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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step- 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|isbn=1529153298|title=Butterflies in NovemberThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Audur Ava OlafsdottirJennie Godfrey|rating=45
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|summary=' 'It's all threes here1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean,honestly...) She's not what' she says, s worrying Miv'three men in your life over a distance of 300 kilometress family, three dead animals, three minor accidents or mishaps… though. animals will be maimed… Women have been disappearing. itWell, they'll wet more than your ankles… ve been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. it wouldnMiv't be a bad idea s upset because she's overheard that her father wants to buy a lottery ticketmove the family 'Down South'. When you' And so an over-priced but miraculously accurate fortune-teller sets in process re from Yorkshire, Down South is a narrative that provides for a very quirky readfrightening, foreign place, with quite a bit of charm amongst the unusualbest avoided. The lottery ticket and a loose end and a For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend stuck in hospital all conspire , Sharon, and she'll do anything to make prevent that. She's not worried about the narrator and said best frienddangers or that her Mum's fourstopped talking -year-old son embark on a journey of discovery, all on the southern stretch of the ring road that encircles Icelandto anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782270108</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=The Flavours of LoveDiva|author=Dorothy KoomsonDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Saffron's husband, JoelWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was stabbed born to Greek parents in the street eighteen months ago and no one has ever been arrested for his murder. It's hard for Saffron and her two childrenManhattan, New York, Pheobe in December 1923 and Zane, only moved to live with what happened Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but somehow they have her father changed it to find a way of getting on with their lives; lives that no longer have Joel in them. It's hardly surprising that they struggle on a daily basis and it all culminates when Saffron is called into school to discuss fourteen year old Pheobe. Saffron doesnCallas't know how to deal with make it more manageable in the situation especially as States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her daughter won't talk to voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her. On top and made no secret of all that, Joel's killer is still out there somewhere and that makes her scared preference for all her family's safetyelder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780875002</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The CircleAlexander McCall Smith|authortitle=Dave EggersThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary=Following The Perfect Passion Company is a string of recent scandalsdating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the government this month announced that secret cameras online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could be introduced into care homes in come and look after the hope of improving patient carebusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. The theory being that constantly recording staff would prevent any inappropriate behaviour from those in positions Katie is coming out of authoritya break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. Could such surveillance possibly work? And if it did would any potential rewards be outweighed by the threat so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to privacy of both the patients 44 Scotland Street and the wholly innocent staff Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who become caught up quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in the snooping? Ither abilities, and there's this question of surveillance over privacy that is central always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to 'The Circle', the new novel from Dave Eggers.lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241146488</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=Diane SetterfieldKatherine Howe|title=Bellman and BlackA True Account|rating=4.5
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|summary=When he was Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young boy William Bellman committed one cruel act - he used his catapult age. When she hears there is to kill be a rookhanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. He didnEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy't believe he could do it - believed until s death at the moment that the rook fell that it would fly away before the stone hit - but the rook was deadhands of two vicious pirates. It canShe hides away, so that they don't be said that the killing worried William find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as he grew it seemed that he was a fortunate man. His work satisfied him. He loved his wife and his children, but then tragedy struck boy and joining the visits from the stranger in black begannotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. William - now 'Bellman' to most She soon finds herself in the thick of those who knew him - had things when there is a solution. He worked hardermutiny on board, obsessively and he founded a business which was decidedly macabre. And that business was Bellman and Blackfrom there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409128016</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Black ChalkMaybe Tomorrow|author=Albert AllaPenny Parkes|rating=34.5
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|summary=SeventeenJamie Matson works in an upper-year-old Nate Dillingham is hailed as class grocery store, for a hero following man who's a horrific school shooting in which he is control freak with all the only survivorsubtlety of a half brick. It soon becomes clear Jamie's son, howeverBo, that Nate 'has neglected to share the full extent of his involvement with problems'. He's asthmatic and the policemore you read, instead allowing others to place a the more positive spin you'll suspect that he's on his version of eventsthe autistic spectrum. After recuperating Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in hospital and facing the interrogation of both the police local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the media, Nate abandons his family need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and spends eight years working abroad put in a succession of odd jobsthe wrong. Black Chalk begins with Nate’s return It was going to come to his family home, as Nate seeks catharsis by finally opening up about his experiencesa head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1859643574</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann LearyB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Good HouseRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Hildy Good has reached a strange stage in her lifePetr is an orphan. She's entering her seventh decade (that's one of Rescued by the few phrases that make ''sixty'' feel good) strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and divorced. Most people - Hildy included - would have said that she had a lot of friendsbusy human society, but in the reality is a little differentforests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Her daughters had staged an intervention because they thought that her drinking had got out of control After Bear dies and after a period brief sojourn in rehab Hildy found social occasions human company, and armed with only a little difficult. Evenings spent at home - pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on her own - were no funa journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178239320X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Reluctant CannibalsSarah Marsh|authortitle=Ian FlitcroftA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Over After a truffled turkey at their college Christmas dinner in 1964bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a group world of Oxford dons decide to join their love of fine food and drink with their mutual appreciation for nineteenth-century French philosopher of food Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (author of the 1825 classic ''La Physiologie du Goût''silence, or ''The Physiology of Taste'') by forming everything about her life changes. Living in a secret dining society. Together these fellows of St Jerome's College form time when the Shadow Faculty use of Gastronomic Sciencesign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a group that will continue meeting school where she is taught to share new 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 daring culinary experiences until Oxford agrees to set 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 proper gastronomic school complicated tangle of its ownespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909593591</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR
|title=Good Girls Die
|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''This story is not for everyone.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah Schwartz1472263936|title=Woman on TopThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Kate and Jake had one of those brilliant marriages It was in 1968 that looks set Helena McCloud made her first trip to last forever along with two wonderful childrenGreece. But Fate is always hiding around She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the corner with its foot stuck outfamily home and refused to return, waiting but 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 trip you the family apartment in up and Jake was diagnosed with cancer-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. They both fought She grew to do everything that they could to find a cure love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but within two years Kate was a widowwary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. For nearly a decade she dedicated herself He was proud of his close connections to the children Junta and expected his family to making a career as a healthcare lawyer so that she could support the family. When she was ready uphold his values but saw no reason to look for another relationship she met Lenaccommodate them. It wasnHis prejudices included Helena't his looks that attracted s red hair and green eyes - inherited from her or his stature (shefather'd hastily searched out her flat shoes), but he did seem to have something about hims Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00D3WHBJK</amazonuk>
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{{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|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=I Came To Say GoodbyeThe Grave Listeners|author=Caroline OveringtonWilliam Frank|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sometimes when you have clear expectations The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of a book based the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on its blurbhomes, and then you get an utterly different storyeven gallows, it can be frustratingif needed. While I think ‘misleading’ The fear of being buried alive is too strong an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a word for itdrunken, self-indulgent, I really could not have predicted the story lazy lout of this book from what I read on the back cover. It sounded like an excellent story about a baby snatched from a hospital ward but instead it was…an excellent story about something else entirelyman is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958476X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=The World is a WeddingSemi-Detached|author=Wendy JonesDeborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=They say one door doesn't shut but for another opens. Wilfred Price, the most amenable 1920s Welsh undertaker in literature, is 'Bill and Amanda are living proof of that. He took his beloved Flora Myffanwy to be his, after they both fell in love at her father's funeral. It did leave Grace alone and berefta semi-detached house, and forced out of town stuck in a very unsavoury fashion, but for Wilfred depressing rut of boredom and Flora married life is fine. Hesitant, but fine. He's finally got into the swing of things as regards calling her ''dear''disappointment, when Terry and conjugal relationsFiona – glamorous, successful and she has finally felt able to speak up about her place very much in the household of her husband and his father love – and whoever happens to be left to settle move in the workshopnext door. Despite their different outlooks on life, having died on the loo couples befriend each other and got stuck in a non-coffin-shaped poselife appears to improve for both pairs. But do those doors stay firmly shut…?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178033379X</amazonuk>all is not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mr Lynch's HolidayShalini Boland|authortitle=Catherine O'FlynnThe Silent Bride|rating=43
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Having read Alice and enjoyed both of her previous novelsSeth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, [[What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn|What Was Lost]] funny; total and [[The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn|The News Where You Are]] I was looking forward to this latest bookutter husband-material. The story tells us of She is all he could possibly want in a father who surprises his sonwife; beautiful, living in Spainsuccessful, with a visitconfident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. The father When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is recently widowed and walked down the son's long-term partner has very recently left himaisle by her father, although it's some time before he admits that to his dad. What begins beaming with pride and excitement as a holiday turns into something of a pschological rescue mission as Dermot begins she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to see the problems depressing Eamonn celebrate this joyful day and the ways in which he might be able when Seth turns to help. Thereface his approaching bride, Alice's a lot about familial relationships in world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the bookaltar is, as well as ideas about living at home and abroadwho is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670918563</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The LuminariesGirls of Summer|author=Eleanor CattonKatie Bishop
|rating=5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Eleanor Catton's ''The Luminaries'' is set in It was the New Zealand gold rush of summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the late 1860sisland. It Rachel wasn's a story about greedt exactly innocent but she was, powerperhaps, goldnaive, dreamsso when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, opium, secrets, betrayal and identity, but most of all, it's she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a celebration while before he made any sort of the art of story telling, both in terms of Catton's book physical approach to her and the stories her characters have to tellby that time she was obsessed by him. It's Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the kind of book that is perfect escapism island and which wraps you up in its world. If you like big, chunky books that you can get lost particular in for hours, then this is one for youthe bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847084311</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David CanningAmanda Craig|title=Out of the Clouds of DeceitThree Graces|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=On his way to begin training to be a pilot in the RAF, Aiden met Dennis in a railway station buffet. As luck would have it they were both on their way to the same place, for the same reason and would find themselves sharing a room. Trained and mentored by older serving officers in what was Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the immediate poststate-war period they came to understand of- and to some extent feel the- nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the sense atmosphere of betrayal which burdened the pilots from bomber command who had taken part in day and capture it, crafting an image of the Allied bombing campaign country as it stands in the World War IIone particular moment. Flying was in AidenTo say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's blood and he was practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at home in this point. She has such a gift for weaving the air and in ongoing issues of the mess - day into the comradeship lives of men suited him her characters in a way that feels natural and he understood the nuances. He was less at home with womenlived-in, never completely understanding the different needs a woman has in a relationshipmaking them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00A0T787O</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=More Than ThisPineapple Street|author=Patrick NessJenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=''Here is the boy, drowning.Pineapple Street'' And Seth does drown. He is alone; taken by the seastory of three women: Sasha, arms Darley and legs flailing Georgiana. Darley and breaking, skull dashed against the rocks whilst the icy water constricts his muscles George are sisters and breath. Seth Sasha is consciously aware of his final momentsmarried to their brother Cord. His death consumes him with a heavy They're Stocktons, confusing blur until… he awakens and finds himself in only Sasha isn't a desolateStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, shattered world; nakedTilda, alone, starving asks Cord and aliveSasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. This place looks familiar Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. It looks exactly like They won't need any of the English village where he spent his early childhood before his brother’s accident furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and his family’s Cord can move to Americastraight in. Nominally, they had a choice but it is now overgrown that wasn't the reality. Darley and devoid of human lifeGeorgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. It is as if They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the whole place was simply abandoned one dayGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331155</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Straight White MaleEmily Critchley|authortitle=John NivenOne Puzzling Afternoon
|rating=4
|genre=HumourCrime|summary=In Kill Your Friends84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, John Niven delivered but now she is facing a scathing 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 hugely entertaining satire on the music industryworry 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. In Straight White Male he After 'seeing's turned his attention 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 Hollywood her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and academia with similarly impressive resultsmore 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434022861</amazonuk>1804181250
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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''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=Bertie's Guide to Life and MothersThe Garnett Girls|author=Alexander McCall SmithGeorgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=SoThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. BertieMargo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Yes, dear Bertie finally turns seven in this book! Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. And about time too! His birthday gifts from his Her parents are perhaps not everything he wished for, nor even what his dad might have wanted to get him, but Bertieworried that Richard's mother, Irene, has very definite ideas about influence would take her away from what makes they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a good birthday present for a little boyglittering career. Fortunately for my blood pressure In the odious Irene is soon whisked event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to another country after winning Oxford and went on to become a newspaper competitionwell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and her stay there might 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 rather longer than sheable to leave him in charge''d intended.. Then Richard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Morgan McCarthy1914585402|title=The Outline of LoveDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Persephone Triebold has spent most of her life on the Assynt Peninsula in north-west Scotland. ItI reviewed David F Ross's isolated, rugged and under-populated. Her father opted to live there after the death of his wife, feeling that it was safe for his young daughter. Shebook [[There's been home-schooled and has had very little contact with other people - but makes the decision that sheOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's going to university in London. Once there she shares Only One Danny Garvey]] a house with three other girls couple of years back and develops a crush on former indie musician remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and Booker-winning novelist Leo Fordaffecting it was. She works her way into his circle of friends - It was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, and finally into his bed - but never feels that has ''connected'' with him. Part rereading my review of it is my main takeaway was that she can't get past ''that'' incident in his past which involved his sister, Ivy, her partner, a gun and a sword - and no one will talk about I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755388771</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Another Way to FallLucy Ashe|authortitle=Amanda BrookeClara and Olivia|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=On a crisp November dayThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, Emma steps out of twins no less. Identical on the doctor’s officeoutside but not, beaming from ear to ear. Finallywe learn, she has received on the news she has been waiting so long to hear; her cancer is in complete remissioninside. She can now put the last five years behind her and start get And not on with the rest of her lifestage, either. At least Because there's a lot that is how things would work in builds a perfect worlddancer. SadlySome things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, the truth is a little different. The that ''je ne sais quoi'all clear' diagnosis is , that don't come from the first chapter of classroom. A stage presence, a book that Emma is writingcharm, a book that is ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a coping mechanism to help her come to terms with the fact that her cancer is incurable hard-worker, and her options are very limited indeeda star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000744592X</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=OstrichHeather Fawcett|authortitle=Matt GreeneEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=[[The Curious Incident 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 very first encyclopaedia of the Dog faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the Night Time by Mark Haddon]] deserves every piece small village of praise it receivedHrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, as a children's novel with plenty she is not sure what she has done, nor how to interest older readers redeem herself and a wonderful way of portraying Asperger's Syndrome through its narrator, Christopher Booneput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. ''Ostrich'' by Matt Greene follows quite similar linesEnter Wendell Bambleby, although this time the narratorher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, Alexall charm and delight, has a brain tumourmuch 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>0297869523</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398515388|title=The Second Life of Amy ArcherBoy and the Dog|author=R S PatemanSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Ten years agoFirst of all, a little girl vanished from a playground near her London home. Her body it was never found. A decade onthe earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and her parents are different peoplethis, her mother Beth still hung up on what didin turn, or didn’t happen that daycaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, her father Brian trying to move on with his new family, his new daughtersand the loss of livelihoods was widespread. On The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the anniversary list of her disappearance, priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a strange visitor arrives on Beth’s doorstep saying she knows what happened to Amy Archerconvenience store. She also knows He wasn't a great deal about Beth’s life, dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Amy’s, from that time. Things no one should know. No one could know. But Tamon the only explanation is beyond belief. Either someone is playing a cruel joke on Beth, or it’s time to start believing dog jumped in miracles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409128563</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Night RainbowChristopher Bowden|authortitle=Claire KingMr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=You knowChristopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, there’s no reason a book carried out by her nephew after she has to be happy in order to be gooddied. The Night Rainbow is proof of this. Set geographically in France aunt who always provided a safe harbour and actually in the head a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a five year old girl, much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it follows the adventures of the summer when Pea’s (short for Peony or Pivoine, depending who you ask) pregnant mother was too miserable seems to him an obligation to care for her; the summer following the still birth of Pea’s sister and the tragic accidental death of her fatherfind it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408841843</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LongbournJennifer Mason|authortitle=Jo BakerPartitions of Unity|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=So Here at Bookbag Towers, we have had Jane Austen first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-SmithJennifer Mason|meet zombiesPreposterous]], when she investigated and now something perhaps even more reprehensible – social realism. This is unravelled a world where people slip up in hogshit, where rain pisses it down, and if the weekly routine washday is bad, you should try it when five Bennet daughters have their coinciding periodsseries of disappearances. Sarah is in the middle In ''Partitions of all thisUnity'', trying she sets her mind to do her share of the housework with one hand at times, lest pus from her blisters get on the linen, or her callouses crack opensolving a murder... But why can she not get her feelings about James, the new mysterious footman fresh from who-knows-where, straight in her head, and why is her heart turned by the mulatto servant of the Bingleys up at Netherfield?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857522019</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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|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...''
This is just a sample of the cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=B09STS96HS}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM|title=Beneath an Irish SkyThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Isabella ConnorDaniel Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In a hospital wardIt's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, Luke Kiernan the Cuban missile crisis is stirring from a tranquiliser-induced sleep following a serious car accidentstill very fresh in people's minds. His ribs and legs hurt and he The world has an awful feeling that his mother is deadbarely had a chance to breathe out. But who is for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that stranger sitting beside 's at the bed? Surely it can’t be front of his fathermind. He's been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the father who pushed prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his mother away twenty years ago because he was ashamed to have first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. He''gypo kid'' around? Luke wants answers. But more than thats just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, he wants revengeand learning to be wary of the McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781890048</amazonuk>
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