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|summary=In this hyper-connected Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, it is not difficult thanks to conceive her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of machines that can answer perplexing questions in the blink of an eyeAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, communicate over a vast network or even seemingly outsmart humansmonetary gain. Of course, Now Anuri is in the year 1895, such a machine would be viewed with deep suspicion her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and curiosity; hailed as a miracleto get her life back, or condemned as suing her step-mother to take down the work of dark supernatural forcescontent about her. James Lovegrove put this idea Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to the test in his latest Sherlock Holmes adventurestart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, ''The Thinking Engine''she is desperately worried about her little sister, which pits man against machine in who is the ultimate battle new focus of witsOphelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783295031</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C B Calico1529153298|title=Dandelion AngelThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=In her AuthorIt's Note1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, debut novelist Chonestly..B. Calico reveals that ) She's not what'Dandelion Angels worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they' was inspired by a non-fiction workve been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she'Understanding s overheard that her father wants to move the Borderline Motherfamily 'Down South' by Christine Ann Lawson. The four mother/daughter relationships in this Germany-set novel – all marked to some extent by dysfunction When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, physical and/or verbal abuseforeign place, and borderline personality disorder – are based on Lawson's metaphorical classifications: the hermitbest avoided. For Miv, the queenmove would mean leaving her best friend, the waifSharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the witch. Looping back through dangers or that her four storylines in three complete cycles, Calico shows how mental illness is rooted in childhood experiences and can go on Mum's stopped talking - to affect a whole familyanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0112SC9CA</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby and Kevin Moffett1035906708|title=The Silent HistoryDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=Well, they kept this quiet – for reasons that will become obvious. A couple We tend to think of years ago people in America were giving birth to problematic kids. They (the children) were soon found to be unnaturally quiet – perhaps crying with hunger or painMaria Callas as Greek, but never even trying she was born to 'ooga-wooga' their way into their Greek parents' hearts. They were later found to be completely unable to speakin Manhattan, New York, they could not read in December 1923 and indeed they could not understand anything said only moved to them, or shown them, as an instructionAthens when she was thirteen. They were physically unable Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to parse anything as language, and were 'Callas' to make it more manageable in a silent world of their own. But right about now they and we are combining worlds – schools are being set up, and funds are being made available, and people are coming down on the endless divide as to whether they are just problematic, disabled – or even the blessedStates. In a couple of years, however, When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the problems the virus that is causing these people to be born with will be shown to be Nazi occupation by a major problem – mother who mercilessly exploited her and that is before the kids themselves change. For they will be able to switch their mental abilities much like a blind man can hear more than the averagemade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, and will be able to comprehend body and facial language much more coherently than anyone elseJackie. Throughout this timeline, however, people will be working hard to try and study the problem, and put it right – if indeed 'right' is the correct word…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959286X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan Crown and Jamie Searle Romanelli (translator)Alexander McCall Smith|title=SiriusThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5

|summary=Meet Levi. He's The Perfect Passion Company is a humble little dog living with dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a loving familymore personal, tailored service. They've spent so much time with him he Ness has learnt some tricks – not only asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the usual onesbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of begging, or playing dead, but walking on two legs, somersaulting on to his two other pawsa break up with a bad boyfriend, and giving so jumps at the Hitler salutechance to come home to Edinburgh. If And so begins this was 2015 in the UK he would be shoe-in for Britain's Got Talent (although the Hitler salute might lose him a few votesnew story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to be honest) but this is 1930s Berlinan Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and things are starting the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to get horrendously tough and nasty for Jewish families like hischarm. Querying the statute laws that demand Katie has no experience in running a formalisation of Jewish names his owners rename Levi after Siriusbusiness, or in match-making, the Great Dog but Ness has full confidence in the night skies. But nobody can foresee what happens when Jews are pushed harder her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and harder from their neighbourhoodsrather handsome) neighbour, William, and nobody can see what to lend a Great Dog star Sirius can become, in the most unlikely of milieux – Hollywood…hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784081981</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meike ZiervogelDean Koontz|title=KautharThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionParanormal|summary=Meet LydiaBenny is having a terrifically bad day. She's a normal British girlHe loses his job, interested in following both her fatherhe loses his fiancee, and Nadia Comanecihis house gets trashed. Oh, into the world of gymnastics but not brave enough and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to pull off his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the larger set piecesthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, and with not much more Benny is the very last person to interrupt her days than wondering why boys always have to talk about their williesdeserve all this bad luck. Now meet Kauthar, He is a white British convert nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to Islamhis house is a new friend, devoted follower of the precepts of her religiona bad weather friend called Spike, ardent wife and stalwartly self-fulfilling, no-nonsense and satisfiedwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. But what Spike is this – why is she talking going to take care of being alone in a desertBenny, and why is she directly addressing her god regarding how she 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't perform any movementfigure out who exactly they are. Because it is torn apart''? Has something gone wrong?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630292</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia HeaberlinKatherine Howe|title=Black Eyed SusansA True Account

|summary=I knew little about this book before I started it - other than the intriguing title and the scant information that it Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a psychological mystery about a girl family who survives abduction by run an inn, and being made to work there from a serial killeryoung age. For those who, like me, can't resist suspense (and it seems that many people do fall into this category, according When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the bestseller lists at least)town, this is enticement enough. And I was not disappointed: this story offers psychological uncertainty she decides to go and suspense from start to finishwatch. The narrative alternates between present day Enthralled and the pasthorrified in equal measure, each section lasting just Hannah finds herself embroiled in a couple young boy's death at the hands of pagestwo vicious pirates. I found this structure tricky at first She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, although each chapter does offer dressing as a helpful timeline boy and joining the chapters are short enough that itnotorious Ned Low's easy to reorient yourselfpirate ship as a cabin boy. Once I got used to She soon finds herself in the choppy style I found that it did workthick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and it worked really well, reflecting the constant flashbacks and mental turmoil experienced by Tessa, from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the protagonistocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718181336</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tessa McWatt1471180158|title= Higher Ed Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 24.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Robin Jamie Matson works at in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a universityhalf brick. Olivia is one of Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his studentsproblems'. Francine works behind He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the scenes in adminautistic spectrum. Katrin is Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a waitress frequent flier in a the local café, A&E and Ed has a role in a rather unique bit of local governmentsometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. This bizarre cast of characters Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the stars of ''Higher Ed'', wrong. It was going to come to a story which eventually combines all of their liveshead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925228045</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary KubicaB0CKD1L5JL|title= Pretty BabyRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= On her morning commute to work, Heidi sees something that shakes herPetr is an orphan. A young girlRescued by the strange, barely older than her own pre-teen daughterreclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, huddling in the rain on the platform, clutching a tiny baby. Itforests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a distressing situation brief sojourn in human company, and it stays armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on her mind for a journey through the rest of the day. So much so that when she sees forest, broadcasting the girl againstrange, she feels obligated to helpwild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848453965</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John PiperSarah Marsh|title=La Crème de la CremA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5

|summary=Gala night at Frere Jacques restaurant where the local political and good gather for After a bout of scarlet fever as a banquetchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Everyone is looking forward to Suddenly plunged into a good night and that's what they'll haveworld of silence, just not quite in the way they envisagedeverything about her life changes. Indeed it will be Living in a night time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to remember for a long time school where she is taught to comelip read, for all the wrong reasons courtesy of the little something but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the dessertdeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. Meanwhile young people are going missing At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a scale that the town complicated tangle of Tresside has never experienced before but Tresside doesn't know the half of it… yet!espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00G4A2RQ0</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Katie EversonB0BC3YTCMR|title= DropGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Katie Everson’s debut novel, ‘Drop,’ ''This story is a tale not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of grief and healing, whirlwind romance and brutal honestyher fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. We follow the story of Carla - straight-A- She was a very bright student, rule-abiding daughter a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and somewhat uninteresting friend suffered from vitiligo - who is determined people were afraid to change hug her predictable lifein case it's contagious. When her absentee mother It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is offered 84% white. She had a job in London, Carla transfers crush on seventeen-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 yet another school his house and this time he raped her. In shock, she is desperate even allowed him to not be overlookedgive her a lift home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406356271</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Niven1472263936|title= The Sunshine Cruise CompanyFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 4.5|genre= HumourGeneral Fiction|summary= Susan Frobisher and Julie Wickham live It was in a small Dorset town1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. Friends since school She was alone: her mother, they live fairly uneventful lives – Susan has a lovely house Greek by birth, had left the family home and a lengthy marriage refused to accountant Barryreturn, whereas Julie is doing slightly less well – living in a council flat but Mary and working in an old peopleHamish (Helena's home. When Barry is found dead trussed up in a sex dungeon, parents) felt that it transpires that he has been leading would be a hidden life for years, and his expensive fetishes lead pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the bank moving family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to take Susanlove her grandmother and the family's home. Struck by both desperation maid, Dina, but was wary - and a sense frightened - of injusticeher grandfather, Sue retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and Julie conspire expected his family to rob a bank, taking along their friend Jill – a devout Christian conflicted due uphold his values but saw no reason to lack of money accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and a terminally ill grandson, and Ethel – a foul mouthed resident of the nursing home longing for adventuregreen eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023183</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paula McGrathDean Koontz|title= GenerationAfter Death|rating= 43|genre= General Fiction|summary=How can we know the effect that our choices may have on the next generation? Even Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a seemingly minor decision has the potential to create ripples and waves of unforeseen repercussions in the future. This fascinating theme virus is explored released in “Generation”, an intelligently-written début novel that approaches the subject from multiple perspectives over an eightya bio-year periodhazard accident.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147361483X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kerry Hudson|title= Thirst|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= London – Summer. Alena, Finding himself in a young siberian immigrant is caught stealing shoes. Davemakeshift mortuary, the man who catches hercovered in plastic, is he has a security guard sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – surviving on a minimal income as he sits up and with little drive to better looks around at the shrouded bodies of his quiet, repetitive lifedead friends and former colleagues. As Alena and Dave grow closer, Dave finds he recovers his life turned upside down. But will Alena ever let down her guardsenses, and reveal the truth he realises that there is something different about her past?him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099589893</amazonuk>1662500467}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lesley PearseB0BVDC2VWH|title= Without a TraceThe Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=CassieThe village is isolated and poor. It's arrival was bound to cause surrounded by a stir in Witching Forest. And the sleepy Somerset village of Sawbridge. She had flaming red hair, a voluptuous figure accentuated villagers subsist largely by very tight clothing, towering heels, heavy makefarming Uphegia plants - its bread-up like fruit provides nutrition and no wedding ringits blossom provides herbal medicines. But The black wood of the thing that really shocked the locals was the fact that she had a little mixed-race girl in tow. Petalforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, as she was calledand even gallows, soon melted if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the hearts of village and that is the residentsreason Volushka, but no such courtesy was extended to Cassiea drunken, who was dubbed 'that redself-headed whore' by some. Her only friend was the kind shopkeeper Molly Heywoodindulgent, who would often visit Cassie and Petal at their isolated stone cottage on the outskirts lazy lout of the villagea man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024196153X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eva RiceB0BYF82CXT|title=Love Notes for FreddieSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=Marnie is an innocent''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, mathematical genius schoolgirl whostuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, unfortunatelywhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, gets expelled from her fancy boarding schoolsuccessful and very much in love – move in next door. Julie is her teacherDespite their different outlooks on life, formerly a dancer, rigorously private about her past. Freddie is the boy that couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both of them fall in love withpairs. Revealed through the eyes of two of the three main characters, this But all is a slow-movingnot what it seems, but rather beautifully told, love storyand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. It has the same vintage feel that Eva Rice used so well in ''The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets'' and it cleverly winds its way through Marnie's story in the 1960's as well as Julie's past in pre-WW2 New York.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782064486</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kat Gordon|title= Artificial Anatomy of Parks|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary=One morning in 2002, twenty-one year old Tallulah Park is woken in her depressing bedsit by 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 and ignoring the uncomfortable and unfitting. Tallulah has been doing her fair share of powering on and pretending things don't exist, but it seems like this might turn out to be the time to stop running away. With the reluctant help of two aunts, an old family friend and her own imperfect recollections, and with a vivid imagining of her late grandmother as the voice of conscience, Tallulah sets out to answer some long-standing questions about her family and her own past.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079867</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dido Butterworth and Tim FlanneryShalini Boland|title=The Mystery of the Venus Island FetishSilent Bride

|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 a teenage Communist which the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is 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 Star'' with her equally enthused mother Eleanor. Itproblem's not only a thankless taskexacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, itasks Cord and Sasha if they's not a very welcome sight for some citizens in their native Tamworth of d like to move into the 1970sPineapple Street property. However Eleanor Tilda and Chip have renovated and Jess' lives are about downsized to changeanother property, thanks to an all-expenses paid trip to the GDR – Communist East Germany; a place on the same side street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the Berlin Wall as Jess' furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Eleanor's heartsCord can move straight in. HoweverNominally, they both learn that even had a political heaven has its lessons and, indeed, its downside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473611997</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Eve Chase|title= Black Rabbit Hall|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary=At Black Rabbit Hall, time goes “syrupy slow.” None of the clocks work properly, choice but an hour at Black Rabbit is said to last twice as long as a London one, and you donthat wasn't get a quarter of the things donereality. Every holiday, Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the Alton gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family swap home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the hustle and bustle of London life for this secluded Cornish retreat, a place that is theirs and theirs aloneGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718182979</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle MillerEmily Critchley|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 Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by ZahraJennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a teenage girl who spends series of disappearances. In ''Partitions of Unity'', she sets her early years mind to solving a murder...|isbn=B09LQR9FRF}}{{Frontpage|author=Will Carver|title=The Daves Next Door|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in her home country of Somalia before her family move one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the UK story is told in backwards order, leading up to escape civil warthe fateful moment. Inevitably|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, some traditions travel with them a mom-and -pop mobile diner in the novel Zahra recounts her efforts to protect herself and her younger sisterNorthern California redwoods, Samsama 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, against FGMa women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a practice that claimed billionaire with a state-of-the -art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a sample of the cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of her older sister this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=B09STS96HS}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM|title=The Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in Somalia several years previouslypeople's minds. Zahra intersperses her account with flashbacks The world has barely had a chance to Somalia and breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. With the civil war current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that drove them awaythe prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, thus giving a clear picture relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be wary of the trials that she and her family have facedMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178072179X</amazonuk>