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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Leigh BardugoOnyi Nwabineli|title= Six of Crows|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=In The Barrel, anything is possible for the right price, and no one knows this better than criminal mastermind, Kaz Brekker. When Kaz is offered a chance at a perilous mission that could turn his poverty-stricken life upside down, he is determined to see the task fulfilled - but he won't be able Allow Me to do it alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1627792120</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dan Rhodes|title=When the Professor Got Stuck in the SnowIntroduce Myself

|summary= Two people are Anuri spent her childhood on a train on their way display tothe world, of all thingsthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, a WI meeting where the ladies she posted every step of All Bottoms will be lectured on the non-existence of GodAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. One of the two people Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is Professor Richard Dawkinsslowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, rampant atheist, hectoring scientist chappie, and allsuing her step-round devotee of ''Deal or No Deal''mother to take down the content about her. The other Anuri is Smeebattling alcoholism, his mono-named assistantfailing to start her PhD, amanuensis or 'male secretary'. Smee will come to the fore when the weather sets in undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and the train journey has to be abandoned some way short of its ultimate destination, Upper Bottomreceiving money from them for doing so. Instead the pair fetch up at the isolated yet friendly community of Market HortonMost importantly, and the only option for accommodation she is taken – yesdesperately worried about her little sister, who is the died-in-the-wool non-believer has to be housed by a retired vicar and his wifenew focus of Ophelia's online empire. This clash of titanic opinionsCan she save her sister, peppered and perhaps herself and her relationship with social faux pas aplenty will provide for a particularly English kind of farcical comedy, but one with the legs to go as far as any other Good Books have reached in her father at the past…same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910709018</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania Chandler1529153298|title=Please Don't Leave Me Here|rating=4|genre=fiction|summary= If you like unreliable narrators then this is the book for you. In Brigitte, the protagonist The List of Please Don't Leave Me Here, Tania Chandler has created an unforgettable troubled character whose fractured mental state leads to erratic thought processes, vivid and none too pleasant dreams and an inability, or unwillingness, to recover her memory of her former life. None of which is helped by her drink problem and, as the story progresses, an addiction to prescription medication.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925228258</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSuspicious Things|author=Emylia Hall|title=The Sea Between UsJennie Godfrey

|summary=To her parentsIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, the move to Cornwall was an escape to a better way of lifethough. Women have been disappearing. For city-girl Robyn Well, it was wetthey've been murdered, remote and miserable and but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she was counting down the days to University and 's overheard that her return father wants to civilizationmove the family 'Down South'. Desperate for something to do to entertain herself When you're from Yorkshire, Robyn takes a wetsuit and surfboard and makes her way to Down South is a secluded cove. An inexperienced surferfrightening, she soon gets into difficultyforeign place, but is rescued from the sea by a young local man called Jagobest avoided. From that moment on For Miv, the two lives are intertwined by an invisible bond; a bond move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that will be tested and stretched during . She's not worried about the years dangers or that followher Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472211979</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Barnett1035906708|title=The Largest Baby in Ireland After The FamineDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5

|summary=She was all colour and sway, and We tend to think of Maria Callas as far away as imaginable from the local women. PaleGreek, pale skin and strong dark auburn hair falling free but she was born to large wide hips. She wore a purple shawl. That night FelixGreek parents in Manhattan, a bachelorNew York, aged 43, living in the house he December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was born in, dreamt of purplethirteen. Purple Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the shape of a womanStates.And just like When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that, things change. I love this passage. It shows how strong she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the human pull is. Even when men Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and women are surrounded by great events - war, political upheaval, faminemade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, depression - individual human desires can change the picture in an instantJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>186151526X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Alexander Cordell|title=The Hosts of Rebecca|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=At the end of [[Rape of the Fair Country by Alexander Cordell|Rape of the Fair Country]] Iestyn Mortymer had been sentenced to deportation for seven years because of the part he played in the Chartist rebellion and the Newport Rising of 1839. His mother, wife, Marie, younger brother, Jethro, sister, Morfydd and the two children of the family returned to the land, living on a farm owned by Marie's grandfather. The life was hard and not just for the Mortymers, with poverty breathing over their shoulders and it was made worse by the tollgates installed by landowners, effectively adding a levy to any produce which the farmers attempted to move.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0100NC1GM</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage

|title=The Woman Who Walked in SunshinePerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=Back The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to Botswana I goall the online apps in providing a more personal, having saved this newest outing in tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a delightful weekend readwhile. I never tire Katie is coming out of these charactersa break up with a bad boyfriend, and I always look forward so jumps at the chance to come home to seeing what is happening in their livesEdinburgh. This time around the And so begins this new story is about holidaysfrom Alexander McCall Smith, amongst other thingsbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the tricky plans to persuade Mma Ramostwe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to take a holidaycharm. But what is Mma Makutsi up Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to? Does she have plans to take over the agency entirely whilst Mma Ramotswe is away? lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408706660</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Aldous HuxleyDean Koontz|title= After Many A SummerThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= Dystopian FictionParanormal|summary= Like many of usBenny 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-sized object to his home, I suspectand it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, I knew nothing of Huxley other than Benny is the "required reading" of ''Brave New World''very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. NaturallySo fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, on that basis alonea bad weather friend called Spike, he was pigeon-holed in my head who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under the heading attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take 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'Sci-fi - must check s wild adventure) can figure out further''who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784870358</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill CimentKatherine Howe|title=Heroic MeasuresA True Account

|summary=Ruth Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and Alex Cohen have being made to move work there from their beloved New York apartmenta young age. They love itWhen she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, but it's five floors up she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and therehorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's no elevatordeath at the hands of two vicious pirates. Reluctantly She hides away, so that theydon're having an open day for prospective purchasers - t find and kill her too, and hoping that they'll be able then to buy something not ''too'' far out which has that elusive elevator. It's not just escape themcompletely she runs away to sea, either. Theredressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's Dorothy. Dorothy ('Dottie' to those who know her well) is their Daschundpirate ship as a cabin boy. She's getting on soon finds herself in years, but then so are Ruth and Alex. Then - the day before the open house - two thick of things happen. An unmarked petrol truck when there is blocking the city's main tunnel a mutiny on board, and from there's no sign we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the driver. You don't even need to have ''long'' memories to worry about terrorists in Manhattan. Then Dottie yelps in pain and she can't stand upocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271945</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sebastian Faulks1471180158|title= Where my Heart Used to BeatMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= In the early 1980’sJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, on for a man who's a small island off control freak with all the South subtlety of France, a Doctor named Robert Hendricks confronts his life – memories of wars, work, loves, and losseshalf brick. As his history is explored and questioned by his host, Hendricks recalls days in Scottish universitiesJamie's son, Italian trenchesBo, 'has his problems'. mental asylums He's asthmatic and windswept beaches. Links to the past are uncoveredmore you read, and the raw wounds they expose more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take Hendricks on time off at short notice - she's a search for sanity frequent flier in the local A&E and raises the question – is life comprised of events themselves, sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the way need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in which an individual chooses the wrong. It was going to come to remember them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091936837</amazonuk>a head.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall SmithB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Revolving Door of LifeRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=54

|summary=I am always happy to sit back down with old friendsPetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, to catch he is brought up on what has been happening on Scotland Street. As far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the last episode [[Bertieforests of Washington's Guide to Life and Mothers by Alexander McCall Smith]] there is plenty of Bertie throughout the whole storyOlympic Peninsula. Bertie is my favourite character by farAfter Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, so this was very pleasing to me! Our other favourites are there tooand armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, howeverPetr goes on a journey through the forest, so there's something to please everyone, from Bruce being, well, Brucebroadcasting the strange, wild and dear Angus reciting a poem at the endrarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973287</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rachel ElliottSarah Marsh|title= Whispers Through A MegaphoneSign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Miriam doesn’t speak. WellAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, that’s not strictly trueEllen Lark loses her hearing. She does speakSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, but nothing above a whisper which makes it hard to have a conversation with everything about herlife changes. Particularly as she hasn’t left her house Living in three years. But today is a time when the day. She’s going to open that door and walk outside. She really is. Ralph has finally twigged (and with no small amount use of surprise) that his wife Sadie doesn’t actually love him. And now he’s not sure if she ever really did. Having spent so much time regurgitating his every moment onto Social Mediasign language was seen as something only savages do, Ralph hasn’t really had Ellen is sent to a chance school where she is taught to think about itlip read, but physically restrained from signing. But now he hasFrom here, it is so shockingly awful that he she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has decided to run awaybeen teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. And of all At the places he could run away tosame time, he has chosen the same woods that Miriam has picked to be the first place she will visit out-of-doors. And Sadie? WellBell is working on other inventions and ideas, she’s had enough of reading Tweets and living vicariously through the posts of others. Sadie is going to have an adventure Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of her ownespionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992918227</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gregoire DelacourtB0BC3YTCMR|title=The First Thing You SeeGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=34.5

|summary=Arthur Dreyfuss ''This story is a fairly run of the mill young mannot for everyone. He likes big breasts, cars, Juplier beer and big breasts. He’s also rather keen on big breasts. A good-looking boy, even if he does say so himself''

Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It'…like Ryan Goslings not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a 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 his house and he raped her. In shock, only better looking''she even allowed him to give her a lift home.}}

we will take him at his word{{Frontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=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, although one but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would had thought be a better looking Ryan Gosling 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 have had be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his fill of Zepplin chested females so as family to dilute uphold his desire for values but saw no reason to accommodate them. In any eventHis prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, I suspect his longings stem from the fact that is among 55 people who die when a young mechanic living virus is released in a quiet and uneventful life bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a tiny village makeshift mortuary, covered in rural France is unlikely plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to have a multitude him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of such femmes crossing his path in search of their daily baguettedead friends and former colleagues. That said, when Arthur one day opens As he recovers his front door to find a rather distressed but undeniably luscious Scarlett Johansson on his doorstepsenses, he does not question his luckrealises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. He invites her in''Everything''. As you doMichael isn't ''Michael'' anymore. |amazonukisbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=<amazonuk>0297871021</amazonuk>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 Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John PiperB0BYF82CXT|title=Claude's JourneySemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=One routine, normally uneventful journey changes Claude's life forever'Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house,. It begins with stuck in a chance encounter with a malevolent hen party depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and carries very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on with life, the betrayal of those he thought he could trust sending him into a spiral of captivity couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and fetishist slaverytheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00EJQSLLG</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Beth MillerShalini Boland|title= The Good NeighbourSilent Bride|rating= 4.53|genre= General Fiction|summary= Minette has not had the best experience of neighbours. It's hard when you have Alice and Seth are a new bornmatch made in heaven. They're not known He is everything she has been searching for being quiet as ; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a mouse at all times and occasionallywife; beautiful, wellsuccessful, occasionally they scream through confident… and so the nightinevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. So When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as shesurveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's glad when world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the nasty couple move and are replaced by Cath and altar is, who is waiting for her two kidsto become his wife. A fellow mother! An ally! Surely she will be more understanding?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091956331</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Fausto Brizzi1787636003|title= One Hundred Days The Girls of HappinessSummer|author=Katie Bishop|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Sometimes ''Serendipity'' coerces ''Fate'' into making sure you read a particular book. I picked ''One Hundred Days…'' off It was the shelf summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the back of the blurb from an author of a book I havenisland. Rachel wasn't actually readexactly 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. I confused the title It was quite a while before he made any sort of their book with one I adoredphysical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Make of that what you willAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, I'm going to call it a happy accident, because this is a book many of us really need to readlooking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447269012</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=S E CraythorneAmanda Craig|title=How You See MeThree Graces

|summary=DanielFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's father is ill after a stroke something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and so Daniel needs to go home to Norfolk to nurse him. While there he continues to write letters to his beloved girlfriend Alicecapture it, his sister Mab and his boss to keep them up to datecrafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. The problems in DanielTo say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's life are practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a lot closer to home than those he's left behind gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in his normal life though. Gradually the reasons why Daniel left Norfolk return to him, increasing in intensity until it's muchnever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, much too lategrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434562</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Massey 152915118X|title=The Last Four Days Of Paddy BuckleyPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5

|summary= Paddy Buckley ''Pineapple Street'' is 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 grieving widower who has worked for years for GallagherStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem'sexacerbated when the clan matriarch, a long-established—some say Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the best—funeral home in DublinPineapple Street property. One night driving home after an unexpected encounter with a client Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, Paddy hits a pedestrian crossing the streetor so away, which they own. He pulls over They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and gets out of his carCord can move straight in. Nominally, intending to do they had a choice but that wasn't the right thingreality. As he bends over Darley and Georgiana start to help call Sasha 'the man, he recognizes himgold digger'. It She's Donal Cullen, brother of one of the most notorious mobsters living in Dublin''their'' family home. And heThey use it so often that they abbreviate it to 's dead. Shocked and scared, Paddy jumps back in his car and drives away before anyone notices whatthe GD's happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594634858</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James LovegroveEmily Critchley|title=Sherlock Holmes - The Thinking EngineOne Puzzling Afternoon

|summary=In this hyperThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-connected worldconsuming, it is not difficult apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to conceive of machines that can answer perplexing questions in Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the blink Isle of an eye, communicate over Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a vast network or even seemingly outsmart humanswell-respected journalist. Of course The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in the year 1895, such a machine would be viewed with deep suspicion London and curiosity; hailed as a miracleholidays were spent at Sandcove, or condemned as the work family home on the Isle of dark supernatural forcesWight. James Lovegrove put this idea to Even then the test in his latest Sherlock Holmes adventure, doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo'The Thinking Engines mind: '', which pits man against machine she would never be able to leave him in the ultimate battle of witscharge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295031</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C B Calico1914585402|title=Dandelion AngelDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5

|summary=In her AuthorI reviewed David F Ross's Note, debut novelist C.B. Calico reveals that book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There'Dandelion Angel'' was inspired by s Only One Danny Garvey]] a non-fiction work, ''Understanding the Borderline Mother'' couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by Christine Ann Lawsonhow powerful and affecting it was. The four mother/daughter relationships in this Germany-set novel – all marked to some extent by dysfunctionIt was a gripping, physical and/or verbal abuseemotionally wounding read, and borderline personality disorder – are based rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on Lawson's metaphorical classifications: the hermit, the queen, the waif, and the witch. Looping back through her four storylines in three complete cycles, Calico shows how mental illness is rooted in childhood experiences and can go on to affect a whole familyit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0112SC9CA</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby and Kevin MoffettLucy Ashe|title=The Silent HistoryClara and Olivia

|summary=Meet LeviThe year is 1933. HeThe place? Sadler's a humble little dog living with a loving familyWells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. They've spent so much time with him he has learnt some tricks – Identical on the outside but not only the usual ones, of begging, or playing deadwe learn, but walking on two legs, somersaulting the inside. And not on to his two other pawsstage, and giving the Hitler saluteeither. If this was 2015 in the UK he would be shoe-in for BritainBecause there's Got Talent (although the Hitler salute might lose him a few voteslot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to be honest) but this is 1930s Berlin, detail – and some things are starting to get horrendously tough and nasty for Jewish families like his, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the classroom. Querying the statute laws that demand A stage presence, a formalisation of Jewish names his owners rename Levi after Siriuscharm, the Great Dog in the night skiesa ''joie de vivre''. But nobody can foresee what happens when Jews are pushed harder and harder from their neighbourhoodsThe difference between a hard-worker, and nobody can see what a Great Dog star Sirius can become, in the most unlikely of milieux – Hollywood….|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784081981</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meike ZiervogelHeather Fawcett|title=KautharEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Meet Lydia. SheEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's a normal British girlwork, interested in following both her fatherthe very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, and Nadia Comanecishe is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, into far North in the world small village of gymnastics but not brave enough to pull off Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the larger set piecesvillage matriarch, and with she is not much more sure what she has done, nor how to interrupt redeem herself and put her days than wondering why boys always have to talk about their williesfinal investigations for her book back on the right track. Now meet KautharEnter Wendell Bambleby, a white British convert to Islam, devoted follower of the precepts of her religiondashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, ardent wife all charm and stalwartly self-fulfillingdelight, no-nonsense and satisfiedmuch to Emily's frustration. But what is this – why is she talking of being alone in a desert, and why is she directly addressing her god regarding how she ''can't perform any movement. he here? Because it is torn apart''What does he want? Has something gone wrongAnd what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630292</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Heaberlin1398515388|title=Black Eyed SusansThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=I knew little about this book before I started First of all, it - other than was the intriguing title and earthquake, deep in the scant information that it is a psychological mystery about a girl who survives abduction by a serial killer. For those whoocean floor, like me, can't resist suspense (which created the tsunami and it seems that many people do fall into this category, according to in turn, caused the bestseller lists at least), this is enticement enoughnuclear meltdown. And I The result was not disappointed: this story offers psychological uncertainty complete and suspense from start to finishutter devastation. The narrative alternates between present day deaths were uncountable, and the past, each section lasting just loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a couple of pagesconvenience store. I found this structure tricky at first, although each chapter does offer He wasn't a helpful timeline and dog person but the chapters are short enough that itconvenience store owner's easy to reorient yourself. Once I got used comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to the choppy style I found that it did work, open his car door and it worked really well, reflecting the constant flashbacks and mental turmoil experienced by Tessa, Tamon the protagonistdog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181336</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tessa McWattChristopher Bowden|title= Higher Ed Mr Magenta|rating= 2.54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Robin works at Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a university. Olivia is one patient untangling of his students. Francine works behind the scenes in admin. Katrin is a waitress in a local caféseemingly ordinary woman's life, and Ed carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a role in safe harbour and a rather unique little bit of local government. This bizarre cast of characters are the stars of ''Higher Ed'', indulgence to a young nephew had had a story which eventually combines much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to find it all of their livesout.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925228045</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mary KubicaJennifer Mason|title= Pretty BabyPartitions of Unity|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= On her morning commute to workHere at Bookbag Towers, Heidi sees something that shakes her. A young girlwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, barely older than her own pre-teen daughter, huddling dominatrix and unintentional detective in the rain on the platform[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], clutching when she investigated and unravelled a tiny babyseries of disappearances. ItIn ''s a distressing situation and it stays on her mind for the rest Partitions of the day. So much so that when she sees the girl againUnity'', she feels obligated sets her mind to helpsolving a murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848453965</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

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