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|author=Jennifer MasonOnyi Nwabineli|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
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|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in Anuri spent her childhood on display to the Northern California redwoodsworld, a 400thanks to her step-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympicsmother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, a womenwhere she posted every step of Anuri's track coach with a yen childhood for bullwhipssponsorships and influencer deals and, a billionaire with a state-of-the-art S&M dungeonbasically, a man serving a monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life sentence in Alabamaback, an enigmatic signaturesuing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, K(sfailing to start her PhD, x)undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, on a cheap oil paintingshe is desperately worried about her little sister, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This who is just a sample of the cast new focus of characters and settings in PreposterousOphelia's online empire. As you can see Can she save her sister, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=B09STS96HS0861546873
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|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM1529153298|title=The Calculations List of Rational MenSuspicious Things|author=Daniel Jennie Godfrey
|rating=5
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|summary=It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Just to put what happens in context(A woman? I mean, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's mindshonestly.. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. ) But for Joe Marr, itShe's not the missile crisis thatwhat's worrying Miv's at the front of his mindfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. HeWell, they's ve been convicted of murdermurdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. With the current state of medical knowledge, itMiv's upset because she's hard overheard that her father wants to think otherwise than that move the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queenfamily 'Down South'. When you's Benchre from Yorkshire, Down South is a relatively new prisonfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. He's just getting used to his roommateFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, MervynSharon, and learning she'll do anything to be wary of prevent that. She's not worried about the McArthur brothersdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=A C Wise1035906708|title=HookedDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary=It’s been twenty two years since Captain HookWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, now going by just ‘James’but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, has been in Neverland. Living a new life in LondonNew York, he has never completely escaped his past. But now he senses the edges of the beast circling around his life in London, December 1923 and only moved to Athens when suddenly he finds himself face she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to face make it more manageable in the street with Wendy, he knows that the line between this world and Neverland is growing thinStates. The beast is finally coming to When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get him, and in appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the process will pull Wendy Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her daughter Jane back into their past once againpreference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=1789096839
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|isbnauthor=B09Y451X9KAlexander McCall Smith|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)|author=Richard F WalkerThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
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|summary= ''Anything can happen at The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a birthday partymore personal, particularly when tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the birthday boy business, as Ness is the young Lord of the Manorplanning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. But when an eerie signal Katie is picked coming out of a break up in the early hourswith a bad boyfriend, George and his so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new girlfriendstory from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the vivacious Lady AntoniaIsabel Dalhousie novels, embark on a quest but with some new characters who quickly begin to uncover its incredible messagecharm. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets the cat out of the bag 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 the world goes into rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a state of panichand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.''5|genre=ParanormalCould |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 be? Could '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? Have aliens reached out and contacted Earth? George and Antonia find themselves lifted 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 their privileged lives of parties Benny, and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into the world will certainly take care of advanced scienceBenny's enemies, if he, Benny, secret agents.and politicians hungry for powerHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=0241542405Katherine Howe|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire AlexanderA True Account
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1Hannah Masury is living in Boston,214 days. She'd ''like'' having been sent to: in factlive with a family who run an inn, she so nearly doesand being made to work there from a young age. Her outdoor clothes are on and When she's even considered which shoes hears there is to wear if be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she's going decides to catch her traingo and watch. ThenEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, she canHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy'ts death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She simply canhides away, so that they don't force herself find and kill her too, and then to leave the safety of her home. She's fortunate that escape them completely she has runs away to sea, dressing as a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James boy and Matilda. Sadiejoining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sensecabin boy. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her catShe soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and from there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does we are caught up in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'srip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|isbn=0861547438
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|authorisbn=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)1471180158|title=Tasting SunlightMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sally is Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a teenager man who 's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has run away from an anorexia treatment clinichis problems'. She just wants space, He's asthmatic and for people to stop questioning herthe more you read, tiptoeing around her, and trying the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to fix her without ever truly understanding her. She finds herself on some farmland with take time off at short notice - she's a woman called Liss who is frequent flier in her forties the local A&E and seems sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to live aloneschool. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally as she is, giving her a room to sleep in, and Missed shifts or the space need to just be. As they work together away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the farm, wrong. It was going to come to a closeness develops between them, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendshiphead.|isbn=1914585143
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|isbn= B09NDJ77LMB0CKD1L5JL|title=Me and My ShadowRadio Free Olympia|author=Deborah StoneJeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= ''What happens when someone Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is pushed too brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and they begin to lose their grip armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on reality? How would you cope if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go a journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to be happy? Accompany Rachel as a school where she tries is taught to shake off lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the shadows of her past same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and attempts to repair decades worth Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of painespionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''This story is not for everyone.''
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|isbn=B09MSC981W1472263936|title=The Woke IliadFigurine|author=George BoreasVictoria Hislop|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Helen is a popular activistIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. Or should we call She was alone: her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anywaymother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, Helen is so popular but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the United States government has made her its Ambassador first of Wokeseveral annual visits. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of She grew to love her grandmother and the governmentfamily's maid, Dina, including the Shaming Conference but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''for indoctrinating Junta and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to have itaccommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors. Ouch!
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|isbnauthor=0008441618Dean Koontz|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah StovellAfter Death|rating=53|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head Michael Mace, Head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a house price slump virus is released in that part of the towna bio-hazard accident. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a considerable benefit sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the schoolshrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. There was one difficultyAs he recovers his senses, though - they were he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''devastatingly shockableEverything'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence 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 Kate Monroe objected to Jopoor. It's restrictions 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 toys children could bring in on Toy Day but village and that was just is the reason Volushka, a warmdrunken, self-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationindulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.
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|authorisbn=Giovanna FletcherB0BYF82CXT|title=Walking on SunshineSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that she was dying Bill and that they would need help to carry on Amanda are living. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobein a semi-detached house, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one stuck in a depressing rut of their trips awayboredom and disappointment, when Terry and Vicky and ZazaFiona – glamorous, struggling with their grief successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their own different outlooks on life troubles, decide the couples befriend each other and life appears to drop everything in their own livesimprove for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and go along with himtheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|isbn=140593560X''
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Shalini Boland|title=Red is My HeartThe Silent Bride|rating=3.5|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white Alice and read Seth are a match made in my househeaven. And so was this one He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, although I funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could have spelled that more accurately – this one waspossibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is, black eagerly accepted by Alice and white the wedding is planned and redset. Yes When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, he has an artistic collaborator on beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this piecejoyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, and I think itAlice's possible world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideasbecome his wife.|isbn=19135471831662507089
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|authorisbn=Andrew Sharp1787636003|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - is, in his mind, It was the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. Mozzy is earnest summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and dedicated to his task Caroline went backpacking around Greece and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for arrived on the guests at BODisland. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-W safaris but his dream is old Alistair Wright started to become the head chef of a restaurant take an interest in London or a big American cityher, she was flattered rather than wary. Even to win It was quite a Michelin star. He is thwarted in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben while before he made any sort of physical approach to you her and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for his scruffy waysHenry Taylor, looking after his uninterest interests on the island and in particular in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the housebar where all the girls either worked or partied.|isbn=B09926MK8H
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|isbnauthor=1901514978Amanda Craig|title=There's a Problem With Dad|author=Carlos AlbaThree Graces
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Life is different for George Lovelace and he can't really understand whyFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. HeThere's always done everything he ought to: steady worker, husband and father - and a father something so utterly compelling about any writer who was always there for school plays can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and sports dayscapture it, crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. So why is he never quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why To say that Amanda Craig is someone with such a ''good'' mind unable to progress skilled at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breath-taking gaffes? Itdoing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's almost become practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a cliche these days to suggest that someone who is a little different is 'on gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the spectrum', but George Lovelace has all day into the symptoms lives of Asperger's Syndrome: highher characters in a way that feels natural and lived-functioning autismin, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X
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|authorisbn=Freya Sampson152915118X|title=The Last LibraryPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I am always a little nervous ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to start a story about a librarytheir brother Cord. They're Stocktons, since I am only Sasha isn't a librarianStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. I always grit my teeth slightly at The problem's exacerbated when the thought of the incoming cardigan-wearingclan matriarch, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this storyTilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the main characterPineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, June, does put her hair in a bunstreet or so away, and she does which they own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn. They won't immediately throw the book out need any of the windowfurniture from Pineapple Street, because I found I was interested so Sasha and Cord can move straight in June. Nominally, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used to be they had a librarian at choice but that wasn't the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University reality. Darley and stayed at home Georgiana start to take care of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at call Sasha 'the local librarygold digger'. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mum She's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mumliving in ''their''s old booksfamily home. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the changeGD'.|isbn=183877369X
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|author=Emily Critchley
|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small FlowersOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating=34|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= The Tiny Gestures 84 year old Edie has lived in the 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, Edie is tormented by the memory of Small Flowers had all her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the hallmarks truth of something goodwhat happened all that time ago. I After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was intrigued by the plotlast time she saw her, liked the design she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the bookpast, she is forgetting more and thought more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I's work sounded interestingd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but 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 later wisdom, the 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. From Set against the outset backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it all looked incredibly promisingchanged her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 19114270910861546490}}
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|isbn=B093VPBL5L0008506337|title=Cape Henry HouseThe Garnett Girls|author=Jolly Walker BittickGeorgina Moore|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet BosnerThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, or, to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosnerapparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. We never really find out if he has a first name: thereRichard was twenty-one and described by Margo's merely a hint that he had the nickname mother as 'Secretaryan older man' at one point. HeHer parents worried that Richard's simply Bosner influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to one Oxford and allhaving a glittering career. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of 2008 when he was a greaser Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on helicopters (or helos, as they were called) at to become a naval establishmentwell-respected journalist. The hours could be long couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and he Sasha. Life was often working nights but lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the age Isle of twenty-one, there was always a way Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his dayleave him in charge''. Then Richard left them.
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|isbn=B095CY7NBN1914585402|title=Autumn CampDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Barry FowlerDavid F Ross
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It was to be BrianI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's last camp. HeOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There'd founded the organisation some four s Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years ago back and had done all the organisation since but he remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was leaving school and the time had come to hand the reins to someone else. The obvious person It was Garya gripping, who'd always been the fun element of the camps and Brian had said that on this campemotionally wounding read, Gary should act as the leader and he'd just be there to observe. The problem with this rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that Gary wasn't really an organiser, an administrator if you like. He was the entertainer, the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did the organising. He handed the camp over - and then took I might not have lavished enough praise on it back. And Gary determined to have his revenge. This should have been ''his'' camp.
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|author=John BoyneLucy Ashe|title=The Echo ChamberClara and Olivia|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He The year is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record"1933. He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him sheThe place? Sadler's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withWells. They have three childrenBallerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, who are a sad-sack with absolutely twins no social skills whatsoeverless. Identical on the outside but not, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signallingwe learn, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save on the worldinside. And not on stage, either. Because there's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thinglot that builds a dancer. Add in a few other characters Some things that can be taught or learnt – therapistsdiscipline, lawyersattention to detail – and some things, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life''je ne sais quoi'', and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to don't come from the modern worldclassroom. What suggests the farcical approach even moreA stage presence, a charm, howevera ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, is the fact this is bloody funnyand a star.|isbn=08575262190861544080
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|isbnauthor=0008444501Heather Fawcett|title=The Answer to Everything|author=Luke KennardEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Life should have been good for Emily. She had a lovely husbandWilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, Stevenand researched meticulously, who was a speech therapist. We'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other and donwrite her life't even sleep in s work, the same bedvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. It isn't Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, she is not so much that Emily has left good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the marital bed as that she's sharing a bed with one small village of her children as it's Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the only way village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to get him to sleep during redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the nightright track. Arthur Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily has a job to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a week. They've not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: it's a trendy area that has been gentrified and it's run on semi-communal linesfrustration. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120
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|authorisbn=Louise Beech1398515388|title=This Is How We Are HumanThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother to her sonFirst of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wantscaused the nuclear meltdown. Sebastian has decided that it's time for him to have sex The result was complete and utter devastation. But as an autistic 20 year-old The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact thatmany 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 convenience store. He wasn's easier said than done. And itt a dog person but the convenience store owner's starting comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to cause them both problemsopen his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in. |isbn=1913193713}}
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|author=Ananda DeviChristopher Bowden|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsMr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins Christopher Bowden's latest novel is one a patient untangling of the shortest books I've read in a long while, but itseemingly ordinary woman's one life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of the most dramatic. It's also told in indulgence to a young nephew had had a way much more interesting life than that I can only describe as brutal: nephew Stephen had ever realised and it spares nothing and pulls very few punches, the descriptions stark and unromanticseems to him an obligation to find it all out.|isbn=0993009344B0B6Z9VJDW}}
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|author=C J CareyJennifer Mason|title=WidowlandPartitions of Unity
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's April 1953Here at Bookbag Towers, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bitwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved unintentional detective in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and we are now unravelled a protectorate – well, we share enough series of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on disappearances. In ''the mainlandPartitions of Unity''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into she sets her mind to solving a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widowsmurder. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198XB09LQR9FRF
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|isbnauthor=0857527231Will Carver|title=Dog Days|author=Ericka WallerThe Daves Next Door|rating=54
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|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angry. It's eight days since Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his wife, Ellen, died and it's the first time that she's let him down. He's lost, bereft without her ( he ''needs his wife, like vest on a snail needs its shell'')London tube line. He misses As their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the doorstepfates overlap, he'd much rather have a good row with someone. He's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared to contradict him when he story is told her that the dog wasn't staying. Now he's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want and a load of busybodies who are trying to interfere in his life. Worst of all is Betty, who won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Luckybackwards order, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying leading up to escape from and destroy themthe fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}}
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|author=Martin VenningJennifer Mason|title=The Primary ObjectivePreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=24
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|summary= Sometimes ''A struggling poetry zine, a book starts off slowlymom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, but eventually draws you in to caring about a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the characters or simply wanting to know what happens next. Sometimes it doesn2004 Olympics, a women't. The basic premise is s track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a good one – billionaire with a clandestine organisationstate-of-the-art S&M dungeon, operating as a charityman serving a life sentence in Alabama, but funded by various governments around the world and partially an enigmatic signature, K(maybes, I'm not surex) under the auspices of the UN, with the primary objective of keeping the peaceon a cheap oil painting, by any means possiblean erotic art dealer in Georgia. Diplomacy ..'' This is always just a sample of the first option cast of characters and sometimes one that needs to settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be carried out by third parties, but for situations when that looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains a call-on list required! The basic premise of field operatives, ex-military, medics, scientists or anyone else with a taste for adventure and willing to risk their life for the sake of itthis mystery story goes like this...|isbn=1800461100B09STS96HS
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|authorisbn=Karen M McManusB0B2N7MVYM|title=The CousinsCalculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= The rich and famous Story family led a life It's the 10th of luxury on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago December 1962 when each of the Story children - Anders, Archer, Adam and Allison - received a mysterious letter from their mother and were cut off completelywe first meet Dr Joseph Marr. But now, a quarter of a century later, their children have been called to return Just to the island for the summer by their grandmother. What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really put what they seem? The dark web of twisted lieshappens in context, secrets and tragedy that has held the Story family up - and held them apart - for a quarter of a century Cuban missile crisis is about to come crashing down.|isbn=0241376947}}{{Frontpage|author=Ruth Hogan|title=Madame Burova|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=This book lets us discover several still very fresh in people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected's minds. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in The world has barely had a humdrum job wanting chance to become a singer, and chiefly, Imeldabreathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's at the third generation front of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her familyhis mind. He's sea-front boothbeen convicted of murder. The singerWith the current state of medical knowledge, the scryer and the suffererit's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the Joe Marr has spent his first time few days in the family stall. We also see her on her last dayHMP Queen's Bench, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billierelatively new prison. Just who is sheHe's just getting used to his roommate, and who delivered the secrets about her to ImeldaMervyn, and why did it have learning to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331Xbe wary of the McArthur brothers.
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