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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]==General fiction==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John E SmelcerOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Great DeathAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
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|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'As Western Europeans settled Alaskas 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, they brought with them diseases against which suing her step-mother to take down the indigenous people had no natural immunitycontent about her. At the beginning of the twentieth century Anuri is battling alcoholism, fully two thirds of all Alaska natives perished from a pandemic of measles, smallpoxfailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and influenzareceiving money from them for doing so. No community was spared. In most cases Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, half who is the new focus of a villageOphelia's population died within a weekonline empire. In some cases Can she save her sister, there were no survivors. It was the end of an ancient way of life. Natives still refer to the dreadful period as and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the Great Death.''same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842709194</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Townsend1529153298|title=Adrian Mole: The Prostrate YearsList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
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|summary=Adrian Mole It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is now 39¼ and livingPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, quite literally, in a pigsty, sharing an all too thin party wall with his parents and working in a bookshophonestly... It) She's not quite how life was supposed to turn outwhat's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. As he spends his days wrestling his strong willed 5 year old Gracie into her school uniform Well, trying to reassure glamorous wife Daisy that life in the provinces is not as bad as she would like to believethey've been murdered, and desperately attempting but to talk his mother out of her quest to appear on the vile have 'disappeared'doesn'Jeremy Kylet sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she' show, worrying over his increasingly frequent visits s overheard that her father wants to move the toilet is really the last thing he needsfamily 'Down South'. And yet When you're from Yorkshire, the worst Down South is still to come. Think a crumbling economyfrightening, foreign place, redundancybest avoided. For Miv, affairsthe move would mean leaving her best friend, deathSharon, a family member challenging him in the novel writing stakes and a query over the big C – itshe's going ll do anything to be a tough year for the Moles, and thereprevent that. She's little not worried about the dangers or that olher Mum' Adrian can do except sit back and watch his life spin out of control around hims stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718153707</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Theroux1035906708|title=A Dead Hand: A Crime in CalcuttaDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5
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|summary=Set in India, familiar territory for Theroux, ''A Dead Hand'' tells the story We tend to think of a travel writer suffering from writer's block (also known Maria Callas as 'dead hand') until a chance letter from an American ex-patGreek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, the mysterious Mrs UngerNew York, relating a story of a mystery of a dead body in a hotel leads him December 1923 and only moved to release his creativity in very unexpected waysAthens when she was thirteen. The story is Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more about obsession and infatuation than it is about the mystery itself as manageable in the narrator falls under Mrs Unger's Tantric charmsStates. But does When she have more to hide than was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she's letting on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144639</amazonuk>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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dave EggersAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Wild ThingsPerfect Passion Company|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet Max. When I say he sometimes gets the wrong end of the stick about adults, or dislikes his mother's new boyfriend, or gets a bit feisty when he feels the need for revenge, I am certainly understating the facts. He is a bit of a rascal to say the least. But all that might change when he finds himself travelling to a strange land of roisterous animals, and ends up installed as their king.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144221</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Harlan Coben|title=Tell No One|rating=5
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|summary=I've been meaning The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to get around to reading some or all of Harlan Coben's workthe online apps in providing a more personal, because tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if the reviews are to be believed she could come and you are a fan of look after the 'Bloody Knife /Blunt Instrument' thrillerbusiness, the man as Ness is quite simply not capable of turning out planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a duff novelwhile. But you know how it Katie iscoming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, what with one thing and another and a bulging pile of books so 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 already love, thanks to be read 44 Scotland Street and reviewedthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, I just somehow hadn't managed but with some new characters who quickly begin to give him my full attentioncharm. Until now.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 (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409117022</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sylvie Nickels Dean Koontz|title=Another Kind of LovingThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=Mike Hennessy was a journalist whose speciality was the war-torn parts of the world and October 1992 found him in Sarajevo visiting Benny is having a children's home to get a story. The orphanage was on the right side of town – away from the main barrage – but it had few other advantagesterrifically bad day. There was no heat and little food or waterHe loses his job, but it was here that he found Jasminkaloses his fiancee, part Serb, part Bosniak and eleven or twelve years oldhis house gets trashed. In Oh, and someone has delivered a phone call really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his wife Mike suggested that perhaps Jasminka could come home, and stay with them for a while.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905200129</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=rashbre|title=The Triangle|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary=Brianit's trip to possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the art gallery was a treatthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, courtesy of a private ticket from a friend and the white room was much better than Benny is the very last gallery he'd visitedperson to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. It was, though, So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to be his last such visit as he was silently knifed by house is a professional hit man. His friends were stunnednew friend, not just at his deatha bad weather friend called Spike, but at the way in which it had come aboutwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. What could Brian have been doing Spike is going to attract ''that'' sort take care of attention? Jake had given him the ticket Benny, and it dawned on him that will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he had been the target rather than Brian, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. Some recent events clicked into place…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1425171893</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura SolomonKatherine Howe|title=An Imitation of LifeA True Account
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|summary=We are introduced Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to the baby girl, Celia live with a detailed, blow-by-blow account of her dreadful physical conditionfamily who run an inn, and being made to work there from her unusual eyes, her even more unusual teeth, her lumpy body and the ever-growing hump on her shouldera young age. Forget When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the Elephant Mantown, here we have elephant babyshe decides to go and watch. Everything is stacked against herEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She is abandoned by her motherhides away, her father is unknown. And as if all so that wasnthey don't enough find and kill her too, and then to make you weepescape them completely she runs away to sea, she is unceremoniously dumped on dressing as a doorstep - to die. But she doesnboy and joining the notorious Ned Low'ts pirate ship as a cabin boy. She lives. And what an extra-ordinary 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 Laura Solomon has mapped out for heron the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1904529437</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tamsin Reeves 1471180158|title=A Place of Safety|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=There are lots of reasons to take in a lodger for your spare room, but for Martha one of the best is to get one up on her recently departed scoundrel of an ex-husband. And it's not like her financial situation is looking too rosy since he left her for another woman – a woman who is also pregnant with his child. The fact that her lodger is a He, and that he's a Foreigner (and from Afghanistan, no less) is just the icing on the cake. Colin's going to be furious, and Martha can't wait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849231370</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Comfort of Saturdays (Isabel Dalhousie 5)Penny Parkes
|rating=4.5
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|summary=As always with Alexander McCall SmithJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, this fifth book in the Sunday Philosophy series benefits from being read in sequence for a man who's a control freak with all the previous titlessubtlety of a half brick. One of the beautiful aspects of his writing is that his characters develop slowlyJamie's son, gentlyBo, over 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the series so although you could probably dive in here and get a fair idea of his style more you really should start at the beginning to thoroughly enjoy the pleasure of an AMS read. In this episode Isabel is busy taking care of her son, Charlie, looking after her niece Catthe more you'll suspect that he's delicatessen, editing on the review and struggling with her own personal fears over her relationship with Jamieautistic spectrum. And Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she wouldn't be Isabel if she didn't, somehow, get entangled s a frequent flier in someone elsethe local A&E and sometimes Bo's problems, someone else's life, 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 here she finds herself trapped into investigating put in the case of wrong. It was going to come to a doctor whose career has been ruinedhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349120552</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt HiltonB0CKD1L5JL|title=Dead Men's DustRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Joe Hunter helps peoplePetr is an orphan. ThatRescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the forests of Washington's what he doesOlympic Peninsula. He's been around the block After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and to say that he has learned armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a trick or two along journey through the way might be something of an understatement. No-one really knows much about Joe Hunter forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and certainly his past is not something that many would be brave enough to poke around inrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340978236</amazonuk>
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|rating=3.5
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|summary=In the first After a bout of scarlet fever as a five book deal Claire Connorchild, writing in partnership with GP Taylor, brings us Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a modern romance based loosely on the story world of Ruth from the Biblesilence, everything about her life changes. This is total chick-lit, and from Living in a time when the first few pages I thought it use of sign language was just going seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to be a very lightschool where she is taught to lip read, funny romance storybut physically restrained from signing. HoweverFrom here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the story quickly takes deaf and using a depressing turn and system called Visible Speech. At the rest of the book same time, Bell is as much an exploration working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of grief as it is a romance novelespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1850788332</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Audrey Niffenegger B0BC3YTCMR|title=Her Fearful SymmetryGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
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|summary=When Elspeth Noblin dies of Leukemia, she leaves behind a strange bequest that will have dramatic and tragic consequences. She leaves her London flat and all the trappings of her life to the 'mirror' twins of her own twin sister who currently live outside Chicago. This story is news to the twins who didn't even know that they had an aunt. The only condition of her legacy is that the twins, Julia and Valentina, have to live in the flat, which is adjacent to Highgate Cemetery, not for a year before they can sell iteveryone. It is clear from the outset that Elspeth has secrets about her relationship with her twin sister Edie, which she is keen to keep hidden from the twins, but when it turns out that Elspeth hasn't quite left the apartment after her death, things get a whole lot messier for everyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224085611</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=F G Cottam |title=Dark Echo|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=In Rouen in September 1917, a French detachment are guarding the Cathedral. Guarding it and using it as a barracks and still doing their best to treat it as a house of God. After all, you cannot make a fortress out of a place designed to be welcoming.'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Taylor 1472263936|title=An Irish Country VillageThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=45
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|summary=Dr Barry Laverty is working for It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the olderfamily home and refused to return, but Mary and somewhat irascible Dr Fingal OHamish (Helena'Reilly, 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 fictional Ulster village first of Ballybuckleboseveral annual visits. They She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, their housekeeper Mrs KinkaidDina, but was wary - and the residents frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the village were introduced in the book [[An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor|An Irish Country Doctor]], which I havenJunta 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't read, so it took me a few chapters to get into this novels Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224024</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith Dean Koontz|title=The Lost Art of GratitudeAfter Death|rating=4.53
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|summary=I should say to begin with that it would probably be tricky to leap into reading this series with this latest book. This is the sixth book in the ''Sunday Philosophy Club'' series and returns us to the life Michael Mace, Head of Isabel DalhousieSecurity, at a top secret biological research facility, our gentle philosophising heroine. She is still living with her partner, Jamie, and her son Charlie, editing her philosophy journal, and of course interfering among 55 people who die when a virus is released in the lives of othersa bio-hazard accident. Her nieceFinding himself in a makeshift mortuary, Catcovered in plastic, he has another dodgy boyfriend, this time a tightrope walker... Her 'enemy'sense that something very, Christopher Dove, is causing more friction very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and somehow, looks around at a toddler's birthday party, Isabel simply can't help herself and finds herself embroiled in the woes shrouded bodies of a previous foe, Minty Auchterlonie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408700638</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Agnes Owens |title=The Complete Novellas|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Who is Agnes Owens? A Scottish author who portrays working class life from the nineteen forties his dead friends and fiftiesformer colleagues. Now an octogenarianAs he recovers his senses, apparently Agnes Owens started writing at the age of 58he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. Here are five previously published stories collected into one new edition, a companion volume to her short stories, published in 2008''Everything''. I donMichael isn't think you'll be disappointed'Michael'' anymore.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846971373</amazonuk>1662500467}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Dunn B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Good Bride GuideGrave Listeners|author=William Frank
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|summary=As he approaches The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a milestone birthdayWitching 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, Ben begins to think back roofs on his old relationshipshomes, and even gallows, if needed. While none The fear of them seemed right at the time, he's not quite sure that the other option – his current single status – being buried alive is really any better. With a good friend about to enter into an arranged marriage, Ben has existential superstition in the by this point predictable yet wacky idea village and that he needs is the same thing – reason Volushka, a nice young woman handdrunken, self-picked for him by his parentsindulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated. After all, who knows him better than they do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847395236</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Brownlee B0BYF82CXT|title=BaitSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
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|summary=Jake Moore was ''Bill and Amanda are living in the Flying Squad but a bullet put paid to his career and ten years later he's running semi-detached house, stuck in a game-fishing business on the Kenyan coast. Times are hard depressing rut of boredom and there's every chance that the business will fold unless he disappointment, when Terry and his partnerFiona – glamorous, Harrysuccessful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, can find the money couples befriend each other and life appears to pay improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and their billsincreasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. Some strange things are happening in the game fishing business too – one of their number has died in a mysterious explosion on his boat and the body of a man who shouldn't have been aboard has been washed up on the shore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749928840</amazonuk>'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Thomas Pynchon Shalini Boland|title=Inherent ViceThe Silent Bride|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=The close of the '60s, the dawn of the '70s. San Francisco. Some people say the most influential people are Nixon and his cronies. Some people say they're Charlie Manson and his cronies. Some people call the smog surrounding everyone in the Bay Area air pollution, others a drug haze. Doc, the sole proprietor of LSD Investigations, is approached by different people, requesting two jobs of him, which both point to the same bigwig property developer. One of these is from his ex, now with said mogul, another is from a man whose prime interest immediately dies. How will this escalate into a manic mystery, hitting on mysterious yachts taking odd journeys, missing people, Nixon, dead people coming back to life, unusual retreats, and a host more?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408948X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charlie Williams |title=Stairway to Hell|rating=4.5
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|summary=This is looking like Alice and Seth are a bad night for Rick Suntan, club singermatch made in heaven. He's merely trying to put some Doctor Who into his Cliff Richard renditions (don't ask)is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, when he gets bottled off the stage. Ohclever, funny; total and sackedutter husband-material. OhShe is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and his girlfriend changes the locks on him. Oh, wedding is planned and he gets shotset. From this mess of a life comes an even more unusual threadWhen the much-anticipated day arrives, courtesy of his small-scale manager. Is Alice is walked down the latteraisle by her father, we feel, some Mephisto beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to Rick's Faust - or just a saddened alcoholic? Neitherface his approaching bride, in fact - heAlice's a messenger, with world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the news that Rick altar is actually David Bowie's soul, inverted into the body of a nonentity. Courtesy of Jimmy Pagewho is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184668689X</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex Kava 1787636003|title=Black FridayThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=45
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|summary=There is no reason to be suspicious of It was the college kids wandering summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around ''Mall of America'' Greece and arrived on the busiest shopping day of the yearisland. They look just like everyone elseRachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. But in fact these kids are actually up It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to serious mischief: they think the jamming devices they are carrying in their identical red backpacks will disrupt the greedy capitalist stores' computer systems, causing delays her and a big dip in salesby that time she was obsessed by him. The truth isAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, if they had been aware that said identical red backpacks were actually stuffed with enough explosives to knock looking after his interests on the Earth off its axis island and that in fact, a remote control device would turn them each into suicide bombers, perhaps they would not have got out of bed that day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303322</amazonuk>particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joseph Finder Amanda Craig|title=VanishedThree Graces
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|summary=In 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 wake atmosphere of a ferocious attackthe day and capture it, Lauren Heller finds herself crafting an image of the country as it stands in a hospital bed, groggy from 24 hours of oblivionone particular moment. Her head To say that Amanda Craig is bandaged and throbbing and her husband, Roger, is not only missing – he has vanished without a trace. Enter Rogerskilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's brother Nick Heller, practically synonymous with the pre-eminent investigator genre of contemporary social fiction at Stoddard Associates with a cv that includes a spell as ex-Army Special Forcesthis point. Nick is She has such a man who does not take orders from anyone and a man gift for whom family is weaving the ongoing issues of the ultimate importance. As Stoddard's finest, most inventive day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and successful operatorlived-in, Nick Heller is used to getting results never making them ciphers for social commentary but this timeinstead fully realised people, the case is personalgrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755342089</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Forsyth 152915118X|title=Let Them Come ThroughPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson
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|summary=Nick Santini spent most of his childhood conning ''Pineapple Street'' is the drunken patrons story of his father's bar out of their beer money three women: Sasha, Darley and spending it on ciderGeorgiana. With patchy schooling, an abusive father Darley and George are sisters and no real talents beyond his ability Sasha is married to lie, career choices for Nick were few and far betweentheir brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when a friend gives him some money the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to break free, Nick spends it on an office in Soviet move into the Pineapple Streetproperty. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, hires a secretarystreet or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and advertises his services as Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a mediumchoice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686989</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Henry PorterEmily Critchley|title=The Dying LightOne Puzzling Afternoon
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=We're 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a little way into 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. However, Edie is tormented by the future: memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the Prime Minister followed two whom you worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might recognise. The first was so dangerously casual be the thing that members reveals the truth of cabinet only realised what decisions had been taken when they read the papers the next dayhappened all that time ago. After 'seeing'His'' successor Lucy in the high street, just as she was prone the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to childish tantrumsher. The Olympics are spoken of in And yet as she remembers the past tense , she is forgetting more and John Temple's government is well-established under his seemingly calm leadershipmore in her day to day life. It hasnWill she uncover the truth about Lucy't been without its glitches though.s disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0752874845</amazonuk>1804181250
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|title=Thirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Cleave 0008506337|title=IncendiaryThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=4.5
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|summary=When the Book Reviewing Gods first suggested I reThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-read this book (the first time one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they have asked such a repeat of me) I felt like writing them she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a letterglittering career. But soon any draft I might have made would have referred not so much to In the duplicated experienceevent, but they eloped and Richard took her away from the joys Isle of rediscovered depthsWight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, characters lost Imogen and found againSasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, and a plot the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to be experienced once moreleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340998482</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Penelope Lively1914585402|title=Family AlbumDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=34.5
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|summary=I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There'Family Albums Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There''is the sixteenth novel Penelope Lively has written for adults. As the title suggests, it is s Only One Danny Garvey]] a series couple of snapshots, episodes from the life of an upper middle class familyyears back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. Charles, the father, is It was a writer whogripping, it seemsemotionally wounding read, never wanted marriage and children and who spends the majority rereading my review of his time hidden away in his study, working on his next book. His wife, Alison, it my main takeaway was the original 1960s Earth Mother whose whole life revolved around having and bringing up children. The children that I might not have all, unfortunately for Alison, now grown uplavished enough praise on it. And then there's Ingrid, the Scandinavian au pair, still there after all these years. One wonders why.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490453</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine Ryan HydeLucy Ashe|title=When I Found YouClara and Olivia|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The year is 1933. The place? Sadler''Lost s Wells. Ballerinas Clara and insecureOlivia are sisters, you found metwins no less. Identical on the outside but not, you found me...'' It's 1960we learn, and on the morning when Nathan McCann sets off inside. And not on a pre-dawn duck hunting tripstage, he hasneither. Because there't the faintest inkling s a lot that the day will turn out to be anything other than ordinary. He just wants to enjoy being out in the crisp autumn air with Sadie, his loyal retriever, and maybe bring home builds a few birds for dinnerdancer. But this is no normal daySome things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and before he even gets to the lakesome things, Nathanthat ''je ne sais quoi''s life changes forever with the discovery of a newborn baby, barely alive having been abandoned in that don't come from the woodsclassroom. A few days later as he reluctantly relinquishes control of the boy to its maternal grandmotherstage presence, he asks the woman to promise him one thing: that at some point in the futurea charm, when she feels the time is right, she will facilitate a meeting ''joie de vivre''. The difference between the twoa hard-worker, finder and the found. Time passes and life moves on, but years later the two do cross paths again, with rather unexpected consequencesa star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>055277572X</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary Smith Heather Fawcett|title=No More MulberriesEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Miriam was not been Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her name life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at birth – she was Margaret then – research and speaking to faeries, she hadn't always lived in Afghanistanis not so good with people. The streets of Edinburgh were more familiar to herSo when she finds herself far, but as we meet Miriam far North in the outlying small village of Sang-i-Sia in July 1995 you could be forgiven for thinking that she had always lived thereHrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, as she coped with is not sure what western eyes would see as primitive conditions she has done, nor how to feed redeem herself and care put her final investigations for her family and act as midwife to book back on the village womenright track. Miriam abides by the Muslim way of life Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and seems content with her lifedelight, until you peel away a layermuch to Emily's frustration. Dr Iqbal was not her first husband and nor was But why is he here? What does he the love of her life. want? When Miriam was given And what exactly is going on with the opportunity to attend a teaching camp as a translator she decides to go, despite knowing that it is against her husband's wishes.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849234205</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Banville1398515388|title=The Infinities|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Adam is being watched over by a god. No, not that Adam - this one is a young man, in his twenties, staring out the window at the midsummer's dawn breaking, in his old family home, where his father - Adam senior - lies comatose, dying from a stroke. And not that god, either - this is Hermes, who will be our narrator as the family (Adam's wife, mother, younger sister) wake up to the new day, Boy and have cause to remember other times. We'll see also that Zeus, too, is one of the household gods - and is still doing his old, randy, visitation tricks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330450247</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDog|author=Rachel Cusk |title=The Bradshaw VariationsSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This book is both very odd First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and very interesting this, in equal measureturn, because it manages to fill thirty two chapters without much of a plot caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and yet is still an engaging readutter devastation. Admittedly The deaths were uncountable, there are various little snippets and the loss of information livelihoods was widespread. The fact that pad it out, and small events that are written up, 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 for the most part there is nothing youconvenience store owner'd s comment that he would call an actual storyline per sePublic Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571233589</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Selcuk Altun Christopher Bowden|title=Many and Many a Year AgoMr Magenta|rating=34
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Kemal Christopher Bowden's latest novel is going placesa patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and quickly - he has powered through a career in the airforce, with the help little bit of an F-16. He also thinks his love of western classical music had something indulgence to do with it. But an accident leaves him with a juddery hand, depressive thoughts, and young nephew had had a major set-back in his much more interesting life. Just by chance, at this time, than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an acquaintance decides he should give Kemal a nice large flat, and a healthy pension, should he retire. So he doesobligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846590671</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brett Battles Jennifer Mason|title=The UnwantedPartitions of Unity
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jonathan Quinn is 'The Cleaner' – not someone you employ Here at minimum wage Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and hope they'll turn up again next weekunintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], but when she investigated and unravelled a man who takes charge series of the problems which other people leave behind. This usually means bodiesdisappearances. In this third book in ''The CleanerPartitions of Unity'' series Quinn is on a mission to Ireland – and he never should have believed that he was going there purely as an observer, because we have four bodies before we're many pages into the book. Before long he's on his way she sets her mind to Africa in search of solving a UN aide worker who has disappeared, along with the child she's protectingmurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184809034X</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clara Salaman Will Carver|title=Shame on YouThe Daves Next Door
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Thirteen-year-old Caroline Stern loves hanging out with her friendsFive strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, has a reputation as the class clown, and story is told in love with Mr. Steinbergbackwards order, her Greek teacher. Sounds like an average London teenager, right? Not quiteleading up to the fateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141041269</amazonuk>1914585186}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=George Dawes GreenJennifer Mason|title=RavensPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Shaw ''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and Romeo are two friends-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, moving across country for a new life, when they stumble upon Nowheresville, GA, and find that one family has 400-meter hurdler who just had missed the only winning lottery ticket 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a $318million jackpot. The family involved is very average billionaire with a state-of-the- slightly ineffectual fatherart S&M dungeon, mother who gets geared up for the weekly lottery and descends into a gin fug as man serving a resultlife sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), girl stuck on Facebooka cheap oil painting, boy glued to a PSP or somethingan erotic art dealer in Georgia.. There are enough gaps within the family for the pair of guys to break in between them, and have them under threat for half the winnings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442889</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Brownlee B0B2N7MVYM|title=BurnThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Inspector Daniel Jouma was hoping that calm had returned to Mombasa It's the problems start mounting up again10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. A nun has gone missing Just to put what happens in mysterious circumstances and context, the local priest doesnCuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people't seem all that worrieds minds. After The world has barely had a meal with his friend Jake Moore a respected member of chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the local community falls to his death almost missile crisis that's at their feet – but how he had got into the fort ion the first place? front of his mind. Jake hasnHe't got it any easier eithers been convicted of murder. KenyaWith the current state of medical knowledge, it's most ruthless and dangerous developer wants hard to sweep away think otherwise than that the local village and build prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a five-star hotel in its placerelatively new prison. To top it all a paid assassin has accepted some local contracts He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be wary of the FBI are in pursuitMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749929065</amazonuk>
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