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|author=Heather FawcettOnyi Nwabineli|title=Emily WildeAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri 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, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. 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?|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 overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best 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 Encyclopaedia stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of FaeriesMaria 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=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary=Emily Wilde The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an expert academic scholar on faerie lorealternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, and tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she has travelled extensively, could come and researched meticulouslylook after the business, as Ness is planning to write her life's worktake a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the very first encyclopaedia of faerieschance to come home to Edinburgh. Whilst she is brilliant at research And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and speaking to faeriesthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, she is not so good but with peoplesome new characters who quickly begin to charm. So when she finds herself farKatie has no experience in running a business, far North or in the small village of Hrafvsnikmatch-making, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she but Ness has donefull confidence in her abilities, nor how to redeem herself and put there's always her final investigations for her book back on the right trackvery helpful (and 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. Enter Wendell BamblebyHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedlyhis house gets trashed. Oh, all charm and delightsomeone has delivered a really weird, much disturbing coffin-sized object to Emilyhis home, and it's frustrationpossible 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 bad luck. But why He is he here? a nice person. A really nice person. What does he want? So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. And what exactly Spike is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=03565191201662500491
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|isbnauthor=1398515388Katherine Howe|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)A True Account
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|summary=First of allHannah Masury is living in Boston, it was the earthquakehaving been sent to live with a family who run an inn, deep and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the ocean floortown, which created the tsunami she decides to go and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdownwatch. The result was complete Enthralled and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountablehorrified in equal measure, and Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the loss hands of livelihoods was widespreadtwo vicious pirates. The fact She hides away, so 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 wasnthey don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a dog person but boy and joining the convenience store ownernotorious Ned Low's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and Tamon from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the dog jumped inocean waves.|isbn=0861547438
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|authorisbn=Christopher Bowden1471180158|title=Mr MagentaMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Christopher BowdenJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's latest novel is a patient untangling control freak with all the subtlety of a seemingly ordinary womanhalf brick. Jamie's lifeson, carried out by her nephew after she Bo, 'has diedhis problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. The aunt who always provided Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a safe harbour frequent flier in the local A&E and a little bit of indulgence sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and it seems put in the wrong. It was going to him an obligation come to find it all outa head. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW
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|authorisbn=Jennifer MasonB0CKD1L5JL|title=Partitions of UnityRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Here at Bookbag TowersPetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, we first met Elizabeth Cromwellreclusive Bear, dominatrix he is brought up far from bustling cities and unintentional detective busy human society, in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]]the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, when she investigated and unravelled armed with only a series of disappearances. In ''Partitions of Unity''pirate radio transmitter, she sets her mind to solving Petr goes on a murder..journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF
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|author=Will CarverSarah Marsh|title=The Daves Next DoorA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5
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|summary= Five strangers come together 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 one moment a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a suicide bomber prepares school where she is taught to detonate his vest on lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a London tube linesystem called Visible Speech. As their fates overlap At the same time, the story Bell is told in backwards orderworking on other inventions and ideas, leading and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up to the fateful momentin a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn= 19145851861035401614}}
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|authorisbn=Jennifer MasonB0BC3YTCMR|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen This story is not 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 cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia..everyone.''
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|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM1472263936|title=The Calculations of Rational MenFigurine|author=Daniel GodfreyVictoria Hislop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's the 10th of December 1962 when we was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first meet Dr Joseph Marrtrip to Greece. Just She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to put what happens in contextreturn, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in peoplebut Mary and Hamish (Helena's mindsparents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. The world has barely had a chance Her trip to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's at family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the front first of his mindseveral annual visits. HeShe grew to love her grandmother and the family's been convicted maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of murderher grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. With the current state He was proud of medical knowledge, it's hard his close connections to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prisonsaw no reason to accommodate them. HeHis prejudices included Helena's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, red hair and learning to be wary of the McArthur brothersgreen eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.
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|author=A C WiseDean Koontz|title=HookedAfter 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
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|summary=It’s been twenty two years since Captain Hook, now going The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by just ‘James’, has been in Neverland. Living a new life in London, he has never completely escaped his pastWitching Forest. But now he senses And the edges villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the beast circling around his life in Londonforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and when suddenly he finds himself face to face in the street with Wendyeven gallows, he knows that the line between this world and Neverland is growing thinif needed. The beast fear of being buried alive is finally coming to get him, and an existential superstition in the process will pull Wendy village and her daughter Jane back into their past once againthat is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.|isbn=1789096839
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|isbn=B09Y451X9KB0BYF82CXT|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)Semi-Detached|author=Richard F WalkerDeborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= ''Anything can happen at Bill and Amanda are living in a birthday partysemi-detached house, particularly when the birthday boy is the young Lord stuck in a depressing rut of the Manor. But boredom and disappointment, when an eerie signal is picked up in the early hoursTerry and Fiona – glamorous, George successful and his new girlfriendvery much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the vivacious Lady Antonia, embark on a quest couples befriend each other and life appears to uncover its incredible messageimprove for both pairs. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets the cat out of the bag and the world goes into a state of panic.'' Could But all is not what it be? Could it? Have aliens reached out and contacted Earth? George seems, and Antonia find themselves lifted out of their privileged lives of parties and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into the world of advanced science, secret agents.and politicians hungry increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for powertragedy.''
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|isbnauthor=0241542405Shalini Boland|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire AlexanderThe Silent Bride|rating=4.53
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|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she's not left her home has been searching for 1; handsome, accomplished, clever,214 daysfunny; total and utter husband-material. She'd ''like'' to: is all he could possibly want in facta wife; beautiful, she successful, confident… and so nearly doesthe inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. Her outdoor clothes are on When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she's even considered which shoes surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to wear if she's going celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to catch her train. Thenface his approaching bride, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the safety of her home. SheAlice's fortunate that world implodes because she has a good friend, Sadie, absolutely no idea who visits regularly with her two childrenthe man at the altar is, James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith is waiting for her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'sto become his wife.|isbn=1662507089
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|authorisbn=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)1787636003|title=Tasting SunlightThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sally is a teenager who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinicIt was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. She just wants space Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, and for people to stop questioning herperhaps, tiptoeing around hernaive, and trying so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to fix her without ever truly understanding take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. She finds herself on some farmland with It was quite a woman called Liss who is in while before he made any sort of physical approach to her forties and seems to live aloneby that time she was obsessed by him. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally as she isAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, giving her a room to sleep looking after his interests on the island and in particular in, and the space to just be. As they work together on bar where all the farm, a closeness develops between them, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendshipgirls either worked or partied.|isbn=1914585143
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|isbnauthor= B09NDJ77LMAmanda Craig|title=Me and My Shadow|author=Deborah StoneThree Graces|rating=4.5
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|summary= ''What happens when someone is pushed too far and they begin to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the shadows state-of her past and attempts to repair decades worth of pain-the-nation novel.There'' Rachel is in a current conversation with her psychiatrist, s something so utterly compelling about any writer who pushes her to recall her life from very young childhood onwards. But Rachel is combative with Doctor Blakecan catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, sometimes even contemptuous crafting an image of herthe country as it stands in one particular moment. You can see To say that itAmanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's not an easy therapeutic relationshippractically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Rachel's recall She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her life is characters in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight a way that feels natural and each major betrayal lived-in perfect detail , never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with absolute and unforgiving clarityissues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X
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|isbn=B09MSC981W152915118X|title=The Woke IliadPineapple Street|author=George BoreasJenny Jackson|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Helen ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a popular activistStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Or should we call her Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anywaystreet or so away, Helen is so popular that the United States government has made her its Ambassador of Wokewhich they own. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf They won't need any of the governmentfurniture from Pineapple Street, including so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the Shaming Conference reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the Permissible Entertainment Committee - gold digger'. She'for indoctrinating and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how s living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to have it'the GD'. Ouch!
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|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Mike's wife84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, Pia, who he was but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with for seventeen yearshis family, has diedas Edie is starting to lose her memory. And whilst he However, Edie is dealing with his grieftormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, so are their best friendswho went missing over 60 years ago, Vicky and Zazathe worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. But Pia left them all some After 'rulesseeing' to followLucy in the high street, knowing that just as she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out last time she saw her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him she starts to take one find pockets of their trips awaymemories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own more in her day to day life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and go along with him.before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=140593560X1804181250
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Madelaine Lucas|title=Red is My HeartThirst for Salt|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and ''Love, I'd read in my house. And so , was this onesupposed to be a light and weightless feeling, although but I could have spelled had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that more accurately once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – this one wasto its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, and isdepicting its all-consuming nature, black and white how it changed her perspective on both romantic and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, familial relationships and I think how it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideasaltered her irrevocably.|isbn=19135471830861546490
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|authorisbn=Andrew Sharp0008506337|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Chef Mlantushi The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all- Mozzy to his employer - isconsuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in his mind, the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an unnamed African countryolder man'. Mozzy is earnest and dedicated Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to his task Oxford and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for having a glittering career. In the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the head chef Isle of a restaurant in London or a big American cityWight. Even Margo did go to Oxford and went on to win become a Michelin starwell-respected journalist. He is thwarted in this ambition by his boss The couple had three children: Rachel, Mr Bin (Ben to you Imogen and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest Sasha. Life was lived in his guests London and - shockholidays were spent at Sandcove, horror - his allowing the family home on the Isle of bush animals into Wight. Even then the housedoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|isbn=B09926MK8HThen Richard left them.
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|isbn=19015149781914585402|title=There's a Problem With DadDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Carlos AlbaDavid F Ross
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Life is different for George Lovelace and he canI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There't really understand why. Hes Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's always done everything he ought to: steady worker, husband Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and father - remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and a father who affecting it was always there for school plays and sports days. So why is he never quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why is someone with such a ''good'' mind unable to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breath-taking gaffes? It's almost become was a cliche these days to suggest gripping, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that someone who is a little different is 'I might not have lavished enough praise on the spectrum', but George Lovelace has all the symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: high-functioning autismit.
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|author=Freya SampsonLucy Ashe|title=The Last LibraryClara and Olivia|rating=4.5
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|summary=I am always a little nervous to start a story about a libraryThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, since I am a librariantwins no less. I always grit my teeth slightly at Identical on the thought of the incoming cardigan-wearingoutside but not, hair in a bunwe learn, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main characterinside. And not on stage, June, does put her hair in a bun, and she does own either. Because there's a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once lot that builds a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the book out of the window, because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she diddancer. Her mum used to Some things that can be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sicktaught or learnt – discipline, June gave up on going attention to University detail – and stayed at home to take care of her mumsome things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', as well as taking on a job as library assistant at that don't come from the local libraryclassroom. And even though her mum sadly died some years agoA stage presence, she is still working therea charm, still eating her muma ''joie de vivre's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuckThe difference between a hard-worker, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the changeand a star.|isbn=183877369X0861544080
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|author=Emily CritchleyHeather Fawcett|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I was intrigued by the plot, liked the design of the book, and thought the authorEmily Wilde's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B093VPBL5L|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker BittickEncyclopaedia of Faeries
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|summary=Meet BosnerEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, orand researched meticulously, to give him his full titlewrite her life's work, Petty Officer Third Class Bosnerthe very first encyclopaedia of faeries. We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely a hint that he had the nickname 'Secretary' Whilst she is brilliant at one pointresearch and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. He's simply Bosner So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to one redeem herself and allput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. When we first encounter him heEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's exploring his memories of 2008 when frustration. But why is he was a greaser on helicopters (or helos, as they were called) at a naval establishment. here? The hours could be long and What does he was often working nights but at want? And what exactly is going on with the age of twenty-one, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his day.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120
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|isbn=B095CY7NBN1398515388|title=Autumn CampThe Boy and the Dog|author=Barry FowlerSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It was to be Brian's last camp. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago and had done First of all the organisation since but he , it was leaving school and the time had come to hand earthquake, deep in the reins to someone else. The obvious person was Garyocean floor, who'd always been which created the fun element of the camps tsunami and Brian had said that on this camp, Gary should act as in turn, caused the leader and he'd just be there to observenuclear meltdown. The problem with this result was that Gary wasn't really an organiser, an administrator if you likecomplete and utter devastation. He was the entertainerThe deaths were uncountable, the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did the organisingloss of livelihoods was widespread. He handed The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the camp over tsunami - and then took it backKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. And Gary determined to have his revenge. This should have been He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his'' campcar door and Tamon the dog jumped in.
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|author=John BoyneChristopher Bowden|title=The Echo ChamberMr Magenta|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He Christopher Bowden's latest novel is self-defined as "one a patient untangling of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him sheseemingly ordinary woman's carrying his childlife, but then his author wife is getting carried out by her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withnephew after she has died. They have three children, The aunt who are always provided a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, safe harbour and a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants little bit of indulgence to save the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in nephew had had a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – much more interesting life than that all have two very different connections nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to his life, and you have something that suggests him an almost farcical approach obligation to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funnyfind it all out.|isbn=0857526219B0B6Z9VJDW
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|isbnauthor=0008444501Jennifer Mason|title=The Answer to Everything|author=Luke KennardPartitions of Unity
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Life should have been good for Emily. She had a lovely husbandHere at Bookbag Towers, Stevenwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, who was dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a speech therapistseries of disappearances. WeIn ''ll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other and donPartitions of Unity't even sleep in the same bed. It isn't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that , she's sharing a bed with one of sets her children as it's the only way to get him to sleep during the night. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and Emily has a job mind to cope with too - she teaches drama two days solving a weekmurder. They've not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: it's a trendy area that has been gentrified and it's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF
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|author=Louise BeechWill Carver|title=This Is How We Are HumanThe Daves Next Door
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Veronica is Five strangers come together in one moment as a devoted single mother suicide bomber prepares to her sondetonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that it's time for him to have sex. But as an autistic 20 year-oldthe story is told in backwards order, that's easier said than done. And it's starting leading up to cause them both problemsthe fateful moment. |isbn=19131937131914585186
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|author=Ananda DeviJennifer Mason|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins is one of the shortest books I've read in a long while'A struggling poetry zine, but it's one of the most dramatic. It's also told in a way that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing mom-and pulls very few punches-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the descriptions stark and unromantic.|isbn=0993009344}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 19532004 Olympics, and Adolf Hitlera women's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to Londontrack coach with a yen for bullwhips, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne billionaire with a state-of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in -the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know itart S&M dungeon, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly man serving a different Britainlife sentence in Alabama, for Nazi-styled phrenologyan enigmatic signature, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudgesK(s, and beyond thosex), right on down to the childlessa cheap oil painting, the husbandless and the widowsan erotic art dealer in Georgia.. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, '' This is employed with just a sample of the task cast of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after allcharacters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, not every book can some keeping up will be banned, and not every required! The basic premise of this mystery story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprintgoes like this.. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198XB09STS96HS
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|isbn=0857527231B0B2N7MVYM|title=Dog DaysThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Ericka WallerDaniel Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angryIt's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. ItJust to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's eight days since his wifeminds. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, Ellen, died and it's not the first time missile crisis that she's let him downat the front of his mind. He's lost, bereft without her ( he ''needs his wife, like a snail needs its shell'')been convicted of murder. He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on With the doorstepcurrent state of medical knowledge, he'd much rather have a good row with someone. Heit's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared hard to contradict him when he told her think otherwise than that the dog wasnprosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen't stayings Bench, a relatively new prison. Now heHe's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want and a load of busybodies who are trying just getting used to interfere in his life. Worst of all is Bettyroommate, who won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for LuckyMervyn, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot and learning to be wary of time trying to escape from and destroy themthe McArthur brothers.
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