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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Miranda SherryOnyi Nwabineli|title=Black Dog SummerAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5
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|summary=YesterdayAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Sally was living where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in a rambling farmstead with her teenage daughter Gigitwenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Now Sally Anuri is deadbattling alcoholism, murderedfailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and Gigi receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is alone in the worldnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781859574</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Niyati Keni1529153298|title=Esperanza StreetThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
|rating=5
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|summary=JosephIt's parents send him to work for Auntie Mary 1979 and her B&B business on Esperanza StreetMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Over the years there life for Joseph goes on the way it has for countless other youngsters from this Filipino town of PuertoWomen have been disappearing. His mother may Well, they've been murdered, but to have died too young and Joseph only sees his 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father one day wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a week (frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and has she'll do anything to suffer church for part of prevent that!) but there. She's a rhythm to not worried about the market outside and foreign visitors within Auntie Mary's walls dangers or thather Mum's familiar stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and comfortingonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. ItHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a rhythm that's been there mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for generations but things changeher elder sister, sometimes with catastrophic resultsJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276487</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nigel McCleaAlexander McCall Smith|title=A Word Glittering with SpikesThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5
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|summary=We're going The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to follow all the fortunes of two couples (or are they 'would-be couples' or 'might-have-been couples'?) as they navigate the treacherous waters of loveonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. David Castledine's first meeting with Jenny Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could hardly have been less auspicious: he hit hercome and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. He didn't ''actually'' mean to hit her but he threw Katie is coming out of a break up with a stick for his aunt's dog to chase bad boyfriend, and it caught her on so jumps at the headchance to come home to Edinburgh. Head wounds bleed profusely and And so begins this one was no exceptionnew story from Alexander McCall Smith, so David had bringing us to take her back an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to his aunt's apartment 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to clean her upcharm. I suppose there have been worse meetingsKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but itNess has full confidence in her abilities, and there's difficult always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to think of one!lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993025501</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick Modiano, Sempe (illustrator) and William Rodarmor (translator)Dean Koontz|title=Catherine CertitudeThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=What little I know of Patrick Modiano was gained from the number of 'noBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, we've never heard of himhe loses his fiancee, either' articles and summaries that came our way when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the end of 2014his house gets trashed. They suggested his oeuvre was matureOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, slightly thrillerdisturbing coffin-based but not exclusively sosized object to his home, and asked lots of accumulative questions regarding identity with regard 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 the Vichy government during WWIIdeserve all this bad luck. Identity He is a lot more fixed in this musing little piece, nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the adult voice-over looks back over delivery to his house is a new friend, a wide removebad weather friend called Spike, and says there will always be who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a little bit of her living the events and situations of the bookgood person. Those situations are Spike is going to take care of a young dance-school attendeeBenny, and her loving will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and much-loved father, living Harper (a cosy life in Paris – even if the girl never once really works waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out what it is her father does for a living…who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443022</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=R D ShanksKatherine Howe|title=A Reverie of BrothersTrue Account|rating=34.5
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|summary=The castle of Delzean's walls have always protected Emperor EliHannah Masury is living in Boston, his sons, sisterhaving been sent to live with a family who run an inn, niece and nephew being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the ravages town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and poverty of the people horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the city beyondhands of two vicious pirates. However the days may be numbered She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a burgeoning revolution has infiltrated its walls thanks to boy and joining the rebel movement known notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as The Eyesa cabin boy. Their plan necessitates She soon finds herself in the unwitting involvement thick of the spoiltthings when there is a mutiny on board, egotistical aforementioned niece, Princess Ava. Unfortunately and from there will be collateral damage with tragic effectswe are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1505631394</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Harkaway1471180158|title=TigermanMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5
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|summary=BattleJamie Matson works in an upper-weary and suffering from PTSDclass grocery store, 40-year-old Sergeant Lester Ferris is posted to for a man who's a control freak with all the island subtlety of Mancreu to mark time till his retirementa half brick. With no family of his ownJamie's son, Bo, Lester takes a local lad under 'has his wing; an adolescent who lives his own life through comic books problems'. He's asthmatic and superheroes in the hope that he can be adopted. Despite Mancreu beginning to churn with more than its customary black marketeeringyou read, Lester realises the more you'll suspect that he has a job 's on his hands, not only the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take care of an island that sees him as time off at short notice - she's a government puppet but also convince someone that he is frequent flier in the stuff of heroism local A&E and to convince himself while hesometimes Bo's at itnot fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099591758</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Thompson WalkerB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Age of MiraclesRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=Dystopian General Fiction|summary=''The Age of Miracles'' was one of those much-talked about books that I never got Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the time to read on its first go around. I'm not sure how I managed that, but I did. Anywaystrange, it got debut author Thompson Walker a seven figure deal after a bidding war and it has dystopian themesreclusive Bear, so it he is right brought up my alley far from bustling cities and not busy human society, in the sort forests of thing IWashington'd usually misss Olympic Peninsula. And so After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, I was happy that Simon & Schuster decided to reissue it for Petr goes on a YA market journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and even happier that they decided to send me a copyrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary KuryloSarah Marsh|title=The Seventh SimianA Sign of Her Own
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Edith has lived alone for many years and she has become irascible and rather anti-socialAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. She avoids even going Suddenly plunged into the nearby village to do a world of silence, everything about her shopping and life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only human being savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she sees with any regularity 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 local shopkeeper who makes grocery deliveries to her deaf and makes an art form of palming off using a system called Visible Speech. At the strange old lady with overpricedsame time, underweight goods. If it weren't for her catBell is working on other inventions and ideas, Edith would have no companionship at alland Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00Q4SETM2</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=Stewart Foster1472263936|title=We Used to Be KingsThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Tom It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and Jack are 18 todayrefused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Not that they have much cause for celebration Her trip to the family apartment in up- stuck in a home for troubled childrenmarket Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, they are constantly examined but was wary - and questioned by doctorsfrightened - of her grandfather, when all they want is retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to be left alone the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to live life togetheraccommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584190</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|authorisbn=Victoria AveyardB0BVDC2VWH|title=Red QueenThe Grave Listeners|author=William Frank
|rating=4
|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Mare The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Red Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - a race kept in lives its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of poverty the forest provides heat and servitude by the Silverswarmth, roofs on homes, a race with wealth and mutant powers that allow them to live lives even gallows, if needed. The fear of luxury. Learning to survive amongst being buried alive is an existential superstition in the slum like conditions village and that is the Reds inhabitreason Volushka, a drunken, Mare is swiftly thrown into the world of the Silvers self- one that proves to be more dangerous than she had ever imaginedindulgent, with treachery, plots and deadly games lurking round every cornerlazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret WildB0BYF82CXT|title=The Vanishing MomentSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=This book appealed to me on various grounds. It is teen fiction (''Bill andAmanda are living in a semi-detached house, joy stuck in a depressing rut of joysboredom and disappointment, devoid of werewolves when Terry and dystopia)Fiona – glamorous, it is by an Australian author (under-represented successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on UK shelves)life, the couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it involves parallel universes (tantalising philosophical what-ifs). I was intrigued to see if the author could live up to my expectationsseems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743315902</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jack SheffieldShalini Boland|title=The Silent NightBride|rating=3.5
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|summary=I read Alice and Seth are a couple of Jack Sheffield’s books about five years agomatch made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and enjoyed them very muchutter husband-material. They were written She is all he could possibly want in a similar style to those popularised bywife; beautiful, for instancesuccessful, James Herriot or [[:Category:Gervase Phinn|Gervase Phinn]], told mostly in confident… and so the first person, describing inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the author’s first couple of years as Headmaster at a small village primary school in Yorkshirewedding is planned and set. The village of Ragley When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is fictionalwalked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as are most of she surveys the characterscongregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, but Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the incidents and situations encountered are based on man at the author’s experiencealtar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552167045</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Schneider1787636003|title=Brother The Girls of SleepSummer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=3.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=''Brother of Sleep'' tells It was the story of Elias Johannes Alder, a child born into a god forsaken village high in summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the Austrian Vorarlbergisland. He came into the world as a silent child, while his mother was screaming and the midwife Rachel wasn't really paying attentionexactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It took was quite a couple of loud intonations while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the Te Deum from bar where all the neglectful nurse before he finally uttered a soundgirls either worked or partied. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649205</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne GrahamAmanda Craig|title=To The Edge of ShadowsThree Graces|rating=4.5
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|summary=Sarah awakes from a coma to find her world destroyedFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, a long lost aunt her only remaining family, and life crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she knows it irrevocably changed forever's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Moving to She has such a new town and a new school, making new friends is gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the least lives of her challenges as she struggles to regain her physical characters in a way that feels natural and mental health following the accidentlived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910162841</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leanne Hall152915118X|title=This is ShynessPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=''This is ShynessPineapple Street'' is an unusual the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and brilliant story about Wolfboy Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and WildgirlSasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, two strangers who meet in only Sasha isn't a pub in Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the town of Shynesstribe. The teenagers are drawn togetherproblem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, each adopting a different identity street or so for away, which they own. They won't need any of the night furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they can be anyone had a choice but themselvesthat wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonin Varenne and Frank Wynne (translator)Emily Critchley|title=Loser's CornerOne Puzzling Afternoon
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Meet Georges Crozat. He's a policeman 84 year old Edie has lived in Paris, who boxes on the side. After a bout that leads to an same small town for almost embarrassing victoryher whole life, he but now she is made two offers – one from facing a clearly corrupt man behind the scenes in the sportmove as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, who seems as Edie is starting to offer a few thrown fights for Georgeslose her memory. However, then some kind Edie is tormented by the memory of status as assistant – trainingher childhood friend, guidingLucy, profiteering; who went missing over 60 years ago, and the other comes from worry that there was a man known always as ''secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the Pakistani'' (or an unkind abbreviation truth of what happened all that), who has a friend of a friend who wants someone to do an enemy a mischief with their fiststime ago. Georges doesnAfter 't take too long to choose the latter. In alternating chapters, however, weseeing're Lucy in the 1950shigh street, and a rookie to just as she was the forces, Pascal Verinilast time she saw her, is being shipped out she starts to Algeria find pockets of memories coming back to work on her. And yet as she remembers the civil war causing the republic past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to break away and become independent from Franceday life. Like GeorgesWill she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, he finds his situation one which also causes what may be misguided violence, even if he has a very different attitude to it.and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857052276</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|authorisbn=Daisy Waugh0008506337|title=HoneyvilleThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The story is told by Dora Whitworthlove affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, a call girl in one of the most exclusive brothels in Trinidad, Coloradoapparently on both sides. At the time, the town Margo was the only place just sixteen when they fell in the West where prostitution love. Richard was legal twenty-one and it was infamous for its reddescribed by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve -light districtgoing to Oxford and having a glittering career. Dora’s voice rings true In the event, they eloped and Richard took her life is convincingly describedaway from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The sumptuous brothel in Plum Streetcouple had three children: Rachel, with its smells of perfume Imogen and disinfectant, is as claustrophobic as a prison Sasha. Life was lived in London and Phoebeholidays were spent at Sandcove, the madam, particularly chillingfamily home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007431775</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Sussman1914585402|title=The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius PhoenixDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=On the eve of the year 2000, Raphael Ignatius Phoenix decides that he has had enough. Having lived for I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a century, he takes his own life on the roof couple of his castle, swallowing a small white pill he has kept on his person for almost 90 yearsback and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. In the days before, he had written his story all over the walls of the castle - a story that takes in an Edwardian childhood, Hollywood in the 1920's, the Second World War, life as a butler in a stately home, life in It was a rock band in the 60'sgripping, time spent in a nursing homeemotionally wounding read, and finally life in the castle - amongst other, enchanting talesrereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552779679</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane StubbsLucy Ashe|title=Thornfield HallClara and Olivia|rating=4.5
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|summary=I canThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler't say that I'm a fan of reworkings of classic books: [[Emma by Alexander McCall Smith|some]] suck s Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the life out of outside but not, we learn, on the originalinside. And not on stage, [[Jane Eyrotica by Charlotte Bronte and Karena Rose|others]] fail to add anything - and why would you want to read an inferior version when you either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can read the real thing? Generallybe taught or learnt – discipline, I try attention to avoid them - detail – and Isome things, that 'm still not certain why I made an exception for 'je ne sais quoi'Thornfield Hall'' - it certainly wasn, that don't come from the headless woman (sighclassroom.A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''..) on the cover The difference between a hard- but I added it to my reading pile. I'm glad that I didworker, and a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782395245</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon WroeHeather Fawcett|title=Chop ChopEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary='Monocle' isn't his real nameEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, but thatto write her life's what work, the brigade very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at ''The Swan'' would call him once they knew him well enough research and speaking to insult himfaeries, she is not so good with people. He has an English Literature degreeSo when she finds herself far, you seefar North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, and having somehow offended the chefs think that's village matriarch, she is not sure what he would have worn. He'd no interest in cookingshe has done, but was two months behind nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on his rent and being the lowest-rung chef in a gastropub in Camden was the only job that he could getright track. His co-workers are deranged Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and borderline criminal whilst the head chefinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, Bob is a top-rank sadist constantly on the look out for material on which much to practiceEmily's frustration. Monocle has little choice but to stay - given But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the situation between his parents, going home isn't really an option.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241000009</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne McCourt1398515388|title=The Lost ChildBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sylvie lives First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in a small Australian fishing village with her mumthe ocean floor, dad which created the tsunami and elder brotherthis, in turn, Dunccaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. However all that is about to change The deaths were uncountable, and little Sylvie finds herself in the middle loss of dramas she neither understands nor controlslivelihoods was widespread. Her world may never be The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the same list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but she tries the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to make sense of it, Trollop, clingy mother, moody father open his car door and allTamon the dog jumped in. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922147788</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Monique RoffeyChristopher Bowden|title=House of AshesMr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=There had been unrest in the Caribbean City of Silk in Sans Amen for some time with people growing increasingly belligerent about the perceived corruption of the government. Then the day came when The Leader called the Brothers together and told them that they were going to make history: they would take over the House of Power and the television studios and reclaim what was rightfully theirs. Part of this 'revolutionChristopher Bowden' s latest novel is Ashes, a quietpatient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, bookish young man who seems to feel most guilty about the lie he told his wife - that he'd be back home for dinner - when he left the housecarried out by her nephew after she has died. He'd been swayed by The Leader's rhetoric aunt who always provided a safe harbour and finds himself a part little bit of the rag-tag band of ill-trained but probably over-armed indulgence to a young men nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and teens who invade the House of Power. It would not go as they expectedit seems to him an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471126668</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Betsy TobinJennifer Mason|title=Things We Couldn't ExplainPartitions of Unity|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=JerichoHere at Bookbag Towers, Ohio - 1979. Annemarie is a cleverwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, funny dominatrix and spirited girl. Born with sightunintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she turned blind as investigated and unravelled a child, but more than compensates for her disabilityseries of disappearances. Living amongst the small-town folk In ''Partitions of JerichoUnity'', she has sets her mind to solving a relatively standard, suburban life, schooled at home but more than friendly with many in the town - especially her charming neighbour Ethanmurder.. All is calm, until one day Annemarie finds herself pregnant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783753080</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}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan BrahamJennifer Mason|title=The Pink House at AppletonPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Boyd Longfellow Brookes he's musing over the fact that 'A struggling poetry zine, a mom- however much you might wish otherwise and- sounds, smells or small details can evoke the most painful of memories pop mobile diner in full Technicolor. On this particular afternoon it was the music Northern California redwoods, a 400- Saintmeter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-Saens ''Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor'' of- which brought back the scene which regularly invaded his dreams ''and'' his waking hours. Once again he was the eight-year-old boy whose father was thrashing him with art S&M dungeon, a man serving a leather strap whilst his mother wept and Papa demanded to know if Boyd had molested the young daughter of life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a neighbourcheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia... He didn't even know ' This is just a sample of the meaning cast of ''molest'' but the expressions on the faces characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of those around him told him all he needed to knowthis mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848767455</amazonuk>B09STS96HS
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sumia SukkarB0B2N7MVYM|title=The Boy from Aleppo who Painted the WarCalculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This is a book about colour against It's the grey backdrop 10th of the Syrian civil warDecember 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Adam Just to put what happens in context, the 14-year-old narrator, Cuban missile crisis is an artist who describes emotion, still very fresh in people and things in colour's minds. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. Through colour But for Joe Marr, he makes sense it's not the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. With the world. So his sister, Yasminecurrent state of medical knowledge, it'is usually rubys hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen' although at times she is grey or greens Bench, a relatively new prison. Adam’s views are simple He's just getting used to his roommate, uncomplicated – he says ‘Lying is bad’Mervyn, ‘I don’t like the war’ and ‘[Paintings] always say learning to be wary of the right things’McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908998466</amazonuk>
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