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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step- Remove -->mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stefan Mohamed1529153298|title=Bitter SixteenThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
|rating=5
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|summary=Stanly Bird It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is about to turn sixteen - a solitary teen in a small Welsh townPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, he has few friendshonestly. Unless you count his talking dog..) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, Darylthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. A splitting headache on Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the eve of his birthday soon develops into incredible powersfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, and Stanly swiftly finds himself defending his neighbourhoodDown South is a frightening, falling in loveforeign place, and gaining his first real friendsbest avoided. When jealous rivals For Miv, a mysterious figure and a horrific evil come into play thoughthe move would mean leaving her best friend, Stanly finds himself cast away from homeSharon, and struggling she'll do anything to save everything he has come prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to hold dearanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630136</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Neill1035906708|title=The Good GirlDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
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|summary= Romy is a sixth former who is unremarkable. A good student from a professional familyWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, her aspiration is but she was born to become a doctorGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and it’s an achievable, rather than lofty goalonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Or it Her original surname was. Because a video has surfaced and Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it shows Romy doing something that is hardly going to help her medical school application'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. Or her future career. Or When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her future life, full stop. For Ailsa, the head teacher, voice - she has was raised under the double whammy Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of trying to keep the school out of the headlines and protect her child who is now at the centre of the controversy. And it’s clearly all the neighbours’ faultpreference for her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181271</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christina NicholAlexander McCall Smith|title=Waiting for the ElectricityThe Perfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Slims Achmed Makashvili The Perfect Passion Company is determined to leave his native Georgia. It's a country buffeted and often invaded dating agency in Edinburgh, run by its neighbours Ness and plagued with lack of amenitiesoperating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. On hearing that Hilary Clinton is running a competitionNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, the prize for which as Ness is planning to take a trip to the States and knowing all he has Canada to do get away for a while. Katie is overstay his visa for coming out of a break up with a better lifebad boyfriend, Slims' letters and so jumps at the chance to come home to Hilary beginEdinburgh. Eventually he gets 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 US but… WellIsabel Dalhousie novels, be careful what you wish forbut 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 very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715649876</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stuart PrebbleDean Koontz|title=The Insect FarmBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=I was predisposed to enjoy this book before I'd even opened the cover. It set me in mind of [[The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams]] - another tale of Benny is having a challenged person who finds refuge in an obsession with insectsterrifically bad day. But where [[The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams|The Behaviour of Moths]] focuses on two warring sisters He loses his job, ''The Insect Farm'' has two brothers as the central characters: Roger, who has special needshe loses his fiancee, and his devoted younger brother Jonathanhouse gets trashed. Both boys develop an obsession Oh, Roger with his insect farm and Jonathan with someone has delivered a womanreally weird, Harriet. When obsession eventually leads disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the violence of destructionthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, other behaviours come into play: feelings of guilt quickly switch 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 fear delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of capture Benny, and the sly acts will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a man keen to lay the blame elsewherewaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846883547</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline Vermalle and Anna Aitken (translator)Katherine Howe|title=George's Grand TourA True Account
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=George loves the Tour de France so when his over protective daughter goes way for Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an extended holiday the time is right inn, and being made to do it himselfwork there from a young age. Being 83 When she hears there will have is to be a hanging of some concessionspirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, using Hannah finds herself embroiled in a car rather than a bike for a start and heyoung boy'll take his neighbour Charles (a stripling s death at 76) with himthe hands of two vicious pirates. HeShe hides away, so that they don'll also take his mobile phone since his landline has been diverted t find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to it so no one knows hesea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's gonepirate ship as a cabin boy. YesShe soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, good luck with that George!and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908313730</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caitlin Moran1471180158|title=How to Build a GirlMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=1990 Jamie Matson works in an upper- Wolverhampton. Johanna Morrigan is 14class grocery store, intelligent, funny and from for a man who's a loving family. Unfortunately, said family consists control freak with all the subtlety of a depressed motherhalf brick. Jamie's son, a mostly drunk fatherBo, an older brother with issues of 'has his own, problems'. He's asthmatic and three younger brothers to worry about. Well the more you read, witty and hugely intelligent, Johanna longs for escape, building 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 new version of herself frequent flier in the local A&E and gaining employment as a writer, frequently travelling sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the drink, sex need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and drug filled bars and bedsits of Londonput in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091949017</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Henderson SmithB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Turn of the Tide|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Harriet Glover is well and truly over Mark after he left her standing at the altar. She's pregnant with Sir Joris Sanderson's child and he's keen to make the relationship permanent, but ghosts from ''his'' past return to haunt him, unfortunately at a rather important dinner party. The mystery of 'Amber' really has to be solved and the web of lies which surround her dismantled. Harriet is still being led astray by Tricia Harrington (or so Harriet's mother would have you believe...) and she can't really make up her mind about 'Mr Sanderson', particularly when the man from MI6 is around. She's got a lot to cope with and that's before we even get on to the subject of the Prime Minister's daughter's wedding, which ''must'' remain secret.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845496485</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRadio Free Olympia|author=Ivan Repila and Sophie Hughes (translator)|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>}}{{newreview|author=James Hannah|title=The A-Z of You and MeJeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Lying in a hospital bedPetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, refusing visits he is brought up far from friendsbustling cities and busy human society, Ivo is alonein the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Only his carer After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, Sheilaand armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, provides company - and she asks him to think of Petr goes on a different part of his body for each letter of journey through the forest, broadcasting the alphabetstrange, wild and then to tell a tale about each onerarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522647</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ann-Marie MacDonaldSarah Marsh|title=Adult OnsetA Sign of Her Own
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=At midlifeAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Mary Rose MacKinnon has settled down with Ellen Lark loses her partnerhearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, Hilary, and is raising two young childreneverything about her life changes. Opting to fulfill Living in a time when the role use of stay at home mumsign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she has placed her career as an author on hold. What follows is a bid taught to reconcile this new identity with her former idea of selflip read, but physically restrained from signing. Success From here, howevershe ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, depends Bell is working on Mary Rose facing other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up to the confusions in a complicated tangle of her pastespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473610133</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diana SweeneyB0BC3YTCMR|title=The MinnowGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Diana Sweeney's 'This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Minnow'' is an Australian book aimed at Young Adults that features deathIncident happened. She was a very bright student, grief, abusea bit too nerdy if truth be told, fear and loneliness. Teenage pregnancy lies at its heart while bereavement, and trying suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to come to terms with loss, bubbles just under the surface, constantly. But donhug her in case it't be misleds contagious. This novel isn It't some earnest pedagogical attempt to convey teenage angst and elicit grave pity or understanding from the readers not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. What rescues it from mawkishness is the beautiful voice of the narrator, Tom (or Holly, if you prefer She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her real name). Tom doesn't fall prey to self-pity Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She simply describes her world as readily agreed: tutoring was something she sees it, matter-of-factgladly did at church: this was just an extension. And the fact that her view is rather unusual (she talks She went to fish, dead people his house and he raped her unborn child - and they talk back) doesn't really matter. Nothing can detract from the sheer lyricism of In shock, she even allowed him to give her voice. As a reader, you just have to suspend disbelief and enjoy the ridelift home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>192218201X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hermione Eyre1472263936|title=Viper WineThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Venetia Stanley lives It was in Seventeeth century London1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. A celebrated beauty She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, she has had poems written in honour of herleft the family home and refused to return, but Mary and portraits painted by one of 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 family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the leading artists first of the timeseveral annual visits. Married She grew to a handsome, kind love her grandmother and adventurous manthe family's maid, Venetia is kept in a life of luxuryDina, but was wary - and, at first glance frightened - has everything she could ever have dreamed of. Except Venetia is not happy. A woman who has made her name and fortune because of her beautygrandfather, she is convinced that her allure is quickly slipping through her fingersretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Signing a pact with an apothecary for He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his famed restorative values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena'Viper Wines red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father', Venetia is set on a dangerous paths Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581663</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liam BrownDean Koontz|title=Real MonstersAfter Death|rating=53|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 Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4
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|summary=Lorna was 12 when she was sent home from school, watched the unfurling events of 9/11 on her TV The village is isolated and recognised her fatherpoor. It's office block aflame surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and fallingits blossom provides herbal medicines. Her fight for mental survival started at that moment and the use The black wood of alcohol to quell the memories came soon after but then she meets Danny – her life saver. Shortly after this they marry forest provides heat and Danny joins the army. He's sent to fight the monsterswarmth, roofs on homes, the fundamentalist organisationsand even gallows, which destroyed Lorna's childhoodif needed. However when what's left The fear of his unit becomes lost being buried alive is an existential superstition in the desert without foodvillage and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, water or equipmentself-indulgent, the focus changes from military victory to personal survival and those monsters are still out there…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910394564</amazonuk>lazy lout of a man is tolerated.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chigozie ObiomaB0BYF82CXT|title=The FishermenSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This book is essentially ''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a cautionary family tale depressing rut of four brothers boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the way they react couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''}}{{Frontpage|author=Shalini Boland|title=The Silent Bride|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Alice and Seth are a prophecy about them by the local madmanmatch made in heaven. It He is alsoeverything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a sensewife; beautiful, a coming-of-age story where Bensuccessful, confident… and so the young narrator, inevitable proposal is plunged into premature adulthood under eagerly accepted by Alice and the most brutal of circumstanceswedding is planned and set. And it When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is about brotherly love. None of these descriptionswalked down the aisle by her father, howeverbeaming 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, convey Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the fact that this book man at the altar is, who is written by an exciting new voice in African literary fictionwaiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957548850</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Kemp1787636003|title=GhostingThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Grace Wellbeck is 64 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 was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year- living on a canal boat old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in London with her second husband, she lives was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a relatively settled life while before he made any sort of routinephysical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him.A chance encounter with a man Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the street changes everything though - a man who is bar where all the spitting image of her first, deceased husbandgirls either worked or partied. Is he a ghost? Is Grace going mad?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251560</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicci ClokeAmanda Craig|title=Lay Me DownThree Graces
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=ItFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's New Year's Eve and something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the nightclub is pulsating with sound. The revellers heave day and swell in oceanic waves and Jack is preparing to call capture it a night, when he crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is presented skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with Elsathe genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She is small; delicate and pretty and alluringly confident - has such a heady combination gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a man like Jack way that feels natural and lived- and though he wantsin, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with every fibre of his being, to walk away, to go home and forget her, he doesn'tissues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099593653</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonia Honeywell152915118X|title=The ShipPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian General Fiction|summary=Sixteen year old Lalla has spent her life in London – mostly inside her family home. Because this ''Pineapple Street'' is not the London story of todaythree women: Sasha, or any other dayDarley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. When Lalla was seven They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the apocalypse arrived; banks crashedtribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, flood defences failedTilda, power failed – asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the world could only focus on survivalPineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. Now They won't need any of the Nazareth Act is furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in force and without your identity card. Nominally, you don’t exist – literally, as you will be shot if you donthey had a choice but that wasn't produce the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use itso often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297871498</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nigel PackerEmily Critchley|title=The Restoration of Otto LairdOne Puzzling Afternoon
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=''The Restoration of Otto Laird'' 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is an interesting concept for facing a storymove 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 pitches an ageing architect against an ageing building 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 built early keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in Otto's career. When Otto makes the trip from Switzerland high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to London find pockets of memories coming back to try her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and save Marlowe house from demolitionmore in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, he takes an unwilling journey down his own past. and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751553077</amazonuk>1804181250
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian WalthewMadelaine Lucas|title=The Complex Chemistry of LossThirst for Salt
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Deep in rural France James Kerr ''Love, I'd read, was admitted supposed to be a psychiatric clinic. His mental problems were deep light and intractableweightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Superficially he seemed never to have got over Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the sudden death of his mother and sister when he was affair with a child and man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after their death his relationship with his father had deteriorated because his father refused finishing university – to speak of their lossits sorrowful end the summer after. There were additional factors too: Kerr had spent some time in Afghanistan in a secret capacity. In fact much Set against the backdrop of his life since he went to university had involved putting up a frontan isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, but doing something else in the backgroundhow it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00OLMHCW2</amazonuk>0861546490
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brooke Davis0008506337|title=Lost and FoundThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Millie Bird keeps a notebookThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. She writes Margo was just sixteen when they fell in it all of the Dead Things 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 seescould achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. Her Very First Dead Thing was In the event, they eloped and Richard took her dog Ramboaway from the Isle of Wight. Then there were other things Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a spiderwell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, a Bird… but then there Imogen and Sasha. Life was number 28lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. The twenty-eighth dead thing than Millie Bird noticed was her Dad 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>0091958903</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Lethem1914585402|title=Dissident GardensDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5
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|summary=Rose Zimmer, I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a feisty American communist radical, takes on many good and great causes. These include everything from feminism and racism to the changing course couple of Stalinism in the American C.P. but most of all; her biggest causes are the people around her. The effects upon them are diverse years back and devastating. She often propels them to success but at the same time they feel battered remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and must escape according to their own needsaffecting it was. Her affections are real but invasive. Rose keeps It was a shrine to Abraham Lincoln. Rose’s self-assertion within the perimeters of the German-designed 20th Century New York suburb of Queensgripping, emotionally wounding read, a multi-cultural suburb and a planned housing development similar to Hampstead Garden City provide the setting for Jonathan Lethem’s Tour de Forcerereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099563428</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Virginia BurgesLucy Ashe|title=The VirtuosoClara and Olivia|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The title character of ''year is 1933. The Virtuosoplace? Sadler'' is Isabelle Bryants Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, a professional violinist who has earned on the affectionate nickname of 'Beethoveninside. And not on stage, either. Because there's Babe'a lot that builds a dancer. She was the youngest-ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and gave her first solo performancesome things, of Beethoventhat ''je ne sais quoi's violin concerto, at Royal Albert Hall. 'Her violin represented another limb to her, it was that preciousdon't come from the classroom. It felt so naturalA stage presence, a charm, like an extension of her body.a ''joie de vivre' It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that the violin is Isabelle's life. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00R07U0B0</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne TylerHeather Fawcett|title=A Spool Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Blue ThreadFaeries|rating=4.5
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|summary=Every family Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has its tales which are told travelled extensively, and retold and in the Whitshank family it was researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the story very first encyclopaedia of how Abby faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and Red had fallen in love one ''beautifulspeaking to faeries, breezyshe is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, yellow-and-green afternoon'' far North in July 1959. It would usually be told on the porch small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the Baltimore house which Red's father had builtvillage matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, but nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on this final time of its telling the circumstances are differentright track. Abby Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and Red are aging - even the glorious house is beginning to show its age - insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and decisions have delight, much to be made about how to look after themEmily's frustration. All But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the family are there, even Denny, who can generally be relied on to do only what pleases him.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701189517</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Miranda Sherry1398515388|title=Black The Boy and the Dog Summer|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=34.5
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|summary=YesterdayFirst of all, Sally it was living the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The 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 rambling farmstead with her teenage daughter Gigiconvenience store. Now Sally is dead, murdered, He 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 Gigi is alone Tamon the dog jumped in the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781859574</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Niyati KeniChristopher Bowden|title=Esperanza StreetMr Magenta|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=JosephChristopher Bowden's parents send him to work for Auntie Mary and latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her B&B business on Esperanza Street. Over the years there life for Joseph goes on the way it nephew after she has for countless other youngsters from this Filipino town of Puertodied. His mother may have died too young The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and Joseph only sees his father one day a week (and has little bit of indulgence to suffer church for part of that!) but there's a rhythm to the market outside and foreign visitors within Auntie Mary's walls young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that's familiar nephew Stephen had ever realised and comforting. It's a rhythm that's been there for generations but things change, sometimes with catastrophic resultsit seems to him an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276487</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nigel McCleaJennifer Mason|title=A Word Glittering with SpikesPartitions of Unity|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=We're going to follow the fortunes of two couples (or are they 'would-be couples' or 'might-have-been couples'?) as they navigate the treacherous waters of love. David Castledine's Here at Bookbag Towers, we first meeting with Jenny could hardly have been less auspiciousmet Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: he hit herAn Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearances. He didnIn 't 'Partitions of Unity'actually'' mean , she sets her mind to hit her but he threw solving a stick for his aunt's dog to chase and it caught her on the headmurder.. Head wounds bleed profusely and this one was no exception, so David had to take her back to his aunt's apartment to clean her up. I suppose there have been worse meetings, but it's difficult to think of one!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993025501</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick Modiano, Sempe (illustrator) and William Rodarmor (translator)Will Carver|title=Catherine CertitudeThe Daves Next Door
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The castle of Delzean's walls have always protected Emperor Eli, his sons, sister, niece and nephew from the ravages and poverty of the people Five strangers come together in the city beyond. However the days may be numbered one moment as a burgeoning revolution has infiltrated its walls thanks suicide bomber prepares to the rebel movement known as The Eyesdetonate his vest on a London tube line. Their plan necessitates As their fates overlap, the unwitting involvement of story is told in backwards order, leading up to the spoilt, egotistical aforementioned niece, Princess Ava. Unfortunately there will be collateral damage with tragic effectsfateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1505631394</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick HarkawayJennifer Mason|title=TigermanPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Battle''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-weary and suffering from PTSD-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, 40a 400-yearmeter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-old Sergeant Lester Ferris is posted to the island of Mancreu to mark time till his retirement. With no family of his own-art S&M dungeon, Lester takes a local lad under his wing; an adolescent who lives his own man serving a life through comic books and superheroes sentence in the hope that he can be adopted. Despite Mancreu beginning to churn with more than its customary black marketeeringAlabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), Lester realises that he has on a job on his handscheap oil painting, not only to take care of an island that sees him as erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a government puppet but also convince someone that he is sample of the stuff cast of heroism characters and to convince himself while he's at itsettings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099591758</amazonuk>B09STS96HS
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Thompson WalkerB0B2N7MVYM|title=The Age Calculations of MiraclesRational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Dystopian General Fiction|summary=It''The Age s the 10th of Miracles'' was one of those much-talked about books that I never got the time to read on its December 1962 when we first go aroundmeet Dr Joseph Marr. I Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people'm not sure how I managed that, but I dids minds. Anyway, it got debut author Thompson Walker The world has barely had a seven figure deal after a bidding war and it has dystopian themeschance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, so it is right up my alley and 's not the sort missile crisis that's at the front of thing Ihis mind. He'd usually misss been convicted of murder. And so With the current state of medical knowledge, I was happy it's hard to think otherwise than that Simon & Schuster decided the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to reissue it for a YA market his roommate, Mervyn, and even happier that they decided learning to send me a copybe wary of the McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>
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