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|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Onyi Nwabineli|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=This was an incredibly readable novellaAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, but one that left me a little conflictedsuing her step-mother to take down the content about her. We Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airporther PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and before we even know his gender or receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the nature new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the person hesame time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's addressing in his second person monologue of overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a narrationfrightening, foreign place, we see him picked up by his motherbest avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's chauffeurstopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|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 carted off only moved to do all 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 necessary introductions before said Nazi occupation by a mother is buried the following daywho mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4. 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The mother was Perfect Passion Company is a businesswomandating agency in Edinburgh, who clearly left northern Italy run by Ness and settled operating as an alternative to all the online apps in Romania with providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her (night-time younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business) partner, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and feelings of abandonment are still strongso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we flit from current already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (welland rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=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 really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this came bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out in that the original Italian in 2007delivery to his house is a new friend, so moderately current) Bucharesta bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to the ladhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's childhoodenemies, if he, Benny, and see just what he has to tell her as Harper (a private farewell addresswaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=19398109651662500491

|author=David F RossKatherine Howe|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyA True Account

|summary= Years agoHannah Masury is living in Boston, Danny Garvey was having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a footballing prodigy playing for his local clubyoung age. Everyone predicted When she hears there is to be a bright future – but his career hanging of some pirates in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years onthe town, convinced she decides to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying mothergo and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Danny takes over Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the shambolic hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and once-great team he used to play for kill her too, and tries then to reform escape themcompletely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|isbn= 19131935000861547438}}

|authorisbn=Gail Honeyman1471180158|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes

|summary= Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30. She lives Jamie Matson works in Glasgow, alone. And she likes it that way. She works 9an upper-5class grocery store, 5 days for a man who's a week, and spends control freak with all the weekend not drunk, but not sober. alonesubtlety of a half brick. And she likes it that way. She lives by a routine, and that Jamie's fineson, Bo, thankyouverymuch'has his problems'. Nothing is missing from her life. Except everything is. Until one day He's asthmatic and the more you read, at a concert she won tickets for in an office raffle, she sees the man she is sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself the best version of herself more you'll suspect that she can, in order to secure this beautiful musician. Then, as shehe's on her way home one Friday, she and the new IT guy autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at her office see short notice - she's a man collapse frequent flier in the street local A&E and stay close sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to him in hospitalschool. Then, before she knows it, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with Missed shifts or the man's family and friends, with Raymond need to be away on time to pick Bo up from IT school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and of course her side project of falling put in love with Johnnie Lomond. But just as her life seems to be looking up, things take a turn for the worsewrong. Is Johnnie all he's cracked up to be? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanor's walls have been broken down and she has It was going to fight her way out of the shadows - but maybe she doesn't have come to do it alonea head.|isbn=0008172145

|isbn=B08GFSK2WZB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Karma TrapRadio Free Olympia|author=Lisette BoydJeffrey Dunn

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=George Jackson Petr is thirty-three years oldan orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, absolutely gorgeous to look at - he is brought up far from bustling cities and singlebusy human society, in the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. She's not had sex for eight months After Bear dies and she's stuck a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the forest, broadcasting the karma trap: an awful lot strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of bad luck is being visited on scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her and she has hearing. Suddenly plunged into a real talent for attracting dramaworld of silence, everything about her life changes. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with Living in a time when the leak from the shower by putting use of sign language was seen as something down at the bottom of the stairs only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she was ends up in it another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and left herusing a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, stark nakedBell is working on other inventions and ideas, staring at the pervy postmanand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She only has was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to take hug her motherin case it's contagious. It's dog out for not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a walk for crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and 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 he raped her . In shock, she even allowed him to end up with dog poo spattered across give her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the officelift home.

|authorisbn=Matt Haig1472263936|title=The Midnight LibraryFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|summary= Between life and death there is a library. And so, 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, she finds herself It was in the Midnight Library. Everything 1968 that could've gone wrong in Nora's life has. Her cat died, she lost her job, Helena McCloud made her brother won't speak first trip to Greece. She was alone: hermother, her parents are deadGreek by birth, had left the boy she teaches piano family home and refused to no longer cares about pianoreturn, she called off but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her wedding, and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs grandparents or understanding her helpGreek heritage. She gave Her trip to the family apartment in up on all -market Kolonaki would be the things that would've let first of several annual visits. She grew to love her escape grandmother and the wetfamily's maid, cold town Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of Bedford and given her life some purposeful direction. So at 23:22grandfather, she realises that she isn't made for life and decides to dieretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. But instead He was proud of death, she finds his close connections to the library. Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each book providing a chance Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to try another life she could have lived, in a parallel timeaccommodate them. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday the 18th of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life she could His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father'ves Scottish ancestors.|isbn=1786892731

|author=Vincent PanettiereDean Koontz|title=These Thy GiftsAfter Death|rating=43

|summary=''2006 Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a tumultuous year for the Catholic Church. Reports of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli virus is troubledreleased in a bio-hazard accident. He worries for 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 future shrouded bodies of the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church dead friends and hit closer to home than he ever imaginedformer colleagues.''  As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense of the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking he recovers his beloved Catholic churchsenses, he discovers realises that one child in his own parish has been abused by a priest sent by his bishopthere is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. And this Michael isn't just any boy: this is Steve's grandson whose mother is the offspring of a long past relationship between Steve and a gangster's widow. Steve is determined to seek justice for this boy and all children victimised by priests who have been protected by his church. But he must also face up to his own failings, going right back to his breaking of the celibacy vowsMichael'' anymore.|isbn=15031998861662500467

|authorisbn=Delia OwensB0BVDC2VWH|title=Where The Crawdads SingGrave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=54

|summary= In 1952, KyaThe village is isolated and poor. It's mother disappeared up surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the dirt track to town, wearing her alligator heels, and never came home. Then one villagers subsist largely by one her siblings left, ran from the shack on the North Carolina marsh that served as home and the life that would lead to nothing but suffering, leaving 7farming Uphegia plants -yearits bread-old Kya with her drunken fatherlike fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed 'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for a mother that would never return The black wood of the forest provides heat and grew up far too fast for a girl who can neither read nor write. Finallywarmth, one night her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone to survive roofs on the marsh. Eventuallyhomes, as the years drift painfully by, the time comes when Kya, now an emotional and vastly intelligent young womaneven gallows, yearns for company besides the gulls and the land, yearning to be loved and to be heldif needed. So, when 2 boys from the town The fear of Barkley Cove find their way to her, she finds a new way of life. But being buried alive is an existential superstition in 1969, the body of former star quarterback village and new husband Chase Andrews that is found lying in the mud of the marshreason Volushka, and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysteriousa drunken, runself-down Marsh-Girl. Who is Kya nowindulgent, after years lazy lout of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=1472154665man is tolerated.

|isbn=1473692407B0BYF82CXT|title=The Book of Two WaysSemi-Detached|author=Jodi PicoultDeborah Stone

|summary=Dawn Edelstein is ''Bill and Amanda are living in a death doula: that's someone who is there for the person who is dyingsemi-detached house, to make their passage to whatever they believe stuck in as easy as possible a depressing rut of boredom and to support their carers. It's a rewardingdisappointment, caring occupation when Terry and Dawn puts her heart Fiona – glamorous, successful and soul into it but this wasn't always her very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life. Some fifteen years ago she was a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an Egyptologist, she was working with her supervisor, Professor Ian Dumphries, on the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egyptcouples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. Then she was Dawn McDowell: that was her maiden nameBut all is not what it seems, the name she published underand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''

|isbnauthor=0241295955Shalini Boland|title=Trio|author=William BoydThe Silent Bride|rating=53

|summary=It was 1968: the year when Bobby Kennedy Alice and Martin Luther King were assassinated. It's also the year when YSK Films Seth are making a movie match made in Brightonheaven. It's called ''Emily Bracegirdle's Extremely Useful Ladder to the Moon''He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, or ''Ladder the Moon'' as it's known on setfunny; total and utter husband-material. Anny Viklund She is the female star all he could possibly want in a production which wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is proving to be just a little bit racketyeagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. There are odd pressures on When the producermuch-anticipated day arrives, Talbot KyddAlice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to employ celebrate this old actor friend for a couple of days because he needs the money, allow a fading star joyful day and when Seth turns to use face his catchphraseapproaching bride, or include a song from Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the leading manat the altar is, whose musical star who is fadingwaiting for her to become his wife.|isbn=1662507089

|authorisbn=Anna Bruno1787636003|title=Ordinary HazardsThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=25

|summary= Some books either grab you or bore youIt was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. And this Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was one that I wanted , perhaps, naive, so badly when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to like but unfortunatelyher and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, I just wasn't hookedlooking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|isbn=1471184862

|isbnauthor=1712435728Amanda Craig|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherThree Graces

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Alex Hannah, heFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's just being released from something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the Southern General Hospital. The nurse thinks he'll come back to visit atmosphere of the other patients but Alex has no intention day and capture it, crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing thatthis would be embarrassingly inadequate: heshe's been there practically synonymous with the 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 a year, on the same ward where his brother died way that feels natural and now, with his hair all shorn off, he's going home lived-in his dead brother's clothes. He wants to get outside and back with his friends: his brother, Forbesnever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, says that the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that he's not to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck grappling with that one, Alexissues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X

|authorisbn=Helen Fisher152915118X|title=Space HopperPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=34.5

|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worse, Darley and although they were kind George are sisters and very good Sasha is married to her she of course missed her mum enormouslytheir brother Cord. So when, unexpectedlyThey're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to isn't readily accepted into the 70tribe. The problem's and her mumexacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, she revels in the chance to create some memories asks Cord and get Sasha if they'd like to know move into the woman who meant so much to herPineapple Street property. The time travellingTilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, howevera street or so away, is neither easy nor safewhich they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Faye fears Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that her husband wonwasn't believe what's happening and so lies to him insteadthe reality. The lies grow more tangled, Darley and Faye begins Georgiana start to wonder if itcall Sasha 's safe for her to return one last time to the pastgold digger'. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum She's death, or will living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663'the GD'.

|author= Claire McGowanEmily Critchley|title=The PushOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 54|genre= General FictionCrime|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at a prenatal class. It's NCT ''style''84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but not the proper NCT. This bit now she is importantfacing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, but you have to wait a little as Edie is starting to see whylose her memory. This being London However, such a class attracts a wide variety Edie is tormented by the memory of peopleher childhood friend, Lucy, from all sorts of backgroundswho went missing over 60 years ago, but and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for most 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 ladies last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the thing they have past, she is forgetting more and more in common is it's their first babyher day to day life. Probably after Will she uncover the first one, you dontruth about Lucy't have time for classess disappearance before her move, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=15420199901804181250

|isbnauthor=0008378363Madelaine Lucas|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneThirst for Salt|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=A husband is about to have his throat cut in his own bed. To find out who - and why - we need ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to go back nine days be a light and twenty years.weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''

MackenzieTold from a retrospective view, Robin and Lily met when they all went to a young woman unravels the same college in Monroevilleyear-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, Pennsylvania and the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years later they're still her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the best of friendssummer after. When they first met they called themselves Set against the Spicier Girls as a nod to the famous girl band backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the day. Lily would be Adventure Spice24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie depicting its all- wellconsuming nature, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in how it changed her own life. She married Owen, perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-oldirrevocably.|isbn=0861546490

|isbn=B07WWSCGVS0008506337|title=The Lies You ToldGarnett Girls|author=Harriet TyceGeorgina Moore

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isnThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O't happy about having to start a new schoolLeary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. She's left the school she loved Margo was just sixteen when they fell in New York and now she's going to Ashams in North Londonlove. ItRichard was twenty-one and described by Margo's very upmarket; places are rare mother as hens' teeth and as the pupils have all been there ''forever'an older man', they have their established groups. RobinHer parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to be an outsiderOxford and having a glittering career. And why is this happening? In the event, Well, over a matter they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a few days her parents' marriage fell apartwell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Andrew Spence is staying Life was lived in New York - he works for a securities firm - London and her motherholidays were spent at Sandcove, Sadie Roper, has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barristerthe family home on the Isle of Wight. ThatEven then the doubts about Richard's easier said than done when youdrinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''ve been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten years. Then Richard left them.

|isbn=1914585402|title=Dashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=I 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. It was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.}}{{Frontpage|author=Antoine LaurainLucy Ashe|title=The Readers RoomClara and Olivia|rating=4.5

|ratingsummary=3The year is 1933.5|summary=ViolaineThe place? Sadler's publishing house has had a great successWells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscriptstwins no less. The three people who work in Identical on the Readers' Room to sift through what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus outside but not, we learn, on the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smashinside. And not on stage, and so it has proveneither. But Because there are several 'howevers' to s a lot thatbuilds a dancer. As inSome things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, however attention to detail – Violaine herself is not having life all her own wayand some things, for she has been involved in a near-fatal accidentthat ''je ne sais quoi'', and starts this book coming round that don't come from a comathe classroom. AndA stage presence, however – despite all urginga charm, the author of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in persona ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and in fact, offered up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailstar. What is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?|isbn=19104779740861544080

|isbnauthor=085752612XHeather Fawcett|title=Rodham: What if Hillary hadnEmily Wilde't Married Bill?|author=Curtis Sittenfelds Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=I was tempted Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to read ''Rodham'' by the success of Curtis Sittenfeldwrite her life's ''American Wife''. That book wasn't marketed as being a portrait of Laura Bushwork, but the word ''thinly-veiled'' seemed to occur very regularly in reviewsfirst encyclopaedia of faeries. How would ''Rodham'' compare? UnfortunatelyWhilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, there she is a difference: relatively little was known about Laura Bushnot so good with people. So when she finds herself far, which gave the book a freshness which far North in the first third small village of ''Rodham'' lacks. We've all heard Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the storiesvillage matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, read nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the books - about Hillary and particularly about Billright track. It's still an interesting conceptEnter Wendell Bambleby, though: how would Hillary have fared if she hadn't subsumed her own ambitions into Bill's careerdashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, if she hadn't had much to carry the burden of all BillEmily's baggage and if she hadn't left her own run at the presidency so latefrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? Could she have done better without And what exactly is going on with the Clinton surnamefaerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120

|isbn=1398515388|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The 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 would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.}} {{Frontpage|author=Anstey HarrisChristopher Bowden|title=Where We BelongMr Magenta|rating=54

|summary= IChristopher Bowden've always believed that places and buildings absorb what happens within them and reflect it back; this s latest novel is how we can tell that a sacred space is sacred. Cate Morris believes patient untangling of a similar thing, she believes that seemingly ordinary woman''A house absorbs happinesss life, it blooms into the wallpaper, the wood of the window frames, the bricks: that's how it becomes a home.'' She is having these thoughts as carried out by her nephew after she packs up her home. She has to leavedied. A combination The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of circumstances means indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that is not only redundant but also homeless. With nowhere else nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to go, she has called on her late husband's family for help. Just for a few weeksfind it all out.|isbn=1471173836B0B6Z9VJDW

|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)Jennifer Mason|title=A Life Without EndPartitions of Unity

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=I looked Here at the calendar the other weekBookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one of the major numbersunintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then she investigated and unravelled a few series of the big 0-numbers, and if all goes well, Idisappearances. In ''ll be an OBE. (Which Partitions of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if thatUnity''s the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have she sets her mind to be happysolving a murder. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one. Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, which is at least a way of continuing the life of his genes, and a motive to keep ongoing. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670B09LQR9FRF

|isbnauthor=B08774SJYNWill Carver|title=The Greenbecker Gambit|author=Ben GraffDaves Next Door|rating=54

|summary=''I suppose the odd fleeting sense of loneliness is Five strangers come together in one moment as a price all truly successful people must pay for our gifts. I tell myself that I do so willingly.'' Tennessee Greenbecker. Isn't that a name suicide bomber prepares to conjure with? There are hints that it might not have been the name he was given at birth, but many of us have moved detonate his vest ona London tube line. As their fates overlap, so far as names go, from the one we were originally saddled with. Greenbecker's life story is one of constant reinvention. He tells us that he's the foremost chess player never to have been world championtold in backwards order, and it does seem that he has some considerable talent as far as chess goes. He's determined that he's going to fulfil what he sees as his destiny. He just needs leading up to do some study to be able to beat the current players ranked at numbers one and two in the world. Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana will not stand in his wayfateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186

|author=J Paul HendersonJennifer Mason|title=DaisyPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|summary=This is ''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the story 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of Herod -the-art S. Pinkney&M dungeon, a rather unusual man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(yet somehow charmings, x) man who is in search of , on a woman called Daisycheap oil painting, whom he first sees an erotic art dealer in an episode Georgia...'' This is just a sample of the cast of Judge Judy on television characters and instantly falls settings in love with herPreposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! Rod is writing The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=B09STS96HS}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM|title=The Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's the novel 10th of his questDecember 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, guided by an embittered ex-literary agent who the Cuban missile crisis is now clearing glasses still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a pub chance to breathe out. But for a livingJoe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. Determined With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to find and meet Daisy, think otherwise than that the book takes us through Rodprosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's lifeBench, introduces us a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his friendsroommate, Mervyn, and tells us learning to be wary of what happens in his quest for lovethe McArthur brothers.|isbn=0857303309