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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]==General fiction==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tess CallahanOnyi Nwabineli|title=April and OliverAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=After spending their childhoods togetherAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, April and Oliver haventhanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri't seen each other s childhood for many yearssponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. It Now Anuri is only after 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 death of April's little brother that they find their lives overlapping againcontent about her. April Anuri is recklessbattling alcoholism, damagedfailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and struggling secretly abusing people online and receiving money from one day to the next whereas Oliver is mature and sensiblethem for doing so. He Most importantly, she is now a law student, engaged to the sweetdesperately worried about her little sister, gentle Bernadette who is the antithesis new focus of AprilOphelia's online empire. Seeing April's life in tattersCan she save her sister, Oliver tries to rescue and perhaps herself and her relationship with her from herself, yet the more entangled he becomes father at the more his own seemingly perfect life starts to fall apart.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099537524</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=F G Cottam1529153298|title=The Waiting RoomList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=On the outskirts of ex rock star Martin StrideIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's country estate lies the disused Shale Point Stationfamily, though. Abandoned in the 1960s the railway line has Women have been dug up and removed and all that remains is the crumbling platform and eerie waiting roomdisappearing. Martin is quick Well, they've been murdered, but to employ Britainhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's top ghost hunter Julian Creed upset because she's overheard that her father wants to investigate move the strange and threatening occurrences of the waiting room that he and his children have witnessed – the sound and smell of family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a steam trainfrightening, male voices singing a famous World War One songforeign place, and most frightening of allbest avoided. For Miv, the leering face of a soldier at move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the waiting room windowdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444704214</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shane Jones1035906708|title=Light BoxesDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=You will have We tend to go a long way think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to find a more magical and quirky novella than ‘Light Boxes’. Set Greek parents in a far off landManhattan, as all good fairy stories should beNew York, the balloon-loving residents suffer a ban on all forms of flightin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. But Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the culprit is not some unpronounceable Icelandic volcano, but rather FebruaryStates. And this February When she was back in Athens - who takes both supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the form of Nazi occupation by a person mother who mercilessly exploited her and a season - has lasted made no secret of her preference for more than three hundred days. And if that wasn’t bad enoughher elder sister, he has also started making children disappear. One man, Thaddeus Lowe, is determined to do something about itJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144957</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom ShoneAlexander McCall Smith|title=In The RoomsPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary=The book jacket for this novel Perfect Passion Company is of New York a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by nightNess and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, a cityscape par excellencetailored service. It also boasts Toby Young's comment Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as ''laugh-out-loud funny.'' I have Ness is planning to take a lot of time trip to Canada to get away for Toby Young. I find him witty and entertaininga while. But I usually approach claims such as this Katie is coming out of a break up with a healthy dose of 'we'll-wait-bad boyfriend, and-see' scepticismso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. HoweverAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, he was right. And I am truly impressed with Shone's ability thanks to make me laugh out loud 44 Scotland Street and at the very beginning of the novel tooIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. A 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 good sign of delights helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to come, I thought.lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099534061</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{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 bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. 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. Spike is going 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=1662500491}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel DeWoskinKatherine Howe|title=Repeat After MeA True Account|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=September 1989: It Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a few months after the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijingfamily who run an inn, Chinaand being made to work there from a young age. Aysha When she hears there is teaching English at to be a private language school hanging of some pirates in New York City. She makes friends with some of her studentsthe town, she decides to go and watch. Da Ge is angry Enthralled and disruptive yet attractive and interesting horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the same timehands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and they quickly become involved, although his interest in kill her is not as romantic as, perhapstoo, and then to escape them completely she would like it runs away to besea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. He asks her to marry him so he can stay She soon finds herself in the country. Aysha agrees, although thick of things when there is still a lot she does not know about mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the mysterious, unstable Da Geocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715638998</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Coe1471180158|title=The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell SimMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet Maxwell Sim. Actually, perhaps I should rephrase that so that it doesn't sound like Jamie Matson works in an imperative instruction upper- class grocery store, for if you do meet him, you might not like a man who's a control freak with all the experiencesubtlety of a half brick. An ex-salesmanJamie's son, Bo, he'has his problems'. He's now in after sales (ie asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's stuck on a customer returns counter in a department store); however he is completely awful with regards to other peoplethe autistic spectrum. His wife has run Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off with their daughter, all his few friends have forsaken him (and his Facebook wall). We start the book with him trying to patch things up with his father, whoat short notice - she's safely a frequent flier in Australia. He finds all those who know of him are already aware hethe local A&E and sometimes Bo's depressednot fit enough to go to school. Those who don't know him can find him painfully shy, Missed shifts or able the need to talk be away their will on time to live, gabbling on pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and on about Watfordput in the wrong. But a lot is about It was going to change. He's about come to be combined with some people excited about green toothbrushesa head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917389</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amanda Sington-WilliamsB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Eloquence of DesireRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The novel starts in Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the post-war austerity years in England and centres around a middle-classstrange, traditional family unit. Sington-Williams gives the reader a detailed description of that period - the bland foodreclusive Bear, the monotony of commuting to London (some things don't change) he is brought up far from bustling cities and of coursebusy human society, in the rain. George, his wife Dorothy and their teenage daughter Susan donforests of Washington't really talk to each others Olympic Peninsula. They tend to skirt round issues After Bear dies and walk on eggshells. Appearances are everything. So a suitably fabricated story is told to their small, family circle of George's brief sojourn in human company move. George has no choice in the matter. So he does what he always has done up till now, he puts and armed with only a brave face pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on for a journey through the forest, broadcasting the world and grins and bears it. It's a huge change in their domestic situation. Uprooted to a strange, foreign, tropical country they've only glimpsed in National Geographicwild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907230114</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nikki DudleySarah Marsh|title=EllipsisA Sign of Her Own
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Both the title and book cover are slick and glossyAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Can the contents live up to this positive image? Straight away the reader is drawn Suddenly plunged into Daniel's a world of silence, everything about her life changes... but Living in a time when the clock use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is tickingtaught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. He will soon be spoken about From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the past tensedeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. He dies At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and leaves manyideas, many questions that his immediate family struggle to answer. But as the story progresses we discover that secrets have been kept for and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a long timecomplicated tangle of espionage. Why? Too disturbing to reveal?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907230106</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Austin WrightB0BC3YTCMR|title=Tony and SusanGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Edward Sheffield hadn't exactly been Susan's childhood sweetheart, but after a family tragedy left him homeless he came to live with Susan and her parents This story is not for a year so that he could finish schooleveryone. Susan didn't particularly want him there but accepted that it was the right thing to do. Years later they met at university when Edward was studying law and after a short relationship they married. The marriage wasn't entirely successful; Edward gave up law to become a writer, relying on Susan's teaching income to support them, but whilst he spent a month away in a remote cabin 'to find himself' Susan found Arnold instead. Many years – and three children – later Susan receives a manuscript from Edward. She was, he said, always his best critic and he would like her opinion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848870205</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carlos Ruiz Zafon1472263936|title=The Prince of MistFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=BB - It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or ''blueyedboy'' understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in his online persona up- is a middle-aged man who lives with his mother in market Kolonaki would be the Yorkshire town first of Malbryseveral annual visits. He has a dead-end job in a hospital although his mother would have it that heShe grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of some importanceher grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. BB has a way He was proud of escaping his rather boring life; he writes murderous fantasies on close connections to the Junta and expected his website in company with other misfits, some of whom he knows in real lifefamily to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. It might be fiction on His prejudices included Helena''badguysrock'' but he s red hair and Albertine share a troubled history and BBgreen eyes - inherited from her father's manipulation of friends and enemies causes his past to unravelScottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385609507</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ned BeaumanDean Koontz|title=Boxer, BeetleAfter Death
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=According to the blurb for BoxerMichael Mace, BeetleHead of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, 'This isamong 55 people who die when a novel for people with breeding… It virus is cleverreleased in a bio-hazard accident. It is distinctive 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. It As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is entertainingsomething different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. We hope you are too ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael' I like about half of it, sodoes that mean I'm on the way to being those things?anymore.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340998393</amazonuk>1662500467}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Craig SilveyB0BVDC2VWH|title=Jasper JonesThe Grave Listeners|author=William Frank
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The title village is isolated and central character of this book, Jasper Jones is poor. It's surrounded by a noWitching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants -user, a troubleits bread-maker like fruit provides nutrition and has, for some reason in his hour its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of needthe forest provides heat and warmth, sought help from an unlikely source. Charlie Bucktin. Charlie is a rather bookishroofs on homes, quietand even gallows, unassuming teenagerif needed. And although both boys live The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the town of Corriganvillage and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, until nowself-indulgent, they haven't spoken lazy lout of a word to each other. They live in different worlds. Until now, that man istolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099537540</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas MullenB0BYF82CXT|title=The Many Deaths of the Firefly BrothersSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The country is in deep recession. The economy has collapsed. The banks are hated and there's 'the next round of politicians, assuring us they were not afflicted by the same lack of vision as their predecessors'. Does this sound at all familiar? But just when you think you have strayed into the nonBill and Amanda are living in a semi-fiction aisledetached house, it all becomes clear. This is 1930s America - full stuck in a depressing rut of gangstersboredom and disappointment, speakeasies, tommy guns, fedoras, beautiful heiresses, bumbling cops when Terry and the newly formed FBIFiona – glamorous, daring bank robberies successful and kidnapsvery much in love – move in next door. YesDespite their different outlooks on life, the gang couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is all herenot what it seems, but and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.'The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers' is a lot more than your average gangster book and it's a hugely fun story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007340826</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithShalini Boland|title=The Dog Who Came In From The Cold (Corduroy Mansions)Silent Bride|rating=4.53
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=AhAlice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, bliss! funny; total and utter husband-material. To sit down once more to an Alexander McCall Smith story She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and wish only for someone thoughtful to come so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and serve me tea the wedding is planned and biscuits whilst I read! set. We are backWhen the much-anticipated day arrives, once againAlice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the residents of Corduroy Mansions congregation – their friends assembled to earwig on their conversations, their private thoughts celebrate this joyful day andwhen Seth turns to face his approaching bride, of course, to catch up with what every oneAlice's favourite dog, Freddie de la Hay, world implodes because she has been getting up to. Written once again in serial format for The Daily Telegraph each short chapter absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is a gem, and all the characters we met previously in Corduroy Mansions are back again who is waiting for her to entertain usbecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846971616</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mari Strachan1787636003|title=The Earth Hums in B FlatGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Choosing a child as It was the viewpoint character of a novel requires confidence summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and imaginationarrived on the island. To succeed is to convince the reader of events at two levels – the childRachel wasn's world within the adult world surrounding her. The very best novels about childhoodt exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, like say Harper Lee's classicnaive, 'To Kill a Mockingbird'so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, also reflect a wider cultural truthshe was flattered rather than wary. In 'The Earth Hums in B Flat', It was quite a claustrophobic Welsh village is both protection while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and straitjacket as the characters struggle to cope with their family secretsby that time she was obsessed by him. If that sounds a bit tackyAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, fear not, because looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the viewpoint character, Gwenni, is bar where all whippet and sharp cornersthe girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847673058</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brady UdallAmanda Craig|title=The Lonely PolygamistThree Graces
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Golden Richards bursts onto Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the printed page. He is state-of-the central character and let's be honest, without him there would be no wives, no children, no complicated domestic life - make that, domestic livesnation novel. Immediately I pictured Golden in my mindThere's eye, as a Homer Simpson type - but with lots more children. He's a bumbling, blustering, bear something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of a man. It's as if he's just 'turned up' for the conception atmosphere of his childrenthe day and capture it, just idly ambled along when they were born.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224078062</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Helen Slavin|title=The Stopping Place|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=How often do you pick up a book with no idea at all where crafting an image of the country as it is likely to lead? How often does such a book still have you wondering a hundred pages stands in? Not bemused, not lost, absolutely sure one particular moment. To say that it Amanda Craig is going to lead somewhere, but still skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with no clue as to exactly where. How often do you get to the end genre of a book and think, simply, "Wow!"?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391869</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Naomi Alderman|title=The Lessons|rating=3contemporary social fiction at this point.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=James She has been used to being very clever at school, and it is such a shock gift for him when he goes to Oxford University to find there are lots weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of people who are more able than he is. He is already struggling when he falls her characters in a way that feels natural and seriously hurts his kneelived-in, and he is also very lonely. Then he meets Jessnever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, who invites him to a party at Mark’s house. Mark soon invites Jess, James and other friends to move in to his run down mansiongrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670916293</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christy Lefteri152915118X|title=A Watermelon, a Fish and a BiblePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It ''Pineapple Street'' is 20 July 1974 in the small coastal town story of Kyreniathree women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, Cyprusonly Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The radio continues to report that problem's exacerbated when the Turkish forces did not manage to invadeclan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and that Sasha if they were thrown back 'd like to move into the seaPineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, even as the Greek Cypriot population realises that a street or so away, which they have been invadedown. The story They won't need any of this novel is set over just eight daysthe furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and is told from the alternating viewpoints of three charactersCord can move straight in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161275</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Heidi W Durrow|title=The Girl Who Fell From Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the Sky|rating=3reality.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Set in 1980s America, Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'The Girl Who Fell From The Sky. She'' is a story built around a tragic event s living in a young girl’s childhood. The opening scene introduces you to Rachel, an elusive young girl, not black, not white but ''light skinned-edtheir'' as she is packed off to live with her grandma after a devastating family eventhome. Immediately, Durrow highlights race and identity as They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the primary themes, and we follow blue-eyed Rachel as she struggles between two worlds – the white world of her Danish mother, and the other black world of her African-American G.I. fatherGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851687459</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diane ChamberlainEmily Critchley|title=Before the StormOne Puzzling Afternoon
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=We're first introduced to Laurel's son84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, Andy. He's but now she is facing a teenager move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with some sort of mental disorderhis family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. He's However, Edie is tormented by the pivotal character memory of the story her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and he's also the undisputed star. I recently read ''Henry's Sisters'' by Cathy Lamb and decided worry that every family should have there was a Henry. Now I'll enlarge on secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that by saying reveals the truth of what happened all that every family should have a Henry - or an Andytime ago. Both of these teenagers are 99% innocent and adorable - itAfter 's that other 1% that is worrying. Andyseeing's descriptions of peopleLucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, places and situations are truly unique. He has a language all she starts to find pockets of his ownmemories coming back to her. So immediately, And yet as a readershe remembers the past, I was drawn right into she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the world of Andy truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and therefore right into the heart of the story.before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0778303381</amazonuk>1804181250
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ninni HolmqvistMadelaine Lucas|title=The UnitThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=For some reason I find myself unable to start this review. So ''Love, I'll mention this book starts with the end, and see where we go from there. Of coursed read, that's the key – this book does just that – starts with the end of our human life here on Earth (or wherever you happen was supposed to be reading this) a light and posits forty possibilities of what happens thereafterweightless feeling, in the hereafter. It's not so much 'Five People You Meet in Heaven' as but I had always longed for gravity'Forty Heavens you Might Meet People In'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847674283</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Sartof0008506337|title=River of JudgementThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Finn Jackson is an oilman, an engineer The love affair between Margo Garnett and hepoet Richard O's developed a new way of extracting oil which doesn't ravage the countryside Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in the way of traditional methodslove. HeRichard was twenty-one and described by Margo's set up a company to take advantage of this along with his friend Aaron Philips, whomother as 's the money an older man'. HeHer parents worried that Richard's short of an operations manager – influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and has been for having a while – after glittering career. In the tragic death event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Shufang Su in Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a site accidentwell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. She Life was a geologist but had apparently flouted safety regulations lived in London and you know that there are going holidays were spent at Sandcove, 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 repercussions from her deathleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956415202</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Assaf Gavron1914585402|title=Croc-AttackDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Eitan Enoch is known as Croc to his friends. I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a good reason but couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it's about to become rather more famous than Croc would likewas. It's begins on the morning that he takes his regular bus to work – the Little Number 5 – and a fellow passenger worries about the dark-skinned man with was a suit bag who's sitting at the front. Just before Croc gets off at his stop he asks why people are so paranoid gripping, emotionally wounding read, and wonders whether rereading my review of it's impossible for dark-skinned guys with suit bags to get my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on buses any moreit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007327463</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Heather GudenkaufLucy Ashe|title=The Weight of SilenceClara and Olivia
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=On a hot August morning in The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the small town of Willow Creekoutside but not, Iowawe learn, Calli Clark and Petra Gregory are reported missingon the inside. They are both seven years oldAnd not on stage, live in the same streeteither. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and are some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the very best of friendsclassroom. Calli has suffered from selective mutism from the age of four when she witnessed A stage presence, a charm, a traumatic event in her home''joie de vivre''. As The difference between a result Petra has become Calli’s voicehard-worker, speaking for her and is even able to tell others what Calli is thinkinga star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0778303691</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katherine Hall PageHeather Fawcett|title=The Body in the BasementEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The central character with Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the unforgettable name very first encyclopaedia of Pix is one of those 'apple pie' momsfaeries. The family Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is her lifenot so good with people. Every summerSo when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, most members de-camp to having somehow offended the coastvillage matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to get away from it all, recharge redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the batteriesright track. But this particular yearEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, Pix notesall charm and delight, is going much to be a Emily''summer of womens frustration.'' Pix But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is a middle-aged, middle-of-going on with the-road, ordinary person ... until she makes some gruesome discoveries.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0709090390</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aifric Campbell1398515388|title=The Loss AdjustorBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Caro's job is to 'adjust' people's lossesFirst of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. Working for a large insurance company, she deals day to day with people grieving for their lost or stolen belongings The result was complete and utter devastation. Digital cameras with priceless honeymoon photos The deaths were uncountable, laptops with work files and engagement rings. It's Caro's responsibility to assess the case and decide on whether to financially reimburse or notloss of livelihoods was widespread. But Caro knows well The fact that sometimes it's not about many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the moneytsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Her job requires emotional sensitivity and He wasn't a dog person but the sort of manner convenience store owner's comment that invites people he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open up to you. Her years of experience have made her an expert his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in dealing with everyone else's loss. But not her own.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687306</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bill SheehyChristopher Bowden|title=The Argentine KidnappingMr Magenta|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Son Cardonsky Christopher Bowden's latest novel is the type a patient untangling of guy that would make even the biggest a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of cowards want indulgence to take on the playground bully on their behalf. Which, funnily enough, is how Bernie Gould acquires Son Cardonsky as his 'best-friend-forever'; at least, a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that is, Son considers Bernie nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to be his best friend in the world, even if Bernie can't quite see find it the same wayall out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0709089945</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David AbbottJennifer Mason|title=The Upright Piano PlayerPartitions of Unity
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The central characterHere at Bookbag Towers, one Mr Henry Cage (he'd approve of the courteous form of address) is whitewe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], middle-aged when she investigated and middle-class. He appears to have unravelled a perfect, enviable lifeseries of disappearances. Reaping the substantial rewards In ''Partitions of a successful business, heUnity''s acquired along the way a lovely London home, she sets her mind to solving a wife and a familymurder.. All boxes ticked, you'd think.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906694842</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanna DaviesWill Carver|title=FreshersThe Daves Next Door|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Going Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to Uni is meant to be one of the best times of your lifedetonate his vest on a London tube line...that first taste of freedom from your familyAs their fates overlap, learning independencethe story is told in backwards order, meeting new friends and discovering who you are. Oh, and a little studying of course! This book charts leading up to the first 'fresher' year of three students, Lois, Cerys and Hywel who are studying at Aberystwyth University during 1991/1992. I was interested because I did my first degree just a couple of years after this, and also I studied a post grad at Aberystwyth. Turns out this wasn't exactly a nice happy trip down memory lane however..fateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906784140</amazonuk>1914585186}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=D J TaylorJennifer Mason|title=Ask AlicePreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The central character Alice''A struggling poetry zine, has had a humble start mom-and-pop mobile diner in life but ' ... the silence of Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the Kansas flat ... and the distant murmur of the freight trains 2004 Olympics, a women' is not s track coach with a yen for her. She dreams bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of -the bright lights of the big cities and although she is naive and unworldly-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, fancies herself as an actresserotic art dealer in Georgia. Painful and difficult decisions are made as she reaches for her goal. Her talent and resourcefulness see her through; give her a modest roof above her head in this precarious profession.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531984</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard FlanaganB0B2N7MVYM|title=WantingThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Read It's the blurb on 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the back of FlanaganCuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's ''Wantingminds. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr,it's not the missile crisis that' and you'll think its at the front of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. With the usual post colonial tale current state of Britain as enemy number onemedical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen'wanting's Bench, a relatively new prison. He' s just getting used to impose its rule on everyone else. In a way it is such a talehis roommate, Mervyn, but what makes it more interesting is the story and learning to be wary of a little girl caught up in the wider historical eventsMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848870779</amazonuk>
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