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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Graham NortonJenny Lecoat|title= HoldingBeyond Summerland|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary=The remote Irish village Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of Duneen has known little dramahim. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and yet the inhabitants are troubledwar is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. Sergeant PJ Collins hasn't always But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been this overweightkept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537}}{{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-two Brid Riordan hasnAnuri't always been an alcoholics 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 elegant Evelyn Ross hasn't always felt to get her life a total wasteback, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. When human remains are discovered on a farm Anuri is battling alcoholism, thought failing to be those 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 Tommy BurkeOphelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, an ex lover and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of both Brid Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and EvelynMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, the villagehonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's dark past begins family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to unravelhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. As the frustrated PJ struggles Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to solve a case for move the first time in his lifefamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, he unearths Down South is a community's worth of angerfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, resentmentthe move would mean leaving her best friend, secretsSharon, and regretshe'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444792008</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McEwan1035906708|title=NutshellDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=Meet Trudy. Successfully living in a large and valuable London homeWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she is heavily pregnant, and was born to Greek parents in between two men – she has swapped the homeownerManhattan, poet and publisher JohnNew York, for someone completely different, namely Claude, a nasty, brutish in December 1923 and short type. Some people cannot work out why on earth only moved to Athens when she has made that decision, including our narratorwas thirteen. Oh, and he himself, our narrator, is Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the child she's pregnant withStates. He is When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a very alert young thing, with nothing else to do but kick here mother who mercilessly exploited her and theremade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, and practice what you might well call mindfulness, and listen in on Claude and Trudy, as they calmly talk their way to plotting and carrying out murder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>Jackie.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton (translator)Alexander McCall Smith|title=CrushThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=General Fiction |summary=In this story of Thelma and Louise, it's Louise we meet first, through her narration. She's The Perfect Passion Company is a seventeen year olddating agency in Edinburgh, telling us of a quite awful run by Ness and smelly satellite town of Paris she lives operating as an alternative to all the online apps inproviding a more personal, with the sight of factories and stench of food processing plants keeping her companytailored service. She lives at home with Ness has asked her mother, complete with hare-lip, younger cousin Katie if she could come and abusive step-fatherlook after the business, and as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is working at one coming out of those factories until she sees a paradise in their midst – the ever-sunnybreak up with a bad boyfriend, sexy and sophisticated life of an American NATO worker and his wifeso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. ImpulsivelyAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, she asks thanks to be their maid – 44 Scotland Street and indeed moves into the couple's largeIsabel Dalhousie novels, messy homebut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. But little does she know what lurks Katie has no experience in running a business, or in the shadows match-making, but Ness has full confidence in that buildingher abilities, behind their gigantic car and their cute porch swing there's always her very helpful (and al-fresco dining – the unhappinessrather handsome) neighbour, William, and even the tragedy…to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271988</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma BurstallDean Koontz|title= The Cornish Guest House (Tremarnock)Bad Weather Friend|rating= 34.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary=''The Cornish Guest House'' Benny is the sequel to the best-selling ''Tremarnock'' which introduced us to hard-working Liz and her disabled daughter Rosie who were adjusting to life in having a small Cornish village by the seaterrifically bad day. The sequel begins six months after the first book He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and Liz his house gets trashed. Oh, and Rosie are happily settled in their new lives someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and enjoying it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the warmth of thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the close-knit communityvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. The village So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is soon abuzz with gossipa new friend, howevera bad weather friend called Spike, as a new couple have just moved in and are planning who has been sent to open help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a guest housegood person. The affable Spike is going to take care of Benny, and good-looking Luke soon charms the neighbours by immersing himself into village life. His wife Tabithawill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, on the other handBenny, seems aloof and reservedHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. Could she be hiding a secret?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784972495</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jean McNeilKatherine Howe|title= The Dhow HouseA True Account|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Rebecca Laurelson Hannah Masury is an English doctor working living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an African field hospital inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the midst of a political conflict when town, she is suddenly decides to go and inexplicitly forced to leave her postwatch. She goes to stay with her estranged Aunt Julia Enthralled and her family on Africahorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's east coast death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away from the violence , so that they don't find and daily blood shed of warkill her too, however their lives are full of beach and cocktail parties which contrast greatly then to Rebeccaescape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's way of livingpirate ship as a cabin boy. But She soon finds herself in the threat thick of war things when there is a mutiny on the horizon for Julia's family board, and their fellow white Africans – terror attacks from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the rise all along the coast and Rebecca knows more about it than the rest of her familyocean waves. With unrest brewing will the true reason for Rebecca's hasty departure from her post be revealed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079441</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=The Purple ShadowMaybe Tomorrow|author=Christopher BowdenPenny Parkes|rating=4.5

|summary=Colin Mallory is a young actor Jamie Matson works in Paris. Colin had been working with an upper-class grocery store, for a theatre company putting on English language Shakespeare productions. They were popular but unprofitable so Colin is now at man who's a loose end while his partner, Bryony, is off shooting control freak with all the subtlety of a filmhalf brick. Before returning to London Jamie's son, Colin meets up with Paul BarnardBo, an art gallery director and 'has his sisterproblems'. He's partner. At asthmatic and the Galerie Marion Ducassemore you read, Colin and Paul come across a paintingthe more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. The portrait of a young woman turns out Sometimes Jamie needs to be Sylvie Ducasse, the greattake time off at short notice -aunt of she's a frequent flier in the gallerylocal A&E and sometimes Bo's ownernot fit enough to go to school. 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 head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955506743</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra IrelandB0CKD1L5JL|title=Beneath The SkinRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|genre=General Fiction |summary= Robert Walton Petr is ex-military – a soldier suffering from combat stress and what an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he now realises is clearly PTSD. He prefers to be called Walt; it's short and simple brought up far from bustling cities and Walt likes things that are not complicated. Alys is fragilebusy human society, damaged and complicated and not in the kind forests of woman Walt is looking forWashington's Olympic Peninsula. A taxidermist by trade – After Bear dies and a rather macabre one at that – Alys enjoys creating Walter Potter style tableaus brief sojourn in a slightly horrifying tribute to her sole career influence. Alys runs her business from her homehuman company, which she shares and armed with her sisteronly a pirate radio transmitter, Mouse and Mouse's son William. It's Petr goes on a journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange set up , wild and though Walt needs the job – of handyman/gopher/taxidermy assistant ''must not be squeamish – room and board included'', rarely heard voices he wonders what he has let himself in forencounters. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973619</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria HislopSarah Marsh|title=Cartes Postales from GreeceA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5

|summary=Postcards from Greece keep arriving at Ellie's flat addressed to former occupant Sarah Ibbotsen by After a man signing himself bout of scarlet fever as 'A'a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. They may not be for Ellie but she keeps them anyway and displays Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the pictures use of blue seasign language was seen as something only savages do, beaches and countryside until she can't resist it any longer; Ellie's off Ellen is sent to Greece for a break. Just before school where she leaves home a package arrives is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from Asigning. Something very different from From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the fragmented comments on the cards. This is a journal full of the stories told by people he's met while travelling deaf and coming to terms with using a love affair that ended almost before it begansystem called Visible Speech. So for Ellie At the journal becomes her guide book same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and the journey beginsEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472223209</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall SmithB0BC3YTCMR|title=Precious and GraceGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5

|summary=Friendships can ''This 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 funny thingstold, and that is often the suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case with Precious and Graceit's contagious. This It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is their seventeenth book now, 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 so we have seen their friendship grow and develop a great deal over the yearsReggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. Both women have grown She went to understand, respect and love each other, through business hardships, personal difficulties and all their many his house and varied caseshe raped her. In their current case the pair have a strong difference of opinionsshock, and yet all is not quite what it seems with their investigation, and so perhaps it is she even allowed him to give her a case of neither one of them being right, and the situation being something else entirely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408708124</amazonuk>lift home.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Fiona Davis1472263936|title= The Doll House|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= New York City, 2016: Rose has quit her job as a newscaster and investigative journalist – not entirely voluntarily – and now works for an on-line outfit with the self-mockingly clumsy name of Wordmerge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1101984996</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFigurine|author=Gayle Forman|title=Leave MeVictoria Hislop

|summary= When you've It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had a heart attack left the family home and frightened the hell out of not just yourselfrefused to return, but your husband, your children – if they had known - your mother Mary and your best friend, you imagine Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that some long overdue TLC is about it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to come your waythe family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. YouShe grew to love her grandmother and the family're thinking cardss maid, flowersDina, being waited on hand, foot but was wary - and finger and even though the imminent influx frightened - of culinary gifts are likely to be low father grandfather, low sugar and taste like the box they came in, they're coming, right? retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. And you'll probably get a couple He was proud of months off work his close connections to the Junta and not even have expected his family to think about the laundryuphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. Or the housework? Or taking the twins to school? Right? Right???? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115677X</amazonuk>His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa UngerDean Koontz|title=Ink 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 Boneonly 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=54

|summary= Finlay Montgomery, like her grandmother Eloise before her The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a very powerful Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and gifted psychicits blossom provides herbal medicines. Sensitive to The black wood of the unseen, unheard forest provides heat and unknowablewarmth, she spends her days among the dead. Visited, botheredroofs on homes, harassed and sometimes tauntedeven gallows, Finlay does her best to manage the gifts that Mother Nature has sought to bestowif needed. But life The fear of being buried alive is not that simple and studying for your degree is testing with five other visitors in the room who are all trying to get your attention an existential superstition in the loudest village and most distracting way possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Annelies Verbeke |title= Thirty Days|rating= 2|genre= General Fiction|summary= Thirty Days doesn’t seem to know what it that is about. The novel follows Alphonse, a Senegalese painter decorator living in the Flanders region of Belgium with his girlfriend and childhood friend Cat, who is recovering from cancer. Verbeke puts a major emphasis on their intimate but often volatile and unsteady relationshipreason Volushka, as they try to navigate a new lifestyle in a small town, away from the city. Howeverdrunken, there are several other storylines which vie for our attention: Alphonse’s troubled clients who treat him as a sounding board and therapistself-indulgent, his experiences lazy lout of racism as a black man in a rural area, Cat’s difficult, warring parents, the couple’s elderly neighbour Willem who is obsessed with war graves and has a knack for appearing at precisely the wrong moment, and an illegal refugee camp in field trenches a few miles awaytolerated. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380899</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=The Oldest GameSemi-Detached|author=Sue LegerDeborah Stone

|summary=Moving ''Bill and eyeAmanda are living in a semi-opening story detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of a Romanian woman trafficked into Amsterdam boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and forced life appears to work as a prostituteimprove for both pairs. Sue Leger gives us But all pause is not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for thought heretragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524635014</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom ConnollyShalini Boland|title= Men Like AirThe Silent Bride|rating= 53|genre= General Fiction|summary= One April Alice and Seth are a match made in Manhattanheaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, the destinies of four very different men are about to collideaccomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. Nineteen year old Finn has just arrived She is all he could possibly want in the city along with his volatile girlfriend Dillya wife; beautiful, successful, determined to even confident… and so the score with his older brother Jack for abandoning him in inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the UK in wedding is planned and set. When the aftermath of their parents' deaths. Across townmuch-anticipated day arrives, successful gallery owner Leo Emerson Alice is haunted walked down the aisle by lonelinessher father, unsettled by beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the contrast between his life congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and that of when Seth turns to face his brother in law and oldest friend Williamapproaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is content in both waiting for her to become his faith and his marriage. When Finn wanders in to Leo's gallery, a series of unexpected and interconnected events unfold, changing the lives of all four men togetherwife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434880</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=How I Became a DrifterThe Girls of Summer|author=Christmas PhilipKatie Bishop|reviewerrating=Jill Murphy5

|summary=Fictionalised autobiography told 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 stream-while before he made any sort of-consciousness stylephysical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. An unconventional voice speaking of Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the universal search for love island and acceptance.|rating=3in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.5 |amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463588X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane CorryAmanda Craig|title= My Husband's WifeThree Graces|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Autumn 2000Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. Newly married lawyer Lily 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 gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her artist husband Ed have characters in a small apartment way that feels natural and lived-in London. Fresh from the honeymoon, they're still settling in to their new rolesnever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, and their neighbour Francesca and her 9 year old daughter Carla help to take the pressure off a little bitgrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241256488</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Peter Ho Davies152915118X|title= The FortunesPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Clashes of cultures or cultural enrichment? Xenophobia or embracing diversity?Today's hot topics focus much on cultures meeting and notions 'Pineapple Street'' is the story of foreignnessthree women: Sasha, especially in the context of migrationDarley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. As such They're Stocktons, Peter Ho Davies could not have chosen only Sasha isn't a more current and thought-provoking theme for 'Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The Fortunesproblem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they': through four different storiesd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, the novel documents some which they own. They won't need any of the history of Chinese people furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in America over more than century. From railroad workers, laundry owners Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and prostitutes Georgiana start to film stars and adoptive parents, call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their''The Fortunesfamily home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD' tells tales of searching for identity on both national and personal levels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980230</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul ReadEmily Critchley|title= The Art TeacherOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers Crime|summary=Patrick Owen managed seven years at Highfields Secondary School without punching a pupil 84 year old Edie has lived in the face. A mediocre teachersame small town for almost her whole life, stuck in but now she is facing a struggling school ruled by violent pupils, Patrick goes home every night move as her son wants to move to an empty flat, another house and an existence filled bring Edie to live with reminders of his life family, as a faded rock starEdie is starting to lose her memory. When one pupil However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over steps 60 years ago, and the mark, worry that there was a brief mistake plunges Patrick into a world secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of dangerwhat happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, violencejust as she was the last time she saw her, and the glare she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the mediapast, she is forgetting more and 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079573</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithMadelaine Lucas|title=The Bertie Project: A 44 Scotland Street NovelThirst for Salt|rating=45|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Catching up with old friends is a pleasure''Love, and itI's good d read, was supposed to be back on Scotland Streeta light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, finding out what everyone is getting up toa young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Irene is back, of courseOverlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from her travels its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the middlebackdrop 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-east. Bruce has fallen in loveconsuming nature, Matthew how it changed her perspective on both romantic and Elspeth have triplet troubles, familial relationships and somebody has an extremely unfortunate accident…how it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973597</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rowan Hisayo Buchanan0008506337|title= Harmless Like YouThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating= 5

|summary= This is the debut novel from Rowan Hisayo BuchananThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, but you apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would never know ittake her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. It is an accomplishedIn the event, unusual, poetically written story about they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a young Japanese girlwell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Yuki Oyama, who has Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived most of her life in New York. As suchLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, she feels an outsider: the American girls at school ignore her and she finds family home on the rituals Isle of her parents' home suffocatingWight. Her father has hopes of her studying medicine, but Even then the only thing Yuki enjoys is artdoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638321</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Claire Sweeney1914585402|title=Owl Song at DawnDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5

|summary=Maeve Maloney runs the Sea View Lodge guest house that her parents ran before her. The house has harboured many memories for Maeve over the past 80-years-plus, most of which sheI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's managed to keep at bayOnly One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. HoweverIt was a gripping, her suppression is endangered when Vincent comes to call. Far from being an ordinary guestemotionally wounding read, Vincent is a link to and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that past Maeve thought she'd outrun but now has to reliveI might not have lavished enough praise on it. Add that to trying to teach Steph and Len to fib effectively and life becomes very difficult indeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079670</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karin SlaughterLucy Ashe|title=The Kept WomanClara and Olivia|rating=4.5

|summary=Special Agent Will Trent The year is back1933. Collected by his partner, Faith, to attend the scene of a rather brutal murderThe place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, Trent queries why the GBI has been called in to what would usually be a standard homicide investigation for Atlanta PDtwins no less. Arriving at Identical on the sceneoutside but not, their bosswe learn, Deputy Director Amanda Wagner is somewhat characteristically pacing and barking orders; on the victim is none other than ex-cop and all round bad egginside. And not on stage, Dale Hardingeither. There is Because there's a lot of bloodthat builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, presumably due attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the doorclassroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-knob worker, and spindle sticking out of Harding's necka star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780893574</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eowyn IveyHeather Fawcett|title=To the Bright Edge Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of the WorldFaeries

|summary=If you're going to go pioneering across unexplored landsEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, at least be prepared to accept what you seek – namely, what youwrite her life've never seen before. That lesson seems quite obviouss work, but back in the time very first encyclopaedia of 1885 Allen Forrester faeries. Whilst she is a little too naïve brilliant at research and speaking to heed itfaeries, she is not so good with people. A career soldierSo when she finds herself far, he is tasked with scouring the potential of the Wolverine River that threads south to far North in the shores small village of AlaskaHrafvsnik, even though having somehow offended the Russians (who of course used to own the Territory) have had all manner of lethal encounters with those already living therevillage matriarch, and even though a major stretch of the river she is not sure what she has done, nor how to be traversed in winter when entirely frozen over, as redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the cliffs either side are too impenetrableright track. Allen leaves a much youngerEnter Wendell Bambleby, new bride behind – her dashingly handsome and right from the get-go his journals force him to pen words about strange happeningsinsufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, strange encounters all charm and things of legend coming delight, much to lifeEmily's frustration. Like I say, But why is he here? What does he want? And what he's never seen before…exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472208609</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gerald Weaver1398515388|title=The First First Gentleman|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Anyone picking up ''The First First Gentleman'' might be forgiven for snorting with laughter and making a sarcastic comment about how timely Boy and potentially satirical it sounds. In a way they’d be right – but probably for different reasons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993291759</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewthe Dog|author=Liam Brown|title=Wild LifeSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=Adam Britman goes from a man with First of all, it all to homeless was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the sniff of a linenuclear meltdown. While looking for somewhere to sleep Adam comes across an alternative community in the local parkThe result was complete and utter devastation. They've come together The deaths were uncountable, and created structure (including an unofficial allotment) out the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the disorder that's normally equated with living on list of priorities but - six months after the streetstsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. It seems perfect so Adam joins them, He wasn't a dog person but perfection can sometimes be an illusion. As for walking away… thatthe convenience store owner's not going comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to be easyopen his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079700</amazonuk>

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|summary= Paul Christopher Bowden's latest novel is lots a patient untangling of thingsa seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. A writer. A famous name (or at least he was The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a few years ago). A little bit of indulgence to a snob. A cheapskate. A ladies' man. And a liar. Oh boy, is he young nephew had had a liar. He fibs, he exaggerates, he omits, he tells porkies. Not about the really big stuff, nothing much more interesting life than that will hurt anyone, just a few mistruths nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to see him through. It's for keeping up appearances, reallyan obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473608333</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy JonesJennifer Mason|title=The Trouble with Henry and ZoePartitions of Unity|rating=3.54

|summary= Stop for a moment and look down Here at your bellyBookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in the centre you should have something that looks [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a little bit like a buttonseries of disappearances. It may be an innieIn ''Partitions of Unity'', or an outie, but just consider it for she sets her mind to solving a few momentsmurder.. Do you feel better? Nope, you shouldn't do as all that navel-gazing does is make you over think things. However, without the concept a million romantic books would never be written as without the human compulsion to destroy things around them, how can any tension arise?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471142469</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Carol ShieldsWill Carver|title= The Republic of LoveDaves Next Door|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= The Republic of Love is Five strangers come together in one moment as a mesh-like novel, peopled with suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a huge cast of characters interwoven in familial, friendly, neighbourly and romantic relationshipsLondon tube line. WinnipegAs their fates overlap, the city story is told in which virtually all backwards order, leading up to the action in Shieldfateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''s novel takes placeA struggling poetry zine, ties them together. The story follows two single, thirtya mom-something characters, Fay and Tom-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who live opposite each other and have just missed the 2004 Olympics, a complicated array of mutual acquaintances but donwomen't know each other. Shields alternates between their two points s track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of view as they are slowly drawn together. This is -the-art S&M dungeon, a domestic novel in the best sense; there is man serving a focus on the beauty and mundanity of ordinary people's unremarkable lives life sentence in Alabama, an unexceptional cityenigmatic signature, from Fay'K(s satisfaction , x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a sample of the pop sound cast of characters and toasted crumb smell settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of her twin slice toaster, to Tom's ungainly Saturday morning jogsthis mystery story goes like this... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9462380899</amazonuk>B09STS96HS