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|summary=1990 Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step- Wolverhamptonmother 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. Johanna Morrigan Now Anuri is 14, intelligent, funny in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and from a loving family. Unfortunatelyto get her life back, said family consists of a depressed suing her step-mother, a mostly drunk father, an older brother with issues of his own, and three younger brothers to worry take down the content abouther. Well read Anuri is battling alcoholism, witty failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and hugely intelligentreceiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, Johanna longs for escapeshe is desperately worried about her little sister, building a who is the new version focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and gaining employment as a writer, frequently travelling to her relationship with her father at the drink, sex and drug filled bars and bedsits of London.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091949017</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Henderson Smith1529153298|title=The Turn List of the TideSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=3.5

|summary=Harriet Glover It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is well and truly over Mark after he left her standing at the altarPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) She's pregnant with Sir Joris Sandersonnot what's child and heworrying Miv's keen to make the relationship permanentfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but ghosts from to have 'disappeared'hisdoesn'' past return to haunt him, unfortunately at a rather important dinner partyt sound quite so frightening. The mystery of Miv'Ambers upset because she' really has s overheard that her father wants to be solved and move the web of lies which surround her dismantledfamily 'Down South'. Harriet When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is still being led astray by Tricia Harrington (or so Harriet's mother a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would have you believe...) mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she can't really make up her mind about 'Mr Sanderson', particularly when the man from MI6 is aroundll do anything to prevent that. She's got a lot to cope with and not worried about the dangers or thather Mum's before we even get on stopped talking - to the subject of the Prime Minister's daughter's wedding, which ''must'' remain secretanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845496485</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ivan Repila and Sophie Hughes (translator)1035906708|title=The Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=If you pick up a copy of this book you realise how small it is. You'll know, of course, that pockets hardly exist that are normally big enough to hold what we used to call a pocket book, but here is the exception to prove the rule. It's wee. The story is on a hundred pages. The concision is partly down to it starting after the beginning, for we first meet Big and Small, two brothers, once they're stuck down a large well in the middle of a forest. Tasked with a family errand, they're trapped at the bottom of a natural Erlenmeyer flask, and even a desperate move cannot get either out. This is the story of the next three months in their existence, as they brave hunger, delirium, loss of language, and the brute and unstinting human selfishness needed for existence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271015</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDiva|author=James Hannah|title=The A-Z of You and MeDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5

|summary=Lying We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in a hospital bedManhattan, refusing visits from friendsNew York, Ivo is alonein December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. Only his carer, Sheila, provides company When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - and she asks him to think of was raised under the Nazi occupation by a different part mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of his body her preference for each letter of the alphabether elder sister, and then to tell a tale about each oneJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522647</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ann-Marie MacDonaldAlexander McCall Smith|title=Adult OnsetThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5

|summary=At midlife, Mary Rose MacKinnon has settled down with her partner, HilaryThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and is raising two young children. Opting operating as an alternative to fulfill all the role of stay at home mumonline apps in providing a more personal, she tailored service. Ness has placed asked her career younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as an author on holdNess is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. What follows Katie is coming out of a break up with a bid bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to reconcile come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new identity story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her former idea of self. Successvery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, howeverWilliam, depends on Mary Rose facing up to the confusions of her past.lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473610133</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diana SweeneyDean Koontz|title=The MinnowBad Weather Friend

|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=Diana Sweeney's ''The Minnow'' Benny is an Australian book aimed at Young Adults that features deathhaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, griefhe loses his fiancee, abuse, fear and lonelinesshis house gets trashed. Teenage pregnancy lies at its heart while bereavement Oh, and trying to come someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to terms with losshis home, bubbles just under and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the surfacething that has trashed his house! The thing is, constantlyBenny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. But don't be misled He is a nice person. This novel isn't some earnest pedagogical attempt to convey teenage angst and elicit grave pity or understanding from the reader A really nice person. What rescues So fortunately for Benny it from mawkishness turns out that the delivery to his house is the beautiful voice of the narratora new friend, Tom (or Hollya bad weather friend called Spike, if you prefer her real name). Tom doesn't fall prey who has been sent to self-pity. She simply describes her world as she sees it, matter-of-facthelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. And the fact that her view Spike is rather unusual (she talks going to fishtake care of Benny, dead people and her unborn child - will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and they talk backHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) doesn't really matter. Nothing can detract from the sheer lyricism of her voice. As a reader, you just have to suspend disbelief and enjoy the ridefigure out who exactly they are. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>192218201X</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hermione EyreKatherine Howe|title=Viper WineA True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Venetia Stanley lives Hannah Masury is living in Seventeeth century London. A celebrated beautyBoston, she has had poems written in honour of herhaving been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and portraits painted by one of the leading artists of the timebeing made to work there from a young age. Married When she hears there is to be a handsomehanging of some pirates in the town, kind she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and adventurous manhorrified in equal measure, Venetia is kept Hannah finds herself embroiled in a life young boy's death at the hands of luxurytwo vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find andkill her too, at first glance - has everything and then to escape them completely she could ever have dreamed ofruns away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Except Venetia is not happy. A woman who has made her name and fortune because She soon finds herself in the thick of her beauty, she things when there is convinced that her allure is quickly slipping through her fingers. Signing a pact with an apothecary for his famed restorative 'Viper Wine'mutiny on board, Venetia is set and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on a dangerous paththe ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581663</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Liam Brown1471180158|title=Real MonstersMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5

|summary=Lorna was 12 when she was sent home from schoolJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, watched the unfurling events of 9/11 on her TV and recognised her fatherfor a man who's office block aflame and falling. Her fight for mental survival started at that moment and a control freak with all the use subtlety of alcohol to quell the memories came soon after but then she meets Danny – her life savera half brick. Shortly after this they marry and Danny joins the armyJamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's sent to fight asthmatic and the monstersmore you read, the fundamentalist organisations, which destroyed Lornamore you'll suspect that he's childhoodon the autistic spectrum. However when whatSometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's left of his unit becomes lost a frequent flier in the desert without food, water local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or equipment, the focus changes need to be away on time to pick Bo up from military victory school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to personal survival and those monsters are still out there…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910394564</amazonuk>a head.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chigozie ObiomaB0CKD1L5JL|title=The FishermenRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|summary=This book Petr is essentially a cautionary family tale of four brothers and the way they react to a prophecy about them an orphan. Rescued by the local madman. It strange, reclusive Bear, he is alsobrought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a sensebrief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a coming-of-age story where Benpirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the young narratorforest, is plunged into premature adulthood under broadcasting the most brutal of circumstances. And it is about brotherly love. None of these descriptionsstrange, however, convey the fact that this book is written by an exciting new voice in African literary fictionwild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957548850</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan KempSarah Marsh|title=GhostingA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5

|summary=Grace Wellbeck is 64 - living on After a bout of scarlet fever as a canal boat in London with child, Ellen Lark loses her second husbandhearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, she lives everything about her life changes. Living in a relatively settled life time when the use of routinesign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing.A chance encounter with a man From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the street changes everything though - deaf and using a man who system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is the spitting image working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of her first, deceased husbandespionage. Is he a ghost? Is Grace going mad?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956251560</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicci ClokeB0BC3YTCMR|title=Lay Me DownGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=It's New Year's Eve and the nightclub This story is pulsating with soundnot for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. The revellers heave She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and swell suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in oceanic waves and Jack is preparing to call case it 's contagious. It's not easy being a night, when he black girl whose skin is presented with Elsa84% white. She is small; delicate and pretty and alluringly confident had a crush on seventeen- a heady combination for a man like Jack year- old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house and though he wants, with every fibre of his beingraped her. In shock, she even allowed him to walk away, to go give her a lift home and forget her, he doesn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593653</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonia Honeywell1472263936|title=The ShipFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=45|genre=Dystopian General Fiction|summary=Sixteen year old Lalla has spent It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her life in London – mostly inside first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family homeand refused 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. Because this is not Her trip to the London family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of today, or any other dayseveral annual visits. When Lalla was seven, She grew to love her grandmother and the apocalypse arrived; banks crashedfamily's maid, flood defences failedDina, power failed – but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the world could only focus on survivalJunta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. Now the Nazareth Act is in force His prejudices included Helena's red hair and without your identity card, you don’t exist – literally, as you will be shot if you dongreen eyes - inherited from her father't produce its Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297871498</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nigel PackerDean 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}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Restoration of Otto LairdGrave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary=''The Restoration of Otto Laird'' village is an interesting concept for a storyisolated and poor. It pitches an ageing architect against an ageing building that was built early in Otto's careersurrounded by a Witching Forest. When Otto makes And the trip from Switzerland to London to try villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and save Marlowe house from demolitioneven gallows, he takes if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an unwilling journey down his own pastexistential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751553077</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian WalthewB0BYF82CXT|title=The Complex Chemistry of LossSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=54

|summary=Deep ''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in rural France James Kerr was admitted to a psychiatric clinic. His mental problems were deep and intractable. Superficially he seemed never to have got over the sudden death depressing rut of his mother boredom and sister disappointment, when he was a child Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and after their death his relationship with his father had deteriorated because his father refused to speak of their loss. There were additional factors too: Kerr had spent some time very much in Afghanistan love – move in a secret capacitynext door. In fact much of his Despite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and life since he went appears to university had involved putting up a frontimprove for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, but doing something else in the backgroundand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OLMHCW2</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brooke DavisShalini Boland|title=Lost and FoundThe Silent Bride|rating=53

|summary=Millie Bird keeps Alice and Seth are a notebookmatch made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She writes is all he could possibly want in it all of a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the Dead Things that she seeswedding is planned and set. Her Very First Dead Thing was When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her dog Rambo. Then there were other things a spiderfather, 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, a Bird… but then there was number 28. The twenty-eighth dead thing than Millie Bird noticed was who is waiting for her Dadto become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091958903</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Lethem1787636003|title=Dissident GardensThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary=Rose ZimmerIt 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 was, a feisty American communist radicalperhaps, naive, takes on many good and great causes. These include everything from feminism and racism so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to the changing course of Stalinism take an interest in the American Cher, she was flattered rather than wary.P. but most It was quite a while before he made any sort of all; her biggest causes are the people around physical approach to her. The effects upon them are diverse and devastatingby that time she was obsessed by him. She often propels them to success but at Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the same time they feel battered island and must escape according to their own needs. Her affections are real but invasive. Rose keeps a shrine to Abraham Lincoln. Rose’s self-assertion within in particular in the perimeters of bar where all the German-designed 20th Century New York suburb of Queens, a multi-cultural suburb and a planned housing development similar to Hampstead Garden City provide the setting for Jonathan Lethem’s Tour de Forcegirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099563428</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Virginia BurgesAmanda Craig|title=The VirtuosoThree Graces|rating=34.5

|summary=The title character Few styles of ''The Virtuoso'' is Isabelle Bryant, a professional violinist who has earned contemporary fiction interest me like the affectionate nickname state-of 'Beethoven-the-nation novel. There's Babe'. She was the youngest-ever winner something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the BBC Young Musician atmosphere of the Year competition day and gave her first solo performancecapture it, crafting an image of Beethoventhe country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's violin concerto, practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at Royal Albert Hallthis point. 'Her violin represented another limb to She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her, it was characters in a way that precious. It felt so feels naturaland lived-in, like an extension of her body.' It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that the violin is Isabelle's lifenever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00R07U0B0</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Tyler152915118X|title=A Spool of Blue ThreadPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=Every family has its tales which ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are told sisters and retold Sasha is married to their brother Cord. 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 in Sasha if they'd like to move into the Whitshank family it was Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the story of how Abby furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Red Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had fallen a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in love one ''beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoontheir'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD' .}}{{Frontpage|author=Emily Critchley|title=One Puzzling Afternoon|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in July 1959the 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. It would usually 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 told on the porch thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the Baltimore house which Red's father had builthigh street, but on this final just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of its telling memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the circumstances are differentpast, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Abby Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and Red before her memories are aging gone forever?|isbn=1804181250}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year- even long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the glorious house is beginning summer after finishing university – to show its age - and decisions have to be made about how to look sorrowful end the summer after them. All Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the family are there24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, even Dennydepicting its all-consuming nature, who can generally be relied how it changed her perspective on to do only what pleases himboth romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701189517</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Miranda Sherry0008506337|title=Black Dog SummerThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=3.5

|summary=YesterdayThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, Sally apparently on both sides. Margo was living just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described 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 - going to Oxford and having a rambling farmstead with glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her teenage daughter Gigiaway from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. Now Sally is dead, murdered The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Gigi is alone Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the worldIsle 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>1781859574</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Niyati Keni1914585402|title=Esperanza StreetDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5

|summary=JosephI reviewed David F Ross's parents send him to work for Auntie Mary and her B&B business on Esperanza Street. Over the years there life for Joseph goes on the way it has for countless other youngsters from this Filipino town of Puerto. His mother may have died too young and Joseph only sees his father one day a week (and has to suffer church for part of that!) but therebook [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a rhythm to the market outside couple of years back and foreign visitors within Auntie Mary's walls that's familiar remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and comfortingaffecting it was. It's was a rhythm gripping, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that's been there for generations but things change, sometimes with catastrophic resultsI might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276487</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nigel McCleaLucy Ashe|title=A Word Glittering with SpikesClara and Olivia|rating=34.5

|summary=WeThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler're going to follow s Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the fortunes of two couples (or are they 'would-be couples' or 'might-have-been couples'?) as they navigate outside but not, we learn, on the treacherous waters of loveinside. David CastledineAnd not on stage, either. Because there's first meeting with Jenny could hardly have been less auspicious: he hit hera lot that builds a dancer. He didnSome things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that 't 'je ne sais quoi'actually', that don' mean to hit her but he threw a stick for his aunt's dog to chase and it caught her on t come from the headclassroom. Head wounds bleed profusely and this one was no exceptionA stage presence, a charm, so David had to take her back to his aunta ''joie de vivre''s apartment to clean her up. I suppose there have been worse meetingsThe difference between a hard-worker, but it's difficult to think of one!and a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993025501</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick Modiano, Sempe (illustrator) and William Rodarmor (translator)Heather Fawcett|title=Catherine CertitudeEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=What little I know of Patrick Modiano was gained from the number of 'noEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, weto write her life've never heard of hims work, either' articles and summaries that came our way when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the end very first encyclopaedia of 2014faeries. They suggested his oeuvre was matureWhilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, slightly thriller-based but she is not exclusively so, and asked lots of accumulative questions regarding identity good with regard to the Vichy government during WWIIpeople. Identity is a lot more fixed So when she finds herself far, far North in this musing little piecethe small village of Hrafvsnik, for having somehow offended the adult voice-over looks back over a wide removevillage matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and says there will always be a little bit of put her final investigations for her living book back on the events and situations of the bookright track. Those situations are of a young dance-school attendeeEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and her loving insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much-loved father, living a cosy life in Paris – even if the girl never once really works out to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what it exactly is her father does for a living…going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443022</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=R D Shanks1398515388|title=A Reverie of BrothersThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=34.5

|summary=The castle First of Delzean's walls have always protected Emperor Eliall, his sonsit was the earthquake, sisterdeep in the ocean floor, niece and nephew from which created the ravages tsunami and poverty of the people this, in turn, caused the city beyondnuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. However The deaths were uncountable, and the days may be numbered as a burgeoning revolution has infiltrated its walls thanks to the rebel movement known as The Eyesloss of livelihoods was widespread. Their plan necessitates The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the unwitting involvement list of priorities but - six months after the spoilt, egotistical aforementioned niece, Princess Avatsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Unfortunately there will be collateral damage with tragic effectsHe wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1505631394</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick HarkawayChristopher Bowden|title=TigermanMr Magenta

|summary=Battle-weary and suffering from PTSD, 40-year-old Sergeant Lester Ferris Christopher Bowden's latest novel is posted to the island a patient untangling of Mancreu to mark time till his retirementa seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. With no family of his own, Lester takes The aunt who always provided a local lad under his wing; an adolescent who lives his own life through comic books safe harbour and superheroes in the hope that he can be adopted. Despite Mancreu beginning a little bit of indulgence to churn with a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than its customary black marketeering, Lester realises that he has a job on his hands, not only nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to take care of him an island that sees him as a government puppet but also convince someone that he is the stuff of heroism and obligation to convince himself while he's at find itall out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099591758</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen Thompson WalkerJennifer Mason|title=The Age Partitions of MiraclesUnity

|genre=Dystopian General Fiction|summary=''The Age of Miracles'' was one of those much-talked about books that I never got the time to read on its Here at Bookbag Towers, we first go around. I'm not sure how I managed thatmet Elizabeth Cromwell, but I did. Anyway, it got debut author Thompson Walker a seven figure deal after a bidding war dominatrix and it has dystopian themesunintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], so it is right up my alley when she investigated and not the sort unravelled a series of disappearances. In ''Partitions of thing IUnity''d usually miss. And so, I was happy that Simon & Schuster decided she sets her mind to reissue it for solving a YA market and even happier that they decided to send me a copymurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary KuryloWill Carver|title=The Seventh SimianDaves Next Door|rating=3.54

|summary=Edith has lived alone for many years and she has become irascible and rather anti-socialFive strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. She avoids even going into As their fates overlap, the nearby village to do her shopping and the only human being she sees with any regularity story is the local shopkeeper who makes grocery deliveries told in backwards order, leading up to her and makes an art form of palming off the strange old lady with overpriced, underweight goods. If it weren't for her cat, Edith would have no companionship at allfateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00Q4SETM2</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane Lythell Jennifer Mason|title=After the StormPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Rob ''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and Anna are nearing -pop mobile diner in the Honduras leg of their South American travels. Here they meet Kimberley and OwenNorthern California redwoods, an American couple a 400-meter hurdler who charter out their own boat just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for sailing trips around bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the local islands. Rob persuades Anna it will be -art S&M dungeon, a man serving a fun way to end their holiday but Anna isn't so sure. There'life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s something about Owen and Kimberley that makes her hesitant about being shut away , x), on a boat at sea with themcheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia... Perhaps it's ' This is just a sample of the way that he never sleeps or the mystery as to why there are no knives cast of characters and settings in the cutlery drawerPreposterous. Rob thinks Anna's just overly imaginativeAs you can see, but time some keeping up will tellbe required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855323</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stewart FosterB0B2N7MVYM|title=We Used to Be KingsThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=4.5

|summary=Tom and Jack are 18 todayIt's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Not that they have much cause for celebration - stuck Just to put what happens in a home for troubled childrencontext, they are constantly examined and questioned by doctors, when all they want the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a chance to be left alone to live life togetherbreathe out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584190</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Victoria Aveyard|title=Red Queen|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Mare is a Red - a race kept in lives of poverty and servitude by But for Joe Marr, it's not the Silvers, a race with wealth and mutant powers missile crisis that allow them to live lives 's at the front of his mind. He's been convicted of luxurymurder. Learning With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to survive amongst the slum like conditions think otherwise than that the Reds inhabitprosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, Mare is swiftly thrown into the world of the Silvers - one that proves a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to be more dangerous than she had ever imaginedhis roommate, with treacheryMervyn, plots and deadly games lurking round every cornerlearning to be wary of the McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>