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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicci ClokeOnyi Nwabineli|title=Lay Allow Me Downto Introduce Myself
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|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia''The Restoration s increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Otto LairdAnuri'' is an interesting concept s childhood for a storysponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. It pitches an ageing architect against an ageing building that was built early Now Anuri is in Otto's careerher twenties 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. When Otto makes the trip from Switzerland Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to London to try start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and save Marlowe house receiving money from demolitionthem for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, he takes an unwilling journey down his own pastwho 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751553077</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Walthew1529153298|title=The Complex Chemistry List of LossSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
|rating=5
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|summary=Deep in rural France James Kerr was admitted to a psychiatric clinicIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. His mental problems were deep and intractableWomen have been disappearing. Superficially he seemed never Well, they've been murdered, but to have got over the sudden death of his mother and sister when he was a child and after their death his relationship with his father had deteriorated 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because his she's overheard that her father refused wants to speak of their lossmove the family 'Down South'. There were additional factors too: Kerr had spent some time in Afghanistan in When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a secret capacityfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. In fact much of his life since he went For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to university had involved putting up a front, but doing something else in prevent that. She's not worried about the backgrounddangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OLMHCW2</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brooke Davis1035906708|title=Lost and FoundDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary=Millie Bird keeps a notebook. She writes We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in it all of the Dead Things that December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she seeswas thirteen. Her Very First Dead Thing original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her dog Rambofather changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. Then there were other things a spider, a Bird… but then there When she was number 28. The twentyback in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice -eighth dead thing than Millie Bird noticed she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her Dadand made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958903</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan LethemAlexander McCall Smith|title=Dissident GardensThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary=Rose Zimmer, The Perfect Passion Company is a feisty American communist radicaldating agency in Edinburgh, takes on many good run by Ness and great causes. These include everything from feminism and racism operating as an alternative to all the changing course of Stalinism online apps in the American C.Pproviding a more personal, tailored service. but most of all; Ness has asked her biggest causes are younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the people around herbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. The effects upon them are diverse Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and devastating. She often propels them to success but so jumps at the same time they feel battered and must escape according chance to come home to their own needsEdinburgh. Her affections are real And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but invasivewith some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Rose keeps Katie has no experience in running a shrine to Abraham Lincoln. Rose’s selfbusiness, or in match-assertion within the perimeters of the German-designed 20th Century New York suburb of Queensmaking, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, a multi-cultural suburb and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a planned housing development similar to Hampstead Garden City provide the setting for Jonathan Lethem’s Tour de Force.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099563428</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Virginia BurgesDean Koontz|title=The VirtuosoBad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=The title character of '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 Virtuoso'' 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 Isabelle Bryanta new friend, a professional violinist bad weather friend called Spike, who has earned the affectionate nickname of 'Beethoven's Babe'been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. She was the youngest-ever winner Spike is going to take care of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition Benny, and gave her first solo performance, will certainly take care of BeethovenBenny's violin concertoenemies, at Royal Albert Hall. 'Her violin represented another limb to herif he, it was that precious. It felt so naturalBenny, like an extension of her body.' It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that the violin is Isabelleand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's lifewild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00R07U0B0</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne TylerKatherine Howe|title=A Spool of Blue ThreadTrue Account
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Every family has its tales which are told and retold and Hannah Masury is living in the Whitshank Boston, having been sent to live with a family it was the story of how Abby and Red had fallen in love one ''beautifulwho run an inn, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon'' in July 1959being made to work there from a young age. It would usually When she hears there is to be told on the porch a hanging of some pirates in the Baltimore house which Redtown, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's father had built, but on this final time death at the hands of its telling the circumstances are differenttwo vicious pirates. Abby She hides away, so that they don't find and Red are aging - even the glorious house is beginning to show its age - kill her too, and decisions have then to be made about how escape them completely she runs away to look after themsea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. All She soon finds herself in the family are thick of things when thereis a mutiny on board, even Denny, who can generally be relied and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on to do only what pleases himthe ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701189517</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Miranda Sherry1471180158|title=Black Dog SummerMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=YesterdayJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, Sally was living in for a man who's a rambling farmstead control freak with her teenage daughter Gigiall the subtlety of a half brick. Now Sally is dead Jamie's son, murderedBo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and Gigi is alone sometimes Bo's not 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 worldwrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781859574</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Niyati KeniB0CKD1L5JL|title=Esperanza StreetRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=54
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|summary=Joseph's parents send him to work for Auntie Mary and her B&B business on Esperanza StreetPetr is an orphan. Over Rescued by the years there life for Joseph goes on strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the way it has for countless other youngsters from this Filipino town forests of PuertoWashington's Olympic Peninsula. His mother may have died too young After Bear dies and Joseph a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only sees his father one day a week (and has to suffer church for part of that!) but there's pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a rhythm to journey through the market outside forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and foreign visitors within Auntie Mary's walls that's familiar and comforting. It's a rhythm that's been there for generations but things change, sometimes with catastrophic resultsrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276487</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nigel McCleaSarah Marsh|title=A Word Glittering with SpikesSign of Her Own
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=We're going to follow the fortunes After a bout of two couples (or are they 'would-be couples' or 'might-have-been couples'?) scarlet fever as they navigate the treacherous waters of lovea child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. David Castledine's first meeting with Jenny could hardly have been less auspicious: he hit Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about herlife changes. He didn't ''actually'' mean Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to hit her but he threw a stick for his aunt's dog school where she is taught to chase and it caught her on the headlip read, but physically restrained from signing. Head wounds bleed profusely and this one was no exceptionFrom here, so David had to take her back to his aunt's apartment to clean her she ends upin another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. I suppose there have been worse meetingsAt the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, but it's difficult to think and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of one!espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993025501</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=R D Shanks1472263936|title=A Reverie of BrothersThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The castle of Delzean's walls have always protected Emperor EliIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, his sonsGreek by birth, sisterhad left the family home and refused to return, niece but Mary and nephew from Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the ravages and poverty of the people family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the city beyondfirst of several annual visits. However the days may be numbered as a burgeoning revolution has infiltrated its walls thanks She grew to love her grandmother and the rebel movement known as The Eyesfamily's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Their plan necessitates the unwitting involvement He was proud of his close connections to the spoilt, egotistical aforementioned niece, Princess AvaJunta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. Unfortunately there will be collateral damage with tragic effectsHis prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1505631394</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=Nick HarkawayB0BVDC2VWH|title=TigermanThe Grave Listeners|author=William Frank
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Battle-weary The village is isolated and suffering from PTSD, 40poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants -yearits bread-old Sergeant Lester Ferris is posted to like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the island of Mancreu to mark time till his retirementforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. With no family The fear of his own, Lester takes a local lad under his wing; being buried alive is an adolescent who lives his own life through comic books and superheroes existential superstition in the hope village and that he can be adopted. Despite Mancreu beginning to churn with more than its customary black marketeeringis the reason Volushka, Lester realises that he has a job on his handsdrunken, self-indulgent, not only to take care lazy lout of an island that sees him as a government puppet but also convince someone that he man is the stuff of heroism and to convince himself while he's at ittolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099591758</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Thompson WalkerB0BYF82CXT|title=The Age of MiraclesSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=Dystopian General Fiction|summary=''The Age of Miracles'' was one of those muchBill and Amanda are living in a semi-talked about books that I never got the time to read on its first go around. I'm not sure how I managed thatdetached house, but I did. Anywaystuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, it got debut author Thompson Walker a seven figure deal after a bidding war when Terry and it has dystopian themesFiona – glamorous, so it is right up my alley successful and not the sort of thing I'd usually missvery much in love – move in next door. And soDespite their different outlooks on life, I was happy that Simon & Schuster decided the couples befriend each other and life appears to reissue improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for a YA market and even happier that they decided to send me a copytragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary KuryloShalini Boland|title=The Seventh SimianSilent Bride|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|isbn=1662507089}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=5
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|summary=Edith has lived alone for many years It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she has become irascible and rather antiwas, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-social. She avoids even going into the nearby village old Alistair Wright started to do take an interest in her shopping and the only human being , she sees with was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any regularity is the local shopkeeper who makes grocery deliveries sort of physical approach to her and makes an art form of palming off the strange old lady with overpriced, underweight goodsby that time she was obsessed by him. If it weren't Alistair worked for her catHenry Taylor, Edith would have no companionship at looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where allthe girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00Q4SETM2</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane Lythell Amanda Craig|title=After the StormThree Graces|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Rob and Anna are nearing Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the Honduras leg state-of their South American travels. Here they meet Kimberley and Owen, an American couple who charter out their own boat for sailing trips around -the local islands-nation novel. Rob persuades Anna it will be a fun way to end their holiday but Anna isn't so sure. There's something so utterly compelling about Owen any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and Kimberley capture it, crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that makes her hesitant about being shut away on a boat Amanda Craig is skilled at sea doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with themthe genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Perhaps it's She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a way that he never sleeps or the mystery as to why there are no knives feels natural and lived-in the cutlery drawer. Rob thinks Anna's just overly imaginative, never making them ciphers for social commentary but time will tellinstead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855323</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stewart Foster152915118X|title=We Used to Be KingsPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson
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|summary=Tom ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and Jack George are 18 todaysisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. Not that They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem'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 much cause for celebration - stuck in renovated and downsized to another property, a home for troubled childrenstreet or so away, which they are constantly examined own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and questioned by doctorsCord can move straight in. Nominally, when all they want is had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to be left alone call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to live life together'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584190</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Emily Critchley
|title=One Puzzling Afternoon
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?
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{{Frontpage
|author=Madelaine Lucas
|title=Thirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Wild0008506337|title=The Vanishing MomentGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=This book appealed to me The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on various groundsboth sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. It is teen fiction ( Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford andhaving a glittering career. In the event, joy they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of joys, devoid of werewolves Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and dystopia), it is by an Australian author (underwent on to become a well-represented on UK shelves)respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and it involves parallel universes (tantalising philosophical what-ifs)Sasha. I Life was intrigued to see if lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the author could live up doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to my expectationsleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743315902</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jack Sheffield1914585402|title=Silent NightDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=34.5
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|summary=I read a couple of Jack Sheffield’s books about five years ago, and enjoyed them very much. They were written in a similar style to those popularised by, for instance, James Herriot or reviewed David F Ross's book [[:Category:Gervase PhinnThere's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|Gervase PhinnThere's Only One Danny Garvey]], told mostly in the first person, describing the author’s first a couple of years as Headmaster at back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. It was a small village primary school in Yorkshire. The village of Ragley is fictionalgripping, as are most of the charactersemotionally wounding read, but the incidents and situations encountered are based rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on the author’s experienceit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552167045</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert SchneiderLucy Ashe|title=Brother of SleepClara and Olivia|rating=34.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=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 'Brother of Sleep'je ne sais quoi' tells ', that don't come from the story of Elias Johannes Alderclassroom. A stage presence, a child born into charm, a god forsaken village high in the Austrian Vorarlberg''joie de vivre''. He came into the world as The difference between a silent childhard-worker, while his mother was screaming and the midwife wasn't really paying attention. It took a couple of loud intonations of the Te Deum from the neglectful nurse before he finally uttered a soundstar. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715649205</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne GrahamHeather Fawcett|title=To The Edge Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of ShadowsFaeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sarah awakes from a coma to find her world destroyedEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, a long lost aunt her only remaining familyand she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life as 's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she knows it irrevocably changed forever. Moving is brilliant at research and speaking to a new town and a new schoolfaeries, making new friends she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the least small village of her challenges as Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she struggles has done, nor how to regain redeem herself and put her physical final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and mental health following 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 accident.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910162841</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leanne Hall1398515388|title=This is ShynessThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=''This is Shyness'' is an unusual First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and brilliant story about Wolfboy this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and Wildgirlutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, two strangers who meet in a pub in and the town loss of Shynesslivelihoods was widespread. The teenagers are drawn together, each adopting 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 dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a different identity so for 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 night they can be anyone but themselvesdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonin Varenne and Frank Wynne (translator)Christopher Bowden|title=Loser's CornerMr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Georges Crozat. HeChristopher Bowden's a policeman in Paris, who boxes on the side. After a bout that leads to an almost embarrassing victory, he latest novel is made two offers – one from a clearly corrupt man behind the scenes in the sport, who seems to offer a few thrown fights for Georges, then some kind patient untangling of status as assistant – training, guiding, profiteering; the other comes from a man known always as seemingly ordinary woman''the Pakistani'' (or an unkind abbreviation of that)s life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who has always provided a safe harbour and a friend little bit of indulgence to a friend who wants someone to do an enemy young nephew had had a mischief with their fists. Georges doesn't take too long to choose the latter. In alternating chapters, however, we're in the 1950s, much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and a rookie it seems to the forces, Pascal Verini, is being shipped out to Algeria to work on the civil war causing the republic to break away and become independent from France. Like Georges, he finds his situation one which also causes what may be misguided violence, even if he has a very different attitude him an obligation to find itall out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857052276</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=J Robert LennonJennifer Mason|title=See You In ParadisePartitions of Unity|rating=34|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=Lennon writes with a relaxedHere at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, easy style dominatrix and his characters are instantly recognisable as people from everyday walks of life, without being unintentional detective in any way stereotypical. Many of the people in these stories are dealing with normal frustrations[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and Lennon is cleverly detached enough not to make them individuals that you're obviously supposed to root for (the only exception is the industrialist in the eponymous tale, who is an archetypal capitalist fat cat). There are some very clever characterisations – in ''Weber’s Head'', for example, the narrator is unravelled a flawed individual whose opinions series of his housemate are gradually revealed to be unreliable and unfairdisappearances. For me, the most unsettling story is In ''No LifePartitions of Unity'', because it portrays she sets her mind to solving a decent couple at the mercy of people more powerful and influential than themmurder.. There is no supernatural or bizarre element at work here, just ordinary characters at the mercy of social power.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781253358</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daisy WaughWill Carver|title=HoneyvilleThe Daves Next Door
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The 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 by Dora Whitworthin backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a call girl mom-and-pop mobile diner in one of the most exclusive brothels in TrinidadNorthern California redwoods, Colorado. At a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the time2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the town was the only place in the West where prostitution was legal and it was infamous for its red-light district. Dora’s voice rings true and her art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life is convincingly described. The sumptuous brothel sentence in Plum StreetAlabama, with its smells of perfume and disinfectantan enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is as claustrophobic as just a prison sample of the cast of characters and Phoebesettings in Preposterous. As you can see, the madam, particularly chillingsome keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007431775</amazonuk>B09STS96HS
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tammy CohenB0B2N7MVYM|title=Dying for ChristmasThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=The book starts off promisingly enough with an introduction by JessicaIt's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the narrator, who informs us that she Cuban missile crisis is imprisoned by still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a stranger who is handsome and charming and extremely sadisticchance to breathe out. Jessica then recounts But for Joe Marr, it's not the events leading up to and during her incarceration, which takes place over missile crisis that's at the Christmas periodfront of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. Her jailer With the current state of medical knowledge, Dominicit's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, has prepared twelve presents for hera relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his roommate, for the Twelve Days of ChristmasMervyn, and each present-opening episode builds up a sense of dread while providing a deepening understanding learning to be wary of the sinister and bitter mind at workMcArthur brothers. Genuinely creepy stuff.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784160172</amazonuk>
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