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|summary=Anthony Quinn's ''The Streets'' is set in London in the early 1880s in Anuri spent her childhood on display to the area known as Somers Townworld, which thanks to those not familiar with London geography is the area around Euston, St Pancras and Kingher step-mother Ophelia's Cross stations. Todayincreasingly popular presence on social media, much where she posted every step of this falls under the trendy Camden areaAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, but in the 1880sbasically, was the site of some of the worst slum tenements in the capitalmonetary gain. Some 50 years' earlier, Charles Dickens lived Now Anuri is in this part of London her twenties and although he had died by the time this she is setslowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the depiction of the poverty content about her. Anuri is not far battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from what we would term Dickensianthem for doing so. The book Most importantly, she is narrated by David Wildeblooddesperately worried about her little sister, who is a principled but naive young man who finds employment as an 'investigator' for the charismatic Mr Marchmontnew focus of Ophelia's ''The Labouring Classes of London'' - a strange mix of social geography online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and journalism publishing regular stories of her relationship with her father at the poor who reside in the slums of London.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099575159</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Thomas1529153298|title=The Home CornerList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=3.5
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|summary=When you finish your HighersIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, you’re supposed to go on to universityhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, especially if you’re a girl like Luisathough. Women have been disappearing. But she’s failed hers Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so for now higher education is out, and working is unfortunately infrightening. So, Miv's upset because she finds a job working as a classroom assistant in a primary school's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. It’s not something she ever wanted to do When you're from Yorkshire, and she finds herself in Down South is a weird sort of limbofrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, at a life stage somewhere between the children in move would mean leaving her classbest friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her proper grownMum's stopped talking -up adult colleaguesto anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057123061X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Cruickshanks1035906708|title=The Trader of SaigonDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary=In the Saigon We tend to think of the 1980s the Vietnam War is over Maria Callas as Greek, but the traces remain. Alexander has deserted from the US army she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and makes a comfortable living selling girls only moved to local business menAthens when she was thirteen. Phuc used Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to be a business man, complete with mansion and the means 'Callas' to keep his wife and three children make it more manageable in affluencethe States. Now his family live When she was back in a shanty hut, afraid of the ruling government Athens - supposedly so that spies through she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the eyes of children. At last he finds Nazi occupation by a way out, his luck just needs to hold. Hanh also lives in poverty, desperately trying to help mother who mercilessly exploited her sick mother with the pittance she earns from cleaning one and made no secret of the city's many open latrines. Then one day she meets someone who offers so much more. His name is Alexanderher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782063218</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alain MabanckouAlexander McCall Smith|title=Tomorrow I'll Be TwentyThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary=Michel The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as carefree as any child can be during that difficult process called 'growing up'an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Here in Congo Brazzaville he Ness has his best friend Lounesasked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a crush on Caroline (his best friend's sister)bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the hassles of school chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and a family consisting of two mothers in two houses which seems perfectly normalthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. He's also being educated about the world by his father; Katie has no experience in running a world that changes daily as itbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's 1979. Never mind, he can always marry Caroline as long as he meets her conditions: she requires childrenvery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a red 5-seater car and a white dog.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846685842</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=Hilary ReylKatherine Howe|title=Lessons In FrenchA True Account|rating=34.5
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|summary=American graduate Kate leaves the States for a job Hannah Masury is living in ParisBoston, working for having been sent to live with a [[The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger]] style bossfamily who run an inn, world famous photo-journalist Lydia Schelland being made to work there from a young age. She’s lived When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in France beforethe town, so she thinks she knows what she’s letting decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in fora young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She doesn’t. So while the title doesn’t refer hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to the language itself (escape them completely she is beautifully fluent even before she arrives), there are many lessons for her runs away to learnsea, from how to act dressing as a go-between for Lydia and her husband Clarence (and his graduate students), to how to handle the handsome Olivier boy and joining the notorious Ned Low''bon chic bon genre'' boys, to where to source the lavish ingredients her employer needs for dinner or how to make s pirate ship as a proper timelinecabin boy. The Berlin Wall is about to fall, She soon finds herself in the continent thick of things when there is buzzinga mutiny on board, and Kate is a part from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of it, for better or worselife on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007446268</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Parks1471180158|title=Sex is ForbiddenMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
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|summary=Tim Parks's ''Sex is Forbidden'' is narrated by twentyJamie Matson works in an upper-somethingclass grocery store, Beth. Shefor a man who's working as a volunteer server at a Buddhist retreat called the Dasgupta Institute where she has been for the last nine months although control freak with all the book covers one ten day cycle subtlety of retreata half brick. The Dasgupta Institute imposes bans on attendees Jamie's son, Bo, although the conditions are slightly less onerous on 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the servers whomore you read, nevertheless are expected to join in the meditations. Theremore you'll suspect that he's no talking, no writing, no mingling of on the sexes and no physical or even eye contactautistic spectrum. One day Beth, still a rebel Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at heart, wanders into the menshort notice - she's side where she discoverers an attendee is keeping a diary where he is contemplating his moment of crisis frequent flier in the local A&E and she is hookedsometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. The revealing of the past that has driven both Beth and Missed shifts or the mysterious diary keeper need to such an austere retreat is part of the intrigue of the book, but while there is an inevitable focus be away on introspection time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and new age thinking, Beth's tone is delightfully sceptical and feels very authenticput in the wrong. It's almost impossible not was going to feel for her plight and come to admire her approacha head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099565897</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam ThorpeB0CKD1L5JL|title=FlightRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
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|summary=The past Petr is catching up with Bob Winrushan orphan. His marriage Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is over as a result of his inconsiderate arrival home early when weather cancelled one of his jobs as a cargo pilot to find his wife brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in bed with another man but when an investigative journalist starts to dig into some of the content forests of BobWashington's previous cargo tripsOlympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, his life is quickly placed in grave danger. His problems stemmed from having walked away from and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a particularly morally dubious trip to transport arms to journey through the Taliban some years agoforest, although it turns out that his moral line in broadcasting the sand is somewhat blurred. He has knowingly transported guns strange, wild and military personnel in his time. He's sort of the aeronautical equivalent of white van manrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099539764</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=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 a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to 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 system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danny WallaceB0BC3YTCMR|title=Charlotte StreetGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
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|summary=In his early books, Danny Wallace was the new Tony Hawks, taking on silly challenges and recounting them in amusing ways. With ''Charlotte StreetThis story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, his first entirely fictional work, he seems to a bit too nerdy if truth be moving into territory inhabited by [[:Category:Mike Gayle|Mike Gayle]]told, that of blokeand suffered from vitiligo -litpeople were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It seems 's not easy being a decent fit, as his book ''Yes Man'' black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had elements of blokea crush on seventeen-year-lit, despite being based on actual eventsold Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house and he raped her. It may have suffered from a twee endingIn shock, but it offered enough she even allowed him to suggest that this is give her a field Danny Wallace could work well inlift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009191907X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=NoViolet Bulawayo1472263936|title=We Need New NamesThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=4.5
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|summary=This powerful narrative bears witness It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to the experience of economic migrantsGreece. Not just black Africans coming from ZimbabweShe was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, like NoViolet Bulawayohad left the family home and refused to return, but more generally, those several generations of hardy, resourceful immigrants driven Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the USA family apartment in search up-market Kolonaki would be the first of a better futureseveral annual visits. Such people leave behind less courageous She grew to love her grandmother and the family members's maid, Dina, but not their emotions towards those they have loved or their nation was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of birthhis close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701188030</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim Izzo Dean Koontz|title=My Life After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in Black 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 Whiteformer colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4.5
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|summary=''My Life in Black The village is isolated and White'poor. It' starts off in s surrounded by a police station in EnglandWitching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The film noir theme that permeates black wood of the novel begins immediatelyforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. Clara Bishop The fear of being buried alive is dressed an existential superstition in a gold evening gown, the village and treats that is the police officer who is interviewing her just as reason Volushka, a femme fatale would. This girl has sass. But when she begins to recount her taledrunken, it is clear this is a new development. The old Clara describes her life as something from a screwball comedyself-indulgent, not lazy lout of a film noirman is tolerated. How does a screenwriter-slash-gossip-columnist from LA end up being interviewed about an assault in England?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444737716</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mave FellowesB0BYF82CXT|title=Chaplin and CompanySemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=4.5
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|summary=In 'Chaplin & Company'Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, Mave Fellowes takes stuck in a quirky look at life on London's canal boats. Yet, while her story is full depressing rut of eccentric charactersboredom and disappointment, not least the main human character of Odeline Milkwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, who moves to the boat that shares the title of the book after her mother passes away to pursue her dream of becoming a mime artist successful and very much in love – move in the more culturally enlightened big city after a lonely next door. Despite their different outlooks on life in provincial Arundel, the book is delightfully free of sentimentalitycouples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. I say the main human character, because this But all is also the story of a boat with a remarkable history of ownersnot what it seems, and also a story of the strange life on the canal which somehow exists beneath the city through which it flowstheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224097350</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fayette FoxShalini Boland|title=The Deception ArtistSilent Bride|rating=3.5
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|summary=This story Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all about he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the characters. Plot-wise, it wedding is planned and set in 1980s suburban America. There are no explosions or even fairy tale adventures in this book. It’s just When the simple adventure of life when you’re a child and learning new things every day. Ivy accounts her day-tomuch-anticipated day life with an extreme attention to arrives, Alice is walked down the strangest detailsaisle by her father, just like a child. As well beaming with pride and excitement as explaining what she has learnt in school, she describes her daydreams, her surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and her family. When her dad loses when Seth turns to face his jobapproaching bride, her parents start arguing and Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is worried they might have to get a divorce like sad Sara in , who is waiting for her class. And not only that, they might have to return their new TVbecome his wife. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434244</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Evison1787636003|title=The Revised Fundamentals Girls of CaregivingSummer|author=Katie Bishop
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|summary= Ben hasnIt was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't worked for a while and soexactly innocent but she was, perhaps, deciding on a career changenaive, trains so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to become a caregivertake an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. His first client is Trev, It was quite a 20 year old Duchene Muscular Dystrophy sufferer who hasn't the sunniest while before he made any sort of dispositions. In fact Trev is angry, self-centred physical approach to her and goes through caregivers like a knife through milkby that time she was obsessed by him. HoweverAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, Ben, needing a job, holds looking after his interests on tight the island and tries to encourage Trev to live a littlein particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.}}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Craig|title=Three Graces|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. Eventually Trev complies There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and dictates a way forward: a road trip. A road trip with a houseboundcapture it, ill, angry person is not what Ben had crafting an image of the country as it stands in mind at allone particular moment. Meanwhile it gradually becomes clear to us To say that Trev isnAmanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she't s practically synonymous with the only one who genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has to learn to live such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a little differentlyway that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781851751</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Mayhew152915118X|title=A Wolf in HindelheimPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=34.5
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|summary=Germany, ''Pineapple Street'' is the 1920s. Whatever that old proverb is about an ending of something merely being a beginning story of something else in disguisethree women: Sasha, this novel is an evocation of itDarley and Georgiana. In the rural habitation of the title a father Darley and George are sisters and son pair of policemen Sasha is called married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a remote house Stockton by news that a newborn baby is missingbirth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. In The problem's exacerbated when the house is an awkward combination of families – elderly clan matriarch, her son Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and daughter Chip have renovated and both their spouses – two couples living on top downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of each otherthe furniture from Pineapple Street, with a disabled boy so Sasha and maid Cord can move straight in the mix too. We soon are given an explanation for the child being dead – Nominally, they had a terrible instance of clumsiness, choice but like I say, this is only that wasn't the beginning – of several things, including reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the older policemangold digger'. She's infatuation with living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the grieving motherGD's sister-in-law…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091944384</amazonuk>.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Emily Critchley
|title=One Puzzling Afternoon
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the 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. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?
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{{Frontpage
|author=Madelaine Lucas
|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''
Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that 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 – to 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, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jessica Soffer0008506337|title=Tomorrow There Will be ApricotsThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=3.5
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|summary=Lorca is The 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 her early teens and struggling to get attention from her motherlove. She's resorted to selfRichard was twenty-harming one and even her obvious abilities in the kitchen dondescribed by Margo't seem to be enough to merit some of her chef s motheras 'an older man's time. Her last chance to make an impact before sheparents worried that Richard's sent influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to boarding school seems Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to be Oxford and went on to find become a way to make Masgouf well- an Iraqi fish dish - which her mother has described as her favourite mealrespected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Along with her only friend - a young man who goes by Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the name Isle of Blot - they discover that some Iraqi Jewish cooking classes are being offered by a chefWight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091943973</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Trout1914585402|title=The Patron Saint of Lost DogsDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=34.5
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|summary=Dr Cyrus Mills only intended to return to Vermont for long enough to sell the veterinary practice which his father had left him, collect the money I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and get back to South Carolina where he affecting it was trying to sort out the little matter of having his licence to practice suspended. He had never got on with his father who had - somehow - managed NOT to tell his son that his mother had died until after her funeral. The first snag he encountered It was quite a big one: his father had been equally forgetful about dealing with his financial affairs gripping, emotionally wounding read, and the Bedside Manor practice rereading my review of it my main takeaway was dying that I might not have lavished enough praise on its feet. Cyrus didn’t have the money to prop it up and it looked as though he would have to hand everything over to the Bank and walk away with nothing. The second problem was an aging Golden Retriever by the name of Frieda and an owner who’s very keen to see her put to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401310885</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clive LawtonLucy Ashe|title=Flowers From FukushimaClara and Olivia
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= In 2011, Japan was hit by a 9The year is 1933.0 magnitude earthquakeThe place? Sadler's Wells. That Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the subsequent tsunami caused level 7 meltdowns at outside but not, we learn, on the Fukushima nuclear power plantinside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don'Flowers t come from Fukushimathe classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a '' riffs on this in joie de vivre''. The difference between a posthard-apocalyptic story of a Japan devastated by even more and even bigger natural disasters. It follows two main characters as they pick their way through the devastationworker, each trying to make sense of this new and very different worlda star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00CDLAK0E</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lynsey RoseHeather Fawcett|title=First Aid Kit GirlEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=54
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|summary=Steph hates Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her job. She hates her colleagues. She likes life's work, the work very first aid kitencyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, a lotshe is not so good with people. She’s trundling along So when she finds herself far, doing not very muchfar North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, finding her release where she can. To me it seems like is not sure what she loves has done, nor how to hate redeem herself and put her final investigations for her lifebook back on the right track. Takes great pleasure in despising it Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, in factmuch to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956235123</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gill Hornby1398515388|title=The HiveBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=There's an old joke thatFirst of all, for parentsit was the earthquake, there are only two good days deep in the school holidays - ocean floor, which created the first tsunami and the lastthis, but in St Ambrose turn, caused the ''real'' work begins when nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the children go back to school at loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the start list of priorities but - six months after the new school yeartsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. ThereHe wasn's t a new head at the school (and he'll have to be knocked into shape) dog person but the real power is Beatrice - 'Beaconvenience store owner' s comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to those whom she elects to call friends for the time being - who rules open his car door and Tamon the parents, decides who is in or out and what status they should have dog jumped in the community. And how does she do it? Well, she's the queen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704358</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jasper GibsonChristopher Bowden|title=A Bright Moon For FoolsMr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jasper Gibson’s debut Christopher Bowden's latest novel, A Bright Moon For Fools, tells the story of Harry Christmas and his drunken escapades in Caracas and the small villages of Venezuela. Harry Christmas is nowhere near as jolly as his name suggests, in fact Harry is drunken conman. He has pushed his luck too far and is forced to fly to Venezuela to evade William Slade, the irate son a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman Harry fleeced 's life, carried out of £27,000by her nephew after she has died. Harry’s life is defined by booze The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and where a little bit of indulgence to get the next drink; he is having a major breakdown. Slade is no better off and is also having his own mental crisis: unfortunately for Harry, Slade’s breakdown is of young nephew had had a much more psychotic natureinteresting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957468105</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa ScottolineJennifer Mason|title=Come HomePartitions of Unity|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=You divorce a partnerHere at Bookbag Towers, not a childwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, so although Jill dominatrix and William’s split meant she was no longer legal step mum to his daughter Abbyunintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], in some ways when she never stopped seeing her as investigated and unravelled a daughter. Now, years after they last met up, Abby shows up on Jill’s doorstep with some devastating news about Jill’s ex-husbandseries of disappearances. News that will unsettle both their lives, and the lives In ''Partitions of Jill’s new fiancé SamUnity'', and of she sets her own biological daughter. While Abby wants mind to pull her into untangling solving a mystery, Sam is reluctant to encourage this investigation, and the family reunion it will bring, leaving Jill torn between her new family and her old onemurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091944937</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{Frontpage
|author=Will Carver
|title=The Daves Next Door
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.
|isbn= 1914585186
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{{Frontpage
|author=Jennifer Mason
|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
|rating=4
|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 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...''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ma JianB0B2N7MVYM|title=The Dark RoadCalculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=One It's the 10th of my many lovable traits, according December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to my belovedput what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is my ability to absolutely insist I havenstill very fresh in people't read s minds. The world has barely had a book before (when he catches me reading chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it again)'s not the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. This has With the huge benefit current state of my getting medical knowledge, it's hard to discover it all over again – and think otherwise than that the massive downside that I will prosecution would never get have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to the end of my reading listhis roommate, Mervyn, which must exist in some kind and learning to be wary of Möbius loopthe McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701187530</amazonuk>
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