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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Beth MillerOnyi Nwabineli|title= The Good NeighbourAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Minette has not had Anuri spent her childhood on display to the best experience world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of neighbours. ItAnuri's hard when you have a new born. They're not known childhood for being quiet as a mouse at all times sponsorships and influencer deals and occasionally, wellbasically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, occasionally they scream through suing her step-mother to take down the nightcontent 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. So Most importantly, sheis desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's glad when the nasty couple move online empire. Can she save her sister, and are replaced by Cath perhaps herself and her two kids. A fellow mother! An ally! Surely she will be more understandingrelationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091956331</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Fausto Brizzi1529153298|title= One Hundred Days The List of HappinessSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Sometimes It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'Serendipitys not what's worrying Miv' coerces s family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'Fatedisappeared'doesn' into making sure you read a particular bookt sound quite so frightening. I picked Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'One Hundred Days…Down South'. When you' off the shelf on the back of the blurb re from an author of Yorkshire, Down South is a book I haven't actually readfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. I confused For Miv, the title of their book with one I adoredmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. Make of She's not worried about the dangers or that what you will, Iher Mum'm going s stopped talking - to call it a happy accident, because this is a book many of us really need to readanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447269012</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S E Craythorne1035906708|title=How You See MeDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary=Daniel's father is ill after a stroke and so Daniel needs We tend to go home think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Norfolk to nurse him. While there he continues to write letters to his beloved girlfriend AliceGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, his sister Mab in December 1923 and his boss to keep them up only moved to dateAthens when she was thirteen. The problems in DanielHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's life are a lot closer to home than those he's left behind make it more manageable in his normal life thoughthe States. Gradually When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the reasons why Daniel left Norfolk return to him, increasing in intensity until it's muchNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, much too lateJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434562</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeremy Massey Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Last Four Days Of Paddy BuckleyPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary= Paddy Buckley The Perfect Passion Company is a grieving widower who has worked for years for Gallagher'sdating agency in Edinburgh, a long-established—some say run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the best—funeral home online apps in Dublinproviding a more personal, tailored service. One night driving home Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after an unexpected encounter with the business, as Ness is planning to take a client, Paddy hits trip to Canada to get away for a pedestrian crossing the streetwhile. He pulls over and gets Katie is coming out of his cara break up with a bad boyfriend, intending and so jumps at the chance to do the right thingcome home to Edinburgh. As he bends over And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to help an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the manIsabel Dalhousie novels, he recognizes himbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. It's Donal Cullen Katie has no experience in running a business, brother of one of the most notorious mobsters or in Dublin. And he's dead. Shocked and scaredmatch-making, Paddy jumps back but Ness has full confidence in his car her abilities, and drives away before anyone notices whatthere's happened.always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1594634858</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James LovegroveDean Koontz|title=Sherlock Holmes - The Thinking EngineBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=In this hyperBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-connected worldsized object to his home, and it 's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is not difficult to conceive of machines the thing that can answer perplexing questions in has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the blink of an eye, communicate over very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a vast network or even seemingly outsmart humansnice person. A really nice person. Of course, in So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the year 1895delivery to his house is a new friend, such a machine would be viewed with deep suspicion and curiosity; hailed as a miraclebad weather friend called Spike, or condemned as the work of dark supernatural who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forcesfor being a good person. James Lovegrove put this idea Spike is going to the test in his latest Sherlock Holmes adventuretake 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'The Thinking Engine'', which pits man against machine in the ultimate battle of witss wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783295031</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C B CalicoKatherine Howe|title=Dandelion AngelA True Account|rating=4.5

|summary=In her Author's NoteHannah Masury is living in Boston, debut novelist C.B. Calico reveals that ''Dandelion Angel'' was inspired by having been sent to live with a non-fiction family who run an inn, and being made to work, ''Understanding the Borderline Mother'' by Christine Ann Lawsonthere from a young age. The four mother/daughter relationships in this Germany-set novel – all marked When she hears there is to be a hanging of some extent by dysfunctionpirates in the town, physical she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and/or verbal abusehorrified in equal measure, and borderline personality disorder – are based on LawsonHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's metaphorical classifications: death at the hermithands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, the queenso that they don't find and kill her too, the waifand then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the witchnotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Looping back through her four storylines She soon finds herself in three complete cyclesthe thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, Calico shows how mental illness is rooted and from there we are caught up in childhood experiences and can go her rip roaring tale of life on to affect a whole familythe ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B0112SC9CA</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby and Kevin Moffett1471180158|title=The Silent HistoryMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes

|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=WellJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, they kept this quiet – for reasons that will become obviousa man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. A couple of years ago people in America were giving birth to problematic kidsJamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. They (He's asthmatic and the children) were soon found to be unnaturally quiet – perhaps crying with hunger or painmore you read, but never even trying to the more you'ooga-woogall suspect that he' their way into their parents' heartss on the autistic spectrum. They were later found Sometimes Jamie needs to be completely unable to speak, they could not read take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and indeed they could sometimes Bo's not understand anything said fit enough to them, or shown them, as an instruction. They were physically unable go to parse anything as language, and were in a silent world of their ownschool. 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 – Missed shifts or even the blessed. In a couple of years, however, the problems the virus that is causing these people need to be born with will be shown away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be a major problem – controlled and that is before put in the kids themselves changewrong. For they will be able It was going to come to switch their mental abilities much like a blind man can hear more than the average, and will be able to comprehend body and facial language much more coherently than anyone elsehead. 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|authorisbn=Jonathan Crown and Jamie Searle Romanelli (translator)B0CKD1L5JL|title=SiriusRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=34

|summary=Meet Levi. He's a humble little dog living with a loving familyPetr is an orphan. They've spent so much time with him he has learnt some tricks – not only Rescued by the usual onesstrange, of beggingreclusive Bear, or playing dead, but walking on two legs, somersaulting on to his two other pawshe is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, and giving the Hitler salute. If this was 2015 in the UK he would be shoe-in for Britainforests of Washington's Got Talent (although the Hitler salute might lose him Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a few votes, to be honest) but this is 1930s Berlinbrief sojourn in human company, and things are starting to get horrendously tough and nasty for Jewish families like his. Querying the statute laws that demand armed with only a formalisation of Jewish names his owners rename Levi after Siriuspirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the Great Dog in forest, broadcasting the night skies. But nobody can foresee what happens when Jews are pushed harder and harder from their neighbourhoodsstrange, wild and nobody can see what a Great Dog star Sirius can become, in the most unlikely of milieux – Hollywood…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081981</amazonuk>rarely heard voices he encounters.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meike ZiervogelSarah Marsh|title=KautharA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Meet Lydia. She's After a bout of scarlet fever as a normal British girlchild, interested in following both Ellen Lark loses her father, and Nadia Comaneci, hearing. Suddenly plunged into the a world of gymnastics but not brave enough to pull off the larger set piecessilence, and with not much more to interrupt everything about her days than wondering why boys always have to talk about their willieslife changes. Now meet Kauthar, Living in a white British convert to Islam, devoted follower of time when the precepts use of her religionsign language was seen as something only savages do, ardent wife and stalwartly self-fulfillingEllen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, no-nonsense and satisfiedbut physically restrained from signing. But what is this – why is From here, she talking of being alone ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a desertsystem called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and why is she directly addressing her god regarding how she ''can't perform any movementEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. Because it is torn apart''? Has something gone wrong?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630292</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia HeaberlinB0BC3YTCMR|title=Black Eyed SusansGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|summary=I knew little about this book before I started it - other than the intriguing title and the scant information that it ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a psychological mystery about very bright student, a girl who survives abduction by a serial killer. For those whobit too nerdy if truth be told, like me, can't resist suspense (and it seems that many suffered from vitiligo - people do fall into this category, according were afraid to the bestseller lists at least), this is enticement enoughhug her in case it's contagious. And I was It's not disappointed: this story offers psychological uncertainty and suspense from start to finisheasy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. The narrative alternates between present day and the past, each section lasting just She had a couple of pagescrush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. I found this structure tricky Then he did: Lavender was very good at first, although each chapter does offer a helpful timeline math and the chapters are short enough that it's easy to reorient yourselfReggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. Once I got used She went to the choppy style I found that it did work, his house and it worked really wellhe raped her. In shock, reflecting the constant flashbacks and mental turmoil experienced by Tessa, the protagonistshe even allowed him to give her a lift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181336</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tessa McWatt1472263936|title= Higher Ed The Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 2.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Robin works at It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a universitypity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Olivia is one Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of his studentsseveral annual visits. Francine works behind She grew to love her grandmother and the scenes in admin. Katrin is a waitress in a local caféfamily's maid, Dina, but was wary - and Ed has a role in a rather unique bit frightened - of local governmenther grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. This bizarre cast He was proud of characters are his close connections to the stars of 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 father'Higher Ed'', a story which eventually combines all of their livess Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925228045</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mary KubicaDean Koontz|title= Pretty Baby|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= On her morning commute to work, Heidi sees something that shakes her. A young girl, barely older than her own pre-teen daughter, huddling in the rain on the platform, clutching a tiny baby. It's a distressing situation and it stays on her mind for the rest of the day. So much so that when she sees the girl again, she feels obligated to help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848453965</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=John Piper|title=La Crème de la CremAfter Death

|summary=Gala night Michael Mace, Head of Security, at Frere Jacques restaurant where the local political and good gather for a banquettop secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Everyone is looking forward Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to a good night 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 thatthere is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything's what they'll have, just not quite in the way they envisaged. Indeed it will be Michael 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 surrounded by a night to remember for a long time to come, for all Witching Forest. And the wrong reasons courtesy villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the little something forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the dessert. Meanwhile young people are going missing on a scale village and that is the town reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of Tresside has never experienced before but Tresside doesn't know the half of it… yet!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00G4A2RQ0</amazonuk>a man is tolerated.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Katie EversonB0BYF82CXT|title= DropSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Katie Everson’s debut novel''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, ‘Drop,’ is stuck in a tale depressing rut of grief boredom and disappointment, when Terry and healingFiona – glamorous, whirlwind romance successful and brutal honestyvery much in love – move in next door. We follow Despite their different outlooks on life, the story of Carla - straight-A-student, rule-abiding daughter couples befriend each other and somewhat uninteresting friend - who is determined life appears to change her predictable lifeimprove for both pairs. When her absentee mother But all is offered a job in Londonnot what it seems, Carla transfers to yet another school and this time she is desperate to not be overlookedtheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406356271</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John NivenShalini Boland|title= The Sunshine Cruise CompanySilent Bride|rating= 4.53|genre= HumourGeneral Fiction|summary= Susan Frobisher Alice and Julie Wickham live Seth are a match made in a small Dorset townheaven. Friends since school He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, they live fairly uneventful lives – Susan has a lovely house and a lengthy marriage to accountant Barryclever, whereas Julie is doing slightly less well – living in a council flat funny; total and working in an old people's homeutter husband-material. When Barry She is found dead trussed up all he could possibly want in a sex dungeonwife; beautiful, it transpires that he has been leading a hidden life for yearssuccessful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and his expensive fetishes lead to the bank moving to take Susan's homewedding is planned and set. Struck When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by both desperation and a sense of injusticeher father, Sue beaming with pride and Julie conspire to rob a bank, taking along excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friend Jill – a devout Christian conflicted due friends assembled to lack of money celebrate this joyful day and a terminally ill grandsonwhen Seth turns to face his approaching bride, and Ethel – a foul mouthed resident of Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the nursing home longing altar is, who is waiting for adventureher to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434023183</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paula McGrath1787636003|title= GenerationThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary=How can we know It was the effect summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that our choices may have she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the next generation? Even island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a seemingly minor decision has while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the potential to create ripples island and waves of unforeseen repercussions in particular in the future. This fascinating theme is explored in “Generation”, an intelligently-written début novel that approaches bar where all the subject from multiple perspectives over an eighty-year periodgirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147361483X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kerry HudsonAmanda Craig|title= ThirstThree Graces|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= London – SummerFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. AlenaThere's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, a young siberian immigrant crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is caught stealing shoesskilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Dave, She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the man who catches lives of her, is a security guard – surviving on characters in a minimal income way that feels natural and with little drive to better his quietlived-in, repetitive life. As Alena and Dave grow closernever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, Dave finds his life turned upside downgrappling with issues far larger than themselves. But will Alena ever let down her guard, and reveal the truth about her past?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099589893</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lesley Pearse152915118X|title= Without a TracePineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Cassie's arrival was bound to cause a stir in 'Pineapple Street'' is the sleepy Somerset village story of Sawbridgethree women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. She had flaming red hair Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a voluptuous figure accentuated Stockton by very tight clothingbirth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, towering heelsTilda, heavy make-up asks Cord and no wedding ring. But the thing that really shocked the locals was Sasha if they'd like to move into the fact that she had a little mixed-race girl in towPineapple Street property. Petal Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, as she was calleda street or so away, soon melted the hearts which they own. They won't need any of the residentsfurniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but no such courtesy was extended that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to Cassie, who was dubbed call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'that red-headed whore' by somefamily home. Her only friend was the kind shopkeeper Molly Heywood, who would They use it so often visit Cassie and Petal at their isolated stone cottage on that they abbreviate it to 'the outskirts of the villageGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024196153X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eva RiceEmily Critchley|title=Love Notes for FreddieOne Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Marnie 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is an innocentfacing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, mathematical genius schoolgirl who, unfortunately, gets expelled from as Edie is starting to lose her fancy boarding schoolmemory. Julie However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her teacherchildhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, formerly and the worry that there was a dancer, rigorously private about her past. Freddie is secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the boy thing that both reveals the truth of them fall in love withwhat happened all that time ago. Revealed through After 'seeing' Lucy in the eyes of two of high street, just as she was the three main characterslast time she saw her, this is a slow-moving, but rather beautifully told, love storyshe starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. It has And yet as she remembers the same vintage feel that Eva Rice used so well in ''The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets'' past, she is forgetting more and it cleverly winds its way through Marnie's story more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the 1960truth about Lucy's as well as Julie's past in pre-WW2 New York.disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782064486</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kat GordonMadelaine Lucas|title= Artificial Anatomy of ParksThirst for Salt|rating= 5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary=One morning in 2002''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, twentya young woman unravels the year-one year old Tallulah Park is woken in her depressing bedsit by the phonecall announcing long relationship that once defined her father's heart attack. From this bleak beginning springs Kat Gordon's gripping debut novel of a dysfunctional upper middle class family Overlaid with a history of papering over later wisdom, the cracks and ignoring narrator relives the uncomfortable and unfitting. Tallulah has been doing affair with a man twenty years her fair share of powering on and pretending things don't exist, but it seems like this might turn out senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to be its sorrowful end the time to stop running awaysummer after. With Set against the reluctant help backdrop of two aunts, an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old family friend and her own imperfect recollections, and narrator's deepening relationship with a vivid imagining of her late grandmother as the voice of conscienceolder lover, Tallulah sets out to answer some longdepicting its all-standing questions about consuming nature, how it changed her family perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her own pastirrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079867</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dido Butterworth and Tim Flannery0008506337|title=The Mystery of the Venus Island FetishGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=35|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Meet Archie MeekThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. He's about to leave the Venus Islands, where he's lived for the last five years, and return to Sydney, where he'll take his office Margo was just sixteen when they fell in the museum love. Richard was twenty-one and fill it with all the cultural artefacts hedescribed by Margo's found and wildlife hemother as 'an older man's plucked or pickled. ThatHer parents worried that Richard's not influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to ignore Oxford and having a glittering career. In the fact he'll count as something quite alien himselfevent, with his filled they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-out framerespected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, nearly all-over suntan Imogen and totemic tattoo, in amongst other changes to his bodySasha. But what's this? When he gets backLife was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, he finds one of the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him to go there in family home on the first place, a huge, macabre ceremonial fetish mask, purloined as corporate artwork. And some Isle of the curators he wishes to work alongside have vanishedWight. Is Even then the weird society of the museum hedoubts about Richard's returning to, perchance, even weirder, stranger and more violent than the cannibalistic society hedrinking were never far from Margo's waving farewell mind: ''she would never be able to?leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922079308</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kate Hewitt1914585402|title= Rainy Day SistersDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Amateur artist Lucy Bagshaw isnI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There't exactly living the American dream; she lives in Boston with her overbearing mother and works as a barista in a coffee shop, but things are about to get a lot worse. Her mother, a famous and controversial artist, writes an scathing editorial, publicly insulting Lucys Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's artwork just before her first exhibition. The editorial quickly goes viral and Only One Danny Garvey]] a humiliated Lucy flees the country, unsure couple of where her life is headingyears back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. She runs away where nobody can find her; It was a sleepy Cumbrian village by the seagripping, emotionally wounding read, where her estranged half-sister runs a boarding house. Lucy quickly questions the wisdom and rereading my review of her decision when she receives a frosty welcome from her sister in a village it my main takeaway was that seems permanently cold, wet and rainyI might not have lavished enough praise on it. Should Lucy try and make a new life for herself here, or should she return to Boston and face her demons?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0451475585</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah WinmanLucy Ashe|title=A Year of Marvellous WaysClara and Olivia

|summary=89 The year old Marvellous Ways stands is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside her secluded Cornish caravan looking across but not, we learn, on the landscape with her binocularsinside. And not on stage, either. She has Because there's a lot that builds a feeling something will happen dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and soon. Elsewhere American Francis Drake (hesome things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don's heard all the jokes!) has t come home from the war and looks up the girl he left behind with results that are beyond his nightmares but will feature in themclassroom. MarvellousA stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre' and Drakes' lives will cross . The difference between a hard-worker, and then – Marvellous is right – something will happena star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755390911</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Bourne Heather Fawcett|title=Two LivesEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=3.54

|summary=One late afternoon in January 2012Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, Emma Elliot and Loretta Davidsonresearched meticulously, to write her life's lives collide – along with their carswork, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Both are running late Whilst she is brilliant at research and driving too fast along this Surrey road. Emma speaking to faeries, she is unharmed and flees the scenenot so good with people. Little does So when she know that this incident will have long-term consequences further down finds herself far, far North in the line. For Lorettasmall village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the effects are more immediate. A social worker in her fortiesvillage matriarch, she is not sure what she has taken a career break done, nor how to raise 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 beloved son Ethan, born after an arduous IVF cycle just over four years agofrustration. Ethan But why is in critical condition after he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the car accident and dies during surgery. In her grief, Loretta turns to Scotch and Valium and drifts away from her husband and their families.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1505233682</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val Hennessy1398515388|title=Not Far From DreamlandThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|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 the free television licence barrier. What Ronald ''has'' got is a roof that leaks (there's good reason why his home is called 'First of all, it was the shack')earthquake, a dog who is going bald (deep in patches) and money that's in very short supply. On the plus side he has friendsocean floor, mostly platonic which created the tsunami and usually this, in much turn, caused the same boat as Ronaldnuclear meltdown. But are they downhearted? The result was complete and utter devastation. WellThe deaths were uncountable, they are occasionally, but mostly they're generously optimistic and out to make the most loss of what they've got, usually bought livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from charity shops and jumble salestheir owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn''Not Far From Dreamland'' is the story of t a year (2012) in dog person but the life of Ronald Tonks, convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his friends car door and relativesTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373874</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jo McMillanChristopher Bowden|title=Motherland: A NovelMr Magenta|rating=4.5

|summary=Jess Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a teenage Communist which isnpatient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman't a surprise since s life, carried out by her nephew after she comes from a Communist familyhas died. Her late father was The aunt who always provided a card carrying member safe harbour and Jess spends her weekends selling ''The Morning Star'' with her equally enthused mother Eleanor. It's not only a thankless task, it's not little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a very welcome sight for some citizens in their native Tamworth of the 1970s. However Eleanor much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and Jess' lives are about it seems to change, thanks him an obligation to an find it all-expenses paid trip to the GDR – Communist East Germany; a place on the same side of the Berlin Wall as Jess' and Eleanor's hearts. However, they both learn that even a political heaven has its lessons and, indeed, its downsideout.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473611997</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Eve ChaseJennifer Mason|title= Black Rabbit HallPartitions of Unity|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary=At Black Rabbit HallHere at Bookbag Towers, time goes “syrupy slow.” None of the clocks work properlywe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, but an hour at Black Rabbit is said to last twice as long as a London onedominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and you don't get unravelled a quarter series of the things donedisappearances. Every holiday, the Alton family swap the hustle and bustle In ''Partitions of London life for this secluded Cornish retreatUnity'', she sets her mind to solving a place that is theirs and theirs alonemurder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718182979</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle MillerWill Carver|title=The UnderwritingDaves Next Door

|summary= Todd Kent is young, rich, stupidly handsome, and well on his way to the top of Wall Street. When Five strangers come together in one moment as a new dating app called “Hook” decides suicide bomber prepares to go public, Todd is handpicked by Hook’s eccentric founder to lead the project team. Taking brainy analyst Neha, spoilt party-boy Beau, and old flame Tara Taylor with him – the team find themselves thrust into the hectic circumstances of detonate his vest on a $14 Billion dealLondon tube line. As Silicon Valley and Wall Street clash, the death of a young girl will find the team at odds with each other – and spinning wildly out of control. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922182974</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alena Graedon|title= The Word Exchange|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Welcome to the world of the ''Meme''; the next-generation mobile device. Imagine technology so sophisticated that it could anticipate your needs as soon as they come into your mind. Need to get home? Your Meme will hail a cab. Feeling unwell? The Meme has an app for that. Negative thoughts? The Meme will intercede on your behalf to call family and friends or even 911, if needed. Yestheir fates overlap, the Meme story is a truly indispensable aid that has revolutionised the way that humans communicate. Critics say that it's destroying human language and verbal interactiontold in backwards order, but don't worry: the Meme has an app for that too. If you are lost for words, the ''Word Exchange'' will supply you with leading up to the word you require. For a small fee of course..fateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780225628</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cornelius MedveiJennifer Mason|title=The Making of Mr BolsoverPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|summary=Meet Andrew Lynch. He's 'A struggling poetry zine, a graduate civil servantmom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, then he isn't. He's marrieda 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, then he isn't. Hea women's track coach with a librarian, then he isn’t. He startsyen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of all things-the-art S&M dungeon, to live in a handmade camp man serving a life sentence in the Sussex countrysideAlabama, an enigmatic signature, and gets a job writing nature notes for a local magazine – until it's clear he'K(s shooting, killing and eating too many of his subjects for his audience's tastes. He turns his efforts to writing politicised letters to the local newspaperx), where his nephew is on a jobbing hackcheap oil painting, which inspires further, more campaigning activitiesan erotic art dealer in Georgia... Yes, it seems that Andrew Lynch's path to ' This is just a sample of the top is foretold – but his fate is most definitely anything but natural…cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099548690</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Jean LesterB0B2N7MVYM|title=Lillian on LifeThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=4.5

|summary=Lillian 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 her late fifties, single and childless but you shouldnpeople't - for s minds. The world has barely had a moment - allow yourself chance to think that she has a rather sad lifebreathe out. SheBut for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's lived through periods at the front of tremendous change in post-war Munich, Paris, London and shehis mind. He's now come to rest, smart and independent, in New Yorkbeen convicted of murder. Born in a time when With the expectations current state of her parents - and of society - were fairly standard as to what a woman should do with her lifemedical knowledge, she seems always it's hard to have had a sense think otherwise than that she the prosecution would disappoint both if she was to be true to herself. Shenever have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's hot blooded and sexually uninhibited and certainly ahead of her time in her viewsBench, a relatively new prison. When we first meet her sheHe's waking up next just getting used to her married lover his roommate, Mervyn, and taking stock learning to be wary of her life. Amongst other thingsthe McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848549520</amazonuk>