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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tessa McWattOnyi Nwabineli|title= Higher Ed Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 24.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Robin works at a universityAnuri 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. Olivia Now Anuri is one of his students. Francine works behind in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the scenes in admincontent about her. Katrin Anuri is a waitress in a local cafébattling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and Ed has a role in a rather unique bit of local governmentsecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. This bizarre cast of characters are Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the stars new focus of Ophelia''Higher Ed''s online empire. Can she save her sister, a story which eventually combines all of their lives.and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925228045</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Kubica1529153298|title= Pretty BabyThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= On her morning commute to workIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Heidi sees something that shakes herhonestly... A young girl) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, barely older than her own pre-teen daughterthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, huddling in the rain on the platformthey've been murdered, clutching a tiny babybut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. It Miv's upset because she's a distressing situation and it stays on overheard that her mind for father wants to move the rest of the dayfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. So much so that when she sees For Miv, the girl againmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she feels obligated 'll do anything to helpprevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848453965</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and 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. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=John PiperAlexander McCall Smith|title=La Crème de la CremThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5

|summary=Gala night at Frere Jacques restaurant where The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the local political online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and good gather look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a banquetwhile. Everyone Katie is looking forward to coming out of a break up with a good night bad boyfriend, and that's what they'll have, just not quite in so jumps at the way they envisagedchance to come home to Edinburgh. Indeed it will be a night And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to remember for a long time an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to come44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, for all the wrong reasons courtesy of the little something in the dessertbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Meanwhile young people are going missing on Katie has no experience in running a scale that the town of Tresside business, or in match-making, but Ness has never experienced before but Tresside doesnfull confidence in her abilities, and there't know the half of it… yet!s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00G4A2RQ0</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katie EversonDean Koontz|title= DropThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary= Katie Everson’s debut novelBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, ‘Drophe loses his fiancee,’ is a tale of grief and healinghis house gets trashed. Oh, whirlwind romance and brutal honesty. We follow the story of Carla someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin- straight-A-studentsized object to his home, rule-abiding daughter and somewhat uninteresting friend - who it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is determined the very last person to change her predictable lifedeserve all this bad luck. When her absentee mother He is offered a job in Londonnice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, Carla transfers who has been sent to yet another school and this time she help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is desperate going to not be overlookedtake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406356271</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John NivenKatherine Howe|title= The Sunshine Cruise CompanyA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= HumourGeneral Fiction|summary= Susan Frobisher and Julie Wickham live Hannah Masury is living in a small Dorset town. Friends since schoolBoston, they having been sent to live fairly uneventful lives – Susan has with a lovely house family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a lengthy marriage young age. When she hears there is to accountant Barrybe a hanging of some pirates in the town, whereas Julie is doing slightly less well – living she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a council flat and working in an old peopleyoung boy's homedeath at the hands of two vicious pirates. When Barry is found dead trussed up in a sex dungeon She hides away, it transpires so that he has been leading a hidden life for yearsthey don't find and kill her too, and his expensive fetishes lead then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the bank moving to take Susannotorious Ned Low's homepirate ship as a cabin boy. Struck by both desperation and a sense She soon finds herself in the thick of injustice, Sue and Julie conspire to rob things when there is a bankmutiny on board, taking along their friend Jill – a devout Christian conflicted due to lack of money and a terminally ill grandson, and Ethel – a foul mouthed resident from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the nursing home longing for adventureocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434023183</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paula McGrath1471180158|title= GenerationMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=How can we know Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the effect more you'll suspect that our choices may have he's on the next generation? Even autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a seemingly minor decision has frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the potential need to be away on time to create ripples pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and waves of unforeseen repercussions put in the futurewrong. This fascinating theme is explored in “Generation”, an intelligently-written début novel that approaches the subject from multiple perspectives over an eighty-year period It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147361483X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kerry HudsonB0CKD1L5JL|title= ThirstRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= London – SummerPetr is an orphan. AlenaRescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, a young siberian immigrant he is caught stealing shoes. Davebrought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the man who catches herforests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, is and armed with only a security guard – surviving pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a minimal income and with little drive to better his quietjourney through the forest, broadcasting the strange, repetitive life. As Alena wild and Dave grow closer, Dave finds his life turned upside downrarely heard voices he encounters. But will Alena ever let down her guard, and reveal the truth about her past?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099589893</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lesley PearseSarah Marsh|title= Without a TraceA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Cassie's arrival was bound to cause After a stir in the sleepy Somerset village bout of Sawbridgescarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. She had flaming red hair, Suddenly plunged into a voluptuous figure accentuated by very tight clothing, towering heelsworld of silence, heavy make-up and no wedding ringeverything about her life changes. But Living in a time when the thing that really shocked the locals use of sign language was the fact that she had seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a little mixed-race girl in tow. Petal, as school where she was called, soon melted the hearts of the residentsis taught to lip read, but no such courtesy was extended to Cassiephysically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who was dubbed 'that red-headed whore' by somehas been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. Her only friend was At the kind shopkeeper Molly Heywoodsame time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, who would often visit Cassie and Petal at their isolated stone cottage on the outskirts Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of the villageespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024196153X</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eva RiceB0BC3YTCMR|title=Love Notes for FreddieGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5

|summary=Marnie ''This story is an innocent, mathematical genius schoolgirl who, unfortunately, gets expelled from not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fancy boarding schoolfifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. Julie is her teacherShe was a very bright student, formerly a dancerbit too nerdy if truth be told, rigorously private about and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her pastin case it's contagious. Freddie It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is the boy that both of them fall in love with84% white. Revealed through the eyes of two of the three main characters, this is She had a slowcrush on seventeen-year-moving, old Reggie Anderson but rather beautifully told, love storynever 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. It has the same vintage feel that Eva Rice used so well in ''The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets'' She went to his house and it cleverly winds its way through Marnie's story in the 1960's as well as Julie's past in pre-WW2 New Yorkhe raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782064486</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kat Gordon1472263936|title= Artificial Anatomy of ParksThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary=One morning It was in 20021968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, twenty-one year old Tallulah Park is woken in her depressing bedsit Greek by birth, had left the phonecall announcing her father's heart attack. From this bleak beginning springs Kat Gordon's gripping debut novel of a dysfunctional upper middle class family with a history of papering over the cracks home and ignoring the uncomfortable refused to return, but Mary and unfitting. Tallulah has been doing her fair share of powering on and pretending things donHamish (Helena't exist, but s parents) felt that it seems like this might turn out 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 time first of several annual visits. She grew to stop running away. With love her grandmother and the reluctant help of two auntsfamily's maid, an old family friend and her own imperfect recollectionsDina, but was wary - and with a vivid imagining frightened - of her late grandmother as the voice grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of conscience, Tallulah sets out his close connections to answer some long-standing questions about her the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her own pastfather's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079867</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dido Butterworth and Tim FlanneryDean Koontz|title=The Mystery of the Venus Island FetishAfter Death

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Meet Archie MeekMichael 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. He's about to leave the Venus IslandsFinding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, where he's lived for the last five yearshas a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and return to Sydney, where only him – as he'll take sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his office in the museum dead friends and fill it with all the cultural artefacts former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; hecan ''feel'' everything. ''Everything's found and wildlife he's plucked or pickled. ThatMichael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It's not to ignore surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the fact he'll count as something quite alien himself, with his filledvillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants -out frame, nearly allits bread-over suntan like fruit provides nutrition and totemic tattoo, in amongst other changes to his bodyits blossom provides herbal medicines. But what's this? When he gets back, he finds one The black wood of the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him to go there in the first placeforest provides heat and warmth, a hugeroofs on homes, macabre ceremonial fetish maskand even gallows, purloined as corporate artworkif needed. And some The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the curators he wishes to work alongside have vanished. Is village and that is the weird society of the museum he's returning toreason Volushka, perchancea drunken, even weirderself-indulgent, stranger and more violent than the cannibalistic society he's waving farewell to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922079308</amazonuk>lazy lout of a man is tolerated.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kate HewittB0BYF82CXT|title= Rainy Day SistersSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary=Amateur artist Lucy Bagshaw isn't exactly 'Bill and Amanda are living the American dream; she lives in Boston with her overbearing mother and works as a barista semi-detached house, stuck in a coffee shopdepressing rut of boredom and disappointment, but things are about to get a lot worse. Her motherwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, a famous successful and controversial artist, writes an scathing editorial, publicly insulting Lucy's artwork just before her first exhibitionvery much in love – move in next door. The editorial quickly goes viral and a humiliated Lucy flees the country, unsure of where her Despite their different outlooks on life is heading. She runs away where nobody can find her; a sleepy Cumbrian village by the sea, where her estranged half-sister runs a boarding house. Lucy quickly questions the wisdom of her decision when she receives a frosty welcome from her sister in a village that seems permanently cold, wet and rainy. Should Lucy try couples befriend each other and make a new life appears to improve for herself hereboth pairs. But all is not what it seems, or should she return to Boston and face her demons?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0451475585</amazonuk>their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah WinmanShalini Boland|title=A Year of Marvellous WaysThe Silent Bride|rating=4.53

|summary=89 year old Marvellous Ways stands outside her secluded Cornish caravan looking across the landscape with her binocularsAlice and Seth are a match made in heaven. She He is everything she has a feeling something will happen been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and soonutter husband-material. Elsewhere American Francis Drake (She is all he's heard all could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the jokes!) has come home from inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the war wedding is planned and looks up set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the girl he left behind aisle by her father, beaming with results that are beyond pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his nightmares but will feature in them. Marvellousapproaching bride, Alice' and Drakes' lives will cross and then – Marvellous s world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is right – something will happenwaiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755390911</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Bourne 1787636003|title=Two LivesThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=3.5

|summary=One late afternoon in January 2012, Emma Elliot and Loretta Davidson's lives collide – along with their cars. Both are running late It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and driving too fast along this Surrey road. Emma is unharmed Caroline went backpacking around Greece and flees arrived on the sceneisland. Little does Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she know that this incident will have longwas, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-term consequences further down the line. For Loretta, the effects are more immediate. A social worker old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her forties, she has taken was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a career break while before he made any sort of physical approach to raise her and Martin's beloved son Ethanby that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, born looking after an arduous IVF cycle just over four years ago. Ethan is his interests on the island and in particular in critical condition after the car accident and dies during surgery. In her grief, Loretta turns to Scotch and Valium and drifts away from her husband and their familiesbar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1505233682</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Val HennessyAmanda Craig|title=Not Far From DreamlandThree Graces

|summary=Ronald Tonks has reached that stage in life which I call upper middle age: you've qualified for your pension but not yet got to Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the free television licence barrier-nation novel. What Ronald ''has'' got is a roof that leaks (thereThere's good reason why his home is called 'something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the shack')day and capture it, a dog who is going bald (crafting an image of the country as it stands in patches) and money one particular moment. To say thatAmanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's in very short supplypractically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. On the plus side he She has friends, mostly platonic and usually in much such a gift for weaving the same boat as Ronald. But are they downhearted? Well, they are occasionally, but mostly they're generously optimistic and out to make ongoing issues of the most of what they've got, usually bought from charity shops and jumble sales. ''Not Far From Dreamland'' is day into the story lives of her characters in a year (2012) way that feels natural and lived-in the life of Ronald Tonks, his friends and relativesnever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373874</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo McMillan152915118X|title=Motherland: A NovelPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson

|summary=Jess ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is a teenage Communist which married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a surprise since Stockton by birth so she comes from a Communist familyisn't readily accepted into the tribe. Her late father was a card carrying member and Jess spends her weekends selling ''The Morning Starproblem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they' with her equally enthused mother Eleanord like to move into the Pineapple Street property. It's not only Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a thankless taskstreet or so away, itwhich they own. They won's not a very welcome sight for some citizens in their native Tamworth t need any of the 1970sfurniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. However Eleanor and Jess' lives are about to changeNominally, thanks to an all-expenses paid trip to the GDR – Communist East Germany; they had a place on choice but that wasn't the same side of reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the Berlin Wall as Jessgold digger' and Eleanor. She's heartsliving in ''their'' family home. However, They use it so often that they both learn that even a political heaven has its lessons and, indeed, its downsideabbreviate it to 'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473611997</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Eve ChaseEmily Critchley|title= Black Rabbit Hall|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary=At Black Rabbit Hall, time goes “syrupy slow.” None of the clocks work properly, but an hour at Black Rabbit is said to last twice as long as a London one, and you don't get a quarter of the things done. Every holiday, the Alton family swap the hustle and bustle of London life for this secluded Cornish retreat, a place that is theirs and theirs alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718182979</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michelle Miller|title=The UnderwritingOne Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Todd Kent 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is young, rich, stupidly handsome, facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and well on bring Edie to live with his way family, as Edie is starting to the top of Wall Streetlose her memory. When a new dating app called “Hook” decides to go public However, Todd Edie is handpicked tormented by Hook’s eccentric founder to lead the project team. Taking brainy analyst Nehamemory of her childhood friend, Lucy, spoilt party-boy Beauwho went missing over 60 years ago, and old flame Tara Taylor with him – the team find themselves thrust into worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the hectic circumstances truth of a $14 Billion dealwhat happened all that time ago. As Silicon Valley and Wall Street clash After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the death last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of a young girl will find memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the team at odds with each other – past, she is forgetting more and spinning wildly out of controlmore in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922182974</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alena GraedonMadelaine Lucas|title= The Word ExchangeThirst for Salt|rating= 3.5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary=Welcome to the world of the ''MemeLove, I''; the next-generation mobile device. Imagine technology so sophisticated that it could anticipate your needs as soon as they come into your mind. Need d read, was supposed to get home? Your Meme will hail be a cab. Feeling unwell? The Meme has an app for that. Negative thoughts? The Meme will intercede on your behalf to call family light and friends or even 911weightless feeling, if needed. Yesbut I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, the Meme is a truly indispensable aid that has revolutionised young woman unravels the way year-long relationship that humans communicateonce defined her. Critics say that it's destroying human language and verbal interactionOverlaid with later wisdom, but don't worry: the Meme has an app for that toonarrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. If you are lost for words, Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Word ExchangeThirst for Salt'' will supply you details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with the word you require. For a small fee of course..her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780225628</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cornelius Medvei0008506337|title=The Making of Mr BolsoverGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45

|summary=Meet Andrew LynchThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. He's a graduate civil servant, then he isn'tMargo was just sixteen when they fell in love. HeRichard was twenty-one and described by Margo's married, then he isnmother as 'an older man't. HeHer parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a librarian, then he isn’tglittering career. He starts, of all things, to live in a handmade camp in In the Sussex countrysideevent, they eloped and gets a job writing nature notes for a local magazine – until it's clear he's shooting, killing and eating too many Richard took her away from the Isle of his subjects for his audience's tastesWight. He turns his efforts Margo did go to writing politicised letters Oxford and went on to the local newspaper, where his nephew is become a jobbing hackwell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, which inspires furtherImogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, more campaigning activitiesthe family home on the Isle of Wight. Yes, it seems that Andrew LynchEven then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's path mind: ''she would never be able to the top is foretold – but his fate is most definitely anything but natural…leave him in charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548690</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Jean Lester1914585402|title=Lillian on LifeDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross

|summary=Lillian is in her late fifties, single and childless but you shouldnI reviewed David F Ross't - for a moment - allow yourself to think that she has a rather sad life. Shes book [[There's lived through periods of tremendous change in post-war Munich, Paris, London and sheOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's now come to rest, smart and independent, in New York. Born in Only One Danny Garvey]] a time when the expectations couple of her parents - years back and of society - were fairly standard as to what remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. It was a woman should do with her lifegripping, emotionally wounding read, she seems always to have had a sense that she would disappoint both if she was to be true to herself. She's hot blooded and sexually uninhibited and certainly ahead rereading my review of her time in her views. When we first meet her she's waking up next to her married lover and taking stock of her lifeit my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it. Amongst other things.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848549520</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert CromptonLucy Ashe|title=BunderlinClara and Olivia

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=As a child Martin had been fascinated and entranced by his neighbour Mrs BundyThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's household menagerieWells. Her son Peter was there too Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the periphery; Martin was just 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 visit detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the animalsclassroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star. In adulthood their paths cross again but this time Peter Bunderlin (as he|isbn=0861544080}}{{Frontpage|author=Heather Fawcett|title=Emily Wilde's now known) isnEncyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life't s work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so easy good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to avoid – redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and Martindelight, much to Emily's tried! frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? Perhaps if Martin could understand And what exactly is going on with the heck Peter is up tofaerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784078549</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eve Makis1398515388|title=The Spice Box LettersBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=Katerina's Armenian grandmother Mariam dies leaving her First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and her mother a journal this, in Armenian turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and a spice box full the loss of mysterious letterslivelihoods was widespread. They're special to them both because they're The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the legacy list of a much loved relative priorities but totally indecipherable to - six months after the monolingually English pair. However a holiday abroad to get over tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a recent break up brings dog outside a random encounter for Katerinaconvenience store. When Katerina meets Ara she also meets He wasn't a dog person but the key to her grandmotherconvenience store owner's secret pastcomment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124087</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert CromptonChristopher Bowden|title=Leaving GileadMr Magenta

|summary=Tom Sparrow finally does what heChristopher Bowden's always dreamt latest novel is a patient untangling of: buying the former Ridley house near his old childhood home. As Tom explores he finds his new house isn't the only link with his past. Therea seemingly ordinary woman's something in the outhouse that takes him back to the days of young love and Susanlife, the Ridley's daughtercarried out by her nephew after she has died. She had been raised in her parents' prohibitive faith as The aunt who always provided a Gilead Jehovah's Witness which didn't seem safe harbour and a problem little bit of indulgence to them but they were a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and experience wasn't on their side…it seems to him an obligation to find it all out. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784077623</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma CraigieJennifer Mason|title= What Was Never Said Partitions of Unity

|summary= This story is narrated by ZahraHere at Bookbag Towers, a teenage girl who spends her early years in her home country of Somalia before her family move to the UK to escape civil war. Inevitablywe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, some traditions travel with them dominatrix and unintentional detective in the novel Zahra recounts her efforts to protect herself [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and her younger sister, Samsam, against FGM, unravelled a practice that claimed the life series of her older sister in Somalia several years previouslydisappearances. Zahra intersperses In ''Partitions of Unity'', she sets her account with flashbacks mind to Somalia and the civil war that drove them away, thus giving solving a clear picture of the trials that she and her family have facedmurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178072179X</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David FinkleWill Carver|title= The Man With The Overcoat|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Why would anyone - he was soon to ask himself innumerable times - take a coat from a complete stranger only because it had been offered?'' Skip Gerber steps off the elevator after a long day at work; the foyer of his office building is busy and buzzy and he does not notice the man holding the overcoat until the man hands it to Skip telling him to ''take very good care of it''. Skip unthinkingly grasps the coat and before he has the chance to realise what he is doing - and that he is now holding an overcoat of unknown providence - the man disappears out of the exit door to the building.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992618525</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Fredrik Backman|title=My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Every 7-year-old needs a superhero. That's just how it is…'' and for Elsa it's her Gran. When Gran dies, Elsa is surprised and devastated. Granny can't be old - Elsa has only known her for 7 years! Elsa still has to carry out Gran's last wish though; there are letters to be delivered and with each delivery Elsa learns something more about Gran the person behind Gran the superhero. Will it enforce her hero status or destroy it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444775839</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Neil Smith|title=BooDaves Next Door|rating=54

|summary=Oliver Dalrymple is dead. He realised this the Five strangers come together in one moment he woke up in the rebirthing bedas a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. His friends and tormentors had always called him Boo because of his ghostly pale complexion and now he's finally earned As their fates overlap, the nickname fully. What he hasn't realised story is the way told in which he died; he thinks he died of holey heart problems in front of his locker while reciting backwards order, leading up to the periodic table. The location is correct but, meeting Johnny (an equally dead former classmate) reveals, he was actually murdered. What's worse, their murderer has been spotted there in 13 year olds' heavenfateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434023493</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Minette WaltersJennifer Mason|title= CellarPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|summary= To my mind, ''The Dark Room'' is A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the most perfect psychological thriller ever written (and I2004 Olympics, a women've read lots in this genre). In her later workss track coach with a yen for bullwhips, Minette Walters seemed to veer away from this particular path to glory as her novels became steadily darker and a billionaire with increasingly dislikeable characters. So it was quite refreshing to discover that ''The Cellar'' was written from a state-of-the point of view of -art S&M dungeon, a man serving a rather likeable protagonist. Muna is life sentence in Alabama, an African child living inenigmatic signature, K(s, x), shall we sayon a cheap oil painting, somewhat unusual and very cruel conditions: she was stolen and now lives an erotic art dealer in captivityGeorgia... Her voice '' This is compelling and from just a sample of the first page I found myself wanting her to make good her escape from the dreadful - cast of characters and sadly all too believable - circumstances settings in which she finds herselfPreposterous. So, naturally, I admired her cunning and resourcefulness, knowing that these attributes would serve her well. ButAs you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of course, this is Minette Walters and nothing is as simple as it first appearsmystery story goes like this.. As the story unfolded I found myself questioning who exactly were the victims and who, if anyone, was innocent.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099594641</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Naomi NovikB0B2N7MVYM|title=UprootedThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey

|summary=Home in Bristol, Alice gets the news from her sisterIt's partner, Pacothe 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Her sister, Deborah Hardy Just to put what happens in context, was on board one of the trains bombed at MadridCuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's Atocha station on 11 Marchminds. No one can yet confirm whether she is alive or dead. Deb The world has barely had moved a chance to Granada nearly 20 years agobreathe out. But for Joe Marr, after her divorce from Markit's father, and was starting to make a name for herself as a scholar not the missile crisis that's at the front of women in Andalusiahis mind. He's historybeen convicted of murder. Alice and her nine-year-old son Timmy fly With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to Spain to find think otherwise than that Deb is alive, the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a coma in hospitalrelatively new prison. Over the weeks she keeps vigil for Deb, Alice lives in her sister He's home in Granada just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and reads her diaries, which proves learning to be a way wary of feeling closer to her and learning more about her than she ever knew. Meanwhile, Mark and Paco keep their distance, working through their complicated grief in their own waysthe McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781323690</amazonuk>