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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]__NOTOC__{{adsense2}}Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction__NOTOC__<!|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step- Remove -->mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Gayle1529153298|title=Turning FortyThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I made the mistake of reading Mike Gaylemean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv'Turning Thirty'' in the weeks before I did sos family, though. Women have been disappearing. Despite it being a story of a man whose life fell apart just before his 30th birthdayWell, he still seemed to be doing better than I wasthey've been murdered, which made it a readable but depressing experienceto have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Fortunately, Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Turning FortyDown South'. When you' re from Yorkshire, Down South is being published about 15 months before I reach that milestone and my life is in a different frightening, foreign place which, hopefullybest avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, will combine Sharon, and she'll do anything to make it a more enjoyable readprevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340918535</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Pont1035906708|title=Remember to BreatheDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5

|summary=We meet Sam Grant on his 27th birthdaytend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but he's not out celebratingshe was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. HeHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's got flu and just to add to his problems he's got a boil make it more manageable in his groin - or on his thigh - depending on which side of the doctor's desk you're sittingStates. Sam's not been looking after himself since his girlfriend dumped him just over three months ago and when you work When she was back in adland the opportunities for not looking after yourself are many and varied. The millenium hasn't quite arrived, 'austerity' hasn't even been thought about and living an out-ofAthens -control life has never been easier. What we supposedly so that she could get is Sam's diary, but it's not in chronological order, with some of it going back to before he met Sarah appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the girl he didn't really wantNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, but struggles to get overJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909273007</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Grace McCleenAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Professor of PoetryPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=Grace McCleen's ''The Professor of Poetry'' Perfect Passion Company is Elizabeth Stone, a 52 year old aged professor at a London University. When the book opens she has just discovered that a cancer scare is now dating agency in remissionEdinburgh, but forced run by her illness Ness and operating as an alternative to take all the online apps in providing a sabbaticalmore personal, she sets about researching her latest book based on some papers of TS Eliottailored service. This takes Ness has asked her back to Oxford, to her alma mater younger cousin Katie if she could come and raises look after the prospect of seeing her former professor therebusiness, as Ness is planning to take a man convinced trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of the young Miss Stone's potential at an early agea break up with a bad boyfriend, but whose last meeting was somewhat awkward. McCleen looks and so jumps at the issues raised by generations of poetschance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, namely timebringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, death thanks to 44 Scotland Street and lovethe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. For Professor Stone Katie has no experience in running a business, the first or in match-making, but Ness has passedfull confidence in her abilities, the second come uncomfortably close and the third remains unknown to her. Whatthere's more, always her academic focus is on the music of love poetry which is somewhat ironic in that she avoids human relationships perhaps due to the death of her mother at an early age very helpful (and an unhappy foster experiencerather handsome) neighbour, William, while also having a peculiar aversion to music. Perhaps though this is what allows her lend a detached ability to write academic studies.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444769952</amazonuk>1846976596

{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this 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 JoyceKatherine Howe|title=PerfectA True Account

|summary=In 1972 two seconds were added Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to the yearwork there from a young age. 11 year old Byron Hemmings heard about it from his friend James and felt it wouldn't When she hears there is to be a good thinghanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. In fact Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the moment Bryonhands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don's watcht find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's second hand reversed something happened that would mean neither his or James' lives would ever be pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the same againocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857520660</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=419Maybe Tomorrow|author=Will FergusonPenny Parkes|rating=4.5

|summary=Anyone who has ever opened Jamie Matson works in an Eupper-Mail which proves to be class grocery store, for a man who's a plea for assistance in getting large amounts control freak with all the subtlety of money ahead of the authorities will recognise the themea half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. Laura Curtis He' father had such an E-Mail s asthmatic and having tried to help and spent all his moneythe more you read, the more you'll suspect that he has driven his car 's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a bridge. Meanwhile, frequent flier in Nigeria, a pregnant young woman walks through the dust, trying to escape her family local A&E and find something that ever she doesnsometimes Bo't know what she is looking fors not fit enough to go to school. In Missed shifts or the Niger Delta, meanwhile, the oil companies need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are moving in occasions when Jamie can be controlled and a whole way of life is changing put in the fishing villages therewrong. It was going to come to a head. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855056</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Juan Pablo VillalobosB0CKD1L5JL|title=Down The Rabbit HoleRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=Down The Rabbit Hole Petr is a fictional tale of a young boy’s life as an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the son forests of a Mexican drug lordWashington's Olympic Peninsula. Tochtli narrates the story After Bear dies and gives us a child’s view of the sordid world that his father rules. We are shown the positives brief sojourn in human company, and negatives of this kind of lifestyle as Tochtli sees thingsarmed with only a pirate radio transmitter, from presents galore to having to call his father by his first name. This book is Petr goes on a journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange blend of childlike wonder within a violent world, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276282</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Isabelle GreySarah Marsh|title=The Bad MotherA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5

|summary=When we first meet Tessa Parker she has After a bout of scarlet fever as a major problem on child, Ellen Lark loses her handshearing. Her seventeen-year-old son has been missing since the previous daySuddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. The police are involved and Tessa 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 beside herself with worrytaught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. She's told From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the police quite a bit - however you can't help but feel that there's deaf and using a lot more going on that she's not tellingsystem called Visible Speech. To find out At the full story we go back four months..same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857386484</amazonuk>1035401614

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Irene Nemirovsky and Sandra Smith (translator)B0BC3YTCMR|title=The MisunderstandingGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=34.5

|summary=After the Great War Yves Harteloup was a disappointed young man when he returned to the resort where he had spent idyllic childhood summers. It wasn't long before he became infatuated by the beautiful Denise - mother of a young child, wife of an older man who was away on business and bored. In the heat of the summer the relationship is intoxicating and Denise falls passionately in love with Yves. When they return to Paris Denise envisages a little flat which they will furnish to their taste for afternoons of leisure and pleasure but the truth 'This story is that Yves must return to his mundane office job and try to make every franc stretch as far as it can. In the drab autumn of Paris Denise is driven mad with desire not for Yves and their love disintegrates under the burden of misunderstandingeveryone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099563843</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Isabel Ashdown|title=Summer Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of '76|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=1976 her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a blisteringly hot summer. People celebrated when it eventually did rain very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and at one point suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it was so hot that Big Ben stopped working's contagious. It 's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would be the summer that Luke Wolff turned eighteen and notice her. Then he planned on leaving the Isle of White did: Lavender was very good at math and going to poly in BrightonReggie asked if she would tutor him. He had a job She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at the holiday camp, which was hard work but there church: this was a great social life too and even the possibility of romancejust an extension. His parents were happy She went to let him have his independence - after all, house and he was a sensible, well-balanced young man - and they were rather preoccupied with their own problemsraped her. Looking inIn shock, you'd have thought that the Wolffs were the ideal family: from the inside there were obviously one or two cracksshe even allowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434333</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cees Nooteboom1472263936|title=RitualsThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|summary=''Rituals'' introduces us It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to AmsterdamGreece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to Inni, firstly in 1960, then in 1950return, but Mary and then in the 1970s. When we first meet Inni, Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it is when he is would be a middle-aged man in 1960pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Far from responsible and hard-working, we see him as someone who is impulsive and reckless, even Her trip to the point of cruelty to his wife family apartment in up- who formulates plans to leave him. It is only after this frankly miserable market Kolonaki would be the first impression that we meet the younger Inni, and we see how a chance meeting with a man called Arnold Taads had changed the course of his lifeseveral annual visits. Taads is a man obsessed with matriculating his life down She grew to love her grandmother and the last secondfamily's maid, letting time dictate what he can do, with whom he can do it withDina, but was wary - andfrightened - of her grandfather, most importantly, whenretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. In Part three, in another chance meeting, He was proud of his close connections to the now ageing Inni meets Taads' son, Phillip. Phillip, though having never met Junta and expected his father, curiously lives a life that is an echo of 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; though as Arnold isolated himself in the mountains, Phillip isolates himself in meditation and the methodology of the tea ceremonyScottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782067175</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=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 a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony QuinnB0BVDC2VWH|title=The StreetsGrave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4.5

|summary=Anthony Quinn's ''The Streets'' village is set in London in the early 1880s in the area known as Somers Town, which to those not familiar with London geography is the area around Euston, St Pancras isolated and Kingpoor. It's Cross stationssurrounded by a Witching Forest. Today, much 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 this falls under the trendy Camden areaforest provides heat and warmth, but in the 1880sroofs on homes, and even gallows, was the site if needed. The fear of some of the worst slum tenements being buried alive is an existential superstition in the capital. Some 50 years' earlier, Charles Dickens lived in this part of London village and although he had died by the time this that is set, the depiction of the poverty is not far from what we would term Dickensian. The book is narrated by David Wildebloodreason Volushka, who is a principled but naive young man who finds employment as an 'investigator' for the charismatic Mr Marchmont's ''The Labouring Classes drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of London'' - a strange mix of social geography and journalism publishing regular stories of the poor who reside in the slums of Londonman is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575159</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth ThomasB0BYF82CXT|title=The Home CornerSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=3.54

|summary=When you finish your Highers''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, you’re supposed to go on to university, especially if you’re stuck in a girl like Luisa. But she’s failed hersdepressing rut of boredom and disappointment, so for now higher education is outwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and working is unfortunately very much in. So, she finds a job working as a classroom assistant love – move in a primary schoolnext door. It’s not something she ever wanted to doDespite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and she finds herself in a weird sort of limbo, at a life stage somewhere between the children in her classappears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and her proper grown-up adult colleaguestheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057123061X</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy CruickshanksShalini Boland|title=The Trader of SaigonSilent Bride|rating=53

|summary=In the Saigon of the 1980s the Vietnam War is over but the traces remain. Alexander has deserted from the US army Alice and makes Seth are a comfortable living selling girls to local business menmatch made in heaven. Phuc used to be a business manHe is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, complete with mansion funny; total and the means to keep his wife and three children in affluenceutter husband-material. Now his family live She is all he could possibly want in a shanty hutwife; beautiful, afraid of successful, confident… and so the ruling government that spies through inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the eyes of childrenwedding is planned and set. At last he finds a way outWhen the much-anticipated day arrives, his luck just needs to hold. Hanh also lives in povertyAlice is walked down the aisle by her father, desperately trying to help her sick mother beaming with the pittance pride and excitement as she earns from cleaning one of surveys the citycongregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's many open latrines. Then one day world implodes because she meets someone has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who offers so much more. His name is Alexanderwaiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782063218</amazonuk>1662507089

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alain Mabanckou1787636003|title=Tomorrow I'll Be TwentyThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary=Michel is as carefree as any child can be during It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that difficult process called 'growing up'she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Here Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in Congo Brazzaville he has his best friend Lounesher, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a crush on Caroline (his best friend's sister), the hassles while before he made any sort of school physical approach to her and a family consisting of two mothers in two houses which seems perfectly normal. He's also being educated about the world by his father; a world that changes daily as it's 1979time she was obsessed by him. Never mindAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, he can always marry Caroline as long as he meets her conditions: she requires children, a red 5-seater car looking after his interests on the island and a white dogin particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685842</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary ReylAmanda Craig|title=Lessons In FrenchThree Graces|rating=34.5

|summary=American graduate Kate leaves Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the States for a job in Paris, working for a [[The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger]] style boss, world famous photo-journalist Lydia Schellnation novel. She’s lived in France beforeThere's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, so she thinks she knows what she’s letting herself crafting an image of the country as it stands in forone particular moment. She doesn’t. So while the title doesn’t refer to the language itself (she To say that Amanda Craig is beautifully fluent even before skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she arrives), there are many lessons for her to learn, from how to act as 's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a go-between gift for Lydia and her husband Clarence (and his graduate students), to how to handle weaving the handsome Olivier and ongoing issues of the ''bon chic bon genre'' boys, to where to source day into the lavish ingredients lives of her employer needs for dinner or how to make characters in a proper timeline. The Berlin Wall is about to fall, the continent is buzzing, way that feels natural and Kate is a part of itlived-in, never making them ciphers for better or worsesocial commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007446268</amazonuk>140871468X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Parks152915118X|title=Sex is ForbiddenPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=Tim Parks's ''Sex is ForbiddenPineapple Street'' is narrated by twenty-somethingthe story of three women: Sasha, BethDarley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. She They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn's working as t a volunteer server at a Buddhist retreat called the Dasgupta Institute where Stockton by birth so she has been for the last nine months although isn't readily accepted into the book covers one ten day cycle of retreattribe. The Dasgupta Institute imposes bans on attendeesproblem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, although the conditions are slightly less onerous on the servers whoTilda, nevertheless are expected asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to join in move into the meditationsPineapple Street property. There's no talking Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, no writinga street or so away, no mingling which they own. They won't need any of the sexes furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and no physical or even eye contactCord can move straight in. One day Beth Nominally, still they had a rebel at heart, wanders into choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the mengold digger'. She's side where living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.}}{{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 discoverers an attendee is keeping facing a diary where he move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is contemplating his moment starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of crisis her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she is hooked. The revealing of was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the past thing that has driven both Beth and reveals the mysterious diary keeper to such an austere retreat is part truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the intrigue last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the bookpast, but while there she is an inevitable focus on introspection forgetting more and new age thinking, Beth's tone is delightfully sceptical and feels very authenticmore in her day to day life. It Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's almost impossible not to feel for disappearance before her plight move, and to admire before her approach.memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099565897</amazonuk>1804181250

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=Adam Thorpe0008506337|title=FlightThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45

|summary=The past is catching up with Bob Winrushlove affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. His marriage is over as a result of his inconsiderate arrival home early Margo was just sixteen when weather cancelled they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one of his jobs and described by Margo's mother as a cargo pilot to find his wife in bed with another 'an older man but when an investigative journalist starts to dig into some of the content of Bob'. Her parents worried that Richard's previous cargo trips, his life is quickly placed in grave danger. His problems stemmed influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having walked a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from a particularly morally dubious trip the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to transport arms Oxford and went on to the Taliban some years agobecome a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, although it turns out that his moral line Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the sand is somewhat blurredfamily home on the Isle of Wight. He has knowingly transported guns and military personnel Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in his time. Hecharge''s sort of the aeronautical equivalent of white van man.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099539764</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danny Wallace1914585402|title=Charlotte StreetDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross

|summary=In his early books, Danny Wallace was the new Tony Hawks, taking on silly challenges and recounting them in amusing ways. With I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There'Charlotte Street'', his first entirely fictional work, he seems to be moving into territory inhabited s Only One Danny Garvey by [[:Category:Mike GayleDavid F Ross|Mike GayleThere's Only One Danny Garvey]], that of bloke-lit. It seems a decent fit, as his book ''Yes Man'' had elements couple of bloke-lit, despite years back and remember being based on actual eventsabsolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. It may have suffered from was a twee endinggripping, but emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it offered my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough to suggest that this is a field Danny Wallace could work well inpraise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009191907X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=NoViolet BulawayoLucy Ashe|title=We Need New NamesClara and Olivia

|summary=This powerful narrative bears witness The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. 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't come from the experience of economic migrantsclassroom. Not just black Africans coming from ZimbabweA stage presence, like NoViolet Bulawayoa charm, but more generallya ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, those several generations and a star.|isbn=0861544080}}{{Frontpage|author=Heather Fawcett|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of hardyFaeries|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, resourceful immigrants driven to write her life's work, the USA in search very first encyclopaedia of a better futurefaeries. Such Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people leave behind less courageous family members. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, but she is not their emotions towards those they have loved or their nation of birthsure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much 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>0701188030</amazonuk>0356519120

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim Izzo 1398515388|title=My Life in Black The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and WhiteAlison Watts (translator)

|summary=''My Life First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in Black the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and White'' starts off this, in a police station in Englandturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The film noir theme that permeates the novel begins immediatelyresult was complete and utter devastation. Clara Bishop is dressed in a gold evening gown The deaths were uncountable, and treats the police officer who is interviewing her just as a femme fatale would. This girl has sass. But when she begins to recount her tale, it is clear this is a new developmentloss of livelihoods was widespread. The old Clara describes her life as something fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a screwball comedy, not dog outside a film noirconvenience store. How does He wasn't a screenwriter-slash-gossip-columnist from LA end up being interviewed about an assault dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in England?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444737716</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mave FellowesChristopher Bowden|title=Chaplin and CompanyMr Magenta|rating=4.5

|summary=In Christopher Bowden'Chaplin & Company', Mave Fellowes takes s latest novel is a patient untangling of a quirky look at life on Londonseemingly ordinary woman's canal boats. Yetlife, while carried out by her story is full of eccentric characters, not least the main human character of Odeline Milk, nephew after she has died. The aunt who moves to the boat that shares the title always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of the book after her mother passes away indulgence to pursue her dream of becoming a mime artist in the young nephew had had a much more culturally enlightened big city after a lonely interesting life in provincial Arundel, the book is delightfully free of sentimentality. I say the main human character, because this is also the story of a boat with a remarkable history of owners, than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and also a story of the strange life on the canal which somehow exists beneath the city through which it flowsseems to him an obligation to find it all out. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224097350</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fayette FoxJennifer Mason|title=The Deception ArtistPartitions of Unity|rating=3.54

|summary=This story is all about the characters. Plot-wiseHere at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, it is set dominatrix and unintentional detective in 1980s suburban America. There are no explosions or even fairy tale adventures in this book. It’s just the simple adventure of life [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when you’re a child she investigated and learning new things every day. Ivy accounts her day-to-day life with an extreme attention to the strangest details, just like unravelled a childseries of disappearances. As well as explaining what she has learnt in schoolIn ''Partitions of Unity'', she describes sets her daydreams, her friends and her family. When her dad loses his job, her parents start arguing and she is worried they might have mind to get solving a divorce like sad Sara in her classmurder.. And not only that, they might have to return their new TV. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434244</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

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|summary= Ben hasnIt't worked for a while and so, deciding on a career change, trains to become a caregivers the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. His first client is TrevJust to put what happens in context, a 20 year old Duchene Muscular Dystrophy sufferer who hasn't the sunniest of dispositions. In fact Trev Cuban missile crisis is angry, self-centred and goes through caregivers like a knife through milkstill very fresh in people's minds. However, Ben, needing The world has barely had a job, holds on tight and tries chance to encourage Trev to live a littlebreathe out. Eventually Trev complies and dictates a way forward: a road trip. A road trip with a houseboundBut for Joe Marr, ill, angry person is it's not what Ben had in the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind at all. Meanwhile He's been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, it gradually becomes clear 's hard to us think otherwise than that Trev isn't the only one who prosecution would never 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 learn his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to live a little differentlybe wary of the McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851751</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Jenny Mayhew|title=A Wolf in Hindelheim|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Germany, the 1920s. Whatever that old proverb is about an ending of something merely being a beginning of something else in disguise, this novel is an evocation of it. In the rural habitation of the title a father and son pair of policemen is called Move on to a remote house by news that a newborn baby is missing. In the house is an awkward combination of families – elderly matriarch, her son and daughter and both their spouses – two couples living on top of each other, with a disabled boy and maid in the mix too. We soon are given an explanation for the child being dead – a terrible instance of clumsiness, but like I say, this is only the beginning – of several things, including the older policeman's infatuation with the grieving mother's sister-in-law…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091944384</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Graphic Novels Reviews]]