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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step- Remove -->mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann-Marie MacDonald1529153298|title=Adult OnsetThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=3.5
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|summary=At midlifeIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, Mary Rose MacKinnon has settled down with her partnerthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, Hilarythey've been murdered, and is raising two young childrenbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Opting Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to fulfill move the role of stay at home mumfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, she has placed her career as an author on hold. What follows Down South is a bid to reconcile this new identity with frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her former idea of self. Successbest friend, howeverSharon, depends on Mary Rose facing up and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the confusions of dangers or that her pastMum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473610133</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diana Sweeney1035906708|title=The MinnowDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Diana Sweeney's ''The Minnow'' is an Australian book aimed at Young Adults that features deathWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, griefbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, abuseNew York, fear in December 1923 and lonelinessonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Teenage pregnancy lies at its heart while bereavement, and trying Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to come to terms with loss, bubbles just under the surface, constantly. But don't be misled. This novel isnCallas't some earnest pedagogical attempt to convey teenage angst and elicit grave pity or understanding from the reader. What rescues make it from mawkishness is more manageable in the beautiful voice of the narrator, Tom (or Holly, if you prefer her real name). Tom doesn't fall prey to self-pityStates. She simply describes her world as When she sees it, matter-ofwas back in Athens -fact. And the fact supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her view is rather unusual (voice - she talks to fish, dead people and was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her unborn child - and they talk back) doesn't really matter. Nothing can detract from the sheer lyricism made no secret of her voice. As a readerpreference for her elder sister, you just have to suspend disbelief and enjoy the rideJackie. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>192218201X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hermione EyreAlexander McCall Smith|title=Viper WineThe Perfect Passion Company
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|summary=Lorna was 12 when she was sent home from schoolThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, watched run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the unfurling events of 9/11 on her TV and recognised her father's office block aflame and fallingonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Her fight for mental survival started at that moment Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the use of alcohol business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to quell the memories came soon after but then she meets Danny – her life saverget away for a while. Shortly after this they marry Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and Danny joins so jumps at the armychance to come home to Edinburgh. He's sent And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to fight the monstersan Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the fundamentalist organisationsIsabel Dalhousie novels, which destroyed Lorna's childhoodbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. However when whatKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's left of his unit becomes lost in the desert without foodalways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, water or equipmentWilliam, the focus changes from military victory to personal survival and those monsters are still out there…lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910394564</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chigozie ObiomaDean Koontz|title=The FishermenBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=This book Benny is essentially having a cautionary family tale of four brothers terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and the way they react to a prophecy about them by the local madmanhis house gets trashed. It is also Oh, in and someone has delivered a sensereally weird, a comingdisturbing coffin-of-age story where Bensized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the young narratorthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is plunged into premature adulthood under the most brutal of circumstancesvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. And 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 about brotherly loveclearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. None Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of these descriptionsBenny's enemies, if he, howeverBenny, convey the fact that this book is written by an exciting new voice in African literary fictionand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957548850</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan KempKatherine Howe|title=GhostingA True Account|rating=4.5
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|summary=Grace Wellbeck Hannah Masury is 64 - living on a canal boat in London Boston, having been sent to live with her second husbanda family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she lives hears there is to be a relatively settled life hanging of routinesome pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch.A chance encounter with a man Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in the street changes everything though - a man who is young boy's death at the spitting image hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her firsttoo, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, deceased husbanddressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Is he She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a ghost? Is Grace going mad?mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956251560</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicci Cloke1471180158|title=Lay Me DownMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=ItJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's New Yeara control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's Eve and the nightclub is pulsating with soundson, Bo, 'has his problems'. The revellers heave He's asthmatic and swell in oceanic waves and Jack is preparing to call it a nightthe more you read, when the more you'll suspect that he is presented with Elsa's on the autistic spectrum. She is small; delicate and pretty and alluringly confident Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a heady combination for a man like Jack - frequent flier in the local A&E and though he wants, with every fibre of his being, sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to walk be away, on time to go home pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and forget her, he doesn'tput in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593653</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonia HoneywellB0CKD1L5JL|title=The ShipRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=Dystopian General Fiction|summary=Sixteen year old Lalla has spent her life in London – mostly inside her family homePetr is an orphan. Because this Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is not brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the London forests of today, or any other dayWashington's Olympic Peninsula. When Lalla was seven After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, the apocalypse arrived; banks crashed, flood defences failed, power failed – and the world could armed with only focus a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on survival. Now a journey through the Nazareth Act is in force and without your identity cardforest, you don’t exist – literallybroadcasting the strange, as you will be shot if you don't produce itwild and rarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297871498</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nigel PackerSarah Marsh|title=The Restoration A Sign of Otto LairdHer Own|rating=43.5
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|summary=''The Restoration After a bout of Otto Laird'' 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 an interesting concept for sent to a storyschool where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. It pitches an ageing architect against an ageing building that was built early From here, she ends up in Otto's careeranother school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. When Otto makes At the trip from Switzerland to London to try same time, Bell is working on other inventions and save Marlowe house from demolitionideas, he takes an unwilling journey down his own pastand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751553077</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian WalthewB0BC3YTCMR|title=The Complex Chemistry of LossGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Deep in rural France James Kerr ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was admitted 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's not easy being a psychiatric clinicblack girl whose skin is 84% white. His mental problems were deep and intractableShe had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Superficially he seemed never to have got over the sudden death of his mother and sister when Then he did: Lavender was a child very good at math and after their death his relationship with his father had deteriorated because his father refused to speak of their lossReggie asked if she would tutor him. There were additional factors tooShe readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: Kerr had spent some time in Afghanistan in a secret capacitythis was just an extension. In fact much of She went to his life since house and he went raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to university had involved putting up give her a front, but doing something else in the backgroundlift home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OLMHCW2</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brooke Davis1472263936|title=Lost and FoundThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Millie Bird keeps a notebookIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She writes in it all of was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the Dead Things family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that she seesit would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her Very First Dead Thing trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would 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 dog Rambograndfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Then there were other things a spider, a Bird… He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but then there was number 28saw no reason to accommodate them. The twenty His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes -eighth dead thing than Millie Bird noticed was inherited from her Dadfather's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958903</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan LethemDean Koontz|title=Dissident GardensAfter Death|rating=53|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 Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4
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|summary=Rose Zimmer, The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a feisty American communist radicalWitching 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, takes roofs on many good homes, and great causeseven gallows, if needed. These include everything from feminism and racism to the changing course The fear of Stalinism being buried alive is an existential superstition in the American C.P. but most of all; her biggest causes are the people around her. The effects upon them are diverse village and devastating. She often propels them to success but at that is the same time they feel battered and must escape according to their own needs. Her affections are real but invasive. Rose keeps reason Volushka, a shrine to Abraham Lincoln. Rose’s drunken, self-assertion within the perimeters of the German-designed 20th Century New York suburb indulgent, lazy lout of Queens, a multi-cultural suburb and a planned housing development similar to Hampstead Garden City provide the setting for Jonathan Lethem’s Tour de Forceman is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099563428</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Virginia BurgesB0BYF82CXT|title=The VirtuosoSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The title character of ''The Virtuoso'' is Isabelle BryantBill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a professional violinist who has earned the affectionate nickname of 'Beethoven's Babe'. She was the youngest-ever winner of the BBC Young Musician depressing rut of the Year competition boredom and gave her first solo performancedisappointment, of Beethoven's violin concertowhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, at Royal Albert Hallsuccessful and very much in love – move in next door. 'Her violin represented another limb Despite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and life appears to her, improve for both pairs. But all is not what it was that precious. It felt so naturalseems, like an extension of her bodyand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.' It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that the violin is Isabelle's life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00R07U0B0</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne TylerShalini Boland|title=A Spool of Blue ThreadThe Silent Bride|rating=4.53
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|summary=Every family has its tales which Alice and Seth are told and retold and a match made in the Whitshank family it was the story of how Abby heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and Red had fallen utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in love one ''a wife; beautiful, breezysuccessful, yellow-confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and-green afternoon'' in July 1959set. It would usually be told on When the porch of much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the Baltimore house which Red's aisle by her father had built, but on this final time of its telling the circumstances are different. Abby beaming with pride and Red are aging - even excitement as she surveys the glorious house is beginning congregation – their friends assembled to show its age - celebrate this joyful day and decisions have when Seth turns to be made about how to look after them. All face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the family are there, even Dennyaltar is, who can generally be relied on is waiting for her to do only what pleases himbecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701189517</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Miranda Sherry1787636003|title=Black Dog The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=3.5
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|summary=YesterdayIt 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, Sally perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was living in flattered rather than wary. It was quite a rambling farmstead with while before he made any sort of physical approach to her teenage daughter Gigiand by that time she was obsessed by him. Now Sally is dead, murdered Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and Gigi is alone in particular in the bar where all the worldgirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781859574</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Niyati KeniAmanda Craig|title=Esperanza StreetThree Graces|rating=4.5
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|summary=JosephFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's parents send him to work for Auntie Mary something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and her B&B business on Esperanza Street. Over the years there life for Joseph goes on capture it, crafting an image of the way country as it has for countless other youngsters from stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this Filipino town would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of Puertocontemporary social fiction at this point. His mother may have died too young and Joseph only sees his father one day She has such a week (and has to suffer church gift for part weaving the ongoing issues of that!) but there's the day into the lives of her characters in a rhythm to the market outside and foreign visitors within Auntie Mary's walls way that's familiar feels natural and comforting. It's a rhythm that's been there lived-in, never making them ciphers for generations social commentary but things changeinstead fully realised people, sometimes grappling with catastrophic resultsissues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276487</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McClea152915118X|title=A Word Glittering with SpikesPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=34.5
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|summary=We're going to follow the fortunes of two couples (or are they 'would-be couples' or Pineapple Street'might-have-been couples'?) as they navigate is the treacherous waters story of lovethree women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. David Castledine's first meeting with Jenny could hardly have been less auspicious: he hit herDarley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. He didnThey're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem'actually'' mean to hit her but he threw a stick for his aunts exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they's dog d like to chase and it caught her on move into the headPineapple Street property. Head wounds bleed profusely Tilda and Chip have renovated and this one was no exceptiondownsized to another property, a street or so David had to take her back to his auntaway, which they own. They won's apartment to clean her upt need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. I suppose there have been worse meetingsNominally, they had a choice but itthat wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's difficult living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to think of one!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993025501</amazonuk>'the GD'.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick Modiano, Sempe (illustrator) and William Rodarmor (translator)Emily Critchley|title=Catherine CertitudeOne Puzzling Afternoon
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=What little I know of Patrick Modiano was gained from the number of 'no, we've never heard of him, either' articles and summaries that came our way when he won 84 year old Edie has lived in the Nobel Prize same small town for Literature at the end of 2014. They suggested his oeuvre was maturealmost her whole life, slightly thriller-based but not exclusively so, now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and asked lots of accumulative questions regarding identity bring Edie to live with regard his family, as Edie is starting to the Vichy government during WWIIlose her memory. Identity However, Edie is a lot more fixed in this musing little piecetormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, for the adult voice-over looks back who went missing over a wide remove60 years ago, and says the worry that there will always was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be a little bit the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her living the events and situations , she starts to find pockets of the bookmemories coming back to her. Those situations are of a young dance-school attendeeAnd yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her loving and much-loved father, living a cosy day to day life in Paris – even if . Will she uncover the girl never once really works out what it is truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her father does for a living…memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443022</amazonuk>1804181250
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{{Frontpage
|author=Madelaine Lucas
|title=Thirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''
Told from a retrospective view, 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. Set against the 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 changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=R D Shanks0008506337|title=A Reverie of BrothersThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=3.5
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|summary=The castle of Delzeanlove affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, 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 walls have always protected Emperor Eliinfluence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, his sons, sister, niece they eloped and nephew Richard took her away from the ravages and poverty Isle of the people in the city beyondWight. However the days may be numbered as Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a burgeoning revolution has infiltrated its walls thanks to the rebel movement known as well-respected journalist. The Eyescouple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Their plan necessitates Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the unwitting involvement Isle of the spoilt, egotistical aforementioned niece, Princess AvaWight. Unfortunately there will Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be collateral damage with tragic effectsable to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1505631394</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Harkaway1914585402|title=TigermanDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5
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|summary=Battle-weary 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 suffering from PTSD, 40-year-old Sergeant Lester Ferris is posted to the island of Mancreu to mark time till his retirementremember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. With no family of his own, Lester takes It was a local lad under his wing; an adolescent who lives his own life through comic books and superheroes in the hope that he can be adopted. Despite Mancreu beginning to churn with more than its customary black marketeeringgripping, Lester realises that he has a job on his handsemotionally wounding read, not only to take care and rereading my review of an island it my main takeaway was that sees him as a government puppet but also convince someone that he is the stuff of heroism and to convince himself while he's at I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099591758</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen Thompson WalkerLucy Ashe|title=The Age of MiraclesClara and Olivia|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=''The Age of Miracles'' was one of those much-talked about books that I never got the time to read on its first go around. I'm not sure how I managed that, but I did. Anyway, it got debut author Thompson Walker a seven figure deal after a bidding war and it has dystopian themes, so it is right up my alley and not the sort of thing I'd usually miss. And so, I was happy that Simon & Schuster decided to reissue it for a YA market and even happier that they decided to send me a copy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gary Kurylo|title=The Seventh Simian|rating=3.5
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|summary=Edith has lived alone for many years The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and she has become irascible and rather anti-socialOlivia are sisters, twins no less. She avoids even going into Identical on the nearby village to do her shopping and outside but not, we learn, on the only human being she sees with any regularity is the local shopkeeper who makes grocery deliveries inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to her detail – and makes an art form of palming off some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the strange old lady with overpricedclassroom. A stage presence, underweight goodsa charm, a ''joie de vivre''. If it weren't for her catThe difference between a hard-worker, Edith would have no companionship at alland a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00Q4SETM2</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane Lythell Heather Fawcett|title=After the StormEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Rob Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and Anna are nearing she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the Honduras leg very first encyclopaedia of their South American travelsfaeries. Here they meet Kimberley Whilst she is brilliant at research and Owenspeaking to faeries, an American couple who charter out their own boat for sailing trips around the local islands. Rob persuades Anna it will be a fun way to end their holiday but Anna isn't she is not so sure. There's something about Owen and Kimberley that makes her hesitant about being shut away on a boat at sea good with thempeople. Perhaps it's So when she finds herself far, far North in the way that he never sleeps or small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the mystery as village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to why there are no knives in redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the cutlery drawerright track. Rob thinks AnnaEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's just overly imaginative, but time will tellfrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855323</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stewart Foster1398515388|title=We Used to Be KingsThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Tom First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and Jack are 18 todaythe loss of livelihoods was widespread. Not The fact that they have much cause for celebration many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - stuck in Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a home for troubled children, they are constantly examined dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and questioned by doctors, when all they want is to be left alone to live life togetherTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584190</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria AveyardChristopher Bowden|title=Red QueenMr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Mare Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a Red - patient untangling of a race kept in lives of poverty and servitude seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by the Silvers, her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a race with wealth safe harbour and mutant powers that allow them to live lives a little bit of luxury. Learning indulgence to survive amongst the slum like conditions that the Reds inhabit, Mare is swiftly thrown into the world of the Silvers - one that proves to be a young nephew had had a much more dangerous interesting life than she that nephew Stephen had ever imagined, with treachery, plots realised and deadly games lurking round every cornerit seems to him an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret WildJennifer Mason|title=The Vanishing MomentPartitions of Unity
|rating=4
|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=This book appealed to me on various grounds. It is teen fiction (andHere at Bookbag Towers, joy of joyswe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, devoid of werewolves dominatrix and dystopia), it is unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by an Australian author (under-represented on UK shelves)Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and it involves parallel universes (tantalising philosophical what-ifs)unravelled a series of disappearances. I was intrigued In ''Partitions of Unity'', she sets her mind to see if the author could live up to my expectationssolving a murder...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1743315902</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jack SheffieldWill Carver|title=Silent NightThe Daves Next Door|rating=34|genre=General Fiction|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line. As their fates overlap, the story is told in backwards order, leading up to the fateful moment.5|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I read ''A struggling poetry zine, a couple of Jack Sheffield’s books about five years ago, mom-and enjoyed them very much. They were written -pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a similar style to those popularised by400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for instancebullwhips, James Herriot or [[:Category:Gervase Phinn|Gervase Phinn]]a billionaire with a state-of-the-art S&M dungeon, told mostly a man serving a life sentence in the first personAlabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), describing the author’s first couple of years as Headmaster at on a small village primary school cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in YorkshireGeorgia... The village of Ragley '' This is fictional, as are most just a sample of the cast of charactersand settings in Preposterous. As you can see, but the incidents and situations encountered are based on the author’s experiencesome keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552167045</amazonuk>B09STS96HS
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert SchneiderB0B2N7MVYM|title=Brother The Calculations of Sleep|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Brother of Sleep'' tells the story of Elias Johannes Alder, a child born into a god forsaken village high in the Austrian Vorarlberg. He came into the world as a silent child, while his mother was screaming and the midwife wasn't really paying attention. It took a couple of loud intonations of the Te Deum from the neglectful nurse before he finally uttered a sound. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649205</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRational Men|author=Joanne Graham|title=To The Edge of ShadowsDaniel Godfrey|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sarah awakes from a coma It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to find her put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world destroyed, has barely had a long lost aunt her only remaining familychance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, and life as she knows it irrevocably changed forever's not the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. Moving With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new town prison. He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and a new school, making new friends is the least learning to be wary of her challenges as she struggles to regain her physical and mental health following the accidentMcArthur brothers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910162841</amazonuk>
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