Bamutu autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - chillingly known as she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo'president for life s not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and after death''put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848765800</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Rob MurphyB0CKD1L5JL|title=Rotten to the CoreRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|genre=Thrillers General Fiction|summary=It's 2009, and Russia look like being awarded the football World Cup hosting rights for the oh-so-distant 2018 tournament - that Petr is, until England stick their oar inan orphan. They have solved their hooligan problemRescued by the strange, and improved their transport systemreclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and so at last are valid final holders. Watching this is Francebusy human society, who have to reciprocate with in the Russians who helped them get France forests of Washington'98, and they have a plans Olympic Peninsula. At this stage the UEFA European championship of 2016 has not been awarded, After Bear dies and while France remain favourites to get the job, again some upstart idea has poked its head above the parapet - a joint offering from Wales and Scotland. Yes, these two tiny countriesbrief sojourn in human company, separated by 200 miles and without armed with only a brilliant connection from one to the otherpirate radio transmitter, and without some vital posh hotels here and there, and with no serious claim to soccer fame when it comes to winning things, are unlikely hosts. But what if France could persuade the world it was Petr goes on a good idea - and let Russian espionage prove it not to be so, with all journey through the while the French around to pick up the pieces? All of the UK would be damagedforest, meaning England '18 would be dead in broadcasting the waterstrange, wild and Russia would win outrarely heard voices he encounters. And who's to say the Brits, with their devolution habits, and their first coalition government in a long time, could not get through without damaging themselves?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546282998</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|author=Paul StidolphSarah Marsh|title=Forests in the SaharaA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers General Fiction|summary=''Everyone I speak to thinks you are going to come to some sort After a bout of sticky end.'' Those are not the most promising words scarlet fever as a man can hear from his new partnerchild, but she doesn't lie in this instanceEllen Lark loses her hearing. He is Jeffrey Harvey, Suddenly plunged into a young Cambridge professorworld of silence, who has been dabbling with some extra-curricular work, creating GM trees that can keep vast quantities of water purifiedeverything about her life changes. Get an iceberg or three worth Living in a time when the use of H2O near Africasign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where clean water she is still a scarce resourcetaught to lip read, and the trees can do their bit and the water will advance the place and make Jeffrey a well-respected global entrepreneurbut physically restrained from signing. If From here, that is, he can get round all the problems in his life - fractions in the start-she ends up involved in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the project, deaf and using a finance officer embezzling system called Visible Speech. At the funds for gambling - ohsame time, Bell is working on other inventions and a man ready to accuse Jeffrey of murder ideas, and theft of research data on Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a case reaching back several years. It seems the lovely girlfriend was right to see no shortage complicated tangle of possible sticky ends..espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1546282351</amazonuk>1035401614

<!Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo -people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen- Banks year-->*[[imageold Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did:Banks_WLavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him.jpg|left|link=https She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church://wwwthis was just an extension.amazon She went to his house and he raped her.co In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home.uk/gp/product/0983333416?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0983333416]]}}

{{Frontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The Figurine|author=[[W Victoria Hislop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by John Banks]]birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=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 looks 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. }}

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]FrontpageOn the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored and with his world in turmoil. Beginning a journey westward, he's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupt. [[W by John Banks|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewisbn=B0BYF82CXT|authortitle= Ellen WilesSemi-Detached|titleauthor=The Invisible CrowdDeborah Stone|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=This novel follows the plight of Eritrean Yonas Kelati as he tries to make ''Bill and Amanda are living in a life for himself semi-detached house, stuck in England. He a depressing rut of boredom and a good frienddisappointment, Gebrewhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, escape from prison only to be thrown into captivity again: trafficked successful and very much in love – move in a shellfish factory where they have to earn next door. Despite their ‘payment’ different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and life appears to the malicious Aziz improve for entering the UK illegallyboth pairs. When Yonas escapesBut all is not what it seems, the story really startsand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008228817</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tony PeakeShalini Boland|title= North FacingThe Silent Bride|rating= 4.53|genre= General Fiction|summary=At school Alice and Seth are a match made in Pretoria in 1962heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, Paul Harvey struggles to fit in funny; total and utter husband- desperate to join the popular group no matter what it may takematerial. His focus on surviving the perils of school so intense, that She is all he fails to see the turbulence could possibly want in both South Africa a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the larger world - with inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the arrest of Nelson Mandela wedding is planned and set. When the Cuban Missile Crisis affecting much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the actions of the adults around him. A new aisle by her father, beaming with pride and charismatic teacher decides to educate excitement as she surveys the boys in the unstable situation in the world outside - and a growing awareness of both that and his sexuality pushes Paul Harvey into decisions that he later comes congregation – their friends assembled to regret - celebrate this joyful day and their weight pushes him when Seth turns to return to South Africa in face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the present day - a man in at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his sixties keen to make sense of a troubled and utterly fascinating pastwife. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0995590028</amazonuk>1662507089

 <!-- Curtis -->*[[image:Curtis_Water.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0995465754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0995465754]] ===[[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]Frontpage Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a handful of animals living below the waves. We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after the animals and falls into a world of intrigue. It is difficult to properly review this book without giving too much away. There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the start but I will try to avoid the main ones. [[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Hill -->*[[image:Hill_Strange.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147322117X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147322117X]] ==isbn=[[Strange Weather by Joe Hill]]===1787636003[[image:5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Strange Weather is a collection of four short novels all linked by, unsurprisingly, strange and cataclysmic weather. Each novel is distinct and showcases Hill's restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events and makes them bitingly, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautiful, often switching from one sentence to the next. As Hill himself says ''the beauty The Girls of the world and the horror of the world were twined together'', never is this truer than in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with raw beauty. [[Strange Weather by Joe Hill|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewSummer|author=Fiona Mitchell|title=The Maid's RoomKatie Bishop

|summary=In some apartments It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in Singapore you'll find her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a bomb shelter - airless while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and without a windowby that time she was obsessed by him. It will probably house Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.}}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Craig|title=Three Graces|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the washing machine day and capture it, crafting an image of the other domestic paraphernalia country as it stands in one particular moment. To say thatAmanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's got nowhere else to gopractically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. There'll be She has such a mattress on gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the floor lives of this stifling roomher characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Pineapple Street'' is the heat increased by the tumble dryerstory of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. This Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the maid's roomtribe. ItThe problem's possibly better than sleeping under exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the dining room tablePineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, but not by muchwhich they own. Back in 2009 there were 201They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street,000 female domestic workers so Sasha and Cord can move straight in Singapore. Nominally, many not earning any money for they had a year until they've repaid 'trainingchoice but that wasn' t the reality. Darley and other fees Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the agency, many gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the maid's roomGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473659566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Scoop of the YearEmily Critchley|authortitle=Tom ClaverOne Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Martin 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is an ambitious journalist working on the Financial Reviewfacing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. Martin However, Edie is good at his job - accuratetormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, dedicatedwho went missing over 60 years ago, hardworking and with the worry that there was a good nose secret she was keeping for a scoop. But Martin is also uninterested in Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the culture truth of what happened all that comes with reportingtime ago. He has a wife and two daughters at home and he doesn After 'seeing't want to waste time and money Lucy in the pubhigh street, talking macho nonsense with just as she was the other hackslast time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. He 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?|isbn=1804181250}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a far cry light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from his colleague Tom de Lacya retrospective view, a charismatic, silveryoung woman unravels the year-spooned charmer long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with piercing blue eyes. Tom doesn't just grab later wisdom, the narrator relives the limelight though - he also grabs affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the promotion summer after finishing university – to industrial correspondentits sorrowful end the summer after. And that is Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the job Martin not only wanted24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, but neededhow it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788036220</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall Smith0008506337|title=The Good Pilot Peter WoodhouseGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=If youThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O've never read an Alexander McCall Smith novelLeary was all-consuming, but have always thought you might like to try, one day then this might be the book to start withapparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Rather than face the daunting task of leaping into Richard was twenty-one of his now very long-running series, this is a standalone novel, and it gives a good flavour of AMSdescribed by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's style, the way he can write influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to evoke Oxford and having a feeling of time and placeglittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the warm optimism underlying his words that is so very reassuring Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and comforting went on to readbecome a well-respected journalist. It calls itself 'a wartime romance', which it isThe couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and yet it is much more than that besidesSasha. Focussing mainly on Val, a young woman working as a Land Girl, we see her falling Life was lived in love with an American pilotLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, Mike Rogersthe family home on the Isle of Wight. Thanks to a sheepdog on ValEven then the doubts about Richard's farm (the Peter Woodhouse drinking were never far from the title) their lives become entwined with that of a German soldier, and the book shows us a variety of friendships as they grow and develop over the yearsMargo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846974097</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Krysten Ritter1914585402|title= BonfireDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the townI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to BarrensOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There' biggest scandal from more than s Only One Danny Garvey]] a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell couple of years back and her closest friends--just before Kaycee disappeared for good.Abby knows the key to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questions. But as she tries desperately to find out what really happened to Kaycee, troubling memories begin to resurface remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and she begins to doubt her own observationsaffecting it was. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret--It was a ritual called ''The Gamegripping,'' it will threaten the reputationsemotionally wounding read, and lives, rereading my review of the community and risk exposing a darkness it my main takeaway was that may consume herI might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524759848</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alice HoffmanLucy Ashe|title= The Rules of MagicClara and Olivia|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= I've read several of Alice HoffmanThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's novelsWells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, although strangelywe learn, on the inside. And not the one sheon stage, either. Because there's most famous for ''Practical Magic''a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, which went on attention to be made into a film. detail – and some things, that ''The Rules of Magicje ne sais quoi'' is the long-awaited prequel to , that book, and tells the story of three siblings of don't come from the Owens family; Franny, Jet and Vincentclassroom. The two sistersA stage presence, Franny and Jeta charm, go on to become the two aunts in the a ''Practical Magicjoie de vivre'' story. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471157679</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen FryHeather Fawcett|title= Mythos: A Retelling Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of the Myths of Ancient GreeceFaeries|rating= 54|genre= ReferenceGeneral Fiction|summary= The Greek Myths areEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, arguablyto write her life's work, the greatest stories ever toldvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. So old Whilst she is brilliant at research and influential they cast a shadow over western tales and traditionsspeaking to faeries, yet remain relatable and readable millennia latershe is not so good with people. Here comedian So when she finds herself far, actorfar North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, television presenterhaving somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent nor how to these special stories redeem herself and recreates them with a witput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, warmth her dashingly handsome and humanity that brings them into the modern age whilst still giving the honour insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and respect that such ancient and influential stories deservedelight, 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>0718188721</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lorenzo Marone and Shaun Whiteside (Translator)1398515388|title=The Temptation to Be HappyBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=Cesare is 77First of all, widowedit was the earthquake, generally ignored by deep in the ocean floor, which created the offspring he likes tsunami and bothered too much by this, in turn, caused the one he doesn'tnuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. StillThe deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he finds ways would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to fill open his dayscar door and Tamon the dog jumped in. If he}} {{Frontpage|author=Christopher Bowden|title=Mr Magenta|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's not taking advantage life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to find it all out. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Partitions of Unity|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearances. In ''Partitions of Unity'', she sets her mind to solving a murder...|isbn=B09LQR9FRF}}{{Frontpage|author=Will Carver|title=The Daves Next Door|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his friendvest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-withand-benefits arrangement with aging lady of pop mobile diner in the night RossanaNorthern California redwoods, or keeping an eye on his grandsona 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, hea women's making mischief in league track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with elderly neighbours like Signora Vitaliano (local mad cat woman) and Marino (a state-of-the non-IT-literate computer guyart S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia. Their minds are diverted from their usual pursuits when ..'' This is just a young couple move into sample of the apartment block providing Cesare with a concern cast of characters and the conviction that he has to do somethingsettings in Preposterous. As you can see, whatever the fall out or personal dangersome keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786072882</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)B0B2N7MVYM|title=The Sixteen Trees Calculations of the SommeRational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=4.5

|summary=While his grandfather lived It's the past was an area 10th of certainty for EdvardDecember 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. At aged 4 he'd been taken Just to live with his grandparentsput what happens in context, having survived the accident that killed his parentsCuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. Now his grandfather The world has died revelations are coming barely had a chance to light showing Edvard his family history is different from what hebreathe out. But for Joe Marr, it'd believed… his mothers not the missile crisis that's birthplace, at the front of his mothermind. He's name, been convicted of murder. With the whereabouts current state of late Great-Uncle Einar… and medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than thatthe prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itselfBench, a relatively new prison. Edvard is determined He's just getting used to solve the puzzlehis roommate, Mervyn, a determination that will take him away from his native Norway and learning to an area be wary of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secretsthe McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857056069</amazonuk>