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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan CoeOnyi Nwabineli|title=Number 11Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5

|summary=ThereAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's a great deal of significance in the title increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of ''Number 11''. ItAnuri's the common abbreviation childhood for the home of the Chancellor of the Exchequersponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, as well as a bus route around the outskirts of Birmingham which provides a useful haven for those who can't afford to put the heating on at homemonetary gain. It's also Jonathan Coe's eleventh novel. On a level more personal Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to the characters in the book it's also the number of floors below ground which are being added regain her confidence and to a house in Chelsea owned by an obscenelyget her life back, suing her step-rich familymother to take down the content about her. Even more obscene Anuri is the fact that the owner of the house doesn't know what she wants that floor battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for - everything that could possibly be added (swimming pool with palm treesdoing so. Most importantly, wine cellarshe is desperately worried about her little sister, bank vault, staff quarters...) who is on the other floors or in the house itselfnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. But Mrs Gunn wants it because Can she can have it.save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670923796</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nils Schou1529153298|title= Salinger's Letters|rating= 3|genre= General Fiction|summary=Dentist-turned-author Dan Moller is struggling, both financially and mentally, when an opportunity presents itself in the form of a pair of Americans. They offer to sweep away Moller's financial worries in exchange for his correspondence with J. D. Salinger, the elusive author of The Catcher in the Rye. What follows is, for Dan Moller, a journey to America to meet Salinger, and, for the reader, a journey through these letters into Moller's relationship with his depression, the lives List of the eccentrics in his writers' collective, and into Western intelligentsia ranging from Kiergegaard's writings to a psychedelic apparition of pop icons featuring Andy Warhol and Woody Allen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124656</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSuspicious Things|author=Chuck Palahniuk|title=Beautiful YouJennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=Meet Penny HarriganIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. And let(A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's hope your introduction not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her is more gentle than that we have on father wants to move the first page of this bookfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, where she Down South is being raped in front of a full court housefrightening, who – male to the bone – sit back and say nothingforeign place, if not whip out their camera phonebest avoided. Once people take her out on a gurney and recognise For Miv, the move would mean leaving herbest friend, we can start from the beginningSharon, where and she is a lowly underling at a law firm, having failed too many exams 'll do anything to progress satisfactorilyprevent that. The company is where the worldShe's richest man is in legal negotiations having left not worried about the worlddangers or that her Mum's best and most beautiful actress, and lo and behold he just happens stopped talking - to pick Penny to replace her with, even if she doesn't think of herself as the most beautiful girl aroundanyone. But what exactly is it she is wanted for, and can her apolitical style of feminism and aspirations be met?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958767X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa Hill1035906708|title=The Hotel on Mulberry BayDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5

|summary=Penny and Elle Harte are sistersWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but they couldn't be more different. The two had an idyllic childhoodshe was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, brought up in the family hotel in the scenic Irish coastal town of Mulberry BayDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Ambitious Elle always had the urge Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to spread her wings and fly, whereas her dreamy younger sister was content 'Callas' to stay at home and help her parents out make it more manageable in the hotelStates. As time passed, When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the sisters Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no longer had the close bond they once shared, especially with Elle living in London, enjoying secret of her preference for her successful and demanding role as an architect. A family tragedy brings the sisters together once more; howeverelder sister, and family loyalties are tested as never beforeJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471127710</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John SearanckeAlexander McCall Smith|title=Prunes for BreakfastThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=Edward Searancke was called up The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to serve his country all the online apps in 1940providing a more personal, not long tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the outbreak of the Second World War and we hear his story from initial call-up, through the years of preparation for the invasion of Francebusiness, as Ness is planning to his eventual release as take a Prisoner of War and return home trip to attempt Canada to pick up the pieces of everyday lifeget away for a while. It's Katie is coming out of a delightful mixture of the mundane (the difficulties of getting dry clothing, problems break up with his feet) and the dramatic (being surrounded and captured in an orchard in Northern France and his life as a prisoner of war) bad boyfriend, and much of so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story is told through the genuine letters from Searancke Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to his wife which were handed an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to his son after his father's deathcharm. John Searancke tells us the story of his fatherKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's war.always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784625051</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithDean Koontz|title=Chance Developments: Unexpected Love StoriesThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny 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, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5

|summary=SometimesHannah Masury is living in Boston, if I'm in having been sent to live with a cafe by myselffamily who run an inn, I like and being made to watch the people around me and imagine stories about their liveswork there from a young age. Just When she hears there is to be a single sentencehanging of some pirates in the town, overheard, can lead she decides to wonderous tales of mystery go and intrigue whilst I sip my cappuccino! watch. So I was delighted to sit down to read Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the latest offering from AMShands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, not only because he wrote it, but because he wrote it after looking at 5 different black so that they don't find and white photographskill her too, and then imagining the stories behind to escape them. Who are all these peoplecompletely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and what are their stories? joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Each story She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is uniquea mutiny on board, and yet they all have one abiding link...lovefrom there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973295</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Helle Helle and Martin Aitken (translator)1471180158|title=This Should be Written in the Present TenseMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary= This is Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the first novel subtlety of Helle Hellea half brick. Jamie'sson, an award winning Danish authorBo, to be translated into English'has his problems'. It is easy to see from this novel why she is gaining accolades in her Danish homeland. The rhythmicHe's asthmatic and the more you read, natural flow of the narrative is mesmerising and appears to lull more you through the book. It has some lovely, spare sentences of description: 'll suspect that he'There were run-down cottages with open doors and news s on the radioautistic spectrum. Gulls flocked around an early harvester Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the late sun'local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. But mostly, it is written 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 wrong. It was going to come to a modernist, almost stream of consciousness style, which I found refreshinghead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587475</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Homer HickamB0CKD1L5JL|title=Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of a Man, His Wife and Her AlligatorRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=54|genre= General Fiction|summary=Elsie Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and Homer Hickam were West Virginians and knew how to make their tales as ''tall as busy human society, in the hills that surrounded them on all sides'forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. There is a Hickam family legend that has been told After Bear dies and retold so many times over the years that the lines between myth and reality have become well and truly blurred. ''Carrying Albert Home'' is the story of a man and his wifebrief sojourn in human company, a sweet pet alligator and armed with only a very lucky rooster who decide to take pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a road trip to Florida in 1935; journey through the year of forest, broadcasting the Great Depression. What follows next is all completely truestrange, well, except for the parts that are made up.wild and rarely heard voices he encounters..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000815421X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lina Wolff and Frank Perry (translator)Sarah Marsh|title= Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Upstairs, a flat where mother and daughter struggle from pay cheque to pay cheque; downstairs, the love nest of a dying writer and her last A Sign of many conquests. Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs is a multilayered testimonial to the writer, the eccentric Alba Cambó, gathered by Araceli, the teenager upstairs. Through Araceli's bird's-eye view, anecdotes unfold as told by lovers, business acquaintances (often both – for with Alba Cambó you can never know), and the short stories of Cambó herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276649</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=John Van der Kiste|title=Always ThereHer Own

|summary=When Dave left Plymouth to go to college in Uxbridge he met LisaAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. They sort of palled around together for Suddenly plunged into a little while with no thought world of anything moresilence, well, not on Dave's part at leasteverything about her life changes. The he met Jo and for Living in a long time they were really good friends and it would be when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a couple of years before they were anything moreschool where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Lisa didn't see it that way though: From here, she reckoned that if Jo hadn't come along she and Dave would have stuck together ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and made using a go of itsystem called Visible Speech. Dave At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Jo's couple Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of years at college were marked, if not marred, by Lisa's regular outburstsespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1517761239</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela HartB0BC3YTCMR|title=The Soldier's WifeGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5

|summary=''...none of it was real, until the last moment when his hand, the tips of his fingers, left the tips of hers and he was goneThis story is not for everyone.''

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'Turned into s 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 another soldieran extension.'' She went to his house and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home.}}

Ruby and Jimmy are newly-weds full of big dreams and plans for the future, but all of {{Frontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was in 1968 that will have Helena McCloud made her first trip to waitGreece. It is 1915 She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and the world is in the grip Great Warrefused to return, sweeping Jimmy away to fight battles in far-off Gallipoli. Ruby feels like shebut Mary and Hamish (Helena's in limbo; no longer an innocent child but not quite parents) felt that it would be a fully-fledged married ladypity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Not wanting Her trip to return home, she decides to stay the family apartment in Sydney, to keep herself occupied as she waits out the war, longing for up-market Kolonaki would be the return first of her beloved husbandseveral annual visits. She rents a room from a local landlady grew to love her grandmother and finds a job as a bookkeeper at a Timber Merchant. Although she initially takes the job to keep herself occupied family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and earn a little moneyfrightened - of her grandfather, she soon falls into a comfortable routine retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and starts expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to enjoy accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her new-found independence and responsibilityfather's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410186</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice ThompsonDean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Book CollectorGrave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary=Meet VioletThe village is isolated and poor. Swept off her feet It's surrounded by a disarming encounter with a landed gentleman 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 bookshop owner at a coffee shopwarmth, she immediately falls in love with himroofs on homes, and is quickly marriedeven gallows, and almost as quickly with childif needed. When the boy The fear of being buried alive is born, however, fairly understandable doubts creep in. Is her husband hiding anything behind his assuredness – especially when she wakes an existential superstition in the middle of the night alone? What ghost village and that is left by the fact he lost his first wife and baby in childbirth? What should she understand from her own opinions about her new lifereason Volushka, a drunken, her new life's lifeself-indulgent, and the idea lazy lout of a nanny looking after it? Just what man is going on in her new country pile?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630438</amazonuk>tolerated.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie DuffyB0BYF82CXT|title=Bright StarsSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=3.54

|summary= I fell into this novel from the first short chapter, set ''Bill and Amanda are living in 1983a semi-detached house, at Lancaster University – perhaps because I grew up stuck in the 1980's. The central character a depressing rut of boredom and first person narrator, Cameron Spark, comes across as vulnerabledisappointment, shy when Terry and unassumingFiona – glamorous, successful and at firstvery much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, likeable. As the novel progressed, however, I did find him less plausible couples befriend each other and a bit wet and annoyinglife appears to improve for both pairs. He falls in mad love with Bex right at the beginning of the book, who But all is a much more interesting character, being a feisty, feministnot what it seems, fox-hunting activist and saboteur. Cameron is clearly besotted and therefore biased in his affection their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for Bex, and you can sense that this is going to get him into deep trouble from the starttragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079840</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jack WilsonShalini Boland|title=In FidelityThe Silent Bride

|summary=Dick Alice and Christine Blodgett were only 22 when they got married Seth are a match made in 1955heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. As the novel opens She is all he could possibly want in 1974a wife; beautiful, successful, it's clear their relationship confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is now precariousplanned and set. A brief allegorical prologue When the much-anticipated day arrives, echoing HeraclitusAlice is walked down the aisle by her father, warns that a crisis will change beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the course of the marriage irrevocably: 'one congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day there was a storm…and the stream never returned and when Seth turns to the [channel] it had known before.' The title of Chapter 1face his approaching bride, Alice'A Premonition of Danger's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, reinforces that sense of foreboding. Driving on dark, icy roads, Dick and Christine fret about who is waiting for her health: a dental procedure revealed a serious problem with her gums for which she will soon need a biopsyto become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784623830</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Jolien JanzingKatie Bishop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a 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 island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.}}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Craig|title=Charlotte Bronte's Secret LoveThree Graces|rating=34.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=This is Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the second -nation novel by Jolien Janzing. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a Dutch author who gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in Belgiuma way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4. Originally published in Dutch as 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''The MasterPineapple Street'' in 2013is the story of three women: Sasha, it Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is already being made married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into a filmthe tribe. The flawlessly translated story zeroes in on two momentous years in Charlotte Brontëproblem's lifeexacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, 1842–3asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, when she was a pupil street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and then Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a teacher at choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the Pensionnat Heger in Brusselsgold digger'. I read this She's living in tandem with Claire Harman's new biography of Charlotte Brontë; 'their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it was particularly fascinating to see that 'the two books open with the same climactic episode: lovesick Charlotte making a confession at a Catholic church, even though she was an Anglican parsonGD's daughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380597</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jojo MoyesEmily Critchley|title=After YouOne Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=After writing 84 year old Edie has lived in the massively popular ''Me Before You''same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, all Edie is tormented by the memory of Jojo Moyes' readers were clamouring her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for moreLucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. Having been on After 'seeing' Lucy in the edge of our armchairs during high street, just as she was the storylast time she saw her, we all wanted she starts to know what happened find pockets of memories coming back to Lou nexther. Would And yet as she be okay? Would remembers the past, she live is forgetting more and more in her day to day life with passion? . Where would Will she go next? So uncover the arrival of this story is a special treattruth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, as it continues the tale of Lou, although perhaps not in the way we had imagined…and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718179617</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mike BullenMadelaine Lucas|title= TrustThirst for Salt|rating= 45|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= Greg ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and Amanda are happy. Unmarriedweightless feeling, but together thirteen years and I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with two young daughterslater wisdom, they are very much in lovethe narrator 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. Dan and Sarah arenSet against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town 't so fortunate. Their marriage is going through the motions, and they're staying together Thirst for Salt'' details the sake of their troubled teenage son. Following a business conference away from home24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, one bad decision sends a happy couple into turmoildepicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and turns an unhappy couple into love's young dreamfamilial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably. As secrets and betrayals threaten to send both relationships out of control, there's only one thing that can keep everything from falling apart: Trust|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751559253</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Menna Van Praag0008506337|title=The Dress Shop Of DreamsGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary= Cambridge is a city of winding streets and cobbled alleyways The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in such a street you will find A Stich In Time, a tiny dress shop filled to bursting with dresses that will take your breath awaylove. Etta Sparks spends her days crafting gowns from jewelRichard was twenty-coloured velvets one and beaded silks described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that are unlike any dresses you have seen before; once you try one of EttaRichard's creations on influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and with having a few stitches glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from her expert the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and rather magical needle went on to become a well- these incrediblerespected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, amazing garments have the power family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to reach within your soul and extract your deepest desire and hidden-away dreamsleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749018720</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{Frontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=Dashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. It was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ruth RendellLucy Ashe|title=Dark CornersClara and Olivia

|summary=Carl Martin was in the fortunate position of having just had his first novel published and inheriting his late fatherThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's house in Maida ValeWells. His father had accumulated a collection of homeopathic remedies which really should have been thrown outBallerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but Carl had other things on his mind and never got round to it. There was his girlfriend Nicolanot, we learn, work to start on his second novel and he wanted to let the top floor of his houseinside. Authors are And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that well offcan be taught or learnt – discipline, you see attention to detail – and he needed some ready money coming inthings, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the classroom. In addition to being A stage presence, a charm, a bit remiss about the contents of the medicine cabinet he should have been ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a bit more careful about who he took on as hard-worker, and a tenantstar.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091959241</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Franck and Anthea Bell (translator)Heather Fawcett|title=WestEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=3.54|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Put yourself in the shoes of a young mother to two childrenEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, who declares her intention to leave the Communist East Germany for West Berlinand she has travelled extensively, and thus loses researched meticulously, to write her scientist job. What would you expect on the other side – shops full of attainable products, pleasant neighbourhoods, nice neighbours, an active and busy new life's work, where things might feel alien but at least you speak the same language? very first encyclopaedia of faeries. WellWhilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, for Nelly Senff, this she is hardly the casenot so good with people. Once past So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the depressing Eastern exit procedures village matriarch, she is confronted with more desultory interrogations from those 'welcoming' not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her to book back on the Westright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, beyond which she her dashingly handsome and her children (their fatherinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, whom she never marriedall charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is long assumed dead by the authorities, if nobody else) are practically left in a shared accommodation in a transit camp. he here? What does he want? The shops are full of And what exactly is still unobtainable, going on with the children hate their new school – and people still look down on them as being foreign, even if they have only moved across a city.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099554321</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beverley Hansford1398515388|title=The Golden AnkletBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=34.5

|summary=Jane Carroll is becoming more First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and more successful as a young journalist on a woman's magazine. Yetthis, although her future looks securein turn, Jane would like to discover more about her pastcaused the nuclear meltdown. As an orphan she The result was raised in a children's home with no information regarding complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the identity loss of her parents apart from what livelihoods was on her birth certificatewidespread. Therefore armed with this certificate and The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the help list of her new boyfriend Bob, not to mention genealogist dabbling neighbour Gerald, priorities but - six months after the search beginstsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. However nothing is as straightforward, or indeed as safe, as she thought it He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would becall Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784624675</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane L GibsonChristopher Bowden|title=A Different ReflectionMr Magenta

|summary=Eternal optimist Kat has always believed in fairytales and happy endings but canChristopher Bowden't help but wonder where her own life went wrong. Stuck in s latest novel is a patient untangling of a dead-end relationship with dull workaholic John, itseemingly ordinary woman's hardly the happy-ever-life, carried out by her nephew after that she'd has died. The aunt who always hoped for. Things are about to change, however, when Kat discovers provided a mysterious house that has been cursed by an enchantment; a handsome Regency beau is trapped within the mirrors safe harbour and only a declaration little bit of true love can break the spell indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and release it seems to him..an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784622508</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandy HogarthJennifer Mason|title=The Glass GirlPartitions of Unity|rating=3.54

|summary=Sandy Hogarth's debut novel opens in 1975 with fifteen-year-old Ruth Bishop attending a party with her older sisterHere at Bookbag Towers, Alexis. 'They called me VLwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, Virgin Lipsdominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], because I'd never kissed when she investigated and unravelled a boyseries of disappearances. Sex wasnIn 't mentioned at home.' That all changes when Alexis tells Ruth to go outside – someone is waiting for her. ItPartitions of Unity's one of Alexis's friends, a notorious bad boy, and he assaults Ruth right there, up against the house. Could Alexis really have intended for this to happen? Ruth soon learns she is pregnant and arranges sets her mind to move to Australia and live with her friend Lucy's aunt in Melbourne until the birthsolving a murder. She gives her beloved daughter Clare up for adoption, but never stops thinking about her. No one but Lucy knows there ever was a baby.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785071548</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BoyneWill Carver|title=The Boy at the Top of the MountainDaves Next Door|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Pierrot. As Five strangers come together in one moment as a very young child in 1930s Paris he is going suicide bomber prepares to have a very awkward journey through detonate his young life. His father is vest on a violent drunk, reacting badly to what he saw in WWI, and although married to a French woman, is still staunchly GermanLondon tube line. That woman, EmilieAs their fates overlap, the story is going to die, and leave Pierrot an orphan, which will leave him told in a home where he is bullied. But from the reaches of Europe and from the black corners of his family comes an aunt, Beatrix, who will give him a home, of a kindbackwards order, at a most unusual mountaintop building. It's not her home – she just works there and had leading up to ask special permission from someone special. The place? The Berghofthe fateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857534521</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma BurstallJennifer Mason|title=TremarnockPreposterous: The Lives, Loves and Secrets of a Cornish VillageAn Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|summary=Welcome to Tremarnock; an idyllic Cornish fishing village with pastel''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-painted cottages and colourful fishing boats bobbing -pop mobile diner in the harbour. This pictureNorthern California redwoods, a 400-postcard setting is home to single-mum Liz and her disabled daughtermeter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, Rosie. Liz works hard to make ends meet and relies on the kindness of neighbours a women's track coach with a yen for childcare. Thankfullybullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the community are happy to rally round and provide friendship-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, supportx), on a listening ear and cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a cup sample of the cast of tea for hard-working Lizcharacters and settings in Preposterous. Soon she As you can see, some keeping up will need to rely on them more than ever, as her life takes an unexpected turn that threatens to destroy her happinessbe required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781857881</amazonuk>B09STS96HS

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Leigh BardugoB0B2N7MVYM|title= Six The Calculations of CrowsRational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating= 5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=In The BarrelIt's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, anything the Cuban missile crisis is possible for the right price, and no one knows this better than criminal mastermind, Kaz Brekkerstill very fresh in people's minds. When Kaz is offered The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's at a perilous mission that could turn the front of his poverty-stricken life upside downmind. He's been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, he is determined it's hard to see think otherwise than that the task fulfilled - prosecution would never have been brought but he wonJoe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. He't s just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be able to do it alonewary of the McArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1627792120</amazonuk>